The special design of the beam sweeping system, enables both ion beams to scan the target surface simultaneously in synchronous mode, i.e. both ion spots are kept at coincident positions over the target.
The earliest sweeping system, devised to clear anchored contact mines, consisted of two ships steaming across a minefield towing a wire rope between them; mine mooring lines were cut by sawlike projections on the sweep wire or by cutting jaws.
The changes are mostly subtle, but from what we've heard recently, that's what's in store for iOS 7, too; sweeping, system-wide changes, but ones that tweak the interfaces rather than overhaul them completely.
If adopted, the sweeping overhaul of the system overseeing the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. on Monday could hand Wall Street investment banks a major victory in their years of effort to streamline regulation.
This entity was created by the Dodd-Frank Act to conduct independent research on the sweeping risks to the financial system.
The deputy New York City schools chancellor who resigned this week in a conflict-of-interest scandal had the right temperament for pushing a calcified school system toward the sweeping administrative reforms envisioned by City Hall.
I'm more interested in the sweeping weather system that's building somewhere out in the southern Atlantic.
In 2013, Edward Snowden walked out of an N.S.A. facility in Hawaii with tens of thousands of records about American global electronic surveillance, including a sweeping system to monitor and store phone calls by millions of Americans.
From analytical and experiment results, at an excitation acceleration of 0.3 g, as the excitation frequency is up sweeping, the system achieves frequency bandwidth operation of 7.4 Hz which is about 5.2 times higher to that of conventional two-degree-of-freedom linear harvester, and the power outputs for the first and second resonances can reach up to 429 μW and 411 μW, respectively.
The prime minister said the dramatic action would help the UK banking industry to survive the turbulence sweeping the world's financial system, and also pledged to end the era of "rewards for failure" for top executives.
