You don't know the answer, and then you "concentrate" (whatever that means), which induces some mysterious biochemical reaction, and then you are transformed into a different state of being — a state of knowing something you didn't know moments before.
Mortuary rituals and funerary customs reflect these evaluations; they represent also the practical measures taken to assist the dead to achieve their destiny and sometimes to save the living from the dreaded molestation of those whom death had transformed into a different state of being.
When she meets Charlene Mitchell (Kylie Minogue), she begins to transform into a different person.
Upon colliding, a molecule can thus be transformed into a different electronic state whose energy minimum may lie lower or higher than its previous electronic state.
Jaffe's group also is experimenting with cleanup of heavy metals including copper and uranium, both of which can be used by the bacterium in lieu of iron oxides and hence transformed into a different chemical state that might have less harmful properties.
It ruled that a process can qualify for patent protection if it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, for example, a new kind of consumer product, or if it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing, like a new method for treating rubber.
In October, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington significantly narrowed the processes eligible for patent protection, ruling that only those "tied to a particular machine or apparatus" or transforming "a particular article into a different state or thing" qualified.
On appeal, the Federal Circuit actually upheld the patent office's decision and said, crucially, that the process would be eligible for a patent only if it was "tied to a particular machine or apparatus" or if it "transformed a particular article into a different state or thing".
MoT provides that a claimed process is patent-eligible if (1) it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing.
The summary is that the court has said that there's a two-pronged test to determine whether a software of business method process patent is valid: (1) it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing.
You can see what they see in each other and what they bring out, as she rehearses the first section of a new 20-minute solo that he is creating, dancing with a generous grace and rich sense of shape, transforming the daytime mood of the studio into a different state, where movement becomes sculptural and enchanted.
