Research indicates these drugs may interact with transcription factors known as " clock genes ", which may play a role in the addictive properties of drugs ( drug abuse ), and possibly in obesity.

Undervolting is a process of determining the lowest voltage at which a CPU can remain stable at a given clock speed.

A search in the genomes of vertebrates turned up a set of analogous genes, which were found to play similar roles in the mouse biological clock — and therefore almost certainly in the human biological clock as well.

Packet exchange is based on the basic clock, defined by the master, which ticks at 312. 5 µs intervals.

Naga Munchetty, Komla Dumor and Martine Dennis present the BBC World News five o ' clock hour, which is also broadcast on the News Channel and BBC One.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

Thanks to both the increased reliability as well as the dramatically increased speed of the switching elements ( which were almost exclusively transistors by this time ), CPU clock rates in the tens of megahertz were obtained during this period.

The clock rate is the speed at which a microprocessor executes instructions.

Every computer contains an internal clock that regulates the rate at which instructions are executed and synchronizes all the various computer components.

One method of dealing with the switching of unneeded components is called clock gating, which involves turning off the clock signal to unneeded components ( effectively disabling them ).

It utilizes extensive clock gating to reduce the power requirements of the aforementioned videogame console in which it is used.

As a result, the subscalar CPU gets " hung up " on instructions which take more than one clock cycle to complete execution.

The Intel P5 Pentium had two superscalar ALUs which could accept one instruction per clock each, but its FPU could not accept one instruction per clock.

In this scheme, the CPU would then quickly switch to another thread which is ready to run, the switch often done in one CPU clock cycle, such as the UltraSPARC Technology.

The performance or speed of a processor depends on the clock rate ( generally given in multiples of hertz ) and the instructions per clock ( IPC ), which together are the factors for the instructions per second ( IPS ) that the CPU can perform.

The Greek and Roman civilizations are credited for initially advancing water clock design to include complex gearing, which was connected to fanciful automata and also resulted in improved accuracy.

The word clock ( from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning " bell "), which gradually supersedes " horologe ", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.

Communication was controlled by the CPU, which had read and written data from the devices as if they are blocks of memory, using the same instructions, all timed by a central clock controlling the speed of the CPU.

* The clock stops after the offense completes a first down and begins again — assuming it is following a play in which the clock would not normally stop — once the referee declares the ball ready for play.

His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

The lessons lasted from nine o ' clock in the morning to four o ' clock in the afternoon and then he had to return to the farm.

The PC / AT, introduced in 1984, had three 8-bit slots and five 16-bit slots, all running at the system clock speed of 6 MHz in the earlier models and 8 MHz in the last version of the computer.

Unfortunately, because the ISA bus was originally locked to the processor clock, this meant that some 286 machines had ISA buses that ran at 10, 12, or even 16 MHz.

The arithmetic was actually implemented as subroutines, but with a one megahertz clock rate, the speed of floating point operations and fixed point was initially faster than many competing computers, and since it was only software, all the DEUCE's had it.

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

Previously the only picture formats supported in H. 263 had been Sub-QCIF, QCIF, CIF, 4CIF, and 16CIF, and the only picture clock frequency had been 30000 / 1001 ( approximately 29. 97 ) clock ticks per second.

) On average, the 80286 had a speed of about 0. 21 instructions per clock.

The 8086 had to do effective address computation using its general ALU, which led to a significant clock penalty.

The H5118M computer had a staggering 1 megabyte of memory and could handle 1. 2 million instructions per second while the former model had a memory of only 256 kilobytes and a clock speed of 150000 instructions per seconds.

After the movie had ended, Stalin often invited the audience for dinner, even though the clock was usually past midnight.

Frisius had realized that to determine longitude, a clock would have to be “ of great exactness ”.

Many leading scientists including Newton and Huygens doubted that such a clock could ever be built and had more optimism for astronomical observations ( such as the Method of Lunar Distances ).

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

But the Bills struck right back on their ensuing possession with a five-play, 66-yard drive that took 1: 23 off the clock, including a tipped 61-yard completion from quarterback Jim Kelly to receiver James Lofton that set up Scott Norwood's 23-yard field goal to tie the game at 3-3.

Shakespeare's audience similarly did not ask whether the University of Wittenberg had existed in Hamlet's day, or whether clocks that struck time were available in Julius Caesar's ancient Rome: Shakespeare portrayed Brutus, plotting to assassinate Caesar in 44 BC, being interrupted by the striking of the clock, although ancient Rome was the era of the sundial, with invention of the mechanical clock dating from the 11th-13th centuries AD.

In 1753 at the age of 22, Banneker completed a wooden clock that struck on the hour.

New South Wales was then sent in at the SCG and Waugh struck 137 from 185 runs on the first day, including a six from Peter Sleep that narrowly missed the clock tower.

When struck, the clock recorded the time and also placed the band in a compartment that could only be opened by race officials.

He once constructed a clock which was capable of the following surprising movements :— There were seen on it a negro, a dog, and a shepherd ; when the clock struck, the shepherd played six tunes on his flute, and the dog approached and fawned upon him.

The clock struck one,

Switzer allegedly struck Stiltz in the head with a glass-domed clock, which caused him to bleed from his left eye.

A striking clock outside of China was the water-powered clock tower near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which struck once every hour.

On October 21 at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, he was struck at around four o ’ clock by a volley of bullets through his heart and brain that killed him instantly.

In December of 1777 Maximilian Joseph rode in his carriage through Munich ; on the ride, as he passed one of the tower clocks, the mechanism broke, and the clock struck 77 times.

When Hurricane Agnes struck the area in 1972, WVIA preempted its programming to air weather reports around the clock, and lent its equipment to WBRE so it could stay on the air.

The sketch showed his parents watching in horror as Kevin lost his sense of dress, courtesy and posture as the clock struck midnight on the day of his thirteenth birthday, thus becoming Kevin the Teenager, one of the most memorable of Enfield's comic creations.

The striking feature of clocks was originally more important than their clock faces ; the earliest clocks struck the hours, but had no dials to enable the time to be read.

Though an early striking clock in Syria was a 12 hour clock, many early clocks struck up to 24 strokes, particularly in Italy, where the 24 hour clock, keeping Italian hours, was widely used in the 14th and 15th centuries.

A striking clock outside of China was the clock tower near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which struck once every hour.