Like other succulent plants, most cacti employ a special mechanism called " Crassulacean acid metabolism " ( CAM ) as part of photosynthesis.

It still uses rubber domes, but a special plastic ' scissors ' mechanism links the keycap to a plunger that depresses the rubber dome with a much shorter travel than the typical rubber dome keyboard.

Typically, logrolling is a mechanism used to gain support for special interest and minority groups.

They play a special role in the cilia of renal epithelial cells, and are thought to be critical for normal renal cell development and function and are sorted out and localized to the cilia of renal epithelial cells by the aforementioned intraflagellar transport mechanism.

Officers of the court include: lawyers, judges, referees, and those appointed ; guardian ad litem, parenting time expeditors, mediators, rule 114 neutrals, evaluators, administrators, special appointees, and any others whose influence are part of the judicial mechanism.

A special mechanism blocks out the light when the off position is desired without violating Shabbat.

In some cases, the system may be partitioned into a " mechanism controller " using special techniques, and a " display controller " with a conventional operating system.

They have been of special interest for the HTS materials because many researchers have wondered whether spin correlations might play a role in the mechanism of the HTS.

Some load balancers provide a mechanism for doing something special in the event that all backend servers are unavailable.

Revox also produced amplifiers, a very expensive FM tuner, and a pickup with a special parallel-arm mechanism of their own design.

In this harsh environment, mangroves have evolved a special mechanism to help their offspring survive.

The main disadvantages of Nagant's rifle were the following: more complicated mechanism, long and tiresome procedure of disassembling ( which required special instruments-it was necessary to unscrew two screws ).

# a live performance is played onto a special piano connected to an electronically operated marking mechanism, and a physical stencil is produced from this live output, either as-is or after some general regularisation of tempo where necessary

The strings are locked tightly with a special mechanism at the nut (< font color =" green "> green </ font >) as well as at the bridge, hence " double-locking ".

The mechanism is relatively unobtrusive, is activated with a special key, and renders the firearm inoperable.

The most common mechanism type in database systems since their early days in the 1970s has been Strong strict Two-phase locking ( SS2PL ; also called Rigorous scheduling or Rigorous 2PL ) which is a special case ( variant ) of both Two-phase locking ( 2PL ) and Commitment ordering ( CO ).

None of them in its general form automatically provides recoverability, and special considerations and mechanism enhancements are needed to support recoverability.

), sometimes by mechanism like name mangling ( Python ), or special keyword usage like in C ++.

Some small internal combustion engines specifically contain special plastic flinger wheels which randomly scatter oil around the interior of the mechanism.

As with parents and siblings, tickling serves as a bonding mechanism between friends, and is classified by psychologists as part of the fifth and highest grade of social play which involves special intimacy or " cognitive interaction ".

Bombardier beetles are ground beetles ( Carabidae ) in the tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini — more than 500 species altogether — which are most notable for the defense mechanism that gives them their name: When disturbed, the beetle ejects a noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen.

A development attracting attention in 2008 concerns a S < sub > N </ sub > 2 roundabout mechanism observed in a gas-phase reaction between chloride ions and methyl iodide with a special technique called crossed molecular beam imaging.

They formed the special-mechanism hypothesis, which argues for the existence of a special biological memory mechanism that, when triggered by an event exceeding critical levels of surprise and consequentiality, creates a permanent record of the details and circumstances surrounding the experience.

The hypothesis of a special flashbulb-memory mechanism holds that flashbulb memories have special characteristics that are different from those produced by " ordinary " memory mechanisms.

From the viewpoint of any single unaccelerated observer, mass can neither be created or destroyed, and special relativity does not change this understanding.

This in perfect agreement with the viewpoint of the Einstein theory of special relativity and with the Minkowski geometry of spacetime.

What makes the cathedral special from an artistic viewpoint is its exceptional state of preservation.

Abelian varieties defined over algebraic number fields are a special case, which is important also from the viewpoint of number theory.

The idea from a seller's viewpoint is to offer some discount but have the buyer showing some " counter action " to earn this special discount.

These contain books on all aspects of education, particularly from an historic viewpoint and with large sections on special education and religious education.

This is consistent with the special mechanism viewpoint in that the involuntary ( unintended ) memory is based on a different memory mechanism than its voluntary ( intended ) counterpart.

John Stewart Bell advocated teaching special relativity first from the viewpoint of a single Lorentz inertial frame, then showing that Poincare invariance of the laws of physics such as Maxwell's equations is equivalent to the frame-changing arguments often used in teaching special relativity.

We would be ignoring the special circumstances of other countries.

In light of all this, one would require special reasons for saying that the paths of the heavenly bodies were other than circular.

The only effect of lack of a center would then be to release the hydrogen atoms to occupy general, rather than special, positions along the ( 111 ) axis.

For example, property `` used in the trade or business '' of a transferor corporation, as defined in section 1231, presumably would not retain its special status following a non-taxable reorganization if it is not so used in the business of the acquiring corporation.

Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

Patrolman George Kimmell, of McClellan Station, said he would recommend a special safety citation for Ralph Sisk, 9230 Vernor east, a third grader at the Scripps School, for his assistance in the case.

In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.

He read a special announcement whereby Hurrays would feature a special floorshow at three A.M. starring Adele ( The Body ) Brenner and fourteen glamorous schoolgirls.

Nevertheless, upon Andrew's request, the Archbishop withdrew the ecclesiastic punishments soon and the Pope promised that the dignitaries of the King of Hungary would never be excommunicated without his special authorization.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

The theory of special relativity predicts that any such device would allow communication from the future to the past, which raises problems of causality, unless the device used general relativistic curved spacetimes as an integral part.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

He had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, and he would later write several works about the Queen of Heaven.

A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short shotgun ( or alternatively a rifle ), to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.

Thus, the universe would have been even more special before the thermalization than after .” The problem of specific or “ fine-tuned ” initial conditions would not have been solved ; it would have gotten worse.

Because many outstanding problems in number theory, such as Goldbach's conjecture are equivalent to solving the halting problem for special programs ( which would basically search for counter-examples and halt if one is found ), knowing enough bits of Chaitin's constant would also imply knowing the answer to these problems.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

* Czech: special clitics: weak personal and reflexive pronouns ( mu, " him "), certain auxiliary verbs ( by, " would "), and various short particles and adverbs ( tu, " here "; ale, " though ").

No special titles are used for preachers or ministers that would identify them as " clergy ".