A heat engine acts by transferring energy from a warm region to a cool region of space and, in the process, converting some of that energy to mechanical work.

Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.

The portability of social security benefits is the ability of workers to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights and social security rights in the process of transferring from one private, occupational, or public social security scheme to another.

* Improve the productivity and time scales of the programming process, transferring effort from the programmer to the compiler

Primarily, it is the process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, public service or public property from the public sector ( a government ) to the private sector, either to a business that operate for a profit or to a non-profit organization.

In optics, stimulated emission is the process by which an atomic electron ( or an excited molecular state ) interacting with an electromagnetic wave of a certain frequency may drop to a lower energy level, transferring its energy to that field.

To explain the relationship between semiotics and communication studies, communication is defined as the process of transferring data from a source to a receiver.

Emotive Telepathy, also known as remote influence or emotional transfer, is the process of transferring kinesthetic sensations through altered states.

This process led to UCCB transferring its trades and technology programs to the Nova Scotia Community College ( NSCC ) which operated its " Marconi Campus " ( the former NSEIT ) which is co-located on the Grand Lake Road campus.

He watched their actions closely as they would land and work their way under a flap inside the flower, transferring pollen in the process.

The process of transferring the electron from nitrogen to oxygen creates formal charges, so the electronic structure may also be depicted as

A process led by the Utah Parks Company for transferring ownership of private and state-held land in the monument to the federal government started in 1923.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

In order to expedite the process of transferring assets to intended beneficiaries, some people choose to arrange their property so that it can bypass the probate process upon their deaths.

Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U. S. soldiers from the Vietnam War ; he invented the expression " Vietnamization ," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces.

Analogy ( from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, " proportion ") is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject ( the analogue or source ) to another particular subject ( the target ), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.

" decalcomania ," a " decal ," a sticker, a cheap process for transferring images from paper to glass.

A tutorial is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process.

Whole brain emulation or mind uploading ( sometimes called mind transfer ) is the hypothetical process of transferring or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non-biological substrate by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device.

This Miles – Phillips Mechanism process can continue until an equilibrium is reached, or until the wind stops transferring energy to the waves ( i. e., blowing them along ) or when they run out of ocean distance, also known as fetch length.

Telecine ( or ) is the process of transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite.

One problem with the Xerox however, was that the animators were used to producing sketchy drawings, and the clean-up stage in animation prior to One Hundred and One Dalmatians was done in the process of transferring the drawings to the cels.

Detailed revised summaries are written to reflect changes made in the course of the legislative process.

In the process he has left 85 % to 90 % of Trogus out ; and his summaries are held together by phrases like " meanwhile " ( eodem tempore ) and " thereafter " ( deinde ), which he uses very loosely.

The process of erosion need only undermine the tradition and a series of consequences begin unfolding within the individual, while in institutions a quiet but deep transformation of processes occurs.

It is an answer in its way, individual and highly dramatic, to the charge that the democratic process is necessarily vicious in its campaign characteristics.

Analysis in roleplaying is usually done for the purpose of understanding strong and weak points of an individual or as a process to eliminate weak parts and strengthen good parts.

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

In Sweden, bankruptcy ( Swedish: konkurs ) is a process that may involve a company or individual.

The objectivity of science lies not in the psychology of individual scientists, but in the process of science and especially in statistical methods, as noted by C. S. Peirce.

As the reactions proceed, the products of the cement hydration process gradually bond together the individual sand and gravel particles and other components of the concrete, to form a solid mass.

Starting in 2002, the development process was reformed to better share technologies and expertise, and all of the individual studios were gradually restructured into bigger departments responsible for different tasks.

At the level of the individual, pressing psychological needs may influence the process, and certain of our universal mental tools may impose epistemic ' blind spots '.

Meanwhile, individual FARC members initially joined the UP leadership in representation of the guerrilla command, though most of the guerrilla's chiefs and militiamen did not demobilize nor disarm, as that was not a requirement of the process at that point in time.

Under unspecific or impersonal coercion the conditional threats come from well-known and socially accepted general rules and – rather than any individual or sub-group – and are directed against anybody in the stated conditions, according to clearly stated principles of due process.

# Initial ( chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics )-the starting point for use of a new or undocumented repeat process.

# As the individual perceives and accepts into his self structure more of his organic experiences, he finds that he is replacing his present value system-based extensively on introjections which have been distortedly symbolized-with a continuing organismic valuing process.

If the incongruence is immoderate this process may lead the individual to a state that would typically be described as neurotic.

There are approximately 200, 000 spines per cell, each of which serve as a postsynaptic process for individual presynaptic axons.

The final stage of the audition process in some orchestras is a test week, in which the performer plays with the orchestra for a week or two, which allows the conductor and principal players to see if the individual can function well in an actual performance setting.

The recognition process can be done by the employer or employee and may be part of the official bureaucracy for confirming professional status and is dependent on individual bilateral agreements between Germany and other countries.

Existence — and thus the world — is the product of human activity ; but this can be seen only by accepting the primacy of social process on individual consciousness.

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

Dewey believes that “ education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness ; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

Suppose the parameter is the bull's-eye of a target, the estimator is the process of shooting arrows at the target, and the individual arrows are estimates ( samples ).

Embryological development, in von Baer ’ s mind, is a process of differentiation, “ a movement from the more homogeneous and universal to the more heterogeneous and individual .”

These manifest as individual differences in intelligence, creativity, cognitive style, motivation and the capacity to process information, communicate, and relate to others.

In general, this process of decomposition is undertaken either for the purpose of gaining insight into the identity of the constituent components ( which may reflect individual physical processes of interest, for example ), or for the purpose of obtaining a compressed representation of the global function, a task which is feasible only when the constituent processes possess a certain level of modularity ( i. e., independence or non-interaction ).