When a machine starts sending out too many scans, it is a sign that it has been infected, allowing administrators to take it off line and check it for malware.

When such types of tumors are encountered, diagnostic modalities such as ultrasound, CT scans, MRI, angiograms, and nuclear medicine scans are employed prior to ( or during ) biopsy and / or surgical exploration / excision in an attempt to avoid such severe complications.

When not actively in contact with another station, the HF SSB transceiver constantly scans through a list of HF frequencies called channels, listening for any ALE signals transmitted by other radio stations.

When measuring fluorescence spectra, the wavelength of the excitation light is kept constant, preferably at a wavelength of high absorption, and the emission monochromator scans the spectrum.

When assessing the causes of anosognosia within stroke patients, CT scans have been used to assess where the greatest amount of damage is found within the various areas of the brain.

When he goes to attack Talia, she scans his mind, picking up memories of him in a fighter exploding while attacking an Earth Alliance cruiser.

When any operation completes, the program scans down the list of operations until it finds the first operation where all of the inputs are currently valid, and runs it.

When Thor finds the advance ship, it scans Thor and perceives him to be a threat.

When Saturn Girl telepathically scans the room, she picks up on this, giving enough time for Cosmic Boy and Live Wire to dispose of the bomb before the blast goes off.

When launchd scans through the job plists at boot time it reserves and listens on all of the ports requested by those jobs.

When a thread wishes to remove a node, it places it on a private list and periodically scans the lists of all other threads for pointers referencing that node.

When the tip scans the surface of a sample at close distances (< 10 nm ), not only magnetic forces are sensed, but also atomic and electrostatic forces.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??

When negotiating with your union, do you make sure employees have a choice between new benefits and their cents-per-hour cost in wages.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When the larvae hatch, they feed on the beebread, although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother.

When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state.

When the transmission detects a speed difference of greater than 20 % between the front and rear axle sets, the transmission progressively sends power to the rear wheels.

) When a landline phone is inactive or " on hook ", the circuitry at the telephone exchange detects the absence of direct current and therefore " knows " that the phone is on hook ( therefore, only AC current will go through ) with only the alerting device electrically connected to the line.

When the drive detects an idle period, it re-reads the fragmented segments into a buffer and writes them back over the fragmented sections-a ' virtual backhitch '.

When a Frame Relay network detects an error in a frame, it simply drops that frame.

When Frame Relay detects an error, it simply drops the offending packet.

When the button is pushed or the motion detector detects motion at the door, the door alarm is temporarily ignored while the door is opened.

When the distant scanning station detects ALE activity, it stops scanning and stays on that channel until it can confirm whether or not the call is for it.

When the simulator " detects a match " ( that is, the RNG generates a certain value or a value within a certain range ), the simulator simulates the match by generating matched text.

When a bacterium detects environmental conditions are becoming unfavourable it may start the process of endosporulation, which takes about eight hours.

When Max detects an error in his real-time calculations leading up to a " transition ", neither the captain nor Assistant Astrogator Simes believe him, and the ship winds up lost.

; Voice Activity Detection ( VAD ): When enabled, voice activity detection detects whether the audio being encoded is speech or silence / background noise.

When one spins and stops suddenly, fluid in the inner ear continues to rotate causing a sense of continued spinning while one's visual system no longer detects motion.

When the trigger is pressed, the gun sends the intensity of the IR beam it detects.

When it detects the projected light return from the cloud base, the instrument notes the angle and the calculation gives the height of clouds.

When Fred's extension forwards to the voice-mail system, the Telephone Interface detects ringing.

When the ventilator detects the set volume having been applied the ventilator cycles to exhalation.

When the basilisk detects danger it can swim at fast speeds using its crests as rudders.

When using non-lock based concurrency control, no locks are acquired ; however, if the system detects a write collision among several concurrent transactions, only one of them is allowed to commit.

When Bastion tries to kill Hope, Nightcrawler teleports to her aid, but Bastion detects Nightcrawler's mutant powers activating and extends his arm into the space in which Nightcrawler will materialize.

When hunting, rattlesnakes primarily rely on their pit organ, which detects infra-red radiation.

When ESC detects loss of steering control, it automatically applies the brakes to help " steer " the vehicle where the driver intends to go.

When RSC detects impending rollover ( usually on transport trucks or SUVs

When the traction control computer ( often incorporated into another control unit, like the anti-lock braking system module ) detects one or more driven wheels spinning significantly faster than another, it invokes the ABS electronic control unit to apply brake friction to wheels spinning with lessened traction.