In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
The photoswitch turns the glutamate receptor on or off by changing its shape depending on the wavelength of light used a technique that's been shown to induce light sensitivity in blind mice.
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Nonetheless, the programme's collapse might kill off hopes of changing of Turkish society more profoundly.
But I've kept the weight off by radically changing my overall eating habits.
He has lost two inches off his waistline without changing his diet and feels more energetic than he has in years.
On every important dispute in this crisis, President Sarkozy has eventually had to give in to Germany: whether it's changing the treaties, or laying off the ECB.
In colorful, cartoonish costumes, the 10 actors tumble on and off the set, swiftly changing roles through a series of 21 vignettes.
But the real reason seems to be that Yodobashi's business is changing in a way that should set off alarm bells among the camera makers.
"We then leave only one air conditioner on all day at 28 degrees because changing the temperature or switching it on and off uses more electricity, " she adds.
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Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
Frazetta periodically takes paintings off the walls to fiddle with them, changing a character's posture or subtracting clothing.
In March, Ask announced it was laying off around 8% of its employees and changing strategies, focusing on women above 30 and searchers looking for answers to questions about health and entertainment, who it said made up a disproportionately large part of its user base.
Even the changing lineup of nightly guests, which can attract or put off casual viewers, doesn't significantly impact regular viewership patterns.
"We haven't gotten there yet, " said Zuhair, acknowledging that the sort of game-changing innovations promised by the hackerspace movement were probably some way off.
Earlier this month, Psystar aroused suspicion by changing addresses on its Web site four times and getting cut off by the company that processes its credit card transactions.
She followed with an ace off a 117 mph serve that Venus looked at before changing sides.
And it's estimated that we could probably lop off 30 percent of our energy consumption just on efficiency without changing our lifestyles significantly.
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As an example, both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are looking to spin off units of their proprietary trading business, and Goldman is changing its reporting structure to increase the transparency of its proprietary trading business.
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Caronia is game-changing if it becomes prevailing law because, for decades, the prohibition on off-label speech shaped how pharmaceutical companies did business.
In an effort to head off draconian new rules, the agencies have begun to think about changing the way they do business.
In this view, the Internet is as world-changing an invention as the car, and we have now a one-off boost in productivity growth.
Anindya along with Erick built Viva off a failed TV station Lativi that they bought in 2008, changing the name to TvOne the next year (the holding company PT Visi Media Asia was set up in 2007).
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The wind-power lobby has won a potentially game-changing victory in its full-court press to unlock the vast offshore wind resource off the coast of North Carolina.
The increasing acceptance of e-cigarettes caught big tobacco companies off guard initially but they are slowly recognising that they cannot ignore the changing tastes of their consumers.
Government proposals, published in October, include stopping card firms changing interest rates on existing debts and suggesting the minimum amount that must be paid off each month should be increased.
In an interview, he ticked off members of his staff and administration as examples of the city's changing face.
It gently unfolds by way of shifting moves and changing lighting into a scene reminiscent of a Buck Rogers world, with its sharpest element taking off as if rocket propelled.
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The United States has attempted to reduce those numbers by changing approaches to attacking targets, not bombing suspect cars as they approach crowded areas or waiving off an attack on a house if there are innocent civilians inside, according to U.S. military officials.
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She ticked-off names of truth-tellers, individuals who had felt Armstrong's life-changing fury.
After changing into a striped T-shirt and slim cargo pants, she sits on the couch, kicks off her clogs and gathers her famously lush red hair into a topknot.
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