To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.
It's unlikely a modified guitar like Mr. Gourley's easily recognizable White Falcon can be played in public.
If no ties existed, she could use Linked In's modified e-mail system to approach each candidate.
"We are facing a modified Hobson's choice, " said committee chair Kenneth Burman of Washington Hospital Center.
That explosion shattered glass on several storefronts and left the stricken police unit's modified Ford pickup truck charred and mangled.
There had been controversy over Ammann's modified boot bindings, with Austria threatening to launch a protest after the first round.
On a continent where population growth outstrips food supply growth by 1% a year, Wambugu's modified sweet potato offers tangible hope.
The process begins with a functional check, where techs verify that the camera is working correctly before it's modified in any way.
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Fannie Mae says it's modified 300, 000 home loans since last year.
But Graffiti's slightly modified alphabet is a snap to learn and the accuracy gains are well worth the slight inconvenience.
So, three years ago the government modified the country's Motion Picture Law, bringing the industry in from the financial wilderness with tax breaks previously denied all but the most important manufacturers.
The preview doesn't say whether the charger is a modified version of Apple's standard equipment or entirely new.
The sweet potato is sub-Saharan Africa's first genetically modified crop, and its yields so far are double that of the regular plant.
The results of X-ray and infra-red imaging are being collated and studied to see the extent to which Gainsborough's painting was modified.
Some covers, like the music, were modified for the U.S. market.
The measure has to go to the House of Representatives for approval, and it will have to be approved again by the Senate if it is modified, as it's expected to be.
Matias says it spent more than two years working on a new type of key switch -- a modified ALPS switch it's dubbed Quiet Click -- and it has indeed come up with something unique.
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And it was strange that there was no place for the ban on genetically-modified contents in Asda's own-brand products, the government's announcement of right-to-roam legislation and withdrawal of soyabean oil breast-implants, or the extension for the Northern Ireland peace process.
The virus used in vaccines is not the actual virus that infects people, but rather a hybrid that's been genetically modified to make it safer, and to give it the ability to multiply more quickly -- a crucial factor when it comes to manufacturing large quantities.
Also, most soy bean plants grown in the U.S. are genetically modified, a turnoff for some consumers.
The company released its 10-inch LePad tablet in China in March and plans to bring a modified version to the U.S. in coming weeks.
This ultimately built the Shenzhou series of spacecraft and put them on top of a booster modified from one of China's unmanned Long March satellite-launching rockets.
In addition, the official says, a floating X-band radar has to be modified to track the satellite's trajectory, and the "fire-control" systems on the Navy ships also needed modification.
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But Ms. Ting says there's a problem with modified market weighting: It gives undue influence to small stocks that may be difficult to buy and sell because they're thinly traded.
Rather than a vehicle that acts as a chauffeur at all times, Newman's vision for the modified Nissan Leaf, dubbed RobotCar, is for it to take control on select occasions.
That's the kind of solution the feisty economist thinks genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be for some of China's biggest problems, and the 44-year-old Huang has been pushing Chinese planners for almost six years to allow the commercialization of GM rice.
In redacted notes of Monday's closed-door hearing that were released Thursday, Ruckriegle modified an order he made last week to exclude the results of Bryant's examination at a hospital.
The seed is modified to be resistant to Monsanto's brand of weedkiller.
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