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Main Entry:	mech·an·ism [mek-uh-niz-uhm] /ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm/ Show Spelled
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The chemical mechanism that controls a plant's response to short or long nights is complex, but the logic is simple.

Egghead's approach includes a financing mechanism to support graduate research into public history.

In other words, it would be a mechanism of transfers from the surplus to the deficit countries.

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The chemical mechanism that controls a plant's response to short or long nights is complex, but the logic is simple.

Egghead's approach includes a financing mechanism to support graduate research into public history.

In other words, it would be a mechanism of transfers from the surplus to the deficit countries.

Others can mutilate their own bodies as a defense mechanism.

Mechanism by which microbes scrub radioactive contamination revealed.

Darwin's explanation of the primary role of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution was not.

Its handsome detailing shows off the wheel-and-track mechanism.

Google would be forced to work around the gestural unlock mechanism.

As a defense mechanism when eaten, tobacco plants produce nicotine in the leaves that are toxic to many insects.

However, the reward mechanism in academia largely acknowledges individual success, effort and product.

Using this system, the researchers realised that they might be able to copy the eel's electricity-generation mechanism.

These fish also inflict their venoms with a delivery mechanism.

Focal mechanism for the main shock, and cross-sections of the two possible fault orientations.

In a church organ, this rather simple mechanism can produce only a certain number of sounds.

Early but intriguing research on mice suggests a new mechanism of aging, and possibly a way to stall it.

It has neither extension arms nor a cranking mechanism.

And many of the newspapers have come to rely on advertising revenue as the primary financing mechanism.

The researchers realised that they might be able to copy the eel's electricity-generation mechanism.

That's because raindrops simply take the pollutants with them as they fall from the atmosphere-the mechanism behind acid rain.

The result validates an underappreciated mechanism of so-called reproductive isolation, a key component of speciation.

She unscrewed the back, fixed the mechanism and put it back together.

ValiCert has built a mechanism for checking the status of digital certificates.

To show the flying tourbillon mechanism more fully, the watchmaker has inverted the movement.

Besides, the mechanism for distinguishing between low- and high-quality research already exists.

Auctions were going to revolutionise the price mechanism.

They must have some mechanism that prevents them from getting moldy when hibernating," he said.

In the case of malaria, however, that defense mechanism may backfire.

Trap after trap is empty, the bait nibbled by weasels too light to trip the mechanism.

Think of the mechanism as the purpose for the aid in question.

Third is a mechanism for long-term attachment that induces people to stay together long enough to complete their parental duties.

Dual credit programs would seem to make more sense as a mechanism for earning college credit early.

However, there is a deficiency in the mechanism to implemnt such programs.

The mechanism responsible for the secondary flashes isn't clear.

The subliminal story is the recognition of the lie by the error detection mechanism.

But nobody believed him, because there didn't seem to be any mechanism that would make that possible.

Its twinkling is significant because it could provide clues about the mechanism of planetary formation around young stars.

Teasing out the exact mechanism that would allow a planet to get so large is now work for theoreticians, the astronomers say.

Scientists have proposed a number of explanations for why this might be, but they have yet to pin down the exact mechanism.

The results suggest a single migratory mechanism isn't responsible.

The mechanism allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to earn credits.

Understanding the face-recall mechanism in the brain would be a big step towards understanding this odd disorder.

Recently my team proposed a possible physiological mechanism underlying sleepwalking.

As the mechanism spins, these dots dance before viewers' eyes and the effect is close to that of a kaleidoscope.

There is a pricing mechanism for the wireless, but it is too crude for the current crowd.

Studies of the genes and behavior of one group of mimics have in fact revealed a mechanism for the origin of new species.

Fusion is t he basic mechanism that causes the sun and the other stars to shin e.

Most cancer cells, however, use a less efficient mechanism called glycolysis to power themselves.

Vertigo is the result of damage to the body's balancing mechanism.

Part of the answer is probably that not all the negative consequences would have shown up at the time the mechanism was evolving.

The mechanism by which a protein could replicate itself is poorly understood.

Things could get considerably worse, but there is no obvious, looming mechanism to make this happen.

The triggering mechanism for this catastrophe is, appropriately, dark energy.

Kyoto was a hard-fought attempt to do something immensely difficult: create a global mechanism for solving a long-term problem.

Repairing or adjusting the mechanism is easy, but requires working beneath the sink, usually an awkward location.

In my opinion it is a tried and trusted mechanism with otherwise-sound peer review and ethical integrity.

The first is a support and surveillance mechanism for problem countries.

But first they have to figure out how the mechanism works.

Its design is based on the mechanism used by pine cones to shed their seeds.

Forget the flatiron: a two-step developmental mechanism orients and organizes hairs into place.

The chain uncapper uses a rotating chain mechanism to perfectly uncap the cells in only a few seconds.

The discovery of a reverse replay mechanism in rats may provide a deep insight into how memory works in humans as well.

In many locales, advisors from area schools have a formal or informal mechanism for meeting and sharing.

The geodynamo is the mechanism that creates our planet's magnetic field, maintains it, and causes it to reverse.

New supernova mechanism would set off repeat explosions.

The idea is to use the spring mechanism of a standard mousetrap to power a homemade.

The world is debtor to it for much that has simplified labor by supplanting or supplementing muscle with mechanism and machinery.

In peppers, the defense mechanism appears to be targeted specifically at predators that don't benefit the plant.

The mechanism behind antidepressant drugs is unveiled, which could lead to better treatments for depression and anxiety disorders.

It establishes an official specification for the mechanism that browsers use to.

If the refill tube is correctly positioned you will have to repair or replace the flush mechanism.

But the mechanism to obtain less expensive medicine already exists under trade rules.

As a snaphuance pistol, the gun had a firing mechanism that used flint and steel to ignite the weapon's firing charge.

The trigger mechanism consists of two triggers: the lower one cycles the firing mechanism while the top one releases the discs.

Unless the excess heat can be released in some way, the body's thermoregulation mechanism will shut down and induce heatstroke.

Any mechanism that forces students to show their prose to a teacher or tutor in advance will serve.

The precise neural mechanism for this effect, however, is still unknown.

Just for the record, feedback is actually the mechanism used to control almost every.

We need a cohesive national policy and a mechanism for integrating activities across the different branches of government.

The mechanism may involve other issues that are not affected by this drug".

Now researchers say they've worked out the mechanism that drives one of the mosquitoes' defenses.

Without data and evidence, there is nothing for a theory or mechanism to explain.

Must be held absolutely upright over the bottle for mechanism to work correctly.

Hiring a chair from outside may also provide a mechanism for bringing in a more senior person.

The financial crisis has bunged up that transmission mechanism.

Equipped with a focusing mechanism to regulate the beam from a tight spot to a wide flood.

Now researchers report that they have discovered the mechanism responsible for the startling sound.

The other is some mysterious interior mechanism that powers the whole thing as it moves.

Darwin knew that species evolved, but had not figured out the mechanism.

It should be through regulatory and disciplinary action mechanism that giants can be managed.

The color red is also a defensive mechanism for the krill.

Although scientists have long understood the basic mechanism behind this bioluminescence.

PowerWheel users can adjust the mystery-meat resistance mechanism inside the hub to one of seven difficulty levels.

He then was told to close the mechanism in a bid to seal the leak, but he was unable to reopen the latch.

The interesting point is the mechanism of how this production line of theses got the huge attention.

It also serves as a coping mechanism in the face of incomprehension.

The combination of the springy bow and latch mechanism is what makes the arrow zoom through the air.

The mechanism of addiction to caffeine, for example, is different from the mechanism of addiction to nicotine.

The bill would require that voting machines used for disabled voters provide a mechanism for voter verification as well.

Public monies are acquired through the coercive mechanism of taxation of private.

We are offered no details about the principles by which the allegedly superior mechanism is supposed to perform.

In seizing the orchid flower, the male wasp triggers the hammer mechanism and gets pollen whapped on its back.

Horie will have access to a sail and a motor if the wave-powered mechanism fails.

But these agencies also use this mechanism to hire citizens precisely because this is a much more simplified procedure.

He wondered why the normal mechanism of bubbling in beers and sparkling wines does not appear to work in stouts.

Zwally is fascinated by moulins because they may be a localized mechanism for accelerating the effects of global climate change.

To view an animation of the mechanism described above, click here.

The researchers haven't yet proven how the moth's sonar-jamming mechanism works, but they have two leading hypotheses:.

But the nature of the regenerative mechanism had remained a.

In short, a more responsive and more adaptive funding mechanism needs to be adopted.

Mice that produced no osteocalcin lacked this hormonal weight-control mechanism.

Such a mechanism would further reduce the complexity of controlling a flexible arm.

The mechanism involves a bully binary-that's the astronomers' actual language.

People have claimed that the same might happen in culture, and here we've shown a mechanism for language".

The human observer is literally at its heart, the figure around whom this mechanism revolves.

There is no mechanism for academic misbehaviour to ever be forgiven.

The precise mechanism how poliovirus enter the host cell has not been firmly established.

On paper, a mechanism does exist for distributing oil revenues somewhat fairly.

One of those laws says a perfect compression mechanism is impossible.

Just remember that arrogance is sometimes used as a defense mechanism for someone who feels intimidated or is lacking confidence.

Of course, for a signalling mechanism to work, one must be vigilant.

Knowledge of the underlying mechanism should help investigators answer this and other questions more quickly.

Beyond the sleek design and refined carbon-fiber body, the folding mechanism is both ingenious and simple.

It appears they function as a tenure denial mechanism.

Indeed, many of these services rely on e-mail as an underlying signalling mechanism.

Over a billion dollars in conservation funds have already been made available with this mechanism.

The main idea is not so exactly complex as is the mechanism of it.

Only rarely do researchers discover an entirely new physical mechanism that forces them to rethink a branch of science.

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