• Big Mechanism is a $45 million DARPA research program, begun in 2014, aimed at developing software that will read cancer research papers, integrate them...
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  • In cultural anthropology, a leveling mechanism is a practice in some non-Western cultures that acts to ensure social equality, usually by shaming or humbling...
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    effect on production of drugs and nutrients from bacteria and yeast. Big Mechanism: Cancer research. (2015) The program aims to develop technology to read...
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    the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons...
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    clock are 22.5 feet (6.9 m) in diameter. The clock uses its original mechanism and was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming...
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  • release of macOS Big Sur referred to its version as "10.16", and when upgrading from prior versions of macOS using the Software Update mechanism to early beta...
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    The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. The notion of an expanding...
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    mobility and foldability of deployable mechanisms. The Hoberman mechanism originates from the idea of making something bigger become smaller. Chuck Hoberman,...
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  • A direct-drive mechanism is a mechanism design where the force or torque from a prime mover is transmitted directly to the effector device (such as the...
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  • construction of big mechanisms could have a major impact on scientific research. As one of a number of different projects that make up the big mechanism programme...
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