2019年12月12日 星期四

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BREAKING NEWS: Exit poll shows Boris Johnson STORMING to HUGE election victory.

We’re Live at BBC HQ after the UK general election.
The Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of 86, according to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky News.
Follow election coverage live across the BBC, and follow latest updates at: bbc.in/Elec19Live

I modulated some judgments....

   FIA seeks legal review of Toyota's F1 exit

USA Today
The FIA said on Wednesday that since the Japanese team's announcement comes only weeks after it committed to the sport through 2012, it will seek "urgent ...

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漫畫來源: Ted Goff

Exit polls indicate tight race in Albanian polls

While the central election commission has not made any official
announcements, exit polls appear to indicate a win for Prime Minister Sali
Berisha's Democratic Party over the Socialists led by Edi Rama.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew1659I44va89pI4


Lehman Brothers
said on Wednesday it hoped to exit bankruptcy protection in the next 18 to 24 months, but the judge overseeing the case warned that more international coordination would be necessary to meet that goal.

Go to Article from Reuters via The New York Times»


Plan to Fingerprint Foreigners Exiting U.S. Is Opposed

The airline industry and embassies of 34 countries, including the members of the European Union, are urging the U.S. government to withdraw a plan that would require airlines and cruise lines to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the United States, starting in August...
(By Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post)

exit polls 選舉的”出口民調”

Exit polls show big loss for Japanese PM's party
Early returns and projections from exit polls conducted by The Asahi Shimbun showed the LDP falling far short of the 64 seats it had up for grabs in the election.

exit polls 所謂選舉的出口民調,在1980年才首次使用。
The Matt Cohler Exit Interview (Michael Arrington)
Exit Interview指離職時的訪談
Interview conducted as an employee leaves the employment of an organization. The purpose of the interview is to obtain feedback about the general feelings of the employee in terms of seeking ways to improve the organization. Since the employee is no longer employed at the organization, this may lead to a frank discussion of employment issues.

EXIT was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

exit strategy 

noun

n [C]
a plan of how someone will end something such as a business deal or a military operation

 Gems Sensors Recalls Pressure Transducers Used in Fire Pump Controllers Due to Risk of Failure in a Fire, http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12156.html

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feedback
n.
    1. The return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input, especially when used to maintain performance or to control a system or process.
    2. The portion of the output so returned.
    3. Sound created when a transducer such as a microphone or electric guitar picks up sound from a speaker connected to an amplifier and regenerates it back through the amplifier.
  1. The return of information about the result of a process or activity; an evaluative response: asked the students for feedback on the new curriculum.
  2. The process by which a system, often biological or ecological, is modulated, controlled, or changed by the product, output, or response it produces.
feedback
[名][U][C]フィードバック.1 《電子工学》帰還:出力の一部を入力側へ返送する操作.2 《心理学》適否に応じて行動を修正する働き.3 《コンピュータ》誤りを制御訂正するためにシステムからの...
feedback inhibition
《生化学》フィードバック制御:生体反応の自動制御の機構.

modulate

Syllabification: (mod·u·late)
Pronunciation: /ˈmäjəˌlāt/
Translate modulate | into German | into Italian | into Spanish


verb

[with object]
  • exert a modifying or controlling influence on:the state attempts to modulate private business’s cash flow
  • vary the strength, tone, or pitch of (one’s voice):we all modulate our voice by hearing it
  • alter the amplitude or frequency of (an electromagnetic wave or other oscillation) in accordance with the variations of a second signal, typically one of a lower frequency:radio waves are modulated to carry the analog information of the voice
  • [no object] Music change from one key to another:the first half of the melody, modulating from E minor to G
  • [no object] (modulate into) change from one form or condition into (another):ideals and opinions are not modulated into authoritative journalese



Derivatives

modulation

Pronunciation: /ˌmäjəˈlāSHən/
noun




modulator


Pronunciation: /-ˌlātər/
noun

Origin:

mid 16th century (in the sense 'intone [a song]'): from Latin modulat- 'measured, made melody', from the verb modulari, from modulus 'measure' (see modulus)

transduce[trans・duce]

  • 発音記号[trænsdjúːs | trænzdjúːs]
[動](他)
1 〈エネルギー・メッセージなどを〉他の形に変換する.
2 〈遺伝子などを〉ある微生物から他の微生物に移転させる.
trans・dúcer
[名](エネルギーの)変換器.

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