On top of one of them is a diode as the active medium.

January 16 An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.

This is one of many possible ways in which a molecular level diode transistor might be synthesized by organic chemistry.

The IMF needs to prevent Europeans from allowing their constitutional paralysis to turn the eurozone s debt snowball into a global avalanche.

Avalanche Software was working in close collaboration with Pixar artists to bring the humor and personality of the feature film to life.

There has been a veritable avalanche of lobbying on this point, which has resulted in top officials moving slowly, for fear of damaging the economy.

It is called so because the logic gating function (e.g., AND) is performed by a diode network and the amplifying function is performed by a transistor (in contrast with RTL and TTL).

As a consequence, chaos looms in Greece, as does the prospect of subsequent bank runs in Spain, Italy, and France and thus a financial avalanche that would bury Europe. And then?

On April 7, 2012, a deadly avalanche hit a Pakistani military camp in the Gayatri Sector, 30km west of the Siachen glacier, killing over 130 people, most of them military personnel.

Comments in January that the country was helpless against an avalanche of drug trafficking from the north were aimed at securing international support, but do little to inspire confidence in his leadership.

The recent tragedy of the avalanche has led the authorities in Pakistan to press for demilitarization of the area by pointing out the human cost and financial burden that maintaining these manned outposts were causing both countries.

Because contracts are linked with each other, one default can trigger an avalanche of broken promises, making it possible to destroy virtually the entire web of formal and informal contracts which the market system requires for its functioning.

Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.

Social media erupted in an avalanche of celebratory joy upon the realization that Monica Puig won the match. Many users, irrespective of gender, changed their profile pictures to show her image and she became a trending topic across social media platforms.

There's an ancient and universal concept that words have power, that spells exist, and that if we could only pronounce the right words, then whooosh you know, an avalanche would come and wipe out the hobbits, right? So this is a very attractive idea because we're very lazy, like the sorcerer's apprentice, or the world's greatest computer programmer.