Sentences with phrase «find higher surfaces»

Find higher surfaces once the decline is not enough for you.

If not, find a higher surface such as a break room counter, or stack boxes on your desk to make a higher surface so that you can use your computer while standing.

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One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

We found that all balls bounced higher on the tiles than any other surface and lowest on the carpet.

The proposal for the new job title surfaced after an administration foul - up last month in which officials, who had hoped to have higher auto registration fees in place last year found out in April that no one consulted with the state Department of Motor Vehicles about implementing the fee, which could lose the county $ 10 million in revenue this year.

An MTA worker with the job title «model - surfacing instructor» was the agency's highest - paid employee in 2015 — and one of 10 overtime fat cats to make more than $ 300,000, the Empire Center has found.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that gallium indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with one of the highest surface tensions, can be induced to spread and form patterns called fractals with the application of low voltage.

For both experiments, the researchers used much higher concentrations of microbes than those typically found on hospital surfaces, Koranteng said.

It found that small particles existing at 150 km or higher above Earth's surface could be knocked beyond the limit of Earth's gravity by space dust and eventually reach other planets.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

They researchers found surfacing of both tiger sharks and green turtles was highest where they overlapped in core home range, closest to the island, and surfacing also increased for both animals with increasing proximity to the shoreline.

However, surprisingly, the researchers found that when shark - turtle overlap in the study region was high, turtles did not alter surfacing behavior to risk avoidance.

Monico also used high - powered X-rays to analyse microscopic samples from the painting and found that some of the lead chromate at the painting's surface had turned into greenish chromium oxide, which combined with the underlying yellow to produce a darker and browner hue than van Gogh may have intended.

What they found was that the holes on the surface were consistent with high - velocity collisions between the comet and smaller meteoritelike objects.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

The study, led by Brown University geologist Brandon Johnson and published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds a high likelihood that there's more than 100 kilometers of liquid water beneath Pluto's surface.

Currently, seasonal flu vaccines are designed to induce high levels of protective antibodies against hemagglutinin (HA), a protein found on the surface of the influenza virus that enables the virus to enter a human cell and initiate infection.

New research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that higher levels of antibody against a different flu surface protein — neuraminidase (NA)-- were the better predictor of protection against flu infection and its unpleasant side effects.

A group of Japanese researchers led by Osaka University has proposed that substances heated with high - power lasers produce an ultrahigh pressure plasma state, comparable with those found at the centers of stars, and that the surface tension of the plasma can push back light.

Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such as sulfate, oxygen, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.

The scientists used a high - resolution imaging technique called x-ray crystallography and found that MR191 neutralizes the virus by mimicking the host receptor and plugging into a spot on the viral surface called the receptor binding site.

Signature H. sapiens traits include flat surfaces of frontal teeth facing the lips, high and narrow crowns on certain cheek teeth and generally smaller tooth sizes than found in Neandertals and earlier Homo species.

Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.

In a paper published in EPJ E, the authors found that under the same solid fraction, friction on surfaces with a structure made up of micro-holes is much higher than that on surfaces patterned with an array of pillars.

Nathaniel Johnson and Shang - Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii studied satellite and rain - gauge data from the last 30 years and found that sea surface temperatures in the tropics now need to be about 0.3 °C higher than they did in 1980 before the air above rises and produces rain (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1008).

The research team found the evidence confirming the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet at an altitude of 6,200 feet, about 400 miles from the South Pole at the edge of what's called the polar plateau, a flat, high surface of the ice sheet covering much of East Antarctica.

With its higher - than - a-bird's - eye view of the Red Planet's surface, it found the strongest evidence yet that salty water currently flows on Mars.

Looking at the 10 per cent of Europa's surface that Galileo has imaged at high resolution, the Arizona group found that roughly half of it consists of «tectonic» terrain, dominated by long, straight ridges and fault lines.

95 % of the areas studied were found to have a higher groundwater temperature than surface temperature.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to reduce the coercivity of nickel ferrite (NFO) thin films by as much as 80 percent by patterning the surface of the material, opening the door to more energy efficient high - frequency electronics, such as sensors, microwave devices and antennas.

The studies have found that lower solar surface radiation in China is due to a combination of higher air pollution in the area and lower surface winds in China.

The authors speculate that possible explanations for this finding is that reflex tearing might help flush PM from the ocular surface, or that environmental PM10 levels currently in Korea are not high enough to induce adverse effects on the ocular surface.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

They found that rubber replicas are not comparable with one another and that, in general, high viscosity rubber compounds which pour as thick liquids make replicas that are less similar — and less desirable — compared to the original surface.

The team analyzed an index of sea surface temperatures from the Bering Sea and found that in years with higher than average Arctic temperatures, changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the aforementioned anomalous climates throughout North America.

The pH in this zone is roughly 7.4, nearly 10 times higher in acidity (or a unit lower in pH) than what is found in surface waters, which have an average pH of 8.2.

Gao and the team tried to find the best way to grow high - quality single layers of phophorene directly on a surface by modeling the effect of different substrates on the growth of a phosphorene flake containing just 27 atoms.

They are commonly found on the surface of rocks on Earth and can survive in extreme conditions such as high mountains latitudes.

The discovery suggests that when the rover descends into the crater in a few months, it may find a bathtub ring of the tiny concretions — an ancient high - water mark suggesting the area was altered by ground, not surface, water.

After the researchers analyzed the inclusions — each just 15 to 40 microns wide, or one - sixth to two - fifths of the diameter of a human hair — they found the inclusions contained the entire range of minerals one would expect of a volcanic rock called basalt that originally formed at the planet's surface and then crystallized under extreme high pressures and temperatures.

Thioarsenates can be found in surface water, groundwater, and bottom water with high levels of sulphide.

The natural radioactivity of the Marcellus Shale has caused concern since the mid-1980s, when high levels of radon gas were found in the basements of homes in Marcellus, a town in upstate New York, where the shale reaches the surface.

In January 2015, NASA's high - resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the Beagle 2 lander, its rear cover and possible signs of a parachute on the Martian surface.

There, many kilometers deep, the carbonate rocks will be exposed to very high pressures and temperatures, converting the carbonate rocks back to the silicates and expelling CO2 and water — these gases will then find their ways to the surface through explosive volcanoes near the plate subduction boundaries.

The scientists also found that a protein known as CD29 acts as a cell - surface marker for precursor fat cells that can generate mature cells with high energy potential, as shown by their UCP1 expression.

Using these steady - states, we find that if volatile cycling is either solely dependent on temperature or seafloor pressure, exoplanets require a high abundance (more than 0.3 % of the total mass) of water to have fully inundated surfaces.

From high - resolution spectroscopy of the star, we find a stellar effective temperature Teff = 5541 \ pm 60 K, a metallicity [Fe / H] = -0.13 \ pm 0.06, and a surface gravity log (g) = 4.59 \ pm 0.10.

Michigan researchers will look at the ability of high intensity ultraviolet light delivered by Xenex Germ - Zapping Robots to protect patients from deadly superbugs, such as Clostridium difficile, found on surfaces.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»