Sentences with phrase «branching patterns of»

The intricate branching patterns of trees have fascinated humans throughout recorded history.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

They also made a branching pattern of arteries with walls less than one millimeter thick.

The ductal wall usually contains a loose branching pattern of circumferential smooth muscle in normal pups.

Notice the elegant branching pattern of the veins.

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He said this is «unfortunately» part of a «troubling pattern of the Oversight Committee capitulating to the Trump White House rather than exercising its independent authority to conduct oversight of the executive branch.»

Even as Mr. Trump tripled down on his threats against Beijing, he also offered something of an olive branch — a back - and - forth pattern that he has repeated over the past weeks.

Such is the nature of much modern fundamental physics, reinforcing the need for those who reflect upon the ultimate patterns of matter - energy, most obviously in the branch of metaphysics called ontology, to engage with modern scientific thought.

What's more, the two areas of evidence (genetic and fossil, each relying on millions of data points) exhibit the same pattern of branching between specific groups of species.

The mechanisation of behaviour, like rigor mortis, affects first the extremities — the lowest, subordinate branches of the hierarchy, comparable to the ethnologist's fixed action patterns — one's characteristic gait, handwriting and accent of speech.

God's necessary immediate power is no less fundamental to the mutational relationship of one pattern of bodily organisation to another than it is to the relationship of one moment of time to another, or of a leaf to the branch or the ground upon which it falls.

Unlike standard chile cultivars that have a dichotomous growth pattern, the polychotomous branching of the basal branches makes these ideal for container production.

At Pinnacle Sports we have noticed two things that make props worth offering: 1) new players drawn by props never leave after trying the rest of the site; and 2) prop players branch out to the rest of our discount - priced wagering like on the games below, which have seen interesting betting patterns early in the week.

Laughon, S.K., Branch, D.W., Beaver, J., Zhang, J., Changes in labor patterns over 50 years, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2012), doi: 10.1016 / j.ajog.2012.03.003.

You can find a knitting pattern for anything you could possibly want to knit worked in Stockinette Stitch, and you can go a lot of your knitting career only knowing Garter Stitch, Stockinette and ribbing, though I hope you'll branch out and learn other things as well!

The simple arabesque of the tree branch and the bird gently perched in the pattern of the wrap is a perfect example of the Rococo style.

However, several government watchdogs say that Cuomo's attacks on DiNapoli are part of a long - running pattern of Cuomo trying to weaken the comptroller's oversight of the executive branch.

That is, the addition of new genomes will not, in all likelihood, add new branches to the pattern traced out in the space of possibilities; rather, it will fill in gaps in the existing pattern, increasing the metric entropy.

In the denuded branches of New England oaks and hemlocks scientists see a fingerprint of climate change — and a pattern of things to come

He's fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that's nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.

The network of neurons in the retina, on the other hand, looks less like a grid than a set of psychedelic snowflakes, with branches upon branches filling the retina in swirling patterns.

Hands - on stations uncover the patterns of what we see and hear, and even allow you to observe the math of your own body, from limb and torso proportions to the way blood vessels branch in your eyes.

Examining patterns of traits across the primate family tree, the researchers inferred the most likely characteristics of ancestors at different branching points in the tree — all the way back to the common ancestor.

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

It reveals that «branching tree - shaped» flow patterns govern the structure of the entire universe — most clearly evident within rivers, neural networks, lightning bolts, electrical circuitry and trees.

Within the ribcage, there are patches of soft tissue that contain tubular structures in a branching pattern, which the team interprets as preserved lung tissue.

Georgi suggested that a property known as scale invariance — seen in fractal - like patterns that remain unchanged even when you zoom in and out to different scales, like the branching of redwood trees and the jagged edges of coastlines — could apply to individual particles too.

Number theory is one of the most difficult branches of mathematics, a field in which conjectures — unproved guesses and number patterns — are ten a penny, but proofs are often elusive.

Instead of swarming outwards to form a branching snowflake - like pattern, leaving parts of the plate uninfected, they spread evenly and rapidly to infect the entire area — a behaviour that Xavier's team dubs «hyperswarming» (see movie).

With light microscopy, scientists image the branching patterns and connections of all the axons within a region of the nervous system in transgenic mice that express a number of different fluorescent proteins in individual neurons.

With their delicately branching form, akin to the recurring geometric patterns of fractals, which look similar at different scales, ferns fascinated the Victorians.

Modern molecular technologies (genomics and other omics), through comparing nucleic acid and amino acid sequences across living species, are enabling the identification of genetic components and patterns stingily conserved by evolution, from those in which times of evolutionary branching of the tree of life can be inferred.

In this international study, researchers from Sweden and Australia propose that these patterns can be understood as the result of independent branches growing and reaching a maximum carrying capacity, after which subbranches are discarded from the tree.

It had a perfect pattern of branches that made it challenging, but possible to climb at my young age.

The 10 percent cap was derived from modeling different kinds of healthy diet patterns — American, Mediterranean and vegetarian — and determining how many discretionary calories are left over for sugar after an individual ge the nutrients he or she needs, said Dr. Susan Krebs - Smith,, the chief of the risk factors assessment branch at the National Cancer Institute.

It features a series of patterns arranged in vertical rows — fancy swirls, water lilies, leafy branches made with beige and golden threads.

The combination of branches and blossoms in the pattern are unique and feminine.

The Manor Hill Serenade Comforter Set is a graceful and serene bed decorated with a rhythmic pattern of branches on a woven strié - textured jacquard that has a subtle sheen when the fabric catches the light.

The sheer cloth in dove grey is embroidered with beige and golden threads in a ravishing pattern of birds flying between branches.

The difference for this group — participants in the Montana public schools» most successful online credit recovery programs — seems to be access to teachers who can help them troubleshoot technical difficulties and content - related challenges, according to the study, «Online credit recovery: Enrollment and passing patterns in Montana Digital Academy courses,» released last month by REL Northwest, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences serving Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

In a strongly worded letter to Superintendent Beth Schiavino - Narvaez, NAACP branch President Imam Abdul - Shahid Muhammad Ansari wrote that recommendations to close schools named for Martin Luther King, former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, civil rights pioneer Frank T. Simpson and John C. Clark Jr., the first African - American elected to public office in Hartford, represent a «total disregard for Black and Latino culture and heritage» and are part of a larger pattern of neglect toward neighborhood schools.

The total number of jobs for tellers tend to follow cyclical patterns, as major banks embark on successive periods of expansion or contraction in the number of their branches.

This contrast lifts the horizontally linked Triwangsa up as a supra - hamlet all - Bali group over the highly localized Sudra; a pattern congruent, of course, with the fact that the Triwangsa almost completely monopolized the interlocal, superordinate political and religious roles of the traditional Balinese state structure, as they do today of the Balinese branch of the Indonesian civil service.

A comparison of mitogenomes from 16 pairs of domestic animals and their wild progenitors revealed no consistent patterns between divergence date, dN / dS, and branch length [33], indicating that human - mediated selective pressures did not have consistent mitogenomic effects.

In his work, the Pennsylvania painter analyzed the natural colors of flora he picked up on walks in the Wissahickon woods and fields in Lancaster county, as well as flecks of white bark, snow - covered branches, and spontaneous patterns in nature.

I blame it on seeing, as a teenager, reproductions of Piet Mondrian's tree paintings from the early 1910s: ever - thickening patterns of branches that flattened space, an evolution from figuration to some sort of Platonic essence of tree.

The rippling effects of wind, the shimmering reflections of leaves and branches, the looming shadow of a figure, the playful abstract patterns achieved by floating objects all infuse Chou's photographs with dialogue and character.

They play with our gaze - inviting it in here, barring it there, tangling it up where the sky is fractured by shooting branches or in a pattern of hatched brushstrokes; slowing it down with thick impasto where it is inclined to linger.

McKenzie would be the clear star of this exhibition were it not for Gillian Carnegie's coolly seductive paintings in glossy monochrome: a sleek black cat on the landing of a stairwell; another, as self - contained as a sphinx, glimpsed beyond the black bars of a bannister (pictured right: Prince, 2011 - 12); a spiral iron stair; a vase of flowers; a tree with a swirl of abstractly spreading branches, reminiscent of Mondrian; an abstract pattern of Harlequin diamonds that provide the only burst of colour.

Made in collaboration with USF Graphicstudio, Vertigo is comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal, woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer - not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch.