Sentences with phrase «brief burst»

The clinical signs typically occur in brief bursts of odd behavior lasting perhaps only a minute or two at most.

They use their wings for brief bursts of flight.

However, giving your online learners brief bursts of information on a weekly basis improves knowledge retention and recall.

Yeah, it's fun, but those are short brief bursts of fun until you grow bored of the limited content.

While there is really nothing to these games, they are less about providing actual gameplay then they are providing brief bursts of humor.

However, it's only used in brief bursts, which makes it quite hard to get too sick of it, and it's chunky and well - executed enough that it still manages to raise a smile from time to time.

These audio artifacts can extend into games with brief bursts of sound, such as gunshots, menu pings and the tail end of cymbal clashes in music.

Microlearning involves brief bursts of information that focus on a specific topic or task.

«Cats, being natural carnivores, get exercise by indulging in their predatory instincts during brief bursts of energy.

Do not forget that the history of American education is checkered with examples of short - lived surges of zeal for reform, most of which died after brief bursts of spending accompanied by earnest talk.

Brains use brief bursts of beta waves, rather than sustained rhythms, to control attention and perception.

Killer whales have complex vocal repertoires made up of clicks, whistles and pulsed calls — repeated brief bursts of sound punctuated with silence.

Let's face it — a young child's life is full of micro tragicomic moments that might be worth recording, even if they produce brief bursts of tears.

Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of electrical activity, commonly observed in epileptic patients and animal models.

Optalert, an Australian company founded by sleep expert Murray Johns, makes glasses with a tiny LED built into the nosepiece of the frame that aims brief bursts of low - intensity infrared light at a driver's eye.

Green and Arduini (1954), in their pioneering study of theta rhythms, reported only brief bursts of irregular theta in monkeys.

The second major energy system we developed through evolution was the ATP - PC system, which allowed for intense loads of work to be done in very brief bursts (think of our hunter - gatherer ancestors sprinting to the safety of a tree to avoid being eaten by a lion).

At higher speeds, reaching the edge of adhesion results in understeer — at lower velocities the combination of the engine's urge and the quattro system's rear - biased torque split means it can be persuaded into brief bursts of power oversteer; although this isn't a state the car shows any enthusiasm for.

Depending on several variables, including vehicle speed; lateral and longitudinal acceleration; steering angle; friction differences between wheels and accelerator position, the rear differential will engage and power up the rear wheels — typically dividing torque 50 - 50, but, for brief bursts on extreme low - friction surfaces, it can send all engine power to the rear.

Top - level minds treat their mental capacity the way a sprinter treats his muscles: with brief bursts of activity, followed by periods of rest.

An additional 14bhp is unlocked thanks to an overboost feature too, raising maximum power to 268bhp for brief bursts of acceleration.

The hippocampal oscillations were associated with REM sleep and the transition from sleep to waking, and came in brief bursts, usually less than a second long.

Previous studies have proven the benefits of vigorous stair climbing over sustained periods of time — up to 70 minutes a week — but scientists set out to determine if sprint interval training (SIT), which involves brief bursts of vigorous exercise separated by short periods of recovery, was an effective and time - efficient alternative for improving cardiorespiratory fitness.

A HIIT cardio session consists of brief bursts of intense exercise such as sprinting, which are followed by a petriod of low - intensity movement like walking.

, so the best most of us can hope for is a brief burst of attention to our issues.

In the Gulf War, soldiers were both exposed to stress and given AChE inhibitors to prevent nerve gas damage, which might combine to create a brief burst of unusually high acetylcholine levels — and a long - term acetylcholine deficit, Soreq points out.

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

As she looks at a bloody photo, she is also subjected to a brief burst of loud white noise delivered through a pair of earphones.

Astronomers are furiously searching for the source of a brief burst of gamma rays detected by NASA's Swift space telescope on Monday.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

But in April, Jim Bailey and his team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque announced that their experimental device, called the Z - machine, had successfully unleashed a brief burst of fusion power.

While looking at the pictures, each man experienced a brief burst of intense white noise.

For a brief burst of time, supernovae can radiate more energy than the sun will emit in its lifetime.

The changing appearance of gullies on Mars over the last seven years suggests that liquid water flowed recently on the red planet and may still seep out in brief bursts, researchers said Wednesday.

Feeding shifts the steady state towards addition of new cells by causing a brief burst of increased stem cell divisions.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

On January 31, 2000, a brief burst of gamma rays was detected by an network of satellites (Ulysses, NEAR and Konus) via the InterPlanetary Network (Hurley et al, 2000).

A couple of seconds later, a brief burst of gamma rays were detected by an instrument aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.

Brief bursts of intense exercise are remarkably effective,» Gibala said in a university news release.

«Brief bursts of intense exercise are remarkably effective,» says Martin Gibala, PhD, lead author of the study and a professor of kinesiology at McMaster.

Furthermore, that brief burst of intense energy sparked a small «growth spurt» in the muscle, making it even stronger for the next encounter with the next lion — a true survival adaptation.

I have been writing for some time about the potential benefits of high - intensity interval training, a type of workout that consists of an extremely draining but brief burst of exercise — essentially, a sprint — followed by light exercise such as jogging or resting, then another sprint, more rest, and so on.

After pulling off the skin, the peppers are packed into small glass freezer - safe containers and packed away in the freezer for the brief bursts -LSB-...]

We had a brief burst of GORGEOUS weather that lured me into thinking Spring had arrived.

Was Hannibal Lecter scarier when we saw him in brief bursts or when we found out the needlessly fleshed out details of his backstory?

The film is directed by Ricardo Cortez, longtime romantic leading man and character actor (and the first Sam Spade in the 1931 «The Maltese Falcon»), during a brief burst of filmmaking in the B - unit of 20th Century Fox when good roles were getting scarce, and written by Dalton Trumbo before he graduated to the top of the screenwriting ranks.

The bulk of the film focuses on that time period, with brief bursts of violence bridged together by quieter, character - driven moments.

I experienced three brief bursts of pleasure during Thor (Paramount Pictures), Kenneth Branagh's 3 - D adaptation of the Marvel comic book series: two involved blond men smiling, and the third came from a line reading by Natalie Portman.