Sentences with phrase «brief bursts of»

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.

The intense battles of the world war 2 era games are relocated to the sand - blasted alleyways of a middle - eastern dictatorship, with tense spec - ops raids that reign in the action to brief bursts of gunplay, relying on atmosphere and deftly - weaved scripts to keep the player invested.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

They use their wings for brief bursts of flight.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you've spent the past few years building up your thumb strength and agility while keeping up with which bars have good drink specials (as I wrote the original version of this article, I was looking at a friend's message from the previous night that said, and I kid you not, «CcCome to bedinbl» — Jen had maybe been at a barstool a little too long...), you already know that text messages are an efficient way to get a brief burst of information in front of a lot of people at once.

Understanding the Higgs field more deeply might also aid physicists in their quest to understand the universe's beginning, when a brief burst of inflationary expansion planted the seeds for the galaxies decorating the cosmos today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The road unravels before a third - gear right, allowing a brief burst of throttle, the chassis revealing an ability to adjust its line via small changes to steering or throttle.

So a 0 -60-mph sprint starts with a brief burst of wheelspin at launch as the turbo boost rises but is quickly shut down by the electronic watchdogs.

Press it and there's a brief burst of nearly 100 more horses and 173 lb - ft more torque.

The player is also equipped with a glide ability to bridge certain gaps or terrains, and they have the option engaging a Turbo mode for a brief burst of speed.

There are successful plants harvesting heat from deep hot rock in Australia, Europe and Japan, the report noted, adding that studies of the technology largely stopped in the United States after a brief burst of research during the oil crises of the 1970s.

Did the brief burst of headlines and tsunami of attack blogging * contribute to the end of serious discussion of a comprehensive climate bill?

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

In defense of Peter Gleick, Muckraker was featured by Morano and so delivered a sudden, brief burst of borehole items:

Curved TVs had a brief burst of popularity, but have since mostly faded into the background.

Not exact matches

Diplomats also noted some palpable discomfort among senior Cuban officials with the burst of capitalist bling that marked the easing of US commercial restrictions — a Chanel fashion show, a free Rolling Stones concert, the brief takeover of Havana streets to film scenes for a new «Fast and Furious» movie.

If the baby is crying in sleep outright, there might be a brief couple of bursts of unhappy fussing or crying.

He used the same approach — a brief, painless burst of electricity makes the cockroach reflexively change directions.

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

IN A TENT in one of the many primitive camps in Monguno, a formerly small town now bursting with tens of thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram, a mother sits with her baby on her lap while a health worker scribbles a brief case history.

Lasers that can produce a brief terawatt, or trillion - watt, burst are commonplace, and petawatt lasers capable of generating a quadrillion watts are possible.

Scientists spotted a phenomenon called a short gamma - ray burst, a brief spurt of high - energy light, less than two seconds long.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

From brief glimpses throughout the past decade, astronomers have pieced together a standard theory of gamma ray bursts.

These fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but unknown sources.

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.

A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe.