Sentences with phrase «by giving any surface»

Albedo is a ratio of how much sunlight (and its thermal radiation) is reflected back into space by a given surface.

With just a few quick sprays, you can protect your pet by giving any surface a nasty, bitter taste dogs and cats absolutely hate!

Not exact matches

The book, Recycled Papers: The Essential Guide (MIT Press, 800-356-0343; $ 40, cloth; $ 25, paper), by Claudia Thompson, is itself printed on four types of recycled surfaces, to give you an idea of what to expect from recycled paper.

The nominalist theory that there is no existential reality to properties surfaced in Luther's belief that grace does not have any real existence as an internal property given to man by God, a spiritual reality that enters into us and affects us.

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

This allows the juices, which have been driven to the center of a roast or chicken by the heat, to return to the surface and gives your meat a juicier flavor.

Zanzibar, 1897 In the Kew Bulletin (1892, p. 88) the following information respecting chillies was given in an article on the Agricultural Resources of Zanzibar, contributed by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: — «The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface...

Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and give it a few turns by hand to finish kneading it; it will still be slightly sticky.

Rochdale took umbrage at claims they were giving away an advantage by relaying the pitch, and set about showing they, too, prefer a surface conducive to passing.

Do you want to give your little one the best of both worlds by allowing him or her to have a separate sleeping surface while still being within arm's reach of your bed?

By aiming to give your baby at least 60 minutes of Tummy Time by the end of month 2 and 90 minutes per day by the end of month 3, you'll have plenty of opportunity to do Tummy Time in a variety of places - on a Boppy, on a firm surface, on a parent or caregivers lap or chest (laying down), held belly - down on an adult's forearm, etcBy aiming to give your baby at least 60 minutes of Tummy Time by the end of month 2 and 90 minutes per day by the end of month 3, you'll have plenty of opportunity to do Tummy Time in a variety of places - on a Boppy, on a firm surface, on a parent or caregivers lap or chest (laying down), held belly - down on an adult's forearm, etcby the end of month 2 and 90 minutes per day by the end of month 3, you'll have plenty of opportunity to do Tummy Time in a variety of places - on a Boppy, on a firm surface, on a parent or caregivers lap or chest (laying down), held belly - down on an adult's forearm, etcby the end of month 3, you'll have plenty of opportunity to do Tummy Time in a variety of places - on a Boppy, on a firm surface, on a parent or caregivers lap or chest (laying down), held belly - down on an adult's forearm, etc..

Yet while the endorsement may look surprising on the surface, it does actually make some sense given that Dappy is / was one of the clients managed by Norman Lamb's son, Archie.

The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.

It is powered by two 1200W motors that give you all that go and also gives you the ability to go uphill like they were just flat surfaces.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

The stone thickness is.75» and the 14» by 16» surface area gives you more room to work with than typical round pizza stones.

Astronomers had predicted that dust created by meteorite impacts should coat all the moons evenly, giving their surfaces a uniform look.

«By moving aberration estimation and correction out to computation, we can create a compact device that gives us the same surface area as the lens we want without the size, weight, volume and cost,» said Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern.

Using a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environment.

What they discovered was that an inflammatory factor known as TGF - beta (transforming growth factor - beta) can give cancer cells properties of immune cells by supplying the surface of the cancer cell with a receptor that normally only exists on the white blood cells that travel through the lymphatic system.

Physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard» t Hooft stressed that the lesson should be general: Since the information required to describe physical phenomena within any given region of space can be fully encoded by data on a surface that surrounds the region, then there's reason to think that the surface is where the fundamental physical processes actually happen.

Asteroid surfaces heat up during the day (as illustrated by this image) and cool down at night, giving off radiation that can act as a sort of mini-thruster.

«By doing this on a surface, you limit the reactivity but you have the advantage that you can actually look at a single molecule, give that molecule a name or number, and later look at what it turns into in the products,» he said.

The droplets struck the surface with speeds ranging from 2 to 7 meters per second, and for a given speed, the researchers found they could eliminate the splash by lowering the pressure beyond a specific threshold.

«We ended up developing a multilayer technique to first deposit a very thin ITO film at low temperature, followed by another thicker ITO film at a high temperature — and it gave us great optoelectronic and surface roughness properties.»

Then there is Gauss curvature, which gives you the curvature of a two - dimensional surface by multiplying the largest and smallest curvature of the family of all curves tangential to the surface at a given point.

Liming Zhou of the University at Albany, State University of New York, and colleagues studied land - surface temperature data gathered by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which give measurements with a spatial resolution of roughly 1 square kilometre.

With an accurate understanding of surface motion in a given zone, researchers also get more precise estimates for how a building will be affected by shaking.

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

SEMs work by moving a very fine tip over the surface of an object which has been given an electric charge.

These motions are governed by water's surface tension, the force that gives a drop of water its shape.

She has skilfully gathered up the reflections given out by her complex subject, so as to make a glittering, but consciously a surface, imprint on her own canvas.

By engineering red blood cells to have «sticky» proteins on their surface, a team of researchers has given the cells the ability to carry anything from drugs to treat immune disorders or cancer to radioactive molecules used in imaging of blood vessels.

MARCI images will also show how the brightness and color of the surface varies from place to place over the course of a martian year, which gives some indication of where dust is eroded from, and deposited by, dust storms and dust devils.

In this contribution, we give an example of how the controlled nanopatterning of TiO2 surfaces by BCP nanopores allows for experiments which give insight into the interactions between biological units and the nanopatterns.

«This tool gives us the capability to get better resolution by three orders of magnitude than some other techniques, which has opened a very wide field for catalysis and surface - chemistry studies.»

Because Pluto has 56 days for every Earth year, it takes almost week for it to complete a single rotation giving us an interesting data set By spreading out those observations over 14 days, there's enough information to see how the surface changes over a time.

Michel and colleagues took advantage of the wealth of geophysical data that have been collected in this region, using a catalog of earthquakes that have occurred in the area and models of the fault slip rate inferred from surface deformation given by Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite observations of ground changes.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

Surface tensions γcm are measured for all blastomeres sequentially by finding the critical pressure Pc giving a deformation of the size of the micropipette Rp and measuring the radius of curvature of the cell Rc.

Because these features are influenced by both the sun's core and the area near its surface, studying the features gives scientists a big picture look at the sun, researchers said in a statement about the new work.

For instance, models with different parameterization strategies give very different estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere necessary to raise Earth's surface temperature by 2 °C — with critical implications for policy decisions.

It is vibrating molecules that give us the sensation of heat, and it is by this mechanism that heat energy is trapped by the atmosphere and re-radiated to the surface.

Together, these two papers give us the best sense of Titan's surface to date, informed by some of the last data scientists received from the Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn until its destruction in September.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

To enable proper recovery, you must address the core issue instead of the symptoms on the surface, and this can be done only by remodeling, stabilizing and strengthening of the given tendon.

You can also increase the surface area of your foot that comes into contact with the ground — literally giving you a wider base and thus broader sensory input — by spreading your toes and releasing tension between the long, thin metatarsal bones.

I started by giving it a wipe down and sanding the top, then re-stained the top surface with Early American and three coats of non-yellowing water - based poly.

Give a storage area in your home a new look instantly and economically by using Creative Contact Shelf Liner by Con - Tact to cover up old surfaces.

Maddy likes to give dishes a new look by setting them on chargers and different surfaces that fit the occasion.