Sentences with phrase «by human ears»

Shelties will bark incessantly to warn of danger and will bark happily when they sense a member of the «family» is on his way home — long before the car can be heard by human ears!

Ultrasound uses soundwaves with frequencies higher than those heard by the human ear.

The tiny microphone picked up sounds down to some minus 60 decibels — a level one - millionth of that detectable by the human ear.

When the tension is quickly released, the claw snaps shut with a sharp crack like a pistol shot, which can be faintly heard by the human ear.

Not merely illustrations of audio - visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.The range of frequencies detectable by the human ear is about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, and the visible light spectrum is 400 terahertz (red light) to 740 terahertz (violet light).

It's something you can do during the day where you can see the birds in the trees and bird songs are easily heard by the human ear, but what if your passion is bats?

Not exact matches

They are mounted in a dummy head, inset in ear - shaped molds to fully capture all the audio frequency adjustments — known in the psychoacoustic research community as head - related transfer functions (HRTFs)-- that happen naturally as sound wraps around the human head and is «shaped» by the outer and inner ears.

We must adopt the critical approach and seek reality, here as well, by asking ourselves what human relation to real events this could have been which led gradually, along many by - paths and by way of many metamorphoses, from mouth to ear, from one memory to another, and from dream to dream, until it grew into the written account we have read.

The God of Israel is one whose «ear is open'to the prayers of his people and whose response to their prayers, as also to their acts, is determined by the sort and quality of their human and historical situation.

1 Corinthians 2:9 - 10 (NIV) «However, as it is written: «What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived» — the things God has prepared for those who love him — THESE ARE THE THINGS GOD HAS REVEALED TO US BY HIS SPIRIT.

The principles of human action, like the processes of nature, fall within a universal order established by the Creator, to be recognized at any level by those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

The proposition certainly applies to human kind - from the first dependency of our being conceived, to the last grace ministered to us at the hand of another in Christ's name, the last prayer whispered in our ear by loved ones as we die.

Secular anti-Catholic opposition may be exemplified by USA Today [http://cont.ent.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/ 2011 / 01 / saint - pope - john - paul - sex - abuse - crisis / 1], which contemptuously characterised the process of canonisation itself as being a recognition, in the words of one Cathy Lynn Grossman, «that someone who has lived a life of exemplary holiness is now in heaven, whispering on humans» behalf in the ear of a miracle - working God».

I mean, will players eventually wear ear pieces and be told where to run and who to pass to, by a machine that that has far more information than a human manager.

Breastfeeding improves vision and oral development; breastfed babies have fewer ear infections; breast milk is better for the cardiovascular system and kidneys; and babies» intestinal immunity is enhanced by human milk.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

The detector picks up the echolocation calls emitted by bats and translates it to a frequency the human ear can hear.

The effect on the molecular underpinnings of the fruit fly's ear are the same as experienced by humans, making the tests generally applicable to people, the researchers note.

Binaural stereo mimics this by setting a pair of microphones in the ears of a dummy human head to capture the phase and amplitude differences.

But the CTBTO's stations have two sets of three hydrophones separated by several kilometers, which — like a pair of human ears — allow listeners to get a fix on a sound's direction to within 0.5 °.

These mammals make human speech look simple: In a behavior called echolocation, a bat must coordinate its nose, mouth, ears, and larynx to emit and receive calls, all the while executing flight maneuvers guided in part by these signals.

Just like in human ears, the delicate sensory hairs in the rat inner ear (shown above) can be damaged by loud noise, chemicals, and infection.

By culturing human stem cells in this manner and treating them with specific signaling molecules, the investigators were able to guide cells through key processes involved in the development of the human inner ear.

So far it has been assumed that humans recognize faces as one whole object or image, and not by looking at different parts (such as lips, ears and eyes) or local features that together form a face.

Another idea is to «shape» any background noise by taking it from the middle frequency bands, to which the ear is most sensitive, and redistributing it in higher or lower bands where human hearing is less acute.

In humans, deafness is most often caused by damage to inner ear hair cells — so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations from sound waves — or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain.

Human traits like hair distribution, fatness and fat distribution, blood chemistry, and ear form are known to be affected by variation in dozens or hundreds of genes.

Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.

Hermansky - Pudlak syndrome is caused by mutations in HPS4, the human homolog of the mouse light - ear gene.

In 1985, he single handedly shut down the CIAs eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain by revealing to the KGB the name of every human asset that was secretly spying for the West.

Lady Bird is an absolute gem of human comedy and personal drama, a coming - of - age story turned on its ear by virtue of its intense female gaze and crushing human subtlety.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Accessed via the Amplifon Web site or by embedding the software code into a school, classroom or personal site or blog, users are presented with a detailed anatomical model of the human ear.

The only obtrusion we experienced from the hybrid models was a whine from the electric powertrain likely only to be heard by canines and human passengers whose ears can still sense higher frequencies.

The Sow's Ear Café by Holly Quan transports the tough and damaged Lucie from her shallow life in Vancouver to Sweetgrass's potential for deeper human connections.

Just like humans, dogs can be burned by the sun, especially the nose, tips of the ears and around the lip area.

This type of ear infection in dogs is most often caused by water in the ear canal, similar to «swimmer's ear» in humans.

Her Rhodesian Ridgeback, Mosi, had previously been plagued by skin problems and ear infections, but since eating quality human food he was steadily getting healthier.

«Make sure to check for mats, especially around the ears, where the oil deposited by human hands can lead to trouble.»

As demonstrated by the above illustration, the dog's ear canal has both a vertical and a horizontal component, unlike the human ear canal which is straight.

If you're planning on introducing music to your cat, it's important to remember that music designed for human ears may not resonate the same way when listened to by a cat.

DualShock 4 and PS Move both work with the same camera, and the kit also has a true spatial sound system, synthesized by simulating the human ear — it can simulate 60 virtual speakers around the user.

Michael Howard, onetime Tory leader, left the latest — a speech by Lord Judge last night audibly saying that his attack on the European Court of Human Rights was «music to his ears».

When signals received by the eyes don't match those being understood by your inner ear (the center of balance in the human body), motion sickness occurs.