Sentences with phrase «by pressure waves»

Aircraft Damage: Damage, destruction or loss caused by aircraft, other aerial or space devices and articles dropped are covered under this plan, from except those caused by pressure waves.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

But it also damages neurons that don't lie directly in its path, because it is trailed by a pressure wave that transfers the energy of bullet into the surrounding brain tissue.

«The ionosphere (according to the understanding at that time) that part of the atmosphere between 65 and 80 km and 280 - 320 km height, will be disrupted by mechanical forces caused by the pressure wave following the explosion.

Bats do not have mobile ribs, and their lungs are easily injured by the pressure wave near the blades.

Not exact matches

Four linemen have at least three sacks each, led by senior Carlos Watkins (4.5), as coordinator Brent Venables throws pressure in waves.

This applies pressure to the interior tissue of the corona and coronal ridge where nerves that are excited by pressure send a wave of sexual excitement throughout the upper penis.

To do this massage it is okay to massage in the normal manner, but it seems to be more effective to apply pressure with your palm by pushing inward on the milk duct blockage, then, while pushing into your breast with your palm, roll your hand down (keep the pressure on your palm and push down with your fingers in a wave motion so that at the end your entire hand is applying pressure) onto your breast so that the pressure is pushing the plugged duct towards your nipple.

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

The molecule gets rid of some of the absorbed energy by heating up the material around it, and this generates a pressure wave.

The researchers then measured the effect of flavanols on hallmarks of cardiovascular aging, such as arterial stiffness (as measured by pulse wave velocity), blood pressure and flow - mediated vasodilation (the extent to which blood vessels dilate in response to nitric oxide).

Unlike handwriting, they note, waving is a spontaneous gesture that is not influenced by social pressure.

The novel method developed by Pahlevan, Marianne Razavi and Peyman Tavallali uses a single, uncalibrated carotid pressure wave that can be captured with a smart phone's camera.

Earlier attempts by other researchers often approximated the physics of wave propagation and focused mainly on the arrival times of only certain types of seismic waves, such as the P (pressure) and S (shear) waves, which travel at different speeds.

The distinctive waves with capped tops and cloudless troughs are created by what's known as velocity shear, which occurs when a fluid or two different fluids — wind and water, for example — interact at different speeds to create differing pressures at the back and front ends of the wave.

The pattern of high and low pressure in the atmosphere is what creates that long wave pattern, and the pressure pattern in influenced by the NAO.

The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.

The record - breaking heat wave has been caused by A settled high - pressure system, says the National Weather Service

The group used novel sensors that stick like barnacles to the sea floor — allowing them to survive Ivan's fury — to measure wave height by monitoring water pressure.

Reducing the pressure reduces the force exerted by the shock wave.

As the tubes» sections rise up and down on the passing waves they tug on the hinges, which are resisted by hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid through hydraulic motors and turn electrical generators to produce electricity.

Pressure waves generated by explosions or weapon noise, for instance, can rupture air - filled organs, such as lungs.

The NOAA team has set up several arrays of sensors, spaced hundreds of miles apart, that register slight variations in air pressure — a sign of a lengthy sound wave passing by.

The researchers assessed that the steel - CMF held up against the wave of blast pressure and against the copper and steel fragments created by the exploding round, as well as aluminum from the strikeplate.

This is mainly due to indirect determination of the blood pressure from the oscillometric air - pressure wave measurements taken by automatic devices.

Carotid to radial artery pulse wave velocity and central aortic blood pressures were obtained by applanation tonometry.

«Any noise in the system — pressure created by solar radiation, thermal, magnetic and gravitational effects — could perturb the gravitational wave,» ESA project scientist Paul McNamara explained via a Skype call last week.

Using a computer code that simulates the pressure of shock waves emitted by the impact, the researchers were able to estimate how much gas was released in various impact scenarios.

However, just as seismology uses waves generated by earthquakes to reveal the interior structure of the Earth, the discipline of helioseismology makes use of pressure waves traversing the Sun's interior to measure and visualize the Sun's inner structure.

These vibrations create pressure waves that can be detected on the surface of the skin by a simple detection device (see review by Ibitoye et al. 2014).

The dating sites have come under pressure from a new wave of free mobile apps led by Tinder, which has already been adopted by 5 % of the Australian population.

That surprise reversal can be attributed to at least four factors: a wave of new research on teacher quality, philanthropic interest in boosting teacher effectiveness, efforts by advocacy groups and policymakers to revamp state laws on evaluation, and political pressure to dismiss poorly performing teachers.

One of the goals of a performance exhaust is usually to create a tuned system: A tuned exhaust system is an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine which improves its efficiency by using precise geometry to reflect the pressure waves from the...

A tuned exhaust system is an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine which improves its efficiency by using precise geometry to reflect the pressure waves from the exhaust valve or port back to the valve or port at a particular time in the cycle.

The amplified pressure waves significantly increase cylinder filling and the torque produced by the engine throughout the lower part of its rpm band.

In addition, it includes a pulse convertor exhaust that works by using pressure waves to enhance the torque at lower engine speeds.

The making of these devastatingly powerful storms is caused by a low pressure air system moving northbound into the Gulf of Alaska while in the zone between, the northern arctic air and subtropical air combine to create a frontal wave as the system begins to move in a south eastward direction toward Vancouver Island.

Located by the Kata / Karon administrative offices at Kata Beach, Surf House is centered on a high - pressure wave - generating machine that throws a four - inch - deep sheet of water up a sloping «pool».

And, predictably, those words made it onto placards waved last night by the anti-conceptual art, anti-Tate pressure group the Stuckists in their traditional, weary picket of the Turner prize.

And then when I watch the current pressure animation for the same period, it appears that the red areas of high temps build up from waves of high pressure followed by low pressure passing through.

Normally we would see the Bermuda High pressure wave interacting with this SW US pressure wave, by oscillating East and West.

All heat waves are caused by stationary high pressure systems.

Huge waves have battered the coastline where storm surges created by a series of deep low pressure systems and strong winds blowing over thousands of kilometres combined with high tides.

The water pressure would exceed any pressure human have ever made, oh I guess not: «typical pressures reached by large - volume presses are up to 30 - 40 GPa, pressures that can be generated inside diamond anvil cells are ~ 320 GPa, pressure in the center of the Earth is 364 GPa, and highest pressures ever achieved in shock waves are over 100,000 GPa.»

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As the particles pass through a laser beam, the absorbed energy heats the particles and in turn the surrounding air, which sets off a pressure wave that can be detected by a microphone.

ENSO is of course not a sloshing but at the very least a binary system involving atmospheric circulation in the central Pacific and Kelvin and Rossby waves — all stochastically forced by wind, pressure and current fields.

«The times and places with hot summers tend to be where the weather is dominated... by high pressure, so there is high correspondence between the [extremely hot outliers or extreme] heat waves and drought conditions.»

Since ocean water can't travel on the time - scales predicated by the models the scientists conceived to record these measurements (less than 10 - 20 years), they think that energy is transferred instead along a deep pressure wave.

If it avoids being crushed in a pressure ridge or damaged by a bear and is still transmitting when it gets to the ice edge, designed to survive in the ice it stands little chance of surviving long in the waves of the open sea.