Sentences with phrase «by the ants as»

Using 3D imaging techniques such as X-ray tomography [2] and a 3D scanner, the researchers characterized the 3D structures made by the ants as well as the construction dynamics.

Ever since learning to crawl, Sam had followed woodlice to the cracks in the skirting board, knelt by ants as they cleaned up spilt sugar and watched bumblebees bouncing from foxglove to forget - me - not.

Not exact matches

While ants work consistently as part of their queen's hivemind, we get tripped up by semantics as we deliver and receive messages.

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

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The effort by Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of the internet giant Alibaba, was seen as a test of the Trump administration's political and regulatory approach to China.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

As they climbed, more and more ants swarmed up out of the ground so that by the time the first few ants had reached the bloody feet of Jesus, all the ground around the cross and the lower portion of the beam was a roiling mass of blackness.

I could tell by the way Jesus twitched and squirmed that the ants were not just climbing over His body, but were biting Him as well.

The cell produced by ANT - OAR would have all of the positive properties of a pluripotent stem cell» as well as all of the restrictions in developmental potency such cells normally exhibit.

Right, so teach about how the world is actually a giant turtles back, and how in Guam the sun and planets are eyeballs of giants, and about how people climbed from the underworld as ants led by a coyote, and how we were sneezed out from a sleeping giant, and...

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

It often seemed to him as if he were lying upon an ant - hill, from the torture caused by the insects; for if he wished to sleep, or when he had fallen asleep, they vied with one another.

I would rather call a supreme being as being a God of supremeness ond omnisciencies beyond compare of us mere mortal humanists who can't even keep fire - ants from engulfing all one's yards and their raisnung hell by biting the beegeezums out of people and their unwary pet animalisms!

Art by Brian Ewing via Ant Baena I love how easy these muffins are to throw together; I made a batch while prepping a quick sauce for tonight's dinner (tofu - chili enchiladas — damn good, and resting happily in my belly as I type).

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

Especially in Texas, which would collapse into the Earth's crust if it wasn't held up by one enormous fire ant colony and where trees are just glorified bushes, «picnic» is just code for «trying not to kill one another as we gag down tepid, curdled mayonnaise».

For example, the book is filled with funny costumes worn by the dancing animals — ask your child questions about the animals and point out different parts of the silly costumes, like the line - dancing ants wearing hats and boots, such as:

Such robots are easily confused by minor surprises such as shifted bar codes or blocked corridors (not unlike ants thrown off a scent trail or a moth that has mistaken a streetlight for the moon).

Foraging worker ants can unwittingly pick up spores as they pass by.

According to the research by Andersen and her colleagues (published in May 2012 in PLoS ONE), the actual reproduction rate for each mature zombie - ant fungus organism is a little more than one new mature organism, thus allowing the species and local population to sustain itself as long as there are ants nearby to infect.

As the first quantification of damage inflicted by Argentine ants, the study «gives us a good idea of the way native ants interact with exotic species,» says Terry McGlynn, an ant ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Sequence of photos shows a squad of ants over 4 hours as they move in and take apart a palm - sized spider left as a sacrifice by a curious photographer

A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the plants — handed on a silver platter.

Next they estimated how the specific red and black hues used by black widows appear to birds compared to how they might be seen by insects such as crickets, beetles and ants, which black widows catch in their sticky webs.

The plants provide their insect partners with shelter and a supply of nectar, while the ants return the favor by serving as a source of fertilizer — in the form of fecal matter.

Bruckstein's theorem should be seen as a contribution to the mathematics of pursuit, motivated by ant trails, rather than a theory of ant behaviour.

If an agent does not arrive when needed and expected, queens can generate new copies that take over the lost agent's task, just as a garden ant picks up the trail left by its sister before she got trodden on.

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

Some ants defend their nests simply by wedging their specially evolved heads in the entrances, where they act as an impenetrable door

The secret ingredient is a compound known as 2 - pyrrolidinone, which is also made by gypsy - moth caterpillars to ward off predatory ants.

Other colony - based critters, such as bees and ants get around the inbreeding conundrum by creating new queens that leave to start their own colonies rather than stick around like the secondary termite queens.

They examined three sites invaded by the bigheaded ants and found five times as many acacia trees with moderate or worse damage from elephants, relative to uninvaded sites.

Ants are renowned for their hive mind: most decisions are made by the colony as a whole and not by individuals.

The beetles can't survive on their own as they are quite specialized, with a head that's basically a straw for taking liquid from the ants» mouth and a much reduced, nonsegmented abdomen that toughens their bodies to withstand rough handling by the ants (seen in the picture below).

silk A fine, strong, soft fiber spun by a range of animals, such as silkworms and many other caterpillars, weaver ants, caddis flies and spiders.

These colonies were then subjected to attacks by the slave - making ants Temnothorax americanus and as a consequence were forced to either flee or defend themselves.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

The species are commonly known as simply «exploding ants» until a team of researchers, headed by Alice Laciny, a Ph.D. student at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, officially classified them as Colobopsis explodens.

Ants (Formicidae) are among the worst invasive species, with more than 200 species established outside their native range and 19 listed as highly problematic by the IUCN.

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Marvel's Ant - Man is produced by Marvel Studios» president, Kevin Feige, with Louis D'Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee serving as executive producers.

Set for release in the United States on July 17, 2015, the film is directed by Peyton Reed (Bring it On, The Break - Up) and stars Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Role Models) as Scott Lang aka Ant - Man, and Michael Douglas (Behind The Candelabra, Wall Street) as his mentor Dr. Hank Pym and Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Lost) as Hope Van Dyne, daughter of Hank Pym.

The screenplay had originally been scripted by Edgar Wright (The World's End, Scott Pilgrim) and Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin, Attack the Block), with Wright, who had cultivated the vision of Ant - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seekiAnt - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seekiant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seeking.

Flying solo in the creative process, as it were, allows the audience to experience Wright for the first time, and Baby Driver marks a rebirth of sorts, coming after the delays brought about by his unsuccessful efforts to make Ant - Man.