Sentences with phrase «called vortex»

A range of designs including stylized florals in stunning metallic colours, stripes and deeply textured plains, along with the inspiring spiral design called Vortex and the amazing glass beaded tree motif Entice design in a range of classic neutral colours.

The exhibition Des Corps & Des Astres (Bodies and Stars), curated by Reiko Setsuda (Culture & Window Group manager, will offer a selection of works from 2007 to 2015, as well as a monumental site - specific installation called Vortex Populi.

Camry features small, specially placed design features called vortex generators to help smooth things out.

A little later, after getting a job as a handyman in a Los Angeles dance studio, he stumbles across a competition called The Vortex.

LOCATION: Asheville, NC A few months ago I Instagram - stumbled across a recently established doughnut shop in Asheville, NC called Vortex Doughnuts.

«The instrument is called a vortex coronagraph because the starlight is centered on an optical singularity, which creates a dark hole at the location of the image of the star,» says Mawet.

The device, called the vortex coronagraph, was recently installed inside the Near Infrared Camera 2 (NIRC2), the workhorse infrared imaging camera at Keck.

The joking subsided in 1995 during the last days of a giant meteorological study called Vortex (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment), the largest tornado field project to date.

So Serabyn's group installed a relatively new kind of instrument called a vortex coronagraph on a small - scale segment, called a sub-aperture, of the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

When they swim, they create spinning, doughnut - shaped masses of water called vortex rings, and then they push off these rings almost like a boat pushing off its own wake.

One writer called him a vortex disguised as a smudge: energetic on the job, but the kind of man you never notice on the street.

That grew into a business called Vortex Medical Inc., which in turn was sold to a public medical device company for $ 55 million in 2012 and was recently featured on the medical TV drama Grey's Anatomy.

As it does so, it might generate tiny whirlpools called vortices.

The team chose to image a relatively well - studied superconducting material containing magnetic structures called vortices — localized regions of magnetic flux.

Michaud has adapted this process to create what he calls a vortex engine, and has patented the invention in both Canada and the United States.

Tornadoes and hurricanes are weather features that we often call vortices; there is an obvious circulation of air in these features.

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«Investors are moving en masse out of media,» said David Bank, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, who said he was «calling from the vortex of media hell.»

The rotating currents of these so - called «garbage patches» create vortexes of trash, much of it plastic.

The goal of the monthlong mission, dubbed Project Kaisei after the 151 - foot brigantine that was bought from Japanese sailors in 1991, is to chart the so - called Great Pacific Garbage Patch and learn about its mysterious vortex of discarded plastic and assess what might be done about it.

Inspired by the process that creates natural twisters, electrical engineer Louis Michaud of Canada's AVEtec Energy Corp. designed a nonpolluting source of swirling power he calls the Atmospheric Vortex Engine.

Magnetic vortices — so - called skyrmions — were predicted theoretically more than 25 years ago, but it has only been possible to observe them experimentally in magnetic materials in recent years.

«During Vortex, NCAR had a radar on an airplane called Eldora, and that got some really great data too,» he says.

Normally, cold air is kept locked up in the Arctic by a spinning vortex of air bounded by fast winds high in the atmosphere called the jet stream.

More lately he has been using a custom supercar that he calls the Dominator; the new season finds him behind the wheel of an even sturdier version, now upgraded with new toys such as a roof - mounted air cannon that shoots parachute - deploying probes into the spiraling vortices.

Using intense x-rays generated at Berkeley University's Advanced Light Source, the team captured time - resolved images of whirlpool patterns called magnetic vortices as they gyrated along a nanometer - wide half - ring track.

The approach relies on imaginary lines of force called tendex and vortex lines — roughly the gravitational equivalents of the electromagnetic field lines that dictate the arrangement of iron filings around a magnet.

This phenomenon, called von Kármán vortex shedding, affects any elongated structure caught in wind or water currents such as lampposts, high rises and the long vertical pipes used for drilling oil at sea.

The resulting disturbance can form a self - sustaining low - pressure vortex, or what is called a tropical depression; as the system intensifies it becomes a tropical storm.

The researchers called their project Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, usually shortened to its handy acronym of VORTEX.

Researchers have known that the bird's wings induce lift by generating what are called leading - edge vortices (represented as thick blue layers around the wing edges).

The second vortex study, led by Mawet, presents an image of the innermost of three rings of dusty planet - forming material around the young star called HD 141569 A.

This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.

One study, led by Gene Serabyn of JPL, the overall lead of the Keck vortex project, presents the first direct image of the brown dwarf called HIP 79124 B.

A team at the University of Liège, led by Olivier Absil, designed a portion of the Keck vortex coronagraph called the phase mask, which consists of concentric microstructures that force the starlight waves to swirl about the mask's center, creating the vortex singularity.

It is called the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch» or sometimes the «Pacific Trash Vortex», and it is a massive collection of plastic particles accumulating in the Pacific.

Many remnant populations of animals in the wild and in captive breeding programs are facing what is called an «extinction vortex,» as inbreeding forces them into an accelerating loss - of - fitness spiral.

I make a habit of listening to my girl, Esther Hicks, and know how to get myself into what she calls «The Vortex,» to keep my energy high, positive, and powerful.

One of my favorite guided apps is called Into the Vortex by Abraham Hicks.

Think they call it a arctic vortex.

Toby Jones stars as a British sound effects man who'd been working on nature documentaries and kiddie shows before getting invited to Italy to work on a movie called The Equestrian Vortex, about fetching young riding academy students who encounter the vengeful spirits of tortured medieval witches.

The news jokers were calling it the Polar Vortex or something like that.

It developed a four - cylinder engine with reduced emissions without requiring a catalytic converter, called «Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion» or CVCC, where the Civic originally got its name.

A number of infinitesimally small, dust devil — like energy vortices called quarks and photons collectively make up the structure of the atom.

Call of Duty: MW3 Collection # 3: Chaos Pack features the four brand new Special Ops Missions — Vertigo, Arctic Recon, Light»Em Up and Special Delivery — and the three new FACE OFF maps — Vortex, U-Turn and Intersection.

Apparently, we're now rudderless in time, adrift in the vortex of what I like to call «government employee workday».

Sucker Punch will be on hand and we'll have 7 kiosks featuring a demo of the game that will feature Cole's new melee weapon (the «Amp») and a new power called the Ionic Vortex.

The ruins of a space station called the Cortex Vortex owned by Doctor Neo Cortex, crash - lands on Earth and unleashes an evil entity known as Uka Uka, Aku Aku's evil younger twin brother, who joins with Cortex and the time - obsessed Doctor Nefarious Tropy and they plan to gather powerful Crystals that lay scattered across time and use their energy to enslave the Earth.

Salle has named this effect — he calls it a «vortex,» a visual maelstrom in which meaning is opened up to the individual viewer.

In a nearby gallery, Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's paintings suggest ethereal androgynous figures in vortices of glitter and paint in what a wall text calls her «exploration of Jamaican dancehall culture as a space for... masquerading and gender fluidity» in the «laissez - faire spirit of Carnival.»

Raggi (2005), for example, is made - up of thin strips of hanji paper applied in diagonal layers, which converge into a vortex - like series of receding rectangles that call to mind the vertiginous effect of looking down a deep stairwell.