Sentences with phrase «central portion»

For example, most of the southern and central portions of the map are made up of deserts and plains with winding rivers and small islands.

The southern ice front of the ice shelf has changed rapidly following climatic and oceanic changes, with sustained recession, mostly in the thinner central portion.

The alternative option is a pale shade of gray, which colors the seats, door trims, central portion of the dashboard and central armrest.

Thomas G. Bordenkircher, Ph.D., is Vice President for Accreditation Relations at the Higher Learning Commission, the regional accrediting agency for 19 states in central portion of the U.S..

Any disturbing event activates neurons in the lateral and then central portions of the amygdala.

Thus, the applied stretch and growth were conveyed only to the nonadherent central portion of the axons spanning the two membranes and not to the axon terminals.

This slick dress wraps you up to knees and has a stylish central portion that cinches at the waistline.

Chris Svensson, British - born design leader for the new GT (and all North American Ford products), attributes the impression of it being much smaller to the body's very narrow central portion, which includes the nearly vertical exterior cabin walls.

Photo credit: Astrum Helicopters The mighty Sibun River in Belize drains a large central portion of the country and starts in the Maya Mountains at approximately 800 meters above sea level.

Sail on over to Northern Fairy Island, located in the south central portion of the square region.

«You won't have to rely on using the Friends list to share content, you can just download your creations from the new Track Central portion of the game.

The exception being winter (which spans December 2015 through February 2016) where all regions experienced average daily minimum temperatures in the top 10 percent and all but the south - central and east central portions of the province experienced maximum temperatures in the top 10 percent.

Typically, large wildfires burn on the southern fringe of the taiga, a dense forest ecosystem also known as the boreal forest, but this year's fires are burning in a more central portion of the taiga.

In the simplest terms, Newark is the commercial, transportation and political hub for the lower central portion of the United States.

We chase each other along the ribbons of pavement that weave through the north - central portion of Tennessee, concentrating silently save for the occasional warning of «Dog!»

In the central portion of the deposit the ore is oxidized to at least 100m whereas on the margins the oxidation thins out to 15 to 20m.

The legislation is pretty well represented by the Book of Deuteronomy, or by the central portion of that book, which we may fairly describe as a prophetic revision of the ancient laws of Israel.

The central portion of Sources of the Self traces in detail the emergence and development of some of these frameworks in European thought.

Meat is something most people eat regularly as a central portion of their dietary intake.

The company serves retailers and others in the western and eastern United States, and plans to increase its coverage in the Midwest and west - central portions of the country.

Deschutes Brewery announced today it will begin servicing 49 counties and 17 independent cities in the Southwest and Central portions of the Commonwealth of Virginia beginning early August.

Del Bosque's Spain will probably be going with the same starting line - up started against France in quarter - finals with Cesc Fabregas playing in the central portion of the attack as False No. 9 along side, David Silva and Andres Iniesta; whereas Bento's Portugal will be replacing the injured Zaragoza striker Postiga with Besiktas's Almeida in their starting XI.

Cavities in baby teeth can also harm the permanent teeth directly, if the tissue in the central portion of the baby tooth gets infected.

JAMESTOWN - The Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency has given its approval to a series tax breaks to a large wind farm project in the eastern and central portions of the county.

The combination of these three factors indicates a shift to non-forest ecosystems in the eastern, southern and central portions of the Amazon region at between 20 % and 25 % deforestation, according to the authors.

The researchers are now investigating whether the ECO system is effective against other visual disorders, including Stargardt disease, which is a form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration, primarily affecting the central portion of the visual field.

The central portion of the clast is a mineral called djerfisherite, an important host for chlorine in these meteorites.

Axons can be very long and relatively remote from the central portion of the cell, which houses the nucleus where DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA that can then be converted into proteins.

The reef's central portion is bleaching fast this year, following huge losses in the northern part last year — and climate change is the culprit

For the study, researchers focused on southern pine beetle infestations in the New Jersey Pinelands, a forested area that spans the southern and central portions of the state.

All stars are thought to evolve from burning hydrogen and helium, but towards the end of their life red giant stars exhaust this nuclear fuel and the central portion collapses to form a core.

However, a few clinical studies have shown that, by stripping away a central portion of the diseased cells, the surrounding cells can grow in to clear the cornea.

«We dodged a bullet in the central portion of the reef this time, but no guarantees that will occur again,» Pandolfi said.

The central portion containing molybdenum atoms appears darker than the outer portion with tungsten atoms.

The term macular degeneration refers to a group of disorders that affect the central portion of the retina and, as a result, the center of the field of vision.

The central portion of that mountain range began growing about 65 million years ago, and the northern Andes started rising a few million years later, says Victor Sacek, a geophysicist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

Earthquakes became so frequent in Oklahoma, that in April 2015, the Oklahoma Geological Survey acknowledged that wastewater injections are likely triggering earthquakes in the north - central portions of the state.

Top: Actual Hubble observations of gas density in the central portion of two galaxies.

However, there has been a general trend of decreasing winter precipitation from 1950 to present; this pattern is most evident in the northwest and central portions of the state and may be due to increased frequency of El Niño events (see Climate chapter).

Fine details of the dark band are revealed in this image of the central portion of M64 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope.

The larger picture shows the central portion of M15, photographed with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

The macula is the central portion of the retina that processes sharp, clear, straight - ahead vision.

[59] However, most of the Puerto Rican migration to Florida has been to the central portion of the state, surrounding Orlando.

37 had macular dystrophy, a broader term for diseases affecting the macula, the central portion of the retina.

High Heat - Flow Beneath the Central Portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.