Sentences with phrase «collisions between»

All three vehicles offer autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems that help to avoid or mitigate collisions between cars and with pedestrians.

In collisions between larger and smaller vehicles, occupants of the larger one almost always fare better.

Fitting Brake Assist as standard alone has reduced the rate of serious accidents involving collisions between pedestrians and Mercedes passenger cars by 13 percent.

In collisions between larger and smaller vehicles, occupants of the larger one almost always fare better, he said.

These concerns can be felt throughout Ford's filmography, which returns again and again to the potentials and pitfalls of group formation at a moment in American history — and within a genre of American cinema — defined by the collisions between people of varying classes, ethnicities, and visions of the nation's future.

And the cultural collisions between these groups provide some of the most heartwarming, and funniest, moments in the film.

Takeuchi has spurred efforts to construct another detector in the Kamioka mine, known as XMASS, that uses a one - ton tank of liquid xenon cooled to -100 °C to observe collisions between WIMPs and the frigid noble gas.

Collisions between these beams are then recorded to detect the presence of hitherto unknown subatomic particles.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, it is so cold that most substances remain frozen and collisions between objects are rare.

A major success was the discovery of the energy pooling collisions between laser - excited atoms.

A combination of ground - based observations and computer simulations show that interactions and collisions between galaxies explain the strange structures.

Collisions between gas molecules produce excited rotational, vibrational and electronic states that spontaneously emit photons.

From supermassive black holes at galactic centers to giant bursts of star formation to titanic collisions between galaxies, these discoveries allow astronomers to probe the current properties of galaxies as well as examine how they formed and developed.

Concussions often result from impacts to the head, such as might occur in auto accidents or collisions between players in football.

Large collisions between celestial objects can generate moons when material is splashed into orbit around the larger object and coalesces into one or more moons under its own gravity.

Computer models show that collisions between spiral galaxies tend to make elliptical ones (so, spiral galaxies probably haven't been involved in any collisions).

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

A second beamline could enable exotic collisions between a beam of light and an electron beam, or between two beams of light.

An image of the circumstellar dust disk around the young star HR4796A, which is thought to have been created by collisions between asteroids and planetesimals that were left over following the star's formation.

So far, only the gravitational waves from black hole mergers have been detected, but as the sensitivity of laser interferometers increases, scientists hope to detect collisions between neutron stars, for example.

T. Pyle, SSC, JPL / CalTech, NASA — larger illustration Preliminary infrared observations indicate that 70 Virginis has a circumstellar dust disk generated by collisions between Kuiper - Belt type objects (more from SSC and Beichman et al, 2004).

«So the fact that we can still see these disks around a 10 - to 20 - million - year - old star means that the dust is being replenished by collisions between planetesimals.»

This suggests the grains are being replenished via collisions between some number of larger bodies totaling around 1 − 6 times the mass of the Moon.

But collisions between two players accounted for 68.6 percent of brain injuries in boys and 51.3 percent of those in girls.

These circumstellar dusty disks are likely generated by collisions between objects left over from planet formation around stars.

According to astronomers working with the Spitzer Space Telescope, a thick belt of dust (that is probably being generated by collisions between Edgeworth - Kuiper - Belt - type, icy objects) lies some 96 to 195 AUs out from the star (Bryden et al, 2009; Tanner et al, 2009, see HD 115617; and Vogt et al, 2009 — more below).

The Pierre Auger Observatory measures gigantic showers of relativistic particles that are the result of collisions between the very rare, highest - energy cosmic rays and atomic nuclei of the atmosphere.

To get a better sense of the role of chondrules in a fledgling solar system, the researchers first simulated collisions between protoplanets — rocky bodies between the size of an asteroid and the moon.

Astronomers believe that such collisions between galaxies were common in the early universe when galaxies were closer together.

Collisions between some of these objects and the larger planets and moons have likely played a part in delivering volatiles and organics to them, and in their geological and biological evolution.

Collisions between very energetic particles would then be much more likely than a 3 - D analysis would predict, and the creation of microscopic black holes could be within reach of the latest technology.

There was a statistically significant difference in the mean number of collisions between the first and fourth test.

She describes how to ensure the highest possible collision rates by establishing head - on collisions between the two - foot - long bunches which, at the interaction points, are a width comparable to a human hair.

In the case of molecules, the many microscopic collisions between the particles which constitute gases, fluids, and solids couple the various forms of motion with each other.

The new model is based on computer simulations of separate collisions between the asteroid Vesta and a pair of 20 - mile - long (32 kilometers) rocks within the last billion years.

The formation of our Solar System was a chaotic collapse of gas and dust into the Sun, planets, asteroids, and comets we have today, punctuated by catastrophic collisions between these forming...

BOULDER, Colo. — In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together.

COULD the mysterious bursts of gamma rays that come from all parts of the sky be caused by distant collisions between balls of nuclear material measuring just 10 kilometres across?

Rather than growing incrementally from small precursors, as has been conventionally believed, he argues the largest Kuiper belt objects formed in a series of collisions between objects of roughly equal size — a process Brown describes as «pyramidal growth.»

The Xib particles, like all new species discovered at the LHC (including the famed Higgs boson), arose in the aftermath of collisions between speeding protons inside the accelerator's 27 - kilometer underground ring.

Top whale researchers are arguing that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should reexamine a major regulation designed to reduce collisions between ships and highly endangered North Atlantic right whales.

According to the report, when the paths were six millimeters wide or less, the ants began to utilize both sections of the bridge equally because collisions between ants leaving the nest and those returning with food forced some of the creatures to take the second pathway.

It's at the forefront of what physicists call the «intensity frontier,» designed to deliver more than 40 times the rate of collisions between particles than its predecessor.

Many of the study's analyses take advantage of what the authors call «a natural experiment»: two - vehicle collisions between a sober and a drinking driver.

«During the formation of a cluster, collisions between gas particles raise the temperature of the medium to around 100 million degrees Celsius,» Andrade - Santos said.

«Before the kicks, collisions between solids occur at low velocity, so they merge,» says Scott Kenyon at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Recent collisions between comets and rocky bodies within the star system are thought to have generated the surplus of dust.

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), buried half a mile deep in an old Minnesota iron mine to shield it from cosmic rays, searches for collisions between dark - matter particles called WIMPS and ordinary atoms in 19 hockey - puck - size hunks of germanium.

This includes energy release in collisions between atoms, and the random recoil kicks in light scattering, which average to zero, but still result in some trembling motion of the atoms and therefore limit the lowest achievable temperature.

In a few years, experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron should be able to extend the search to higher masses, looking for Higgs plus W or Higgs plus Z particles in collisions between protons and antiprotons.