Sentences with phrase «earworms as»

Jakubowski contributed to a May 2015 study led by Nicolas Farrugia, a postdoctoral researcher with the Earworm Project, that demonstrated auditory and inhibitory - related areas play a role in earworms as well.

The thread that pulls it all together is Mica Levi's score, an undulation of keening strings that will burrow its way into your mind, an earworm as simultaneously seductive and frightening as Johansson's creature.

Almost as much of an earworm as the «dog in a trenchcoat» version.

Not exact matches

Once that voice enters the mind, As it does when one has read hundreds and hundreds of pages of Kahlil Gibran, Its abode is fixed within, It refuses all notices of eviction, It continues to loop within the sphere of one's skull, An earworm, dread and implacable.

The music is just as catchy, and they managed to embed a couple of earworms I can't seem to shake.

The secret to earworms, even those as insidious as «I believe I can fly»?

Having a song, tune, or commercial jingle stuck in one's head is a phenomenon known as having an earworm.

The caterpillar pest Helicoverpa zea (also known as cotton bollworm and corn earworm) has evolved resistance to four Bt proteins produced by biotech crops.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop.

They used bat detectors and insect pheromone traps to monitor nightly bat activity, as well as the abundance of the corn earworm moth — a tasty treat for bats and also one of the world's most destructive crop pests.

These songs, often called earworms, are usually faster, with a fairly generic and easy - to - remember melody but with some particular intervals, such as leaps or repetitions that set them apart from the average pop song, according to the first large - scale study of earworms.

The researchers asked 3,000 people to name their most frequent earworm tunes and compared these to tunes that had never been named as earworms in the database but were a match in terms of popularity and how recently they had been in the United Kingdom music charts.

«A MILLION DREAMS» — Just as much of an earworm and right in line with the Broadway feel of all the others.

There are some heavy hitters in the competition this year, many of them, as usual, coming from Disney and Pixar — Tim Rice and Alan Menken, the team behind «Evermore,» also brought us «A Whole New World,» and the Coco team of Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote the earworm of the century with «Let It Go.»

The hilarious vet tech talks about her inspiration for earworms such as «Crazy Dog Lady» and the social media series Things Overheard At An Animal Hospital.

An interesting mix of above ground and underwater sections, not to mention an earworm of a track theme which would muffle as you went under the sea all come together to create an incredibly fun course.

It takes classic Mushroom Kingdom earworms (particular kudos to World 4 - 1's subtle use of the Super Mario Bros underground theme) as well as original tunes, and remixes them so that they sound as though they're being parped out by a 1950s fairground ride.

The lazy echoes and deep thumping cuts warm the environment for the works and the listener, as the sounds resounding through the gallery recall the empty, repetitive lulls of easy listening music or the earworms attributed to pop or house dance beats.

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Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72