Sentences with phrase «few small objects»

Without training, cats can pick out differences between groups of a few small objects, such as 2 versus 5, but the felines may be using visual shortcuts.

Not exact matches

Other businesses, big and small, which object to wage increases, say higher pay will mean higher prices, and less work for fewer workers.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

If he seems reluctant, try floating a few Cheerios or other small, flushable objects (some companies sell products just for this purpose) in the toilet bowl for target practice.

The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.

Because you have to use a radio wavelength that is smaller than the dimensions of the object you are trying to locate, radar relies on high - frequency waves, just a few inches long (higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths).

In contrast to earlier observations the team did not observe dust that will later form into planets, but dust created in collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar System.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam.

A smaller, Earth - sized object might only amplify a star for a few hours.

Only in the past few years have astronomers been able to spot distant small objects.

This technology can zoom in on objects as small as a few nanometers big (a few billionths of a meter wide) and can catch a moment in time to reveal what happens over about 15 nanoseconds (15 billionths of a second long).

The Hubble analysis shows the galaxies are small, irregularly shaped objects measuring just a few thousand light - years across.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

To be fair, it's a lot easier to implement physics and custom animations and dismemberment for hundreds of different objects when said objects are made up of far fewer polygons, and appear in smaller numbers in smaller spaces.

These details can be a few words of dialogue, a series of moments, small or large physical movement, or just plain objects.

Don't leave your new puppy alone for the first few weeks after she joins your family and make sure to remove any item or product which may harm her if she ingests it (e.g. pesticides, medications, children's toys with small parts, sharp or breakable objects).

Virtuos upgraded him to a high - resolution digital camera and he built a studio from white boards and a few spotlights; a small circular table with a motor under its base slowly rotates an object while the camera shoots.

Small player counts, severely limited object physics, and generally bad times are of little consequence when there is an opportunity to save a few bucks.

It takes a few seconds for the textures to load on objects when you approach them, and this cuts down on the smoothness of the game during gameplay, but this is just a small thing that, depending on your tolerance, may or may not become annoying.

At this point, Andrew had mostly made a name for himself through animation projects, but also contributed and created a few smaller Flash games, the biggest one being an elaborate hidden objects game called Memohuntress.

I also encountered a small number of glitches, one that cut out the sound during a cutscene, and another which made Corvo pause for a few seconds every time he engaged with an object, making me restart the system.

Objects, great and small, are moved sideways, lifted a few centimeters, or suddenly hover high over the roof.

He lingers over his Manhattan Mouse Museum, but few of its small, hard objects recall popular culture — and none is going to collapse like his toilet seat.

Across the street at the New Museum, only a few examples, such as Kerstin Brätsch's large scale oil on paper pieces, Kitty Kraus» light bulb and mirror boxes commanding large areas of the third floor and Tala Madani's small scale oil paintings evidence a similar confidence in the object as a vehicle.

After spending more than two years immersed in the willfully destructive subculture of the American demolition derby, which she documented in her previous work «Thrill Show» and «Anyone Can Enter,» photographer Susan Mikula was eager to «tell a smaller tale, one infused with the magic of just a few objects.»

The big near - Earth objects, or NEO's, are being tracked fairly well, but quite a few experts on space, risk, and resilience say we'd better start sifting for the small ones, too.

If you only have a few valuable objects, then you might consider a smaller policy and thus are looking at much cheaper fast rental insurance quotes.

Therapist trained to conduct MBCT - C, one group therapy room that accommodates up to 9 - 10 people (with sufficient floor space for one yoga mat per participant), carpeting - or - one yoga mat plus one chair or cushion per participant, miscellaneous (inexpensive) supplies suggested in the treatment manual and used during the sessions such as paper, drawing materials, common household objects (e.g., baggies, spices, and lotions), a few food items (e.g., one small box of raisins and one piece of fruit for each child)

Choose larger pieces instead of a bunch of small ones, and if you're going to use color and / or pattern, bring it in with a few key pieces, and keep the rest of your objects more neutral.