Sentences with phrase «flight behavior»

The game is flexible and has a lot of settings which allow varied flight behavior for the helicopter from realistic to arcade.

A 3D Analysis of Flight Behavior of Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto Malaria Mosquitoes in Response to Human Odor and Heat.

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes of light at night suppresses biting and manipulates flight behavior in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito,... Read more

Archibald, Buler, and their colleagues further investigate this distributional pattern by analyzing the interaction between spring migratory flight behavior and the migrant exodus at nearshore stopover sites using NEXRAD radar,» according to The Nature Conservancy's Dave Ewert.

While the buzz of fly wings is more likely to elicit a sense of annoyance than wonder, insect flight behavior links a series of fundamental processes within both the physical and biological sciences: neuronal signaling within brains, the dynamics of unsteady fluid flow, musculoskeletal mechanics, the structural mechanics of composite materials, ecology and evolution.

This week, I was thrilled to learn some details about Kingsolver's next novel, titled Flight Behavior.

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Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change.

Amazon's selection of Kindle Daily Deals includes Flight Behavior: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

-- Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior

In general, increasingly threatening stimuli elicited alarm calls with increases in F0 and in formant locations, and increasing numbers of these acoustic cues in vocal stimuli elicited increased vigilance and flight behavior in listening elephants.

So right now I owe about fifteen people articles or interviews, but instead I've gotten myself lost in Barbara Kingsolver's excellent new novel, Flight Behavior, which in Chapter 3 includes an absolutely fantastic church scene that you really must read for yourself.

If you anticipate your child being particularly troublesome, try using the reward system to manage his in - flight behavior: Explain that he'll receive a special treat — a gift, some special time spent together, or a trip to an ice cream shop — if he's good.

Size: Some drones are big, and others are small, and their flight behavior will differ depending on this factor.

Flight behavior is relatively simple.

John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University and the other scientists who originally wrote about the ivory - billed sighting shot back with a their own technical paper, claiming that, among other things, Sibley used inaccurate models of takeoff and flight behavior to interpret the video.

While vigilance and flight behaviors may be adaptive for a wide variety of external threats, headshaking behavior may be a specific adaptive response to bees, namely, to knock bees away from the facial area.

In each alarm call, vigilance and flight behaviors were triggered, but headshaking increased only in response to the alarm calls for bees, not to the alarm calls for Samburu tribesmen (Figs. 1 & 2).

Elephants exhibited vigilance and flight behavior in response to Samburu and bee stimuli and to both alarm calls, but headshaking behavior only occurred in response to bee sounds and bee alarm calls.

When exposed to adult male Samburu voices, listening elephants exhibited vigilance behavior, flight behavior, and produced vocalizations (rumbles, roars and trumpets).

When exposed to a sequence of these recorded rumbles, roars and trumpets, listening elephants also exhibited vigilance and flight behavior.

First, when exposed to Samburu voices or bee sounds, vigilance and flight behaviors were triggered, but only in response to bee sounds did headshaking behavior increase, compared to controls (Figs. 1 & 2).

Flight Behavior will be published in Fall 2012.

The next book is Flight Behavior by Barbra Kingsolver on January 16th, followed by The Black Box by Michael Connelly on February 16.

Other notably anticipated books this fall include John Grisham's The Racketeer, Nora Roberts» The Perfect Hope, Janet Evanovich's Notorious Nineteen, a new title by politically hilarious personality Stephen Colbert entitled America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, and Ken Follett's Winter of the World.

Flight Behavior by Barbra Kingsolver which was available on January 16th, the latest one was The Black Box by Michael Connelly, which started on February 16.

Flight Behavior is both suspenseful and very moving — a great read.

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Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) Barbara Kingsolver is a perennial reader favorite.

Favorite recent books: Tell the Wolves I'm Home, The Dog Stars, A Killing in the Hills, The Round House, The Prophet, Beautiful Ruins, Flight Behavior, Ghost Man, Life After Life.

So we are truly on the edge of our seats for Flight Behavior, her new novel that takes place in small - town Tennessee.

Flight Behavior: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver.

Kingsolver's concern for the earth has never been so palpable — or so passionate — as in her latest novel, Flight Behavior, where global warming causes things to heat up in small - town Tennessee.

We discussed things like desensitization, fight / flight behaviors, the goal of fearful dogs, anxiety, phobias, symptoms of the fearful dog, and placement of fearful dogs.

I'd heard of Morelia and its aqueduct and, after reading Barbara Kingsolver's book, «Flight Behavior,» I would love to visit the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve which sounds magical.

As Mona DeKoven Fishbane asserts in Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy, «the amygdala is constantly scanning for danger and sets off an alarm when a threat is detected; this alarm sends messages throughout the body and brain that trigger fight - or - flight behavior.»

In reaction to perceived threats, children resort to patterns of fight - or - flight behavior.