Sentences with phrase «flight patterns of»

An endless array of allusions springs to mind — shredded fishnet stockings, spider webs, hammocks, neural pathways, nomadic dwellings, acrobatic safety nets, kids» makeshift forts, the flight patterns of pigeons, river systems, air traffic control maps, the electrical grid, and so on.

This series explores the migratory flight patterns of birds and how they may be affected by climate change.

Informed and inspired by nature, his paintings explore pattern ranging from the scales of fish to the flight patterns of birds, as well as derivations of pattern from nature into common, everyday applications such as wallpaper and fabric designs.

On the islands, outrigger canoe paddling is more than an enormously popular sport — it's a culturally significant link to the extraordinary seafaring traditions of Hawai`i's first people, who came to the islands aboard double - hulled sailing canoes that they paddled across some 2,000 miles of uncharted ocean using only the stars and flight patterns of birds to... Continue»

On the islands, outrigger canoe paddling is more than an enormously popular sport — it's a culturally significant link to the extraordinary seafaring traditions of Hawai`i's first people, who came to the islands aboard double - hulled sailing canoes that they paddled across some 2,000 miles of uncharted ocean using only the stars and flight patterns of birds to guide them.

But by testing dragonflies with both real prey and fake targets (the flight patterns of which could be controlled by the research team) and tracking their movements, Leonardo and his colleagues found the bugs to be much more coordinated than we've ever given them credit for.

But after they moved the site, researchers realized they knew little about the flight patterns of petrels.

It took me only about 30 minutes to learn how to drive my galvanic skin response levels at will; after that I found myself levitating virtual balls, opening massive oaken doors, and controlling the flight patterns of birds with relative ease.

As I drew on the white board what looked like different flight patterns of Jesus, several students began to laugh.

I believe that while God can control all things, down the tiniest detail such as the flight pattern of a gnat, He usually does not.

While God can control all things, down the tiniest detail such as the flight pattern of a gnat, He usually does not.

In Bird on Wires, for instance, Rhode's character traces the flight pattern of a bird as it makes its way from one perch to the next along a barbed wire fence.

Made with hundreds of parts, this wooden sculpture imitates the flight pattern of a hummingbird with the crank of a wheel.

Not exact matches

When the normal fight - or - flight response to stress (with its elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and body tension) becomes a continuing pattern of living, the body pays a high price.

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

Inspired by the migratory patterns and flight paths of indigenous Monarch butterflies from around the globe, cocktails at The Monarch echo the regional flight paths from which the spirits, modifiers and ingredients of each drink derive.

Augusta controls everything on the grounds, but the sky is harder and the winds this week have created flight patterns with pretty steady air traffic, often private, over that corner of the course.

Wenger often says you need 10 games to decipher the trends and patterns of a new top - flight season.

Think flight patterns... Multi-coloured patterns can hide a multitude of messes (including the aforementioned cracker goo), so even if you're not really clean, you don't look messy.

Three individuals who previously served in commanding roles at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station claim the proposed sites would interfere with flight patterns in and out of the local military installation.

UPPER MANHATTAN — Uptown residents tired of the constant whirring sound of helicopters flying overheard are mounting a petition against what they say is an excessive flight pattern.

In forums, the candidates have addressed issues such as overdevelopment, the new airline flight patterns to LaGuardia airport and general «quality of life concerns.»

In June he reported the answer: The animal forages along a complex mathematical pattern called a Lévy flight, a type of fractal.

In one of the first studies of its type, scientists found that the way in which plants arrange their flowers affects the flight patterns taken by foraging bees.

«The light from each segment will interfere with adjacent segments, and if the segments are not aligned to better than a wavelength of light, that interference shows up like barber pole patterns,» explained Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Although these approaches can effectively analyze the joint kinematics of bat wings in flight, they can not help understand how specific wing movement patterns contribute to a particular flight maneuver of a bat.

Aerial robots have previously taken inspiration from insects and birds, but bats are a tougher challenge for roboticists because of their complicated skeletons and irregular flight patterns.

Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the ISS and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five.

«If we can determine the reasons for variations in sleep patterns, we will gain insight into the function of sleep in mammals, including humans,» said study co-author, Niels Rattenborg, head of the Sleep and Flight Group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

Furthermore, other morphological features, along with the evolutionary pattern drawn from other basal birds, reveal mosaic evolution and numerous evolutionary experiments relating to powered flight early in the evolution of birds.

The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur.

But when paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and aeronautical engineer Jack Templin tried to model such a flight pattern on a computer, the simulated Microraptor quickly crashed.

When researchers measured the metabolic rates of this intricately patterned insect, they found that butterflies that expended the most energy during flight also lived the longest, whether they were lab - bound or released to island meadows in Finland.

Researchers mapped the brain's connections as one would analyze a large - scale network such as the U.S electrical grid, global flight patterns or Linkedin professional connections, creating a model of the brain's «connectome.»

When the researchers compared flight patterns among species, they found that each one tended to stick to the maneuvers it was best at (something especially true of turns).

The top image of a flight simulation video game reflects one application for Lumitrack, which enables high - speed, high - precision tracking by projecting a barcode - like pattern, or m - sequence, over an area (pictured above).

We speculate that the MBs, especially the Class II KCs, might be involved in thermal information processing, to appropriately regulate the duration of flight muscle vibration and control heat generation during forming the bee ball, although the projection pattern of the thermosensitive neurons to the MBs is not well characterized in insects [40].

I would have followed a pattern of flight every time a hurtful issue came up or I doubted this man's commitment to me.

The most spectacular act of violence comes at the very beginning, on that strange doomed flight whose passengers find that they are united in what looks like a creepy pattern of coincidences.

Alex is his perfect counterpart («Think of me as you, with a vagina,» she quips), as wary of emotional baggage as he is, content with occasional romps in airport hotels when they can coordinate their flight patterns.

By far Reitman's most accomplished film to date, both in terms of craft and its stealth avoidance of typical Hollywood flight patterns, Up in the Air is not (early indicators to the contrary) a redemptive fable about a soulless corporate shill who gets his comeuppance by seeing how the other half lives, or by falling into the arms of a good woman.

Pairs of clapper rails have been tagged, and their habits and flight patterns are being tracked through a tiny broadcasting collar.

Yet after years of progress toward school desegregation, largely achieved through busing and other court - ordered remedies, the combination of white flight from urban public school districts and a series of Supreme Court decisions limiting the use of desegregation strategies have resulted in a widespread pattern of resegregation.

In this beautifully written and meticulously researched book, Hoose provides a complete account of the red knots» physiology, their flight patterns, feeding habits, habitats, and more.

Let the cat follow the pattern of flight around the room long enough to get completely involved in it.

And indeed there was not a tree in sight, just a lunar landscape of centuries - old lava that conjures up recent memories of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano eruption back in 2010 that re-routed many European flight patterns for weeks.

Gone are the days of having to look up every possible flight pattern for every possible day individually.

Hawk Talks are designed to help you learn not only when that speck in the sky is a raptor, but just what kind of raptor it might be — based on the shape of its silhouette, the style of its flight, and any patterns on its body (called field marks) that are visible through binoculars or a spotting scope.

Flight Centre has tapped into its unique data base of millions of customers to produce the Turner Report — named after the company's entrepreneurial CEO, Graham «Skroo» Turner — offering expert insights into Australian travel patterns, trends and experiences.

This boycott has also forced Qatar Airways to cancel many flights in the region and change their air traffic patterns to avoid the air space of these countries.