Sentences with phrase «for gecko»

There is a very decent possibility in this situation that this would count as an occurrence for both Gecko and NoStates» policy, although if only one of the policies was on the risk, it would probably be the Gecko policy and not the NoState policy.

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Once heading to Cape Maclear - Follow signs for Gecko!

SkipStone is a lightweight Gtk + browser mainly designed for Gecko rendering engine.

(The test was the perfect complement for one conducted earlier by the Zhang lab for GeCKO, a lentiviral CRISPR library enabling genome - scale, knockout screening).

«Absorbing energy makes for a tough adhesive joint — for the gecko, it means it can catch itself after jumping or falling and also enables a gecko to rapidly dart off in different directions to avoid predation.»

University of Georgia researchers found that tokay geckos are resistant to several types of antibiotics, a potential health concern for gecko owners.

They play an important role in all processes relating to cohesion, adhesion, friction or condensation and are, for example, essential for a gecko's climbing skills.

Your boy can pick his favorite colors, whether they be natural for geckos or they match his team's colors.

Not for geckos.

Swore she would never have «pets» that required live food yet went on to care for geckos, crawdads, toads, and lizards

Reptiles are now kept in one out of every seven pet homes, so it's no surprise that millions have gone gaga for geckos.

Over a series of a dozen or so evenings, my partner developed and shot half - hour shorts detailing setup and maintenance for geckos, chameleons, arachnids, tortoises, water turtles, colubrid snakes, boas and pythons, and amphibia.

Not exact matches

For every Trump or Gecko, there are thousands, even millions, of smart business people who you never hear about that practice business along these lines.

Last year, when D'Aquanni wanted to move her business, The Chocolate Gecko, to an abandoned building three blocks away, she needed $ 25,000 in owner's equity for the $ 260,000 renovation project.

Under the new rules announced this afternoon, the airline will now only transport dogs and cats in the cargo hold, no more rabbits or geckos or other animals, for example.

«The gecko appliqué bodysuits and bibs that I had for my son (age 0 - 18 months) were not only extremely comfortable and of excellent quality but were also stylish and stood out from my other items.»

Her most recent legislation, signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in December, mandates that pet dealers provide customers a set of instructions for the proper care of small pets such as hamsters, chinchillas, guinea pigs, gerbils, rabbits, mice and even reptiles such as geckos.

Autumn uses Thomson - Reuters Web of Knowledge «to send e-mail updates [to myself] on key topics (e.g «gecko adhesion»), and for citation alerts when someone cites a key publication,» he writes.

Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae.

For some reason their eggs contain the same 44 chromosomes as their body cells — 22 from the mother and 22 from the father — instead of half, and so the eggs can grow into gecko hatchlings without first being fertilized by sperm.

For example, the discovery of a six - million - year - old gecko of the genus Alsophylax indicates that the habitat at that time resembled the modern - day steppes in Kazakhstan.

The study, recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, reports there are circumstances — such as when geckos fear for their lives, leap into the air and are forced to grab on to a leaf below — when they need every bit of that fabled adhesive ability, and sometimes it's not enough.

«If a human, for example, wanted to walk up a wall the way a gecko does, we'd need impractically large sticky feet — our shoes would need to be a European size 145 or a US size 114,» says Walter Federle, senior author also from Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

Dr David Labonte and his colleagues in the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology found that tiny mites use approximately 200 times less of their total body area for adhesive pads than geckos, nature's largest adhesion - based climbers.

Tokay geckos, a type of gecko known for the «to - kay» sound it makes, are caught in the wild and often imported into the pet trade in the U.S.

«We don't have an explanation for why the geckos were resistant to antibiotics,» Hernandez said.

«Why Spiderman can't exist: Geckos are «size limit» for sticking to walls.»

Tokay geckos harbor bacteria that are resistant to a number of antibiotics, making them a health concern for pet owners, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers.

It had been assumed that larger toe pads account for the ability of larger geckos to climb as well as smaller ones.

For the past 10 years, many researchers have been trying to create «synthetic dry - adhesives» to replicate the gecko.

The gecko gripper project was selected for a test flight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

The leaf - tailed gecko is a large, nocturnal gecko from Madagascar threatened with extensive habitat loss from cattle grazing, logging, agriculture and collection for the pet trade.

A phenomenon called van der Waals forces, named for Nobel Prize - winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, explains the non-permanent stickiness of the grippers, as well as gecko feet.

So NASA looked to gecko toes for the answer.

They prescribe dried frog fallopian tubes for coughs and kidney disease, and geckos for lung problems.

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De la Concha has taken another job but still poses for family Christmas cards, lives in the empty nest, and cares for Niko's leopard geckos.

Lead author Jeffrey Karp, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has a habit of looking to the natural world for adhesive ideas, such as gravity - defying gecko feet or grasping porcupine needles.

The group includes biologist Duncan Irschick, a functional morphologist who has studied the gecko's climbing and clinging abilities for over 20 years.

For instance, when the Watsons looked closer, they realized the gecko had a self - cleaning skin.

The Hajar Mountains should be a priority for wildlife conservation, according to scientists, after finding what was originally classed as a single subspecies of gecko that could now be as many as 10.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

Busey, Palicki and Garrison join the previously announced cast that includes: Wilmer Valderrama (That «70s Show, To Whom It May Concern) as enigmatic crime lord Carlos, D.J. Cotrona (Dear John, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) who plays Seth Gecko; Zane Holtz (Holes, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) as Richie Gecko; Jesse Garcia (Quinceañera, Sons of Anarchy) who plays Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzalez, a new character created for the series; Don Johnson (Django Unchained, Nash Bridges) who joins in a recurring role as Sheriff Earl McGraw; Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The X-Files) as Jacob Fuller; Madison Davenport (Save Me, Shameless) as Kate Fuller; Brandon Soo Hoo (Tropic Thunder, Ender's Game, Incredible Crew) as Scott Fuller and Eiza González (Lola: Érase Una Vez) as Santánico Pandemonium.

The El Rey Network has released a trailer for the third season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, which we have for you here... In the third season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, the Gecko brothers find themselves in the vortex of the culebra world, thrust into a fight against the forces -LSB-...]

For more experienced climbers, Golden Gecko Climbing offers 28 ropes worth of climbing across the 7m tall Tower and our «Go Challenge» Wall.

The Gecko cover suitable for the Tolino Vision 3 HD is fastened by means of a magnetic closing mechanism, nicely hidden in the corners of the cover.

GEICO is renowned for its advertisements claiming that the company has low rates, frequently proclaimed in advertisements by the insurer's friendly gecko spokesperson or through GEICO's motorcycle commercials.

The tortoise is, of course, far more expensive, but the same logic behind substituting the gecko for the anole goes for water turtles versus tortoises.

Leopard geckos, for instance, can live a comfortable life in a 10 - gal.