Sentences with phrase «fraction of a second at»

If an athlete hits his or her head and is then slower than baseline by even a fraction of a second at reading off the numbers, Dr. Galetta said, it is very probable he or she has a concussion and needs to be taken from play and seen by a doctor.

The countdown reaches zero, the world's most powerful laser fires silently for a fraction of a second at a fuel target, and results pour in.

The power steering was cutting out for a fraction of a second at a time, while making the noise louder.

And unless our eyes are playing tricks on us, we're positive we saw DICE's Frostbite engine at work in that last fraction of a second at the end, where a booby - trapped prisoner gets blown to smithereens and brings down the wall.

Not exact matches

At a time when investment firms are increasingly experimenting with artificial intelligence and technology that can make trading decisions in a fraction of a second, identifying disreputable sources has become a bigger challenge.

It settles in three seconds and at fractions of a penny,» said Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple.

Science really can only look at what happened a tiny fraction of a second after the Universe was created.

There may be purpose, or at least desires, referring only to a tiny fraction of a second ahead, just as there may be memories with similarly short - run effective scope toward the past.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

In 1983 he and his mom were standing in the pits at the Sylacauga (Ala.) Dragway, watching a driver disqualify himself by red - lighting (leaving a fraction of a second too early).

You can see a fraction of a second makes all the difference at this level.»

That was half - a-second behind Ledley King's all - time Premier League record strike of 10 seconds at Bradford in 2001 and a fraction behind Alan Shearer's effort for Newcastle against City in 2003.

At a stroke, sortition — selection by lot — would achieve Andrew Adonis's and Paul Tyler's objectives (Status quo is not an option, Comment, 23 April) of making the second chamber more representative (in the same way a jury is representative) and cheaper to run (I'm sure most of us would accept a fraction of the daily # 300 peers currently get for attendance).

Those rays flicker incredibly quickly, within a fraction of a second — indicating that the near and farsides of the source are located at virtually the same place.

Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.

A preview of the data from the balloon mission, presented at a recent meeting on cosmology, hints that the new, sharper view of the ripples will provide even more evidence of a flat universe, created by an extraordinarily fast inflation of space within a fraction of a second after the big bang.

A car traveling at highway speeds would not linger on any single charging pad for more than a fraction of a second, so the pads would need to be placed every few meters to provide a continuous charge.

Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that in order to perceive time in fractions of a second, our brains tell time as if they were observing ripples on a pond.

What varied across experiments was the duration for which the face was exposed, from barely a glimpse — unlikely to be seen at all — to a sizable fraction of a second that, at least in older children, is invariably associated with the conscious sight of a smiling young woman.

Back at the office, the pairs of photographs are scanned into a computer, which displays them alternately for a fraction of a second each.

A fraction of a second later they fired another laser at an aluminium foil target.

At the far end, in the table's highest numbers, lie unstable elements that only exist for fractions of a second before they radioactively decay.

Such blobs, astronomers believe, could only arise deep within the core of the blast from the flash fusion of silicon atoms into unstable atoms of nickel, a process that lasts a fraction of a second and requires temperatures of at least 5 billion degrees.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

When coupled with an inflationary cosmology, the authors» approach predicts that a charge asymmetry should have been produced at ultra-minute fractions of seconds after the Big Bang.

Since then, the scientists have been taking a closer look at this remarkable form of matter, which last existed some 13 billion years ago, a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

During the final fraction of a second, the two black holes collide into each other at nearly one - half the speed of light and form a single more massive black hole, converting a portion of the combined black holes» mass to energy, according to Einstein's formula E = mc2.

AMHERST, Mass. — Experimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.

«It looked like a chirp, it looked at something that started at low frequencies — for us low frequencies means 20 or 30 hertz, that's like the lowest note on a bass guitar, sweeping very rapidly up over just a fraction of a second... up to 150 hertz or so, sort of near middle C on a piano.»

Physicists said the gravitational wave detected at 1651 GMT on September 14 originated in the last fraction of a second before the fusion of two black holes somewhere in the southern sky, though they can't say precisely where.

An example of this, in our research, would be decoding the intent of paralyzed subjects, then using that to control a robotic limb or computer.The advance we have made at Caltech is to record from a more cognitive part of the brain so we can, in a fraction of a second, decode the intent of the subject and execute the movement.

Each visual cue is presented at a fraction of a second against a white background, and participants must ignore an auditory tone sounded when each cue is presented.

The scientists asked 64 14 - year - olds to look at images of yellow and blue dots that flashed on a computer screen for a fraction of a second.

At the top of each jump, we become weightless for a fraction of a second.

An Olympic lifter may view speed and power as related to lifting a maximum weight at maximum velocity in a total effort measuring mere seconds or fractions of a second, while a 400 meter runner may view speed and power as the ability to engage in optimal power generation over much longer durations.

Shopping second hand is a great way to get amazing pieces at a fraction of their original cost.

«The Making of Event Horizon» is, at 105 minutes, an exhausting, bloated thing, the lone benefit of which is a chance to view some of the excellent gore effects in segments lasting longer than a fraction of a second.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

So, the «assigned» school was the first choice for the vast majority of applicants and at least the first or second choice for all but a fraction of students.

When you get into the throttle hard enough at a stoplight, there's a delay of a fraction of a second before the engine kicks in and helps the electric motor.

When driving, though, this disengagement and anti-lag spooling can at first be disconcerting: You watch the tachometer needle fall to almost zero rpm when you lift your foot off the gas, then jump back up to 2,000 - 3,500 rpm in a fraction of a second when you get back on it.

It certainly does that, but on winding, bumpy country roads attacked with a knife between your teeth, a momentary stability - threatening tug at either rear wheel suggests that certain conditions can outfox the system for fractions of a second.

And then there's the simple fact that for me, an enthusiast driver who considers a good day at the track one in which nothing breaks, the fraction of a second saved by a dual - clutch automatic means very little.

The supercar is powered by the same 6.5 liter V12 but it does take a fraction of a second longer to sprint to 100 km / h at 2.9 seconds although we doubt one would notice the difference.

It gives the B4 Bi-Turbo the ability to sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 4.2 seconds, up to a top speed of 189 mph (at least on a closed circuit, as we have trouble seeing even a fraction of that ability exercised on U.K.'s speed - camera infested roads).

Peak torque registers at 6,500 rpms, but with such a prodigious power band, it's worth every decibel to hold gears that extra fraction of a second.

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When traction is needed at the rear, 4Motion starts in a fraction of second through the differential that can send a maximum of 50 per cent torque to the rear.

It's also 10 mm narrower, at 1832 mm and is a fraction lower, at 1355 mm and it has far shorter overhangs at the ends of its 4177 mm body than the second - generation TT Roadster.

People make up their mind about a book just by looking at the cover and they do so in a fraction of a second.