Sentences with phrase «generating slow waves»

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The slower speeds prevent vehicles from generating ice - shattering waves by disturbing water beneath the surface.

Sonar systems — first developed by the U.S. Navy to detect enemy submarines — generate slow - rolling sound waves topping out at around 235 decibels; the world's loudest rock bands top out at only 130.

The company's CEO, John Gilleland, originally likened his reactor to a smoldering cigarette or cigar, with a slow - moving fission phase moving wave - like through the fuel core, generating neutrons to maintain a gradually advancing chain reaction while it consumes most of the fuel.

To this end a cloud of extremely cold (i.e. extremely slow) rubidium atoms is loaded into an optical lattice, generated by crosswise superposition of standing laser waves.

During slow - wave sleep, groups of neurons firing at the same time generate brain waves with triple rhythms: slow oscillations, spindles, and ripples.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

The brain generates two distinct types of sleep — slow - wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM), also called dreaming sleep.

Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

If you could look at the wave patterns being generated by the brain, you would see a change from the rapid beta waves of daytime to slower alpha waves.

Rossby waves, or planetary waves are huge, slow waves generated in the troposphere by temperature differences between the ocean and the continents.

Additional heat released to the atmosphere from the opening ocean will amplify the Arctic warming and generate atmospheric waves which ultimately slow down stratospheric winds.