Sentences with word «hibernating»

Whether that means hibernating under a pile of blankets to watch the winter Olympics (we've been staying up way too late catching the live action); hanging out in the fresh mountain air (hello motherland); or dinner by the fire in the comfort of home (and maybe the promise of something warm, bubbly and delicious baking in the oven).

As the triathlon season starts to slow down, don't think that the off - season means getting fat and hibernating until Spring!

Feel like hibernating all winter long?

So a zero - carb diet starves them and gets them into a hibernating state which doesn't generate symptoms.

It rises as daylight shortens and helps to trigger many of the metabolic changes that occur with hibernating animals — all of which are synonymous with a reduced metabolic rate, reduced respiratory rate, increased insulin resistance, reduced carbon dioxide levels, reduced energy level, reduced body temperature, increased histamine, reduced peristalsis, and so forth — just to name a few.

Without the option of going down south during the winter or hibernating; people have to live regardless of the weather.

One other thing to consider are hibernating animals.

So, rather than feeling overly full and hibernating for the rest of winter, we've prepped a healthy holiday trifle that's perfect for any holiday party and will give you a fresh start to the new year!

The hibernating animals start burning more calories (analogous to gasoline), losing the energy in the form of heat.

Before we know it we'll be graced with winter and if it's anything like last year, we might find ourselves hibernating yet again.

Let the hibernating funk of winter motivate you to get outside a few times a week.

Either way, it will require you to stop hibernating and start running.

Whether you're navigating the trenches of a painful divorce, taking a sex sabbatical or hibernating from love, eventually you will yearn to get back...

Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical model.

On the publication of the article «Gene Expression Profiling in the Hibernating Primate, Cheirogaleus Medius», with the participation of José Luis Villanueva - Cañas (Josefa Gonzalez's group):

The purpose of her research is to support data - driven surveillance strategies and management options for mitigating impacts of WNS on hibernating bat populations.

This information is useful for understanding factors that contribute to infection and mortality from the disease in hibernating bats.

From these tests, we will identify candidate strains for testing on hibernating bats in controlled laboratory infection trials.

Visit the lab of Matthew Andrews at the University of Minnesota Duluth, who studies hibernating thirteen - lined ground squirrels to learn how their hearts manage extreme temperature fluctuations.

But if they are alive, their DNA would be tucked safely away in a hibernating cell.»

New Horizons launched on January 2006, but has spent the majority of its journey hibernating, 1,873 days, in order to reduce costs as well as wear on the onboard electronics and scientific equipment, NASA notes.

«Because of these similarities, we hypothesize that hibernating mammalian cardiomyocytes may represent cells that are attempting to proliferate.»

For more on bats and white nose syndrome, see Merlin D. Tuttle's book America's Neighborhood Bats, David Quammen's article «Bat Crash» in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic, the Fort Collins Science Center website on «White - Nose Syndrome Threatens the Survival of Hibernating Bats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «Geomyces.

«During heart regeneration in the zebrafish we found that cardiomyocytes displayed structural changes similar to those observed in hibernating cardiomyocytes,» he said, noting that those changes were actually necessary before the fish cardiomyoctes could start dividing.

Need a new toy to play with while hibernating for the winter?

The fungus can infect nearly every bat in a hibernating colony by the end of the winter.

The research team discovered how the parasite hijacks the host cell to enable its own growth and survival, hibernating for decades by creating its own food reserve.

«Hijacking» and hibernating parasite could alter brain behavior.»

While hibernating, they are constantly endangered by fast - growing mold fungi whose spores are omnipresent in the soil.

Brown fat burns calories, and is what hibernating animals — and even human babies — use to keep warm.

In the fight against brain damage caused by stroke, researchers have turned to an unlikely source of inspiration: hibernating ground squirrels.

Geraint Lewis mentions the idea that aliens may be out there but hibernating (5 August, p 24).

Crystal diffusion clocks are revealing the histories and personalities of hibernating volcanoes.

Extreme cold spells can kill a percentage of hibernating insects each winter, says Jody Gangloff - Kaufmann, a professor of entomology at Cornell University.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 - 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

Yet researchers have also found carcasses of cave - hibernating bats, including the little brown bat and the northern long - eared myotis — two species that have been devastated by the fungal disease white nose syndrome and that are now being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 — 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

Such slavering was perhaps unsurprising, given that suspended animation has often been associated with sci - fi images of astronauts hibernating in pods en route to distant stars.

In March 2009 a hibernating bat with a white spot on its muzzle — otherwise in apparently good health — was found in France, the first confirmed sighting of the fungus outside of North America.

It thrives at low temperatures — a trait that fit with Hicks's observation that only hibernating bats seemed to be affected by the disease, which came to be known as white - nose syndrome.

But it turns out this hibernating lemur isn't alone.

«Biochemical tricks of the hibernating bear.»

By comparing the hibernation habits of eastern dwarf lemurs and their western counterparts, researchers hope to shed light on what sends hibernating animals into standby mode, and whether lemurs — our closest genetic relatives known to hibernate — do it differently from other hibernating animals.

Named for the white fuzz that appears on the nose, wings and tail, the disease frequently causes hibernating bats to wake from the inert state, according to the Wisconsin officials.

All of which means, that story number 1 about hibernating animals waking up to raise their body temperatures is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

The researchers were surprised to discover that during the winter, when the bats are hibernating, the fungus can infect nearly every bat in a colony.

Space research advocates are trying to wake up a hibernating spacecraft launched in 1978 to study space weather.

After hibernating in refrigeratorlike chambers containing the compound, which is produced by a soil bacterium (a strain of Rhodococcus rhodochrous), diseased little brown and northern long - eared bats emerged healthy.

Kenneley said these bacteria that can live as hibernating spores up to 100 years on surfaces until conditions are right to proliferate.

Because new research just reported at the Ecological Society of America meeting indicates that some hibernating animals wake up as a defense against bacterial infections.