Sentences with phrase «in rapid bursts»

Comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.

During the day, GH secretion occurs in rapid bursts that respond to high - intensity exercise.

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

The other, called «punctuated equilibrium,» dictates that evolution comes in rapid bursts after long stretches of nothing happening at all.

If the molecular clock is right, then unicellular forms of animals, plants and fungi all diverged from a common ancestor in a rapid burst around a billion years ago.

One group theorizes that eukaryotes emerged in a rapid burst, driven by the acquisition of the cellular energy factories known as mitochondria.

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When Lewis did put pen to paper, the seven stories of the Chronicles were produced — even for as fluent as Lewis — in an astonishingly rapid burst of creativity (with the publication of the first in 1950 and the seventh in 1956).

Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»

Lots of other things changed in 2017, often coming in rapid, nauseous bursts.

Postpartum Psychosis: ~ occurs in less than 1 % of moms ~ onset may occur one day after delivery, many occur by 3 months, the rest by 1 year postpartum ~ symptoms include agitation, bursts of anger, racing thoughts, rapid speech, panic, irrational thoughts, insomnia, hallucinations, inability to care for self and baby, thoughts of suicide / infanticide, paranoia ~ treatment can include medication, hospitalization, ECT, and psychotherapy

The X-ray burst detected by Swift had intense, extremely rapid fluctuations measured in milliseconds.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

The event will force theorists to explain how flares can unleash energy in such rapid bursts.

For example, a sudden burst of expansion explains why matter is spread relatively evenly in every direction; it would have been stretched and smoothed during the spasm of rapid growth.

THE rapid spin of a neutron star is slowing in bursts — and it may be because of gravitational waves.

The specimens in the study come from the Cambrian Period, a time when the Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution that led to the first appearance of most major groups of marine animals.

These rapid changes in the magnetic field cause flares, which release a huge amount of energy in a very short time in the form of super-heated plasma, high - energy radiation and radio bursts.

But recently, some studies have suggested the opposite — that DNA produces RNA molecules in rapid - fire «staccato» bursts.

This is when Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution - life forms diversified and adapted to new ecological niches and began to interact with each other in more complex ways.

«Our analysis reveals support for the «bursting» hypothesis — the genes acted as a sort of strobe light — transcribing RNA in rapid - fire bursts,» said Roy Dar, PhD, a Gladstone postdoctoral fellow and one of the paper's lead authors.

Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond - duration events, known as «fast radio bursts» (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia.

«We really pushed hard to capture this terabyte - per - hour datastream reliably and set up a real - time platform for extracting these very faint fast bursts from that massive datastream,» Casey Law, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts, said in a statement.

Simple carbs, like those found in white breads, give the body quick bursts of energy that are followed by a rapid crash afterwards.

Angels is a precursor to a Robert Altman film in its bursts of rapid - fire, overlapping dialogue and its offhanded tragicomedy and improvisational snap.

These qualities re-emerge with a vengeance in «Happy - Go - Lucky,» a film bursting with rapid - fire banter, cathartic outbursts and occasionally didactic speechifying.

In my week with the Focus Electric in the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reservIn my week with the Focus Electric in the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reservin the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reservin reserve.

While the prospects for rapid and sustained economic growth remain questionable, there is increasing evidence that the U.S. economy may enjoy a surprising burst of strength in the second half of 2003.

Edematous pancreatitis induced by CCK hyperstimulation in dogs is characterized by a rapid but self - limiting, burst of trypsinogen activation suggesting that the pancreas has a feedback mechanism to limiting trypsinogen synthesis and activation (see nutritional management).

Simple carbs, like those found in white breads, give the body quick bursts of energy that are followed by a rapid crash afterwards.

It's a frenzied mini-tournament that takes place in short, frantic bursts of rapid - fire arrows, where winning is a combination of luck, skill, and other people's mistakes.

It then completely disappeared by 6,800 years ago in two geologically rapid bursts, shedding enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as four feet (1.3 meters) per century, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience.

They are small, rapid - fire bursts at targets that presented themselves in the course of a busy law practice.

In addition to tweaking color and sharpness settings, Pix is also capturing bursts, or groups of photos shot in rapid successioIn addition to tweaking color and sharpness settings, Pix is also capturing bursts, or groups of photos shot in rapid successioin rapid succession.

Similarly, in the fast - paced Galaxian - style arcade shooter 1982, the quick tracking helped me move my ship from side to side and fire off rapid bursts of missiles.

However, only the iPhone 6 supports burst shots in front - facing mode for rapid - fire selfies.

Burst mode takes a series of photos in rapid succession.

In both cases, real estate bubbles burst after years of rapid growth and low unemployment, exposing poor loans and serious problems with financial institutions and regulations.