Sentences with phrase «in tiny regions»

Like intertwining cogwheels in a mechanical watch, a pool of periodically expressed genes keeps time in a tiny region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

The rate of electrons passing through the tip - in other words, the current - is a measure of the density of electrons in the tiny region of the sample directly below it.

What is astounding is that each individual neuron in this tiny region that is smaller than a pin's head displays the ability to predict and selectively respond to unexpected motion.

The researchers found that the composite material not only could control both NIR light and visible light, but that there was «a synergistic interaction in the tiny region where glassy matrix meets nanocrystal that increases the potency of the electrochromic effect,» which means that thinner coatings of the material could pack just as much punch.

Not exact matches

Sales for that region totaled $ 2.27 billion for that period, just a tiny sliver above Under Armour (UA), which posted a 28 % sales jump to nearly $ 2 billion in sales.

In recent days, Magnette also expanded the scope of his earlier concerns — protecting his tiny Belgium region's farmers from larger interests — to take on the newly configured investor - state dispute resolution mechanism.

As a matter of fact, the very tiniest region deep inside the structure is actually outside the structure in the same way that any object in the hole of a donut is outside the donut.

When a group of journalists and mission executives visited the tiny island of St. Lucia in 1988, Rickey Singh, a Caribbean journalist who edited the Caribbean Council of Churches» newspaper Caribbean Contact, greeted them with the words, «Welcome to the media - penetrated region in the world.»

In some quarters the wisdom of this was doubted in regions where there was yet only a tiny Church and virtually all Christian work was still in the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutionIn some quarters the wisdom of this was doubted in regions where there was yet only a tiny Church and virtually all Christian work was still in the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutionin regions where there was yet only a tiny Church and virtually all Christian work was still in the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutionin the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutionin other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutionin the problems of the ecclesiastical institutions.

Though the 860,000 who travel to Australia in 2020 is tiny in comparison, the impact on our cities and regions will be evident.

In the region where we hunted elephants, we made it a practice each day to stop at a tiny Somali village where we tried to make friends with the natives.

The 6.5 acres of tiny gibraltar island on lake erie's south edge are crammed with reasons to visit, including Stone Laboratory, the oldest freshwater biology research station in the U. S. Tour the island, soak up the science and then rent a kayak to explore more of this scenic slice of the Great Lakes region.

This color image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much - studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Computer modeling and satellite observations suggest that these tiny particles can increase storm - cloud cover over certain regions of the North Pacific by 20 to 50 percent, enough to alter storm tracks in some cases.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean regioIn order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean regioin any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean regioin Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

This region is tiny in mouse brains, he says.

For instance, touching different regions of a screen makes the phone tilt and shift just a tiny bit, but in ways that the phone's motion sensors pick up, Mehrnezhad and colleagues demonstrated in a study reported online April 2017 in the International Journal of Information Security.

Restricted to the alpine region at the top of Mount Washington and Mount Lafayette in New Hampshire, the plant is a low - lying relative of the rose, with tiny yellow flowers.

The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss Alps and parts of Canada, could be better predicted by using technology which measures «tiny earthquakes» — according to a group of international experts.

The invention could boost water supplies in the driest regions, say experts, and a similar setup could be used to precisely control the flow of tiny amounts of fluids for sensitive diagnostic tests.

As proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africa.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.

Tiny nukes could particularly improve the quality of life in impoverished regions that otherwise would not have clean, affordable options for electricity.

Tiny fluctuations in this broth — likely arising from quantum effects — resulted in some regions having more matter than the rest.

MIXED ANCESTRY Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers to determine that farmers and foragers interbred in three different regions from 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago.

To find this out, researchers implanted tiny electrodes in a region of spiders» brains that would show whether sound was being processed.

Scientists had discovered back in the 1970s that a tiny brain region dubbed the suprachiasmatic nucleus helps to control the body's sleep cycles, alertness, temperature and other daily fluctuations.

It is so fast that in a fraction of a second a tiny subatomic speck of space is blown to dimensions much greater than the entire currently observable region.

In vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamuIn vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamuin the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamuin the hypothalamus.

Sensitive to tiny variations in the gravitational tug of the moon, GRAIL mapped density variations below the surface (because regions of higher density produce slightly higher gravitational forces).

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processorIn 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processorin his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

A team of self - proclaimed «beetle nerds,» led by Prof Perissinotto, got together from NMMU and Plymouth University (UK) and uncovered more species of water beetles in these tiny water bodies than is known for any other similar - sized region in southern Africa.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that they have identified a protein essential to the formation of the tiny brain region in mice that coordinates sleep - wake cycles and other so - called circadian rhythms.

The best models for the region suggested that if there were ring particles in the area where Cassini crossed the ring plane, they would be tiny, on the scale of smoke particles.

«We've pushed the capabilities of LCLS down in the sub-micron region by using extreme focusing that creates a more intense beam on the tiny sample,» Boutet says.

In nanometer - thin magnetic films, such as iron - nickel alloys, the region separating two magnetic domains or defects can adopt tiny whirlpool - like patterns.

In the 1990s, thinking about Pluto shifted again with the realization that it is just one member of the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of thousands (if not millions) of tiny icy objects that circle the sun in the outer regions of the solar systeIn the 1990s, thinking about Pluto shifted again with the realization that it is just one member of the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of thousands (if not millions) of tiny icy objects that circle the sun in the outer regions of the solar systein the outer regions of the solar system.

The tiny, silvery, cylindrical whiskers are a new mineral — merelaniite — named for a mining region in Tanzania.

When the researchers recalibrated the display screen, though, they could see tiny blobs of neural action in brain regions specialized for speech.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

A few «emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

«emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

Brain manipulations often involve the permanent implantation of tiny metal tubes known as cannulas that permit direct delivery of drugs into specific brain regions in awake marmosets.

The data pointed to a tiny region in the brain called the LVN.

The central region has been given the name «Spiderweb» though it was previously known as MRC 1138 - 262, because it seems to consist of tiny galaxies trapped by gravity, rather like flies in a spider's web.

Their limited light and heat meant that the habitable zone — the region where liquid water could form, and thus life would be considered most likely to evolve — of planets around them would be very close to the star, putting them in range of radiation from the tiny stars.

Photographed about eight days after it exploded, Supernova 1997ff (SN1997ff) was found by astronomers comparing the northern Hubble Deep Field, a 10 - day observation of a tiny region of sky first explored by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, with a follow - up observation in 1997.

Among other things, the long hours of sitting can lead to atrophy of the piriformis, a tiny muscle located in the buttock region.