Sentences with phrase «located near the surface»

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

Since only a small proportion of the molecules are located near the surface and are moving in the proper direction to escape at any given instant, the rate of evaporation is limited.

This study's simulations show that the drying rate changes according to the shape of the air - water interface located near the surface.

Direct use and district heating systems use hot water from springs or reservoirs located near the surface of the earth.

Not exact matches

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

One of the craters found to contain glass is called Hargraves, and it's located near the Nili Fossae trough, a 400 - mile - long depression that stretches across the Martian surface.

Located 60 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Key Largo, it lets spacewalkers work with support crews and a mission control.

It will use ice - penetrating radar to measure the thickness of the moon's ice shell, map its internal rifts and faults (clues to the tempo of its geologic activity) and locate pockets of water near the surface.

Hydrothermal vents are located several miles below the surface, on the ocean floor, where the surrounding water is at or near freezing, it is absolutely dark and the pressure is high.

SPOUTING - BREATHING Gray whales breathe air at the surface of the water through 2 blowholes located near the top of the head.

These spacious rooms have adaptive equipment including hand rails, lowered work surfaces, wet room shower, plus LCD flat screen television, desk located near the large window at the far end of the room from the door, mini bar and tea and coffee making facilities.

The Surface Stations project has revealed that many of the thermometer shelters used for calculating temperature trends are currently located near artificial heating sources, such as the ones in the Marysville, California station shown above (the thermometer is at the point labelled MMTS Shelter).

To determine these differences it is important to survey areas where the weather stations, the urban one in particular, are not located near a geophysical boundary where surface temperatures in one direction are significantly different from those in other directions.