Sentences with phrase «microscopic levels in»

Because there can be large amounts of hormone tied into your blood cells, even microscopic levels in your saliva can completely skew your levels.

«The most interesting materials of the future will probably be assembled at the microscopic level in creative ways,» says Galli.

A team of marine researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has discovered a three - way conflict raging at the microscopic level in the frigid waters off Antarctica over natural resources such as vitamins and iron.

Not exact matches

For instance, he predicts that the «forehead» — the black bar that intrudes into the top of the screen on the iPhone X, where all the cameras and sensors go — is an evolutionary detour on the way to a phone that is all screen, with cameras built right in at the microscopic level.

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

I do think that being an atheist in light of the complexity of creation (both on an infinite universe - sized level and on a microscopic atomic level) requires some amount of faith in something — even if it is faith in the ability of random pieces of matter to assemble themselves into something complicated.

In the stage that Ford (1:251) has called his «first metaphysical synthesis», Whitehead held that «value» («the intrinsic reality of an event») could exist on a multiplicity of levels, not just a microscopic one (SMW 93).

We live in a universe where the so - called «butterfly effect» plays a strong role, so that things at a quantum microscopic level affect things at a large scale, and a universe where there is true randomness at the quantum level, which gives theoretically uncaused events which can't be empirically distinguished from events with unseen causes.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

While such simplifying assumptions were deemed acceptable in the past, they can no longer be regarded as a correct reflection of the underlying dynamics of any realistic natural system.12 Above all, we have shown the contingent (or probabilistic) nature of all dynamically evolving systems at both the microscopic (atomic and sub-atomic) and macroscopic (terrestrial) levels.

On the microscopic level, when the novelty originating in the mental pole of an actual occasion is largely absent, the power of efficient causation escapes modification by conceptual ideals.

The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

Made from any number of hundreds of elements, these materials have the capacity to show quantum properties that usually appear only at the microscopic level, but here appear in a material visible to the naked eye.

Listening to him explain iridescence, you can see how his scientific background factors into his art:» [Iridescence] is when you have small crystalline patterns at the microscopic level which break up the incoming light and distribute it a different way, and so you get light coming into your eye from different angles in just a planar surface,» he explains.

In addition, the orange Asupina variety stashes its carotenoids in microscopic sacs during ripening, shifting the chemical equilibrium in the fruit so it can make even higher levels of these substanceIn addition, the orange Asupina variety stashes its carotenoids in microscopic sacs during ripening, shifting the chemical equilibrium in the fruit so it can make even higher levels of these substancein microscopic sacs during ripening, shifting the chemical equilibrium in the fruit so it can make even higher levels of these substancein the fruit so it can make even higher levels of these substances.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

Intestinal biopsy samples showed mild levels of microscopic inflammation in some of the children with autism, as well as in some of the non-autistic children.

Ranging from the magnesium levels in microscopic seashells pulled from ocean sediment cores to pollen counts in layers of muck from lakebeds, the proxies delivered thousands of temperature readings over the period.

A tenth of a millimeter is relatively small, in contrast, although it's still big on a microscopic level.

Today, this behaviour is very well understood at the microscopic level: magnetism goes back to the angular momentum — the spin — of the electrons in the outer shell of the atoms that build up a solid state crystal.

In both instances, the thinking went, the chin area is being mechanically stressed; on a microscopic level, new bone is being created, much like lifting weights creates little tears that allows new muscle to be created.

In broad outline, his approach assumes the noise is at a microscopic but not infinitesimal level, which restores the smoothness needed for the differential equation to have a solution.

«Science shows us the many ways that life is interconnected, especially on the microscopic level, where we see how many organisms depend on close contact with or internalization of other species for food, defense, or reproduction,» said lead author John Burns, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

We are also able to view live images of tissue in the digestive tract at a microscopic level, enabling earlier and more accurate diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers.

Additionally, our doctors are able to view tissue cells in the body at a microscopic level, using a technique called probe - based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE).

He added, «One of the tricky parts is understanding how meteorites fracture at the microscopic level, and how the material will eventually burst in the atmosphere,» as meteorites have a complex microscopic structure compared to ordinary rocks and behave in different ways under stress.

This is where at the microscopic level the genes should function normal but something in the...

We are very impressed by Fred Kavli's design of these new awards, which span from the very grand scale of astrophysics to the microscopic level of nanotechnology, and to the level in between: the brain - no doubt the most complex organ created by the biological evolution over a very, very long time... billions of years.

Microscopic specks of soot, dirt, acid, and other pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere in metropolitan areas (cars, factories, construction sites, etc.), and when these particles come into contact with your skin, they penetrate deep into the layers of the epidermis, causing inflammation, dehydration, and reactions on the cellular level.

While it takes several years for all the cells of an organ to completely turn around, it means that the changes we make in our diet and lifestyle impact us at the most microscopic level.

That's what's happening in a leaky gut at a microscopic level.

Increased levels of candida often initiate the proliferation of long root - like structures (mycelia and rhizoids) that penetrate the mucosal membranes, creating microscopic breaks in the normal mucosal boundary of the gastrointestinal tract.

When we think of probiotics, we usually imagine the benefits taking place on the microscopic level — healthy bacteria recolonizing and re-balancing the flora in our digestive system.

Sometimes it's in huge pockets, and sometimes it forms at a microscopic level where you can't see it or feel it.

On a smaller level, UV light and the salt in seawater cause microscopic particles of plastic to emit toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

2010 was a big year for trashy dramas set in Boston, and The Town feels like the complimentary movie to The Fighter, one that details the life behind Mark Wahlberg's character at an even more microscopic level.

In The Bohr Maker, by multiple - award - winning Linda Nagata, a powerful, illicit device is a microscopic factory full of self - replicating machines programmed to transform a human host into a genius - level nanotech engineer.

To make matters more complicated, there can also be a congenital form in which the shunting occurs at a microscopic level within the liver substance, called «microvascular dysplasia,» which is not treatable surgically.

High amounts of cholesterol may clog cell membranes at the microscopic level, affecting flows of brain hormones involved in mood and behavior.

Most of the changes that occur in pancreatitis and diseases associated with it occur on the microscopic level.

In most of the cases, curative - intent radiation works best when the volume of the tumor has been reduced to a microscopic level.

In the game, players control an army of tiny aliens who are invading the earth one person at a time on a microscopic level.

Step back to survey the broad sweep of landscape and all detail is lost; stoop in, taking the dizzying plunge to microscopic level and find yourself inching across the surface in an examination of minutiae at the very threshold of visibility.

These series of drawings and paintings also depict structures that occur in nature at a level hidden to the naked eye, but these images of the microscopic are now also used as building blocks to create a composition to which they are conceptually related.

Phytoplankton, which live close enough to the water's surface to perform photosynthesis — critical to maintaining oxygen in Earth's atmosphere — form the base of the marine food web.4 Although phytoplankton are microscopic, they can be seen from satellites when they grow in a concentrated area (bloom) on the ocean's surface.5 Zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton, which recycle nutrients in the water, make up the next levels of the web.4

I leave it to theoreticians and specialists in molecular and laser physics to fight it out amongst themselves on the question of what sort of energy transfers may or may not occcur on the microscopic level between absorbent and non-absorbent gas species in the atmosphere.

Scientists looked at radiocarbon levels in the shells of microscopic animals which lived both near the surface and on / near the bottom of the Southern Ocean, and found large quantities of carbon locked away in «old deep water» around Antarctica.

But there are yet more complex ones like how exactly, on a microscopic level, snow melts in mid-air.

Presuming that all touch screens in the near future will have the hardware capability to detect microscopic levels of pressure (which is a whole other feature request), the biggest part of this feature request is software and firmware based.