Sentences with phrase «near motionless»

The research, recently published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, demonstrates that slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.»

They tested a revised operating procedure slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.

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Gomes says that the design was inspired by brachiation, the swinging gait of apes moving hand - over-hand through trees, and by the idea that the apes might improve the efficiency of their movements by timing things so that each hand was near - motionless as it grabbed the next branch.

«And because we are not required to chill the particles to near - absolute zero temperatures, we can capture the particles at room temperature, not frozen and motionless.»

Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another «danger piece» was Doomed (1975), in which Burden lay motionless in a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ft × 8 ft (1.5 m × 2.4 m) slanted sheet of glass near a running wall clock.