Sentences with phrase «near objects in»

Therefore, processing images of near objects in a way that lets us react quickly and usefully to them needs less resolution than objects that are far away.

Not exact matches

Someone objected and the bucket was left near the podium and people came by in single file to cast their vote.

They saw an unidentified flying object pass over their aircraft in Arizona near the southwestern border of New Mexico.

I have produced this analogy to prove that so long as the book remains a palpable object, i.e. so long as it is not replaced by auto - vocalizing and kino - vocalizing representations, we must look to the field of the manufacture of books for basic innovations in the near future.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

Intercession forces supplicants to take those nearest and dearest, the beleaguered objects of their worry, and to see them at a distance and in a strange light, and to recognize that their ultimate well - being does not depend upon their own efforts to contrive their good.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

The fact that the Old Testament may be an object of investigation in 1) church seminaries and divinity schools; 2) undergraduate departments of religion; 3) Near Eastern language and civilization programs; 4) archaeological institutes; 5) comparative literature studies; 6) English classes; or 7) anthropology departments makes for a considerably diverse angle of vision on the subject.

If my senses, for example, show me an object that seems round at a distance but square near at hand, or a stick bent in the water which is straight when taken out, the senses have not deceived me.

For most inventive accident to date, it is a close contest between him managing to fall flat on his face with a rattle in his mouth and a near collision with the objects on top of my parents» coffee table.

BUT mainly, he's a Jerry Jones shiny object pick and Jerry is NOT, I repeat, NOT a football guy who should be anywhere near talent evaluation — and his history proves that out in spades.

The local family who live in the nearest house to the ground had objected that expansion to a 60,000 capacity stadium would block light into their home.

Woodland, North Carolina, has a nice big chunk of land near the highway that would be just perfect for putting in a new solar farm, but it looks like that won't be happening because several town residents objected to the plan, which some of them said they opposed on the grounds that the solar farm might «suck up all the energy from the sun.»

The depth of field is the zone in which objects from near to far are in focus in your photograph.

Throughout the first month, there are rapid changes in which they begin to track moving objects, but it is until after the second month that they can easily focus on an object near them.

I followed him and watched him begin to exhibit an unusual level of energy and act in avoidant, ambivalent, and mildly aggressive ways, crawling away from me every time I came near, pushing objects onto me, pushing at my face.

As babies practice looking side - to - side and up and down in this position, they are developing their senses as they track sounds and movements, and even begin to focus on objects near and far from them.

Even if your maid does place the baby inside a playpen or in a baby chair, remind her to always check that there are no sharp objects inside the playpen or near the chair, or any other items such as dangling cords that could pose a safety hazard.

Additionally, in June 2011, Parello ordered members of the group to break the knees of a panhandler who was harassing customers near his Italian restaurant in The Bronx, and after Israel «Buddy» Torres initially grabbed and threatened the wrong person, the group found and assaulted the panhandler with glass jars, sharp objects and steel - tipped boots, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Such an object, called an obese black hole galaxy (OBG), should have a very special spectral signature, particularly in the infrared wavelengths between one and 30 microns where the JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near - Infrared Camera (NIRCam) cameras will operate.

Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens can not become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

In 2007, a star near the centre of our galaxy appeared to brighten because another object had focused the star's light onto Earth.

«They are in fact agents of destruction,» says Don Yeomans, who leads NASA's Near - Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But such lenses don't offer a sense of depth: they show all objects — both near and far — in focus at all times.

In 2002, during her psychology studies at Harvard University, she contributed under her birth name of Natalie Hershlag to a study on neuroimaging called «Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near - Infrared Spectroscopy» (DOI: 10.1006 / nimg.2002.1170).

NASA researchers have their own plan, the Near - Earth Object Program — the agency's program to spot 90 percent of all potentially hazardous asteroids more than two - thirds of a mile wide that might hit Earth in the foreseeable future.

JPL manages the Near - Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Now Jenniskens has determined that a «near - earth object» (NEO) first spotted in March tracks the same path.

Sometimes that can result in a faraway object appearing distorted or even multiple times around a nearer massive object, like a menu viewed through the bottom of a wine glass.

«When I began surveying for asteroids and comets in 1992, a near - Earth object discovery was a rare event,» said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center.

Two graduate students in rubber overalls hose 700 - yearold soil off unidentified excavated objects near a midden downhill from a collapsed house.

The observations were carried out in 2010 during the spacecraft's primary mission, before it was renamed NEOWISE and reactivated to target near - Earth objects (NEOs) in 2013.

«Ten thousandth near - Earth object discovered in space.»

Within a dozen years, the program achieved its goal of discovering 90 percent of near - Earth objects larger than 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) in size.

In September 2013, WISE was reactivated, renamed NEOWISE and assigned a new mission to assist NASA's efforts to identify potentially hazardous near - Earth objects.

«The first near - Earth object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been fonear - Earth object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been foNear - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found.

The object was first reported on Saturday by members of the Siding Spring Survey, a near - Earth object search programme based in Australia.

In contrast, if neurons convey information about object size, they are expected to react to the small retinal image when the object is far away and to react to the big retinal image when the object is near.

NASA is already spending $ 20 million per year in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids through the Near Earth Object Observation Program.

«The NASA - funded Catalina Sky Survey, which has made the majority of NEO discoveries since its inception in 2004, is getting an upgrade,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near - Earth Objects Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

The Near - Earth Object Program Office reports that, with current asteroid surveys already in place, about two potential candidates suitable for the asteroid redirect mission are discovered every year.

Objects that participate in this internet of things might be as mundane as a sensor in your refrigerator that tells the nearest supermarket when you're out of milk.

«To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 percent,» said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «This is a relatively new discovery.

These objects are on orbits that give them a very small probability of hitting Earth in the near future.

Without a southern telescope, «you could easily get blindsided by one of these», says Don Yeomans, of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The Siding Spring Survey uses images from the Siding Spring observatory in Australia as part of the global Catalina Sky Survey, an effort to discover and track potentially dangerous near - Earth objects.

The leftover building blocks of planets, near - Earth objects orbit the sun in highly elliptical orbits, and sometimes graze or hit Earth.