Sentences with phrase «of a millimetre at»

To identify the sponges, Maloof's team ground down a fist - sized lump of rock a fraction of a millimetre at a time, taking hundreds of images in the process to create a three - dimensional map of the fossil.

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Ponder on the effect of the water level rising at 28 millimetres per minute, for 40 days.

Dr. Julian Bailes, head of neurosurgery at the NorthShore University Health System in Chicago, told a Toronto news conference Wednesday the human brain is tethered but floating in about seven millimetres of cerebral spinal fluid.

After a dominating spell of possession to open that latter period, van La Parra fell millimetres short of connecting with a diving header after flinging himself at Aaron Mooy's dinked cross from an acute angle inside the area.

At the beginning of your pregnancy, your amniotic fluid will only be a few millimetres.

New, portable high - resolution 3D scanners being developed by Axel Pinz at the Graz University of Technology in Austria will capture the pitoti down to a resolution of one - tenth of a millimetre.

As van der Marel explains: «It's likely that we are looking at a kind of comet factory as the conditions are right for the particles to grow from millimetre to comet size.

Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.

This image combines a total of 296 separate individual datasets from the ALMA and IRAM telescopes, making it one of the largest high - resolution mosaics of a star formation region produced so far at millimetre wavelengths [1].

If everything goes according to plan, they will soon be able to localize the tumour within a few millimetres range, with the help of the research scientist Erlend Fagertun Hofstad, the engineer who is co-piloting the navigation at the computer screen.

The 26 - millimetre - long chip was designed and built using standard fabrication processes by Jeremy O'Brien, Jonathan Matthews and Alberto Politi at the University of Bristol, UK.

In the police tests, the size of the flaws ranged up to 0.6 millimetres, and so the chance of a defect turning up at any horizontal position on an A4 sheet (which is 210 millimetres wide) is about 1 in 350.

Rasmussen has analysed meteorological data from the time of the accident and he estimates that snow was falling on the plane at the rate of 2.5 millimetres per hour — fast enough to coat the plane's wings with enough ice to cause a crash.

By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.

But ground - based observatories can measure even longer, millimetre, wavelengths that would reveal objects at even greater distances, says Tom Crawford of the University of Chicago.

«They measured 18 millimetres of precipitation at the airport,» Prokop said from his office in Longyearbyen.

The certification problem gets still more complicated because there are two types of millimetre - wave systems: passive systems pick up the millimetre waves our bodies reflect from the environment; active millimetre - wave machines use arrays of antennas to project a stronger beam at the subject.

It may only be 40 millimetres tall, but the cylinder kept under lock and key at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) at Sèvres in France is beyond price.

At around 7 millimetres long, the processus is used to ejaculate sperm into a female and can stretch to two - thirds the length of a male's body.

The DMR measures temperature differences between regions of the sky 60 degree apart at three frequencies: 31.5, 53 and 90 gigahertz (wavelengths of 9.5, 5.7 and 3.3 millimetres).

Working at the IRAM Plateau De Bure interferometer in the French Alps, the researchers gathered data in the millimetre band, which allows observation of the emission from the cold gas which is the primary fuel for star formation and main ingredient of galaxies, but is almost invisible at other wavelengths.

Christopher Weder at Case Western and colleagues took a 0.4 millimetre - thick sheet of the polymer and gouged fissures between 0.2 and 0.3 millimetres deep in it.

[1] The two objects are aligned to better than 0.01 arcseconds — equivalent to a one millimetre separation at a distance of 20 kilometres.

The patent - pending technology, which uses detectors at the heart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN alongside world - first radiation - hard CMOS imagers, will reduce dose uncertainties from several centimetres to just a few millimetres.

Dr Graeme Burt, senior lecturer at Lancaster University's Engineering Department and lead researcher on the 12 - month project, said: «Proton imaging will increase the accuracy of proton treatments to under one millimetre, which really counts when treating tumours near sensitive organs.»

Darren Naish at the University of Southampton and Mark Witton at Portsmouth University, both UK, describe an exceptionally broad neck bone with walls 4 to 6 millimetres thick, triple those of other azhdarchids, and a spongy filling that makes them very strong.

The ornate silicon remains of Campylodiscus clypeus, which are only 0.3 millimetres across, were extracted from their grave in 1991 by Phil Barker of the Department of Geography at the University of Lancaster.

But Chile is particularly prone to tremors because the plates there are converging at high speed - about 80 millimetres a year compared to 25 - 70 millimetres a year for most other plates, says Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The zirconium ions form their own crystal, and theirs is quite special: a clear, millimetre - sized structure so hard that it will last for all of eternity — at least as far as Earth is concerned.

At the meeting, he showed an image of a half - millimetre slab of the mouse brain's hippocampus, at a scale that revealed connections between neighbouring neuronAt the meeting, he showed an image of a half - millimetre slab of the mouse brain's hippocampus, at a scale that revealed connections between neighbouring neuronat a scale that revealed connections between neighbouring neurons.

Joost van der Burg, a researcher at the Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research in Wageningen, started dropping peas from a height of a few millimetres onto a sensor, called a force transducer.

Anne Meyer at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and her colleagues have shown that you can 3D - print E. coli in lines just 1 millimetre thick (ACS Synthetic Biology, doi.org/b4jk).

Symbion is a tiny animal about half a millimetre long, shaped like a bulbous tube with a ring of tiny hairs — cilia — at one end.

Severed nerves can reconnect if treated quickly enough after an injury, but grow at a rate of just 1 millimetre per day.

Other researchers had previously shown quantum effects in a supercooled 0.06 - millimetre - long strip of metal, which was set in a state where it was vibrating and not vibrating at the same time.

Previously, Philip Trickey of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, had developed a motor 1 millimetre across, but work at Duke stopped when he died last year.

But something akin to that happened with two 3 - millimetre - wide diamonds in a lab at the University of Oxford.

In 2010, a group led by Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, made a 0.06 - millimetre - long supercooled metal strip simultaneously vibrate and not vibrate, putting it into a quantum superposition of states.

«Our tide gauge station will become part of a network of stations along the coast of Sweden that will be able to monitor changes in the water level to millimetre precision well into the future,» says Gunnar Elgered, professor at Chalmers Department of Earth and Space Sciences.

Curious to know its impact on my vital signs, I first measured my heart beat — 80 beats per minute — my blood pressure — 113/66 millimetres of mercury — and body temperature at 35.9 °C.

Still, Feedback must admit that at $ 10 a pair, the millimetre closer to space you would be while wearing them still delivers a better rate of return than any investment you might have made in a space tourism start - up.

IRAM operates the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) near Grenoble, France, and its 30 - meter telescope on Pico Veleta, Spain — both telescopes observing at millimetre - wavelengths — on behalf of its three partners: the German Max - Planck - Gesellschaft (MPG), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Spanish Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN).

At millimetre wavelengths emission from the CO molecule allows astronomers to obtain high - resolution maps of the gas emission from the strong stellar wind generated by the AGB stars.

The antennas operate at wavelengths between 0.00035 and 10 millimetres: that is, from submillimetre wavelengths to the beginning of the microwave range.

Several previous analyses of tide gauge records1, 2,3,4,5,6 — employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the data and to constrain the geometry of long - term sea - level change — have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres per year.

With this latest equipment, the upcoming observations for the imaging of black holes and AGNs, and for searching and studying pulsars at millimetre wavelengths, will be carried out with a very high sensitivity.

The JCMT resides at the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii and is the largest single - dish sub - millimetre telescope in the world.

A grid - format picture capture system allowed the monitoring of living hESC cultures ranging in size from a few hundred micrometers to cell colonies of several millimetres at a defined picture capture cycle rate.

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) occurs in response to retreating ice from the last glacial period, where around most of the world, land is subsiding at a fraction of a millimetre per year, compounding the problem of sea - level rise.

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