Sentences with phrase «of track surface»

One's view ends at the cowl as the nose drops away, so the rushing grain of the track surface was immediate.

Not exact matches

That's why he built in GPS tracking ability, though geolocation only scratches the surface of the various other cool tricks the collar pulls off.

Satellites can track those microscopic plants by watching how the colors of the sea surface change.

At 21, I was being paid to travel the world, dating the «perfect guy» (long - distance, of course), played the piano at church, and on all the surface levels was right on track.

You should see tracks from the whisk on the surface of the whites.

Of course snow removal and drying won't be limited to just the track surface but removing snow from the stands and potential water from snow piles.

There they have spent the day digging away the surface of an old cinder running track and replacing it with several hundred barrelfuls of an exotic red substance.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

The track will undergo a repave with the coarse asphalt being replaced by a smooth, slick surface with no shortage of grip, which will bring with it high speeds that are expected to exceed 200 mph entering Turn 1 and likely less compelling racing.

The rain soon turned into a hailstorm, making the track so slippery that some of the cars couldn't even move on the icy marbles that now covered the surface.

The 14H Soldier maintains computer data links and networks that provide early detection and tracking of possible air threats from the earth's surface to space, providing the units with situational awareness and current air threat data which enable their engagement and destruction by Air Defense units.

Their horses are pronounced fit and no matter what are the track conditions, both sides have publicly stated their horse able to run over any surface — thus assuring all the awaiting world of a truly run horse race.»

When the first murmurings of this scandal began to surface in 2011, Roy Williams was adamant in his assertion that he had no inkling of an idea that something was going on, and was actually outspoken in his defense of his programs» academic track record.

A bill that surfaced late in the state legislative session became the subject of a fight that legislators said pitted safety measures on the Long Island Rail Road against the need for a third track to improve efficiency and cut congestion.

A review of the racing and training surfaces at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in the wake of 10 exercise - related musculoskeletal fatalities so far during the meet meet has not unearthed any obvious problems with the tracks, according to the New York State Gaming Commission.

Robert Williams, the executive director of the commission, said at a meeting Tuesday that Saratoga's operator, the New York Racing Association, had recently brought in Mick Peterson, a racing - surface expert based at the University of Maine, to examine the tracks.

The Democrat announced Tuesday that the Department of Environmental Conservation is filing a petition to the Surface Transportation Board seeking to stop Saratoga and North Creek Railway from leasing its tracks for storage of unused rail cars.

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A review of the racing and training surfaces at Saratoga Race Course in the wake of 10 exercise - related musculoskeletal fatalities so far during the meet has not unearthed any obvious problems with the tracks, according to the state Gaming Commission.

Front panel buttons and an LED digital control screen allow you to easily adjust the surface temperature and keep track of cooking time.

The dark field laser sensor will track on virtually any surface, even glass - a weakness of most other laser sensors.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

Dust devils on Mars weave intricate tracks on the surface (left) and climb the walls of craters (right).

This software features a volume - of - fluid method to track the position of the water's free surface — the areas where water meets the air.

In a study whose results were published in Nature last July, physicist Ali Yazdani used a powerful microscope to track electrons as they encountered stairlike barriers on the surface of antimony, a material that shares several characteristics with topological insulators such as bismuth telluride.

The researchers took samples of grains lifted by dust devils at different heights, studied tracks left by dust devils on the surface and measured physical and meteorological properties of dust devils.

The surveillance and tracking systems, which made use of Sideways - Looking Airborne Radar and infra - red and ultraviolet sensors, could only detect oil on the surface.

«This technology offers new opportunities to track the speed of ocean currents or objects moving on or below the ocean surface.»

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.

Her program tracks the intensity of light reflected off an object illuminated from three different directions and uses this information to measure curved surfaces.

Together, these observatories watch the Sun in dozens of different wavelengths of light that reveal the Sun's surface and lower atmosphere, allowing scientists to track the eruption from its onset up through the solar atmosphere — and ultimately understand why it faded away.

The four - year project titled, «Cognitive Networking of the Oceans: Localization and Tracking Fundamentals,» provides the foundations for a four - tier heterogeneous network architecture involving autonomous undersea vehicles (AUVs), autonomous water - surface vehicles (ASVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and satellites.

By affixing DTAGs — synchronous motion and acoustic recording tags — to the whales» backs via four suction cups, the researchers could track for the first time the movements of the whales below the ocean's surface.

The ancient surface where these footprints were found is also covered with the tracks of much smaller theropod dinosaurs.

Another method for reducing methane emissions, whether underground or on tracks of surface mining, lies in degasifying coal seams prior to extraction.

With helioseismology data, which track acoustic oscillations on the sun, researchers can follow the development of the jet stream thousands of kilometers below the sun's surface, potentially allowing for better forecasts of the timing of the solar cycle.

In 2004, Cifuolini and Erricos Pavlis of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, measured frame dragging by tracking the orbits of the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II satellites, simple reflectors launched in 1976 and 1992 and used primarily to monitor the motion of Earth's surface.

Ordinary users can track this constellation of satellites with one of several Web sites or with an appealing public - domain software program called Home Planet, which can map any satellite you choose, GPS or not, against a projection of the Earth's surface.

The experiments were carried out on test tracks with a wide variety of road surfacing textures, as well as on ordinary public roads and in the laboratory.

By simply tracking water as it melted, migrated, and refroze, Schmidt had, in mere months following a trip to the Antarctic, come up with by far the most complete model of the icy moon's chaotic surface.

They also suggest that some of the uncertainties that currently restrict the effectiveness of regional climate projections could be reduced through developing a better understanding of the stratosphere influence on surface - level jet streams, storm tracks and weather.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched by NASA in February, returns 16 - megapixel images of the sun on a nearly continuous basis, splits the sun's emissions into its individual wavelengths, tracks the propagation of waves across the sun's surface and maps the ever shifting solar magnetic field.

The fisheries biologist and Muthiah Muruganandam, a Fulbright scholar from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, will use existing data to track changes in the characteristics and water quality of surface waters in northeastern South Dakota.

This requires the surface to be very clean and the tracking of the tip extremely accurate.

There are strong competing effects such as changes in the large - scale atmospheric circulation, sea surface temperature changes like El Niño and La Niña and the dynamics of westerly storm tracks that all interact at the mid-latitudes,» said Stanford co-author Matthew Winnick who contributed to the study with fellow doctoral student Daniel Ibarra.

Within four days, more than 90 percent of the ice's surface had begun to melt — the most since satellite tracking began in 1979.

Time can mean many things, but Hillis's machine needs to track a particularly messy version: Earth - surface clock / calendar time, which is based on a byzantine agglomeration of astronomical rotations, orbits, and perturbations of hugely varying lengths, overlaid with arbitrary cultural whims about how to divide it up.

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar — A proposed satellite - based monitoring system that, if funded, will track the movement and deformation of the North American and Pacific plates by bouncing radar waves off the surfaces.

To gain insight into the complex flow that's created, Vicente Fernandez, Roman Stocker, and colleagues at MIT have used video microscopy to track the paths of 2 - μm fluorescent beads around the coral Pocillopora damicornis, also known as cauliflower coral... Arced bead tracks, generated from 120 video frames taken at 10 frames per second, reveal the mixing that is occurring perpendicular to the coral surface.