Sentences with phrase «on microscopic levels»

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.

Furthermore, on the microscopic level the very concept of localizable particle as well as the continuity of trajectory loses its meaning.

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.

But cancer can be latent on a microscopic level, so Jonathan returns for scans every four months.

But it's only because it's on the microscopic level that this structure can overcome the problem of maintenance: the molecules that control the wheel and axle reach it by diffusing through the cell's cytoplasm.

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

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.

All nonreflective surfaces are rough on a microscopic level.

«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.

On a microscopic level, healthy enamel is made of large crystals that are packed tightly together.

No matter how thoroughly you cook your food, there are a lot of processes on the microscopic level going on inside it from the very moment you finish the meal and store the leftovers, including the conversion of healthy nutrients into toxins and the growth of potentially harmful bacteria.

They took it a step further, actually, and paid athletes enough to take a muscle biopsy, so the researchers could actually see what's happening to their muscles on a microscopic level.

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.

Except, «Annihilation» exists outside the realm of previous human experience, allowing Garland to toy with still other (im) possibilities — including the atavistic fear of how our bodies work on a microscopic level — by turning the characters» very DNA against them, while doing even stranger things to their minds.

And frankly I'm reluctant to recommend an e-reader because it maintains better detail on the microscopic level.

Instead of chalk, you can use diatomaceous earth which is also sharp on a microscopic level - just make sure you use food grade.

It took another ten years for two top veterinary pathologists at Johns Hopkins, John Strandberg and Richard Montali to sort out what was happening to these cats on a microscopic level.

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

Chemotherapy also is recommended to address the metastasis that already is occurring on 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.

Again, the work is «alive» as the crystals on the engine keep on growing on a microscopic level.

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.

Maybe it would help to think on the microscopic level.

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

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.

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.

CC: It depends on whether you are trying to get space by implementing this scheme at a microscopic physical level, which was what I was trying to do, or implement this on Whitehead's earlier scheme at the level of perceptions.

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).

I suggest Whitehead is drawing an analogy from the microscopic level to explain social institutions on the macroscopic level.

Although we have a theoretical explanation (putting more growth factors into an injured area), it is unclear what, if anything, is actually occurring on a more microscopic level.

Second, the central premise, that obstetric interventions are safer on the macro level but cause long term microscopic health problems is obviously nothing more than nonsense.

The simple Stokes - Einstein relationship is based on arguments about how molecules move randomly at the microscopic level.

AFM achieves this level of detail by using a microscopic stylus — similar to a needle on a record player — that barely makes contact with the surface of the material being studied.

If you really want to develop a microscopic understanding of atoms, on the most basic level, you need to understand how electrons deal with each other.»

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.

The data reported were based on one patient and, despite 67 years of subsequent studies that failed to establish scientific support for this theory, we are still faced with reluctance to treat men with testosterone supplementation for fear of giving them prostate cancer or fueling prostate cancer already present at a subclinical or microscopic level.

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).

Working on a variety of animals from finches to ostriches, mice to beavers, ferrets to cougars and challenging surgeries from a microscopic to a macro level is something I have always enjoyed.

On a more microscopic nutritional level, assessing protein quality is better defined.

Similarly working alongside scientific processes, Jordan Tate's large - scale, inkjet on fabric prints New Work # 195 and New Work # 194 (both 2014) manipulate scale to an exponential level, harnessing microscopic vision to capture mark making on a molecular level, expanding the field of vision.

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

Maximum entropy is all molecules (on average, not at the microscopic level) have equal total energy TE = PE + KE.

Schrödinger's cat tells us that what goes on at the microscopic level makes little sense when applied to everyday experience.

However, if this picture confuses you, then you can just stick to the heat flow equation and don't have to worry about how it is coming about on a more microscopic level.

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.

There is a microscopic level of support for the idea that China has banned time travel, though actually that seems to be a ban on TV shows with time travel.