Sentences with phrase «on near objects»

You may also want to turn lamps on near objects your dog frequently bumps.

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.

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Must - see 3 - D It's 3 - D depth control allows viewers to control the «distance» between near and far objects on the screen, for a bespoke 3 - D experience.

4 And there is the relativistic motion of objects moving near the speed of light (wavelength shifts red as its, let's say rate of time, diminishes) and this is not dependent on direction as the Doppler effect is.

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.

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.

It's as though they live at the edge of a looking - glassworld where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near - human qualities.»

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.»

Focus briefly on objects that are near her face and up to about 12 to 15 inches away, which is about the distance of a breastfeeding baby looking at her mother's face.

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.

• Help them bond with a security object — choose a baby blanket or stuffed animal and keep it near you for a while, so it takes on your comforting smell.

So keep talking to your little one and help them focus on solid colored objects and before you know it they'll see your face clearly, and it will make them smile whenever you're near.

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.

Now, your little one can see quite well near and far and even focus on quickly moving objects.

A state agency has objected to relicensing the Indian Point nuclear plant on the Hudson River, saying it kills millions of fish larvae and sits near seismic faults with an earthquake threat to millions of people.

Encroachment is a key factor that is considered when the federal government is reviewing military bases for potential shut down and 70 individual, 600 - foot tall wind turbines, located on the edge of Lake Ontario near the base, could be considered major objects of encroachment.

These binoculars also have the «Insta - Focus» focus system, so you can quickly focus on any object whether it is near or far by simply pressing a lever.

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 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).

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.

These allow wearers to focus on both far and near objects by looking through different parts of the lens.

Comets are icy objects on elongated orbits that throw off a long tail of gases as they near the sun.

The 10,000 th near - Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000 - foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui.

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

Sharma and Shah's collision alert system uses a dashboard camera and an algorithm that can determine whether an object near the vehicle is an on - road cow and whether or not its movements represent a risk to the vehicle.

The various measures of eye structure were analyzed for association with age, refraction (vision prescription), and accommodation (the ability to focus on distant or near objects by changing the shape of the lens of the eye).

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

If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibilities: Imagine machines that could fly into construction areas or disaster zones that aren't near roads and then squeeze through tight spaces on the ground to transport objects or rescue people.

A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and comets that can cross Earth's orbit and hit us.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

Based on high definition 3D lossless digital imaging technology, the Compound Eye imaging system can acquire realistic 3D positional information of objects at both near and far fields, which provides a solution to image distortion caused by conditions such as insufficient light and inadequate resolution.

Even outside the event horizon, the hole's gravity increases so fiercely with proximity that the tug on the near side of a passing object can be vastly stronger than the pull on the far side.

You won't, however, see that 150,000 figure in the main body of the Washington, D.C. — based National Research Council report on near - Earth object (NEO) surveys and mitigation strategies.

«We've known since Lashley's classic studies on the mechanisms of vision that rats pay more attention to stimuli presented near the ground, but the field has persisted in presenting vertical 2 - D images or 3 - D objects,» Burwell said.

If gravity curves space, he had realized early on, a light beam passing near a massive object (say, the sun) would be deflected from its course.

Despite only being a few metres across, the object was spotted a day before impact by the Mount Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona (see Space rock found on collision course with Earth).

Far objects project smaller images on our retina than near objects.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler aperture.

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

Camera purchased with the support of a 2009 Shoemaker NEO Grant is now on a new telescope providing follow - up measurements for even fainter near - Earth objects.

That is, we predicted that when the mosquitoes were exposed to CO2, which is an indicator of a nearby host, they would also spend a lot of time hovering near high - contrast objects, such as a black object on a neutral background.»

We identify PSO J060.3200 +25.9644 (near - infrared spectral type L1) and PSO J077.1033 +24.3809 (L2) as new members of Taurus based on their VL - G gravity classifications, the consistency of their photometry and proper motions with previously known Taurus objects, and the low probability of contamination by field objects.

The ciliary body that comprises the muscles inside the eye, which change the shape of the lens in order to enable the eye to focus on near or distant objects.

ASE activities in support of environmental awareness and better planetary stewardship include the Windows on Earth project, the ASE Near Earth Object mitigation effort, publication of the international best - selling book The Home Planet, partnership in the «Arbor Project» international forest conservation effort, and sponsorship of environmental films, projects and videos.

The radio astronomers have observed the object on a near - daily basis since then, and that monitoring has revealed the burster's unexpected behavior.

«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»

But there's a world of difference between managing a visit to a near - Earth asteroid versus an object on the edge of the solar system.

Steve is also an expert on the Near Earth Objects that threaten our planet.

«Flipping minor bodies: what comet 96P / Machholz 1 can tell us about the orbital evolution of extreme trans - Neptunian objects and the production of near - Earth objects on retrograde orbits».