Sentences with phrase «only as a reservoir»

No idea what it's like to have to ingratiate your self to men who see you only as a reservoir for their semen.

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For the most part the experiential occasions (such as those in the inorganic world) are only minimally affected by the reservoir of novelty.

A regular stomach not only acts as a large reservoir of now - liquified broken down food (it can hold roughly 1.5 to 2 quarts!)

This study represents the only research done so far on endogenous retroviruses of New World bats and suggests there is still much to be learned about vampire bats as viral reservoirs.

There were few specialists because only the larger towns and cities sustained such institutions and (just as importantly) a rich reservoir of prospective paying customers.

Using only 88 memristors as nodes to identify handwritten versions of numerals, compared to a conventional network that would require thousands of nodes for the task, the reservoir achieved 91 percent accuracy.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

The limited tests in Japan and China are only meant to gauge how a reservoir would react to the piercing of a drill bore and how a well would respond to the depressurizing hydrate as it is extracted.

Following infection, Langerhans cells not only serve as reservoirs for replicating virus, but also transport the virus to nearby lymph nodes where HIV spreads to other immune cells.

Under periods of stress (high activity level, trauma, malnutrition), branched chain amino acids are consumed by the body at an elevated rate, which not only catabolizes muscle tissue (as this is the biggest reservoir of these molecules), but makes it harder for the body to recover as levels are depleted.

As is, we only get a surface look at deep reservoirs of complicated yearnings, intriguingly illustrated by Weisz and McAdams, and by Lelio's striking but unfussy compositions.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

They only get as far as a deserted motel in Nebraska, next to a dried - up reservoir before things start looking bad.

As Tucson has the vector (mosquitoes) that transmit heartworm disease as well as a large unregulated coyote population which acts as a reservoir, all dogs, even native dogs who do not leave town and inside dogs who only go out for bathroom breaks, are recommended to be on preventative year rounAs Tucson has the vector (mosquitoes) that transmit heartworm disease as well as a large unregulated coyote population which acts as a reservoir, all dogs, even native dogs who do not leave town and inside dogs who only go out for bathroom breaks, are recommended to be on preventative year rounas well as a large unregulated coyote population which acts as a reservoir, all dogs, even native dogs who do not leave town and inside dogs who only go out for bathroom breaks, are recommended to be on preventative year rounas a large unregulated coyote population which acts as a reservoir, all dogs, even native dogs who do not leave town and inside dogs who only go out for bathroom breaks, are recommended to be on preventative year rounas a reservoir, all dogs, even native dogs who do not leave town and inside dogs who only go out for bathroom breaks, are recommended to be on preventative year round.

On Saturday mornings, when the weekly commuters who usually rush in like blood have emptied out like a stomach and left only cigarette butts scattered like piñata droppings, I roam around thinking of the dead four hundred, passing the library and remembering it as a reservoir, not full of books but of water; I gather up anecdotes from when this neighborhood was something else.

El Capitan is the only reservoir that allows the use of personal watercraft, such as jetskis.

«Plus, Highway 288 dips in our area and acts as the reservoir for us, and it is holding steady only half full.

KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG It has always seemed as if Kai Althoff drew from an idiosyncratic Heimat reservoir so deep that the international art world could only look on in consternation...

There's a back to the land movement of sorts around Las Vegas these days, driven by the desert city's growing realization that the only reason it can exist — the sapphire, but shrinking, expanse of Lake Mead 30 miles away — is not as durable as the Hoover Dam that created the reservoir 70 years ago.

Remobilization to the atmosphere of only a small fraction of the methane held in East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) sediments could trigger abrupt climate warming, yet it is believed that sub-sea permafrost acts as a lid to keep this shallow methane reservoir in place.

Not only will they be the tallest in the world (584 feet high), their base will double as a water reservoir.

Meaning Robert Brown is allowed only one heat reservoir to demonstrate his proposed isothermal gas column where the wire stays in thermal contact with the white colored gas everywhere — no U-turns as here to a 2nd thermal reservoir.

If you agree that the silver will transfer any heat at all between the two reservoirs as long as there is a temperature difference, the only possible way a thermal lapse can be stable is if the perturbation is damped out of the system and the lapse rate restored.

It is misleading to consider only the atmosphere and ocean, as the climate models do, and ignore the other reservoirs.

But at the end of day, as far as drought impacts go, we only care about those impacts to the extent that we have below normal soil moisture, or streamflow, or reservoir storage.

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

Existing pumped hydro stores only 20GWh, but just connecting existing lake Eucumbene with Blowering reservoir with a tunnel and reversible turbines could store up > 1000GWh as pumped storage.

Once printed and assembled, one only has to interact with the system once a week for trivial tasks such as filling of the reservoir with water or a nutrient liquid.