Sentences with phrase «opposite ends of»

Any time you bring substances at opposite ends of the scale together, they can help balance each other.

The paleo diet and veganism are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

The calorie requirements of both activities are on opposite ends of the spectrum.

These are two possible paths but not the only possibilities, and I don't even see them as opposite ends of some kind of spectrum.

When it comes to sex, expectations and reality can be on two opposite ends of the spectrum — and a recent global survey about how long the typical sex session lasts is a perfect example of this.

«Imagine social fear and social confidence are like hot and cold; related to one another, but at opposite ends of continuum.

Scientists from opposite ends of the translational spectrum have teamed up to help solve a pressing problem in Alzheimer's research.

They observed the metal atoms becoming charged ions, clustering with up to thousands of others into metal nanoparticles, and then migrating and forming a bridge between the electrodes at the opposite ends of the dielectric material.

Gas circulation flow is created to carry enriched product and tails to opposite ends of the machine.

Kilo and one of the other storms, Ignacio, were both in a subregion known as the central north Pacific, sitting at opposite ends of the Hawaiian Islands.

Rubber and metal are usually thought to sit at opposite ends of the stiffness spectrum, but a new composite material developed at Iowa State University could switch from the flexibility of the former to the stiffness of the latter after being bent, twisted or squeezed.

Using bioinformatics software and geographical information, Bill Hanage, a research associate at Imperial College London and a coauthor of the paper, said they found a high degree of adaptation to local environments but also a high degree of dissimilarity between fungi at opposite ends of the country.

«As a result of tunneling ionization in a strong laser field, a superposition of two quantum states of the hole occurs: it is similar to Schrödinger's cat that is simultaneously alive and dead; in this superposition the hole can be found at opposite ends of the molecule at the same time.

But such guidance lost its utility when the two rovers landed within three weeks of each other on opposite ends of Mars — the equivalent of Denver and New Delhi — resulting in hordes of enthusiastic but exhausted workers bouncing between three time zones on two planets.

«It is telling that even in modern large - scale societies the status comparisons most consequential for psychosocial stress are typically among individuals who are in close geographic proximity or who occupy the same social network rather than between individuals at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.

PARTICLES on opposite ends of the universe can link quantum mechanical hands.

Such trends play out in different ways in different disciplines, and we zero in on two fields at opposite ends of the diversity spectrum.

LIGO's interferometers bounce laser beams between mirrors at the opposite ends of 4 - kilometre - long vacuum pipes, aiming to detect passing gravitational waves that stretch and compress the length of the pipes — along with the rest of space.

Meanwhile the states consistently at the opposite ends of the political spectrum, when it comes to their own policies, are a familiar group.

Historically, observers have viewed planning and improvisation as opposite ends of a spectrum.

The key idea is that an octave - spanning spectrum enables scientists to compare the frequencies of two comb lines at opposite ends of the spectrum with each other.

As a plane flies through a thunderstorm or other electrically charged environment, the outside of the plane begins to be polarized, forming «leaders,» or channels of highly conductive plasma, flowing from opposite ends of the plane and eventually out toward oppositely charged regions of the atmosphere.

In one measurement, he showed that comb lines at opposite ends of the output spectrum are well defined with respect to one another.

He is convinced that if people knew what they were looking at — if they had access to basic information about the ants living in their backyards, not to mention those at the opposite ends of the Earth — they would be as gung ho about them as he is.

«Our results clearly and convincingly add to an emerging paradigm where diabetes and obesity — in contrast to the prevailing notion that the two always go hand - in - hand — may exist naturally on opposite ends of the metabolic spectrum,» says Dr. Corbit.

Although the Arctic and Antarctic regions are at opposite ends of Earth, they have a similar diversity of bacteria and other microscopic life.

This created a second wave packet from the same electron, in effect splitting it into two wave packets at opposite ends of the orbit.

At other times, I waxed philosophical and reminded myself that journalism and science were really just different ways of trying to understand the human condition, two methods of inquiry at the opposite ends of a spectrum.

«They're from opposite ends of the Himalayas, so it's reasonable to imagine that there might be some still alive in between,» Sykes says.

This is caused by microtubules, structures that normally corral chromosomes to opposite ends of a cell before it divides.

The feat showed that the particles of light can retain a strange type of interconnectedness, known as quantum entanglement, even when flung to opposite ends of a country, researchers from China report in the June 16 Science.

For years, researchers have made countless observations relating to these opposite ends of the spectrum.

According to the study, dogs were domesticated not once but twice, on opposite ends of the Eurasian continent at least 15,000 years ago.

According to the traditional theory of nerves, two nerve impulses sent from opposite ends of a nerve annihilate when they collide.

After letting the mold spread through every passageway, the researchers placed two cubes of ground oat flakes at opposite ends of the maze and waited 8 hours for the mold to respond.

Fast travel, instant communications and express deliveries between opposite ends of the world mean, more than ever, that time is not only relative but also an illusion.

«Scientists» and «Jews» were assigned to opposite ends of the spectrum of masculinity; the Jew, like the homosexual, was construed as the «third sex» — a feminised man who carried his marks of difference from his Aryan counterparts on his body and in his psyche.

Last year, Kaili and his colleagues placed electrodes on opposite ends of a 10 - centimeter - wide film, switched on an electric current, and were flabbergasted when it made noise.

Each one different from the other, they in turn each possessed two distinct bonding sites located at opposite ends of the molecules.

In his thought experiment, two particles fly away from each other and wind up at opposite ends of the galaxy.

The method uses two lasers to measure the positions of opposite ends of a molecule, or two different objects, based on the intensity of scattered light.

One theory puts the conditions at opposite ends of a developmental spectrum.

After reading both of these books, I know what the difference is between Bill and Sheri: Their «Mastery - Challenge» points are at opposite ends of the scale.

With two entangled particles, Einstein and his colleagues argued, quantum mechanics predicts that observing the properties of one electron would instantaneously determine the properties of the other, even if the two electrons were at opposite ends of the universe.

Cellular motors called kinesins drag cargo within cells — they tug recently separated chromosomes to opposite ends of a dividing cell, for example.

Our favorite experimental tool toward that end is a deceptively simple device called a torsion balance: two objects of differing composition at opposite ends of a rod suspended by a wire.

Cosmologists and astronomers have found a discrepancy in the Hubble constant from opposite ends of the universe

In the future, photons could allow for communication between silicon qubits on opposite ends of a chip.

Then inflation would seize hold, ripping apart these now almost - identical patches and flinging them to the opposite ends of the sky, solving the mystery of why the universe looks the same in every direction.

In thematically distinct speeches at opposite ends of the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday unveiled elements of a 2017 agenda that reached out to a middle class empowered but angered by national political rhetoric, and to upstate residents who feel left behind by the post-recession recovery.