Sentences with phrase «oscillate from»

These systematic winds oscillate from easterly to westerly with a period slightly greater than two years.

There is an interesting process in the equatorial stratosphere wherein upward transport of momentum and energy by waves is absorbed depending on the wind structure in such a way as to cause the wind to oscillate from easterly to westerly on a timescale that has no direct dependence on the timescales of any forcing — a bit like an internal clock (QBO).

It's rigged up in a do - it - yourself manner so sound waves oscillate from the highest to lowest frequencies perceptible to the human ear through a circle of the upturned speakers, each piled up with crystals that reverberate at various frequencies.

Considering text as vital to his process as the drawn image, Pettibon «Äôs visual and textual pairings oscillate from the quirkily connected to the bafflingly enigmatic, always remaining emotionally and intellectually provocative.

Because the source of neutrinos from those sites would be highly controlled, physicists could study how neutrinos oscillate from one type to another as they pass through the Earth to INO.

Their elongated fins both undulate, or ripple, lengthwise and oscillate from side to side.

By fabricating piezoelectric materials into cantilevers that resemble a diving board, these devices can oscillate from ambient vibrations and generate electricity.

Experiments within the last decade have proven that neutrinos oscillate from one type to another, something which is only possible if they have some mass.

He has an imagination in which he may oscillate from seeing himself as but a speck in an unfathomable universe, to the other extreme of beholding the whole universe in his mind's eye.

It's the way they oscillate from days to nights to unsocial hours, sometimes 10, 12 hours at ago, maybe with relatively few senior doctors in the hospital overnight.

Megamind's shifting mental state comes across thanks to Ferrell's voice work, which oscillates from sing - songy scheme - hatching to a self - pitying whimper.

Of course, the nature of these narratives oscillates from intimately personal to extraordinarily universal, impressively profound to endearingly simplistic.

Green has oscillated from the quiet, Southern gothic tales of «George Washington» and «All the Real Girls» to boisterous comedies like «Pineapple Express.»

Consisting of an installation of surgical equipment dispatched directly from gallery to conflict zone, the work oscillates from «readymade» artwork to potentially lifesaving, functional object.

In Surplus of Light, Karen Spector situates the viewer in an endless video loop that taps into and oscillates from a national post-9 / 11 fear and insecurity, to a ridiculous feeling of lavishness, abundance, and wealth (found in the extravagant display of fireworks), to a looming uncertainty questioning and undermining American monumentalism and ballsy patriotism.

Driven by curiosity, her work oscillates from the romantic to the forensic, in efforts to decipher abstract concepts through concrete models.

This record (Holgate 2007) shows that the average decadal rate of SL change has oscillated from -1 mm / year to +5 mm / year over the 20th C, with the first half of the 20th C showing a slightly higher average rate of +2.0 mm / year than the second half at +1.4 mm / year (IOW no observed acceleration in the rate of SL rise).

It's been so tough, I've oscillated from 11 ″ to 13 ″ MBAs and the MacBook Pro for two years, ultimately deciding to wait for some new feature set definitive enough to tilt me toward one particular choice.

While the reaction to Apple's statement has oscillated from outrage to understanding, a call for greater transparency and the acute lack of consumer choice were consistent themes in the resulting fallout and these may provide some merit to the legal complaint.

Our first meeting was full of excitement and joy but initially I wondered if she had ADHD (often confused with attachment difficulties), oscillating from calmness to hyperactivity and with little ability to self - regulate.

Not exact matches

While in use, the circular brush head oscillates, rotates, and pulsates, leaving your teeth fresh - from - the - dentist clean with every brushing.

This level is above support near $ 0.93 but a rebound from $ 0.95 is consistent with the way the Dollar Index oscillates around the central midpoint of $ 0.97.

For the past six weeks, the NASDAQ Composite Index ($ COMP) has been uneventfully oscillating in a sideways trading range (a 3 % range from the upper channel resistance down to lower channel support).

It's not quite right to think of we Americans as questing after fugitive moments of happiness; really, we're questing after fleeting respites from happiness, too, just as we're oscillating constantly in our strivings for individuality on the one hand and a relief from individuality on the other.

[14] Many 19th - century philosophers advocated an eternal universe, conceived of as an infinite series of cycles (Stanley L. JAKI, Science and creation: from eternal cycles to an oscillating universe, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1974, p. 309 s, 311 3, 319 - 322, names, in particular, Schelling, Engels and Nietzsche).

Or that I am spending another year away from my family, in a strange city that I oscillate between loving and hating.

The confusion comes from the kind of oscillating results we had since the start of the season.

Sounds range from ocean waves and rain storms to cats purring and oscillating fans to soft classical music.

When preemies were placed on oscillating water beds that mimicked the motion and tactile stimulation of the womb, the infants started to gain weight faster and were released sooner from the hospital (Field, 45 — 51).

Supporting and affecting political movements from New York's Zuccotti Park and Egypt's Tahrir Square, «Facebook revolutions» and «Twitter revolutions» are conceived of as borne out of social media networks; they oscillate between the Charybdis of an anarchic freedom and the Scylla of surveilled repression, utilized by both citizens and the state.

Waves from binary supermassive black holes oscillate slowly compared with supernovas, which generate high - frequency waves.

There is another significant meteorological phenomenon above the planet's equator and which could affect the winds: the Semi-annual Oscillation (SAO), which occurs about 50 km above the cloud deck and which causes the temperatures to oscillate and the winds to change direction and strength from East to West.

The results from the quantum - optics labs at the TU Vienna could give a new twist to research concerned with longitudinally oscillating light waves in very different scientific fields: Even a focused laser beam in free space has a longitudinal component.

After being compressed by the collapsing loops, the flaring loops oscillate until they find a new equilibrium, as indicated by the X-ray emission from the hot plasma.

This can be the tick - tock of an escapement, an oscillating quartz crystal or the ejection of a particle from a radioactive atom — one way or another, there must be movement.

As the Saturn kilometric radiation (so known because the radio emissions» wavelengths are measured in kilometers), or SKR, emanates from the gas - giant planet, its intensity oscillates every 10.5 hours or so, nearly in concert with the planet's rotation.

When a transmitter drives an oscillating current in an antenna electromagnetic radiation — which carries both power and signals away from the source — is emitted.

They took a first step in 2010, when Cleland, then at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), siphoned every phonon out of an oscillating cantilever etched from aluminum nitride, leaving it in its least energetic quantum ground state.

In neutrinos, which come in three types — electron, muon and tau — CP violation can be measured by observing how neutrinos oscillate, or change from one type to another.

Several previously reported genes from simpler organisms code for proteins that oscillate in abundance.

They then attached strips of gold to both ends of each nanotube, creating a transistor, and linked up to three such devices in various ways to make circuits that would execute simple logical functions: flipping a signal from off to on or vice versa, turning two off signals into an on, storing a unit of information or creating an oscillating signal.

Generating laser light at such a small scale is possible because of localized surface plasmons, sets of electrons that collectively oscillate as one from within the narrow gap between the triangles.

The idea is that the zero - friction quantum effects predicted by the Russians effectively decouple some of the atoms in the solid and prevent them from oscillating along with the rest of the atoms.

Nova will study neutrinos» ability to morph, or «oscillate», from one type to another, looking for potential differences in the way neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts oscillate, which MINOS results hint at.

A new generation of atomic tickers, known as optical clocks, have just wrested the record for accuracy from the ensembles of oscillating caesium atoms that held it for half a century.

In the midst of one of these studies, they observed that brain activity recorded from resting lizards during the night oscillated regularly between two states.

They are very hard to detect because their interaction with ordinary matter is extremely feeble, but over the years physicists have detected enough of them to observe that as they travel through space they can «oscillate» from one flavour to another.

They come in three types, called flavors — electron, muon and tau — and oscillate wildly from one flavor to another as they travel along.

Acoustic energy from earthquakes can travel though the Earth as different types of waves, including shear waves, which oscillate perpendicular to the direction of propagation, and compressional waves, which oscillate in the same direction as they propagate.

Under the effect of powerful and very short laser pulses, the molecule's electron shell configuration changed: a «hole» appeared — a shell vacancy which then began to oscillate moving from one end of the molecule to the other.