Sentences with phrase «oscillate like»

Why BLAPs oscillate like Cepheids and why they are bloated remain puzzles, as does their origin.

Instead of having to track all the movements of every particle in the disk using complicated computer models (so - called N - body simulations), the disk can be treated as a kind of smooth sheet that evolves over time and oscillates like a drumskin.

The fact that the climate record shows a strong correlation between temperature and CO2 certainly seems to tell us that the balancing effects don't add up to enough to prevent the changes, because if they did, then the climate wouldn't have oscillated like it did.

The saloons make quite a sight, as the man who walks into a signpost and leaves it oscillating like a tuning fork will surely testify.

The video frames are constantly changing and overlapping, oscillating like oversized antennas from a B sci - fi movie.

But the actual PDO index isn't increasing, it just fluctuates or oscillates like el nino, forming an overall flat line longer term.

The fact that the climate record shows a strong correlation between temperature and CO2 certainly seems to tell us that the balancing effects don't add up to enough to prevent the changes, because if they did, then the climate wouldn't have oscillated like it did.

The correct interpretation is that the global mean temperature (GMT), for the last 130 years, from 1880 to 2010, has oscillated like a pendulum between the upper and lower GMT boundary lines, with the global warming trend line as the neutral position of the pendulum, as shown in the following graph.

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Just like the nations they led, Mao and Chiang have a history that oscillates between cooperation and opposition.

The inference was that economies might be doomed to oscillate between sluggish growth and growth like that of the 2003 - 2007 period that rested on an unstable financial foundation.

There was a loose thread to the proceedings, but that thread oscillated enough to make room for colorful headtrips, jowly shadow monsters and extended Matrix - like bullet - time sequences.

Brexit enthusiasts and parts of the British media oscillate between lamenting the EU's bullying and pretending they are themselves in a position to bully everybody else into reshaping the single market to their liking but nobody else believes that.

Like the per gene, the new genes — dubbed RIGUI in humans and m - rigui in mice — are turned on and off in a daily cycle and may work with other genes to generate the oscillating mechanism that runs the internal clock.

Light waves can oscillate in a fixed direction or twist like a corkscrew.

The several dozen detected so far have betrayed themselves by tugging their parent stars back and forth, creating a small, oscillating signal in the starlight — a technique sensitive only to massive, Jupiter - like planets.

Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.

Atmospheric neutrinos could oscillate into sterile neutrinos when they travel through a dense area of matter, like Earth's core.

Like drums in regular drumsets, graphene membranes at the nanoscale possess a distinct set of oscillating modes that correspond to specific oscillation frequencies.

He envisages building pine cone - like structures made up of many flat «needles» that oscillate with the wind and rain, while simultaneously having a high surface area to harvest the sun's energy.

«Light is an oscillating field like a wave, and a wave moves in a certain direction,» Lupton says.

Along this less desirable path, «people will oscillate between no emotion and severe negative emotion and make no progress toward building a new identity, which can eventually lead to even worse outcomes like suicide,» Shepherd says.

With the right choice of wavelength, or equivalently, its frequency, the laser light causes plasmons of a particular frequency to oscillate back and forth, or resonate, along the gap, like the reverberations of a plucked guitar string.

In this case, sets of oscillating ions can be made to act as if they are connected, even though equivalent human - scale objects, like pendulums and springs, «certainly don't behave in this entangled way,» Hanneke says.

On page 314 of this issue, Tee et al. (3) report a Digital Tactile System («DiTact») based on a low - power flexible organic transistor circuit that transduces pressure stimuli into oscillating signals like those generated by skin mechanoreceptors.

At the point where they interact, electrons oscillate, forming a wave - like pulse that travels across the surface.

The branes» oscillating motion would work to pump space into our universe like a bellows, explaining the acceleration that we see today.

The team found that p75NTR production, like the circadian clock genes themselves, oscillated in a 24 - hour cycle — in sync with the cells» natural circadian rhythm.

This bar works your stabilizers like no other by delivering oscillating kinetic energy into the joint.

The movie features big performances (Gyllenhaal oscillates between squeaky Willy Wonka to drunken Steve Irwin, while Swinton, in braces and a blonde bob, is a twisted delight), big action (including a thrilling chase sequence through Seoul set to mariachi music), and some big pigs (that look like inflated Fiona the baby hippopotamuses).

When you most expect a huge drop from this EDM - informed film, you get a fat oscillating fart noise — like a massive trap build seguing into an Edgar Winter / Keith Sweat collaboration.

Like each of his plays, it oscillates between black comedy and psychological thriller, and is doubtless guaranteed to contain at least one nasty twist.

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

As Lacey explains, these capacities are like «those of elite athletes who use strategies of «ritual and recovery,» whereby they deliberately oscillate between exercising and resting a mental or physical «muscle,» thereby becoming fully engaged with maximising their performance both when they are working, and when they are not.»

Over the short - frequency ripples and bumps we so often encountered in the UK, the Vanquish's home market, you're bounced around the cabin like a pinball, while the springs try in vain to control the car's oscillating mass.

For example, at the red light when idling and without touching the gas pedal, the engine in some cases starts «hunting», oscillating between the usual minimum rpm and an higher value like I was giving rpetitive pushes to the pedal, or, more frequently, the engine start keeping a quite high rpm (I estimate 2000 - 3000 rpm), VERY constant, before dropping back to normal.

Two months in and I'm still oscillating between having to stretch my arms or moving the seat forward and then feeling like working the pedals is doing painful and permanent damage to my knees.

At tickover, while we set the cameras up, the Aston has a wonderfully deep oscillating warble that sounds a bit like the exhaust is underwater.

The games — sadly Windows - only, due to Game Maker's reliance on DirectX — are evocative of the arcade experience, combining Minter - like screen effects and staticky bursts of audio to create an effect that oscillates between hypnotic and unsettling.

First, I think star ratings and pro / cons could be given for each category (and variance as well: some games I've played I rate a 5, when it really feels more like it oscillates between 3 and 7).

His most recent installations comprise rods, chunks, blocks and chips of treated wood, which he arranges into undulating curtain - like forms and explosive wall - mounted sculptures that oscillate between the seemingly organic and manmade.

In contrast, in their role as holders of the cloth sacks, the hooks are given a function that undermines their autonomy as self - sufficient objects, with the result that they oscillate between display modules and genuine artworks, whereas the Silos — in spite of their formal proximity to those seat - like objects seen in quasi-participational art projects (like those of Franz West)-- utterly lack the quality of sturdy usefulness and seemingly even have to be held in place by the rods of the «Gurneys».

Series like instant vision, set, and section oscillate between abstraction and reality, content and non-content, picture and object.

This publication is conceived as a platform to present the wider scope of her work and at its core is a compendium of her writings, which oscillate between lyrical poems and fable - like macabre short stories, including three new texts: The Half - Smile, Problems With The Moon, and An Inquisition To Divine The Necessary Things.

Like many works by these practitioners, Mallary's reliefs, paintings and assemblages oscillate between visions of destruction and recuperation, registering the impact of World War II and the threat of the Cold War, but also expressing a desire for reparation.

Her method of making work, like the images she creates, oscillates between the rational and irrational.

Taking their cue from the story, Ugo Rondinone's powerful installations oscillate between dreamlike landscapes and stage - like settings.

It was so raw, it also wasn't arena rock or showboating, but something that seemed more like a howl that could oscillate between being both felt and disconnected.

One example is his Meereslandschaften (Seascapes), for which Kasseböhmer used oil paint that was so diluted that it took on a water - like transparency, allowing the paintings to oscillate between naturalism and abstraction.

Cracco's influences range from astronomy to particle physics to music, shifting and oscillating between the macro and the micro, between the illusions of light in works like Staring at the Sun (detail shown on top) and the disruptions the images dissolve into when viewed at close range.

«Like a Laughing String» oscillates between the two opposite conditions of thought or action — in suspense, undecided and wavering.