Sentences with phrase «oscillate over»

To understand coral resilience in the face of the variety of onslaughts, coral reefs must be seen as dynamic systems that oscillate over decadal periods, as well as centuries and millennia.

Indeed, earlier research at Penn identified that a majority of prescription drugs act on enzymes and proteins that oscillate over 24 hours.

He admits that if the Los Alamos experiments hold up and neutrinos do oscillate over distances as short as 30 metres, it will be «very surprising».

auditory perception oscillates over time and peak perception alternates between the ears — which is important for locating events in the environment; 2.

This pressure difference that oscillates over time, has a direct effect on the weather conditions in the Iberian Peninsula.

The probability of finding a hole at either end oscillates over time, which is what creates the effect of the hole migrating along the molecule.

When the tip of the microscope oscillates over certain surfaces, in this case over NbSe2 (niobium selenide), peaks of «dissipation» (i.e., loss of energy) can be seen when the tip is at specific distances from the surface, as if it were held back, at certain locations, by some frictional force.

In this mode the tip oscillates over the sample, occasionally tapping it for a short enough time to avoid damage to the surface while still measuring topology and interaction between the tip and the surface; this measuring mode would become essential for studies of biological samples.

Total coal production in the United States is varied over time, oscillating over the decades, up and down, except anthracite, which peaked around 1920.

In the long run, the linear trend still exists, it just oscillates over ~ 30 - year intervals.

Any lab data on sensitivity to «mean» temperature change of 0.5 deg C over a decade while the environment is oscillating over a typical temperature range that the coral would see in the sea?

Not exact matches

According to dental health website AsktheDentist.com, sonic toothbrushes, which oscillate at astonishing rates — up to 31,000 strokes per minute at full speed — are more effective at reaching and removing plaque between the teeth and beneath the gum line than rotating electric toothbrushes, making a sonic toothbrush the best bet for anyone with gum issues, those who are lackadaisical about flossing, and the majority of people over age 40.

, sonic toothbrushes, which oscillate at astonishing rates — up to 31,000 strokes per minute at full speed — are more effective at reaching and removing plaque between the teeth and beneath the gum line than rotating electric toothbrushes, making a sonic toothbrush the best bet for anyone with gum issues, those who are lackadaisical about flossing, and the majority of people over age 40.

Although day to day volatility has been pretty substantial in the S&P 500, the benchmark index has merely been oscillating up and down in a wide, sideways range over the course of several months:

Bergson says that «finality» (choosing this word over «teleology») is one of the two kinds of «order» — the kind that, while it «oscillates around finality,» still can not be strictly defined as «finality.»

Hovering over the world, unwilling and unable to make a purchase that would hold him fast, he oscillates back and forth between «melancholy and delight.»

Oscillating back and forth between monotony with its false security and chaos with its absence of limitation we either set ourselves up as omnipotent over a diminished territory or else we shrink the world into ourselves.

UNLV, meanwhile, has oscillated between semi-competitive (overtime loss to Minnesota, three - point win over Air Force) and awful (loss to Northern Arizona, losses to Utah State and Louisiana Tech by a combined 49 points).

Experiments conducted over the past decade have confirmed that neutrinos can oscillate back and forth between flavors.

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.

This makes it possible to oscillate the grating at a frequency of up to one kilohertz and to thereby tune the wavelength of the laser source up to a thousand times per second over a very wide spectral range.

Scientists are using high - speed cameras to understand how the fluid forces the worm's flexible tubes to oscillate and spray the goo over unlucky insects.

A third idea that is gaining traction promises to remove heat more aggressively than metal tubes and more efficiently and quietly than fans: a pump uses an oscillating diaphragm to quickly push jets of air over the source of the heat.

They argue that two pairs of detectors would be needed to pin down two key unknown parameters: the mass of a hypothetical sterile neutrino and the characteristic distance over which the particle would oscillate.

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.

Over the past few million years we have been oscillating back and forth between glacial and interglacial epochs, Lowe says.

This contributes to a signal that oscillates between positive and negative voltages seemingly at random over the time course of the muscle action.

Chaos hangs thick over the film, which González Iñárritu, fancying himself a great observer, directs with a coolness that oscillates dangerously between self - importance and detachment.

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.

At the same time, the fat, squared - bottomed RS wheel, which in the coupe delivers adequate (though not fulsome) feedback, oscillates side to side in your hands over road irregularities.

The laser light waves oscillate at 450 nanometers and put out 1200 lumens, good for 500 meters — or well over a quarter - mile — of night vision.

Going over undulations in a road, the S550 Coupe's suspension prevents it from oscillating up and down.

Because of the high breakaway torque and large wheels, the air suspension (1,950 euros) responds harshly to minor bumps, oscillating in comfort mode over long waves.

A number of the hugest moneymakers for them have purchased their rights back over the last year and a half — I hear Mari Carr and several others bought theirs back well before the crap hit the oscillating device.

For instance, in the oscillating markets over the last two years or so, momentum strategies — irrespective of their construction — posted disappointing results, as compared with their benchmarks.»

Otherwise steady companies have seen their valuations oscillate by +2 % day over day.

Even when the market opens wildly and then oscillates 20 - 40 points over the next 45 minutes, there are lessons to learn and trades which can be profitable.

In my personal experience having tracked my blog Domain Authority monthly for several years now, while my current level is at 30, it has oscillated between 30 and 35 over 2015, and other blogs have a similar experience.

Over the years, Codemaster's traction physics has oscillated between being loose and grippy.

Revisiting an idea he first employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs of a Painting», he divided the work's surface into two vertical sections, then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic fields of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations of color, the largest of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.

Gestural brushstrokes impart physicality yet glide weightlessly over smooth surfaces as figure ground relationships oscillate and conflate.

From Carrie Mae Weems to Jayson Musson, the evolution of black performance art has been complex, oscillating between dramatic happenings and extensions of visual art for over five decades.

Global mean temperature since the last ice age has oscillated quasi-periodically between about + / - 1 % of its mean; over that time, the mean has slightly declined, as have the maxima and minima of the excursions.

This natural influence should oscillate but not trend very fast, since a fast trend could not have been sustained over the past several millennia but we have no reason to expect a dramatic change over that period.

Peter, looking at either HADCRUT3 or HADCRUT4 between 1850 and 2010 inclusive (161 years), I see some oscillating components over about six octaves (2 years to 128 years), but none that seem to be trending anywhere.

I want to see more science, for instance, what causes the PDO to oscillate, whether the PDO is something which actually exists as a specific mechanism unto itself, or if it is the reflection of some other mechanisms, and how dependable are these processes over the decades?

The AMO during the Little Ice Age was characterized by a quasi-periodicity of about 20 years, while the during the Medieval Warm Period the AMO oscillated with a period of about 45 to 65 years... The observed intermittency of these modes over the last 4000 years supports the view that these are internal ocean - atmosphere modes, with little or no external forcing... However, the geographic variability of these periodicities indicated by ice core data is not captured in model simulations.»

We had to get our son back to Salzburg airport and over a couple of days the 25 cms plus of snow forecast oscillated around a window of roughly the exact time we would be making our journey.

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).

The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages.