Sentences with phrase «rapid bursts of»

Similarly, in the fast - paced Galaxian - style arcade shooter 1982, the quick tracking helped me move my ship from side to side and fire off rapid bursts of missiles.

Comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.

In my week with the Focus Electric in the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reserve.

These occasions call for quick and concise bits of knowledge that employees access during their «moment of need», such as microlearning online training tutorials that deliver rapid bursts of information.

Solar flares are brief, rapid bursts of high - energy radiation emitted by the sun.

Stage 2 lasts slightly longer, around 20 minutes, and is marked by rapid bursts of rhythmic brain activity known as sleep spindles.

When Lewis did put pen to paper, the seven stories of the Chronicles were produced — even for as fluent as Lewis — in an astonishingly rapid burst of creativity (with the publication of the first in 1950 and the seventh in 1956).

The living descendants of dinosaurs were thought to have undergone a rapid burst of evolution after most dinosaur species were wiped out.

The specimens in the study come from the Cambrian Period, a time when the Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution that led to the first appearance of most major groups of marine animals.

This is when Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution - life forms diversified and adapted to new ecological niches and began to interact with each other in more complex ways.

They'll target the debris and hit it with a rapid burst of energy.

Lastly, the new HDR + mode automatically snaps a rapid burst of photos and combines them to give you the best possible single shot.

Simply press - and - hold the screen to whirr off a rapid burst of capture, which is saved as an image stack.

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Her speech is rapid, personal, occasionally random, bursting from the seams of stark humility and charming wit.

Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»

Lots of other things changed in 2017, often coming in rapid, nauseous bursts.

His free kick from just beyond the box flew beyond Petr Cech and changed the complexion of the tie; it could have altered further just seconds after the restart but Ahmed Musa shot into the side netting after a rapid burst sent him free down the left.

Postpartum Psychosis: ~ occurs in less than 1 % of moms ~ onset may occur one day after delivery, many occur by 3 months, the rest by 1 year postpartum ~ symptoms include agitation, bursts of anger, racing thoughts, rapid speech, panic, irrational thoughts, insomnia, hallucinations, inability to care for self and baby, thoughts of suicide / infanticide, paranoia ~ treatment can include medication, hospitalization, ECT, and psychotherapy

The other, called «punctuated equilibrium,» dictates that evolution comes in rapid bursts after long stretches of nothing happening at all.

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

This was the first time that such rapid measurement of a burst afterglow was made.

Microlensing by a 30 - solar - mass black hole should generate a rapid echo of a burst, making the black hole easier to detect.

«Swift's rapid response time enabled us to use it to rapidly search for and detect the electromagnetic counterpart of this gamma - ray burst after its detection by LIGO,» said Jamie Kennea, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics, the leader of the Swift Science Operations Team at Swift's Mission Operations Center, located at Penn State's University Park campus.

«It may have been a burst of rapid acceleration that punctuated the steady movement of the field,» says Bogue.

If the molecular clock is right, then unicellular forms of animals, plants and fungi all diverged from a common ancestor in a rapid burst around a billion years ago.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Hong was convinced that a simple model of adiabatic expansion — the rapid diffusion of gas that occurs, for example, when a balloon bursts — could explain what happens when popcorn kernels explode.

One group theorizes that eukaryotes emerged in a rapid burst, driven by the acquisition of the cellular energy factories known as mitochondria.

A similar thing happens to a universe with relentless acceleration: Galaxies would be destroyed, the solar system would unbind and eventually all the planets would burst asunder as the rapid expansion of space rips apart its very atoms.

When salmon encounter turbulent, fast - moving water - such as rapids or areas downstream of dams — they must move upstream using a behaviour known as «burst swimming» that is similar to sprinting for humans.

A rapid and powerful burst of radio waves is found through an analysis of archival pulsar data, suggestive of a new class of radio bursts, perhaps from a supernova.

By calculating evolutionary rates across the entire Mesozoic, they show that mammals underwent a rapid «burst» of evolutionary change that reached its peak around the middle of the Jurassic (200 - 145 million years ago).

The rockets work like this: A protein anchored to the bacterium's membrane triggers the rapid polymerization of the protein actin; this provides an explosive boost, so the bacterium can push through the membrane of white blood cells and burst out to infect another cell.

For example, a sudden burst of expansion explains why matter is spread relatively evenly in every direction; it would have been stretched and smoothed during the spasm of rapid growth.

THE rapid spin of a neutron star is slowing in bursts — and it may be because of gravitational waves.

If the first stars were indeed rapid spinners, they are likely to have ended their lives with a huge Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), producing an enormous flash of high - energy radiation.

These rapid changes in the magnetic field cause flares, which release a huge amount of energy in a very short time in the form of super-heated plasma, high - energy radiation and radio bursts.

«Our analysis reveals support for the «bursting» hypothesis — the genes acted as a sort of strobe light — transcribing RNA in rapid - fire bursts,» said Roy Dar, PhD, a Gladstone postdoctoral fellow and one of the paper's lead authors.

Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond - duration events, known as «fast radio bursts» (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia.

Nanotechnology has the potential to satisfy these requirements if some of its intrinsic shortcomings can be solved: rapid uptake of nanocarriers by RES and the toxicity as a result, and drug release outside the tumor, especially the early burst release when the fast drug release is coupled with high blood... more»

«We really pushed hard to capture this terabyte - per - hour datastream reliably and set up a real - time platform for extracting these very faint fast bursts from that massive datastream,» Casey Law, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts, said in a statement.

Exercise that consists of two minutes of rapid walking followed by a twenty or thirty - second burst of running up and down a flight of stairs (or similar activity) that gets your heart rate up past your anaerobic threshold repeated a total of three to five times is all you need to promote a burst of growth hormone secretion.

Simple carbs, like those found in white breads, give the body quick bursts of energy that are followed by a rapid crash afterwards.

The reasons given for this being the best type of training for a healthy heart are basic weight training builds up the muscles around the chest and this can help prevent certain heart diseases such as angina, the short bursts of rapid heart rate followed by a minutes rest is good for accustoming your heart to work at a rapid pace if necessary and finally weight training will maintain and build muscle mass which helps control your weight because as mentioned before the more muscle you have the more calories you need to feed it.

Angels is a precursor to a Robert Altman film in its bursts of rapid - fire, overlapping dialogue and its offhanded tragicomedy and improvisational snap.

Thanks to the rapid development and the growing importance of content marketing, most industries make the regular creation of quality and useful content imperative, so we can rest assured there'll be no lack of these specific, valuable — and free — bursts of information for the time being.

The manual transmission uses its high shift quality to allow for powerful sprints and rapid, short bursts of speed, and also helps to reduce fuel consumption.

While the prospects for rapid and sustained economic growth remain questionable, there is increasing evidence that the U.S. economy may enjoy a surprising burst of strength in the second half of 2003.

Edematous pancreatitis induced by CCK hyperstimulation in dogs is characterized by a rapid but self - limiting, burst of trypsinogen activation suggesting that the pancreas has a feedback mechanism to limiting trypsinogen synthesis and activation (see nutritional management).

There are other illnesses which they are at a much higher risk of than other hamsters such as; broken bones, crushing, mites or ticks, allergies, overgrown claws and teeth, rapid weight loss, seasonal itching, skin conditions, prolapse of the eye (eye bulges, comes out entirely or bursts) due to the shallow setting of their eyeballs.