Sentences with phrase «relative size change»

The artists developed a four - year plan to examine the four perceptual cues that create the reading of spatial dimension on a two - dimensional surface: overlap, relative size change, brightness ratio, and light and shade.

Not exact matches

Despite the smaller relative size of its burden, Kentucky is considering making far more comprehensive changes to its public sector retirement systems than Illinois ever has.

Rob Barton of Durham University and Chris Venditti of the University of Reading, both in the UK, examined how the relative sizes of different parts of the brain changed as primates evolved.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

Relative changes in gray matter volume, related to spatial and nonspatial representations of numerical size.

«Our data suggests that, during development, relative brain parts change their size in response to environmental cues without affecting overall brain size: increasing certain parts forces others to decrease concurrently.

Because people didn't notice that the room was changing size, they made wildly inaccurate judgments about the relative sizes of the boxes, the team reports 21 February in Current Biology.

Pikas, a hampster - size rabbit relative, have disappeared from a 64 - square - mile plot in the northern Sierra Nevada — and climate change is a likely culprit.

Artificial selection readily changes the ratio of body size to wing size in butterflies, indicating that the relative sizes of body parts are shaped by selection, not developmental constraints.

What is true I think is that stimuli for increasing the capability of skeletal muscle, whether «exercise» or occupational or something else, generally lead to both size and apparent strength increases, with the relative change varying enormously depending on person and perhaps context.

That all changes in the final skirmish and during parts of the climactic heist, in which director Peyton Reed uses the concept of relative size to poke fun of the notion of a large - scale destruction — a common staple in these superhero movies.

iBooks for iOS has a bug of not recalculating viewport size (and therefore viewport - relative distances too) when changing orientation after a page with such CSS has been already rendered.

Assetologist — I disagree — the relative small size of the tfsa contribution room shouldn't change your investment plan.

Even without the change in the covenants, the larger relative size would lead to greater losses.

This climate change denial confederacy has exerted an influence out of all proportion to its size or relative scientific credibility.

American pikas, a pint - sized rabbit relative, are quickly losing their California mountain habitat to climate change, according to new research.

At the beginning of the 1990s, scientists were unsure of the sign (positive or negative) of the mass balance of Greenland or Antarctica, and knew only that it could not be changing rapidly relative to the size of the ice sheet.

Relative rates of change in the size of the Kulusuk glaciers.

It will take a LONG time for that change to be completely reflected in the pool due to the mass size relative to the heating change.

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Consider the hemispherical distribution of land vs water to gain a sense of the size of the mismatch (and the subsequent relative changes in albedo between glaciation and interglacial).

Due to their small size, relative instability and thin tires, sudden and abrupt changes in road surface could be extremely dangerous.

Obviously Apple eventually did just that with the iPhones 6 and 6 Plus, but screen size is hardly the only thing that changed: later that year Apple introduced the iPhone 5S, which included the A7 chip that blew away the industry by going 64 - bit years ahead of schedule; Apple has enjoyed a massive performance advantage relative to the rest of the industry ever since.

The top 25 markets were then ranked relative to one another based on each MSA's share of national population and employment growth relative to its size, change in single - family building permits, and the current unemployment rate (see the Methodology section for additional details).