Sentences with phrase «scavenging at»

Urban mining another way to say scavenging at the garbage dump Japan's relatively low density of natural resources makes recycling of precious metals attractive.

It's hard to imagine her a half - century ago, living in a storefront on Eldridge Street in her early 20s, scavenging at night through vacant lots for the discarded objects — vacuum hoses, steel pipes, biker jackets, discarded luggage, tin cans — that she took back to her studio to resurrect in her reliefs.

Beds need to be built so that there are enough places to sleep, weapons need to be built so that the hideout can be protected when you are scavenging at night and medicine needs to be made so that when someone gets sick or injured, they can be quickly healed.

Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage and surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife (Jennifer Garner) and children and neighbors.

Lead, which condors consume when scavenging at carcasses of animals killed with lead ammunition, is the main factor limiting their recovery; lead toxicosis was responsible for 26 % of juvenile condor deaths and 67 % of adult condor deaths between 1992 and 2009.

And in the off season, I do a little scavenging at my local Whole Food's dumpster....

Whales can become beached after they die, although most dead whales decompose or are scavenged at sea, before sinking to the bottom.

Students can bring in as many pennies as they can scavenge at home.

Not exact matches

Last week the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba.

By scavenging these wasted resources, Storj can provide unlimited cloud storage at a fraction of the cost of a traditional data - center.

I have always thought that the devil was coming to Jesus at his weakest moment: Jesus gaunt, raw - boned, wild - eyed, ready to scavenge any moldy crust of bread or scrape any meat shreds off a lamb's bone.

Today you do not have to scavenge, just visit us at www.tigernutsusa.com and get all of the amazing Tiger Nuts products you want!

Oh and the way the scavenging Pikeys ran on to the pitch at the final whistle, what a memorable family night out that must have been for them, I'm surprised they didn't start a bonfire in the centre circle.?

At the time, multiple outlets reported that the Big 12's soon - to - be-abandoned remnants and the remains of the ACC - scavenged Big East were thinking merger.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at the funeral for Timothy Caughman, a black man who was killed in a racist attack by a white Balitmore man armed with a sword on the night of March 20 while scavenging in Midtown.

Another strategy is to make alternative versions of terminal oxidases, enzymes in the membrane that transfer electrons to oxygen, which use oxygen more efficiently or are better at scavenging oxygen when its concentration is low.

Fisher says that it isn't clear whether the knife - wielders killed the mastodon or simply scavenged the carcass, but «however humans and mastodons interacted, it took at least two millennia for the process of extinction to run to completion».

He believes the people at Dmanisi, who subsisted on whatever meat they could scavenge or kill — «Our guess is that they were quite dangerous hunters» — may have mashed this person's food so it could be gummed.

With the green light from Townes, Clauser began to scavenge spare parts from storage closets around the Berkeley lab — «I've gotten pretty good at dumpster diving,» as he put it recently — and soon he had duct - taped together a contraption capable of measuring the correlated polarizations of pairs of photons.

Thinking that high concentrations of the corrosive NO might play a role in the nerve damage, Hilary Koprowski and his colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tested in mice three compounds — uric acid, PTIO, and D609 — that are known to scavenge NO or inhibit its production.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

Researchers at the University of Florida are developing methods for identifying marks of shark scavenging on deceased humans and determining which species of shark left the marks.

At low tide, visitors prowl the mudflats in search of sunken fossils and scavenge the shoreline jumble, rock hammers in hand.

Neal Pellis, associate director of the Biological Sciences and Applications Office at the Johnson Space Center, suggests that buckyballs and other nanomolecules may have free radical — scavenging possibilities.

«Tool - wielding hominins at KJS, on the other hand, could access this tissue and likely did so by scavenging these heads after the initial non-human hunters had consumed the rest of the carcass,» Ferraro said.

«This would have been a great place for humans to come and either attack and kill and butcher animals, or scavenge animals that had recently passed away at the bottom of the sink,» Waters explains.

According to Greg Downey, an anthropologist at Macquarie University in Australia, «long - range endurance running wouldn't have just been for hunting: Humans cover immense ranges, even when foraging and scavenging.»

To eek out its lonely existence, this life form scavenges energy from the feeble sunlight available to it at a depth of over 250 feet.

She scavenged chicken bones from the plates of her friends at summer barbeques in the Catskills and anywhere else she could get away with it.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

A group of Stone Age people butchered a mastodon — or at least scavenged its carcass — some 14,550 years ago.

Indeed, Christa Beckmann's work at Fogg Dam has shown that some of the local hawks benefit from toad invasion, because they can scavenge dead toads off the roads.

In essence, the body is scavenging minerals to keep the blood pH balanced... at a cost.

At other times of day BCAAs help stimulate protein synthesis and ward off cortisol, the catabolic hormone that can scavenge hard - earned muscle.

In one study it was found to be more potent at scavenging free radicals than vitamin E.

Walnuts contain antioxidants that are so powerful at free - radical scavenging that researchers called them «remarkable, «1 and research has shown that walnut polyphenols may help prevent chemically - induced liver damage.2 Research even shows that two handfuls a day of walnuts may help prevent both prostate and breast cancer and may curb tumor growth.

For just over a month, I scavenged high and low to find her the perfect piece (take a look at it here!)

Mission objectives can be tackled simultaneously by a coordinated group, where multiple hostages can be saved at once and materials on all corners of the map can be scavenged.

You hunt down hundreds of fantasy monsters with a variety of different items and weapons at your disposal, scavenge their remains and gather environmental resources to craft bigger and better armour and weapons with your loot — just to go out on another expedition and do it all again, but better.

There's far more at play here than just blasting mechanised velociraptors, thanks to an intricate scavenging and crafting system that provides a deep and engaging long game.

As she scavenges for leftovers at a hotel, she comes across a negligent mother played by Blanchard.

This lets the engine efficiently use exhaust scavenging techniques, which decreases exhaust gas temperatures and NOx emissions, improves turbine efficiency, and reduces turbo lag evident at low engine speeds.

Advanced scavenging technology enables the Alfa Romeo 4C to maximize torque at low engine speeds and deliver more response to driver input by increasing combustion efficiency and turbine speed, all while eliminating turbo lag.

This is partly thanks to the engine's 180 - degree crankshaft — it features single - plane crankpins, like a modern Ferrari V8, aiding everything from header plumbing and exhaust scavenging to balance at high rpm.

As well as scavenging clean air for the engine to re-use for combustion, it is able to open the waste-gate at the same time to improve waste air flow.

The V12 engine has a dry sump lubrication system featuring both delivery and scavenge pumps, twin overhead cams, 48 valves, maximum power of 540 hp at 7250 rpm, maximum torque of 60 kgm at 5250 rpm.

Featuring a dry sump for optimal lubrication at high cornering loads and a «flat plane» crankshaft, the design allowed for more efficient exhaust scavenging without the need to have header primaries cross over from one bank to the other enabling optimal flow at high rpms.

Yesterday I saw you by the bins, talking to Old Pang the recycling collector, the cart attached to his Flying Pigeon loaded with plastic bottles, scavenged to exchange for a few fen at the recycling bank.

Counter surfing is basically scavenging behavior and hunting breeds such as the Labrador Retrievers are especially good at it.

The therapeutic dotential of dietary precursor modulation by a fish - oil - supplemented diet (n - 3 fatty acids), such as eicosapentaenoic acid (C20: 5,n - 3) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22: 6,n - 3) in the therapy of ulcerative colitis has been shown to result in a 35 % to 50 % decrease in neutrophil production of LTB4.28 Significant improvement in symptoms and histologic appearance of the rectal mucosa has been observed in several small series of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis given fish oil at 3 to 4 g daily for 2 to 6 months in uncontrolled studies.29 However, a larger, randomized, double - blind trial comprising 96 patients with ulcerative colitis failed to reveal any benefit in remission maintenance or treatment of relapse on 4.5 g of eicosapentaenoic acid daily, despite a significant reduction in LTB4 synthesis by blood peripheral polymorphonuclear cells.30 It should be emphasized, however, that the anti-inflammatory actions of the fish oils, in addition to inhibition of LTB4, include suppression of IL - 1 and platelet activating factor synthesis and scavenging of free oxygen radicals.30 The impact of increased lipid peroxidation after fish oil supplementation should be considered when altering the n - 6: n - 3 fatty acid ratio.31 Antioxidant supplementation may be able to counteract the potentially adverse effects of n - 3 fatty acids.