Sentences with phrase «small scale structure»

This doesn't work well for features that have a lot more small scale structure (like rainfall, or absolute temperatures, or cloudiness) though.

But wings are so fragile that it's possible the ancient lepidopterans also had smaller scale structures that weren't preserved in the fossil record, he says.

They had a smaller scale structure of the hotel which was used in the Garris version down there, the walls filled with memorabilia showcasing the many films shot there.

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Quantum physics governs the universe on incredibly small scales — including at the level of molecules inside chloroplasts, the structures inside plants where photosynthesis happens.

Scientists uniformly agree that whole - lake research offers the best evidence to guide policy, Blais wrote, while «small - scale experiments are inadequate to address issues related to ecosystem services, food web structure, land - water interactions, air - water interactions, shoreline communities, and migratory species.»

Ordinarily, sole proprietorship should have been the ideal business structure for a small — scale gutter cleaning services business especially if you are just starting out with moderate start — up capital in a small neighborhood and with just one outlet.

Ordinarily, general partnership should have been the ideal business structure for a small — scale bitcoin exchange and trading business especially if you are just starting out with a moderate start — up capital.

Given that the large - scale structure of the universe is dominated by the presence of still mysterious Dark Matter, and that on the smallest scales empty space sustains quantum oscillations whose energy density dwarfs that of all known forms of matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubstantial.

He is too immense to communicate with sub molecular structure, ie us, and he is too busy achieving wonders beyond what is on a small scale like us.

His gallery was a small - scale mockup of his Capstone Cathedral in Phoenix, a pyramid - like structure in which Frisby has conducted his high - octane healing services since the early 1970s.

The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.

Tensegrity can also be hierarchical, in that each structural element can itself be a tensegrity structure at a smaller scale, with tensional integrity being maintained both locally and globally.

If Susskind and Maldacena are right, it would mean that quantum mechanics determines not only the behavior of particles at very small scales but also the large - scale structure of the universe.

Making fusion neutrons efficiently, at a small scale, could lead to advances in neutron - based imaging, and neutron probes to gain insight on the structure and properties of materials.

Due to having many calculations for each atom's structure and computationally demanding molecular dynamics calculations, the team keeps its simulations relatively small in scale — the team's largest runs typically have between 200 - 250 atoms in the simulation.

Small primordial ripples in the structure of spacetime, which can be seen in the cosmic microwave background, grew to colossal scale and led to the formation of stars, galaxies, and other structures.

He points out that the ring structure, which Lipson says is designed for both low mass and malleability, harnesses the optical force on a greater scale than the smaller vibrating beam did.

In recent years several groups have engineered novel structures on scales so small that the force of light passing through them actually wields an appreciable force.

While a number of ferroelectric materials are known to science and are already used in different applications, their crystal structure does not allow them to be scaled down to a small enough, ultra-thin film for use in miniaturized devices.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

But Varmus says the award should start at a «small scale» because it is hard to anticipate how it will «change the structure» of a lab and its workforce.

And because these smaller clouds are much more common, they can be used to trace the large - scale structure of the early universe.

Glicksman and Ankit have found a subtle internal energy source - the bias field - occurs that actually modulates the speed of the solid / liquid interface on small scales and ends up creating remarkably complex structures.

These insights have been published today in Nature Scientific Reports, and show that the structure of marine life communities depends on depth and small - scale features on the sea floor.

«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs» into these beautiful core structures.»

Despite the progress in crafting structures of increasing complexity at such a small scale, truly functional dynamic nanorobots that are autonomous and that can undertake useful tasks are still in their infancy.

For example, the structures could be used to create small - scale thermal energy harvesters, which could scavenge energy lost in microelectronic devices.

Sampling song from males at high and low elevations from two different mountains allowed us to (i) assess the presence of any differences in song structure at different elevations and (ii) consider the potential mechanism generating variation or song dialects on a small spatial scale.

The currently favored cosmological galaxy models are based on the idea of hierarchical structure formation: that structures in the universe such as galaxies develop from small «overdensities» to become large - scale objects.

By convention light can be focussed to a spot no smaller than about a micron whereas nano structures by definition are three orders of magnitude smaller in scale.

Cassini UVIS observations revealed recently the presence of small - scale structures in the dayside main auroral emissions indicative of magnetopause Kelvin - Helmholtz instabilities, which are key elements of the solar wind - magnetosphere viscous interaction (Grodent et al. 2011).

«With the new MMS spacecraft we can, for the first time, resolve the structure of the bow shock at these small scales,» says Andreas Johlander, PhD student at IRF, who led the study.

* The viral structure of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, a unique oasis in Northern Mexico, reveals a highly diverse population at a small geographic scale — B. Taboada — Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Researchers at various institutes and universities all over the world decided to study how the structure of these scales could contain «nature's smallest rainbow,» and published their findings in Nature Communications.

Though this is the first time such a phenomenon has been seen in a disk around a young star, «Similar structures and dynamics commonly occur on small and large scales throughout the Universe.

At its smallest, approximately 150 meters (492 feet) across, ALMA will be able to study the large - scale structures of these same objects.

These patterns can also be exploited to greatly improve a material's function, which is why scientists are eager to determine the 3 - D structure of nanoparticles at the smallest scale possible.

Others theorize that the early universe broke first into colossal clumps that contained enough building materials to make structures on the grandest scale — great walls and sheets of millions of galaxies — that fragmented into increasingly smaller gas and clouds, ultimately resulting in individual galaxies.

The leap of science is to be able to relate the large - scale measurements of seismic signals to the small - scale characteristics of pore structure of the rock, which determine how fluids, such as oil and gas, flow.

Nanotechnology is a group of emerging technologies in which the structure of matter is controlled at the nanometer scale, the scale of small numbers of atoms, to produce novel materials and devices that have useful and unique properties.

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

But once this is achieved, EHT astronomers expect to be able to resolve an image of Sagittarius A *'s shadow and see small - scale structures surrounding the black hole, confirming some of the most extreme theories for physics in this strong gravity environment and, perhaps, revealing some surprises along the way.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

«It is remarkable how the environment on the enormous cosmic scales seen in the dark matter structures can influence the properties of individual stars and galaxies - both the maturity of the stellar populations and the progressive «downsizing» of star formation to smaller galaxies is clearly dependent on the dark matter environment,» said Scoville.

Sun Choke succeeds in telling a small - scale story with tons of interest, abandoning typical plot structures in favor of genuine discovery.

The proposed three year study is set to build upon a smaller scale project coordinated by the Increasing Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures (ICCAMS) that has shown improvement in individual classes.

Panelists offered an in - depth look at D.C.'s FCE policies and structures and their journey from trying out national best practices on a small scale to a more systemic approach actively involving over two - thirds of their schools.

Additionally, since there are no guarantees, these smaller schools can also use a traditional structure on their scale.

Because of that structure, critique groups are often better with writing craft issues on a smaller scale (clarifying sentences or paragraphs, scene goals, immediate motivations, dialogue passages, etc.) than on a story - sized scale (character development, plot flow, story goals and motivations, themes, emotional arcs, etc.).

Work on the large scale (structure, voice) and small scale (style and language choices) to get your story ready for the world.