Sentences with phrase «smaller flows called»

Researchers have long known of smaller flows called granules (which last a few minutes and are typically about 1000 kilometers across) and supergranules (which last about 1 day and are usually about 30,000 km across).

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The Obama administration has been gunning for so called «inversions», in which a U.S. company buys a smaller foreign company and then locates the merged company outside the U.S. for tax purposes, for over a year, but that hasn't stopped the flow of deals.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

A small electrical voltage applied to one electrode — called the «gate» — increases the electrical conductivity between two other electrodes, allowing a large current to flow from one to the other.

Although conventional flow cytometry is limited to measuring particles down to approximately 300 nm — 500 nm, a relatively new flow - cytometric method — called «imaging flow cytometry» — allows for the analysis of EVs smaller than 300 nm.

So does water, in some cases: Around a small model of a rock - and - concrete dike, for instance, water may display a so - called laminar flow pattern, whereas in the real world it displays more chaotic turbulent flows.

This so - called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) triggers the flow of small electrical currents in neural circuits beneath the coils.

In fact, the agents appear to be better than people at smoothing the traffic flow, because they reroute small numbers of calls that people would not bother with.

Even protostars — these are young stars that are just forming and making their own planetary disks and so on — they make very powerful outflows called, the same sort of jets obviously moving at slower speeds, but they are full of plasma, that is flowing out at high speed; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes big and small, they seem able to do this task, it really seems to be a very common phenomenon.

The paper reports a metal - free flow battery that relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic (carbon - based) molecules called quinones, which are similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals.

Performance feedback from any learning experience should flow automatically into a super gradebook (called instructional management system or learner profile); with the exception of a couple closed systems and small pilots, it never works this way.

A Mazda engineering approach called Aero Flow Management was used to optimise the aero, so the new front grille, while appearing bigger than before, is actually 20 % smaller because of optimised air flow that directs only the air that is needed into the 3.

So, based on the prevailing market conditions and cash - flows, the fund manager can take call on allocation of corpus to large / mid / small cap stocks.

A similar one - dimensional flow is observed on a small (laboratory) scale in the so - called heat pipes.