Sentences with phrase «structures at its tip»

These 0.5 - 2 mm - long hair - like structures at the tip of each leaf function like a Swiss Army knife in their ability to collect water from a variety of size scales.

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At a recent Stanford Medicine X lecture, Stanford Graduate School of Business organizational behavior professor Lindred Greer described three problems with top - down team structures — whether in a hospital setting or an office — and shared tips on how to make better decisions as a group.

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• In a magnetic force microscope, the tip senses changes in the magnetic structure of the surface at the atomic level.

Fast forward to 2016 and her blog not only shares tips on how to overcome insomnia but also how to structure your life through meditation, inspiration and more for peaceful rest at night.

Scientists long suspected they stabilized the structure of the chromosome, preventing the tips from fraying, much like the plastic sheaths at the ends of shoelaces to prevent them from unraveling.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

The bristle - like structure of the keratin in a toe pad helps it to stick — each pad is covered with microscopic pillars, which then branch out at the tips into even smaller structures.

The device uses a modular tip and a heated process at temperatures higher than other extruders to better control the viscosity of the sugar solution for more accurate vascular structures.

Antibodies excel at binding to rapidly changing targets, thanks to their Y - shaped structure with two antigen - binding tips.

In 2009, scientists at IBM used an AFM with a CO2 molecule adsorbed on the tip, and using the interaction of this molecule with carbon atoms, they were able to resolve with high detail the chemical structure of small molecules like pentacene.

Looking to the skin for the cause of psoriasis is like looking at the tip of an iceberg and assuming it to be the entire structure.

Our genes are packaged into structures called chromosomes and at the tips of these chromosomes are structures called telomeres.

Culturally ignorant, shamelessly subjective, and frantically busy in both structure and form, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's plays like a masturbatory hat tip to the upper class as envisioned by Paul Greengrass.

To that end, the Early Childhood Consultancy Group has met over the last four months to: 1) determine the most important information early childhood parents need to know about children's academic progress; 2) review the current structure of APTT and recommend changes to the substance of meetings so they better serve parents of young children; and 3) create tools, videos, and tip sheets about developmentally appropriate activities families can do at home with their young children.

Despite the extensive use of carbon fiber in its structure and outer body, the Vitesse tips the scales at 4,378 pounds — 114 more than the coupe with the added structure.

Yet extensive use of lightweight aluminium for the car's structure and body panels means it actually tips the scales at around 100 kg less the old model.

The artist built a similar structure in 1983 when Argentina's dictatorship fell, and at the end of the installation period, they tipped the structure over so people could get the books.

There's also a focus on shapes — circles playing a dominant part at the tips of each hanging piece, but also in the structure of each panel itself.

These include, for instance, the grisaille beauties of untitled: structure at Kunstverein Nurnberg in 2011, TIP at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh in 2013, where part of the installation appeared to run out of the gallery, and the grand painterly gaiety of set at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery in 2015.

This means that a useful trait these days is the «courage to fear» — a phrase used in a recent discussion of tipping points by Allan Shearer, an architecture professor at the University of Texas, Austin, who studies how humans design the future as much as he designs structures.

This Senate Bill 238 changes the distance requirement to «at least 1,225 in horizontal distance from the tip of the turbine's nearest blade at ninety degrees to the exterior of the nearest, habitable, residential structure, if any, located on adjacent property at the time of the certification application.»

David Saul, Managing Director of BE Offices, commented: «This survey demonstrates that perception of the EU among Britons is that it has probably reached a tipping point and a successful election campaign by the right - wing in France could topple it over the edge, or at best could force sweeping changes in its structure and powers.

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And finally, «Now You've Been Shortlisted» is simply a very well written and structured book, it's clear, easy to read, it breaks each of the topics down into nice concise sub chapters, with top tips at the end of each chapter, and above all it's packed full of practical, actionable great advice.