Sentences with word «submergence»

As for those who kill for pleasure or, worse, for no reason at all, we can only conjecture a deep submergence of the basic impulse toward care and affection for others.

The organisms Reilly studied rely on underwater oil and gas seeps, requiring him to spend 22 days in deep submergence vehicles.

Delta lowering and sea - level rise thus accounts for submergence of about 1 cm per year.

We need the library now more than ever since we are in danger of submergence in a tide of materialism.

OK, so he's not an autonomous bot, but we simply have to give more props to the Deep Submergence Vehicle known as Alvin.

A first glimpse at romantic thriller Submergence shows X-Men star James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander, in her first role after winning the Oscar, in an intense embrace.

Side - effects of climate change vary from submergence of property and reduction in crop yields in the US (costing $ 500 billion) to deaths and water shortage in Africa as the desert expands with great droughts.

For example, by breeding submergence tolerance into our existing high - performing varieties, they can now withstand up to two weeks of flooding and still yield well.

Earnestly aiming to land with the weight of an Important Film married with Big Ideas, the more Submergence tries and strains to find connections to contemporary issues, the more those beats ring hollow.

«Heading to the site, we were fully prepared to investigate a typical deep - sea explosive eruption,» added Adam Soule, WHOI associate scientist and chief scientist for the National Deep Submergence Facility.

Julia's research has contributed to uncovering the basic mechanisms by which plants survive submergence and respond to the low oxygen levels associated with flooding.

SCREEN DAILY — A first glimpse at romantic thriller Submergence shows X-Men star James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander, in her first role after winning the Oscar, in an intense embrace.

Peat - Peat is formed from dead plants, typically Sphagnum mosses, which are only partially decomposed due to the permanent submergence in water and the presence of conserving substances such as humic acids.

We employed new deep submergence technologies during an International Polar Year expedition to the Gakkel ridge in the Arctic Basin at 85 ° E, to acquire photographic and video images of «zero - age» volcanic terrain on this remote, ice - covered ridge.

«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»

Samuel Goldwyn Films» Peter Goldwyn saw three - time Oscar - nominee Wim Wenders» romantic thriller Submergence at last year's Toronto Film Festival.

German director Wim Wenders will open the 65th San Sebastian Film Festival with his new film Submergence.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction in the majority's opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.

He also improved several popular rice varieties for drought tolerance following MAB, as well as developed drought plus submergence tolerant version of Swarna.

As a result, IRRI has recently released submergence - tolerant rice — non-GM rice that can tolerate and produce good yields after two weeks under water, conditions that would decimate most other rice.

This approach has been successfully used to identify submergence tolerance genes.

IRRI also gives support in national strategy and framework planning for hybrid rice development; research on abiotic stress tolerance particularly submergence, drought, and low temperature damage in high elevation areas; support for the implementation of integrated crop and resource management in the target areas through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) and the Indonesian Rice Knowledge Bank; and support of dissemination of post harvest technologies.

Theme 2: Improvement of salinity and submergence resilience of locally - adapted rice varieties and elite lines

Rechnitzer, chief scientist of North American Aviation's Deep Submergence Systems Division, has made many deep descents, including a dive of more than 18,000 feet in the Marianas Trench, and he is not wholly convinced that, as a rubbish dump, the ocean is so big it can never be filled.

Two genes in this region changed their expression patterns when submerged, and one of these, called Sub1A - 1, could turn submergence - intolerant plants into flood survivors when artificially inserted into the genome.

By comparing the genomes of flood - tolerant plants, the researchers were able to pin down the resistance to a particular region of the plant genome, which they dubbed Submergence 2.

Even after 10,000 - 60,000 years, the traces provide clear evidence that submergence took at least 17 - 20 weeks and occurred during warm to hot weather.

JORD wood watches are designed to be splash proof but is not intended for complete submergence in water.

There's something to be admired about a film that can gracefully defy simple genre categorization but Submergence feels like a clumsy melange, a confused adaptation made by people who don't seem quite sure what they have on their hands.

Submergence came into the Toronto Film Festival with several distributors having made bids, but UTA decided to wait until after the film's world premiere Sept. 10 to begin negotiations, which have carried on for the past two months.

Goldwyn noted Vikander's turn in Tomb Raider enhances the profile of Submergence as it heads out this weekend, while McAvoy fans have also been an active pool to tap.

And Samuel Goldwyn Films is opening Wim Wenders» Toronto fest feature Submergence with Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy in a day and date bow.

Submergence review: The film throws the might of two good actors, some metaphysical questions, some ocean bio-mathematics, a lot of schmoozing by candlelight, and some very lame dialogue trying to encapsulate this world, that world, and the other world, all into some words.

Lionsgate UK has released two new images, a UK quad poster and a brand new trailer for Wim Wenders» upcoming Submergence, starring Alicia Vikander...

There may also be times in the surf where you will need to submerge yourself in the water to avoid an oncoming board and a lifejacket would prevent submergence.

Watershed is presenting Submergence on the ground floor of The Eye, a new residential development in Bristol's Enterprise Zone built and managed by the PG Group, just over the bridge from Creative Common and Temple Meads station.

The 588 Project was filmed in Arkansas in an improvised site that serves as a studio for creating submergence fetish films.

Members of this community perform full, vertical submergence in mud - pits to the point of disappearance.

My own approach is to show pictures of hospitals during the 2003 European killer heat wave and pictures of hurricane Katrina submergence and refugees, and to say that it is highly likely that there will be many more such scenes in the future (that is, scenes of mortality, flooding and environmental refugees), due to the probable increase in heat waves and flooding.

• Coastal systems and low - lying areas — As the sea level rises, coastal systems and low - lying areas are increasingly experiencing submergence, coastal flooding, and coastal erosion.

These improvements make for a faster and responsive Moto 360, but it comes with the same 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage and a IP67 waterproof rating, which allows for one meter submergence for 30 minutes.

You still should not swim with it or attempt to dump champagne all over it as water damage is not covered under warranty and it is not intended for prolonged submergence.