Sentences with phrase «tiny openings on»

In response to drought, the pinyons close the tiny openings on their needles known as stomata to conserve water but, by doing so, also block their supply of carbon dioxide, thus shutting down photosynthesis, Adams says.

These plants react to the warning by closing their stomata — tiny openings on their leaves — to slow down moisture loss.

or stomata, the tiny openings on the leaf surface through which plants absorb gases needed for photosynthesis, can provide clues to land elevation over time.

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But then, in 2010, he abruptly sold his stake and moved to a little farm on the Lebanese border, where he opened a tiny catering company.

When Mario Bouchard launched iBwave in 2003, most cellphones flipped open, while tiny strands of wireless data travelled on an odd - looking pager called a BlackBerry.

, It's just being open in the tiniest crack - of - the - door way that makes you suddenly aware of the world on the other side.

This was my answer, stumbled over while I checked on the tinies through the window every 10 minutes and kept one eye on Evelynn through the open bathroom door right before I had to start supper.

When n / naka opened in Los Angeles in 2011, chef Niki Nakayama took reservations for her tiny, 26 - seat Japanese kaiseki restaurant on her personal cell phone.

You might think I'm in the warm sunlight, an open book on my lap, a fruity drink with a tiny umbrella by my side.

University of Michigan freshman Evan Allen saw a tiny opening given up by Minnesota's goalie Adam Wilcox and threw it on...

And like the Happy Heinys, the Elite Mini does have a very generous size range — with 4 snap settings on the rise it gets really tiny but opens up to accommodate baby well past the newborn phase, so that's more value for your dollar.

Medela Pump and Go because I can set it on the tiniest ledge and open the front to provide a nice CLEAN shelf for me to put my pump attachments and bottles / bags on while I am pumping.

The Tiny me premature baby vests are designed to open fully with have a popper fastening on the shoulders, the side and underneath allowing easy access to your baby's body without interfering with medical equipment.

Sometimes, a tiny white dot can be seen at the opening of the duct on the nipple.

Whether it's during the newborn stage, when their tiny hands knead away like kittens, or a few months in when they'll simply rest an open palm on your chest, as if to feel your heartbeat, to feel as close to you as they possibly can.

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

«This opens a new window on this vast population of stellar remnants that we know are out there but of which we have seen only a tiny fraction,» he says.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

Replacing the tiny organisms» silica shells with more useful material could open the door to miniature devices based on natural designs

But breeding, not eating, is the adult blowfly's aim: The female lays tiny eggs (below) in patches around orifices such as the nose, ears, and eyes and also on open, bloody wounds.

It can be easily distinguished by its spherical acorns covered with a dense pattern of irregularly placed scales that completely conceal the nut, except for a tiny opening at the top, and which are arranged in dense clusters on upright spikes.

«It would be almost impossible to do a study like this on eel larvae,» he says, simply because tiny, transparent eels are tough to gather in large numbers in the open ocean.

Just as our moon's gravity squeezes and stretches the Earth a bit, causing the oceans to rise and fall, Saturn's massive gravitational pull squeezes and stretches its tiny moon, causing cracks on its icy surface to open and allowing water to shoot out.

hen tiny Australian biotech firm Innate Immunotherapeutics needed to raise money last summer, it didn't issue stock on the open market.

«Cameras have recorded seafloor animals up to 150 km away from the open sea on Amery ice shelf but only photos of tiny area were taken through drill hole,» Katrin Linse, senior biodiversity biologist with the British Antarctic Survey, told Earther.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- The largest trial ever conducted on stents — tiny tubes that help keep heart arteries open — suggests that pricey drug - coated (or eluting) versions may perform no better for patients over the long - term, in terms of patient survival, compared to cheaper, «bare metal» versions.

My one tiny peeve was the bag these came in, as the plastic zip completely detached from the bag even while it was being very carefully opened (it's now folded down with a tiny binder clip on the end).

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I have tiny ankles and never like the look of the wide opening on me.

The partially molded cups of this bra, as well as the tiny keyhole opening on the back of the briefs, give this set some sexy peek - a-boo action.

Pores are tiny hair follicle openings on your skin surface.

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean.

In the film's instant - classic opening, Spielberg uses little dialogue as he follows Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) through what looks like a routine but also includes a tiny, crucial bit of spy - craft as he picks up a coin containing a coded message on a park bench.

It's fairly effective, that is, until the moment when one of the characters says to another: «We are not so different, you and I.» That sentence is so bad, so on - the - nose, you can almost hear the actor opening a tiny drawer labeled «THIRD - RATE THESIS LINES» as quietly as possible before speaking.

It would take a yeoman's effort just to reach the sinking Pendleton, given that the tiny Coast Guard cutter encountered waves as high as 70 feet - tall out on the open seas.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the hOPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the hopening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

The 942 project was not left stagnant, however, as the lengthened Porsche was reimagined with a set of tiny rear outward - opening carriage doors, very similar to the rear doors found on the erstwhile Mazda RX - 8 sports car.

Additionally, McLaren gave the new concept an ultra-advanced active aerodynamic package called Integrated Active Aero, which works by «opening tiny aperture covers around air inlets on key surfaces during cornering to create drag and generate downforce, rather than moving the surfaces altogether.»

Ford has gone a step further than most other minivan makers and offered dual electric - powered sliding doors, which can be opened and closed separately or together by pressing buttons on the tiny remote control hooked to the key ring.

So I opened the hood and while the engine is tiny, a mere 1.5 liters and seemingly about the size of one you might expect to find on a lawnmower, it was topped by a turbocharger, though apparently not for the reason I'd anticipated.

I'd be very interested in this product if: 1) The internet browser could be viewed in landscape as well as portrait mode, 2) the webpage text can be increased for readability as having a 1200 × 1600 resolution screen means that text might be very tiny on a webpage, 3) Google Mail can be fully accessible, 4) the browser has tabs to open up multiple webpages, 5) there is some kind of cookies / password storage so that logins are saved such that you don't have to enter them every time you access one my everyday sites, 6) bookmarking webpages.

I'd be very interested in this product if you can create a video showing that: 1) The internet browser could be viewed in landscape as well as portrait mode, 2) the webpage text can be increased for readability as having a 1600 × 1200 (landscape) resolution means that text might be very tiny / thin on a 13.3 ″ screen unless you can change it so that (say) 1024 × 768 mode is expanded / enlarged onto the entire 1600 × 1200 screen, 3) Google Mail can be fully accessible, 4) the browser has tabs to open up multiple webpages, 5) there is some kind of cookies / password storage so that logins are saved such that you don't have to enter them every time you access a site that is accessed everyday, 6) bookmarking webpages.

One arm curved languidly around her head while the other rested palm - up on the sea - washed pebbles, the fingers curling in the tiny wavelets that bubbled over them as the tide rose; her legs, opened shamelessly in relaxation, seemed to invite the sun's warmth to penetrate directly into her body.

Our heads rock on our spines and there are flowers in flight across the dashboard, white blossoms spread open like tiny, reaching hands.

By phasing out associate commissions on kindle ebooks Amazon have left the door open a tiny little bit and Smashwords are trying to sneak in.

My eyesight is failing and those terribly tiny commas, periods, opening quotes, closing quotes and extra spaces are hard to see when I'm focused on typos and wrong words.

Plus, when I open a link on twitter, no more tiny 2.4 inch screen and 600 mhz processor.

Cuba Libro, Cuba's first (tiny) English - language bookstore opens — one more sign of an easing of restrictions on the island.