Sentences with phrase «tiny regions of»

Tiny regions of compositionally distinct rock (red material, known as ultra-low velocity zones), collect at Earth's core - mantle boundary (tan surface), nearly halfway to the center of our planet.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

One notable exception is a tiny region of the hippocampus known as CA2.

Like intertwining cogwheels in a mechanical watch, a pool of periodically expressed genes keeps time in a tiny region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

The rate of electrons passing through the tip - in other words, the current - is a measure of the density of electrons in the tiny region of the sample directly below it.

In vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamus.

As transistors get smaller and smaller, occupying ever - tinier regions of a silicon chip, it becomes increasingly likely that any given region (barely tens of nanometers across) may have too many or too few dopant atoms.

To put this into perspective, the image above shows you the tiny region of space that Kepler observes, which equates to around 0.28 % of the night sky.

Photographed about eight days after it exploded, Supernova 1997ff (SN1997ff) was found by astronomers comparing the northern Hubble Deep Field, a 10 - day observation of a tiny region of sky first explored by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, with a follow - up observation in 1997.

Not exact matches

In recent days, Magnette also expanded the scope of his earlier concerns — protecting his tiny Belgium region's farmers from larger interests — to take on the newly configured investor - state dispute resolution mechanism.

However, since even the tiniest region contains an infinity of points, this argument is not decisive.

As a matter of fact, the very tiniest region deep inside the structure is actually outside the structure in the same way that any object in the hole of a donut is outside the donut.

When a group of journalists and mission executives visited the tiny island of St. Lucia in 1988, Rickey Singh, a Caribbean journalist who edited the Caribbean Council of Churches» newspaper Caribbean Contact, greeted them with the words, «Welcome to the media - penetrated region in the world.»

In some quarters the wisdom of this was doubted in regions where there was yet only a tiny Church and virtually all Christian work was still in the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutions.

As the country's traditional wine growing regions including the Barossa, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River grow ever hotter and drier, winemakers are rushing to the tiny island state of Tasmania.

It won't be the last, as scientists use the approach to understand human brain development and test whether the tiny entities might one day serve as cortical repair kits, replacing regions of the brain that have been injured or failed to develop normally.

The 6.5 acres of tiny gibraltar island on lake erie's south edge are crammed with reasons to visit, including Stone Laboratory, the oldest freshwater biology research station in the U. S. Tour the island, soak up the science and then rent a kayak to explore more of this scenic slice of the Great Lakes region.

To make the effort even tougher, the search area happened to overlap with the star - rich Milky Way, a region of the night sky bursting with tiny pinpoints of light.

This color image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much - studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Computer modeling and satellite observations suggest that these tiny particles can increase storm - cloud cover over certain regions of the North Pacific by 20 to 50 percent, enough to alter storm tracks in some cases.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

It consists mostly of light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.

For instance, touching different regions of a screen makes the phone tilt and shift just a tiny bit, but in ways that the phone's motion sensors pick up, Mehrnezhad and colleagues demonstrated in a study reported online April 2017 in the International Journal of Information Security.

Restricted to the alpine region at the top of Mount Washington and Mount Lafayette in New Hampshire, the plant is a low - lying relative of the rose, with tiny yellow flowers.

The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss Alps and parts of Canada, could be better predicted by using technology which measures «tiny earthquakes» — according to a group of international experts.

The yellow region of the flame contains tiny carbon particles that are deposited on the metal surface.

The invention could boost water supplies in the driest regions, say experts, and a similar setup could be used to precisely control the flow of tiny amounts of fluids for sensitive diagnostic tests.

As proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africa.

Scientists have concocted tiny versions of several brain regions ranging from the hypothalamus, which regulates body temperature, thirst and hunger, to the movement - controlling basal ganglia.

Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.

Tiny nukes could particularly improve the quality of life in impoverished regions that otherwise would not have clean, affordable options for electricity.

The solution requires that a fantastic amount of energy, roughly equal to the Planck energy, be concentrated on a tiny region.

To find this out, researchers implanted tiny electrodes in a region of spiders» brains that would show whether sound was being processed.

Dr. Basu had previously developed a technique to obtain ocular stem cells from tiny biopsies at the surface of the eye and a region between the cornea and sclera known as the limbus.

It is so fast that in a fraction of a second a tiny subatomic speck of space is blown to dimensions much greater than the entire currently observable region.

Sensitive to tiny variations in the gravitational tug of the moon, GRAIL mapped density variations below the surface (because regions of higher density produce slightly higher gravitational forces).

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

A team of self - proclaimed «beetle nerds,» led by Prof Perissinotto, got together from NMMU and Plymouth University (UK) and uncovered more species of water beetles in these tiny water bodies than is known for any other similar - sized region in southern Africa.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that they have identified a protein essential to the formation of the tiny brain region in mice that coordinates sleep - wake cycles and other so - called circadian rhythms.

The best models for the region suggested that if there were ring particles in the area where Cassini crossed the ring plane, they would be tiny, on the scale of smoke particles.

«We've pushed the capabilities of LCLS down in the sub-micron region by using extreme focusing that creates a more intense beam on the tiny sample,» Boutet says.

Hard drives store data on discs coated with a metallic film divided into tiny magnetic regions, each of which stores a single bit — the more regions you can squeeze on to a disc, the bigger the capacity.

In the 1990s, thinking about Pluto shifted again with the realization that it is just one member of the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of thousands (if not millions) of tiny icy objects that circle the sun in the outer regions of the solar system.

When the researchers recalibrated the display screen, though, they could see tiny blobs of neural action in brain regions specialized for speech.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

«Three new species of tiny frogs from the remarkable region of Papua New Guinea.»

A few «emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

«emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

Brain manipulations often involve the permanent implantation of tiny metal tubes known as cannulas that permit direct delivery of drugs into specific brain regions in awake marmosets.