Sentences with phrase «tiny variations»

The MRI picks up tiny variations in how tissue is moved by the sound waves.

My point is that it's actually possible to design games which don't tell tiny variations on the same story every time.

However, it was not completely smooth: there were tiny variations from place to place.

As a result, tiny variations in pressure can produce measurable currents.

COBE's discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the subsequent confirmation by WMAP that these are in excellent agreement with the predictions of inflation.

A copper coil surrounding the sample detected changes to the superconductor's magnetic properties and allowed the team to sensitively measure tiny variations in how deep the magnetic field reached inside the superconductor.

The measurement, however, is extremely challenging: Investigators look for tiny variations in the CMB, on the order of 1 part per 100,000.

The 305 - meter Arecibo radio telescope detected tiny variations in the blips from a pulsar, revealing the Earth - like masses of its planets.

I'm just fascinated by bread and dough and how teeny tiny variations can change the bread so much.

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.

Yet a group of researchers hopes that decoding tiny variations in the noise could help halt the catastrophic decline in the world's honeybee population.

Different gases have already been identified successfully in the atmospheres of several large, hot, Jupiter - sized planets by studying tiny variations in the starlight that passes through their atmospheres when they cross in front of their parent stars.

The relationship goes in the other direction i.e. the price of the 500 stocks, with the exception of tiny variations like I described above, are what drive the price of the futures contract.

What nobody knows is how you would take a putative tiny variation in said GCR flux measuring on average 6 particles per cm ^ 2 per second and turn it into a global effect — especially one that only made clouds during the daytime.

That might open the door to using an atom interferometer to measure tiny variations in Earth's gravity with far greater precision than current satellites, providing a new tool to map the flows of mass around the globe due to processes such as the draining of subsurface aquifers and the melting of ice sheets.

The power to examine patterns of inheritance in large populations, and to survey hundreds of thousands of tiny variations in the genomes of each of those individuals, enables investigators to pinpoint specific genes that exert strong or subtle influences on a person's physiology and his or her resulting risk for disease.

The instrument detected tiny variations in the brightness of 150,000 distant stars, looking for the telltale sign of a planet blocking a portion of the starlight as it crosses the telescope's line of sight, Steffen said.

Scientists can also measure tiny variations in the velocity of the spacecraft, as accurate as only one foot (0.3 meters) per hour, by using NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) to track the radio signal coming from Dawn.

The right combination of ingredients and conditions is absolutely essential to ensuring the highest quality product, and the tiniest variation to any part of the formula can create a completely different spirit.

This pair of detectors, sitting 3000 kilometres apart in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, use lasers to pick up tiny variations in space - time that could be caused by a passing gravitational wave.

Milton Cole of Pennsylvania State University in University Park thinks that tiny variations in the crystalline structure of the cesium could somehow provide a foothold for the superfluid.

Tiny variations in temperature of the microwaves were caused both by matter density differences and by gravity waves; the gravity wave effects are weaker and much more difficult to detect.)

Researchers report that one tiny variation in the sequence of a gene may cause some people to be more impaired by traumatic brain injury (TBI) than others with comparable wounds.

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).

After all, even the tiniest variation in the sun's temperature can cause an ice age.

Each genome contains millions of these tiny variations, and because they differ from person to person, they provide scientists with a way to tell one person's DNA from another's.

Tiny variations in the silicon chips create differences in the light response that add a pattern of inconsistent responses, interference, or «noise», to every image they capture.

In addition to great strength for their low weight, these tiny variations on ordinary graphite also offer good heat conductance and intriguing electronic properties.

We now know so much more about how tiny variations in the genetic code can lead to the phenotypes that define us — physical appearance, personality, diseases — than we did only a few short years ago.

These are tiny variations in a star's brightness, but not beyond the reach of modern day digital sensors.

These tiny variations determine both the effect nutrients have on our bodies and how we metabolise the food that we eat.

Colour differences indicate tiny fluctuations in the intensity of the radiation, a result of tiny variations in the density of matter in the early universe.

«A tiny variation in the gene that makes the enzyme that breaks down dopamine causes a complete flipflop — not a mere difference in degree — in dopamine activity in these two brain areas,» explained NIMH's Dr. Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, who, along with Dr. Karen Berman and colleagues, reported their findings in the April 10, 2005 online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

There is no reason to upgrade when Amazon keeps selling the same device year after year with virtually the same software and tiny variations.

Each time she is born, Ursula's life varies in small but important ways, allowing Atkinson to explore the vagaries of chance and the tiny variations that can change the direction of a life.

The use of 3D models also allows for the massive and tiny variations of various characters found in the game.

While one of today's prevalent operating models, especially in sculpture, is a cut - and - paste approach that combines the psychology of websurfing with DIY aesthetics, attention deficits and schizophrenia, Aaron Curry's modus operandi instead reveals a sort of slow formulation and re-formulation of the same formal motifs, repeated over time and slowly developed through a progression of tiny variations.

The Holy Grail of climatology has always been to ascertain whether, and if so how, the sun might affect the Earth's energy budget to cause the climate swings observed throughout history despite the apparent inadequacy of the tiny variations in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) that occur from one series of solar cycles to another.

If you agree with the paleo proxy records that, according to Bob's link demonstrate a tiny variation in climate over thousands of years, you are effectively agreeing with the statement above.

Bees exist in a wide variety of habitats, and the variations in temperature that have always existed from day to day, month to month, year to year, decade to decade, and across wide geographic areas, dwarfs any tiny variations which have ben labelled as «climate change».

To measure these tiny variations, GOCE is equipped with 3 pairs of ultra-sensitive accelerometers arranged in 3 - D.

Every graphics card is different: in its basic design from NVIDIA or AMD, in the customizations added by manufacturers like ASUS or Sapphire, and of course, in the tiny variations and imperfections from the manufacturing process itself.

The tiny variations in voltage which make dynamic drivers and balanced armatures work isn't enough to drive them, so the signal must be highly amplified in order to move the membrane by voltage alone — hence the KSE1500's dedicated amplifier, which applies up to 200 volts of power.