Sentences with phrase «transition zone»

Transition zones require four to eight times more maintenance than ordinary rail tracks.

The sloping transition zone between them, however, represents a belt of ignorance.

Much has been written on how to maintain this infrastructure, particularly in the difficult transition zones where trains leave land to ascend bridges over water.

Emry, E., Nyblade, A., Jordi, J., Anandakrishnan, S., Aster, R., Wiens, D., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., The mantle transition zone beneath West Antarctica: Seismic evidence for thermal upwellings and hydration, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting Supplement, 2015.

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«The mantle transition zone beneath West Antarctica: Seismic evidence for hydration and thermal upwellings.»

The Sahel falls roughly between the 100 - 200 mm / year (northern boundary) and 400 - 600 mm / year rainfall isohyets (southern boundary), and supports dry savanna vegetation forming transition zones with the Sahara and humid tropical savanna (Nicholson, 2000; Hiernaux and Turner, 2002; Anyamba and Tucker, 2005).

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western US.»

«But they provide a key transition zone if lemurs are to get from the areas where they live right now to the areas that will be most suitable in the future.»

Specifically, this change in the position of protein was found to occur in the so - called transition zone of the cucumber seedling — the area between the stem and the roots — where the pegs develop.

Transition zones exist between faunal regions, and they usually vary for each individual species.

Remote sensing shows the resilience of Sahelian vegetation to drought, with no directional change in either desert transition zone position or vegetation cover (Nicholson et al., 1998).

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

Besides having the right mix of ingredients and pressures, this range defines a well - known transition zone within the mantle, the 2900 - kilometer - or - so - thick layer of slowly circulating material that lies between Earth's crust and its outer core of molten iron.

«The bacteria exist preferentially at the oxy / anoxy transition zones,» Marcano points out, «and the internal compass might help them to find the best level in the stratified water column for satisfying their nutritional requirements.»

This suggests Voyager 1 is in a final transition zone.

The wildlife sanctuary covers a region of low - lying forested mountains and is located in the middle of a fascinating transition zone that lies between the northern Indochinese and the southern Sundaland biogeographic regions.

«In the subtropical - to - temperate transition zone south of the Great Barrier Reef, corals are at the limits of their distribution and environmental tolerances, as the water is cooler,» Dr Sommer said.

The middle layers also proved to have their own functions, rather than serving as mere transition zones: The researchers found, for example, that cells in these layers manufacture the hormone hepcidin, which regulates iron levels in the blood.

Lake Chad, which sits in the center of this climatologically conflicted transition zone, serves as a bellwether for changing conditions in the Sahel.

The southern border of the Sahara adjoins the Sahel, the semi-arid transition zone that lies between the Sahara and the fertile savannas further south.

Transition zone assembly and its contribution to axoneme formation in Drosophila male germ cells

Emry, E., Nyblade, A., Juli, J., Anandakrishnan, S., Aster, R., Wiens, D., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., (2014), Evidence from P - wave receiver functions for lower mantle plumes and mantle transition zone water beneath West Antarctica, Abstract DI41B - 4336, presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif..

Emry, E, Nyblade, A, Julia, J, Anandakrishnan, S L, Aster, R C, Wiens, D A, Huerta, A D, Wilson, T J (2013), Analysis of the Mantle Transition Zone beneath West Antarctica using P - wave receiver functions, Abstract T13A - 2508 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9 - 13 Dec..

Myelination transition zone astrocytes are constitutively phagocytic and have synuclein dependent reactivity in glaucoma.

The Channel is an oceanographic transition zone where the cold waters north of Point Conception mix with the warm waters of Southern California, resulting in a complex system of water currents and a diversity of northern and southern ocean species.

One recognized transition zone is termed the Southwestern Baja California Peninsula.

The mingling of cool, nutrient - rich waters from the north with warm currents from the south form a dynamic transition zone that is home to a myriad of sea life from microscopic plankton to blue whales.

This beautiful mangrove swamp is an important transition zone between the land and the sea, a place where the water is calm and fluctuates with the tide.

The study found that major hot spots for large marine predators are the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. west coast, and a trans - oceanic migration highway called the North Pacific Transition Zone, which connects the western and eastern Pacific on the boundary between cold sub-arctic water and warmer subtropical water — about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.

21 Dry Climate Yearly precipitation is not as great as the potential loss of water by evaporation Two Types Arid or Desert Semi-arid or Steppe Transition zone that surrounds the desert and separates it from humid climates

«Observation of the spectrally invariant properties of clouds in cloudy - to - clear transition zones during the MAGIC field campaign.»

«The latest addition is a variable resolution UK model (UKV) which has a high resolution inner domain (1.5 km grid boxes) over the area of forecast interest, separated from a coarser grid (4 km) near the boundaries by a variable resolution transition zone.

CIRs are transition zones between slow - and fast - moving streams of solar wind.

In between is a 200 - kilometer (124 - mile) transition zone where too few wolves are present to tip the balance between coyotes and foxes.

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The lower mantle comprises 55 percent of the planet by volume and extends from 670 and 2900 kilometers in depth, as defined by the so - called transition zone (top) and the core - mantle boundary (below).

The mantle transition zone beneath Antarctica from P - wave receiver functions.

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western U.S.,» says study co-author Mathew Winnick of Stanford University.

Because we are no longer standing trapped with our carts in the «transition zone» and subjected to the constant temptations stacked conveniently at our fingertips.

With reference to Einstein, «who made time and space into fluid things that merge into each other,» Chopin suggests that the «material world» is made up of objects and events we can identify; the «transition zone» is a quantum reality or domain where energy turns into matter; and the place beyond time and space — the origin of the universe, the place where God is — is like a «virtual reality or domain.»

God and the material world form the outside layers, and a «transition zone» lies in between.

In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receives as little as ten inches of rain per year.

In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receive as little as ten inches of rain per year.

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Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass, developed at Oklahoma State University, has been rolled out not only on golf courses in the so - called «transition zone» — a belt from Virginia to South Carolina and west to Oklahoma and Texas — but in professional football stadiums of the Washington Redskins and the Tennessee Titans.