Sentences with phrase «understanding egg shape»

For one, understanding egg shape and the role the membrane plays «could be of value to the egg industry,» she says, perhaps by helping it create more durable eggs.

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

Not exact matches

But with such a large group of eggs, he says, researchers can make quantitative measurements to better understand the range of egg sizes and shapes to get a sense of variation in animal size.

During the preview period (and before Oreo was publicly confirmed as the name of this latest version of Android), the Easter egg made use of an orange O shape (shown above) which many understood to be for «Android O.» Later on (when the fourth developer preview came through), the Orange - ish O gained a more interactive octopus Easter egg — which although seemed slightly unusual at the time has remained in effect throughout Oreo's existence, including in the final release and once Android O had been confirmed as Android Oreo.