Sentences with phrase «used by the bats»

Earlier this year Habib suggested that the largest pterosaurs took flight by using all four limbs to leap into the air — a technique similar to that used by some bats but quite unlike the take - off behaviour of modern birds.

Not exact matches

And now it has one, with technology inspired by bats, which can «see» in the dark using echolocation.

BAT targets the issue of online marketing by trying to create a fair and equal advertising environment through the use of a peer - to - peer token.

They not only contained the bodies of the dead, but in time were occupied by bats and rats or used by wandering shepherds to shelter their flocks.

Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

The plate is not moving, so you can precisely identify the horizontal (X-Y) bounds of the space that defines the strike zone; the vertical bounds are defined by the batter when he is in position to hit, which is harder to automatically identify (PitchFX uses manual observers to tag the top and bottom of the zone when a batter first goes up to bat).

«The ProHammer baseball training bat is designed for use by advanced players and is being tested and...

«The ProHammer baseball training bat is designed for use by advanced players and is being tested and used by selected professional and Division 1 power hitters.

He said he feared someone could be seriously hurt or even killed by bats being used this season.

While I've brought along my own bat — a hand - me - down green Mizuno Envy, made in China and approved for play by all the sanctioned softball leagues — mostly, I'll be using those provided by my source, who wishes, hopes and prays to stay anonymous.

This was the first time that I've followed the end quilting instructions exactly by just adding the backing (rather than adding a second layer of batting, which is what I do when using this method on larger, warmth - providing bed quilts, like Adelaide's).

Using a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environUsing a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environusing audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environment.

In 1944 in an issue of Science, he proposed the term «echolocation» to cover not only «locating obstacles by means of echoes» in bats, but also by people, including via radar, fathometers and submarines using «apparatus working on the same basic principles.»

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

A week later the students were asked to transfer what they had learned about bats to a second knowledge domain: the navigational use of sound waves by submarines.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

«Acoustic communication — the «social calls,» not the echolocation used by these animals — is very important in this species, just like in the rest of the bats.

At 24 kilohertz, the waves used are too high - pitched to be audible to humans — but can be heard by animals such as cats or bats.

These trees are frequently used by fruit - eating, insect - eating and blood - licking bat species as daytime roosts.

By understanding how CNT arrays are created, designers and engineers can better incorporate the highly adaptable material into devices and products such as baseball bats, aerospace wiring, combat body armor, computer logic components and micro sensors used in biomedical applications.

At least one species of bat is known to use echolocation to pick up on the ripples created in the pond by the male frogs inflating and deflating their vocal sacs while calling.

The new study, led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, also shows for the first time that DNA found in leeches can be used to identify certain ground birds and, possibly, some bats.

Using robotic, inflatable frogs and a large cage with microphones and speakers, a team led by Wouter Halfwerk recently revealed how these bats have adapted their hunting to noisy conditions.

Halfwerk's team wanted to find out what happened if the mating calls were obscured by background noise, so they arranged the robot - frogs in such a way that some could only be detected by their croaking while others could also be detected by bats using echolocation.

In the wild, the movement of the frog's vocal sacs as they inflate before they croak can be picked up by echolocation, so the bats could use both listening (eavesdropping) and echolocation for hunting.

Yale electrical engineer Roman Kuc developed his sensitive robot by mimicking the way bats use their ears to pinpoint an insect on the wing — the bats move their ears to pick up echoes from different parts of the insect's body.

On April 25, the barrel of a maple bat used by Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton flew into the stands in Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, hitting Susan Rhodes of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and breaking her jaw.

By using bats as a model system Daniel G. Streicker shows how infectious diseases can be transmitted between species.

Virus replication was detected by using rabbit antibody against the nucleocapsid protein of bat SARSr - CoV Rp3 followed by Cy3 - conjugated mouse anti-rabbit IgG.

Kyle was always an athlete, setting the Pole Vault record in high school and earning a scholarship to college for his track and field prowess, and he brought that same athleticism to the gym — it was an awesome workout right off the bat, and he said he hadn't used free - weights in a workout for years because he owned a Bowflex, but it was hard to tell by watching him throw the weight around.

I also bought all the stuff to make a Chocolate Zucchini Cake before this huge Chocoholic craving passes, because it will pass, and then I'll have to wait an entire month before I'm motivated to make the cake that my dear mother used to make for us sometime around now, when we are inundated by baseball bat sized zucchinis.

Geeks of Doom was on hand for the «Pacific Rim» panel at which Guillermo Del Toro showed off a brand new trailer in which, «a 25 - story high Jaeger robot [dragged] an oil tanker behind it through the streets of Hong Kong, to use as a bat against a Kaiju, followed by a two - fist slap to the Kaiju's head.»

Oh sure, he runs over elderly citizens by the dozen, introduces hookers» skulls to the business end of a baseball bat every second night and probably litters the shit out of the streets of Liberty City with assorted used wrappers.

It's nice to see him getting his kills by beating down zombies with a baseball bat and cutting them into pieces using a chainsaw.

I grew up surrounded by Star Wars action figures, riding my bike through the woods as if it were an Endorian speederbike and conducting «lightsaber» battles with my younger brother (we used bats).

Champ Kind (David Koechner), the sports reporter who knows nothing about sports and eventually uses this as a strength in his new job by just presenting highlights, owns a fried chicken restaurant that actually sells fried bat meat.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Cricket Documentary Recounts Rise and Dominance of West Indian Team Superficially, cricket looks a lot like baseball, except the players use a flat bat, hit the ball on a bounce and don't bother to run around the bases.

If that central issue of the picture lies fallow until an ill - fated recital (set up by ill - used, slapstick laughing - stock Christian cellist Graham Claydon (Tom Hollander)-RRB- ends with a few wild swings of a nail - studded bat, at least it's introduced as an elephant in a room full of people in that darkened theatre clucking at how adorable and somehow inspirational it is that a hobo is a world - class cellist.

It also recommended a rule change that, if approved by the association's board of directors, would mandate the use of wooden bats at all levels of high school play beginning next school year.

A set of 5 Halloween Color By Letter Pages (Lowercase Letters) featuring - a Halloween pumpkin - a bat - a candy - a cat - a spider The pages are only for personal and educational use (classroom, homeschooling etc.).

A set of 5 Halloween Color By Number Pages featuring - a Halloween pumpkin - a bat - a cat - an owl - a witch hat The pages are only for personal and educational use (classroom, homeschooling etc.).

A set of 5 Halloween Color By Letter Pages (Uppercase Letters) featuring - a Halloween pumpkin - a bat - a candy - a cat - a spider The pages are only for personal and educational use (classroom, homeschooling etc.).

These approaches suggest innovations that aren't being batted about by opinion - makers yet, such as redesigning jobs to concentrate top teachers» time on instruction, putting star teachers fully in charge of multiple classrooms, and using technology in combination with in - person reach extension (for one example, learn about Rocketship Education here).

BAT is the acronym for Badass Teachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instructors.

(b) If the STT or BAT, either by mistake, or as the only means to conduct a test under difficult circumstances (e.g., post-accident test with insufficient time to obtain the ATF), uses a non-DOT form for a DOT test, the use of a non-DOT form does not, in and of itself, require the employer or service agent to cancel the test.

When my 8 year old daughter tried to pull her away from the fence, our pit bull locked onto her forearm (she only got her forearm because my daughter threw it up to protect her face, she was going for the face) and it took 8 minutes for my husband to beat her off, he eventually wound up using the weed whacker, after a baseball bat broke over the dog's back without even being noticed by her.

By using a combination of counterconditioning and BAT training, he is now able to walk on the sidewalk with bikers zooming by on the street with no problemBy using a combination of counterconditioning and BAT training, he is now able to walk on the sidewalk with bikers zooming by on the street with no problemby on the street with no problems.

Judging by his smaller size and bat - like ears, most think that the French Bulldog actually arose from the toy or miniature Bulldog, which originated in Nottinham, England, where he was used as a ratter in the shops of laceworkers.

It's also probably the first game to let you pitch, bat and field by using Kinect.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning