Sentences with phrase «very narrow»

A nanocrystal can be doped with 5,000 to 10,000 impurities so it emits a certain color in the near - infrared with a very narrow spectral peak.
Existing genomic tests only work in a very narrow window after the onset of clinical signs (Figure 1).
There is a very narrow window within which return is possible, and the commitment to launch is a commitment to three years in space.
By using model comparisons in an approximate Bayesian framework, we have shown that the speciation event and the major mutation responsible of for heavy metal accumulation both occurred in a very narrow time - scale [1].
NGC 3501 appears edge - on, giving it an elongated and very narrow appearance.
Direct effects from depletion of O2 levels and rising water temperatures over the next century may also impact embryonic survival rates of vulnerable deep - sea oviparous (egg - laying) elasmobranchs that currently deposit their capsules at the seafloor in very narrow oceanographic niches with distinct O2, salinity and temperature conditions (Henry et al., 2016).
«Watermelons are an important cash crop and among the top five most consumed fresh fruits; however, cultivated watermelons have a very narrow genetic base, which presents a major bottleneck to its breeding.
Other plants like poplars and birches grow very narrow water transport cells in order to prevent serious damage and blockages when cold weather hits them.
This means that people with the condition walk a very narrow path to good health.
Outside a very narrow focal plane, nothing happens.
However, since the jets are very narrow and their spinning motion is very small, we had not been able to confirm their spinning motion.
Implications A key feature of this discovery is recognition that all the seep mounds formed during a very narrow range of geologic time.
... on J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project: He was my boss after the war, but he wasn't much interested in what I was doing because it wasn't fundamental enough — he had a very narrow view of what science should be.
«The new laser has a very narrow pulse that fires 10,000 pulses every second, compared to the old laser's wider pulse at 3,000 pulses per second,» said Jim Yungel, Wallops program manager for the laser altimeter.
This small value for the beta function means that currently the spacetime rainbow is very narrow and can not be detected experimentally.
That might sound a little counter-intuitive because lasers are very narrow when they are first emitted, but if that light travels across many light - years that beam widens significantly, and so the beam width can be on the order of tens of millions of kilometers across or more, and so any planet lying within that beam would be unable to see our transit.»
«You squeeze the spectrum into a very narrow range of wavelengths.»
The pore seemed to hold promise for sequencing because it has a very narrow and well - defined passage for a DNA strand, Remaut says.
Geim's group reported in March that it had dialed a current up and down by shaping single - layer graphene into a very narrow hourglass.
Although the decision is a landmark in biotechnology regulation, it's also a very narrow one, says Martin Smith, an environmental economist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
«They have very narrow tolerance for changes.
13 Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician, identified what is now called Asperger's syndrome: a form of autism marked by intense absorption in a very narrow range of special interests.
Her viewpoint is very narrow, and so she perceives objects paving the courtyard as being uniform in size.
Within the top gate barrier (which is otherwise an insulator), a very narrow passageway which conducts electrons normally (N), can link the superconducting (S) panels on either side of the top gate.
Y chromosomes and mtDNA leave a deep but very narrow record of ancestry, says Douglas Wallace, a geneticist at the University of California at Irvine and a pioneer of molecular anthropology.
«Most of the precolonial pictographs are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves, some are very hard to access, you have to crawl to get to them, they are very extensive and humidity is very high but it is extremely rewarding.
It was chance that now got the researchers on the right track: They discovered that very narrow conductive channels occur naturally when splitting lead tin selenide (PbSnSe), a crystalline insulator.
«The specific socialization in academic institutions leads to a very narrow sense of what is worthwhile employment,... and that is mostly only academic work,» Müller says.
«We realize that in designing drugs to reach such targets that they will have to work within very narrow confines,» Scott said.
Bt produces a protein that is deadly to a very narrow category of pests, including the corn borer worm.
Very narrow entrances prevent all potential tenants other than ants from taking up residence.
Alan Goldhammer, associate vice president for regulatory affairs of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, dismisses the Gross study as a «very narrow look» at the broad spectrum of research and accuses the Yale team of «impugning the integrity of the investigators who conducted the tests.»
Guo and Gupta surmised that there might be a way to tease out temperature - driven motions in a cell by looking at the cell within a very narrow timeframe.
Although I am annoyed that the majority of the posts seem to celebrate a very narrow representation of femininity, my real bitterness comes from the systemic challenges that these posts are working to address, and from seeing so many young female scientists compelled to turn to their personal social media pages to try to correct the system's failures.
For instance, Mexican free - tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Texas and Mexico forage for nocturnal moths, which migrate in very narrow layers in the atmosphere based on how the wind is blowing.
However, Williams explained sweet corn trials are hand harvested, as opposed to being mechanically harvested, and during a very narrow window of time.
«The hot wind actually shreds the clouds and the clouds become sheared and very narrow.
«As a result, drugs are approved on the basis of studies of very narrow clinical populations but are subsequently used much more broadly in clinical practice,» Naci and Ioannidis point out.
«It is a very narrow and simple effort to ensure that the message went out, that no way, never, would it be permitted to take eggs from aborted girl fetuses, fertilise them in the laboratory and inject them into a woman who wants a baby.»
Whereas most continental shelves are about twice as wide and inactive, like that off the U.S. Atlantic coast, the California continental shelf is very narrow and is dominated by active faults and tectonics.
«A sugar - sweetened beverage tax is a very narrow approach to internalizing the external costs of obesity, because there are many other food and drink items that are also energy dense and lack nutritional value.
«The problem is that we have a historically very narrow and small research community.
«That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,» Xu said.
The size and duration of the studies that do exist are also very narrow in scope.
The F ring is very narrow with a width of only a few hundred kilometers, and has two shepherd satellites called Prometheus and Pandora, which orbit inside and outside the ring, respectively.
«My project was very narrow, focusing on one cell type and one pathway, one molecule.
It is very narrow, tall glaciers on either side and it happened to be one of those beautiful blue sky days and I can remember thinking over and over during that day, you know, how lucky we were to be there because I have been to that channel before and often it's big and blowy and gusty and windy because you're pushing all these [this] ice and wind through this narrow slot.
The engineers tried using piezoceramic elements, each of which emits only a single frequency or a very narrow band of frequencies.
«If one introduction [of a virus] can cause an outbreak, you have a very narrow window to try to contain it.»
Dinosaurs, Rothschild notes, had joints whose movements were highly constricted; they could swing back and forth on a very narrow track.
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