Sentences with phrase «water movement through»

Hirmas has been researching the ease of water movement through soil, called conductivity.

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Fish movement within and between water - dependent ecosystems is crucial to enable fish to re-colonise, avoid unfavourable conditions and in some cases to reproduce through increased interaction with other populations.
They affect not only the property on which they're applied but surrounding areas through the movement of water, wind and local wildlife.
Added bonus: use your movement breaks to also get a drink of water (hydration through the day = good).
As water is lost out of the leaf cells through transpiration, a gradient is established whereby the movement of water out of the cell raises its osmotic concentration and, therefore, its suction pressure.
Algae colonies, such as the Volvox one shown here, are propelled through water by the coordinated movements of their whip - like flagella.
The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.
This uncertainty is changing because of improved supercomputer modelling of the movement of water through ecosystems, based on 20,000 locations around the world.
Rushworth is now mapping the circuit using diffusion - weighted MRI, which tracks the movement of water through the brain, to find out which areas the DPFC is linked to.
While geologists in the energy and mineral industries face roller - coaster hiring - and - firing cycles, those who study the movement and chemistry of water seeping through rocks and sediment find demand for their expertise almost as steady as the flow of groundwater itself.
The satellite tags, which are equipped with GPS antennas, allow the team to keep tabs on the shark's temperature, depth and movement through the water.
The drug works by slowing the movement of stool through the gastrointestinal tract, which allows more time for water to be absorbed out of it.
«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.
The goal is to do a complete accounting of the movement of water from the time it hit the surface of a plant and passed through moss and soil, until it flowed out of the basin and into the network of high forest streams on its way to the lowlands.
They would fill the mouth with sea water and then, using coordinated movements of the throat and tongue, squeeze the water out through the tooth combs, leaving only the food particles to be collected by the tongue.
Nowadays, to watch how animals affect the flows around them as they move through water, researchers often fill a water tank with 10 - micron - wide glass beads and shoot a laser sheet through the water to illuminate the beads and watch how the animals» movement affects the beads and thus disturbs the flow.
Just as geographers can use the movement of water on the earth's surface to define the borders of a watershed, Tully's team was able to use the movement of galaxies through space to determine the contours of Earth's home supercluster.
Tiny scales along the animals» bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water.
Further, the movement of the water through the colon can strengthen the muscles and improve elasticity, which means that natural elimination tends to get easier between sessions.
Dietary fiber is the indigestible part of plant foods that passes through our digestive system without being digested, absorbing water along the way and easing bowel movements.
You lose water every day through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements.
Fiber is claimed to help absorb water, increase the bulk of the stool and speed up movement of stool through the intestine.
Unfortunately, although many of us understand the importance of physical training — think popular endurance races that send us over walls and through muddy waters — too many of us don't know how to rest or try the movement practices needed to maximize the mind's growth opportunities.
Swimmers spend countless hours mastering the movement through the water to cover the length of the pool with fewer strokes and effort at any given pace.
Soluble fiber dissolves in water and forms a gel that slows down the movement of food through your digestive tract, which can help you feel full.
MedlinePlus suggests drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day to keep bowel movements soft and moving through your digestive tract.
They also have a high water content, which accelerates the movement of toxins and waste through your intestines.
Insoluble fiber binds with water, making your stool softer, and adds bulk to your stool, as well as speeding up its movement through the digestive tract.
Once enough are present in the water, the body absorbs them through osmosis, which is the movement of compounds from higher to lower concentration.
You will notice the stain that bleeds through is in a shape of a streak as if something splattered on the cabinets and then dripped down the front and it is the shape of a splatter or spot) You will often find this most near cabinet doors located near the dishwasher or kitchen sink where there is more water movement from washing dishes or emptying the dishwasher.
Through music and movement — as musicians and actors — the children don't just learn about rain, they engage their imaginations and embody the water cycle.
Manipulative skills such as pouring take place through sand and water play; this is where loose items combine spatial judgement, movement control and clear separate roles for both hands.
One movement in education that has already begun linking schools directly to communities by engaging kids in building more sustainable environments through food, water, and energy is systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another other within a whole.
PHMSA's 609 employees carry out inspections, provide training to first responders, administer grants, and develop state of the art rules for the safe movement of hazardous materials through pipelines and across roadways, by rail, air, and water.
This comes from water movement, oxygenation and the rate the water flows through the tank.
Diarrhea is defined as the rapid movement of fecal matter through the digestive tract, involving poor absorption of water, nutrients and electrolytes and passage of soft, watery, unformed stools.
Snails without shells, or nudibranchs, swim gracefully through open water using their spineless, shell-less bodies in rolling spasms of movement.
Keep the movement of your arms nice and smooth, pulling the board through the water.
One morning we paddled through waters teeming with moon jellies, whose fluid movements seemed choreographed to unheard music.
You may even here fish thunder — the sound resulting from the rapid movement of such a large number of fish through open water.
The pups instinct is to chase fish, so workers will drag fish through the water in pens to replicate the movements in the wild to trigger the elephant seals» biology.
- the suit is battery - powered - the battery lets the suit stay inflated for 45 minutes to an hour - if the suit deflates with the user in it, it can become a very dangerous situation, as the user might suffocate - users bring a bottle of water or a small fan with them inside the suit due to extremely hot temperatures - the latest model of the suit allows the person wearing it to hear what people outside are saying - there's a small strip of clear PVC surrounding the bottom of the Pikachu's feet - this allows the operator to see where they're walking - the operator is also able to see clearly through the suit's eyes - there's a mechanism which allows the operator to control the movement of the ears - the recommended height for an operator is 155 cm - the suit is 20 kg and the operator has to bear some of its weight on their shoulders through a harness
There are 120 of them in total, and even though Link's arsenal of skills is shorthanded when compared to those of other Zelda games (he can only use bombs, employ magnetic powers to move metallic objects around, create ice pillars from water, and lock objects in place for a short while before they regain their movement), Nintendo was able to build plenty of clever and entertaining shrines, some of which whose challenge is not in their clearing, but in finding them or making them emerge through the solving of highly engaging environmental puzzles in the overworld itself.
In all his works here we see the back and forth between what the eye gleans from this world of light, shadow, color, form, people, trees, skies, water and all the elements of objective reality, and what the artist asserts of his feelings, as revealed by gestures, color and movements of paint through actions that depict the artist's inner world.
«I am fascinated by the movement of water — the way it flows through cracks in the rocks, laps at a sandy beach, and breaks into a wild display on rocky cliffs.
, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,
With his command of materials, Roshi explores emotion and mysticism through the organic behavior of his medium and allows abstracted images to materialize through the natural processes of pigment, movement and water.
Foregrounding their conditions of presentation, ownership, reception, and provenance, artworks, artifacts, and their passage through time and narrative discourses are played off the figure of the cloud chamber — an early twentieth century device that used water vapor to mark the movement of subatomic particles, and which laid the ground for the study of particle physics by photographing the patterns these movements produced.
WATER MILL, N.Y. — This summer, the Parrish Art Museum is hosting an all - too - rare meeting of Ab - Ex and Art Brut, one that sweeps away myths surrounding both movements and their central figures, Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet, who never met but interacted through the artist and collector Alfonso Ossorio.
The choice of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.
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