Sentences with phrase «which swarm»

It does not encompass intimidation and coercion — in which you swarm an industrial oil rig, board that rig without authorization, and physically bring its activities to a halt — all the while placing other people's lives at risk.

Monterey Bay is the summer feeding grounds for the great baleen whales, which swarm into the bay to feed on the abundant krill blooms.

To demonstrate the kind of complex behaviors that can be achieved with simple commands, Becker videotaped an experiment over the Labor Day weekend in which a swarm of a dozen randomly scattered r - one robots were directed to form a complex shape — a capital R. To direct the robots, Becker used a basic controller — a simple one - button,»80s - era videogame joystick that was capable of giving only two commands: rotate and roll forward.

Joel, who saw in an army of locusts a reflection of the judgment of God, also saw healing: «Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning... I will return to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten.»

John Manobianco, a director of advanced technology at Ensco, an engineering firm in Falls Church, Virginia, is working on a related concept in which swarms of probes waft down like dandelion seeds.

There are essentially big boss ships that are connected by short levels in which swarms of smaller enemies are thrown at you.

Not exact matches

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

«If you don't have your house in order or your security is terrible, researchers could swarm you and it'll be harder to sift through what's legitimate,» says Manoj Kasichainula, head of security at San Francisco - based Asana, which makes team productivity software.

It acknowledges the risk of refugees swarming across the Tumen River, which forms the border between it and North Korea.

So Bluzelle implemented swarm technology, a group of nodes working together to manage and store data, which helps developers with performance, scalability and reliability.

The Romantic tradition to which Melville at least partially belonged modified this pastoral motif in a number of ways, but it never lost its certainty that cities are perverse, the swarming nests of all that is evil and unnatural.

Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus in successive waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors; of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the - audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the event with their own list of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many in the actual audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia of television; had fed questions to members of the audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours of tape one hour that might have been made in a New York city hotel room.

Lindauer has studied the waggle dances involved in swarming, in which the colony establishes itself in a new cavity.

The polytheistic or animist world is one swarming with conflicting powers, which occasionally bundle together into unities that are never quite stable.

As best I can tell, it means having a «swarm» of architectural components creating a «complex physiognomy,» which is to say lots of curves.

Further, wrote Darwin in an 1842 essay, «It is derogatory that the Creator of countless systems of worlds should have created each of the myriads of creeping parasites and slimy worms which have swarmed each day of life... on this one globe.»

Only after many hours of such exchanges of information, and only when the dances of virtually all the scouts indicate the same site, does the swarm fly off to it: «This consensus results from communicative interactions between individual bees which alternatively «speak» and «listen».

The thinking behind Marsbees is that the drone swarm will be able to explore the surface of the Red Planet in conjunction with a rover, which will serve as a mobile beehive.

I had two great birding milestones there: my first Resplendent Quetzal, a near threatened species, and my 1000th life bird, a Ruddy Woodcreeper at an ant swarm, which are kind of unusual at high elevations.

The TripAdvisor app for Enplug is the latest addition to Enplug's suite of apps for customer interaction via social networks, which includes similar display walls for Yelp, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Swarm posts.

Wonder if the Michigan staff, which is currently in Fresno, California as part of its «Summer Swarm Tour», will look to talk to Dismuke before leaving The Golden State?

Perhaps because of the confusion, NVE Pharmaceuticals, the supplement maker, decided to discontinue selling Yellow Jackets but now sells another ephedra product called Yellow Swarm, which, according to a company sales rep, «is basically the same thing with a different name.»

Coach Paul Dietzel's quick and lean and hungry young men took advantage of every break — most of which they made for themselves, which is always the mark of a good football team — and swarmed all over the hapless Blue Devils from Durham like a cloud of angry bees.

But when it all comes down to it, when suddenly one late spring day my hive of bees decides to split and up and swarm themselves right on into the sheep pasture where they most certainly do not belong, well... that's exactly another moment in which I am reminded that I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Ed Miliband, you'll remember, said last week that the current set - up, by which wealthy pensioners receive benefits such as Winter Fuel Allowance and free TV licences, «needs to be looked at» — before his party's spokespeople swarmed out to reassure folk that no decisions had yet been made, that their leader didn't like the idea of means - testing, etc, etc..

When our solar system was in its infancy 4.5 billion years ago, a swarm of protoplanets swirled around the sun — some of which coalesced into larger and larger masses, while others were blasted to smithereens in a demolition derby of planetary proportions.

Dinoflagellates eat these blooms and are then set upon by swarms of krill, which, in turn, are eaten by many larger animals, including baleen whales.

Darlene Cavalier is the brains behind scistarter.com, which lets untrained people collaborate on serious research projects, such as gathering pollution data and monitoring insect swarms.

That's the lesson from new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, which has spotted the signs of midsize black holes at the hearts of ancient stellar swarms called globular clusters.

Instead it takes us to specific waypoints throughout the physical scales of the cosmos across 62 orders of magnitude, from the quantum building blocks of the subatomic world to realms in which entire planets are mere droplets of frozen minerals and onward into the greatest expanse yet discovered, in which entire galaxies swarm like glinting motes of dust against the cosmic horizon.

Fears of nigh - invisible debris swarms place a ceiling of sorts on Sprites and similarly - sized nanosatellites, which U.S. federal officials have informally forbidden from venturing higher than 400 kilometers above Earth.

The extent to which individual intelligence or underlying physical laws drive birds, fish and other organisms to swarm is still mysterious.

Strogatz and Kevin O'Keeffe, Ph.D.» 17, used the curious mating ritual of male Japanese tree frogs as inspiration for their exploration of «swarmalators» — their term for systems in which both synchronization and swarming occur together.

The dish was swarming with ants, which were carrying grains of myceliated rice back inside the walls.

From the high levels of CO2 in the air surrounding the dead trees, geologists concluded in 1995 that a swarm of earthquakes 6 years earlier had created fissures through which about 500 metric tons of the gas a day was seeping to the surface from a reservoir of CO2 several kilometers below.

Andy Reynolds from Rothamsted Research, UK, and colleagues at Stanford University, California, USA, modelled the effect of the attraction force, which resembles Newton's gravity force, acting towards the centre of a midge swarm to give cohesion to their group movement.

Researchers build a 1000 - strong swarm, which could lay the groundwork for robot construction crews or robot search - and - rescue parties

And at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, roboticists are working on a swarm of underwater robots which they hope will one day be able to repair damaged coral reefs.

Exactly how much the situation deteriorates will also depend on the weather; the last plague, which began in 1987, ground to a halt in 1989 partly because freak winds gusted swarms out into the Atlantic — as far as the Caribbean.

These swarms follow a looping orbit around the sun; the apparent source of the meteors, known as the radiant, marks the direction from which they hit us.

These research findings provide important new insights that may help explain and predict the performance of social groups, which could be beneficial in building human teams or constructing automated robot swarms.

Such earthquake swarms typically are associated with the movement of molten rock below ground, which geologists credited for the recent quake cluster at Yellowstone National Park, or they are linked to an active fault, he said on Tuesday.

«As they bump into others while moving within and between the resource sites, the process of behavioral gregarization is initiated, leading to the formation of local aggregations, which may in turn seed large - scale swarms.»

In the high - mass kind, like the great Orion nebula, which is about 1,500 light - years away, stars are packed together like a swarm of bees.

P. locustae spreads from one locust to another through fecal matter consumption, cannibalism, and reproduction — all of which occur more frequently when the locusts swarm.

Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around.

Additionally, the researchers found that infected locusts produced lower levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin, which can initiate swarming behavior, and dopamine, which can sustain the behavior.

Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

When a wasp approached a swarm of ants on the tuna bait, the ants would begin charging at it, spitting acid and trying to bite the insect, which is 200 times larger.