Sentences with phrase «which tiny regions»

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

Not exact matches

Sales for that region totaled $ 2.27 billion for that period, just a tiny sliver above Under Armour (UA), which posted a 28 % sales jump to nearly $ 2 billion in sales.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss Alps and parts of Canada, could be better predicted by using technology which measures «tiny earthquakes» — according to a group of international experts.

Scientists have concocted tiny versions of several brain regions ranging from the hypothalamus, which regulates body temperature, thirst and hunger, to the movement - controlling basal ganglia.

Hard drives store data on discs coated with a metallic film divided into tiny magnetic regions, each of which stores a single bit — the more regions you can squeeze on to a disc, the bigger the capacity.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

To put this into perspective, the image above shows you the tiny region of space that Kepler observes, which equates to around 0.28 % of the night sky.

That is a number which we quantify in our book but if that would will give equal weight to tiny countries in the Nordic region, Sweden, or Norway, or Belgium, or whatever to large countries like the United States.

Regions Bank provides four primary checking accounts, including the standard LifeGreen, the no - frills LifeGreen Simple, the online - banking - focused LifeGreen eAccess and LifeGreen Preferred, which earns a tiny bit of interest.

The Cancun and the Riviera Maya region, which includes such gems like Holbox, Cozumel, Isla Contoy and the tiny Puerto Morelos fishing village alone receive more than three million visitors eaçh year.

The researchers found that the composite material not only could control both NIR light and visible light, but that there was «a synergistic interaction in the tiny region where glassy matrix meets nanocrystal that increases the potency of the electrochromic effect,» which means that thinner coatings of the material could pack just as much punch.

We've no exact price for this model, but Greenmoxie says it is somewhere in the region of US$ 75,000, which is roughly in line with other luxury tiny houses, such as the Moon Dragon and Alpha.