The variation in intensity has been explained recently by nonlife mechanisms for Depressio Hellespontica (an area showing one of the greatest seasonal changes) ([ref.
Other applications involve studies of the mechanisms of injury and freezing biological organisms, for improving techniques in hypothermic surgery, pathology, and preservation of tissue for human grafting.
These effects have been studied in attempts to advance understanding of basic mechanisms of physiology and biological rhythms.
Vestibular Mechanisms of Facilitation and Inhibition of Cord Reflexes.
When the chemical composition of the blood and the cardiac output are sufficient to meet cellular requirements, regulatory mechanisms remain effective and animal survival is assured.
However, very little is known about the central nervous mechanisms responsible for elaboration of the whole syndrome.
Theories are also being developed about the mechanisms which control and regulate receptor and enzymatic activities within the cell.
However, special mechanisms have to be sought for those compounds which could not be so produced and which would have been required for the structure and nutrition of the first living organisms.
A reservoir of spores exists which cannot be brought down by the normal scrubbing mechanisms of rainfall and other meteorological disturbances in the troposphere.
Vital cell processes, chemical transformations, and mechanisms that provide energy for cell maintenance and activity have been studied by Kiesow (refs.
These experiments have provided us with insight into the mechanisms concerned with the vestibular control of spinal reflexes (refs.
On the other extreme are the complex primates which respond rapidly, but whose multiplicity of organs and correlative mechanisms are susceptible to malfunction and disorganization.
Neural Mechanisms of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems.
A chart--size 14x28 inches--showing in isometric perspective the mechanismsbelonging in a modern boiler room.
Lathe history and the relations of the lathe to manufacturing are given; also a description of the various devices for feeds and thread-cutting mechanisms from early efforts in this direction to the present time.
The second author worked on the interspecific relationships and isolating mechanisms in Panama (Fouquette, 1960b) and later studied the species in southern Mexico.
Isolating mechanisms in three sympatric tree frogs in the Canal Zone.
This was a special research model, designed for their experiments, and carrying mechanisms not found in commercial crafts.
All that day Arcot and the others discussed the various pieces of apparatus they would need, and toward evening Fuller began to draw rough sketches of the different mechanisms that had been agreed upon.
We must divest her mechanisms of the rigidity and angularity that pertain to the works of our own hands.
Professor Le Dantec says we are mechanismsin the third degree, a mechanism of a mechanism of a mechanism.
It would appear that Bessemer's first intention was to make a movable room to be balanced by mechanisms worked by hand.
Yet everyone is aware that all these mechanismsare inventions of the nineteenth century.
The queen-bee takes her nuptial flight only once, and yet how many and complex are the instincts and the reflex mechanisms which come into play on that occasion.
Nature does not create complex mechanisms in order to leave them unused: they exist by use and for use.
It exposed the breechmechanisms of a pair of twin-mounted 25 mm auto-cannon.
Synchro mechanisms reduced the air cushion as the speeds dropped to afford more surface traction for the tracks.
It means the inauguration of legal and educational mechanisms in the interest of making people want to stay married, rather than toward an effort to make people stay wedded when they wish to separate.
Slowly it is being perceived that in the actual family service, as it is now aided by social mechanisms surrounding the household, is place and economic opportunity for high personal achievement by competent women.
In this century it has become critically important that we comprehend more precisely than ever before the biological mechanisms and balances of our environment and that we learn to detect changes and to understand what they imply.
We have no machinery but the self-sustaining mechanisms in the Earth.
Beneath the ground, in response to the return of the ships, ancient mechanisms whirred to life, and the tech guilds hurried to tend them.
The men of the tech clans who tended the newly activated mechanisms heard it, and the mechanisms memorized it, and played it again and again for the people, while the linguists puzzled over the unidentified language used in the transmission.
Outmoded mechanisms were being brought out of wraps and prepared for use.
In both cases machinery was employed for reducing the grain to flour; but in the one case, the mechanisms employed were more than a hundred times more effective than in the other.
He had merely experimented and learned what it would do, and then designed mechanisms which would utilize it.
A mere story about mechanisms that control gravity, without any basis of fact to support it, would sound rather far-fetched.
Through their organization into life, the mechanisms of nature thus take on the generic quality of good and evil.
The organism inherits the earth; the mechanisms of nature become its environment, its resources in the struggle to keep for a time body and soul together.
We can also venture an opinion about the mechanisms of such sublimation.
For these probably any skin region or sensory organ may serve; but there are certain distinguished erogenous zones the excitation of which by certain organic mechanisms is assured from the beginning.
But social action follows ways that are too circuitous and obscure, and employs psychical mechanisms that are too complex to allow the ordinary observer to see whence it comes.
It knows no shades and measures, it seeks extremes; it consequently employs logical mechanisms with a certain awkwardness, but it ignores none of them.
But it is obvious that the different mechanisms in use are too closely related to each other to be dissociated completely.
Not satisfied with the mechanism that nature has put into the human machine, man has reached for other elements and devised mechanisms of his own in order to supplement the human machine and increase its efficiency.
In the simpler forms these machines are mere counting mechanisms in which the counting is done very rapidly by the aid of intermeshing gears.
Fortunately the design and construction of mechanisms for measuring time were not considered beneath the dignity of the scientists of those early days.
And the allowances, equations and corrections which his motor, sensory and psychic mechanisms learn to make in childhood serve for all subsequent time.
Man, the Thinker, who in essence is a pure intelligence, has two mental mechanisms or organs of consciousness.
When we use the word "machine," we call before our minds certain gross and relatively simple mechanisms constructed by man.
The bodies of the brutes Descartes regarded as mechanisms of the same general nature as the human body.
The force of objections based upon the existence of adaptative mechanisms is no greater than it has always been.
Steel came into universal use for gun founding; breech and recoil mechanisms were perfected; smokeless powder and high explosives came into the picture.
War between the States, and there was no great change until the advent of automatic recoil mechanisms made a stationary mount possible.
In Britain, after breechloaders had been in use almost a decade, the ordnance men went back to muzzle-loading rifles; faulty breech mechanismscaused too many accidents.
Their release is effected by mechanisms shown in Figs.
The Mergenthaler Linotype," which is taken from Mr. Dodge's chapter, is well adapted for teaching the correlation of diagrams and text in the exposition of mechanisms and machines.
Then comes the question, Can any such registers be demonstrated in the vocal apparatus; and if so, what are the mechanisms by which they are produced?
And this cannot be said of any other theory of adaptive mechanisms in nature that has ever been propounded.
Lem Hicks, with one of the fieldpack mechanisms on his back, traveled the return trail till he was halfway between Sargon and King's Cove.
Into wall panels, from floor to ceiling, were set elaborate mechanisms of grills and tubes and coils.
In his own old workshop in the Cove, Lee had copied those steps in real, workingmechanisms that, however crude they might have been, had yet achieved results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mechanisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
