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At the tip of the abdomen there are two prolegs, each with a dorsal filament and a pair of terminal hooks which enables the larva to anchor itself in fast-flowing water.
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At close range, fine control of the tip in all three dimensions when near the sample is typically piezoelectric, maintaining tip-sample separation W typically in the 4-7 Å ( 0. 4-0. 7 nm ) range, which is the equilibrium position between attractive ( 3 < W < 10Å ) and repulsive ( W < 3Å ) interactions.
Note that the southern tip of Lake Michigan is depicted as being farther north than Lake Erie. At the time, the actual location of this extreme was unknown.
At its southern tip the Delmarva Peninsula is connected to Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads, Virginia via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
At these higher velocities, the hardened tip of the shot or shell has to be protected from the initial impact shock, or risk shattering.
At sufficiently high values of the applied field, ions are extracted from the cone tip by field evaporation or similar mechanisms, which then are accelerated to high velocities ( typically 100 km / s or more ).
At the very summit of, he heard the cry of an infant and the crash of lightning, the pouring of rain, and he saw the tip of a rainbow with intense colors in front of the black sky.
At the time of the amalgamation the combined population of Barking and Dagenham was around 180, 000, the northern tip of Dagenham having been incorporated into Redbridge and a small area of Barking in Newham.
At the tip of West Ocean Drive is Sunset Park, the place closest to where a woman was fatally struck by a spotted eagle ray.
At the pointed tip of the spore ( the hilum ) closest to the supporting basidium, Buller's drop accumulates as a large, almost spherical water droplet.
At the tip of Arkona in recent centuries, the cliffs have repeatedly collapsed into the sea, with the result that only the ramparts of the Jaromarsburg are still visible today.
At one point, Firestone marketed plugs with polonium in the tip, under the ( questionable ) theory that the radioactivity would ionize the air in the gap, easing spark formation.
At the farthest northern tip of the upper series of lawns enclosed by woodland are three Dawn Redwood trees, which lose their needles but regain them every spring, an emblem of eternal renewal.
At the Hudson's shore, in Fort Washington Park stands the Little Red Lighthouse, a small lighthouse located at the tip of Jeffrey's Hook at the base of the eastern pier of the George Washington Bridge.
At first, Ender does not appear to recognize Bean's brilliance, but time shows that he was grooming Bean as his tactical support, putting him at the head of an unorthodox platoon challenged to outthink the teachers who designed the game, and defeat their attempts to tip the balance of advantages towards Ender's rivals.
At Bouganville the Japanese had two airfields in the southern tip of the island, and another at the northern most penninsula, with a fourth on Buki just across the northern passage.
At lower speeds the air does have time to react, and is pushed spanwise by the angled leading edge, towards the wing tip.
At and abdomen
At 9: 20 p. m., Dr. Weiss approached Long for the third time and, according to the generally accepted version of events, fired a handgun at Long from four feet away, striking him in the abdomen.
At approximately 4: 00 p. m., Bremer pushed his way forward, stuck his. 38 revolver in Wallace's abdomen and opened fire, emptying the weapon before he could be subdued.
At 5: 45 pm, the hospital announced that the president had suffered an long and wide gash across his abdomen.
At the very beginning of the assault he was mortally wounded in the abdomen and he was carried out of action by his staff officer, Lieutenant James Shaw-Kennedy of the 43rd, and, after lingering four days, he died on 23 January 1812.
At the same time, signals travel up the spinal cord and cause contraction of the contralateral muscles of the hip and abdomen to shift the body ’ s center of gravity over the extended leg.
Ross found “ At the moment of the gunshot to his abdomen, Mr. Wilhelm was either kneeling or standing with his upper torso leaning toward the shooter ,” Gardner wrote in his report.
At most other primary sites — retroperitoneal extremity ( in the abdomen, behind the intestines ), truncal, abdominal organs, etc .— leiomyosarcomas appear to grow from the muscle layer of a blood vessel ( the tunica media ).
At rest, blue spots on the second and third segments of the male's abdomen can be noticed ; these are absent in female.
At and there
At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.
At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.
At this time, however, there are signs that increased availability of mortgage credit will not act with the usual speed to stimulate a sharp rise in residential construction.
At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.
I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!
At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters, counting couples as singular.
At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.
At the same time, there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist pressure.
At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.
At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.
At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??
* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.
At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.
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