Among these are his investigation of the periodicity of growth in length, in connection with which he devised the self-registering auxanometer, by which he established the retarding influence of the highly refrangible rays of the spectrum on the rate of growth ; his researches on heliotropism and geotropism, in which he introduced the clinostat ; his work on the structure and the arrangement of cells in growing-points ; the elaborate experimental evidence upon which he based his " imbibition-theory " of the transpiration-current ; his exhaustive study of the assimilatory activity of the green leaf ; and other papers of interest.

For the new, " clean-sheet " Soviet designs, TsAGI devised a more narrowly spaced arrangement similar to that of the F-111.

Also because the 2: 3: 3: 2 pulldown scheme was devised in order to make pulldown removal for editing in native 24p more efficient, the pulldown arrangement is not ideal for watching footage.

The Weissach axle ( pronounced ' Vise -' as in ' advise ' and '- ach ' with guttural ' ch ') is a special rear suspension arrangement devised for the Porsche 928.

Consequently serial designer Spencer Chapman and manufacturer Shawcraft Engineering devised a tricycle arrangement, incorporating three pneumatic tyres, to replace the original castors and carry the props over uneven ground.

The arrangement he devised is occasionally known as the " Pulawski Wing " or the " Polish wing ".

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

A sweetheart arrangement can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous labor leaders demanding tribute.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

This arrangement had the purpose to prevent heated gas to reach the thermocouple by natural convection.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

This may be unfortunate, perhaps, from the standpoint of David Hedison, Providence's contribution to Hollywood, who is appearing by special arrangement with 20th Century-Fox.

They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.

Publishers, at times, reduced the risk of this type of arrangement, by agreeing only to pay this after a certain amount of copies had sold.

This arrangement probably followed the example set in part by the Essenes in Judea.

The necessity for defence from attacks ( for monastic houses tended to accumulate rich gifts ), economy of space and convenience of access from one part of the community to another, by degrees dictated a more compact and orderly arrangement of the buildings of a monastic coenobium.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

It is possible that this arrangement was sanctioned by Alfred's father, or by the Witan, to guard against the danger of a disputed succession should Æthelred fall in battle.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

The Americans threatened to cut off the Canadian residents ' water supply — and hung up signs saying " Canadians Go Home " — unless the Canadian district of Delta agreed to provide water to Point Roberts, an arrangement that became permanent in 1986.

Secretary of War Joel Roberts Poinsett rejected the arrangement, however, and instructed Jesup to continue his campaign.

Although Roberts Broadcasting held the license since 2002, it merely leased the station facility from Univision Communications ' TeleFutura subsidiary ( this arrangement existed because neither Univision nor TeleFutura had any over-the-air presence at all in St. Louis due to the area's very small Hispanic population ).

This arrangement originated from the U. S. Army's first satellite communications station having been built at nearby Camp Roberts.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

The same arrangement was used when the Lo Shu was equated with the Nine Provinces ; ;

Television has yet to work out a living arrangement with jazz, which comes to the medium more as an uneasy guest than as a relaxed member of the family.

The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.

The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the actors at the end coming forward a little and standing more in profile than the others.

* Atlantic ( locomotive ), name of an early steam-powered locomotive of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with a 0-4-0 wheel arrangement

* Atlantic, a type of steam locomotive with a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement ( UIC classification 2B1 ),

It is primarily concerned with the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus and

In July, Alcott announced their plans in The Dial: " We have made an arrangement with the proprieter of an estate of about a hundred acres, which liberates this tract from human ownership ".

The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

All amniotes have a broadly similar arrangement to that of humans, albeit with a number of individual variations.

As a result Salieri continued to live with Gassmann even after Gassmann's marriage, an arrangement that lasted until the year of Gassmann's death and Salieri's own marriage in 1774.

An existing pop song can be re-recorded with a different arrangement to the original.

They can be disymmetric or slightly zygomorphic, with a typical cross-like arrangement ( hence the name ' Cruciferae ').

This confused arrangement ended with Granby's resignation in 1851 ; Disraeli effectively ignored the two men regardless.