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rapid and acceleration
The engine in a car cruising on a highway is usually operating significantly below its ideal load, because it is designed for the higher loads required for rapid acceleration.
With only 95-110 hp, rapid acceleration was simply not an option, but the Porsche name carried with it higher expectations.
Natural convection will be more likely and / or more rapid with a greater variation in density between the two fluids, a larger acceleration due to gravity that drives the convection, and / or a larger distance through the convecting medium.
The pikes tend to be lie-in-wait, ambush predators, with elongated snouts, long, well-muscled torsos, forked tails, and dorsal and anal fins set well back and opposite each other for rapid acceleration along a straight line, allowing the fish to quickly emerge from cover to capture their prey.
The period between 1907 and 1910 marked a rapid acceleration in growth as Main Street blossomed with the construction of several new commercial buildings, Germania Hall ( a two-story building featuring a restaurant, grocery store, dance hall, and rooms to rent ), a shop / post office, and a livery stable.
A webbing-sensitive lock is based on a centrifugal clutch activated by rapid acceleration of the strap ( webbing ) from the reel.
# The ABS controller knows that such a rapid deceleration is impossible, so it reduces the pressure to that brake until it sees an acceleration, then it increases the pressure until it sees the deceleration again.
Celera's use of the shotgun strategy spurred the public HGP to change its own strategy, leading to a rapid acceleration of the public effort.
These forces, associated with the rapid acceleration and deceleration of the head, are smallest at the point of rotation of the brain near the lower end of the brain stem and successively increase at increasing distances from this point.
Current knowledge of coronal mass ejection kinematics indicates that the ejection starts with an initial pre-acceleration phase characterized by a slow rising motion, followed by a period of rapid acceleration away from the Sun until a near-constant velocity is reached.
The trains are mostly used for commuter and regional services, and their rapid acceleration makes them suitable for services with short intervals between stations.
These two scenarios have competing demands — interception requires excellent linear speed, while Within Visual Range or WVR engagements require excellent turn rate, while maintaining speed, rapid acceleration, and availability of control at low speeds and high angle of attack.
In this case the accelerometers are used to detect the rapid negative acceleration of the vehicle to determine when a collision has occurred and the severity of the collision.
These included a free-coast experiment to observe and control the negative acceleration of the fuel caused by the small amount of aerodynamic drag on the vehicle ; a rapid fuel tank depressurization test ; and a closed fuel tank pressurization test.
The acceleration of research on animal cognition in the last 50 years has led to a rapid expansion in the variety of species studied and methods employed.
The car can put up to 70 % of the total available power to the rear wheels to assist with rapid acceleration, and of that 70 %, 100 % can be pushed to either the left or right wheel in order to assist the vehicle through a corner.
: p ) Ariane 5 has a high initial acceleration and a trajectory, which leads to a build-up of horizontal velocity five times more rapid than for Ariane 4.
A registered Paint horse should conform to the same " stock horse " body type desired in Quarter Horses: a muscular animal that is heavy but not too tall, with a low center of gravity for maneuverability, and powerful hindquarters suitable for rapid acceleration and sprinting.
Patients involved in sports requiring significant cutting, pivoting, twisting, or rapid acceleration or deceleration may not be able to participate in these activities without ACL reconstruction.
The increased speed and its rapid acceleration and deceleration slashed journey times around the country.
In a similar manner, a lack of support for the seating position of the driver may cause them to move around as the car undergoes rapid acceleration ( through cornering, taking off or braking ).
Nevertheless, ophthalmologists generally advise patients with high degrees of myopia to try to avoid exposure to activities that have the potential for trauma, increase pressure on or within the eye itself, or include rapid acceleration and deceleration.
The West Coast Main Line had been starved of investment for many years and the poor track and general lower speeds ( when compared to the East Coast route ) suited Class 40 as the need to hold trains at speed for long periods simply did not exist and it better exploited their fairly rapid acceleration.
Chrysler quoted this engine as producing which, in a car, made for rapid acceleration.
During this burst of rapid acceleration, the crew become unconscious, one by one, due to a change in the oxygen pressure ; the engine is shut down just in time.

rapid and consciousness
Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
In severe hypoxia, or hypoxia of very rapid onset, changes in levels of consciousness, seizures, coma, priapism, and death occur.
If dehydration is so severe as to cause shock ( severely decreased blood pressure with insufficient blood supply to the body's organs ), or a depressed level of consciousness, rapid infusion of saline ( 1 liter for adults, 10 ml / kg in repeated doses for children ) is recommended to restore circulating volume.
The typical signs of shock are low blood pressure, a rapid heartbeat and signs of poor end-organ perfusion or " decompensation " ( such as low urine output, confusion or loss of consciousness ).
** a rapid decline in function occurs and is marked by seizures, altered states of consciousness, dementia, ventilatory failure
This, however, does not deter critics of the system, who point to its relative newness, the rapid collapse of prior orders of much greater duration, the effects of modern communications on class consciousness, and a general perceived inadequacy of its ability to deal with various crises of its own making and other long term structural problems.
Symptoms of SAH include a severe headache with a rapid onset (" thunderclap headache "), vomiting, confusion or a lowered level of consciousness, and sometimes seizures.
Symptoms of SAH include a severe headache with a rapid onset (" thunderclap headache "), vomiting, confusion or a lowered level of consciousness, and sometimes seizures.
The principle of rapid detoxification is to induce opioid-receptor blockage while the patient is in a state of impaired consciousness, so as to attenuate the withdrawal symptoms experienced by the patient.
Orthostatic intolerance occurs in humans because standing upright is a fundamental stressor and requires rapid and effective circulatory and neurologic compensations to maintain blood pressure, cerebral blood flow, and consciousness.
Patients who suffer from acute OI usually manifest the disorder by a temporary loss of consciousness and posture, with rapid recovery ( simple faints, or syncope ), as well as remaining conscious during their loss of posture.
The normal sleep / wake cycle in adults is divided into REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep, non-REM ( NREM ) sleep, and consciousness.
The loss of consciousness is sometimes accompanied by convulsions and numerous rapid changes in the levels of many different hormones.
Podervianskyi wrote most of his works in the Soviet Union in the mid to late 1980s, a time of stagnation in politics and social life — the of era of " zastoy " and the time of rapid changes in consciousness.

rapid and perfectly
West Indies had first use of a quick but perfectly even batting wicket and made 650 at a rapid scoring rate as England's bowling attack of Willis, Arnold, Greig, Underwood and Illingworth was humiliated by Kanhai, Sobers and Bernard Julien.

rapid and analogous
Although the tones featured in NES music can be thought of emulating a traditional four-piece rock band ( triangle wave used as a bass, two pulse waves analogous to two guitars, and a white noise channel used for drums ), composers would often go out of their way to compose complex and rapid sequences of notes, in part because of the restrictions mentioned above.
Whiteboards are analogous to chalkboards, allowing rapid marking and erasing of markings on their surface.
In bacteria, however, the analogous process ( defined as " the origin of new bacterial species that occupy definable ecological niches ") might be more common because bacteria are less constrained by the homogenizing effects of sexual reproduction and prone to comparatively dramatic and rapid genetic change through horizontal gene transfer.

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