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Following an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in his ear and burst ; he endured intense pain for a week and died at 2am on 18 January 1873 just short of his 70th birthday.
They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short " broken " brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour — not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary — to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.
The rainiest month is July, mainly due to short but intense cloudbursts and thunderstorms.
" Game Revolution called the game " A fine FPS with plenty of action and intense gameplay, even if it is derivative, too short and a tad uninspired.
Although droughts can persist for several years, even a short, intense drought can cause significant damage
Electroporation can also be used to help deliver drugs or genes into the cell by applying short and intense electric pulses that transiently permeabilize cell membrane, thus allowing transport of molecules otherwise not transported through a cellular membrane.
The highest speed runs are usually fairly short, but they can be quite intense.
It is often compared to DMT due to its short and very intense trip.
Exercise is also a very good long term treatment for the angina ( but only particular regimens-gentle and sustained exercise rather than intense short bursts ), probably working by complex mechanisms such as improving blood pressure and promoting coronary artery collateralisation.
The poems of this period are short, rarely tell a story and are intense in expression.
Thus it provides an intense, detailed exploration of its subject, providing to some degree both the concentrated focus of the short story and the broad scope of the novel.
In spite of the intense atmosphere, Franklin and Gosling discovered that there were two forms of DNA: at high humidity ( when wet ), the DNA fibre became long and thin ; when it was dried it became short and fat.
< sup > 60 </ sup > Co, an intense gamma ray emitter, has a half-life of 5. 27 years, long enough to settle out before significant decay has occurred, and to make it impractical to wait out in shelters, yet short enough that intense radiation is produced.
The summer in Jokkmokk Municipality is short but intense.
The Germans intended to employ the new tactics of a short, intense period of shelling followed by a rapid assault using Hutier infiltration tactics, leading elements attacking in groups rather than waves and bypassing strong opposition.
While in the action painting style of Abstract Expressionism brushstrokes were often large and bold and paint was applied in a rapid outpouring of emotion and energy, the Abstract Impressionist's short and intense brushstrokes or non-traditional application of paints and textures is done slowly and with purpose, using the passage of time as an asset and a technique.
This often follows a short period of intense media and opposition pressure for them to do so.
The flash tube is a cold-cathode device filled with xenon gas, used to produce an intense short pulse of light for photography or to act as a stroboscope to examine the motion of moving parts.
Hardcore was a form of sparse punk, consisting of short, fast, and intense songs that spoke to disaffected youth, with such influential bands as Bad Religion, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and Minor Threat.
Anaerobic glycolysis is only an effective means of energy production during short, intense exercise, providing energy for a period ranging from 10 seconds to 2 minutes.
The next day, after having made Tristan march through the crowded streets, which included a short but intense meeting with the Captain of the Guard, Nicholas asks Tristan a series of questions as to what makes a strong, highborn prince obey with such a complete submission.
Unfortunately, performance was below expectations, roughly on par with contemporaneous propeller-driven aircraft, an outcome generally attributed to the extremely short development timeframe required by the USAAF, as well as the intense secrecy imposed on the project.
Past research explains that regrets of action are intense, but only in the short term, while regrets of inaction gains intensity over time and dominates people's experience.

short and pulse
This results in a short pulse incorporating that energy, and thus a high peak power.
Due to the Fourier limit ( also known as energy-time uncertainty ), a pulse of such short temporal length has a spectrum spread over a considerable bandwidth.
Again, because of the extremely short pulse duration, such a laser will produce pulses which achieve an extremely high peak power.
The thermal pulse, while being hot enough to ignite flammable material at distance, was short in duration and these fires went out immediately after the flash or were blown out by the blast wave.
The magnetron is operated with very short pulses of applied voltage, resulting in a short pulse of high power microwave energy being radiated.
If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.
One way to measure the distance to an object is to transmit a short pulse of radio signal ( electromagnetic radiation ) and measure the time it takes for the reflection to return.
First, a short electrical pulse must be applied.
Individual digits in a phone number need to be separated with a short pause so as not to bleed into each other ( as well as, originally, to give the rotary relays at the exchange time to rotate ) and in keypad based pulse dialing digits need to be " buffered " when dialed rapidly.
A short pulse length will improve distance resolution of optical events, but will also reduce measuring range and attenuation measurement resolution.
A TDR transmits a short rise time pulse along the conductor.
When the rising edge of the pulse is launched down the cable, the voltage at the launching point " steps up " to a given value instantly and the pulse begins propagating down the cable towards the short.
When the pulse hits the short, no energy is absorbed at the far end.
Instead, an opposing pulse reflects back from the short towards the launching end.
That is, the TDR had no indication that there is a short at the end of the cable until its emitted pulse can travel down the cable at roughly the speed of light and the echo can return back up the cable at the same speed.
( The second factor in this equation is an envelope function that shapes the continuous sinusoid into a short pulse.
The claw is an assembly that connects the short pulse tubes and short milk tubes from the teatcups to the long pulse tube and long milk tube.
It involves heating a strip or cylindrical sample with a short energy pulse at one end and analyzing the temperature change ( reduction in amplitude and phase shift of the pulse ) a short distance away.

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