Applying water slowly and over long periods of time, drip irrigation more closely approximates actual plant water use, so it is more efficient and promotes better growth than sprinkler or hand watering.
At the same time, drip irrigation means less water available downstream and in local aquifers, because there's more evaporation and much less runoff.
Delivering curriculum, as we did in the pilot study, in small amounts over a period of time ("drip delivery") is appealing educationally, but it is not clear that the theoretical advantage of easier absorption with this approach outweigh its logistical challenges over a "bolus" (delivery over a short time).
It would take a long time - drip, drip, drip, dot, dot, dot - but the toil would be worthwhile for India.
Set largely in a prison cell, where time drips slowly by as a handful of writers await their fate, the play, which opened on Sunday night at the Public Theater, certainly captures the clammy sense of entrapment that finds the men slowly pecking away at each other's foibles to pass the long hours.
As the time dripped by, we were placated by the Original Series episode The Corbomite Maneuver (the first regular, non-pilot episode of Star Trek filmed), a loop of the film's trailer, some red carpet interviews, and a cobbled-together costume contest that was almost won by a woman in an outfit she claimed was inspired by the dragon Smaug from The Hobbit.
It seems the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, as the appliance is known, is one of several models that at one time dripped and gurgled under the steady gaze of a low-resolution, continually updating camera in the computer labs at Cambridge University in England.
Work from the front to back of the body, but save the head for last so shampoo doesn't have time to drip into his eyes.
Over time, the unending drip-drip-drip of government snafus in the media creates, like the halo effect, a smear effect that, in the mind of the increasingly angry citizen, goes beyond the inept agency in the headlines to smear all of government.
OVER the centuries, Time has dripped in water-clocks and whispered in hour-glasses, ticked in watches and boomed sonorously from bell-towers.
Monthly crop coefficients increased linearly in time for drip-irrigated apple trees (r2 values of 0.76∗∗∗ for IR50 and of 0.77∗∗∗ for IR80), while those obtained in the WT45 treatment fluctuated.
