Sentence examples for clinging ability from inspiring English sources

Irschick, D. J. et al. A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad-bearing lizards.

In fact, THE SHIRT should not touch human skin at all, except during daily demonstrations of its deft clinging ability.

These fine hairlike processes greatly enhance the clinging ability of the lizards, allowing some to easily climb vertical panes of glass.

But scientists don't know whether the lizard actively controls its clinging ability using fine muscle movements in its feet or whether its feet are just intrinsically sticky.

Moreover, at 32°C clinging ability was among the lowest measured in any set of trials.

We tested the temperature dependence of adhesion in Tokay and Day geckos and found that clinging ability at 12°C was nearly double the clinging ability at 32°C.

Although quantitative measurements of maximal clinging capacities, and characterization of the underlying microscopic functional morphology is a relatively recent accomplishment [2], researchers have been proposing hypotheses and debating mechanisms responsible for such remarkable clinging abilities for over 100 years [2].

Those surfaces — carpet, ceramic tile, stainless steel and wood — were slathered with Enterobacter aerogenes, a bacteria similar in food-clinging ability to salmonella but far less a dangerous bug.

Egypt's return to military control and Assad's ability to cling onto power do not mean we have returned to the world as it was.

But others are clinging to their remaining abilities and wondering if they are too much of a burden to their loved ones.

Several of the poets with whom I went to school, clinging to modest functional abilities, are too mentally ill even to know they could be boasting about being mentally ill.