Using more than one clock in a system is a quite common approach to deal with timing, synchronization, and independent execution in synchronous systems, even though the term clock can be misleading since it is used for many different concepts: a hardware developer will probably understand by clock a periodic signal whose occurrence is based on a fixed physical time.
But he notes that even though the liver clock responds directly to changes in meal time, the brain may still be in charge: By controlling the sleep-wake cycle, the brain clock determines when an animal is active and searching for food.
This concerted action of Shh may explain why even though the somitogenesis clock was delayed almost 3 hours no alterations in A-P somite length were detected [ 92].
The static nature of the story may be a mild dramatic drawback — even though the show clocks in at a brisk 70 minutes — but it's an all-too-apt expression of the interior world of a high school freshman looking at four years of the loneliness and despair that have become his everyday companions.
By contrast, when Serbian human rights violations in Kosovo caught the media's attention a few months later, the former Yugoslavia was bombed by NATO, under American prodding, for 78 days around the clock, even though, as Mr. Kissinger puts it, "Kosovo represented no threat to American security in any traditional sense".
Even though the endogenous circadian clock functions in the absence of external time cues, it periodically measures some of these environmental parameters to synchronize internal and external time under natural conditions to so-called diurnal rhythms.
Even though the detectors and the clocks were just doing their jobs, it all felt like part of the same continuum of me Not Taking Shit from any machine, and the fact that I had to spend a night with a two-thirds shaved head seemed a meagre price to pay for justice.
Even though the detectors and the clocks were just doing their jobs, it all felt like part of the same continuum of me Not Taking Shit from any machine, and the fact that I had to spend a night with a two-thirds shaved head seemed a meager price to pay for justice.
Wouldn't you know it: The Giants left too much time on the clock, even though the Cowboys had lost Dez Bryant to a broken foot.
