Sentence examples for fid from inspiring English sources

Species with longer FID are known to have smaller risk of getting killed by cars, suggesting that adjusting FID might be an adaptive way to respond to road traffic".

FID increased with body mass, with smaller, more agile species waiting longer before taking flight.

"By contrast, car speed had no significant effect on FID, both when considering absolute car speed or the difference between car speed and speed limit".

They added: "Our results show that birds change their FID according to speed limit rather than car speed.

The researchers, led by Pierre Legagneux, from Laval University in Canada, wrote in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters: "Birds had significantly higher FID on road sections with higher speed limits.

The car was driven at, under or over the speed limit and a timer used to calculate "flight initiation distance" (FID) - the closest distance the car came before the birds flew out of danger.

Another former planner said, "Once you turn on the tip-fid, everything moves in an orderly fashion".

The critical moment, one planner said, came last fall, during the buildup for the war, when Rumsfeld decided that he would no longer be guided by the Pentagon's most sophisticated war-planning document, the TPFDL — time-phased forces-deployment list — which is known to planning officers as the tip-fiddle (tip-fid, for short).

He was also head of one of the six international federations of disabled athletes that make up the Paralympic family INAS-FID - the International Sports Organisation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability.

Birds standing in the middle of the road were more cautious than those at the edges and had greater FIDs.

A total of 134 FIDs were measured for 21 species.