Sentence examples for manipulated the shape of from inspiring English sources

We manipulated the shape of food patches, independent of patch area (square, 13.6 × 13.6 cm; rectangular, 46.5 × 4.0 cm; elongated, 93.0 × 2.0 cm), presented to small, medium and large convict cichlids, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus, in groups of varying size (three, six, 12 fish).

Neil Gershenfeld of the Fab Lab drew a cube on a screen, then a sphere, and used one to manipulate the shape of the other.

One can manipulate the shape of gold nanostructures to control their electronic and associated optical properties for the desired applications.

Strains produced by active materials embedded in plates have been extensively used to manipulate the shape of surface-like engineering structures.

Manipulating the shape of the threads using this method, called thread-rolling, was thought to be impossible because it would be too hard to control the structure of the screw if metal oozed into odd shapes.

Surface-tension-based actuation techniques such as continuous electrowetting (CEW) are effective at transporting finite volumes of liquid metal with low-voltage, low-power signals [6], although they have not been shown to effectively manipulate the shape of the liquid metal.

It's my body type, it's in my genes, I cannot manipulate the shape of my legs anymore than I can change my eye color from blue to brown.

We did experiment with manipulating the shape of the survival distribution of prions in the environment, but aside from changing the timescales over which the disease dynamics played out (due to an increase or decrease in the rate at which the environmental reservoir accumulated), it did not affect our primary conclusions (data not shown).

Reversibly manipulating the shape of gallium is a challenge due to the "sticky" nature of the oxide and thus Hg is often utilized for reconfigurable circuits.

Later work in both human and yeast systems led to the discovery of other proteins involved in the core fusion and fission machinery, thereby providing invaluable tools to manipulate the shape of the reticulum.

This finding confirms the applicability of the microtube structures as cell culturing scaffolds that can directly manipulate the shape of whole cells and their nuclei without grossly affecting the integrity of DNA even when the cells are grown inside the narrowest microtubes of diameters between 5 and 8 μm.