As I watched a group of gymnasts from New Zealand, whose every action looked pained, I was reminded of the physical awkwardness of being a teen-ager, but Biles moved from apparatus to apparatus like a shark in open water.
In 'Automated quantification of the schooling behaviour of sticklebacks', Ardekani et al. describe a video analysis technique for automatically localizing a fish in a tank in the presence of a moving experimental apparatus containing artificial fish.
A device called the "Cunnilingus Machine", which incorporated rubber tongues on a moving chain apparatus, was featured in 2007 as part of the Adult Treasure Expo in Japan at the Makuhari Messe convention center.
Training sessions consisted of 20 60-s trials in which experimenter baited the trays (top first), then moved the apparatus within reach of the chimpanzees.
Even if Ms. Mayer gets the disparate parts of the content apparatus moving in concert, news presents its own problems.
The nostalgic tug of the homeland — Henry Roth's Austria, Jhumpa Lahiri's India — counters the beckoning excitements of the adopted country, creating a tension that keeps the apparatus moving.
Some defenders of the Semantic View keep important aspects of this reconstructive agenda, moving the metamathematical apparatus from predicate logic to set theory.
It also signaled that Mr. Bush's political apparatus was moving into action for Mr. McCain, a onetime insurgent and competitor to Mr. Bush in 2000 who has had a difficult relationship with the president.
Also, the experimental apparatus is moving, which makes the straightforward application of traditional background-subtraction techniques ineffective.
Volcanic ash can erode, pit and scour metallic apparatus, particularly moving parts such as water and wind turbines and cooling fans on transformers or thermal power plants.
