Sentence examples for sensitive stretch from inspiring English sources

Once, following the approval of a housing development on an especially sensitive stretch of land near the Everglades, the Herald ran a story titled "The End of Nature".

In today's announcement, Mr. DiFrancesco also tried to persuade developers of a proposed shopping mall on an environmentally sensitive stretch of the Meadowlands called the Empire Tract to build instead in the new family entertainment complex, with its rail and road service, and allow the tract to remain as parkland.

Previous plans to clean the rocks had been stymied by a morass of state and federal regulations protecting the environmentally sensitive stretch of coastline in northern San Diego, where seals, sea lions, scuba divers, swimmers, tourists, former presidential candidates and the panoply of birds all congregate.

A touch of Trump hype, perhaps, for a 1 billion pound ($1.56 billion) resort north of Scotland's oil capital, Aberdeen, that received outline planning permission Nov. 3 from Scotland's finance secretary, John Swinney, after a public inquiry, though the course will be on an ecologically sensitive stretch of dunes overlooking the North Sea.

The House is considering legislation that would end the federal moratorium on offshore drilling along much of the Outer Continental Shelf (excluding certain environmentally and politically sensitive stretches of Florida and Alaska).

Moreover, ion channels could serve as candidate mechanosensors, since cyclic stretch is able to trigger the gadolinium-sensitive stretch-activated ion channels, inducing a rapid Ca2+ influx, and then play a crucial role in mechanotransduction of fetal rat lung cells (Liu et al., 1994) with specified structural alterations and gating dynamics (Martinac, 2004).

Thus stretch-induced alignment is sensitive to stretch frequency over a range of two orders of magnitude, with the actual values of the threshold and saturation frequencies dependent on the value of τ.

We know from in vitro studies that podocytes are sensitive to stretch, however, the crucial mechanosensor in podocytes remains unclear.

Those flames that were less sensitive to stretch (lower Markstein number) burned faster under turbulent conditions, especially as the turbulence levels were increased, compared to stretch-sensitive (high Markstein number) flames.

Flames studied were sensitive to stretch, yielding unstretched/stretched laminar burning velocity ratios of 0.6 1.25 for conditions well away from quenching conditions (e.g., Karlovitz numbers; Ka⩽0.5).

The combination of short fibers and long resting sarcomere length make the rotator cuff muscles relatively sensitive to stretch because of the low rate of myofilament overlap [9].