Sentence examples for sphere rather than a from inspiring English sources

The moon, suddenly recognizable as a sphere rather than a disk, took on an ominous red hue.

This self-organization includes a number of highly salient sites that provide a core of common social and cultural experiences and knowledge that can provide the basis for a common public sphere, rather than a fragmented one.

A possible explanation may be the fact that the original KM calculations were performed with a setup with an integrating sphere rather than a hyperspectral imaging setup as used in this research.

The main reason for questioning the applicability of the KM model to a coating on a substrate is because originally, reflectance in the KM model was measured using an integrating sphere, rather than a spectrometer collecting light through an objective lens.

Previous CW-EPR studies of Cu2+/Aβ2 16 and Cu2+/Aβ1 16(D1N) inferred that the ratio of components I and II of the native Cu2+/Aβ system is related to a hydrogen bonding interaction of COO− (Asp1) with a protonated moiety in the outer coordination sphere, rather than a change of the coordinating ligands, because the SH parameters of each component appeared unchanged [50], [51].

This works well in 3D as the sounds are positioned around the surface of a sphere rather than along a straight line between the left and right channels of a stereo mix.

UREs that are owned by their mother universities are in the internal core of university institutional sphere, rather than in the external field; a spin-off arises from the mother university, but is independent to the mother institutionally.

In the 13th century, for instance, British mathematician and scientist Roger Bacon -- ahead of his time in believing the world was a sphere rather than flat -- contended that inhaling the breath of young virgins could rejuvenate elderly men.

In the 3D version of the maze, which because of its spherical symmetry we have named the radiolarian maze, 1 food rewards are located at the end of arms that project from a sphere, rather than the usual disc, so that for each horizontal arm coordinate there are two vertical coordinates.

In his De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre (1720; "Concerning the Size and Shape of the Earth"), he supported the theory that the Earth is an elongated sphere, rather than flattened.

Investing in a college fund is a big commitment, and entering the entrepreneurial sphere rather than the job market seems ridiculous when you have student loans, a lucrative job lined up after college and that looming 90percentt knockout rate.