Sentence examples for the precision of orientation from inspiring English sources

The talitrids used the sun compass, visual cues (landscape and sun visibility) to orient and the precision of orientation varied according to the tidal regime (rising or ebbing tides).

Inhibitors of calcium channels and ionophores impair gravitaxis while caffeine, a blocker of the phosphodiesterase, enhances the precision of orientation.

Care was taken to obtain long (≥10 cm) cores to improve the precision of orientation measurements.

Finally, disruption of the iconic trace is expected to influence the quality of the orientation information, but our mixture-model analysis showed that the precision of the orientation information was not affected by the location manipulation, only the probability to report the correct item.

The results presented here shed new light on the precision of phonotactic orientation in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

The populations from more protected (either naturally or artificially) headland-bays showed a higher precision of orientation with respect to the shoreline direction than those from extended beaches, more subject to changes in longshore sedimentary transport as consequence of natural and human activities.

Since we judge there to be comparatively little ambiguity in the thermal expansion at 150 K, which is not necessarily the case at low temperatures (where β saturates) or at high temperatures (where the behaviour of the b-axis is unclear), we may be reasonably confident in the accuracy (if not the precision) of the derived magnitudes and orientation of the thermal expansion tensor's principal axes.

In particular, the horizontal orientation may increase the precision of pollen transfer in bilaterally symmetrical flowers (e.g. Lilium and Nomocharis) under some pollination syndromes [ 35, 36, 39].

The precision of MTS-1 depends on the position and orientation of the magnet with respect to the sensor matrix.

Comparison of corticostriatal SDDP and STDP indicates that a brief postsynaptic subthreshold depolarization is sufficient to induce bidirectional long-term plasticity while a postsynaptic action potential is determinant in the strict orientation of the plasticity and the precision of the time window.

> The precision of BBH on real data (blue) is more difficult to assess due to the unfavorable orientation of the uncertainty ranges, which yield more uncertainty in the slope of the overall trendline.