Sentence examples for use of clock from inspiring English sources

The use of clock imagery in tattoos is not without precedent.

The clock towers built by Zhang Sixun and Su Song, in the 10th and 11th centuries, respectively, also incorporated a striking clock mechanism, the use of clock jacks to sound the hours.

Differential use of clock gene promoters was employed to express a range of transgenes that either increase or decrease Shaw function in different clusters of clock neurons.

Almost everyone who has written about "High Noon" has noted the use of clocks and the sense of real time, but not so many have noticed how meticulously the director played with heat and sunlight.

It is clear that Weyl regarded the use of clocks and rigid rods as an undesirable makeshift within the context of the special and general theory.

Under a conformal transformation the change of the components of the symmetric linear connection is given by (14), that is, The use of clocks and rigid rods is, within the context of either theory, an undesirable makeshift for two reasons.

A phenomenological scheme that deserves special mention, because of the amount of attention it has received over the course of many years, is to define synchrony by the use of clocks transported between locations A and B in the limit of zero velocity.

I am not sure that molecular dating is that trustable, even with the use of clock-relaxed models, as illustrated by many controversies in the recent literature (e.g. Graur & Martin 2004 Trends Genet, Douzery et al. 2004 PNAS, Peterson et al. 2004 PNAS, Roger & Hug 2006 Philos Trans, Emerson 2007 Syst Biol), owing to paleontological uncertainty and tricky rate/time decoupling [ 92- 96].

Furthermore, the continuing use of clocks to elucidate the design principles of cellular circuits will require the development of biologically realistic indices of core system-level properties - such as the flexibility and robustness measures presented here -together with analytical tools for their implementation.

In our analyses the local clock underperformed compared to the discrete clock model, and empirical data that show use of local clock models is only warranted when there is a clear rate shift among lineages.

Furthermore, the use of bioluminescent clock reporters has been extensively employed for noninvasive analysis of the clock in a broad range of model species.