This implied that the release site was a long way west of home, and if the pigeon were using the height of the Sun as a cue to guide it home, it should have flown east.
Just last week researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health published a paper that used the height of women in 54 low- and middle-income countries to indicate how children in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East were faring.
This experiment then suggests first, that the pigeon was not using the height of the Sun at all; second, that it used the Sun's horizontal position, or azimuth, to provide a compass bearing; and, third, and most important, that the pigeon had some other map that told it that the release site was south of home.
If its strictures are sometimes mocked as picayune and procrustean — "When a mixed-case legend is used, the height of the lower-case letters shall be 3/4 of the height of the initial upper-case letter" — they are designed to make driving safer by helping aging drivers read traffic signs more easily, especially at night.
The process design of the fixed-bed adsorber was demonstrated using the height of an equivalent transfer unit (HETU) method.
Surface topography of unpolished Cu foil, polished Cu foil, and Cu film specimens was measured by AFM, and the surface roughness was evaluated using the height of ditches, as shown in Figure 10.
Thus, the mid-crown-height of a given species is calculated as (height – H b )/2 + H b, and the mid-crown-height of a given layer is calculated using the height of the tallest species in that layer, and the minimum H b of all species in that layer.
Not too long ago, I actually wrote a post that used the height of the Empire State Building, so I remembered it was about 1,500 feet tall.
It got this name because Sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730-1754) used the height of Taksim to collect water there, and then from there be dispersed accordingly.
In the 1610 edition of Certaine Errors he described inventions such as the "sea-ring" that enabled mariners to determine the magnetic variation of the compass, the sun's altitude and the time of day in any place if the latitude was known; and a device for finding latitude when one was not on the meridian using the height of the pole star.
