Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface.

But those who truly understand the economic impact and can work to change the patterns can create a wide range of career possibilities.

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

El nifio, a Spanish term for \the Christ child\, was named by south American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern.

If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community.

In an online class, developing healthy patterns of communication with professors is very important.

So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?

Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color.

These patterns are unique to each person.

Typing patterns vary from person to person.

When the world was sill populated by hunter-gatherers, small tightly knit groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

The elaborate patterns were believed to offer protection against evil.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

She studied the smoking patterns of adult smokers.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

The tests are designed to detect subtle ( ' , 细微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.

Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

It is important to study our sleep patterns.

Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time.

The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behaviour is that they are controlled by social norms--shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation.

Still, in my studies and others I have read, I find the same patterns as in USA WEEKEND's survey.

change the weather patterns throughout the world

The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area

If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America,\ says Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education.

They have bright colors and intricate patterns.

Migration patterns of monarch butterflies

Well, that's a good question, because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any \models\ as such— there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development

A similar but reversed pattern was found for the activities associated with greater well-being.

If humans are generally geared to recall details about one another, this pattern is probably even more powerful among teenagers who are very attentive to social details: who is in, who is out, who likes whom, who is mad at whom.

In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

In weighing the evidence, we can now say with some confidence that pasta does not have an adverse effect on body weight outcomes when it is consumed as part of a healthy dietary pattern.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library ( ' , completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.

And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.

The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s.