Recurring times

Usage examples of cycles.

After what felt like cycles of useless wondering, Ra-Nu came to the conclusion that he had misunderstood his feelings toward El-Hur and gave up his tail.

Several cycles came and went as he labored down the hillside, but he had not worried.

In less than two cycles they would arrive in Sol -- a destination long sought.

My interest in cycles goes back even further than that, to an epiphany I had as a freshman in high school.

In October, the cycles of close friends and roommates started an average of 8.

Swabs taken from women at the beginning of their cycles, in the follicular phase before ovulation, tended to shorten the cycles of the women who received them.

In contrast, swabs taken from women at the time of ovulation prolonged the cycles of the beneficiaries.

On a strip chart, it looks like a prominent oscillation of roughly 10 cycles a second.

Like any other biological population, these oscillators were bound to be diverse: Some would be inherently faster than others, preferring to fire 12 times a second, while others might run slow, firing only 8 times a second, though most would be somewhere in the middle, with natural frequencies close to 10 cycles a second.

Problems in Random Theory, he offered the schematic picture of the spectrum we have seen earlier, with its perfectly symmetrical peak rising from a perfectly symmetrical double-dip, all centered at exactly 10 cycles per second.

At this higher level, scientists have recently discovered cryptic regularities in the timing of human sleep-wake cycles and other circadian rhythms, even though the microscopic basis for these laws remains enigmatic.

A few maintained that odd schedule indefinitely, resulting in sleep-wake cycles that were 40 hours long, on average.

Others regularly alternated between long cycles and more conventional ones, while still others would systematically lengthen their cycles as the experiment progressed, until they were sleeping only once every two days, without realizing it.

He graphed the sleep and body temperature cycles together in a two-dimensional format called a raster plot.

When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.