In a Western culture so focused on achievement, on striving for more, on
testing human limits, it can be easy to transfer a «push yourself»...
Not exact matches
Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of
human operators and over people's heads in public places, which
limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond
testing.
Trade shows can
test the
limits of
human endurance.
Once the system seemed to be working, Kopparapu arranged for
tests at a Mumbai hospital to see how the app would perform in a real - life setting, and so far it's done just as well as a
human specialist, although the data is
limited.
For now, these fully self - driving minivans — sans
human test driver — are
limited to a defined «geo - fenced» area.
(We don't need to have our ability to obey
tested because we are
human and thus have
limited ability to obey.)
He calmly snipped the cord, then
tested the
limits of
human endurance by watching the exit of the placenta, a Technicolor extravaganza that should be viewed with all the precautions of a total eclipse of the sun — polarized glasses, mirrors, cardboard boxes, air - sickness bags, the works.
It's too much to talk about all that here, so I will
limit my discussion to how Ava, the robot, seduces and basically destroys Caleb, who was chosen by Nathan, his employer, to interact with her to see if she passes the Turing
test, which examines if a machine has consciousness and is indistinguishable from a
human.
Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive)
human (or
humans, bless your heart) is going to
test your patience, your
limits, and your soul.
Humans tested as generally more sensitive sniffers than monkeys and rats on a
limited range of odors.
The study didn't
test humans and dogs head to head — I think the dogs might win depending on the odor — but what it shows is the
limits of
human smell tracking haven't really been investigated.
If animal
tests go well, the next trials will be with
humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a
limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.
This is not only because
tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in
humans or other animals is severely
limited by differences among major species.
Despite current lack of European Law regulating leaching of elements from metallic food contact materials, the Council of Europe resolved in 2013 that contaminants «must not be released in quantities which could endanger
human health» and specifies
limits for and methods of
testing metals released into food.
Human - robot interaction is hard, and our ability to do
tests in this area is
limited by the number of robots already out there performing real - world tasks.
The next steps in this line of research include
tests on whether boosting the effects of FGF21 can help
limit or reverse liver damage in mice and decrease a preference for alcohol in
humans.
People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to
test the
limits of
human vision.
To ensure that the glial cell - to - neuron conversion method is not
limited to rodent animals, Chen and his team further
tested the method on cultured
human glial cells.
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«But
human trials of sitagliptin have been
limited to date because they have lacked important tools like a placebo arm and allocation concealment (in which researchers do not know what the next treatment allocation will be, further preventing selection bias in
testing),» said Loomba.
Other labs have done similar
tests in monkeys, but monkeys can't describe sensations,
limiting what we can learn on behalf of future
human users.
Although
human studies are
limited, animal and
test tube research have shown time and time again that cordyceps has the capacity to destroy cancer cells, help normalize low white blood cell count occurring as a result of chemotherapy, and even make certain medications more toxic to cancer cells.
Alison, I was
tested recently at University of Florida
Human Performance Lab and my fat burning only started diminishing when my HR hit 155 - 160 and the doctors there believed it was possible with proper training and diet to keep pushing that
limit further and further.
Whereas enthusiasm for fasting is increasing, clinical relevance remains low because of insufficient
human data, including almost nonexistent controlled trials (21, 33 — 36), few clinical outcomes studies (37, 38), lack of correction for inflated type I error rates from multiple hypothesis
tests, and
limited safety data (39 — 41).
Moreover, only very
limited testing has been done to determine effects on
humans.
We don't
limit ourselves just to the HLA
test (
human leukocyte antigen) which are the genes in the immune system that are related to attraction.
Everest could have gone a similar route, taking this tragedy and amping it up for the cheap seats, as the events offer plenty of opportunity for jaw - dropping sequences depicting the ravaging potential of mother nature to decimate
human beings who
test her
limits.
Frequency sweep — 1,000 to 20 hertz; a bass
test tone that sweeps toward the lowest
limit of
human hearing to check subwoofer performance and panel resonance
Soon their lives will be
tested to the very
limits of friendship and
human endurance.
Other works
test the
limits of photographic technologies and
human vision, such as Tacita Dean's 16 mm film The Green Ray (2001) and Mary Lucier's 7 - channel video Equinox (1979/2016).
Performance, for her, became a method of
testing the
limits of intimacy and trust between artist and audience, as well as the
limits of the
human body.
Examined in unison, clusters of paintings exploring a single theme begin to stand out — functioning, together, as visual experiments which
test the
limits of
human perception.
While the exhibition has particular relevance to Chicago — the city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type — artists throughout the world, in addition to authors, filmmakers, poets, and undoubtedly architects, have been enthralled by the
human desire to build farther and farther into the sky,
testing technological
limits while embodying a yearning for spiritual connection to the heavens.
Because there has never been a leak of this size at this depth, stopping it has
tested the
limits of
human technology.
On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how
human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity
tests that have been done using
limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.
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Among other things, the updated Policy «recognizes that it is a legitimate goal for employers to have a safe workplace,» however it makes clear that employers must nevertheless respect
human rights laws and employee privacy rights which continue to
limit and govern
testing in the workplace.
However, its
testing policies and programs have been struck down by
human rights commissions, the courts and arbitrators in several decisions, including Entrop v. Imperial Oil
Limited (2000), 189 D.L.R. (4th) 14 (Ont.
The primary
limiting principle of religious accommodation is the «undue hardship»
test in statutory
human rights [5] or the section 1 «Oakes
test» for Charter cases.
Although
testing showed that the chemicals in the well water did not exceed the
limits under the Ontario Drinking Water Objectives for
human consumption, the Berendsens maintained that the water was unfit for their cows.
Anyone can understand the problem, which is simply that mice aren't
humans, and
tests on them are necessarily
limited.
Entertainment based on space - travel can perhaps give us a glimpse of the experiences future generations might encounter when
testing the
limits of
human discovery.
Now that digital media's performance has started to sail beyond the
limits of
human perception,
test results matter less and less — while features matter more and more.
But a the full - fledged M virtual assistant is still only available to a very
limited set of
test users, and Facebook has acknowledged many of its capabilities are handled by a team of
human «trainers» rather than true AI.