Sentences with phrase «ability to control»

Because the animals that were exposed to escapable defeat were paired with the aggressive conspecific for less time, however, it is unclear whether the difference in CD is due to the ability to control the end of the pairing or simply to the shorter overall duration of defeat experienced.

The ability to control DNA repair outcomes has significant implications for the use of CRISPR - Cas9 in product development.

Before we can search Mars for life, in other words, we have to improve our ability to control hitchhiking Earthlings.

For the Danish - German collaboration, the ability to control the rotation of the molecular ions not only enables the manipulation of the micro-motion, and thus the rotational temperature, but also the quantum - mechanical measurement of this temperature.

At Massachusetts General Hospital doctors have started clinical trials on human volunteers to test brain implants that give paralyzed people the ability to control a computer cursor with thought alone.

Why this should be so is not entirely clear, but environmental stresses (including being exposed to «irrelevant sound», the lack of «visual privacy» and a reduced ability to control one's own personal space), as well as the risk of infection, the types of jobs done in open - plan offices and group dynamics might all play a part.

Among other things, this means CFTR loses the ability to control a protein called the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC).

For many scientists and engineers, the ability to control friction is therefore right at the top of their wish list.

One could leverage this ability to control phenomena such as adhesion in nanodevices, drag on vehicles, and many other interactions of interest to the [Defense Department].»

[1] A patient with aphasia is someone who has lost the ability to control language.

Haemophilia or hemophilia is the name of any of several hereditary genetic illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding.

It is also likely to affect the ability to control floods, as snowpack that melts earlier in the year increases downhill runoff.

Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»

Could their ability to control their SMR waves have been a factor?

Now, engineering researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a material that has the ability to control these waves, creating possible medical, military and commercial applications with the potential to greatly benefit society.

People have acquired the ability to control their dreams after a quick zap of current to their head while they slept.

The ability to control the opening between the vocal cords separates novice from skilled didgeridoo players.

The engineered structural material possesses the ability to control the increase of acoustical or elastic waves.

Here, the ability to control the state of single atoms is decisive.

«Also, we believe that anti-CtBP therapies such as HIPP may be able to complement current therapies to counter drug resistance and decrease metastasis, ultimately increasing our ability to control and cure colon cancer.»

«The ability to control the functional states of opioid receptors is of particular interest because they belong to the large family of so - called G - protein - coupled transmembrane receptors (GPCRs), which make up a large fraction of the proteins targeted by pharmaceutical agents,» says Matthias Schönberger, first author of the new study.

As the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to control their motor functions and can barely walk properly, as well as suffering from pain.

The results showed that the training improved both blood vessel function and the brain's ability to control the beating of the heart.

Reader Pat Rapp wondered about the implications of an experiment that showed that children who engaged in pretend games displayed a greater ability to control their emotional responses to another person's apparent pain compared with kids who participated in more practical games.

Martin Ackermann comments: «If we understand this collective effect, it may improve our ability to control bacterial populations.»

«Eye movements are a crucial part of reading, and our ability to control the timing and sequence of information about a text is important for comprehension,» Schotter says.

This selectivity — the ability to control the chemical reaction so that it generates the desired product with little or no side - products — is an important factor in determining the cost and feasibility of industrial - scale reactions, Zhang says.

Much media attention has focused on a company's ability to control all activities related to a patented gene.

A computer test to measure attention and the participant's ability to control his or her responses to an on - screen cue was also used after the yoga course.

This may be because they are less able to reduce their neurotransmitter levels to a baseline level after a stressful event, limiting their ability to control aggressive impulses.

This group suffered an increased decline in its ability to control blood sugar, compared with those who remained.

He adds that «the ability to control thermal emissions is very important.

With the discovery of sulfa drugs and antibiotics came man's confidence in his ability to control infectious diseases.

The human ability to control voice and learn new sounds may be traceable back to the great apes after all.

Guessing that the reduced ability to control force in patients with PD was related to decreased dopamine — which makes it harder to «recruit» neurons for a particular task — the researchers devised a brain stimulation experiment to further test their hypothesis.

A new brain imaging study by Josh Greene and Joe Paxton at Harvard University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that what separates the well - behaved from the poorly - behaved might not be the ability to control your temptations but rather what kind of temptations you have.

Returning the wallet requires no particular ability to control your treacherous urges — the urge simply isn't there.

That is, the increased effort appeared associated with a poorer ability to control the generation of force.

The discovery has significant implications for our ability to control the global outbreak of new and re-emerging infections such as the Ebola and Zika viruses.

• We argued that it is unlikely that Ebola can be contained in West Africa by closing borders — but such closure might well precipitate the collapse of our ability to control its spread.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a pathway in the brain responsible for the ability to control this impulsive behavior.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

In dogs, by contrast, the larynx is almost even with the mouth, severely limiting their ability to control how the bark sounds.

«The ability to control autoimmunity by autologous HSCT [hematopoietic stem cell transplantation] has been demonstrated in other treatment - refractory autoimmune conditions, including neurologic diseases.

The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Previous studies have linked lower emotional complexity with a reduced ability to control one's emotions, and higher incidence of depression.

«An opioid addiction has a dysregulation of brain functions, decision making abilities, your ability to control your impulses, dampens your response to your natural pleasures, impacts learning and memory.»

A Rice University study has found a link between emotional stress and diabetes, with roots in the brain's ability to control anxiety.

Organic semiconductors and OLEDs could also benefit from the ability to control optical properties using energy from gases.

«Our ability to control these reactions and use them to form a response to the vaccine will be critical in designing the next generation of vaccines,» Kemble says.