Sentences with phrase «ability to see»

Medical writers need solid writing skills, attention to factual detail and accuracy, and the ability to see relationships between ideas and organize complex information.

NEW YORK — When Daniel Tammet set the European record for pi memorization last year, memorizing 22,514 digits in just over 5 hours, he attributed the feat to his ability to see numbers as complex, 3 - dimensional landscapes, complete with color, texture, and sometimes even sound.

Analogical ability — the ability to see common relations between objects, events or ideas — is a key skill that underlies human intelligence and differentiates humans from other apes.

«The ability to see the density of objects is awesome, and the use of that technology can be vastly more discerning as to weapon or pen or whatever than we have now,» Marpet says.

The ability to see a device's location is crucial for many applications in healthcare, as we move forwards with minimally invasive approaches to treating disease.»

The ability to see the direction in which something is moving is vital for survival.

AMD — the deterioration of the eye's macula, which is responsible for the ability to see fine details clearly — affects an estimated 11 million people in the United States.

«By studying the past, with the ability to see a moment in time and changes through time, we are better able to understand ecosystems and the organisms that live in them today,» Olive said.

When it finally becomes dark at dusk, a person or animal's ability to see small details is much lower than during the middle of the day.

«The task gives us the ability to see what is going on in the brain when there is a correct memory performance,» Smith explains.

The GABA receptor is in abundance on certain cells in the retina on sunny days, and enhances the ability to see details and edges of objects.

«On moonless nights, however, dopamine levels are low and the GABA signal is minimal, decreasing our ability to see those details.»

Prof Hartle told BBC Radio 4's Today: «What was unique about him was that he had a marvellous ability to see through all the clutter in physics and to see what the essential points are and that, of course, was a great thing for going forward.»

Only birds of prey seem to have the ability to see in extremely sharp focus, while human visual acuity outshines that of all other bird species studied.

«I sometimes think of the ability to see amyloid in the brain as seeing the enemy.

«Their ability to see through technical difficulties that prevent almost anyone else to move forward has allowed them to resolve long - standing problems in an amazingly diverse set of areas.»

Howell likened the event to gaining astronomical superpowers that give astronomers the ability to see the universe in new ways.

* Solving the configuration of a viral capsid requires both the ability to discern individual molecules and the ability to see how those molecules fit together in the viral shell.

In an email to Science Careers, Jensen writes that Hope's greatest strength is his ability to see the bigger picture of what sustainability is.

But while those studies have suggested that animals are able to understand what others see — giving them an advantage in competing for food, for example — they rely on the test subjects» ability to see another's head or eyes, providing so - called «gaze cues.»

As a side effect, that seems to suppress our ability to see a face as a whole unit.

«Our ability to see this fundamental process in cancer formation was possible only because of access to revolutionary imaging technology,» said the study's senior author, Tom Misteli, Ph.D., Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, NCI.

In the early 1930s a Duke University botanist named Joseph B. Rhine began testing students for clairvoyance, the ability to see things hidden from sight, by making them guess the design printed on the back of a card pulled randomly from a stack.

Darwin may not have had the raw mental processing power of an Einstein or a Newton, Cyril Aydon concedes in the conclusion of his biography of the man, but he had «an almost superhuman ability to see things that other people did not notice.»

Most of Shroff's improvements on microscopy technology have been focused on giving scientists the ability to see biological samples ever more clearly in their native 3D environment.

«Our eyes and brain adapt and adjust to changing visual input, which is essential to our ability to see,» Shew said.

So the technology that's changed so much for me is the ability to see this very fine detail.

Its applications are nearly endless, giving any scientist the seemingly superhuman ability to see through rodents.

«Once children are aware of the fact that numbers can be exact, they may then focus more on counting up the right number, which could in turn sharpen their ability to see even non-symbolic quantities more precisely.»

Another possibility is a greater ability to see patterns in usage and function as they come across many and varied online environments.

In reality, our ability to see where we are going with sustainable land management is more like trying to drive blindfolded.

We do not have the ability to see what animals see, to notice what they notice, but we once had a vastly greater ability to see animals themselves because we lived in working partnerships with them.

Americans have long prided themselves on their ability to see the world for what it is, as opposed to what someone says it is or what most people happen to believe.

For Col. Dallas Hack, a physician and the brain health / fitness research coordinator at Fort Detrick, Md., the advantage of Schneider's HDFT technology is the ability to see and quantify the damaged circuits.

Reindeer can spot predators and food against a snowy backdrop thanks to an unusual ability to see UV light

Even so, the Hubble's ability to see so many of these lenses in a small fraction of the sky takes them from being a scientific curiosity to serving as a potentially powerful tool for probing the universe's evolution and expansion.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power - generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users» ability to see through the surface.

Einstein's ability to see flaws and his fierce refusal to compromise had real repercussions.

The unique talent of the science communicator is the ability to see things from both the scientist's perspective and that of the layman.

This could, in theory, one day give us the ability to see reds that are currently invisible to us.

There's not only the motivation of a reward structure, but also an ability to see how other people are doing and compete with them — or maybe cooperate.

What scientists have lacked is the ability to see the detailed movements of individual particles that give rise to those effects.

But before telescopes for prospective exoplanet - hunting missions can be designed, astronomers must know if there is a fundamental limit to their ability to see a tiny, dim planet next to a bright star when the system is shrouded in dust.

In the meantime, he says, technology is already enhancing professors» ability to see student thinking.

Many astronomers fear the additional mirror will degrade sensitivity, or the ability to see faint objects, because photons are lost with each reflection.

Too many of those mimics, known as background, could limit the ability to see the decays, or to prove that they don't occur.

The ability to see the other person's viewpoint and communicate it clearly is a vital skill.

Perhaps the Boskops were trapped by their ability to see clearly where things would head.

For example, mice have been given an extra color vision gene in the lab, and it has been shown that the protein manufactured by that gene expands the scope of their vision by enhancing their ability to see longer - wavelength light without any other changes in the brain.

Although we often take the ability to see for granted, this ability derives from sets of complex mathematical transformations that we are not yet able to reproduce in a computer, according to Sharpee.