Sentences with phrase «about the mechanisms by»

His point was not to deny (or affirm) whether nature comes from a creator but only that such a statement explains nothing about the mechanism by which species are transformed over time.

The issue now is not whether viruses cause human tumors (as perhaps they may, on occasion) but rather how much can be learned from tumor virology about the mechanisms by which human tumors arise.

However, little is known about the mechanisms by which hypothalamic neural circuits controlling behavior and metabolism sense protein availability.

I Am the Mouth II (2014) features a pair of disembodied lips that is half - submerged in water and whispers seductively about the mechanisms by which words, in the form of sound waves, make their way through various materials including the viewer's own body.

However, less is known about the mechanisms by which romantic attachment may influence family dynamics.

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One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

We can think about this in terms of both the substance of the outcome, and the process or mechanism by which it came about.

That about sums up the state of U.S. token sales in the wake of new dialogue on whether the mechanism, by which startups are issuing custom cryptocurrencies to raise funds, is compliant with the law.

After many years of vague talk by governments about fighting global warming, it is encouraging that the debate has finally begun to tackle specific mechanisms to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Â

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

By teaching Israel about the scapegoat, and indeed, implanting the scapegoat mechanism into the hearts of people around the world, God was preparing people for the ultimate scapegoat of human history — Jesus Christ.

Evolutionists have been very clear about this distinction of fact and theory from the very beginning, if only because we have always acknowledged how far we are from completely understanding the mechanisms (theory) by which evolution (fact) occurred.

It is to begin the long process of public discussion about the resources, ideas, and actions needed to liberate this great medium from the constraints imposed on it by the mechanisms misnamed the free marketplace.

The detailed sequence of elementary steps (about twenty) which must be involved in the B - Z reaction has been worked out by Richard Noyes.11 This mechanism (called «the Oregonator» in honor of the location of Noyes's laboratory) is well understood and involves nothing but ordinary chemistry, but it is too involved to discuss here.

Unfortunately, our descent was interrupted unexpectedly by — and the party involved shall remain nameless for perpetuity, though by now everyone we know knows all — the wedging of a Croc, which this party was wearing, into the mechanism of the escalator about two - thirds of the way down.

If we really wanted such a world, mechanisms to bring it about exist, or could be fashioned by innovative economists.

e) Re-commit to open government and open data — in the coming years, transparency will be one of the key mechanisms by which the government can explain what it is doing, and ordinary people can feel they are well informed about the changes to come.

Through this mechanism, the portion of the debt owed to the Banks amounting to about GHC 800 million was restructured by leveraging some proceeds that had accrued from the levy.

Make no mistake about it, it is merely the mechanism used by schisters and con - artists to push their political agenda.

Or whether they were naive enough to think that journalists would bury the line in the sixth paragraph and instead go in on the Brexit secretary's comments about how the principle of mutual trust, underpinned by robust mechanisms, can reduce trade friction.

It is further bolstered by contemporary neuroscience showing that emotions are fundamentally material and the neurochemicals responsible for these observed states can now be specified and described with a high degree of sophistication, although much more will be known in the future about their nature, diversity and mechanisms of action.

I ask him if it's true what they say about the brutal efficiency of the SNP by - election machine, which is sold as some insanely robust targeting mechanism.

Truly, knowing who Jammeh is and reading many political science theories about the manipulative nature of dictators that ranges from Pol Pot of Cambodian (politician and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge) and Nuon Chea (chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge), Idi Amine of Uganda and Mobutu of Democratic Republic of Congo, I am disturbed by the same mechanism being explored by Jammeh.

What they are doing is a perfectly acceptable political mechanism that has been used numerous times in the past by both republicans and democrats; thus this pathetic argument about them not doing their jobs etc is completely disingenuous because they are, in fact, doing their jobs.

Mychajliw and his campaign responded by saying that such records are deeply flawed «fake facts» and show a basic lack of understanding about how such mechanisms are easily bypassed, as well as noting legitimate work as comptroller takes him out into the community.

We learned more about the mechanism behind the different molecular responses by examining the timing of the production of tim RNA.

However, University of Oxford researchers report October 3 in Biophysical Journal that the current form of this «radical - pair mechanism» is not sensitive enough to explain the disruption of the avian magnetic compass by certain radiofrequency magnetic fields, raising new questions about this popular example of quantum biology.

The general R03 program announcement, which includes a list of the institutes that accept investigator - initiated R03 applications and minimal information about the various ways the mechanism is employed by the various institutes, can be found there as well.

The special thing about the new feedback mechanism, however, is that the body itself produces the signal, which is then detected by a sensor that triggers a fine - tuned therapeutic reaction.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

The drum in one common printer mechanism, used by manufacturers such as Canon and Hewlett - Packard, is 94 millimetres in circumferencel, so the drum revolves about 3.2 times while printing a standard 297 - millimetre sheet of A4 paper.

The time needed for breast cancer metastases (secondary lesions caused by cells that have escaped from the original tumour) to develop varies between patients, and little is known about the mechanisms that govern latency (the dormant state of cells that have already spread through the body).

The program works by connecting computer - generated drug profiles — including mechanisms of action, clinical efficacy, and side effects — with information about how a molecule may interact with human proteins in specific diseases, such as ovarian cancer.

They say this latest study raises questions about whether treatments that decrease the frequency or severity of migraine may reduce later life vascular risks, and conclude by saying «what little evidence we do have suggests the need for therapeutic restraint [to prevent cardiovascular risk] until we have a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the link between migraine and vascular disease.»

The discovery of genetic mechanisms common to all three of these species, which diverged on the evolutionary tree about 420 million years ago, suggests that these mechanisms aren't specific to individual species, but have been conserved by nature through evolution.

People still care about causation, mechanisms, and coherent theories, but in many disciplines, researchers are looking to supplement those traditional elements of science, harvesting gains from the data deluge by, in effect, learning from Google.

For comparison, the entire E.U. effort to meet the Kyoto targets will reduce releases by only about 200 million tons annually and the 100 hundred largest clean development mechanism projects add up to just 100 million tons per annum.

«Almost nothing is known» about the molecular and cellular mechanism by which water is detected in the mouth and throat, and the neural pathway by which that signal is transmitted to the brain, says Zachary Knight, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Little is known about the exact molecular mechanisms by which Klotho suppresses aging.

By testing this and other predictions about the behaviour of the theta aurora, our observations provide strong evidence that the plasma trapping mechanism is responsible for the theta aurora,» he adds.

By figuring out the three - dimensional structures of protein molecules, he tries to obtain crucial information about their role in the cell and the mechanisms which underlie various disorders.

«The work by Heba, a visiting graduate student from Egypt, has provided detailed information about the mechanism of action and about the family of enzymes that this enzyme belongs to.

«I'd want to know more about the mechanism» by which the bacteria altered behavior in the mice before beginning to translate the findings to humans, he says.

So she and her team set about investigating those complications and discovered that the magic of metamaterials is driven by more than just one mechanism of physics.

The researchers uncovered important clues about the molecular mechanisms triggered by environmental conditions that ultimately affect final body size.

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research, and their colleagues at Technical University of Munich have now reported in the journal PNAS about a mechanism used by the immune system to prepare for this attack.

«Branchial rays will figure prominently in the story of the evolutionary origin of vertebrate animal appendages, either by shedding light on the evolutionary antecedent of paired fins / limbs, or by teaching us about the genetic mechanisms that animals can use to invent new appendages,» Gillis says.

At issue is a new funding mechanism that very few outside the field know or care much about — a «global subsidy» aimed at bringing the best malaria drugs to the patients who need them most by enlisting the private sector.

It also hints at a possible biochemical mechanism for the placebo effect, exhibited by about 30 % of arthritis sufferers.

Most analytical approaches to this problem are rather rudimentary and involve calculating simple correlations among the genes whose expression changes in response to a perturbation, clustering the genes by molecular or known functional class, and drawing crude inferences about mechanism on that basis.