Sentences with phrase «advance in human understanding»

That kind of critical thinking has yielded the most rapid advance in human understanding of the world in history.

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It's not until advances in machine learning help bots develop a deeper understanding of natural human language will the real progress begin.

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

Well understood this sacrament is an exceptional means for believers to advance in holiness and to help build the human community in love and sharing.

Consequently some further advance in our understanding of complex human events should be possible.

What it comes down to, then, is our understanding that human existence, in its becoming and in its belonging, is a direction for creative advance.

So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....

As the discipline of IR matured in the 20th century, Realist theorists advanced understandings of states and conflicts as essentially rooted in human nature.

Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc..

The continuing objectives of AAAS are to further the work of scientists, facilitate cooperation among them, foster scientific freedom and responsibility, improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, advance education in science, and increase the public understanding and appreciation of the importance of the methods of science in human progress.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

A familiar theme in science fiction is that of humans presented with the challenge of understanding an advanced alien technology incorporated in a working device of impressive capability.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

In revealing neural entrainment as a generalized strategy for improving sensitivity to informational peaks, this study takes significant steps toward advancing the understanding of human language and perception.

The objectives of the Association are to further the work of scientists, facilitate cooperation among them, foster scientific freedom and responsibility, improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, advance education in science, and increase the public understanding and appreciation of the importance of the methods of science in human progress.

The discovery sheds new light on our understanding of the genetic complexity underpinning variations in human pigmentation, and could advance our knowledge of conditions linked to pigmentation, such as skin, testicular, prostate and ovarian cancers.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.

The objectives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to advance education in science, and to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress.

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

«In addition to advancing our understanding of human embryonic development, the findings suggest we may be able to use metabolites, relatively simple compounds, to alter cell fate in the treatment of common disorders.&raquIn addition to advancing our understanding of human embryonic development, the findings suggest we may be able to use metabolites, relatively simple compounds, to alter cell fate in the treatment of common disorders.&raquin the treatment of common disorders.»

In a discovery that advances the understanding of how marijuana works in the human body, an international group of scientists, including those from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have for the first time created a three - dimensional atomic - level image of the molecular structure activated by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuanIn a discovery that advances the understanding of how marijuana works in the human body, an international group of scientists, including those from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have for the first time created a three - dimensional atomic - level image of the molecular structure activated by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuanin the human body, an international group of scientists, including those from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have for the first time created a three - dimensional atomic - level image of the molecular structure activated by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuanin marijuana.

To facilitate understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans.

The discovery also represents a major advance in understanding why many tissues in humans, including limb tissue, regenerate poorly — and in being able to possibly manipulate those mechanisms with drug therapies.

Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding of the structure of animal social networks.

«Our findings also have important implications for mitochondrial diseases in humans, because this research significantly advances our understanding of how mitochondrial DNA mutations affect individuals and populations, and provides a potential mechanism to explain how different genetic variants may affect health,» Dr Rollins said.

Since its founding in 1848, the AAAS has been committed to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to advance education in science, and to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.

«This is a tremendous advance» in understanding exactly how SARS spreads from animals to humans, says virologist Kathryn Holmes of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.

Because the mouse and human brains have much in common, co-lead study investigator William Muñoz, an MD - PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.

Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human - Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence The concept of robust intelligence «encompasses computational understanding and modeling of the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments.&rHuman - Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence The concept of robust intelligence «encompasses computational understanding and modeling of the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments.&rhuman and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments.»

Humans have an ortholog of the murine Nrk gene, and considering that the gene expression pattern in breast tumor in Nrk mutant mice was similar to that in human luminal B breast cancer, the findings of this study may lead to further understanding of the mechanisms of human breast cancer suppression and to advances in its diagnosis and therapy.

Because the mouse and human brains have much in common, co-lead study investigator William Muñoz, an MD / PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.

On Capitol Hill last week, Weinberg, an expert in the molecular biology of cancer, pointed out to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus that the major advances in understanding human cancer genetics had come, not from studying breast tissue, but from studying cow warts, worm vulvas, fruitfly retinas, and a chicken virus.

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to improve human health by using genomics to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies.

Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a set of genomes to sequence that would advance knowledge in one of three important scientific areas: identifying areas in genetic research where the application of high - throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes.

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

Southall et al (2012)-- Marine Mammal Behavioral Response Studies in Southern California: Advances in Technology and Experimental Methods Behavioral response studies (BRS) are increasingly being conducted to better understand basic behavioral patterns in marine animals and how underwater sounds, including from human sources, can affect them.

CSHL is a private, non-profit research and education institution dedicated to exploring molecular biology and genetics in order to advance the understanding and ability to diagnose and treat cancers, neurological diseases, and other causes of human suffering.

Human iPS cell - derived hepatocytes differentiated with our robust differentiation protocol and cultured using our novel maintenance medium provide an inexhaustible, consistent supply of functional hepatocytes that can be used to advance the understanding of diseases related to dysfunction in liver metabolism, including NAFLD / NASH, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

My goal is to contribute to the resolution of this important problem by bringing to bear recent advances in human genetics and integrative genomics and translating them in a mechanistic, systems - level understanding of disease that is rooted in human biology but also actionable from a drug development perspective.

Long - term, I hope to address such questions in a way that both improves human health and advances our fundamental understanding of evolution.

«Our decision to procure these knockout mouse lines and data and make them available to the research community will yield tremendous benefits, both in the short and long terms,» said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. «This trans - NIH initiative will place important mouse models into the hands of researchers, speeding advances in the understanding of human disease and the development of new therapies.

Our aim is to translate knowledge derived from animal research to advance our understanding of addiction in humans in order to improve treatment allocation and outcome.»

Human iPS cell - derived hepatocytes differentiated with our robust differentiation protocol and cultured using a novel maintenance medium provide an inexhaustible, consistent supply of functional hepatocytes that can be used to advance the understanding of diseases related to dysfunction in liver metabolism, including NAFLD / NASH, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ®) Initiative is an NIH program aimed at «revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain» through investment in technologies that should ultimately allow neuroscientists to visualize how individual...

«Most immediately, this technology in human cells could significantly advance our understanding of how inherent defects in β - cells result in diabetes, bringing us notably closer to a much - needed cure.»

Finally, the 2020 rover will contain lots of advanced instruments and technology demonstrations that can further our scientific understanding of Mars, for informing future human exploration of Mars in the 2030s.

Last week ENCODE published their findings in 30 papers, representing a significant advance in understanding about the function of the human genome.