Sentences with phrase «as a skeleton for»

• The DOI reference in our article reporting the use of paper as a skeleton for growing animal tissue (24 October, p 10) should have read: 10.1073 / pnas.0910666106.

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Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

People in Mexico (and around the world) observe the holiday with offerings of food, flowers, and music for the dead, as well as skeleton costumes and candy for the living.

White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Wednesday laid out the administration's skeleton plan for tax cuts that was big on promises, but remarkably sparse on details, as President Donald Trump sprints to the Saturday finish line marking his first 100 days in office.

If you pray for humility, be ready for false accusations, for that «skeleton in the closet» to be revealed, or for people to belittle you and talk down to you as if you were inferior.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

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Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

And the fact that there are so many Hellenic skeletons in all major branches of the Judeo Christian religion... including the Muslim... will serve as both the savior, and or potentially the destroyer for western religion.

Our assembly as the Body of Christ is primarily a spiritual gathering into Christ, and so whether we gather in large groups or small, we can still know that we are assembled with all other saints around the world and throughout time (For more on this understanding of church, see my book, Skeleton Church).

It proved to be a bitter sweet Valentine's Day for Lizzy Yarnold as she took victory in the final World Cup skeleton race of the season in Sochi, but missed out on the overall title by just 20 points.

Elsewhere there was a World Cup skeleton bronze for Laura Deas in Lake Placid while Great Britain topped the medal table at the European Short Track Championships, with Elise Christie winning four gold medals and Charlotte Gilmartin one, as the team came home with seven medals in all.

It is marketed for boys, but I think girls can be skeletons just as well!

The Chicco Trio system is incredibly versatile, allowing you to strip it right down the skeleton frame that the infant car seat can be attached to, and as they grow, it can be made suitable for bigger kids thanks to the toddler seat included in the set.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

If Corker (former mayor of Chattanooga) is nominated, he will almost certainly win for the above reasons unless he has a big skeleton in the closet, but it will be a tossup if Bryan or Van Hillary get the nod as voters try to pick among unpalatable choices.

Dogara, in his speech, said: «When I first came here, this building was a mere skeleton, I had said with the commitment of the President to fight corruption, anyone who had gone to the former Head Office of the EFCC as if you're a foreigner visiting Nigeria for the very first time, the impression you'd leave with is that the fight is a joke, sort of.

It seemed as though this helter - skelter mess of lines served as a kind of skeleton for the map — its «mathematical structure» — just like the tidy grid does for modern maps.

Consider, for example, the decades - long custody battle over an 8,500 - year - old skeleton known as Kennewick Man, found in Washington state.

The development of an elaborate crystalline skeleton within the transparent embryo of the sea urchin provides a model for the shaping of hard mineralized tissues such as shell and bone

The team chose silicateins — proteins that build the silica skeletons of marine sponges — as the basis for their work.

For prehistoric times, the main evidence is from forensic archaeology: the proportion of skeletons that had bashed - in skulls, or arrowheads embedded in bones, together with archaeological evidence such as fortifications.

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.

This is the case of diatoms, algae consisting of a single cell surrounded by a silica skeleton, recommended by the European Union and Switzerland as one of the ideal bioindicators for rivers and lakes.

As for the crystal structures that researchers thought acted as microlenses, «they're just part of the skeleton,» Sigwart sayAs for the crystal structures that researchers thought acted as microlenses, «they're just part of the skeleton,» Sigwart sayas microlenses, «they're just part of the skeleton,» Sigwart says.

As if that wasn't bad enough, soaring levels of carbon dioxide are making seawater more acidic, which will make it harder and harder for coral polyps to build their rigid skeletons.

The hoop style, as well as buttons and fasteners for clothing found with other skeletons, showed that these people died in the mid-1800s — too late to be victims of the Black Death.

The fossil hunters unearthed about 55 percent of the 65 - million - year - old skeleton — encased in a mixture of mud and sand known in paleontological jargon as the matrix — and sold it to the British businessman Graham Lacey, reportedly for $ 5 million to $ 8 million.

The same carbon nanotubes that make up the skeleton of the 1D battery can also accelerate the conversion of dissolved oxygen into hydroxide ions, a process that harms battery effectiveness if left uncontrolled but as a stand - alone process boasts therapeutic potential for treating cancer and bacterial infections.

The genome of a famous 8,500 - year - old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for decades been seeking to bury his bones.

For example, they note, Saitta used stegosaur skeletons from the Aathal Dinosaur Museum in Switzerland as a model to help sort out the jumble of bones dug out of the quarry.

Ocean acidification in particular, caused as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is a grave concern for stony corals, because it makes it harder for the animals to passively precipitate skeletons made of calcium carbonate, the same molecule found in antacids for heartburn and indigestion.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

«We learned what that ovary skeleton looked like and used it as model for the bioprosthetic ovary implant.»

As the oceans absorb increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ocean acidification is expected to make life harder for many marine organisms, especially shellfish and other animals with shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate.

Actually, they are worse than useless because incorrect conclusions may be drawn from them, as seems to have been the case» with the younger proposed dates for the skeleton.

She is also the coauthor of the new book Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins with the discoverer of the world famous Australopithecus skeleton known as Lucy, Donald Johanson.

Reef building corals precipitate calcium carbonate as an exo - skeleton and provide substratum for prosperous marine life.

The skeleton of the infant dinosaur caused a stir and was known as «Baby Louie» after the man who photographed it for the cover of a magazine.

The adult female skull and skeleton came to rest on their dorsal surfaces before burial, as is typical for archaeocetes.

The ammonia is combined with carbon dioxide in the urea cycle, and excreted in urine, and the carbon skeleton can be either used for energy directly or converted into other compounds, such as glucose or fatty acids.

This particular drug is seen as the new hope for those living with degenerative muscle and skeleton conditions, with more research this could be the future.

His desperate search for a guitar results in him being transported into the world of the dead, where the deceased survive as lively skeletons for as long as they are remembered.

Craig Johnson is now getting some artwork for his Sundance hit The Skeleton Twins, a film that stars Saturday Night Live alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as estranged twins who reunite after reaching rock bottom.

Famitsu also revealed a new field map for MH4, a «primeval forest» filled with all kinds of natural vistas, as well as things like dragon skeletons and evidence of some ancient civilization.

City Island (PG - 13 for sexuality, smoking and profanity) Kitchen sink sitcom about a wacky Italian - American family with a lot of skeletons in the closet, from a patriarch (Andy Garcia) who's secretly taking acting lessons, to a Prodigal Son (Steven Strait) who's an ex-con, to a daughter (Dominik Garcia - Lorido) who's working as a stripper, to a teenager (Ezra Miller) who's a chubby chaser, to his sexually - frustrated wife (Julianna Margulies).

Ida (PG - 13 for mature themes, sexuality and smoking) Skeleton - out - of - the - closet drama, set in Poland in 1962, about an orphan (Agata Trzebuchowska) raised in a Catholic convent who learns that she was born Jewish just as she's set to take her vows as a nun.

By passing on his healing power he can gain mortality and earn a chance to live as normal a life as a man with foot - long claws and indestructible metal grafted to his skeleton could ask for.

Virginia (R for profanity and sexuality) Jennifer Connelly stars as the title character in this skeleton - in - the - closet drama about a single - mom secretly embroiled in a 20 - year affair with the town's very - married, Mormon sheriff (Ed Harris).