Sentences with phrase «as human legs»

Gober is best known for his deliberately, yet subtly, handmade sculptures of sinks, doors, cribs and other household items and furniture, as well as human legs — complete with bristly black hair — that act as storytelling props to evoke themes of politics, religion and sexuality.

As prostheses are generally one - third to one - half as heavy as human legs and feet, the researchers adjusted the torque profile to apply to lighter leg segments.

Meanwhile, Herr continued working on what would prove to be key to the solution: springs that use the same principle as the human leg.

Not exact matches

«We also wanted it to be something kids could imagine as anything — we didn't want it to be something they were already familiar with like a four - legged animal or two - legged human — so it has three legs... and one eye.»

This is great, but if you really want to see what what God's love looks like, look to Jesus dying on a cross for the sins of the world, including the sins of those who are whipping his back and legs until his skin is gone and then laying that back on a rough and splintery wooden cross to crucify him, and continuing the torture until he's unrecognizable as a human being.

Interestingly, as Lerer points out, Toad stands up straight on two very human legs, while Ratty and Mole are rendered simply as animals.)

My existing as a human being tomorrow does not entail that I shall exist having a broken leg tomorrow.

However, whether I exist tomorrow with a broken leg is much more specific and concrete and not at all essential to my existing as a human king.

She's bringing him to experience the festival for the first time, as they host this pooch - friendly afternoon happy hour at Loews Miami Beach Hotel featuring libations for the two - legged species and plenty of snacks for canines and humans alike.

In humans the use of medical grade manuka honey has proven to be effective in treating hard to heal wounds and cases such as severe leg ulcers.

Finally Charlie slung himself off the top rope like a human crossbow bolt out into a crowd of drunk, flamingo - limbed models, all of them spilling their drinks and laughing with their legs spread out wide as they collapsed helplessly to the floor, not trying to catch him or even break his fall as he fell to the ground.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

He might walk on four legs, be covered in fur and be named T - Rex, but he's got a place in my heart just the same as my human children.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

In addition to the robotics leg, Goldfarb's Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has developed an advanced exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to stand up and walk, which led Popular Mechanics magazine to name him as one of the 10 innovators who changed the world in 2013, and a robotic hand with a dexterity that approaches that of the human hand.

«The human operator is as much a part of the system as the robot,» says Brett Kennedy, who leads the team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the squat, four - legged robot Robosimian.

Translation: Herr is developing human - looking robotic appendages designed to move as humans move, with the stabilizing benefits of real legs.

By contrast, humans, who have a shorter pelvic bone called an ischium (informally known as a «sit bone»), can hyperextend their legs in a way that generates less force on the hamstrings at the knees.

Ultimately, Badylak believes that ECM will lead to therapies that regrow amputated human arms and legs, much as salamanders and starfish regenerate limbs, although he realizes that this may not happen in his lifetime.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By PAT SHIPMAN Ever since Plato described humans as «featherless bipeds», we have recognised walking upright on two legs as a defining characteristic of humankind.

Using a training set of images of people from the Web, the machine learning algorithms mastered identifying a human figure and nine anatomical sections, such as torso, upper left arm or lower right leg.

The scientists also discovered genetic clues to the evolution of the giraffe's long neck and legs, which have the same number of bones as the neck and legs of humans and other mammals.

Although birds have the same bones in their legs as humans, their thighs are oriented horizontally, so it looks like they are permanently holding the yoga chair pose.

The field is still closer to Captain Ahab's peg leg than Captain Picard's Borg implants, but researchers are making remarkable progress toward creating artificial limbs as good as human ones.

These features include relatively small, orange - sized brains and curved fingers like those of Homo species that lived around 2 million years ago, as well as wrists, hands, legs, feet and body sizes comparable to those of Neandertals and humans.

You don't need gene chips to see genetic influence in human body shape: think of Hottentot women with their steatopygous buttocks or «the elderly Indian gentleman with skinny legs and arms and no butt but this gut,» as Scherer puts it.

He points out that elephant legs can bend almost as much as human limbs can.

These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

By 1.8 million years ago, a species called Homo ergaster was about as tall as living humans, with long legs and stiff feet that were only good for walking on the ground.

We conclude that studies of pyrethroid efficacy should not discount mosquitoes that survive insecticide exposure with fewer than six legs, as they may still be capable of biting humans, reproducing, and contributing to malaria transmission.

L - arginine benefits get a lot of press in the bodybuilding world as a supplement that can give those looking to build mass and lean out a leg up due to its role in the body's production of human growth hormone and creatine.

As does a tortoise withdrawing into its shell at the sight of a human's shadow, or a dog sticking its tail between its legs.

In a human, the adductors muscles found in the thigh area of the leg are commonly referred to as groin muscles.

Basically you'll get in a Human Flag posture and then move your legs as if you were riding a bicycle.

Lyme disease is an infection caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that's spread to humans by infected black - legged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks.

As humans evolved and began walking upright on two legs, their glutes developed.

The film opens as Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a past war veteran who lost his legs, is brought to Pandora to become an avatar — a genetically engineered hybrid of human DNA mixed with DNA from the Na» vi natives.

Years later, as we meet a grown - up Ed, now an advanced and highly skilled alchemist, the results from that catastrophic attempt at human transmutation are seen: Ed lost an arm and a leg, replaced with metal limbs, and Al lost his entire body.

He's played here by the old master Timothy Spall who pulls out yet another mesmerising performance as he channels the self - styled historian into something almost human and slightly comical, though he doesn't really get to stretch his legs.

He borders on cruel when he shoots a bad guy in the leg, uses him as a human shield while shooting other bad guys in the face, then finishing his first victim with a couple of shots to the dome.

The ergonomic layout is comfortable as are the seats — front and back — with adequate leg room for most commonly sized humans with contours suitable for long days in the saddle.

For example, Miller explains that when a pet food label lists chicken by - products as the protein, that means a chicken carcass that has had all of the meat used for human consumption removed (breast meat, wings, thighs, legs), but still contains the cleaned organ meat and bones with leftover meat on them.

Black - legged deer ticks, a hard - shelled parasite, are known for the spread of Lyme disease, which can infect canines as well as humans.

A supportive bandage kept his leg comfortable overnight, and even though Pete had lost a lot of blood, the team knew he would likely survive, as birds can reproduce red blood cells much more quickly than humans can.

Environmental allergens are a bit more difficult to control although over the counter anti-histamines work on our four - legged friends just as well as they do on humans.

The time may vary between pets, as it does with humans, but they themselves will experience the loss and look for their four legged friends when they are gone.

Just as the human members of our household have been preparing to meet our newest family member, we have also been making sure our four - legged family members are ready as well!

Because most pet owners consider their pets to be family members, ensuring that four - legged relations are eating the same quality foods as their human kin is significant, said Jessica Holtz, senior manager, sales and marketing effectiveness, at Petcurean Pet Nutrition in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.