Sentences with phrase «at a distance from humans»

For example, certain dogs, including some terriers, were bred to work independently and at a distance from humans.

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Moreover, signals sent from balloons located at a distance of 60,000 feet will hardly be of any risk to humans.

Of the trillions of stars (most of which probably have some rocky planets orbiting it from the leftovers of its formation) there are probably plenty of planets orbiting their stars at the same distance as ours with varying conditions, ours just happened to be right for humans to evolve and be here today.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

A more accurate view would be that all human beings characteristically guide their actions by practical reason; the point is not that we should aim at a maximum possible distance from other creatures regarding our ability to imagine how future contingencies will eventually be actualized.

No doubt you have gazed up at the sky on a fine winter's night and, like innumerable human beings before you, had an impression of a serene and tranquil firmament twinkling with a profusion of small, friendly lights, all apparently at the same distance from yourself.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

A new study carried out under the direction of Professor Lutz Wiegrebe at the Department of Biology at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich sheds light on a novel mechanism that is employed by humans to estimate their relative distance from sound sources.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

But if the wound had resulted from a lighter spear — from a projectile deftly thrown at a distance, with less momentum and energy — the attacker was most likely human.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Perhaps instead of one - number - fits - all the human mind is at least as complex as radar, and can have one value that describes distance from target (range) and another that describes movement compared to a particular direction (orientation).

With technology advancements to keep cars in the right lane, at the right speed and at the right distance from other cars, humans have a diminished role in driving decisions that once used to be crucial.

If the mother detects that her nest is being watched by a potential predator (even a human standing at a distance), she will stay away from the nest completely until the coast is clear.

While Jodie's controls can be irritating at times, especially when she becomes stuck on environmental geometry, this does however create a strong emphasis on just how different Jodie and Aiden are, apart from being a human and a tethered soul: Jodie is «heavy» and confined to the pacing of the game; Aiden is quick, capable of traversing through solid objects, and can move anywhere in the immediate area so long as it's within the distance of Jodie's connection - this will vary based on certain conditions within each Chapter.

The distance Hutton maintains from human subjects in the Korean shipyard creates the sense of an unpopulated world, a feeling reinforced in the film's middle section shot at sea.

Laura Lima, working around the subject of social relations and human behavior, currently has two performance artworks at Zürich's Migros Museum that she is directing from a distance: the artists, who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, has dispatched actors in her stead to enact dramaturgic scenes from her hometown.

The huge scale of the Galtaji Temple, dedicated to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, situates the human at the level of monkey and at a distance from the divine.

If the strongest vibrations from wind turbines are, at best, detectable at a distance of 11 km then they must be quite undetectable by human senses at distances of hundreds of metres or more from the turbines.