Sentences with phrase «at near human»

Toddlers between the ages of two and six are notorious for losing their tempers and screaming at the nearest human.

Not exact matches

Anna Borshchevskaya, an Ira Weiner fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes in The Hill that the coup attempt will force Erdogan and Putin toward a closer relationship as Turkey moves further away from the West and its demands for human rights and open democracy.

While these technologies can carry out specific tasks extremely well, they're nowhere near the level of human intelligence, says Ruslan Salakhutdinov, assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto.

The current fires, which have threatened Californians from near Santa Barbara County down the Pacific coast to Mexico, have claimed at least one human casualty.

The answer, at least for the near future, is likely to be the same as it in nearly all of the current debates over robots versus humans — a hybrid situation where the machines make the humans better.

Even for those who believe that the human species is to become extinct at some point in the (near?

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

In the futuristic world of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry and his successors weaved together a series that takes a near utopian look at future humans.

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

13 It can not mean any existing segment of society, for while some, at least to human eyes, seem nearer the kingdom than others, none is without flaw or fully Christlike.

The availability of pornography and the near universality of its consumption are today facts of human existence, at least in the West, and are likely to remain so.

The churches were called to live in the midst of human struggles and to be present at the bleeding points of humanity, thus being near those who suffered evil, and taking the risk of being counted among the wicked.

A live human body with its «mind» or «soul» is the example nearest at hand.

It's as though they live at the edge of a looking - glassworld where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near - human qualities.»

Miller, a mammoth of a human being at 6 - foot - 8 and 290 pounds, said he credits Osterhout with «really like 95 to 99 percent» of the reason why he has been offered by Arizona State, Arizona and Texas Tech among the near dozen schools seeking his services.

Kentucky happily hired human air raid siren Hal Mumme in the 1990s, in part because the Wildcats were already finishing at or near the bottom of the SEC standings.

The judge presiding over the sentencing in an international criminal court near The Hague said Mr. Taylor had been found guilty of «aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history» and that the lengthy prison term underscored his position at the top of government during that period.

This report summarizes the findings of the 2016 - 2017 Halcyon Dialogue on robotics, taking an in - depth look at the critical issues of robotics policy, regulation and the effect this technology will have on the workforce and human / robot interaction in the near future.

«We've lost a year,» says Frank Rühli, a paleopathologist from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who was scheduled to start work in February on human remains at the pyramids of Saqqara, near Cairo, and in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.

Human groups foraged near the bottom of South America between at least 18,500 and 14,500 years ago, researchers say.

«This specimen is really important and exciting, as — assuming the dating is correct — it shows for the first time that modern humans existed in the Near East at the same time as Neanderthals,» says Katerina Harvati, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

This identification gives us vicarious pleasure: it is not just fit people doing what they are good at, but the affirmation that humans can do the near - impossible.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

The trust now plans to increase its spending from $ 160 million to $ 325 million over 7 years at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge — Britain's main gene sequencing laboratory — for more painstaking efforts to sequence a third of the human genome by 2005.

A study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development has investigated the relationship between the availability of nature near city dwellers» homes and their brain health.

The ability to manufacture proteins, which at present are very difficult or even impossible to produce, in large quantities and in their native form, rapidly and inexpensively, will have an enormous impact in all sectors of biology (biotechnology, nutrition, pharmacy, human and animal health care, and, in the near future, nanotechnology).

Near the center of the panel was a winged human figure beneath a circle with a long, wavy line attached to it, nearly identical to what she had seen at Panther Cave.

«Let's hope we know before the humans get there, one way or the other, if there is an ecosystem at or near the surface.»

Of 142 reported attacks on humans between 1960 and 2006, 70 percent occurred on or adjacent to the victim's residence and at least 30 percent near a site of prior intentional or unintentional human feeding.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

The Human Genome Project, the International Space Station, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva and ITER (formerly the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France are only a few examples.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

«Most of the fires at this time of the year in this area are human - caused,» Finney said, «and because they are caused by humans, they are, well, quite near humans.»

«The near extinction of sea otters is one of the most dramatic examples of human - induced impacts to the structure and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems,» said Rebecca G. Martone, of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.

In an accompanying commentary, archaeologist Wil Roebroeks of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands notes that the cliffs near Pakefield have been studied since at least the 1863, when Charles Lyell predicted that they would one day yield evidence of human occupation.

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

EARLY ARRIVALS Excavations at a Brazilian rock shelter near the center of South America (left) suggest that humans hunted giant sloths there more than 20,000 years ago.

This photograph, showing plastic fragments collected in just an hour at a cove near Gloucester, Mass., hints at a lesser - known but equally disturbing story: much smaller bits of plastic that are accumulating in oceans all over the world can potentially harm marine life and possibly even human health.

Body ornaments had been found at Neanderthal camps before, but they dated to near the period when Neanderthals shared Europe with modern humans.

«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.»

Upset about how the rivalry might detract from the scientific achievement, Patrinos invited Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics of Rockville, Maryland, to a «secret meeting» at his house near Washington, D.C. «I've known both of these guys for a long time — as scientists and as friends,» Patrinos says.

The first time was at least 80,000 years ago in the Near East, as evidenced by findings of both Neandertal and modern human bones in caves in Israel.

Humans are at the top of the food chain, and about 300 tons of fish a year are sold in the markets in Madre de Dios — not counting those caught by residents of indigenous communities along rivers near mining camps.

«That may not be much for a snow leopard, but for a mere human, it was a lot of hiking — especially since these cats like to hang out near the top of mountains, not at the base.»

Near infrared light at 850 nm is invisible to the human eye and penetrates into deeper tissue, leading to benefits like increased muscle recovery and reduced joint pain.

Furthermore, Solocarbon infrared heat allows for most of the far infrared wavelength to be near 9.4 microns, which is the level at which the human body absorbs infrared energy.

But for at least 3 million years ancestral humans have flourished mainly in open woodland habitats near rivers, lakes, and seashores.