Sentences with phrase «bite humans at»

He learns how to moderate how hard his bite is and then not to bite humans at all.

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«Some of the fun stuff they've done... I think it puts a bit of a human profile to a corporation,» said Tom Turpin, Randstad Canada's president of technology and engineering, in an interview at the event.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

The chatbot is at least a bit convincing with some of its jokes because humans tell bad jokes on Twitter all day.

«While more folks are out shopping themselves out as contractors at this economy, you can be their vendor of choice by just being a bit more human,» Clark says.

It can take a customer's order bit by bit, or it can let them connect with a human customer service rep at its virtual contact center.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

To expound a bit on this definition, the open view of the future holds that God chose to create a cosmos that is populated with free agents — at least humans and angels (though some hold that there is a degree of freedom, however small, in all sentient beings).

The experimental evidence that natural selection could build a vertebrate from an invertebrate, a mammal from a reptile, or a human from an ape is a bit less than the experimental evidence for superstring theory» that is, none at all.

It took most of a lifetime of being looked - over and isolated for us to find one another at ages 50 and 61, and I am responding to this editorial to tell you this: If you are alive, breathing, and able to give a bit of your heart to another human without set expectations on what the returns will look like, or feel like - love will find a way.

Yes, this messes a bit with our understanding of the inspiration of Scripture, but in the end (at least for me) it amplifies the grace of God for it shows that He was speaking His truth to lots of people at different times, not just to a select few Jews in a few hundred years of human history.

Modern scientific research shows that salting the eggplant is not actually removing most of the bitter compounds, but the added salt at least decreases the human tongue's perception of bitterness, very much like how adding a little bit of salt to bad coffee improves the taste.

«At Woolworths» supplier awards last night everyone says they just feel a different buzz when they come to Woolworths now — we're a bit more open, a bit more engaged, hopefully we're a bit more human, a bit more authentic.

A good debate can provoke an individual to exercise his mind a bit more, if I can raise that in people by offending them so I do not care if I offend them, better to be offended briefly and evolve as a human being than staying stubborn and ignorant, constantly upset at things which make no sense.

When a college football team goes up big, let's say 42 - 0 at halftime, it's human nature to let up a little bit.

I'm not human until at least 10 so some mornings it takes quite a bit of tea to get me going.

Knowing that this is the name you will call your little human forever is quite the responsibility and can feel a bit stress - inducing at times.

Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

While the evidence is a bit inconsistent, some medical researchers insist that human sperm are going downhill and have been doing so for at least a century.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

«Our gene therapy protocol is not yet ready for clinical trials — we need to tweak it a bit more — but in the not - too - distant future we think it could be developed for therapeutic use in humans,» says Jeffrey Holt, PhD, a scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology and F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's and an associate professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School.

«The good news is that camel crickets don't bite or pose any kind of threat to humans,» says Dr. Mary Jane Epps, a postdoctoral researcher at NC State and lead author of a paper about the research.

(For reference, the human bite is about 340 newtons at most.)

Further, carbon - dating charcoal bits unearthed from the cave floor suggests the cave was occupied — or at the very least visited — by humans as much as 37,000 years ago, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«There is a bit of a redefinition of what a modern human is here,» says Lee Berger at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Federico Becerra from the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, explains: «We found that a strain of rats bred to be aggressive towards humans bit often and with lots of force, whereas a highly tame strain never bit at all.

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.

Each succeeding room will reveal a faster moving and more intricate part of the mechanism and / or display, until, at the end, the visitor comprehends, or is nudged a bit closer to comprehending, the whole vast, complex, slow / fast, cosmic / human, inexorable, mysterious, terrible, joyous sweep of time and feels kinship with all who live, or will live, in its embrace.

The samples in this case suggest that the hadrosaur's backside is some 25 percent larger than once thought, potentially enabling it to run at 45 kilometers per hour (about 28 miles per hour), a bit faster than the top human sprinters.

Russell, a former top official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says if he still worked for the government on these issues he'd be «a little bit embarrassed» by the report card.

Mosquitoes are capable of carrying Zika and chikungunya viruses simultaneously and can secrete enough in their saliva to potentially infect humans with both viruses in a single bite, according to new research presented today at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

Scientists are champing at the bit to find out what President George W. Bush's newly revealed policy will really mean for research using human embryonic stem cells.

Imagine a knife and fork they are really good at their jobs, but with modern humans you -LSB-'ve] got like the equivalent of a whole tool box with spanners and pulleys and weaving and high temperature firing for even making clay statue [ttes]; all of that technology I think, just takes moderns that bit further than Neandertals.

Raymond White, a human genetics researcher at UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in Emeryville, said the points of similarity between mouse and human genomes were vitally important — they represent bits of genetic material that have survived, intact, over 75 million years of evolution.

University of Wisconsin scientist, James A. Thomson, who first derived ESCs from embryos, has said «if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»

Wicker, no political naïf, brought out the big rhetorical ammo, reminding the senators that it was Jamie Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist who first reported isolating the cells in 1998, who said: «If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»

The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once...

I began as a university student studying molecular genetics and molecular biology — a bit of a mouthful of a major — and went on to do a master's degree in neuroscience, and then a PhD in human genetics, all at the University of Toronto.

Receptors located at the tip of the tongue bind to tiny bits of carbohydrates and send what humans perceive as a «sweet» signal to the brain.

Humans have been using milk thistle since at least 2000 years ago, when it was used as an antidote to snake bites and poisonous mushrooms.

Researchers at Yale University thought they'd explore the issue a bit deeper, this time using human subjects.

A bit of human physiology is good to elucidate at this juncture: human vaginal tissue is nearly perfect in its ability to rapidly and completely absorb substances that come in direct contact with it.

It's not yet clear how harmful the arsenic in rice may be to human health, but adults would likely have to consume quite a bit of rice over the course of decades for it to have an effect, said Christopher States, a toxicologist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Researchers estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection, at roughly 10 million bits per second.

And since those lines on our faces are pivotal to basic human communication — not to mention our confidence when someone is staring at us a bit too closely — most of us make it a point to ensure they're looking fabulous at all times.

Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at a farm where the critters are a bit unusual — they can walk on two legs, talk, swim, and act like humans, though they have the good sense to avoid doing these things while humans are around.

The film didn't do much on release, and it's not hard to see why — starting out as a sweet quirky comedy and devolving into something with a much sourer heart and quite the pessimistic streak (at least as far as humans are concerned) it's a film that is difficult to categorize, and therefore sell, without disappointing the audiences who show up expecting something a bit more straightforward.