Sentences with phrase «borrow from nature»

It's also about figuring out how to manage our energy consumption using tricks borrowed from nature, such as growing shade plants on our roofs, which can help cut energy costs in summer.

In a quest to build a better solar cell, North Carolina State University chemical engineer Orlin Velev is borrowing from nature's experts in collecting the sun's energy: leaves.

Having demonstrated earlier that certain types of enzymes can detoxify gluten, our laboratory set out to devise an optimal oral enzyme therapy for celiac sprue by borrowing from nature.»

Borrowed from nature, this elegant, slightly oversized unisex p3 offers either Seafoam or Sky Blue color blocking paired with classic Tortoise.

Decorated in hues borrowed from nature, Sea Stone flows seamlessly -LSB-...]

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This means that not only is structure present in the world in a sense analogous to that of mind, but those structures must be accessible to reason, that is, they are present or open to mind or reason in the realized fact of nature's web of interconnections (to borrow from Quine).

With the passage of time and more mature study of the nature of scripture, as disclosed by the application of the modern historico - critical method of investigation, it is seen that the possible borrowing of Bible writers from another source in no way affected its intrinsic worth, or even the belief that these writers were inspired in their writing.

Also, from the fourth century on, Greek fathers generously borrowed from Neoplatonic speculation to an extent that, via Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, late Greek piety has shaped the very nature of Christian mysticism.

For example, its definition of the church, its nature and function was borrowed directly from the Faith and Order Conference at Edinburgh 1937.

For example, if Bayern Munich suffered an «injury crisis», to borrow a term from the lexicon of the footballing world, then they would arguably still have cover in the form of David Alaba who became schooled in various positions due to his multi-functional nature.

The Teacher Leadership Center's popular loan program includes the following materials which can be borrowed free of charge for two weeks at a time: Inquiry Kits from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Nature Museum, EnviroScapes, and National Geographic Book Packs.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

That June decision may seem worlds away from biotech, but it aimed to lay out a definitive two - step test for deciding patent eligibility, Burk says, and it forms the backbone of the new guidance: If a patent claim describes «a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea» (step 1), then it must amount to «significantly more» than what's found in nature — a phrase borrowed from the Mayo decision — in order to be patentable (step 2).

Jollbot is an example of a biomimetic machine — one that borrows ideas from nature as inspiration for its appearance, behavior and physical mechanisms.

Now, a team at the University of Leeds, UK, have borrowed a trick from nature to build a new kind of hard drive.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

I don't understand what Trenberth means by «deniers», but he has obviously gone to some trouble to insert the term into the passages he borrowed from Hasselmann's comment in Nature Geoscience, so he must consider it significant.

The discovery, described last month in Nature Communications, borrows secrets from mollusk shells, which use very brittle, breakable materials to create some of nature's toughest strucNature Communications, borrows secrets from mollusk shells, which use very brittle, breakable materials to create some of nature's toughest strucnature's toughest structures.

Nightcrawler certainly borrows much of its themes and tone from previous movies such as Network, Taxi Driver, Peeping Tom, Drive, but Gilroy recycles those ideas and places them in a contemporary setting and allows us to examine one of society's more questionable career paths, while also taking a glimpse at our human nature in relation to crime and violence.

The film has a crazy energy and a certain charm that is unmistakable, but the contrived nature that permeates almost every scene, along with the high amount borrowed ideas and directorial styles, detracts from the overall production.

Despite the Infiniti Q60 borrowing the 3.7 - litre V6 from the Nissan 370Z, it's been tweaked to move it away from the Nissan's sporty personality, and turned into something more relaxing to suit the Infiniti's relaxed nature.

One former Fed official downplayed the less than robust level of bank borrowing from the Fed, saying that discount window moves tend to be symbolic in nature, in contrast the open market operations it conducts.

I've never really thought of these as cash sources due to their illiquid nature, but it hasn't stopped some folks from borrowing against them.

Money that came from borrowing against home equity is spent on discretionary and products more durable in nature.

Borrowing, stylistically, from the games of the 16 - bit era, Kobold's Quest looks in many ways like it was ported from a different generation of gaming, but the sense of humor is certainly a bit more up - to date and adult in nature.

Normally, this would be acceptable because video games often borrow features from other games; it's the nature of the industry.

Rayman by nature is whacky and unashamed of it, and for some the overzealous attempts to be different and loosely borrow from other properties for level names, music and instances of design might be tough to stomach for hours on end.

They often use nature as inspiration and borrow images from it — three branches, leaves, insects for instance — to explore and express the concept of interconnection.

The title, The Course of Human History Personified, is borrowed from the poet Dante and recalls both grandiose artistic and literary cycles from the nineteenth century such as the New York Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole's five - painting The Course of Empire of 1836, where nature plays as large a role as humans.

«In 2005 the Rubells had a series of conversations with artists Kelly Walker and Wade Guyton, who talked about the generosity of some artists in the nature of their work. Walker and Guyton described how artists like Cady Noland, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and Richard Prince opened doors for other artists like themselves to walk through. The Rubells had never heard that opinion expressed as honestly before.  This show was borne out of those conversations, and its title comes from a quote attributed to Picasso: «Good artists borrow, great artists steal.»

In his explanation of In - Between, he states: «The aesthetic of In - Between borrows from pictures of destruction - destruction by violence, by war, by accident, by nature, by structural failures, by corruption, by fatality.

Borrowing colors from her forbears and the natural hues of nature, the artist introduced a palpable link between the New York School and painters like Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse.

«I'll borrow from other people's work, nature, flowers — anything.»

The restless energy with which Moses has borrowed from pre-existing formal vocabularies and adapted their morphologies to make them his own, attest to the mutable nature of his vision.

Borrowing from old advertisements and culturally specific printed textiles, Graham parallels historically significant events of the past with those of the present to explain the cyclical nature of Western politics.

«Metaphysical cosmology seeks to draw intuitive conclusions about the nature of the universe, man, a supernatural creator, and / or their relationships based on the extension of some set of presumed facts borrowed from spiritual experience and / or observation.»

In his explanation of In - Between, provided in full at the end of this press release, he states: «The aesthetic of In - Between borrows from pictures of destruction - destruction by violence, by war, by accident, by nature, by structural failures, by corruption, by fatality.

Part sculpture, drawing, and performance, the active, cross-disciplinary nature of Dadson's paintings finds a corollary in their titles, which he often borrows from canonical examples of conceptual and performance art.

Whiteread's casts reference her sculptural predecessors from Minimalism to Conceptualism and borrows from them a particular reductive, visual language, but, in opposition to their untouched and industrial nature, Whiteread's works retain a distinctly human quality.

Although she doesn't exclusively focus on words about nature — there are a number categories covered — I've borrowed some pertinent words from her sweet book, and added some others I've collected along the way.

To borrow from Karl Marx, it's about «unleashing the productive forces» — not forcing them into a sustainable relationship with Nature.

In short, politicians borrow «objectivity» from science because of a lack of faith in the inherently subjective nature of democratic politics — the need for political engagement and discussion.

On another approach is British artist Tony Plant, a sand - painter and photographer who borrows his canvas from nature by using the wet sand of low - lying coastal lands of England as his working surface.

Borrow some beauty tips from Mother Nature with organic accents that really warm up a room, like these clamshell - shaped bowls, the driftwood coffee table, and fresh flowers!