Sentences with phrase «built on a human scale»

He sees a garden - like countryside built on a human scale disappearing before mass and machine.

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... The family understood in this way remains the first and principal building block of society and of an economy on a human scale.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

Microfluidics, the science of moving nanoliter - size drops of liquid through channels built on the scale of a cross section of a human hair, make it possible to automate the process of separating out biomarkers, analyzing and amplifying them, and then registering their presence.

For example, the large - scale sequencing program has already started to sequence the genomes of 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, and will build on this by using genomic sequencing to characterize the complex microbial communities found at many sites in and on the human body.

We focus on developing computational methods and tools for (a) analyzing large - scale gene expression data related to human cancer in search for gene markers and disease sub-categories, (b) identifying regulatory elements such as miRNA precursors and their targets in whole genomes of plants and mammals, (c) building theoretical models of gene regulatory networks.

Viking plan to offer the ultimate kind of cruise: one focussed on destinations in a ship that is genuinely human in scale and with a ship that is built to enhance your destination, not to be the destination.

By underlining the power of artistic engagement to communicate, on a human scale, the urgency of global climate change, the event hopes to inspire and envision the cultural shift required to build a sustainable society.

Works on display include Doug Aitken's Migration, 2008, a large - scale video installation that explores the collision of humans and animals as the built environment sprawls.

Wodiczko, Krzysztof (b. 1943) Polish artist who specializes in large - scale outdoor slide projections on buildings and monuments to explore issues of democracy and human rights.

Their prototypes are fun science on three levels.Nano - assembly Breakthroughs First, the nanocars represent breakthroughs in scientific understanding of how to build machines at the nano scale: the nanodragster is only 1/25, 000 th of the width of a human hair.

Ambitious and epic in scale, FROZEN PLANET will reveal an astonishing world filled with more creatures, variety, color and spectacle than ever imagined — including the birth of an iceberg bigger than the largest building on earth, a caterpillar with antifreeze in its veins, the greatest concentration of sea birds on the planet and tiny baby polar bears, who at birth are 25 % smaller than human babies.

Building on its recent update of the physical science of global warming, 1 the IPCC's new report should leave the world in no doubt about the scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health, and wellbeing.

With this this enormous dam, visible from space, beavers once again prove that humans aren't the only ones capable of building on a massive scale.