Sentences with phrase «by anatomical»

[19][20] Although identity between the Atlantic and Pacific populations can not be proven by anatomical data, its skeleton is distinctive and easy to distinguish from that of all other living whales.

Whelping difficulties caused by anatomical characteristics, obesity, poor muscle tone, or hormone imbalance can sometimes be prevented but when breeding selection and bitch care fail, the only remedy is surgical intervention.

In 2 out of 19 studied patients, navigated TMS identified motor cortical sites that differed from those indicated by anatomical landmarks.

«Previous studies have suggested that resting state connectivity shown in brain scans is anchored by anatomical connectivity,» said co-senior author Anna Roe, professor of psychology.

I knew that Alex was proving a profound truth: brains may look different, and there may be a spectrum of ability that is determined by anatomical details, but brains and intelligence are a universally shared trait in nature — the capacity varies, but the building blocks are the same.

Or use this full list of programs put together by the Anatomical Board of the State of Florida.

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As the lecture in past tense proceeds, Anglim becomes the Elephant Man character by slowly contorting his straight frame until he has become crooked, as though under the pressure of Treves's anatomical language.

By the time I understood what some of the anatomical differences were, I was already estranged from my body.

By using an anatomical baby boy doll, the child could slowly get the full grasp of the process.

Designed by an athletic trainer, our Leg and Shoulder Therapy table supports bilateral training and optimal anatomical positioning specifically for professional athletes.

Highly trained and educated instructors cater to the anatomical, hormonal, and muscular changes which occur normally in the pregnant body by creating sequences which lessen discomfort so students feel better after each class.

Just after my youngest entered toddlerhood, I was asked to review Balancing Breast and Bottle (click on the title to see the companion website) by Amy Peterson and Mindy Harmer — it offers a comprehensive anatomical perspective on why some babies resist bottles, and practical tips for how to help them learn to.

We are now beginning to understand some facets of human emotionality, decision - making, morality, trauma and the drive for political power down to the cellular level, by observing changes in neurochemistry, neural pathways, and neuro - anatomical transformations in the brain.

Under the title «Electro - chemical Mechanisms of Animation,» Frankenstein explained how he wanted to «reverse the processes of death» by collecting «a large variety of human anatomical specimens» and putting them together to try and «restore life where it has been lost.»

Such findings suggest that the neural projections are the anatomical structures by which the visual cortex adjusts the plasticity of the optokinetic reflex, Scanziani said.

Despite the anatomical complexity of the brain and the complexity of the human genome, most of the patterns of gene usage across all 20,000 genes could be characterized by just 32 expression patterns.

Instead, the new anatomical studies and computer modeling suggest that these caterpillars speak by pulling air in through their mouths and into their guts and then releasing it.

That much is clear to anyone who has tried sitting down with a mobile phone in their back pocket: the displays of the innumerable phones and pods are rigid and do not yield to the anatomical forms adopted by the people carrying them.

These results agree with an anatomical observation that the researchers have confirmed using MRI: amusical individuals have an excess of grey matter in the inferior frontal cortex, accompanied by a deficit in white matter, one of whose essential constituents is myelin.

An analysis of Tiktaalik's anatomy, completed this past October, indicates that the evolution of fins into sturdy limbs was accompanied by other anatomical innovations, including the rudiments of an articulated neck.

It complements the more anatomical approach of classics such as Charles Yonge and T. E. Thompson's Living Marine Molluscs (Collins, 1976) and builds on the gnomon so firmly established by D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form (Cambridge, 1961).

This anatomical feature is now being harnessed by scientists to improve rehabilitation.

The anatomical relocation improved dexterity by leaving the arms free to move in new ways.

A recent study by Allison Tripp of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and Naomi Schmidt of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces demonstrated that female figurines from around 25,000 years ago have bodies of all shapes and sizes, not just the exaggerated anatomical features of the famous «Venuses» (Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, vol 41, in press).

Because most species of tarantula in the United States are very similar in appearance and can not be distinguished from each other using anatomical features alone, the research team implemented a modern and «integrative» approach to taxonomy by employing anatomical, behavioural, distributional, and genetic data.

It is a fair guess, however, that most viewers by far are here to behold the spectacle of authenticity promised in the touring exhibition's tagline: «The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.»

Explores how attitudes have changed throughout history, from early medical drawings, 19th - century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts, to works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.

Scientists not involved in the study noted that not only is it the first to demonstrate widespread anatomical changes in the pregnant human brain, but that it goes further by showing that the changes last for at least 2 years.

«By altering the folding pattern of the Hox cluster, we altered the motor neurons» understanding of their anatomical position,» says Esteban Mazzoni, PhD, a study co-investigator and assistant professor of biology and New York University.

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be published June 13 in Regeneration.

Every 36th section is now being stained with Thionine, which highlights fine anatomical structures by dyeing genetic material in each cell a purplish blue.

The first accurate pictures of the human brain date back to the 1660s, when English physician Thomas Willis published anatomical images created by his assistant, medical illustrator Christopher Wren.

A high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance scan was also carried out (at the High - Field MR Centre of Excellence, Department of MR Physics, led by Ewald Moser).

UCLA mathematicians Tony Chan and Luminita Vese detect anatomical brain structures by lassoing them with a loop, which then shrinks tightly around the structure using a level - set algorithm to capture its exact shape.

Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.

The current model in neuroscience poses that memory is stored as long - lasting anatomical changes in synapses, the specialized structures by which nerve cells connect and signal to each other.

During his travels on the Beagle, Darwin noticed subtle anatomical differences between giant tortoises living on different islands in the archipelago, which would later inform his theory of evolution by natural selection.

This can be done by taking information from the entire set of scans and using it to recreate anatomical features that are missing from other scans.

Up to now the displays of the innumerable phones and pods are rigid and do not yield to the anatomical forms adopted by the people carrying them.

A team of psychologists and imaging scientists at Vanderbilt has collaborated on a study that provides important corroboration of the validity of these studies by examining the relationship of the fMRI maps of resting state brain's networks with the brain's underlying anatomical and neurological structure.

«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»

Led by first author Junsu Kang, the scientists identified anatomical structures that male fish use during mating that produce a signal that impedes regeneration of the pectoral fins after injury.

Evidence from recent papers, the authors note, suggests that there is anatomical evidence that Homo had evolved into several distinct lines by 2 million years ago.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

All the suggested anatomical and physiological adaptations can be explained by other hypotheses, which fit much better with what we actually know about the ecology of ancient hominins.

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

Efforts to study the molecular mechanisms that mediate these complex processes in different anatomical compartments have been impeded by difficulties in the isolation and propagation of endothelial cells from different organs.

Next, a cortical surface model was reconstructed and parcellated into anatomical units, which are signified by different colors in the cortical parcellation scheme illustrated on the far right.

Hippocampal cells encode places by forming small anatomical clusters.

The next step based on these novel head and neck cancer discoveries, the scientists agree, is to tease out how the genes function in normal cells, whether they form the lining of the larynx, pharynx, or another anatomical site affected by head and neck cancer.