Sentences with phrase «by studying animals»

By studying the animals» sense of vibration, the researchers were able to demonstrate that both lungfish and salamanders detect sound by sensing the vibrations induced by sound waves.

Fossilisation does not preserve a dinosaur's muscles, but educated guesses about how they worked can be made by studying animals alive today, such as ostriches.

If they are not relevant, then mere behavior, as causally conditioned spatio - temporal changes and nothing more, is the only universal principle, and what we learn by studying animals adds nothing (beyond unusual complexity or subtlety) to our concept of reality in general.

We address these questions by studying an animal that is capable of complex behavior and yet simple enough to allow systematic genetic manipulation of all parts of the neural circuitry.

We used a 2 - way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey honestly significant difference (HSD) tests to determine the effects of sex and reproductive status (treatment = intact versus sterilized) on the areas of the home ranges occupied by our study animals during the breeding and nonbreeding seasons.

Not exact matches

Vinegar may also prevent body - fat accumulation, according to a 2009 animal study by Japanese researchers.

A recent study published in Nature looked at thousands of different mammal species and worked out the percentage of cases in which animal fatalities were caused by their own kind.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).

Animals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their tAnimals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their tanimals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their torture.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

Only a few biologists have actually lived with animals in their native habitats in order to study their behavior there, and the results are not always recognized as «scientific», since they are not readily repeatable in the fashion required by science.

«Love» exists and has been studied by scientists, but there is a huge difference between actually having a relationship with another human being, or even an animal that you can characterize as «loving» and thinking there is some all - powerful unseen being out there that loves you.

Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

The Strategy of the Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology of God: A Scientist's Study of Man the Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.

That the construction of super-organisms is a hazardous operation (like all Life's major transactions) is something of which we find ample evidence in the study of animal colonies, or, where Man is concerned, the spectacle afforded by recent totalitarian experiments.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Animal studies suggest that pumpkin seeds may help improve insulin regulation and help prevent diabetic complications by decreasing oxidative stress.4

PETA — whose motto reads, in part, that «animals are not ours to eat» — notes that going vegan reduces diners» chances of developing heart disease by a whopping 32 percent, according to a large - scale study conducted by Oxford University.

In an animal study done by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, adding goji to the diet supplied antioxidant activity that offered significant protection against skin disorders and lipid peroxidation of UV light damage.

The in - vivo (animal) study «Enhanced memory in Wistar rats by virgin coconut oil is associated with increased antioxidative, cholinergic activities and reduced oxidative stress» was published in January of 2017.

One study has estimated that UK imports of food products and animal feed involved transportation by sea, air and road amounting to over 83 billion tonne - kilometres (3).

It is a world of horses that run and jump in a green, rolling countryside, studied by members of a select coterie who are, more often than not, as elegant as the animals they follow.

So physicians began to become involved and tried to make infant feeding scientific, by studying the ingredients of human milk and trying to adapt animal milk to the needs of infants.

Animal studies suggest that the disruption of maternal hormones caused by epidurals, described above, may also contribute to maternal - infant difficulties.

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

It has been proven by many scientific studies that petting an animal calms us, soothes us and takes away the stress of the day.

Thankfully, as someone who has studied the effects of chronic stress in animals and in people, I knew that claims like Dr. Narvaez's are not supported by data and instead rest on a fundamental misreading of stress research.

Each category is supported by many animal studies as well as some human studies showing ways in which mothers have an edge.

For example, animal studies have demonstrated that the expression of P - glycoprotein, a broad - specificity transmembrane transporter on intestinal enterocytes, is induced by breast milk (and not formula exposure) and is protective against experimental colitis (3).

He also stresses that, «Animal studies have linked the combination of stress and lack of sleep to behavioural problems in teenage years... and changes to the brain brought on by stress hormones may make it more difficult to form relationships later on, leading to problems such as promiscuity.»

The Burger That Shattered Her Life — Stephanie Smith (The New York Times) watch the video 38 % was from Greater Omaha meat packing plant 37 % from Lone Star, a slaughterhouse in Texas 15 % from a processor in Uruguay 10 % from Beef Products International (PINK SLIME) A study done by R.P. Clayton and K.E. Belk in 1998 concluded that a single 4 - ounce ground beef patty was made from, on average, at least 55 different animals to, at most, an average of 1082 animals.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

The prosecutor assigned to this unit, Erin E. Hart, works closely with Erie County SPCA peace officers, city and town animal control officers, forensically trained veterinarians and experts in the study of animal fighting employed by the national organization, the ASPCA.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

And, by showing how animal studies can help us understand when and why our own weapons work — or don't work — as deterrents, it drove home the importance of basic research.

Initial studies conducted by Christine Radtke, new Professor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at MedUni Vienna / Vienna General Hospital, have shown in an animal model that the threads have great potential for nerve and tissue repair.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

Traditionally, they are grouped by the type of organism being studied: botany, the study of plants; zoology, the study of animals; and microbiology, the study of microorganisms.

The studies suggested that most infections resulting from animal bites are «polymicrobial,» caused by several different bacteria or other germs.

Aquatic animals were by far the most commonly reported type of injury, accounting for two - thirds of studies.

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In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

By studying human cancer cells and animal models of cancer in the lab, our researchers have shown that loss of PTEN leads to high levels of PI (3,4) P2, which could result in hyperactivation of AKT.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

In this study, we created new per - animal emissions factors — that is measures of the average amount of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere — and new estimates of global livestock methane emissions.»

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).