Sentences with phrase «debate over the function»

Although the debate over the function of the stripes continues, studies have backed up some of the other suggestions.

Not exact matches

What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense as a benchmark for debate over how society should function?

His apparent assumption that the debate is over — «Vehicles that we're producing are capable of full autonomy,» he said — is a little scary, considering how much still needs to be learned about the functioning of fully autonomous cars, and about the interaction of autonomous systems with humans in the cockpit.

Thus in a recent commentary on Jesus's debate with the Sadducees over the resurrection of the dead, Father X gave a lucid and moving explanation of the «communion of saints» and how it functions in our Christian lives.

As regards bedsharing, an expanded version of its function and effects on the infant's biology helps us to understand not only why the bedsharing debate refuses to go away, but why the overwhelming majority of parents in the United States (over 50 % according to the most recent national survey) now sleep in bed for part or all of the night with their babies.

► Also on Thursday, Martin Enserink provided an update on virologist Ron Fouchier, who for the past 3 years «has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?»

Whether we maintain true control over any mental functions is the central debate about free will.

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

Before this study, scientists debated how these immune genes can evolve rapidly (which is necessary to keep up with the fast - evolving parasites), whilst also showing little or no evolutionary change in their function over millions of years, as observed between humans and chimpanzees.

«There has long been a debate in the medical community over striking the right balance between pain relief and physical function,» said John Markman, M.D., director of the Translational Pain Research Program in the University of Rochester Department of Neurosurgery and lead author of the study.

Still, there remains much debate over the exact anatomy and function of the Skene's glands — in particular, what, if any, role they may play in sexual function.

In the long - running debate over housing subsidies, experts tend to focus on the mortgage interest deduction, a $ 70 billion tax break that functions as an expensive subsidy for wealthy Americans.

After 20 years of lengthy debates over the best solution, the residents of the city of Nashville and Davidson County voted to consolidate their governmental functions into a completely new form of government now known as the Metropolitan Government of Nashville - Davidson County.

Second, there is a wider debate over what to do, or not do, about climate change, with peoples» preferences (a carbon tax, a technology push, building dikes or parasols in space) not so much a function of science as values.

But our problem is planetary physics: a whole bunch of sometimes coupled not exactly oscillators along with a handful of forcing functions and debates (see above for instance) over which is which.

I can't promise that the hockey stick will be as dead as Section 13 by the time this stupid trial is over, but I will do my best to ensure it - not just because the appalling and incurious prostration before pseudo-authority embodied by everyone from «Ellen» to The Columbia Journalism Review ought to be embarrassing to a functioning media, but because climate science itself, like Brandeis and the State of Ohio, needs, in Steve Huntley's phrase, more «free speech, free debate, free minds».