Sentences with phrase «defense mechanism in»

His depression was a defense mechanism in the sense that it protected him from looking at his own subjective agency in choosing whether or not to make his marriage work.

What fuels Dickinson, and the movie itself, is a love affair with language: Both find joy, refuge, and sometimes a surgical defense mechanism in the manipulation of words.

Solanine is a defense mechanism in some Solanaceae plants, used to protect against natural threats such as insects and small animals.

The scientists used this existing defense mechanism in bacteria to turn CRISPR - Cas9 into a real tool for cleaving the DNA of bacterial and also human cells.

It's the first time two interacting chemicals have been shown responsible for a defense mechanism in termites, he says.

Although this is an important defense mechanism in bacterial infections, it does not help to combat viruses.

But University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers have now found that chronic liver inflammation also promotes cancer by suppressing immunosurveillance — a natural defense mechanism in which it's thought the immune system suppresses cancer development.

The researchers believe that whilst being advantageous as a defense mechanism in temperate climates, such an increase will be a potential disadvantage in the arid climate of central Australia.

Although glandular hairs are a common chemical defense mechanism in plants, they're rare in insects.

Researchers use this natural defense mechanism in bacteria as the basis for the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing system, creating synthetic guides to search out whichever specific string of DNA bases the researchers choose.

Based on a defense mechanism in the immune system of bacteria that hunts and destroys invading viruses, CRISPR can locate and replace specific genes.

While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.

Unwilling to assume responsibility for the sin that had caused the nation's downfall, they found their defense mechanism in ascribing the guilt to their ancestors.

This is now exploited as a joke - which is defense mechanism in full force.

Joy warned that research into defense mechanisms in a new kind of «arms race» would inevitably provoke further evolution of the new technologies.

From an evolutionary perspective, the findings reveal that sophisticated immune defense mechanisms in respiratory surfaces came about very early in vertebrate evolution.

I can not agree with you more Dianne, as a psychologist I just want to add that two primitive but potentially deadly defense mechanisms in the human psyche namely DENIAL and RATIONALIZATION can cost us our lives.

And this is due to the fact that plants have their own defense mechanisms in the form of lectins, phytic acid, and other enzyme inhibitors.

The lack of concentration in a hyperthyroid cat does not have the normal defense mechanisms in place to prevent these feline urinary tract infections.

A child's ability to adapt, use internal coping resources, and employ defense mechanisms in the face of trauma are determined by:

Not exact matches

Luckily, blockchain has built - in defense mechanisms to protect against cyber attacks and data manipulation.

But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

So rather than learning from our mistakes, we tend to double down and get further entrenched in our position as a defense mechanism.

«We have a deep set of defense mechanisms that make us careful around people in authority positions,» James Detert, a professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management who specializes in transparent workplace communication, told Harvard Business Review.

I think that kind of reaction is a defense mechanism... that people that hate on others beliefs only do so because they lack confidence in their own beliefs... and have to put others down to feel better about themselves.

It must be said in their defense that often the kind of problem being investigated could be well served by assuming an imagery of mechanism.

Belief in God is the defense mechanism that some brains use when they just can't comprehend something.

And so even though a defense of «poets» runs right through Simon and Garfunkel's lyrical oeuvre, in «I Am a Rock,» it looks as if this fellow's love of poetry can be reduced to a mere defense mechanism.

I view the belief in god now as some sort of «veil of ignorance» — not stupidity but some sort of mechanism, defense, shield that keeps the fantasy alive inside and keeps reality at bay on the outside.

These symptoms are described by psychologists as the root of the disorientation many people face today in their lives, although people manage to cover over and obscure them as a part of their elaborate defense mechanisms.

In her book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, (11) Anna Freud explored in depth the ego's unconscious defenses against anxiety (described originally by her fatherIn her book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, (11) Anna Freud explored in depth the ego's unconscious defenses against anxiety (described originally by her fatherin depth the ego's unconscious defenses against anxiety (described originally by her father).

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

Well, neither do I, and with one aspect of what you say I agree: faith in God is used by many as a psychological defense mechanism, a lovely make - believe world to which sentimentally they retreat when they do not want to face life's stern realities.

Because of the strong dynamic of defense mechanisms, the major effect of religious television programs will be one of reinforcement of existing attitudes that most viewers would hold in harmony with the broadcaster.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

As long as they believe only their version of god is true, and only their version of god gave us free will... can you really not see what kind of convenient defense mechanism that affords them in an actual debate about their beliefs?

It opened up my mind again, which had locked itself in as a defense mechanism against a predictably cruel world, to appreciate, embrace and praise the Mystery.

Students veer into other disciplines, and our culture as a whole adopts an ironic tone, a defense mechanism we may regret but which is entirely understandable in an intellectual environment of unmasking and critique.

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Truthfully, having been a Phillies fan starting in the late 1950s, and having witnessed 1964, and following Philly sports ever since, it's more than a defense mechanism.

Violence became a defense mechanism as these kids got older, manifesting in their attacking other people without provocation.

More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related biases in their social - emotional information processing (i.e. attention biases to emotional facial expressions).

Amy's approach is to avoid the «self - defense» mechanism that gets triggered in kids, which leads to defiance, arguments and the inevitable «power struggle» (which leads nowhere at all.)

On the Judge's explanation that he failed to exhaust internal redress mechanisms adequately before heading for the court, Mr. Crabbe said, «I see it very differently because in one the party's defense, they said that the NPP is a private organisation and when something is happening in it no court can interfere.

To test how rising CO2 might affect their defense mechanism, Weiss exposed stock Daphnias in the lab to levels of CO2 ranging from just above the maximum level seen in global freshwater to about 60 percent more than that maximum, to mimic a worst - case scenario.

She adds, however, that although there is good evidence that countershading acts as a defense mechanism, there will always be some uncertainty about interpreting countershading in dinosaurs, because we can't present a model Psittacosaurus to their natural predators to see which type of pattern provides the best protection.

«There are many different antiviral mechanisms in our bodies, but maybe RNAi functions as the most important antiviral defense mechanism.

Because of their natural defense mechanisms they are afraid of almost no other marine life, and will consume dozens of species of the tropical fish and invertebrates that typically congregate in coral reefs and other areas.

This large - scale analysis allowed us to identify exactly which genes play a pivotal role in a plant's defense mechanism against drought.

The ability of these children to maintain an intact immune system in the face of ongoing viral replication and in the absence of antiretroviral therapy can provide us with new insights into hitherto unknown defense mechanisms, which could eventually benefit other HIV patients,» says Professor Oliver T. Keppler, Chair of Virology at the Pettenkofer Institute, and former head of the German Reference Center for Retroviruses in Frankfurt am Main.