Sentences with phrase «developed than that of humans»

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Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

Rather than using the samples to screen for illegal drug use or preexisting medical conditions, TAT hopes to use its recently developed human - cloning technology to address a critical lack of available talent.

Many of our competitors have significantly greater financial, technical and human resources than we have and superior expertise in research and development and marketing approved services and thus may be better equipped than us to develop and commercialize services.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

... If someone works hard in school and develops good financial habits, they're more likely to do reasonably well financially than most people were for most of human history.»

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

That it is far more developed in human beings than in others, simply shows us the fuller potentialities of the natural world.

No one is more aware than Whitehead himself that the generalizable factors are not to be found in the more developed stages of human experience, but rather in the most basic, most primitive levels.

In the case of the more recent nontheology, liberalism stressed the «more» quality (James) of human experience and the importance of developing an overview of life that gives reason and experience their due, allowing for a cosmology wider than humanity itself.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

Though «human evolution» is a theory, considering the fossils and evidence of proto - human beings, it is far more likely that we evolved from a lesser developed ancestor than it is that we were made out of dirt by a supernatural deity.

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

Rarely do pro-choice activists any longer describe the fetus as something less than a developing human life or treat the relationship of the fetus to its mother in terms of property rights.

It can take the form of simply spreading the word about university closings, deportations, house arrests or house demolitions, or it can mean developing data banks on violations of human rights — for example, in the careful documentation of the more than 500 Palestinian villages that have been destroyed by the Israelis since 1948; this information has been compiled by the Arab Study Society in East Jerusalem.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.

And the knowledge, self - awareness, and problem - solving skills children develop through years of hands - on inquiry is of far greater value to them as learners and as human beings than anything they could have picked up by sitting at a screen.

A study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in the US looked at the influence of both child care and the home environment on over 1,000 typically - developing children They found that parent and family characteristics were more strongly linked to child development than were child care features.»

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

At more than 300,000 years old, Olorgesailie is significant because this kind of interaction is a hallmark of modern humans that researchers previously thought developed around 100,000 years ago.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

However, the application of skin transplants is better developed in humans than in mice.

The largest increase would go to developing a rocket capable of taking humans beyond Earth orbit; the Constellation project would more than double, to $ 1.12 billion in 2006.

The found that chimpanzees on a whole were less violent than humans, which researchers believe suggests that humans developed more severe forms of warfare compared to chimps.

Chen agrees: He said his experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals with greater «brain power» than normal» because the human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»

Humans tend to rely on visual cues more than other types of cues because our vision is more highly developed than our other senses.

DDVP is an organophosphate, one of a group of pesticides developed after World War II, when researchers discovered that insects» nervous systems were more sensitive to nerve agents than the human nervous system.

By using the genomes of admixed populations — populations, such as Latinos and African Americans that derive ancestry from more than one continent — the team developed a sophisticated mathematical method to help fill in the uncharted regions on the human genome map.

Considered the founder of the biotechnology industry, Genentech has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for more than 35 years, using human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize medicines to treat patients with serious or life - threatening medical conditions.

Shamefully, accolades that resounded a generation ago for biotechnology advances — for instance, recombining DNA to develop human - derived insulin, which is much safer than the animal - derived products that came before — have been drowned out by a misinformed coalition of 114 organizations, including ETC Group and Friends of the Earth.

The material Professor Barber tested was almost 100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair so the techniques used to break such a sample have only just been developed.

Suspecting that the disease works differently in humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based human system for their research.

Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, researchers are following 200 infants with congenital Zika syndrome and their families to understand the ongoing health impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characteristics.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

Rather than artificially triggering cancer by engineering genetic mutations, this model more closely mimics human liver cancer in that tumors develop as a natural consequence of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a chronic metabolic disorder that causes liver damage, fibrosis and numerous cell mutations.

A UCSF - led team has developed a technique to build tiny models of human tissues, called organoids, more precisely than ever before using a process that turns human cells into a biological equivalent of LEGO bricks.

In the course of evolution, certain mammals, notably humans, have developed larger brains than others, and therefore more advanced cognitive abilities.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

The blue stains in these developing mice embryos show that the human DNA inserted into the rodents turns on sooner and is more widespread (right) than the chimp version of the same DNA, promoting a bigger brain.

Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a mechanistic model for how healthy bodies function?

Nevertheless, he stops short of concluding that it is a «universal» or «hard - wired» feature of language, rather than a strategy that humans have developed over time to make themselves better understood.

Researchers made the discovery after developing a special microphone array to more closely study the tunes of male mice, which range from 35 to 125 kilohertz (kz)-- far higher than the maximum frequency heard by humans (20 kz).

The small, stumpy Y chromosome — possessed by male mammals but not females, and often shrugged off as doing little more than determining the sex of a developing fetus — may impact human biology in a big way.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.