Sentences with phrase «done by the rat»

(This is typically done by the rat depressing a lever.)

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For some reason they don't realize it's training to live the life I want by enabling myself to choose deliberately what I want to do, not just to follow paths others lay out for me, which I call the rat race, or surrender to whatever shiny thing appears in my vision, which I call blowing in the breeze.

He's adored by fans, yet trust me, he doesn't give a rat's arse about that, and like I said earlier will do what's best for him, which obviously means for financial reasons.

Rats raised by less affectionate moms have deficits in all these areas — but they do perform better in extremely stressful situations.

Granted this study was done on rats by Anderson Laboratories, but the more I researched, the more concerns revealed themselves.

The DiNapoli audit follows a recent one done in the city by Stringer that found 87 % of the 101 randomly selected shelter units across the five boroughs had conditions that threatened residents» health or safety, including rats, mold, and broken windows.

Rats, which can pick up the raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) but don't seem badly affected by it, were among the most frequent visitors.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

Many experts do fear the great homogenisation of nature, a world taken over by a few mongrel and ubiquitous species — brown rats and house sparrows, superweeds and cultivated crops.

, real rat laughter doesn't tend to sound very much like the human variety, which normally involves pulsating sound bursts starting with a vocalized inhalation and consisting of a series of short distinct saccades separated by almost equal time intervals.

After depletion of synapsin II by antisense oligonucleotides, rat hippocampal neurons in culture were unable to consolidate their minor processes and did not elongate axons.

Nestler: That's right, and that's been demonstrated experimentally in these rats, that if you take a rat, for example, that's been raised by a low - licking mother, and do something to it — it could be a medication, it could be behavioral change — then you can cause a behavioral switch in that animal so that it now behaves as if it had a high - licking mother.

So the way, this is work done by Michael Meaney and Frances Champagne and many others, who have done research in rats, where they've shown different styles of mothering, where some mothers tend to groom their pups to a lesser extent than others.

«Studying these effects in model systems such as rats and flies allows us to address these questions by manipulating the likely mechanisms involved, which we can't do in humans.»

But by the late 1980s, advanced pharmacology allowed Edgerton to prove them wrong: To do so, he injected paralyzed cats with strychnine, a toxin commonly used in rat poison.

Duman and his colleagues are trying to learn lessons from ketamine, an anesthetic and painkiller that is also sold illicitly under the name «Special K.» The group has shown in rats that ketamine rapidly causes neurons to make new contacts with one another and, apparently by so doing, produces antidepressant effects.

The rats that were forced to exercise had immune responses 20 % to 30 % weaker than those of control animals that didn't exercise at all, while the immune responses of the animals that exercised by choice were enhanced.

Their setup resembles clinical trials, such as one where doctors test a drug by comparing lab rats that get the drug with those that don't.

Because rats don't develop Peyronie's disease, the researchers had to induce scarring by making incisions in the rodent penises.

By DEBORA MacKENZIE If you were a laboratory rat, and could live anywhere in Europe, you would do well to choose Switzerland.

In April John Chapin, a neuroscientist at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and his colleagues said they had managed to do just that by creating phantom signals in the rat's brain.

Rogan and her colleagues have begun doing just that: They are checking whether they can prevent mammary cancer in rats by sopping up estrogen quinones before they can batter DNA.

By examining the hippocampus — a portion of the brain associated with the process of learning — after the rats learned to associate a sound with a motor response, scientists found that the new brain cells injected with dye a few weeks earlier were still alive in those that had learned the task while the cells in those who had failed did not survive.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

The process, which was done by way of a rat triad, which included a donor, recipient, and blood supply rat, provided a continuous blood supply to the donor brain throughout the transplant, avoiding brain tissue hypothermia — a condition where the brain suffers in absence of a blood supply.

The study by a team from University of Colorado at Boulder was done on rats, but researchers warn that their results very well may have implications for humans.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

I was doing it to allow the rat tapeworm larvae... By the way, they can't actually turn into tapeworms inside of you.

While this first study was done on rats, a previous study performed by Safarinejad studied stinging nettle's effects on BPH in human patients.

A recent study done with rats has shown that taurine, a major constituent of bile, can partially alleviate thyroid dysfunction caused by fluoride!

A recent study done in rats has shown that taurine, a major constituent of bile, can partially alleviate thyroid dysfunction caused by fluoride!

Psychologists at Purdue University's Ingestive Behavior Research Center reported that relative to rats that ate yogurt sweetened with glucose (a simple sugar with 15 calories / teaspoon, the same as table sugar), rats given yogurt sweetened with zero - calorie saccharin later consumed more calories, gained more weight, put on more body fat, and didn't make up for it by cutting back later, all at levels of statistical significance.

For lipids, all the rats did well: «Collectively, these data suggest that atherogenic profiles of both males and females are improved by dietary energy restriction.»

, it feels absolutely real, and is what the corporate rat race deserves in an anti-hero: the do - gooder replaced by the do - nothing.

But while Chandor's script does well to inject some suspense into the story by keeping things tight and claustrophobic with everyone trapped in the office like rats in a cage, it's the actors who truly make the material interesting, even if you don't always understand what they're talking about.

Willard is a dysfunctional marriage between the highbrow and the lowbrow — a timid picture afraid to appear as though it's just a revenge fantasy carried off by rats (something done better in Argento's Inferno, anyway) and afraid, too, to appear as though it's not interested in the rats at all.

Ullmann doesn't manage to build any urgency around this crossroads, though, in large part because the film's inertia is dragged down by Chastain and Farrell giving self - consciously angsty monologues about being a falcon or a rat or whatever other creature trapped in a hole.

Between Moonlight and the upcoming Call Me By Your Name, some are calling this the golden age of gay coming - of - age cinema; Beach Rats» slow pacing and dreamy verité style doesn't feel made for quite that level of mainstream appeal.

Is Penn doing the noble thing by taking down the criminals, or is he a rat bastard, disowning himself from the way of life and people who helped him along the way?

Additionally, you can alleviate the strain of grading by giving students the technological resources to do better work.For example, I will regularly give my students the chance to use grammar checking websites like Grammarly or Paper Rater before turning in their writing.

The Four Corners states had consistent failings in the eyes of the NACSA raters: None of the states» laws had a renewal standard tied to academic performance or a default closure provision, under which a school would lose its charter «by default» if it did not meet a minimum standard of performance.

This researcher would never guess that the human behavior could be driven by reason or even a responsible moral -LSB-...]-- he should without doubt arrive to the conclusion that the human society is very alike with the society of rats, which are also peaceful within the close tribe, but transform into true demons when fighting any species colleague which does not belong to their own party.

How well do scores assigned by IntelliMetric on the WritePlacer Plus test correlate to the respondents» scores on another standardized writing test, THEA, which is graded by human raters?

Whereas past projects were off - road, trail - crawling 4 - by - 4s that put form firmly behind function, the TrophyRat took the best bits from trophy trucks, rat rods, and sports cars, and assembled them in a way that turned a jalopy into something brutal and imposing that doesn't shy away from anything.

Explicit sexuality is fine, too, but should have an educational component — whether about the awkwardness of one's «first time» (like in Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas, when narrator Steve and his girlfriend fumble through a first sexual encounter), about what being a sexual person feels like (like Norah's erotically charged feelings of desire for Nick when they're alone in a hotel ice room in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan) or even about how to reclaim a sense of self as a survivor of sexual violence (like Melinda does after being raped in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson).

Gym rats notoriously resent the resolution seekers who crowd their gyms in January and — like clockwork — are gone by February (in fact, 4 percent of new gym goers don't even make it past the end of January and 14 percent drop out in February).

Rat removal is done by lethal means.

I'd like to know where the little rat dogs are on this list as I was attacked by a terrier and I haven't heard of anyone who has been attacked by most of the dogs above, just because you are small minded and can't put yourself past a stereotype doesn't mean that they are bad.

Plus, thanks to the security offered by the tube, the rats don't [seem to] find the experience frightening or disturbing.

The writer didn't make the pit bull or pit ~ bull type dogs the most dangerous breed, humans did that hundreds of years ago by selectively breeding them for bull baiting, ratting, dog fighting and whatever other blood sport put money in their pockets.