In the original 1955 novel by Jack Finney and previous versions of the story, Earth is slowly taken over by «pod people» — aliens that are exact
duplicates of humans grown out of huge vegetable - like pods.
These autonomous identities are not
duplicates of human beings in all their complexity, but simple and potentially useful personas.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Another Earth (Unrated) Redemption drama about an MIT student (Brit Marling) and an accomplished composer (William Mapother) whose paths cross in tragic fashion on the very same night of the discovery of a mirror planet populated by
duplicates of every human on Earth.
Not exact matches
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a platform where companies can hire users to perform «
Human Intelligence Tasks» — intuitive operations like labeling images, or weeding out
duplicate data, that, so far, we are still better at than computers — for fractions
of a penny apiece.
But the complexity
of the
human knee makes it difficult to
duplicate.
For example, if there exists an effective procedure that can describe adequately the operation
of the
human brain, a machine can be built to
duplicate the procedure, subject,
of course, to time and storage constraints.
If
human thought is regarded as fundamentally qualitative and valuational, if it involves a grasp
of meaning and significance that can not be completely formalized, then it may not be possible to
duplicate human technical reason in a purely mechanical system.
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.
Formula manufacturers, recognizing its unquestionable superiority, have been trying to
duplicate human milk for years, as new components were discovered in mother's milk that prevent and / or cure diseases and illnesses
of all kinds.
«The bottom line is they will never
duplicate human milk because it is a dynamic substance that changes from birth all the way through weaning to meet the changing needs
of the developing child,» she said.
While greater knowledge about
human milk has helped scientists improve infant formula, it has become «increasingly apparent that infant formula can never
duplicate human milk,» write John D. Benson, Ph.D, and Mark L. Masor, Ph.D., in the March 1994 issue
of Endocrine Regulations.
Benson and Masor, both
of whom are pediatric nutrition researchers at infant formula manufacturer Abbott Laboratories, believe creating formula that
duplicates human milk is impossible.
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of the Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department
of Health and
Human Services.
Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can
duplicate the natural movement
of human legs.
Researchers report in the Journal
of Biomedical Materials Research Part A that they successfully grew cartilage around carbon nanotubes in their lab — and are optimistic that one day they will be able to
duplicate the feat inside the
human body.
Carmona - Mora and colleagues in Megan Dennis» lab at the University
of California, Davis identified parts
of humans» entire set
of genetic instructions, or genome, that are
duplicated in people but not in other primates.
Characterization
of the noncoding regulatory landscape within
human - specific
duplicated regions.
The team found that 82 %
of the genome was made up
of duplicated segments, compared with just 25 % in
humans.
In earlier work, James Sikela, a genome researcher at the University
of Colorado, Denver, and Jonathan Pollack from Stanford University and colleagues found 134 genes that had been
duplicated primarily after
human ancestors split off from other primates.
We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we
duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent
of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from
human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).
Comparisons
of the
human genome and the newly completed draft
of the chimpanzee genome have unearthed major differences between the patterns
of large
duplicated segments
of DNA in the two species...
To prevent genetic imbalances after cell division, the cell has to make sure that all 46
duplicated chromosomes (in case
of a diploid
human cell) are bioriented and ready to be pulled in opposite directions.
Furthermore, recombination between
duplicated sequences introduces structural variation into the
human genome and facilitates the formation
of clustered gene families.
Here we have utilized a mouse model
of autism that
duplicates 6.3 Mb region
of chromosome 7 (Dp / +) corresponding to a region
of chromosome 15q11 - 13, duplication
of which is recurrent in
humans to characterize the bone phenotype.
It is a molecule by molecule
duplicate of naturally occurring growth hormone used to replenish a lacking supply in the
human body, created in an exact chain in a specific sequence.
By
duplicating and replacing
human beings with robotic alien «blanks,» it has made society more stable and happy — and only at the expense
of physical
human bodies.
Using more than one systems for reporting will just mean lots
of duplicate data entry, as well as a higher risk
of human error and the chance people, will be working from different versions
of the same document.
In all
of the above, thousands
of small but significant
human interactions take place in physical group settings that just can not be
duplicated virtually, i.e: when a teacher takes a group
of students on an important field trip, the group is not just gathering information; they may learn how to negotiate a public transportation system, how to behave properly in public, help a fellow classmate who has difficulty with new situations, etc. etc. etc..
But bananas are generally very weak, because, like
human identical twins, each one is an exact genetic
duplicate of the other.
Instead, they created a process
of duplicating their surroundings that is more akin to genuine
human perception.
The dualisms build into each work a familiarity, but they also fuck it up enough to feel the differences between the two sides, as they are never exact
duplicates; the
human hand and eye's imprecision negate the cool clarity and easy flatness
of some machine's instant reprographics.
In her return to her language
of abstraction, which consists
of duplicated patterns
of human movements, Rovner has intensified this language.
There is absolutely no evidence that any
human - engineered GE scheme that has been proposed or considered can
duplicate «volcanos» effect on global temperature» in any sort
of remotely controlled way, let alone «set global temperature like a thermostat».
We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we
duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent
of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from
human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).
If you assume that the actual temperature trends are caused by the «
human carbon volcano» and build your models around it, then if you remove the «volcano» from the models,
of course you can't come anywhere close to
duplicating the trends.
It should be noted that reproducibility
of duplicate profiles will need to be improved if
human interpretation is to be replaced in part by machine interpretation.
This OHS layer
of legislation will
duplicate and possibly conflict with other regulation and legal recourses including in the Criminal Code, the
Human Rights Act, and Labour Relations Code, the Charter
of Rights, the Workers» Compensation Act, and the existing Part 27
of the OHS Code, not to mention most collective agreements and labour, employment and torts common law.
Driving provides
humans with a freedom that can't be
duplicated by any other form
of technology currently in existence.
Integrating Verified Credentials» background screening technology with an HR recruiting solution not only eliminates the need for
duplicate data entry, it also reduces
human error and provides a single entry point for every aspect
of the hiring process.