Sentences with phrase «escape responses of»

They have one of the fastest escape responses of any animal on the planet, able to flee at 500 body lengths per second — 16 times as fast as a cheetah.

National Geographic asks PSC's Kristin Laidre about a new unaffiliated study of the escape response of East Greenland narwhals.

Not exact matches

To respond to Jesus in this way is not to escape the disturbing recognition of the inadequacy of the response.

MY RESPONSE: And it happens that at that very moment of «low tide», the Israelites were right there to cross and escape Pharoah and his army.

; the lone escape of Abiathar (v. 20 f.); David's profoundly sensitive, deeply revealing response to Abiathar; and the classical simplicity and dignity of the language:

The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.

Having just escaped from the furore of Oxford Street this afternoon, I thought of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William's criticisms of the government's response to the economic crisis.

Cuomo's plan to spend $ 60 million for police vests and body cameras in high crime areas went instead to pay for new snow plows and a handful of other major expenses — including last summer's manhunt for two escaped murderers and the state's response to a Buffalo snowstorm in 2014, legislative sources said.

The statement read, «The Quick Response Squad of the security unit of the university was immediately dispatched to the scene on a rescue mission, having shut all the exit roads that could be used as escape routes by the perpetrators.

As melting sea ice opens up the Arctic to more human activity, the mammals, known as «unicorns of the sea» for their single tusk, may be more exposed to the potentially harmful escape response, scientists say.

The team tracked the tail stroke rate and cardiovascular response of the narwhals after their release, and determined how much energy the animals used during their deep escape dives.

Experiments at UC Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become more acidic, a consequence of climate change.

In addition to formulating diagnostic strategies for cancer immunotherapy agents, her team is focused on developing a deep understanding of tumor immune biology as well as mechanisms associated with immune response and immune escape in cancer patients, with the intent of generating rational strategies for the creation of combination therapies.

Aversive classical conditioning of Aplysia californica, a gastropod mollusk suited for neurobiological study, produces a learned reaction to the chemosensory conditioned stimulus that is expressed as a marked facilitation of four defensive responses: two graded reflexes (head and siphon withdrawal), an all - or - none fixed act (inking), and a complex fixed action pattern (escape locomotion).

«Our results illustrate the complex balance between whale attacks and fish escape responses, and how the lunge characteristics of the whales may be related to the escape abilities of targeted prey,» says Dr. Paolo Domenici, who spent several weeks at Hopkins Marine Station and helped lead the study.

Conversely, the immune system contains triggers to blunt immune responses, and antibodies that block these «off - switch» checkpoints might be able to further reduce the ability of these cancers to escape the immune system.

Another key component of the emergency response is the placement of a four - story, 100 - ton concrete - and - steel containment box on the ocean floor over the largest leak, where 85 percent of the oil is escaping.

Many of the creatures in the White Sands ecosystem, including the lesser earless lizard and the Apache pocket mouse, have undergone rapid evolution in response to their unique environment, developing a lighter appearance that allows them to blend into the gypsum sands and escape predators.

They studied the proteomic responses of the bacteria to five compounds — isoniazid, rifampicin, moxifloxacin, mefloquine and bedaquiline — and discovered escape pathways and enzymes associated with changes in metabolic state.

While viral escape has not been observed in the NHP models of immunoprophylaxis described above, virus can evolve in response to neutralizing antibodies in HIV - positive patients [16], [17] and early studies showed escape of patient virus from passive antibody - mediated protection when a single mAb was used [18].

CRI Investigator Gabriel Rabinovich and his team identify a novel strategy mediated by secretion of the sugar - binding protein galectin - 1 that is used by tumors to escape the immune response.

One of the most intriguing features of MSCs is that they escape immune recognition and can inhibit immune responses 11.

Relationships of anti-predator escape and post-escape responses with body mass and morphology: a comparative avian study.

Some of these randomly generated «escape mutants,» as they are called, would then be selected for survival in succeeding generations of the virus, since they would possess the advantage of being «fitter» — avoiding the body's immune response — than their nonmutated counterparts.

«Escaping marine mammals are trying to integrate a dive response on top of an exercise response on top of a fear response.

A basic example of this is the escape response: When something moved towards a fly, they see that movement and jump away.

Clinical tests of inhibitors showed that the response was much more transient than hoped, indicating that at least some cancer cells had escaped the treatment.

These responses can sometimes help, providing bursts of energy to escape danger, but it is when such responses are a reaction to something emotional that people could start to suffer.

Based on this data, researchers concluded that learned helplessness in rats who couldn't escape the shocks must have suppressed the immune response known to fight off cancer cells in tumors of this sort.

Students answer questions about the response of other countries to the Holocaust, about why it was difficult for Jews to escape the Nazis, and about why it is difficult to learn what happened to Jews who did try to escape.

There has always been a well - developed moaning culture in education, but there is no escaping the outrage among school leaders about the lack of political response to funding worries.

The leash and halter prevents escape from the stimulus; helps build the dog's confidence; controls the head and nose in order to get the desired behavior (e.g. sit, heel); allows the owner to redirect the head away from the stimulus and toward the owner; prevents the possibility of a bite or injury; and provides a reward or release for each proper response.

We appreciated the response giving away the free maps after the launch of Fat Princess and we wanted to do the same for Escape Plan fans and supporters.

The point was regarding the response by the dev team and the issue of price / content value although that seems to have escaped you.

Of course, simply running around the enemy is also an option, and a successful escape will elicit a vocal response from a party member.

Beyond offering impressions of Middle - earth: Shadow of Mordor, Fluster Clunk, Skylanders: Trap Team, Hohokum, Escape Goat 2, Ingress, To the Moon, and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, the crew also tackles trivia, offers responses to...

Beyond offering impressions of Middle - earth: Shadow of Mordor, Fluster Clunk, Skylanders: Trap Team, Hohokum, Escape Goat 2, Ingress, To the Moon, and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, the crew also tackles trivia, offers responses to reader mail, and even diverts to discuss a handful of must - see anime.

The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war - torn Syria, José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia.

Many of the artists create to relax or escape, using creativity as a response to life's difficulties and as a vehicle to express themselves in an increasingly isolating and lonesome world.

Overbergh's visual response to this instruction are paintings on canvas in «filigree»; the motif of the painting is the cut - out design so that the true images are the spaces which show the wall itself, from which it has escaped.

Eliminating the variation of scale — all works in each group of drawings are the same size — Fowler uses sweeping lines and gestures as a response to the internal (Escaping Forward) or external (9 Imperfect Compositions) shape or boundary of each drawing.

The proposition that «science» somehow dictated particular policy responses, encouraged — indeed instructed — those who found those particular strategies unattractive to argue about the science.36 So, a distinctive characteristic of the climate change debate has been of scientists claiming with the authority of their position that their results dictated particular policies; of policy makers claiming that their preferred choices were dictated by science, and both acting as if «science» and «policy» were simply and rigidly linked as if it were a matter of escaping from the path of an oncoming tornado.

The latest modelling experiments take this into account, but it is easier to understand causes and effects in an equilibrium - response experiment.The first thing that happens when CO2 is doubled is that less energy in the form of radiation escapes to space.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

The idea of heading north in response to crisis also has a pedigree in the U.S., Slade says, pointing to the thousands of Americans who fled to Canada in the 1960s and»70s to escape the Vietnam draft.

Maternal minimizing / punitive responses were associated with maternal perceptions of children's low attentional control and high negative affect, as well as children's tendencies to escape rather than vent emotion when angered.

Normally, this «fight - or - flight» response works well when we have to fight off an attacker, escape from a burning house, or perform a miraculous feat of strength.

January's column, in part a survey of the NAR Conference in San Francisco, also contained a reference to Ontario's Sell Rite Realty, which evoked this response: «I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the rolling on the floor laughter you gave me... I was... preparing my annual budget which forces me to spend money on direct mail programs, newspaper advertising, telephone prospecting assistants, cottage trade shows, my website, stationary, listing presentation kits, client software programs... in an attempt to gain the advantage in the ever competitive listing appointment... It was then my associate knocked my door down and explained she had found a way for me to enjoy the sun, escape the winter wonderland, save my money and still have all the listings I could ever want... In a slow whispering voice she spoke two simple words: Buyer Brokerage.

You might use instant messaging to escape the wait for a response when pressed for time; to host a quick discussion between interested buyer and seller without the stiff formality of a conference call; or to relay the progress of negotiations to your office, without disrupting a meeting in progress.