Sentences with phrase «for human observation»

The wind is our most immediate predictor of weather, an endlessly fascinating phenomenon for human observation and discussion.

The film, which kicks off Directors» Fortnight at this year's Cannes, initially feels as though it might possess Noah Baumbach's knack for human observation given its curious mix of Frances Ha's visual style and While We're Young's dynamic.

A defining voice in American independent cinema ever since his 1995 debut with Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbach has a natural knack for human observation and crafting sharp dialogue that feels entirely true.

Not exact matches

Take for example, the observation by futurist Ray Kurzweil that technology is the evolution of human biology.

Only with the dawn of the space age in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by direct observation that the earth is a globe.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

More to the point, for educators in these troubled times, is David Griffin's trenchant observation that those who seek to improve the human condition dare not ignore the transcultural proclivity to evil deep within the human heart and the strong element of competition in finite existence.

Immediate Intuition in Caritasin Veritate For Edward Holloway every human observation inherently involves a complementary interaction and interdefinition between «me and my environment», a fundamental aspect of which is the relationship between the knowing spiritual mind and ordered matter.

The observation of people and human systems (like political institutions), however, are not generally considered science, like history (for example).

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

This is neither a sentimental platitude nor a rigid doctrine, but a plain observation regarding the material and social economies that make it possible for us to live in a fully human, rather than bestial, way.

Religious observations that call for an animal to be slaughtered are as out of date and foul as those calling for human sacrifice.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

Apparently he would argue for determinism from the observation that causal regularity is a contingent feature of human experience.

Hence the careful and comprehensive observation of nature will yield indications for human behavior, which were part of God's intention in creating in the first place and which therefore have the status of moral imperatives for humans.

Regarding the observation of «Christians with ice cubes for hearts», Rainer the Brainless states that Christian baptism is the new circ.um.cision of the human heart.

His human skills were complemented by a keen intellect, strong observation skills, and a sharp memory for facts, figures and protocols of organic standards.

Advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology offer the potential for extremely precise observation, collection and even alteration of human brain activity.

When the ban on human dissections was lifted for a few decades, a doctor named Herophilus opened up hundreds of bodies and made detailed observations, all of which were lost when fire destroyed the famed Library of Alexandria.

For other gases, two important observations demonstrate human influence.

A medical doctor (of human patients), Rothschild is often sought out these days by paleontologists for his observations about the diseases revealed in bones (the dinosaur kind)-- and the subsequent deductions about how these long - extinct creatures might have lived.

Hardy's team highlights the following observations to build a case for dietary carbohydrate being essential for the evolution of modern big - brained humans:

The work can potentially be applied to miniaturizing MAVs useful for remote observation and dispersion in a range of applications, from agriculture to space exploration, especially in conditions hazardous to humans.

The study of human life can happen anywhere — there are opportunities for anthropological observation available all around us, all the time.

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

These observations and others have convinced the researchers that their CRISPR / Cas9 and hPSC system produces a stable, biologically accurate human model for a common genetic disease where new understanding and new therapies are desperately needed.

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region

GPS may mean many wonderful things, but it may also mean yet another death for the powers of human observation.

But the humans didn't reward the birds for their help; in seven observations, they even went so far as to burn or bury the honeycomb, telling the researchers that they wanted to keep the birds «hungry» so the avian helpers would guide them to more hives.

«While we made our original observation in yeast, we were able to show the same phenomenon for human and fly cells.

However, this is difficult as many coastal areas have been modified by humans, so finding a truly natural habitat for observations of turtles is becoming increasingly difficult.

«Extensive traditional observations of individual traits and their relationship with leadership will be necessary for each specific group of animals or humans before this method could be used as an automated way to measure personality,» he says.

«The dog is an invaluable model for exploring hereditary copper - storage diseases, and observations made in this study will benefit both canine and human patient populations.»

With her customary flair for charting the history of the heavens through a human lens, Sobel chronicles Copernicus's life, from his celestial observations to his domestic disputes, and explores how his ideas shaped the subsequent astronomical breakthroughs of Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo.

«The interactive solution makes it possible to take advantage of the human observation capacity for carrying out the required task,» Heikkilä says.

The computers will then «learn» what kind of land cover, what timing pattern of greening and what human densities best predict bird presence, and generate a million more simulated observations for each species: points where it is predicted to be either present or absent at different times throughout the year.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

But an even more surprising observation was that the cells didn't go away — they hung around at a 10-fold increase over prepregnancy levels for more than 100 days after birth (the equivalent of 4 years to 5 years in humans).

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

During observation and analysis of the now in vivo organoids, study authors looked for signs of posterior region enteroendocrine cells, which make hormones found in naturally developed human colon.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.

However there are widespread observations that under non-inflammatory conditions, human MSC are MHC - II negative, supporting a role for MSC as having reduced immunogenicity through the control of alloantigen expression 101, 102, 103.

For example, in a session on human vaccine trials, Glenda Gray from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa reported the somewhat surprising observation that T - cell responses to vaccines can differ depending on gender and body mass index.

Notably, the pattern of CSF peptides was similar at both time points and comparable to that observed in human CSF [50]; except for two observations: no Aβ37 was detected in the CSF of McGill transgenic rats at any time point and the Aβ38 signal was as strong as the Aβ40 signal, under these conditions.

Given the very rapid warming of the Arctic, I'd like to see a multinational «war room» for models, observation, and a database of solutions, or at least ways for humans and other creatures to adapt.

Process versus product in social learning: comparative diffusion tensor imaging of neural systems for action execution - observation matching in macaques, chimpanzees, and humans.

Humans have been recording observations regarding coat - color mutations for millennia, including ancient Chinese references to albino, yellow and waltzing mice.