Sentences with phrase «function as an image»

In a collection of marks, fictitious landmasses and found maps, charts, images and documents, the marks coexist with traces of remembered movements, invented sites, pseudo-science and shifted cartographic conventions that function as image and artifact.

The image of the broken or missing string conveys harmony, tension, as well as distance, thereby functioning as an image of disquiet.

Whereas, in your work, there really isn't something that functions as an image — there is not a picture of something and yet they're associative.

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But that's just the beginning, as that number doesn't include other Google functions like image search or Google Maps, or properties such as YouTube:

Research from as far back as 1985 suggests physical activity and exercise improve self - image and cognitive functioning, and they reduce the symptoms of anxiety.

This idealized image functions as a substitute for real self - esteem, creates self - idolatry, demands a pattern of rigid relationships, and makes it necessary to constantly compare oneself with others.

It is nearly always followed at once by the image of preaching we have already noted, by a teaching image, or by some other image of function and service such as that of shepherding.

Theologizing and disciplining may be seen as the images show them here, as preparation; but unless they issue in function, they are vain.

In spite of the emphasis placed by the Protestant Reformers especially Calvin, upon the function of teaching, no image of the ministry as teaching — apart from preaching — has come down to us from that age.

We mentioned as another aspirant for the position of rendering the proper function of the parishioner in pastoral care a group counseling image.

It seemed not to lend itself to an image as did the function of preaching.

Consequently, so far as was possible, I took up each function and its image as phenomenologically as possible.

What our functional images point to is a unified attitude about ministry — complex enough to take various needs and functions and situations as they come, but with no sense of inherent contradiction among them.

The image of the fall now seems profoundly pertinent to the account of the shift from that existence to the archaic one, and «civilized» no longer functions for me as a term laden with positive valuation.

It has a textual context that determines its function.106 Metaphor, however, is not considered as an image in modern semantics.

«80 While Jesus» use of the images from nature holds on to its naturalness as nature raw and real, his creative adaptation of the function of nature to emphasize the values of the divine rule stands apart.

In evocative language, the christological hymn functions as a master image of the Christian view of the world.

In fact, in Newtonian physics we would expect that the image of a single substantial object would be identifiable not only by the continuity of its first three factors as an implicit function of the fourth, but also by the constancy of the fifth.

Once again, this function is in no way to be identified with poetry understood as something opposed to prose and defined by a certain affinity of sense, rhythm, image, and sound.

What Calvin likes to call the historia evangelica (the «gospel story») functions as a lens that focuses a picture: in it the true image of God is presented, and through it God can be recognized everywhere else.

If we recognize that it is through the imagination that a person presents alternatives to his present state of being (UMI 216), we may gain some idea as to how a neuroticized image of God can function as an inhibiting element.

As organizing images through which we see ourselves and all things, the powerful images of religion should bring certain aspects of our experience into prominence, should minimize the importance of other aspects, and should throughout function to illuminate our total environment by discovering to us otherwise unnoticed parallelisms, analogies, and patterns among our data.

He insists that it is crucial for our understanding of experience that the immediately presented image functions as a sign; it serves as a symbol which refers to some region of the environment.

They like that the night vision function produces images just as clear as the color images.

Creating and studying peptides that are mirror images of these natural proteins could pave the way to developing such peptides as new drugs with completely different functions from the right - handed versions.

Chinese state - owned enterprises like CNNC and CGN have been increasingly aware of their public image and seeking to improve transparency, but critics say they are still largely functioning as government bureaucracies rather than commercial enterprises.

They also discuss the means used to reduce JFK's chronic pain so that he could function as president and maintain his image of a strong, vibrant leader at the top of his game.

In the end success was secured by the fact that the stone - dead galaxy was positioned behind a foreground cluster of other galaxies — a cluster which functioned as a «natural lens» by amplifying as well as enlarging the image of MACS2129 - 1.

«Because bilateral mastectomy is an elective procedure for unilateral breast cancer [in one breast] and may have detrimental effects in terms of complications and associated costs as well as body image and sexual function, a better understanding of its use and outcomes is crucial to improving cancer care,» according to background information in the article.

Artificial intelligence, which emulates the information processing function of the brain that can quickly execute complex and complicated tasks such as image recognition and weather prediction, has attracted growing attention and has already been partly put to practical use.

With aerial images and elevation data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they determined the dune crest location pre - and post-storm, evaluating DCT as a function of pre-storm dune height and beach width and plant species stabilizing the dune.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

When transporter function is disrupted by a chemical inhibitor considerably more dye accumulates in the embryo tissues — the embryo tissues appear brighter as the image below shows.

From the actor's perspective, all that matters is that the image displayed on the video monitor functions as a reliable predictor of shock.

The group is applying advanced image analysis techniques to 4D CT scans already performed as a standard step in targeting lung cancer radiotherapy, to map areas of lung function without additional testing.

Results of this research showed that the use of positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which image physiological functions of the body such as peptide receptor activity, led to dramatically altered dosimetry in all participating patients.

To enter The Scientific American ™ Great Consciousness Contest (the «Contest»), complete the online entry form at www.scientificamerican.com/article/koch-contest-fool-the-machine-consciousness (the «Website»)(including all required fields as indicated on the form), read the Official Rules, provide a link to the location on a third party image hosting site (e.g., twitpic.com, yfrog.com or flickr.com) of, a photograph or image that depicts a nonsensical scenario that could be perceived as sensible by a machine that is conscious by design but not function, as described in the Scientific American's June 2011 article «A Test for Consciousness» (the «Article»); and click the «Submit» button.

The company's head of AI research Yann LeCun and research engineer Soumith Chintala have described their ideal system as being «capable of not only text and image recognition but also higher - order functions like reasoning, prediction and planning, rivaling the way humans think and behave.»

Measurements and characterization of the shear layer and cavity seeing, as well as image quality evaluation as a function of wavelength have also been performed.

Researchers used a powerful X-ray microscope at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) to capture images of nerve cell samples at different stages of maturity as they became more specialized in their function — this process is known as «differentiation.»

A 12 - year effort has paid off as researchers are now unveiling the first detailed structural images of a type of protein that functions in a manner generally similar to the target of Prozac and...

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However it's also important to select one primary photo that will function as your default image when connecting with other users.

Most of the sites do permit you to join for free and will provide you some basic functions such as doing a search, posting image and profile.

It's one thing to read of U.S. drone strikes daily in the papers and quite another to watch even simulated images of American pilots cramped in bunkers bombing Afghanistan, via consoles that resemble video games in aesthetic as well as mode of functioning.

Such specific praise indicates, however, that what there is of narrative functions as little more than sparse captions for the powerful images.

The function and interplay of symbol and image in The New World is of primary importance because the dialogue serves mainly as counterpoint to the depth of those images — to remind that there are things in the world common enough that they don't need expression and, moreover, are inexpressible through language.

Turmoil on a high - school football team (the Ampipe Bulldogs) functions as the microcosm for factory layoffs, teen pregnancy, and the existential angst embedded in the image of a horrible Lea Thompson playing a mournful saxophone on a street corner.

This disjunction of sounds and images is of course a classic narrative devise of cinema (27) and functions as a kind of pedagogical entry into the visual regime of the film; it does interpolate the viewer and ask him or her to connect these tracks, not necessarily to make sense of them, but at least to organise a suspended logic of connectivity.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.