Sentences with phrase «give human scale»

Pattern has the ability to dazzle, delight, welcome, make cultural claim, give human scale end act as a navigating tool in space.

According to the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C., «His large canvases, typical of his mature style, establish a one - on - one correspondence with the viewer, giving human scale to the experience of the painting and intensifying the effects of color.

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To give you some scale as to how monumental and historic this undertaking truly is, the graphic below, courtesy of BHP, compares the development to the U.S. Marshall Plan, then one of the most expensive projects in human history.

Given the scale of user - generated content on platforms large and small, it makes sense to use automated tools to assist with human review of problematic content.

Given the scale of our universe, it seems likely that god wouldn't be interested in humans at all, and his design would be so far beyond our imagining, so why care about humans?

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Christian anthropology's emphasis on human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.

It also gave him the building blocks for his own economics of human scale and appropriate technology.

His core beliefs which give him a coherent political outlook remain to help the underprivileged, a belief in the universal welfare state and the promotion of peace and human rights on a global scale.

Scientists have long predicted large - scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate - mediated changes.

Additional animal testing on such a scale would be very time consuming, highly expensive, and politically very unpopular, especially given increasing doubts as to whether the data gathered could be used effectively in increasing protection of human health and the environment.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at the brain surface.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

While we agree with their findings, we warn that «passive» management, seeking purely to minimize anthropogenic impacts is likely to be insufficient, given the local and large - scale inevitable pressures created by an unabatedly expanding human population.

And it's something that humans can actually help ecosystems like coral reefs to build up, Bozec says: «You can manage the reef at a local scale to try to give to the reef the best chance to recover when faced with these increasing disturbances.»

Improvements on this scale happened in all the animals, including mice with a version of human Alzheimer's disease, elderly rats and monkeys with natural degeneration, plus rats and monkeys given brain lesions similar to those seen in Alzheimer's.

The territory of what is uniquely and reliably human (and can be automatically tested at scale, over different kinds of interfaces) is one of interesting zones given to future technologists to explore — if only to keep the botnets at bay.

Given the vast scale the Russos are working on, resorting to your typical collect - the - gems plot game seems disappointingly basic, but there's a thornier problem with Thanos in general: he's a huge hulk of a being, twice human size, but the effects job on Brolin thwarts his usual authority as an actor.

Impressed by the combination of «physical scale and human emotion,» The Guardian gives the film four out of five stars, but Indiewire is a little less enamored, claiming the film «stumbles on its earnestness» even though it «never ceases to be a visual marvel.»

DuVernay's razor - sharp portrait of the Civil Rights movement — and Dr. King himself — at a critical crossroads is as politically astute as it is psychologically acute, giving us a human - scale King whose indomitable public face belies currents of weariness and self - doubt.

The film is told mostly in wide - angle close - up, giving it an intimate scale and a human focus.

Whereas humans are better at experiencing authentic emotions and building relationships, formulating questions and explanations across scales and sources, deciding how to use limited resources across dimensions strategically (including which tasks machines should be doing and what data to give them), making products and results usable for humans and communicating about them, making decisions according to abstract values.

We are equipped with a dental X-ray unit and human dental equipment to ultrasonically scale your pet's teeth and to give them a fluoride polish for further protection.

Small - scale breeders are often better able to give the individual care and human contact that each puppy needs in order to grow into a healthy, well - adjusted companion and neighbor.

Satellites give volcanologists a good overall view of the volcano, but can't supply human - scale details.

Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.

Given its scale, it is instructive to compare this large piece with the paintings featured in the show: where form and an entirely flat painted surface lend strength to the paintings, the subtle human touch inherent to the printers art yields a different sort of gravity, and perhaps timelessness, to the works on paper.

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection features forty - six large - scale paintings, prints, works on paper, and photographs that give insight into the human psyche, while helping us to understand the human condiHuman Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection features forty - six large - scale paintings, prints, works on paper, and photographs that give insight into the human psyche, while helping us to understand the human condihuman psyche, while helping us to understand the human condihuman condition.

At the opposite end of the scale, Lee's other well - known series of work from the late 1990s gave gruesome shape to our worst biotechnological fears, in a period marked by hysteria over the Y2K bug, the start of the Human Genome Project, the commercialisation of genetically modified crops and the birth of Dolly the sheep.

Scaled to the human body, it's got some give to its skin and insides but is otherwise stolid and heavy.

Over the years her vocabulary and interests, including her ongoing experimentation with constructions, sets, and installations at the human scale, have provided a through - line and given a unity to her artwork, even as she has experimented with multiple processes, from cyanotypes and Polaroids to Cibachromes and video installations.

Laib's attention to human scale, duration of time, and his choice of materials give his work the power to transport us to expected realms of memory, sensory pleasure, and contemplation.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

Earth has restricted resources and, therefore, by its very nature can not be a foundation for the endless growth of human activities, especially given the colossal scale and unbridled growth of production, propagation and per human consumption.

(I'm moderating a discussion of climate policy between Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Romm, the Climateprogress blogger, and I gave an opening talk on communicating what I see as the story of our time — the human transition through a kind of species - scale, puberty - style growth spurt to whatever comes next.)

Given the large scale and increasing number of human - induced global challenges being presented to humanity in 2008 with a mere 6.6 billion people on Earth, what do you suppose our young people can expect to confront in 2050 when 2 1/2 billion more people are added to our current numbers?

And let me give you my take on Kuhn's ideas as they relate to AGW — AGW was the paradigm - shift away from the idea that climate was on too massive a scale to be influenced by human activity.

However, their conflict mineral policies were deemed to be inadequate given the scale of human rights abuses and the environmental destruction associated with mining conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries.

What do you expect will happen if human propagation, production and consumption activities continue to grow, given their current scale and expected annual rate of increase?

To give the impacts of sea level rise a human scale, Hummel and her team recorded the number of people served by each vulnerable treatment facility.

The failure of OSM to address these troublesome programmatic issues is particularly alarming given recent scientific studies that have documented the scale of the impacts to air and water quality, and the link between these impacts and human health problems in Appalachia.

Giving people a sense of the scale and consequence of current human interference in the earth system, as this paper seeks to do, is an important and profound task, and I welcome anyone's willingness to take it on.

neither do those uncertainties allow scientific closure — as long as models of the climate system's behavior decay into chaos on shorter time scales than human history, climate modeling will remain prey to misrepresentation by those well enough paid, or ideologically bloody minded enough to do so: the trouble with the climate wars is that neither political side, activist or obscurantist, really gives a damn about the science, and those presuming to speak for it invite damnation by both.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

Still, given the scale of production, level of secrecy and vast room for human error surrounding new film and TV releases, it's a wonder that anything manages to premiere without first popping up online.

By essentially sticking Kinect in a phone, Google aims to give our mobile devices a «human - scale understanding of space and motion.»

The Diabetes Family Conflict Scale (Rubin, Young - Human, & Peyrot, 1989) consists of 15 items in which adolescents and mothers rated on a 1 (almost never) to 3 (almost always) scale how frequently they argue about specific diabetes - related tasks (e.g., «remembering to check blood sugars», «remembering to give insulin shots or boluses&raqScale (Rubin, Young - Human, & Peyrot, 1989) consists of 15 items in which adolescents and mothers rated on a 1 (almost never) to 3 (almost always) scale how frequently they argue about specific diabetes - related tasks (e.g., «remembering to check blood sugars», «remembering to give insulin shots or boluses&raqscale how frequently they argue about specific diabetes - related tasks (e.g., «remembering to check blood sugars», «remembering to give insulin shots or boluses»).