Sentences with phrase «how humans project»

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The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.
His latest project, The Human Face of Big Data, uses photographs, infographics, and even an app to attempt to both tell the story of how we use this astonishing glut of data and, for one day — October 2nd — take the temperature of humanity.
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.
Returning to Shell Jackpine, while Canadians might be able to guess which policy factors were considered, they have no way of knowing how they were considered in light of the government's obligations pursuant to section 4 to ensure that projects «are considered in a careful and precautionary manner» and that the government exercises its powers «in a manner that protects the environment and human health and applies the precautionary principles.»
«[Project C.O.R.E.] has no value unless we learn how to balance physical development with human capital development,» says Danise Jones - Dorsey, a longtime Fells Point resident, former Baltimore Housing Authority official, and current member of the North East Housing Initiative land trust.
Look up «Psychological Projection'then you'll piece together how humans simply project to rationalize events.
The first question has to do with Marxist humanism or with Marxism as a humanism: how, at the very core of an estranged humanity, are we able to rely on the hope calling us to a fully human future, when this project itself is nothing but the visualization of alienated people?
To this extent, our understanding of God's perfection is how we think we would be if we were perfect, But projecting from human imperfection is not necessarily the best way to understand divine perfection.
How they empower women: Starfish Project restores hope to women escaping human trafficking and exploitation in Asia.
The combination of technological enthusiasm and moral insouciance left participants asking one another how Watson had convinced himself — as he said he is convinced — that he is successfully selling the Human Genome Project to the public.
Unlike Pilgrim, with its several moments of intense oneness with nature, or Holy the Firm, with its more complex treatment of nature as a site of worship, Dillard here is bound by the project of the book, which has to do with human design and artifice, to see how far she can go in resisting all humanizing of nature.
Young as the human species is, it displays remarkable capacities: to think and reason and imagine; to ask questions and seek answers; to use language, metaphors and symbols; to ponder the mystery of origins; to locate oneself on maps of meaning; to project ideals and seek their realization; to ask how one fits into the most inclusive scheme of things.
In the revealing interview, Weigel shares his preferred Bible translation (RSV), how he begins a project (extensive outlining), and the key to his prolific productivity (mid-day naps — «I think naps are a great invention; perhaps Italy's greatest contribution to human civilization.»).
What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.
By understanding the ambitions, outlooks and strategies of those in the Inter-American Court and in local courts, the project will develop an understanding of how international human rights law diffuses into national courts.
For example, Norman explains how he chose to wear an «Olympic Project for Human Rights» badge to take part in the protest just before they walked towards the winners» podium, and how he advised Smith and Carlos to wear one glove each to make a fist with, as one had forgotten their pair.
A human rights approach to scientific, engineering and health associations» Codes of Ethics The project team will develop a resource guide and training workshop on how scientific, engineering and health disciplines can analyze their codes of ethics through a human rights lens.
Two expert panels and breakout training sessions demonstrated how STEM education taught through the prism of human rights helps inspire students, puts the scientific method to work in the collection and eventual application of evidence and allows students to design and build projects that address civic issues.
Contributions include discussions on racial disparities in special education placements, the intersection of disability with other identity variables such as gender and sexuality; the exploitation of disabled bodies to generate resources for humanitarian projects; and suggestions for how a human rights framework can promote inclusivity and better health outcomes.
Ball describes how to design and develop information systems for human rights projects.
Are you a scientist, engineer, or health professional interested in learning more about how you can volunteer your time and expertise to support human rights projects?
The concept is a sexier version of a project that Gilbert and Dozier are working on together, in which they explore ways that computers can be made to adapt to human users, instead of how users must now adapt to computer functions and thinking.
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists have expanded their knowledge of how living cells work with new approaches including genomics, proteomics, and systems biology.
That event will feature NASA officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station as they observe the rover anniversary and discuss how its activities and other robotic projects are helping prepare for a human mission to Mars and an asteroid.
The $ 30 million Human Connectome Project will trace the main neural pathways that link the roughly 500 major regions in the brain, illuminating how biological circuitry underlies our mental functions.
Eric Ashcroft of the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project described how his group uses high - resolution satellite images to investigate claims of human rights violatHuman Rights Project described how his group uses high - resolution satellite images to investigate claims of human rights violathuman rights violations.
The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.
The CDC maintains that further research is needed to understand how phthalates affect humans, and several such projects are under way.
In response to the recent revelations, an international group of researchers has launched a project called the Human Dark Proteome Initiative to study how disordered proteins cause disease.
The work is part of a large project involving biologists, engineers, and mathematicians who are trying to understand how birds fly in order to build robots that can do likewise, without human guidance.
One project helps communities to define and illustrate their own «human ecology» so that if contaminants are detected locally in marine ecosystems, the communities will have a better basis for knowing whether and how to react in self - protection.
«This research project is a prime example of how mouse models can help us to better understand cancer diseases in human beings,» says Sabine Harlander.
Lum, who leads the policing project at the San Francisco - based Human Rights Data Analysis Group, looked at how the crime - mapping program PredPol would perform if put to use in Oakland, Calif..
But he also says the project could shed light on how human intelligence benefits from curiosity and experimentation.
Analysts say ADM's project is significant for studying how a large amount of human - generated CO2 will behave underground in the Illinois Basin, a rock formation stretching across three states and sitting near some of the nation's highest - polluting coal plants and industrial factories.
Hundreds of years after humans mastered the art of chimney venting so they could heat their houses, scientists have undertaken a major research project to better understand how Earth's atmosphere uses its very own version of a chimney.
But think of the Human Genome Project and how much it accelerated the process of discovery and the whole field when infrastructures existed for people to share and compare.
With the Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to input signals from simulated senses and nervous system.
Despite confusion over how grants will be awarded and how ENCODE will proceed, participants were thrilled by the project — the first opportunity, they say, to dig deep into the human genome.
However, GCMs do not directly project how the changes of other climatic factors, such as humidity and wind, affect human perception.
How the Human Genome Project will sequence the 3 billion pairs of chemical bases that make up our DNA strands
Kernbach's project opens new territory by testing the effects of light on physiological factors that control how diseases that can infect humans might hopscotch among animals, says Jenny Ouyang, of the University of Nevada, Reno.
The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.
For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.
Damian Bailey, a physiologist at the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, in the United Kingdom and the project's lead scientist, hopes the risky experiment will yield new information about how the human body responds to low - oxygen conditions, and how similar mechanisms might drive cognitive decline with aging.
«By being able to characterise more of these species, I think we're gaining more ground in terms of beneficial organisms on the human body and how we can use them to benefit our health,» says Karen Nelson, team leader at one of the project's four main sequencing centres, the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland.
The Human Functional Genomics Project, run by professors Mihai Netea and Leo Joosten at Radboud university medical center, UMCG Professor Cisca Wijmenga and Professor Ramnik Xavier at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard investigated how differences in cytokine production during a Borrelia infection in 500 healthy volunteers can be explained.
Root - Gutteridge is currently at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom where her next bioacoustics project, «How Dogs Hear Us: Human speech perception by domestic dogs,» explores what animals of the canine persuasion hear when humans speak.
Now, scientists from EPFL's Blue Brain Project in Switzerland, at the core of the European Human Brain Project, and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the United States, show in the July 24th edition of the journal Neuron how a complex computer model is providing a new tool to solve the mystery.
«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Ghuman body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation GHuman Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation GHuman Microbiome Project Implementation Group.
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