Sentences with phrase «human aging remain»

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In an age where robots and automation are displacing humans in nearly every function, one human skill remains irreplaceable: storytelling.

But the great boon of Catholicism to the world is that it can also stand outside the ebbs and flows of history to see that human nature — the truth in which love appears — remains unchanged from age to age.

Socrates» protest against compromise with the truth remains a point of light in the human pilgrimage just because the same issues persist in every age.

How long can a society remain free when the lives of entire classes of human beings are, because of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because of race or creed?

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

Technology is, in essence, a mode of human existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»

As we approach the democratic age, Tocqueville says, human experience will bifurcate: On the one hand, man will become more and more isolated; on the other hand, he will look to the one visible power that remains» the state» for his security and sustenance.

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

The most revelatory part of K could be its human remains: skeletons of several individuals crushed under cedar beams in the Canaanite city of burnt red brick in the 10th century B.C.; and 22 people entombed under a single floor of a house dating to the Middle Bronze Age.

Ice Age Immigrants (Eurasia 7,000 - 45,000 years ago) aDNA from 51 individuals reveals the earliest modern humans to reach Europe went extinct; those arriving in subsequent waves, starting 37,000 years ago, left descendants who remain to this day.

Meanwhile, recent human studies indicate that aging is associated with an increase in somatic mutations in the hematopoietic system, which gives rise to blood cells; these mutations provide a competitive growth advantage to the mutant hematopoietic cells, allowing for their clonal expansion — a process that has been shown to be associated with a greater incidence of atherosclerosis, though specifically how remains unclear.

The technique can be used to help identify human remains in forensic cases, as well as to determine age ranges in archaeological research or for living people for whom no records are available.

Elsewhere, the team found human and horse remains buried a meter or two lower, about where the Bronze Age riverbed might have been.

«wild» or undomesticated) is a human child who, from a very young age, has lived in isolation from human contact and has remained unaware of human social behavior, and unexposed to language.

Along with radiocarbon dating on charcoal remains from human - made fires, these analyses yielded a much more precise estimate for the age of sediments surrounding artifacts at various depths.

Elements like uranium 238, which has a half - life of 4.5 billion years, let geologists determine the age of rocks and meteorites; those that decay over thousands of years, like carbon - 14, help date archaeological artifacts and human remains.

The companion book to a traveling exhibit of the same name that opened in California in July, this volume brings together evocative imagery of dozens of mummies — human and animal — from around the globe and explains how science is revealing who these individuals were and how their remains have survived across the ages.

For reasons that remain unclear, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at about the same time that memory begins to decline, he notes.

The discovery was disproved in 1953, when advances in fossil analysis showed definitively that the bones were less than 1000 years old, comprised of human and orangutan remains, and had been artificially stained and filed to imitate aging.

[15] For an informative comparison of the presence of remains in Cambodia and Rwanda, see Elena Lesley, «Death on Display: Bones and Bodies in Cambodia and Rwanda,» in Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, ed.

However, because of the nature of the chamber sediments and the lack of other animal remains at the site, the researchers have not yet been able to nail down the exact age of these fossils, without which «there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find,» Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, told the Associated Press.

The age of the remains indicate that up to four different species of early humans might have been alive at the same time — challenging a long - held belief that there was only one pre-human species at any given time between 3 million and 4 million years ago.

Erosion of telomeres has long been associated with diseases of aging, but how telomere length affects human disease has remained largely a mystery.

Advanced age is the main risk factor for most chronic diseases and functional deficits in humans, but the fundamental mechanisms that drive ageing remain largely unknown, impeding the development of interventions that might delay or prevent age - related disorders and maximize healthy lifespan.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

While advanced maternal age remains a key risk factor because of the ever increasing average maternal age, abnormal recombination also is critical to understand, as every adequately studied human trisomy has been associated with abnormal recombination.

Kirshner began her acting career at the age of 17, playing a clairvoyant dominatrix in LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, a performance that earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination for a Genie Award (Canada's Oscar).

The 1991 discovery of the 5,200 year old remains of a Copper Age man frozen in Italy's Alpine mountains altered the scientific community's view of the history of man and may aid scientists in determining how long the human race has lived on planet Earth

The approximately $ 8 billion in Head Start funds would remain in the Department of Health and Human Services for services to children from birth through age 3.

The most striking depiction of this truth can be found in the shoemaker chapter, as est em encapsulates a decades - long working relationship in a series of near - identical panels in which the human partner ages while the centaur remains unchanged.

With average human life expectancy climbing higher and higher each year as retirement age remains around 65 - years - old, it's becoming increasingly important for people to take action when it comes to long - term financial planning.

When surveying a puppy or litter of puppies more than 16 weeks of age that have had little human handling and are very shy and fearful, realize that they may always remain somewhat shy and fearful.

Human remains discovered in 1959 at Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island have been dated to more than 13,000 years of age, among the oldest dated human remains in North AmeHuman remains discovered in 1959 at Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island have been dated to more than 13,000 years of age, among the oldest dated human remains in North Amehuman remains in North America.

Human remains excavated by archeologist Phil Orr from Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island in 1959, recently yielded a radio - carbon date of over 13,000 years of age.

We visit the Tomb of the Eagles, a Stone Age burial chamber that was filled with thousands of human bones and the remains of sea eagles many millennia ago.

The 45 paintings, prints, and photographs selected for this exhibition all focus on the human body because, as collection curator Don McNeil points out, the age - old need to understand the human condition is vital and the human form remains its most direct manifestation.

When I left the staff for Pace University, the blog moved to the Opinion section, but my prime mission remains the same: examining ways to smooth the human journey and make information matter in a noisy age.

Cochelin et al used a model of intermediate complexity to show that the orbital variations over the next 100,000 years are weak enough that even a little human CO2 remaining in the atmosphere is enough to keep the earth out of an ice age («Simulation of long - term future climate changes with the green McGill paleoclimate model: The next glacial inception»).

It remains to be demonstrated how anyone in their right mind could assume without solid proof that humans have the capacity to halt the warming of the inter-glacial period in which we presently exist, hope to halt the next and inevitable multi-million year ice age, or halt the inevitable warming of the entire planet as the Sun continues to increase its luminosity towards becoming a giant star.

The human factor remains uncertain — detailed and systematic measurements of change in the Arctic began only in the Space Age — but the researchers are confident that the overall decline of September sea ice in the Arctic Circle is at least 50 % human responsibility, and possibly 70 %.

Because it really seems to be the case that a person can't make the considered judgment that global warming is the most important problem of our age requiring trillions of dollars in mitigation, and still remain a decent human being.

Even in this digital age, human interaction remains key to reaching employers during your job search.

The approximately $ 8 billion in Head Start funds would remain in the Department of Health and Human Services for services to children from birth through age 3.