Sentences with phrase «human equivalent of»

If you want to be the human equivalent of a black - and - white generic can of «Cola,» just list your responsibilities and call it a day.

In the 1970s Smith created the persona «Mike» which he describes as «the human equivalent of a supermarket generic brand.»

Honestly, if you think Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is bad, and you seriously believe the vomit pouring perpetually from your obscene maw, you're basically the human equivalent of that video of the man who put a mason jar up his arsehole and the jar cracked and arse blood went everywhere.

We expect this ongoing research will yield benefits not only for dogs at risk of developing DM and their owners, but also for people at risk of developing the human equivalent of DM.

They have been said to run the human equivalent of several marathons every night, so it is best not to keep them in a room where people are trying to sleep.

Intriguingly, an identical homozygous mutation was identified in a human patient with recessive retinitis pigmentosa, the human equivalent of PRA, and established the novel retinal gene, PRCD, as an important gene for the maintenance of rod photoreceptor structure and function across species.

The declawing operation itself is the human equivalent of removing the first joint of all your fingers.

It is the human equivalent of having a person's finger amputated at the knuckle.

On the other hand, if the puppy is isolated through this period, not being allowed to bond to anything, it becomes the human equivalent of anti-social.

Do the conscientious pet owners who buy these products really scour the supermarket for the human equivalent of «Grain - Free Optimal Holistic Nutrition for Dogs, Thoughtfully Chosen Whole Food Natural Ingredients in Every Bite,» as proclaimed on the package of Earthborn Primitive Natural dog food?

If that object happens to be the human equivalent of cell phone or iPad, then he might not want to give it up as easily and may let the other dog (or person) know by growling.

Think of it as the human equivalent of goose bumps; it can signal several emotions, including fear, anger and extreme excitement.

The spectacle is fiercely compelling — the human equivalent of an irresistible object meeting an immovable force — but both the immovable force and irresistible object are also impenetrable characters.

There are many unsubtle references to nuclear bombs and holocaust — these are the elements the director objects to — and we're supposed to see Nicola as an epic femme fatale, the human equivalent of a nuclear blast.

Jayne (Adam Baldwin), the wisecracking human equivalent of a pit bill, keeps the weapons loaded for confrontations, deals gone bad, and quick escapes from the space - cannibals called Reavers.

Like the human equivalent of heroin or crack, only worse.

According to another study on mice, the human equivalent of just two handfuls of walnuts a day cut breast cancer risk in half, and slowed tumor growth by 50 percent as well.

Well, they were fed the human equivalent of 300 cups of soy milk every day, and didn't do so well.

But since there aren't sufficient polyphenols to mop up all those reactive oxygen species (ROS), their diet and exercise will, over time, lead them to suffer rampant inflammation, probably leading to the human equivalent of blown head gaskets and cracked engine blocks.

The human equivalent of the low dose of EGCG would be 80 - 90 mg daily.

In one recent study, obese rats that ate the human equivalent of two cups of wild blueberries per day for eight weeks experienced a significantly improved inflammatory response.

After being injected with a muscle - preserving gene, some of these mighty rodents maintained the muscles of youthful mice, at the human equivalent of age 80, without exercise [source: Cromie].

Jasper says rapamycin was able to rescue stem cells even when given to mice starting at 15 months of age — the human equivalent of 50 years of age.

To determine if increasing the level of NAD would accelerate recovery from kidney injury, the researchers administered extremely large quantities of vitamin B3 nutritional supplements — the human equivalent of hundreds of tablets - to the genetically impaired mice.

Basically these worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years.»

As new sensors are developed, these body area networks might even turn into the human equivalent of General Motors OnStar vehicle maintenance services that drivers use to proactively inform them of the need for maintenance and to call for help when lost or in an accident.

Indeed, this second gene — the human equivalent of a mouse gene called shaker - 1 — already had a rap sheet for causing sensory problems.

Sharpe highlights several hurdles on the route to a human equivalent of the drug, such as creating an oral version rather than the injectable form used in the rodent trials.

Worries escalated in the 1970s when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Lewis Dahl claimed that he had «unequivocal» evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day.

Fischetti and his colleagues chose to target the allosteric site of 2 - epimerase to develop inhibitory compounds, because it is found in other bacterial 2 - epimerases but not in the human equivalent of the enzyme.

Though puny of frame, not a few perceive him as the human equivalent of the belching battle tank, firing from all cylinders; and mowing down whoever is on its way.

Behind a smoke screen of piety concerning the difficult job they have to do in «helping» or «providing services,» their purpose is the human equivalent of the breaker's yard: They tear asunder the superstructure of the family and then move to the foundations, demolishing relationships between husband and wife, between parents and children, and even sometimes between the children themselves.

«Emotions» and «empathy» are the human equivalents of these overtones.

Not exact matches

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

In 1990, ground breaking evidence and research on Human Growth Hormone by Daniel Rudman, M.D. shook the medical world (Published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine) with the announcement that 12 men, aged 61 to 81 had received human growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injectHuman Growth Hormone by Daniel Rudman, M.D. shook the medical world (Published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine) with the announcement that 12 men, aged 61 to 81 had received human growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injecthuman growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injecthuman growth hormone injections.

Employment and Social Development Canada (formerly Human Resources and Skills Development Canada) has increased its spending on external «Business Services» by61 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 7 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 140 million per year.

A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells (called induced pluripotent stem cells) but without using or destroying embryos.

Today, human beings are increasingly ranked by a «quality of life» index, and some lives are deemed not worth living (the contemporary equivalent of the Nazi lebensunwertes Leben - life unworthy of life).

Should the term «person» be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof?

These roles and relations are not fundamentally natural phenomena integral to human identity and social welfare but are mere accidents of biology overlaid with social conventions that can be replaced by functionally equivalent roles without loss.

Liddon was slightly uneasy about the verse in which Jesus said that only the Father knew the date of the End, but claimed that «the knowledge infused into the human soul of Jesus was ordinarily and practically equivalent to omniscience».17

At the same time, however, we must ask: If one believes that 25 million abortions are equivalent to 25 million instances of the taking of innocent human life, does not the analogy with the Holocaust become more appropriate?

Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate and biophysicist, is quoted as having estimated that «the amount of information contained in the chromosomes of a single fertilized human egg is equivalent to about a thousand printed volumes of books, each as large as a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica.»

Hartshorne has no patience for those holding a genetic view of personhood, who claim that the potential represented in a fertilized human egg cell is equivalent to an actual person.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

That is, just as a Society is metaphysically a derivative type of existent inasmuch as its constituent actual entities are ontologically ultimate, so in an equivalent fashion, a civilized society is metaphysically secondary inasmuch as human beings are more real, ontologically speaking, than is the larger civilized society.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

Yet the only way to rescue aversio a deo from mythology is to show that it corresponds to a real experience in human life — that in fact it is equivalent to the» Verfallenheit» of which the existentialists speak.

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem - cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos.