Sentences with phrase «human foot»

Put his bed in a room where he can be a part of family life, but not in the way of human foot traffic.

It's also one of the ways they try to play with human feet and hands, so it's important to provide this type of alternative play target.

A pair of human feet has 250,000 sweat glands, emitting a half pint of liquid every day.

The Ileret prints show that by 1.5 Ma, hominins had evolved an essentially modern human foot function and style of bipedal locomotion.

Lift - off in the African apes is variable, but it usually involves relatively low pressure during final contact by both the lateral toes and widely abducted hallux, in stark contrast to modern human foot function.

He created a pair of feet with toes made of laminated blades that he could jam into tiny rock fissures far too slim to hold a normal human foot.

The slippers are «free size» and should fit most adult human feet outside the courts of the National Basketball Association.

Yet few can deny the romantic appeal of human feet treading the rusty deserts of Mars.

The most abundant type was Acinetobacter Iwoffi, which is associated with human foot traffic.

It reacts to changing terrain and different walking speeds much like a natural human foot, facilitating a normal gait and allowing its users to push off the ground with seven times as much power as is possible with the best of its predecessors, all while expending less energy.

In one early trial, they fouled up their courtship by swarming together near the release site instead of lying in wait where they were likely to encounter mates (i.e., around human feet).

One computer scientist at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation «freaked out,» Bruckner remembers, when she said the computer needed to mimic the 26 bones and 23 joints of a real human foot.

In 2007, researchers found a 67,000 - year - old human foot bone on the island of Luzon.

Activation, orientation and landing of female Culex quinquefasciatus in response to carbon dioxide and odour from human feet: 3 - D flight analysis in a wind tunnel.

The scientists tested the response of these mosquitoes to skin odorants by placing them in a wind tunnel with a plate of glass beads that had been worn in socks for several hours to give them the scent of human foot odor.

Bryan Cranston, Armie Hammer, Robert Pattinson, Diane Kruger, Margot Robbie and Octavia Spencer sat down before a studio audience for The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural movie star summit about their craft, the cons of social media and how one ended up with a severed human foot.

Gear changes come abruptly; that's a quick - shifting computer operating the clutch, not an educated human foot.

And what better prey can there be than a moving human foot, particularly if that foot is shoeless.

The Buddha's Footprint was discovered accidentally some 350 years ago when a deer hunter found that a pool of water in the shape of an enlarged human foot had curative powers.

With an ever - changing light source, a single human foot suspended above a heavy block takes on qualities that suggest conscience, martyrs, and the suspension of time.

More likely the giant human foot coming down from the sky, not the vilified little spider who really just wants to be left alone.

Several feet below a beach in British Columbia, archaeologists discovered soil trampled by human feet — the oldest footprints found so far in North America.

And after years of clinical practice, anthropological research, and pioneering studies, Bruckner has concluded that biomechanically speaking, there's no such thing as a normal human foot.

It's a 2 +2 cabin, but there's not nearly enough rear legroom to accommodate anything resembling adult human feet or enough rear headroom under the dramatically sloping rear glass.

It turned out that malaria - infected mosquitoes are about three times more likely to be attracted to the smell of human feet than their uninfected counterparts, the researchers report today in PLOS ONE.

They found the ancient hominin's foot shared many features with the modern human foot, suggesting that it was well - suited for standing and walking on two feet.

The human foot has 33 joints that allow 26 bones to move freely during impacts such as walking, running and other activities.

The human foot is basically a giant pain sensor.

Human feet or tire treads have to stir it up, and if they are traveling on pavement, the dust stops.

The mid — 20th - century anatomists were correct to worry about the human foot as they did: Ours turns out to have evolved in one direction, while those of African apes were evolving in quite another.

Credits: Reconstruction; copyright J. H. Matternes; chimpanzee climbing, J. DeSilva; bonobo and human feet, S. Ingham.

Losing a genetic switch that increases production of a protein called GDF6 may have created the big toe and helped shape the human foot for bipedalism, scientists propose in a paper published online January 7 in Cell.

While creating this mammoth mathematical description of a leg at work, Herr set out to build a robotic prosthetic able to mimic the human foot and ankle.

When it came time to push off, that spring could release all that pent - up energy at once, propelling the human foot off the ground with the explosive force of a natural human ankle.

To the malaria - carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae (pictured), the stench of human feet is like the smell of a fresh - baked pie.

Human feet have a very distinctive shape, different from all other land animals.

All human feet have a joint at this point — but in most of us, stiff ligaments span the joint and keep it rigid.

Textbooks will tell you that the human foot is rigid, which allows more efficient walking.

Footprints found near Lake Turkana show that human foot shape and gait had been achieved 1.5 million years ago.

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Evarcha also sniffs its way to places where mosquitoes are likely to gather and it's bizarrely drawn to the smell of human feet.

A few anthropologists had written about a wide range of shapes and configurations of the human foot, variations that modern textbooks never mention.

His rock - climbing abilities have actually improved, because his lightweight prostheses fit into crevices where a human foot can not.

Or already nestled snugly in its host — such as in a human foot — where it can suck the blood it needs to nourish its eggs?

As he pulls out drawers and talks about the casts, Meldrum shows ones with the hallmarks of hoax and others that intrigue him because of anatomy, hair striations, musculature and an apparent midtarsal break — a pair of joints in the middle of the ape foot that have less mobility in the human foot because of the arch.

Plus, human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

Modern human footprints reflect the specialized anatomy and function of the human foot, which is characterized by a fully adducted hallux [big toe in line with the other toes], a large and robust calcaneus [heel] and tarsal region, a pronounced medial longitudinal arch, and short toes.

Ape feet lack permanent arches, are more flexible than human feet and have a highly mobile large toe, important attributes for climbing and grasping in the trees.