Sentences with phrase «human legs in»

Feld cites a very different inspiration for this painting, claiming that the horse's legs in Michelangelo's fresco The Conversion of Saul c. 1542 — 5 (Papal Palace, Vatican City), a work Guston frequently discussed in conversations at the time, are the source of the legs in Monument (Feld 2003, p. 102), although the arrangement of muscular human legs in the same painting seem a more obvious source.
Photographer Laurie Simmons Walking Objects series, for example, depicts inanimate objects with human legs in a criticism of the way the female body is frequently commoditized.
And when he opened a grill from that storage unit auction and found a human leg in it, he decided this, of all things, was his big break.

Not exact matches

A model that debuted in 2015, for example, simulated a human leg, its skin, muscle, bone, large arteries, and even small veins.
With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.
Vestigial organs (useless organs) are common in whales (legs), flightless birds (wings), snakes (pelvis and lung), and numerous structures in humans (the coccyx, plica semilunaris, and appendix).
None of these examples consists in one human being's moving the other person's hand to make him act, moving his legs to make him walk, or holding him down so that he remains seated.
In humans the use of medical grade manuka honey has proven to be effective in treating hard to heal wounds and cases such as severe leg ulcerIn humans the use of medical grade manuka honey has proven to be effective in treating hard to heal wounds and cases such as severe leg ulcerin treating hard to heal wounds and cases such as severe leg ulcers.
Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.
First came the Red Sox, who came down from an 0 - 3 deficit to open the transdimensional portal, which allowed the White Sox to scramble through, and they jammed something in there — was it a human leg?
With millions of pounds of 1080 - treated baits on Western lands, one ponders the issue of how much of this poison is absorbed by grazing livestock from contaminated grasses, and subsequently transferred to human stomachs in a leg of lamb or roast of beef.»
I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?
He might walk on four legs, be covered in fur and be named T - Rex, but he's got a place in my heart just the same as my human children.
Wörgötter and his colleagues designed RunBot to walk almost automatically, with a simple set of control circuits analyzing data from sensors in the legs and making minor adjustments along the way — a process similar to that of human walking, some neuroscientists believe.
Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.
In addition to the robotics leg, Goldfarb's Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has developed an advanced exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to stand up and walk, which led Popular Mechanics magazine to name him as one of the 10 innovators who changed the world in 2013, and a robotic hand with a dexterity that approaches that of the human hanIn addition to the robotics leg, Goldfarb's Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has developed an advanced exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to stand up and walk, which led Popular Mechanics magazine to name him as one of the 10 innovators who changed the world in 2013, and a robotic hand with a dexterity that approaches that of the human hanin 2013, and a robotic hand with a dexterity that approaches that of the human hand.
Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs.
In theory, cars with legs could travel anywhere humans can walk, hike, or climb.
By contrast, humans, who have a shorter pelvic bone called an ischium (informally known as a «sit bone»), can hyperextend their legs in a way that generates less force on the hamstrings at the knees.
In fact, those treatments are already showing promise in the dogs, improving leg strength and diaphragm function during breathing, paving the way for clinical trials in humanIn fact, those treatments are already showing promise in the dogs, improving leg strength and diaphragm function during breathing, paving the way for clinical trials in humanin the dogs, improving leg strength and diaphragm function during breathing, paving the way for clinical trials in humanin humans.
Ultimately, Badylak believes that ECM will lead to therapies that regrow amputated human arms and legs, much as salamanders and starfish regenerate limbs, although he realizes that this may not happen in his lifetime.
«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The two hope to make a small incision in a human leg and implant two microchips in what remains of the muscles leading to the front and back of the calves.
Where the literature was sparse, they tried to fill in the blanks by taking precise measurements of a healthy human leg and creating a mathematical model that spelled out how the different components of the leg interact.
In a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat mice with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the muscle weakness that occurs in the early stages of ALS in humanIn a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat mice with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the muscle weakness that occurs in the early stages of ALS in humanin the early stages of ALS in humanin humans.
In particular, the shape of the talus bone — directly above the heel and below the lower leg bone — differs widely among humans.
Collaborating with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Florida, Buffinton's team has built a partial bipedal robot (torso, legs, and feet) that could soon walk over simple obstacles, allegedly with better balance than a person.
They found that Flores Man's shoulders were hunched slightly more forward than in modern humans, and the extraordinarily short legs ended in long feet.
Although birds have the same bones in their legs as humans, their thighs are oriented horizontally, so it looks like they are permanently holding the yoga chair pose.
If its leg gets stuck during a manoeuvre, the human observer in charge of locomotion can instruct Atlas to move the leg a little to clear an obstacle.
Even after complete spinal paralysis, the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted stimulator.
Thisapparent extinction, far from creating a domino effect of furtherlosses, may have created an opportunity for other grasshopper species.The red - legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), which wasresponsible for newsworthy outbreaks in Idaho two years ago, thrives onground broken by agriculture and other human endeavors.
After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.
You don't need gene chips to see genetic influence in human body shape: think of Hottentot women with their steatopygous buttocks or «the elderly Indian gentleman with skinny legs and arms and no butt but this gut,» as Scherer puts it.
Even with the fish and human enhancers, the mouse legs developed normally, demonstrating that enhancers from other species still work in the mice.
Ultimately, Herr would like to deliver a «biohybrid» prosthetic leg system in which the limb moves much like a human leg and can be controlled by the wearer's neurological system.
A. sediba «s «face, teeth, pelvis and legs show more human characteristics, and those indicate that this is the most human - like australopithecine yet discovered», says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the study.
Much different — the scientists actually found that elephants use their front legs in a way that's similar to the way human beings walk.
In an article published in the journal Acta Chiropterologica, researchers in the country have documented for the first time the presence of human blood in the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudataIn an article published in the journal Acta Chiropterologica, researchers in the country have documented for the first time the presence of human blood in the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudatain the journal Acta Chiropterologica, researchers in the country have documented for the first time the presence of human blood in the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudatain the country have documented for the first time the presence of human blood in the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudatain the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata).
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«Yet the wrist, hands, legs and feet look more like those of Neanderthals and modern humans, and the teeth are relatively small and simple, and set in lightly built jawbones.»
When Parker and colleagues at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MD, went looking for gene responsible for little legs across all these breeds, they expected to find a «point mutation,» a small change in the DNA sequence.
These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).
Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18, 2007 - Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University today report the discovery of the first variant in the sequence of the human genome ever linked to risk of Restless Legs Syndrome...
A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.
A close examination of 3.6 million year old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human - like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought.
Since squats primarily target the legs which are a large muscle group, they create an anabolic environment by triggering the release of testosterone and human growth hormone, which stimulates muscle growth in the entire body.
The sciatic nerve is the largest single nerve in the human body that plays the crucial role of connecting the spinal cord with the leg and foot muscles.
The first leg of the dioxin - based argument for a vegetarian or vegan diet — that dioxins are potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive disruptors, and immune disruptors — has been shown above to be either false or irrelevant at the level of dioxins currently consumed in the US.
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