Sentences with phrase «human movement using»

Bell L.S., Lee - Thorp J.A. & Dobney K. (2006) Mapping human movement using stable oxygen isotopic mass spectrometry: potential application to forensic science.

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Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

It is no paradox that we use the term «modern» to refer both to the external material and social forces that transformed the world, and to the internal intellectual and expressive movements that wrestled with, and often deplored, the human costs of that same transformation.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

The use of artistic expression to enhance the words and movements of the ritual is inseparable from the human need to be creative.

Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.

These lawyers, pastors, journalists, and human rights leaders across China are trying out the strategies of the historic American civil rights movement, using litigation, media publicity, and nonviolent protests.

In addition to its use as a stand - in for charting human evolution, ochre also serves as a proxy for human movement.

Just ask Cornell University's Jeremy Searle, an evolutionary biologist whose team uses small mammals — particularly mice — to track historical human movement.

Sensory neurons in human muscles provide important information used for the perception and control of movement.

Grégoire Courtine at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and colleagues previously restored movement to rats with spinal injuries similar to those causing lower - body paralysis in humans, by using a cocktail of chemicals and direct stimulation of spinal nerves.

Using a unique GPS - tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one - half to one - third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint.

Using these data, they then created a coding system for each individual facial movement — just as other researchers have done for humans and several other species.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

Ever since Boston University biologist Thomas Kunz founded aeroecology in 2008, it has seen huge gains because of the growing ability to track air movement with radar and telemetry, and because of humans» growing use of airspace.

The human brain uses sensory signals to maintain and update internal representation of the body, to plan and generate movements and interact with the world.

Their findings, published June 6 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate that the corridor could not account for the initial dispersal of humans south of the ice sheets, but could have been used for later movements of people and animals, both northward and southward.

They used an electroencephalogram (EEG) and movement data logger in conjunction with minimally invasive EEG sensors designed for use in humans, to record sleep in 66 owlets of varying age.

The authors of this article studied human mobility using movement data from individuals active on Twitter in New York City for 12 days during and after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

There are researchers who create robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid robot, and from there they train the robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.

Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these associations to improvise — choosing movements and vocalisations that complement its human duet partner.

The control stick and the control system operating in real time make it possible for a human controller to work in the same working space with the robot and control the robot's movements directly using a control stick attached to the robot or the load.

This information is then compared with stored models of human movement, and the resulting data are sent to the receiving terminal and used to animate the puppet.

Its learning algorithm generated rough skeletons of each person's movement and used those outlines to infer human intentions and mimic their responses in social situations.

Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals.

Chimpanzees produce similar movements in the bulging lip display used during bluff displays, but this doesn't seem to be produced when they are engaging with a difficult task as it is with humans.

Using mouse and human - derived dopamine neurons, researchers found that dopamine movement is affected by changes in electrical properties of the neurons.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»

Using sophisticated models of weather and human movement patterns, the analysis predicts the worm's entry later this year, accomplished either by its independent migration or as it hitches rides along trade routes.

It's a great exercise that mimics a very basic human movement of picking things up, ducking, and variations are used in sports and physical activities all the time.

The crawl is the foundation of human movement, so it only makes sense to use this as you strive to rebuild your own foundation.

• Improvements in movement quality → Use the warm up to practice perfect form with every exercise, leading to improvements in movement quality, increased range of motion, and greater expression of the human body

«With Type 2 diabetes, your body can no longer make or use insulin, the hormone which helps the body regulate glucose levels,» Dr. Sheri Colberg, a professor of human movement sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., specializing in exercise as it relates to diabetes told the WSJ.

This manual therapy and corrective exercise course focuses on identifying impairments, restoring, and maximizing the human movement system using a hands - on scientific and practical approach.

Compound movements use more muscle groups, activate higher amounts of muscle fibers than isolation exercises (i.e. curls), and as a result, release higher amounts of anabolic hormones (such as human growth hormone) in your body.

Besides the simple act of running, you'll use all the major movements of the human body to navigate any course.

Really the squat isn't an exercise at all, but a basic human movement that we used to do all the time.

The presence of different levels of muscle activity has been observed both using surface electrodes and fine wire (intramuscular electrodes) and during maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), resistance training exercises, and normal humans movements such as gait.

Although often underestimated, recent investigations using MRI scans have shown that changes in PA do have a material influence on human movement, including joint moments and muscle forces (Chincisan et al. 2015).

Robert Zemeckis, the same director whose «Who Framed Roger Rabbit» (1988) juxtaposed live action with animation, this time merges them, using a process called «performance capture,» in which human actors perform the movements which are translated into lifelike animation.

Masahiro Ito, monster designer for Silent Hill 2, wanted players in the beginning to «believe that [the creatures] were human» but then have those human characteristics undermined by «weird movements -LSB-...] and -LSB-...] using improbable angles for their bodies...»

The animation relies heavily upon actual human movement, a fact this DVD points out with a glimpse of the extensive live action reference images used.

Several Human Rights organizations working in Brazil — including Amnesty, Conectas and Article 19 — have raised serious concerns about the escalating violence and how it is being used as an excuse towards an increased criminalization of social movements.

The main way to prevent humans from coming in contact with hookworms is to wear shoes and use gloves when gardening or working in warm, moist areas where dogs and cats may have had a bowel movement.

More playing: Start standing and walking around while playing with the kittens, to get them used to normal human movement.

Using a GPS - enabled mobile phone, the pet parent will receive a Glympse link through which he or she will be able to see the pet's location in real - time and follow the pet's movements through the cellphone of the human that is with the pet.

«For this original performance, Jonah Bokaer uses movement to explore the timely subject of human migration around the Mediterranean Basin, a narrative of personal significance to the artist, who is of Tunisian heritage,» said Andrea Grover, Century Arts Foundation Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish, and curator of Platform.

Hito Steyerl: Artists Space For a wild look at what «the expanded field of cinema» might mean in the future, look no further than this brilliantly visual, powerfully political artist who uses scenes of aircraft boneyards in California, an interview with an eccentric American entrepreneur, and CGI clips, all blended into incredible optical essays about information, power, the movement of capital, logarithms of the mind, and the human body.