Sentences with phrase «human systems designed»

A strategy my colleague Michael Braungart and I call eco-effectiveness proposes an entirely new destination for industry: technologically advanced human systems designed to generate a wide spectrum of wholly positive effects, rather than fewer negative ones.

Biomimicry's purpose is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.

Not exact matches

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

The most interesting chapters of The Two - Second Advantage deal with attempts to take that human predictive ability and to blend it with real - time computing — as the authors have it, to design and build predictive systems that put «Gretzky's brain in a box.»

Using PITCHf / x, a three - camera system designed by Chicago - based Sportvision, the league was able to fully replicate human umpires — with accurate results.

Joey Coleman has used his insights into the human condition and to develop a system that helps companies design simple processes to satisfy the customer needs and make them raving fans.

Gov is experienced in concept development, systems architecture and design, commercial matters and has expertise in human / computing interface design and A.I.

«In an adversarial environment where the algorithm is under attack, it's YouTube's responsibility to design the system in such a way that it is resilient to this kind of manipulation, even if that means including human moderators,» Wilson says.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Since human beings need community more urgently than they need fancy cars, economic systems should be designed or managed to support community, not to destroy it.

And although human culture is not reducible to being a mere system of heroics designed to grade our individual performances, nevertheless it clearly includes such an ingredient.

The company's Talent Development Team — led by Jill Norton, vice-president of human resources, design and construction — develops and implements all the company's training materials and systems.

Organic production is a production system designed to minimize the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible.»

In other words, it looks like there's something in the human central nervous system that an educated chili head might call an Endo - Capsaicin Receptor system (a system designed to sense and process capsaicin that, when activated, can have significant effects on the central nervous system at large) and that when this system is frequently activated by the digestion of capsaicin, we see all kinds of health benefits.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

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VAC - U-MAX systems are designed to deliver flexibility, integration, efficiency and dust - free operation with little or no human interface, particularly where combustible dusts are a concern.

Human Design BodyGraph — sort of like an astrology birth chart, but it combines a bunch of traditional sciences like astrology, the Hindu - Brahmin Chakra system, the Zohar or Kabbalah, and the I» Ching to map out a «body graph.»

The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance.

The human body isn't designed to break down chemicals so much of it is passed through the digestive system, rather than being absorbed by the body, making it less effective.

The design promotes blood circulation and supports the human cardiovascular system.

Breastmilk is easily and quickly digested because your baby's system is designed to have human milk.

HUMAN Healthy Markets offer a much wider variety AND quantity of products for consumers due to their «open shelf racking» systems and coolers, all of which are customizable in size & design to fit nicely with the layout and interior design of any location.

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Ignorance of human rights permits physicians to be drawn into unacceptable practices, such as participation in the death penalty or design of inhumane weapons systems.

Ball describes how to design and develop information systems for human rights projects.

Based on our knowledge of the flu virus and the human immune system, we can use computers to design the components of a vaccine that gives much broader and longer - lasting protection.»

Design principles of a human mimetic humanoid: Humanoid platform to study human intelligence and internal body system.

The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair.

Watson is the IBM computer built by David Ferrucci and his team of 25 research scientists tasked with designing an artificial - intelligence (AI) system that can rival human champions at the game of Jeopardy.

«Since humans designed this processor from the transistor all the way up to the software, we know how it works at every level, and we have an intuition for what it means to «understand» the system,» Jonas says.

Slow uptake Projects to promote the application of urine in agriculture have spread worldwide over the last decade: from pee collection and transport systems designed for 6,500 users in urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; to research on the application of human urine for carp fish farming in West Bengal, India; and more than 135,000 toilets diverting urine in Sweden.

His team hopes to build a predictive model of the human microbiome as a tool to study how medical conditions can change this massive biological system, to identify settings that promote beneficial microbiomes, and to design clinical interventions to treat currently hard - to - manage problems.

Students work on robotic land and air vehicle design, human - machine interfaces, vision systems, speech, wireless communication, interactive multimedia art, and many other areas.

More studies are needed, but Krug believes new therapeutics could be designed to block the NS1 protein produced by the flu virus, hobbling its ability to evade the human immune system.

ESA engineers improved on the Russian design by adding a guidance system that allows the vehicle to dock without any human intervention at all.

But now two computer scientists report a tiny step toward that future with a robotic system that designs and builds robots with just a bit of help from a human hand.

This discovery is in line with the recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, a field that focuses on the design of treatments based on the human immune system.

The system consists of 18 computer processors designed to analyze data the way that a human brain does — by studying one set of data and comparing it with another data set to find similarities and differences.

These biases create some immediate concerns about our increasing reliance on artificially intelligent technology, as any AI system designed by humans to be absolutely «neutral» could still reinforce humans» prejudicial thinking instead of seeing through it.

They can also inform efforts to design natural language processing systems like Siri to help them understand creativity in human language.

These concepts includes matter, forces and interactions, energy, and waves in the physical sciences; structures, ecosystems, heredity, and evolution in the life sciences; Earth's place in the universe, earth system, and Earth and human activity in the Earth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineering.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.

It was designed to fly enemy aircraft in a virtual air combat simulator, but has now been turned into a system that controls allied planes that accompany human pilots in the simulator.

The simplified AP1000 safety system is known as a «passive» design, in that if there were a failure similar to what happened at Fukushima, human intervention would not be required to shut down a reactor.

They refer frequently to their «design system», Echoes (Environmentally Controlled Human Operational Enclosed / External Space), that appears primarily to be a set of vague or obscure guidelines such as this, which appears under the puzzling heading «Lines of sight for healthy living buildings»: «The building spot must be geologically undisturbed... ascertain that there is no disturbance of cosmic and terrestrial influence on the human life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms&raHuman Operational Enclosed / External Space), that appears primarily to be a set of vague or obscure guidelines such as this, which appears under the puzzling heading «Lines of sight for healthy living buildings»: «The building spot must be geologically undisturbed... ascertain that there is no disturbance of cosmic and terrestrial influence on the human life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms&rahuman life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms».

His Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) system produces the smallest thrust of any space engine ever: It is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as that of a single falling human hair.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

By studying flows in systems like sand and sheep, scientists hope to find strategies for designing buildings to prevent dangerous human crowd situations, like stampedes.

They are designing an artificial system that mimics how plants and other photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into molecules that humans can later use for fuel.