Sentences with phrase «individual human faces»

WILD crows can recognise individual human faces and hold a grudge for years against people who have treated them badly.

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I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

In the final chapter of Personal Knowledge, The Rise of Man, Polanyi tells us that, «We must face the fact that life has actually arisen from inanimate matter, and that human beings... have evolved from the parental zygote in which each of us had his individual origins.»

If the economic Trinity is not essentially one with the immanent trinity, then it is not the preexistent God who in fact acts in history; if they are one, we face (e.g.) the paradox of saying that the human individual Jesus was really in God prior to the creation of the world.

Meditation should lead to such deep reflection on the call of God and a response of individual and community self - renunciation in the face of human need.

Now, however, two of the individuals who made the videos are facing criminal charges, including tampering with government records and one related to soliciting the illegal sale of human organs.

Evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence — a problem which every individual and every age must face for itself.

It is evident from what has already been said that the ethics of Jesus are predominantly concerned with the dignity and responsibility of the human individual face to face with God.

But based on the commandment of the Word of God, the human word enables an individual to choose and to make his personal decision, faced with the demands placed on him.

As Swedish officials have argued, their own legislation, along with their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, stipulate that they can not extradite an individual to a country where he / she might face the death penalty.

The author discusses stigma, discrimination faced by these individuals and makes suggestions for ways in which health care workers can respect and promote human rights in their everyday practices.

Deep learning is what allows Apple's «personal assistant,» Siri, to pick up on (most) human speech, and it's what lets Facebook's image recognition software use small visual cues to pick out things like individual faces.

ubliAn international team of scientists, involving Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and Head of Bioengineering at the University of Leicester, has shown how individual neurons in the human brain react to ambiguous morphed faces.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

Some of these species rival humans and other primates in at least one intellectual skill, however: they recognize the individual faces of their peers.

Holt and others in Budapest also emphasized that researchers in the «hard» sciences need to collaborate with researchers in the social sciences to contribute to dialogue around problems facing human beings, where individual decisions regarding issues such as energy use can have a significant effect on outcomes.

But by training Toxotes chatareus to direct those jets of spit at certain individuals, scientists have shown that the little guys have another impressive skill: They seem to be able to distinguish one human face from another, something never before witnessed in fish and spotted just a few times in non-human animals.

Again, this doesn't mean the fusiform gyrus isn't important — irregularities there have been linked to a condition called face blindness, which prevents humans from recognizing individuals — but it could mean that the human ability boils down to more than just some unique brain matter we've evolved to carry.

«From the morphology of the lower jaw, the face of the Mezzena individual would have looked somehow intermediate between classic Neanderthals, who had a rather receding lower jaw (no chin), and the modern humans, who present a projecting lower jaw with a strongly developed chin,» co-author Silvana Condemi, an anthropologist, told Discovery News.

A celebration of individual spirit, a treatise on the changing nature of human connection and a lament for traditions in danger of being forever lost, Faces Places is funny, insightful and deeply moving.

Alive does champion the human spirit but it never manages to give the concept a face, and never allows the audience to identify on a more personal level with this account of individual and collective bravery.

Little Accidents is not only a beautifully shot film, but it also had the collectively incredible cast whom were unwavering in their individual performances to portray isolation, betrayal, heartache, and the wonder of the human spirit in the face of sorrow.

By comparing individuals» subjective interpretations and feelings (through interviews) with large scale data (in reports) and laws (outlined by human rights and Thai national laws), the research utilizes the triangulation approach to come up with a study that attempts to respect both the micro (individual) and macro (context) and therefore paint the human faces of displaced persons affected by factors beyond their control (conflict in Myanmar and Thai politics and law).

Students then explore a historical case study, such as the Holocaust, and analyze how those patterns of human behavior may have influenced the choices individuals made in the past — to participate, stand by, or stand up — in the face of injustice and, eventually, mass murder.

We serve individuals, public and private institutions (corporate and academic) focused on management of human instruction in any format (face - to - face, blended learning or virtual / online classrooms).

The individual classroom teacher is faced with dozens and dozens of human beings who come to school in varying degrees of ability, potential, maturity, motivation levels, and readiness to learn.

The individual will also face civil fines of $ 500 to $ 1,000 for each horse slaughtered for human consumption.

He was also drawn to the human face and form and produced numerous individual and group portrait studies both of casual acquaintances, on commission, and of his own large circle of artistic and literary friends.

A new series of watercolor portraits place a human face on tragedy and amplify the «identifiable victim effect,» [1] drawing our attention away from statistics to the magnitude of the individual loss and unrealized human potential.

When I encounter an individual or family facing inequality I create visibility through images and storytelling to expose the violation of their human rights.»

If you go into one of the larger, more popular exhibitions in a museum today you are faced with masses of humans reading wall texts or listening to tape recorded comments about the individual paintings.

Yet, a face looks out from the uniform — and if it is masklike, it is only to affirm the existence of what is hidden; the individual straining against the forces (both natural and human) that would destroy it in an instant, and through which it must navigate some meaningful existence.

Using multi-colored shoelaces, the palette suggests that despite the bitter irony of this constitutional quotation in the face of rampant corporate interests, we are, nonetheless, a rainbow nation of individual human beings.

Existential Art (1940s and 1950s) John Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, with its themes of alienation and angst in the face of the human condition, can be seen in paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists, the Informel and «CoBrA» movements, the French Homme - Temoin (Man as a Witness) group, the British Kitchen Sink art group, and the American Beats - all of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis Bacon.

Alex Prager's new exhibition Face in the Crowd, showcases large - scale color photographs of elaborately - staged crowd scenes and a film by the same name that explore the notion of the individual within the masses, the boundary between public and private space and the psychological complexities of human interaction.

In Canada, in fact all around the world, transgender individuals face some of the highest risks of human rights violations of any sector of society.

The assessment of substantial risk decidedly requires that the Minister consider the «personal risk» faced by an individual... But I would not foreclose the possibility that there may be cases in which general evidence of pervasive and systemic human rights abuses in the receiving state can form the basis for a finding that the person sought faces a substantial risk of torture or mistreatment.»

We will argue that individuals who go to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario because of discrimination they've faced under a government policy should be granted damages for the harms they suffer, regardless of whether damages would have been granted under the Charter.

Following Schrenk, employers may face a greater risk of liability for human rights violations, involving a wider range of potential complainants, if their employees are «integral» to the work or workplace of other individuals.

Alongside improving the efficiency of the human component of the legal team, Ritter has also spearheaded the «design and implementation of an innovative, digital, company - wide legal cost management and reporting tool», which reduces individual admin efforts of the team in response to the challenges it faces and improves quality and analysis of the data available.

Faced over the last 30 years with rapid advances in the science of human reproduction and fertility, DNA analysis, and genetics, the equally rapid evolution of the legal rights of gay and lesbian individuals, and significant changes in social views regarding traditional marriage, same - sex couples, and families, the law throughout the United States has been forced to wrestle with the question of just exactly «who is a parent?»

When looking at human faces, the viewer's mind computes an «average» attractiveness level for all the faces in the group, rather than taking the time to calculate each individual face's attractiveness.

Existential psychotherapy is concerned mainly with the individual's ability to preserve a sense of meaning and purpose throughout the lifespan in the face of immutable biological limitations of a mortal existence (ie ageing, death) and issues associated with human self awareness (ultimate aloneness, having sole responsibility for our actions, choices and freedom).

From the challenges that face a person with a disability seeking independent living, through to immigration detention policy, the promotion of human rights must address both individual need and systemic change.

I think that should be accurate to say that the human being is a complex social animal, we should not forget that through the stages of evolution and acculturation, the human being has faced cultural clichés that many times have been counterproductive for its manifestation through an authentic individual projection

She understands the challenges individuals face when trying to navigate the physical, emotional and psychological complexities of human sexuality.

This means appreciating that struggles we face as individuals and in relationships are not typically due to maliciousness but are part of the human struggle to do what we believe and feel is best for ourselves and our families — even if misguided.