Sentences with phrase «involving mechanical changes»

In the process perspective, biological evolution is seen not just as involving mechanical changes say to the heart as a pump, but internal changes whereby the experience or internal relations becomes richer in a human being as compared with a mosquito.

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Every activity of the organism, as Mead has observed, «altered the form of itself, and the form then handed on the change to the next generation.21 The effort of the organism to adapt itself to these circumstances may, as Bergson has said, be simply mechanical and external; but it may also involve consciousness and will.

Any changes of position which are the result of major mechanical issues don't count, and neither do those involving lapping and unlapping.

The 4D printing approach here involves printing a 3D object with a hydrogel (water - containing gel) that changes shape over time when temperatures change, said Howon Lee, senior author of a new study and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

New research led by Holton and colleagues at the UI posits that our chins don't come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead results from an evolutionary adaptation involving face size and shape — possibly linked to changes in hormone levels as we became more societally domesticated.

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

This indicates that microgravity's effect on bone density likely involves changes in mechanical force that lowers overall physical activity and therefore causes osteoclast activation

This is a shot of Botox rather than the sort of work involving scaffolding — what BMW likes to describe as a «life - cycle impulse» and one that hasn't brought any notable mechanical changes.

It involves carrying out simple inspection and maintenance work like changing the oil and batteries, refueling the car (s), and repairing some minor faults, which can be mechanical or electrical in nature.