Sentences with phrase «like scaffolding»

Like scaffolding used at a building site, parents and carers act as a scaffold to support children's learning by coming up with possible solutions to a problem together.

They would need individuals, who understand the importance of safety in the course of the job, like scaffolding and ladder safety.

Materials I use for mark making are found, gifted, and recovered construction materials, like scaffolding wire, bricks, wood panels, rusty metal plates, burlap, plastic, and rope.

They are like scaffolding crossed with a bouquet of flowers.

(Bras that stand up by themselves, girdles, etc.) I'm picturing a skyscraper - like scaffolding inside Jackie O's clothing now.

Collagen is like the scaffolding that provides strength and structure.

Fascia helps connect the muscles to the bones and joints and plays a key role in our structural integrity — so in a way it is like the scaffolding of the body.

The extracellular matrix is a meshwork that serves as the structural foundation for cells, like the scaffolding used in construction.

«Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind.

I see it as more like scaffolding or a trellis.

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel - like scaffold that can hold combination chemo - immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumours in a sequential manner.

Our bodies are like scaffold structures — if you change alignment of one thing, the entire structure responds and can become destabilized.

They had to find the right blend of polymers to be both flexible and strong, which turned out to be a one with long - chain polymers that have strands like spaghetti and one with shorter chain polymers that act like a scaffold.

Later, higher - level brain functions will be built on top of these foundational connections like a scaffold.

Not exact matches

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

I know (all too well) the vigorous (sometimes vicious) arguments that weave a complex scaffold of doctrine and interpretation in which anything other than a literal reading brings the whole thing crashing down, like a teetering Jenga tower when one slim block is moved.

In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger.

Alfred North Whitehead once observed that it is the business of the future to be dangerous (not because the future is perverse but because it doesn't know how to be anything else), and whether we like it or not, the argument now in progress in Moscow and Jerusalem and Islamabad is the same argument that enlivened the annals of republican Rome, built the scaffolds of the Spanish Inquisition, and gave rise to the American Revolution.

Later, new factors become important for parents to consider, like the development of language and cognition, the neurological ability to inhibit oneself, and the scaffolding of emotional skills.

It's so important to find like - minded parents who can offer their «been there, done that» stories, emotional scaffolding, and specific suggestions for when you feel confused as to what to do about your child's behavior, or when you question whether this new thing you're trying, like positive discipline instead of spanking, for example, is going to work out in the long term, or how exactly to keep those family attachment bonds strong as your children grow, or how to move forward when your family encounters challenging life circumstances.

Sampson and others said that Cuomo is simply looking to the low - hanging fruit, and is loath to take on significant reforms — like restructuring a law that makes construction companies fully liable for worker injuries on scaffolding, which drives up building costs.

A short walk from the headquarters, on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Gugliero watched as cars sped through the sensors, noting how small a footprint the scaffolding for the system needs — making it a feasible option for tighter roadways like the West Side Highway and the F.D.R. Drive.

Most instead grow in communities, leveraging the strength of numbers to form a biofilm with tissue - like properties similar to a scaffold that serves to fortify the community, making it up to 1,000 times more resistant to most antibiotics.

The MIT team developed a neuron - healing mixture they call self - assembling peptide nanofiber scaffold solution — or in simpler terms, a solution that contains peptides (molecules related to proteins) shaped like miniature combs.

The team decided to replace the titanium cage and collagen sponge with a biodegradable scaffold that could also carry BMP, releasing it more slowly, like an extended time - release cold capsule.

The researchers reported the natural inflammatory response when a foreign substance like a hydrogel is introduced into a system and draws cells that secrete proteins involved in cellular infiltration, scaffold degradation, vascularization and innervation.

When newly hatched majors were injected with molecules that increased the number of small chemical groups attached to their DNA's protein scaffolding, they behaved like minors.

David Fischell of Fair Haven, New Jersey, who codesigned the Cypher structure with his father, Robert, says the zigzag - shaped pieces function like «a scaffold in a tunnel» to hold the artery open.

When tested in vitro, these diaphragm scaffolds at first appeared to have lost their important rubber - like ability to be continually stretched and contracted for long periods of time.

Once the bio-ink adheres to the scaffolding, it goes into a bioreactor, an appliance like a rotisserie oven that keeps the cells warm and growing evenly.

Much like construction scaffolding, the role of subplate neurons is thought to be temporary.

An «NV -» center can be created within a diamond's scaffold - like structure by replacing a missing carbon atom with a nitrogen atom (N) that has trapped an electron making the center negatively charged.

The team's recent creations have included BiowireTM — an innovative method of growing heart cells around a silk suture — as well as a scaffold for heart cells that snaps together like sheets of Velcro ™.

Beyond that, he continues, «at the timescale of hours, scaffolding proteins can be moved in and out, so again things would lose the memory, so you need something else, like changing the actual structure of the dendritic spine.»

The scientists built the ovaries by printing various patterns of overlapping gelatin filaments on glass slides — like building with Lincoln Logs, but on a miniature scale: Each scaffold measured just 15 by 15 millimeters.

Particles like silver iodide can provide a scaffold on which water molecules can align themselves into a crystalline structure or, in other words, freeze.

Makoto Fujita and his team from Japan's University of Tokyo created scaffolding - like crystalline structures known as metal - organic frameworks, or MOFs, whose empty spaces can soak up molecules and provide an ordered array that enables the molecules to then be characterized by X-ray analysis.

The rods spontaneously assemble at the vaccination site to form a three - dimensional scaffold, like pouring a box of matchsticks into a pile on a table.

Just like raising a building requires scaffolding be erected first, cells use biochemical scaffolding machinery to reassemble copied genomic fragments back into chromosomes.

The scaffold is made from a polymer sheet and zapped with a laser to form a honeycomb structure of individual pores, each shaped like a concertina roughly 500 micrometres long.

Neurobiologist Bernd Knoll at the University of Tubingen in Germany and his collaborators used electron microscopy to picture this neuron's cobweb - like cytoskeleton (its interior scaffolding).

The nanofibers» structural resemblance to proteins like collagen and elastin found in connective tissue make silk an ideal scaffolding material for vascular grafts and bone / cartilage engineering.

While researchers are still wrestling with this challenge, recent studies have shown that a silk - like biomaterial could be electrospun to construct scaffolds in human bodies.

These scaffolds, made of both natural and synthetic materials, work like the framing of a building.

He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.

The scientists then used another technique to pull out the foreign DNA introduced during the gene repair, «kind of like putting in scaffolding, then taking it down,» says mouse geneticist Allan Bradley of the Sanger Institute, who co-authored a paper about the work in Nature.

A 3D - printed soft, flexible scaffold that can exhibit «shape memory» properties (like soft foam) after being compressed.

Microstructures like this one developed at Washington State University could be used in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds.

A niche in the market Other researchers have developed competing technologies using scaffolds to build three - dimensional liver - like structures.

To understand the role of the protein scaffold in enzymes, Shaw's team incorporated an enzyme - like OCS to these well - studied catalysts.