Sentences with phrase «nature as the mechanism»

All of those pointed to the idea that you could use nature as the mechanism for creating those conditions.

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Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.

What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen as mechanistic by man.

That may mean rejecting the medieval world» the «Dark Ages»» or embracing the medieval world as if that were our most recent Eden, nominalism poisoned our intellectual life, whether one takes himself to be of the left or right, insofar as one justifies order merely in terms of history or these mechanisms collectively referred to as «nature.»

And just as the primordial nature knows no negative prehensions, so too with the Deleuzean notion of the «virtual» as a kind of cosmic unconscious: «The phenomena of the unconscious can not be understood in the overly simple form of opposition and conflict... conflicts are the result of more subtle differential mechanisms....

And this at once gave assurance of a wholly rational interpretation of its processes and the growing conviction that mechanism and materialism as a final reading of the nature of reality were indisputable.

What Kant perceived as «radical evil,» rendering the freedom of man subservient to the mechanisms of nature that persisted in him, takes on an even darker and more subtle turn in this emergent situation.

Furthermore, the classical physics of Galileo, Descartes and Newton, basing itself on this common sense view of matter, portrays nature as made up of hard, impermeable material particles or mechanisms obeying immutable physical laws.

As long as materialism or mechanism seems to be the only plausible philosophy of nature, this existentialist maneuvering is an understandable and forgivable way of keeping us free from absorption into the world - machinAs long as materialism or mechanism seems to be the only plausible philosophy of nature, this existentialist maneuvering is an understandable and forgivable way of keeping us free from absorption into the world - machinas materialism or mechanism seems to be the only plausible philosophy of nature, this existentialist maneuvering is an understandable and forgivable way of keeping us free from absorption into the world - machine.

But by grasping the real nature of the technological phenomenon, and the extent to which it is robbing him of freedom, he confronts the blind mechanism as 8ubjeCt, i.e. as a conscious being.»

Other mechanisms, such as debt - for - nature swaps or REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), may help.

It has generally swallowed whole the cosmological assumptions of mechanism - materialism, but not being willing to embrace, as far as humans are concerned, the deterministic implications of materialism, it has located the realm of freedom completely apart from nature.

The ecological model of nature is put forward as a credible alternative to materialism and mechanism.

Can we conceive of nature as essentially dipolar, as possessing both «bottom up» and «top down» causality, the former tending towards mechanism, the latter towards spontaneity?

Wolf uses the word «dismal» in connection with the view of nature as an assemblage of mere mechanisms.

-- Quality: A dual - trigger folding mechanism makes safety a priority, and an aluminum frame allows for easy handling and storage (as you can lift it more easily due to its lightweight nature).

The sustainability of any political order depends on governance mechanisms that successfully balance the ever - present tension between these nine human dignity needs and the three attributes of human nature as I define them: emotionality, amorality and egoism.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

«Our work suggests a mechanism for cell lethality involving the regulation of BCAAs as crucial elements in pancreatic cancer by regulating ME3,» said Ronald DePinho, M.D., professor of Cancer Biology, senior author of the Nature paper and president of MD Anderson.

He said: «We've established that earthworms, referred to as «nature's ploughs» by Charles Darwin, have a metabolic coping mechanism to deal with a range of leaf litter diets.

But in Nature (vol 434, p 505), Pruitt's team speculates that it might be a more widespread mechanism that allows plants to «experiment» with new mutations while keeping RNA spares as a back - up.

In nature, RNAi acts as a defence mechanism to protect cells against retroviruses, but it has been cleverly adapted by researchers.

The contributors explore such issues as the nature of species, how species are counted, limits on diversity, mechanisms of speciation and adaptation, and speciation rates.

«The signals generated in the part of the motor cortex that controls and coordinates the lips, tongue, jaw and larynx as a person speaks are already intended to control an external device: the mouth,» says Keith Johnson, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics and a co-author with Chang on last year's Nature paper, which describes, for the first time, the neuronal mechanisms controlling speech.

Geckos are known as nature's best climbers because of a sophisticated gripping mechanism on their toes.

As researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry report in the current issue of Nature, they have now decoded a new cellular mechanism for the development of aggregates.

Their findings, reported in Nature Communications, may shed light on human lung disease, in particular, the mechanism behind non-familial pulmonary hypertension in patients with conditions such as emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis.

A paper describing the research appears January 4, 2018 in the journal Nature along with a paper from a separate group from Germany that shows that a similar mechanism can be used to make a gas of ultracold atoms exhibit four - dimensional quantum Hall physics as well.

Jollbot is an example of a biomimetic machine — one that borrows ideas from nature as inspiration for its appearance, behavior and physical mechanisms.

The study appearing Sunday (Dec. 22) in the journal Nature and co-authored by University of Florida scientists shows many angiosperms, or flowering plants, evolved mechanisms to cope with freezing temperatures as they radiated into nearly every climate during pre-historic times.

At this stage, there are several hypotheses as to the nature of the mechanism, but it is very likely that Busseola fusca has developed an unconventional resistance mechanism yet to be identified.

In a set of papers out today in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that promote metastasis in the mouse model and also implicated the typical Western high - fat diet as a key environmental factor driving metastasis.

Understanding the innate mechanisms of the distributive actuation observed in nature helped the team identify the important parameters that can be manipulated to accomplish novel functions, such as achieving highly flexible modes of motion.

The relationships between these two organisms, detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, can serve as a valuable model to study the evolution and mechanisms of more complex systems.

There is increasing recognition that visual performance is impaired in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, no consensus exists as to the mechanisms underlying this visual dysfunction, in particular regarding the timing, nature, and extent of retinal versus cortical pathology.

It is precisely in St. Louis that in 1954 with her colleague Stanley Cohen she uncovered the nature and mechanism of action of a protein molecule which became known, on account of its biological properties, as the «Nerve Growth Factor» (NGF).

This compound is known as Transfer Factor and whilst there is a large scientific literature on this subject, the nature and mechanism of action of Transfer Factors are largely unknown.

As part of this genetic expression, and as part and parcel of nature's mechanism to allow the maintenance of health and actually reduce the rate of aging, certain events will take place as seen in caloric restricted animalAs part of this genetic expression, and as part and parcel of nature's mechanism to allow the maintenance of health and actually reduce the rate of aging, certain events will take place as seen in caloric restricted animalas part and parcel of nature's mechanism to allow the maintenance of health and actually reduce the rate of aging, certain events will take place as seen in caloric restricted animalas seen in caloric restricted animals.

Details regarding the nature of these pathways are still being investigated, although interventions targeting these mechanisms have therapeutic potential, as already seen with thiazolidinediones, agents that increase insulin sensitivity and decrease muscle and hepatic triglyceride load (16).

As further proof of the Maxima's sporty nature, Nissan fitted the new car with a similar steering mechanism to that used in the 370Z, a speed - sensitive power - steering unit that does an excellent job of delivering road feel at higher speeds, while still being very responsive.

In the decades leading up to the GFC, these assumptions were transformed from empirically (con) testable propositions into the central articles of faith of the ideology of modern finance: the foundations of a widely held belief in the self - correcting nature of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation of society's resources.

Inflorescence utilizes mechanisms of the changing image and object as a way of thinking about the static nature of painting and sculpture.

In today's high - tech climate though, technology should be considered as a potential mechanism to foster curiosity and enhance engagement with the natural world, rather than an adversary with which nature must compete.

And that demonstrates how dangerous it potentially is for us to do something that's never happened in the history of the planet... to very dramatically change the CO2 concentration, in a matter of mere decades as compared to the usual centuries or millenia involved in an ice age feedback scenario, through a mechanism never found in nature — uncovering plant matter that's been buried for hundreds of millions of years, and burning it for energy.

The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels, glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate states.

As I said in the post, I think that there is a great discussion and debate to be had over the nature, size, and type of each of these various homeostatic mechanisms... but instead the AGW folks want to debate the exact value of the imaginary «climate sensitivity» figure.

It is in the nature of a complex and dynamic mechanism — as revealed to us by the US Academies of Science among others.

Nobody is ignoring it, it is simply that there are a number of phenomena to consider, anthropogenic forcing is obviously not one of them given the uneven nature and lack of a credible AO mechanism, the IPCC haven't got as far as verifying their «expected» mechanism with observations at the surface so it's inane to attribute deep ocean heating to aGHGs.

The new study published as a Letter in Nature Geoscience shows that the warm intermediate Atlantic Layer was displaced far downward in the glacial Arctic Ocean, resulting in a substantial warming at depths between 1000 and 2500 m. Based on a conceptual oceanographic model, the researchers propose a mechanism for the subsurface warming of the glacial Arctic Ocean: A reduced influx of freshwater to the Arctic Ocean acted to deepen the halocline and push the warm Atlantic Layer downward.

The good news is that even if we do not know the physical nature of these mechanisms, climate may be in part forecast in the same way as the tides are currently forecast by using geometrical astronomical considerations as I show in Figure 11.