Sentences with phrase «of as a survival mechanism»

Thus, autophagy is generally thought of as a survival mechanism.

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She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

However, to explain the origin of DNA as the mechanism of inheritance, evolutionary theory requires that hundreds of millions of small changes must be retained for thousands upon thousands of generations without producing any survival advantage until some point in the dim and distant future when, lo and behold, they suddenly start working together.

Cognitive dissonance (except when required as a survival mechanism in cases of severe trauma) is a sign of mental illness.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymoras a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

To legalize prostitution would condone it as a survival mechanism for women who have no education or job skills, and whose self - esteem is minimal because of a life of abuse.

Similar to capsaicin, tumor necrosis factor is suspected to both induce and reduce cancer cell growth, and was shown to commit cells to survival when stimulating EGFR transactivation mechanisms, indicating that EGFR could act as a molecular switch determining the antiapoptotic effect of tumor necrosis factor (50).

The false self seeks to anticipate and comply with the needs and demands of others as a defense and survival mechanism.

Governor Aregbesola who was represented at the event by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon Najeem Salam, described knowledge as a quintessential mechanism to survival.

Another interesting survival mechanism of the cuckoo wasps is their ability to curl into a protective ball when in danger, a process known as conglobation.

The team thinks there must be a mechanism that ups the flow of blood to the brain as a survival strategy in such circumstances.

By shedding light on potential mechanisms that facilitated that bear's survival during her long swim, as well as the overall metabolism and activity of bears, the current study «profoundly contributes to understanding the value of summer habitats used by polar bears in terms of their energetics,» Harlow says.

Sometimes called the cocktail party effect, the ability to tune out a noisy room to focus on one conversation, or auditory stream segregation, part of the larger field of auditory scene analysis, is apparently universal to all animals and serves as a critical survival mechanism.

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

The belly fat is the hardest to get rid of because it was put there by your system as a «survival» mechanism.

When humans experience stress the body automatically diverts energy, blood, enzymes and oxygen to other areas of the body as a survival mechanism.; thus leaving some areas of the body deprived and under pressure which inevitably effects digestion.

Using its crude compensatory mechanism to maintain homeostasis to ensure survival of the key organ systems such as the heart and brain first, the rest of the body is thrown into disarray.

This combination of reactions to stress is also known as the «fight - or - flight» response because it evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling people and other mammals to react quickly to life - threatening situations.

As we begin to think about autophagy in general, and the specific mechanisms of mitophagy, the genius of the human body's innate natural survival adaptations reveal themselves in quite remarkable ways.

All of the long - term survival mechanisms that are not needed in that immediate moment take a back seat, such as reproductive function, digestion, hormone balancing, metabolism and detoxification.

As a result, many of us often exist in a constant state of stress, or our «fight or flight» mode, which is our body's survival mechanism to cope with oncoming dangers (except nowadays, our form of danger is a scathing email from a boss or a client!)

As part of human's evolutionary survival mechanisms, the body's fight - or - flight response is automatically triggered when the brain perceives a threat.

Reading the results of Riley's survey and observing the systems, environments and day - to - day challenges faced by those working in our schools, it can be readily interpreted that many of these challenges can easily be perceived by school staff as threats, therefore undermining their wellbeing if they respond with classic survival mechanisms.

In response, the brain «unplugs» as part of its energy - preserving survival mechanism.

The point is that once you reach the number you have predetermined to be enough, you begin to see making money as a game instead of a survival or success mechanism.

Many dogs will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism, which, in the past, lead to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs to feel pain.

Many animals will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism which in the past led to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs and cats to feel pain.

In the wild, animals tend to hide signs of illness or weakness as a survival mechanism.

The difference between us and our pets is that our pets can't outright tell us that they're in pain - often, the exact opposite is true - they hide all signs of pain as a survival mechanism they developed over thousands of years of evolution to keep weakness hidden from predators and other members of their own colonies, Your pet may tell you in different ways when they are uncomfortable, such as by whining or whimpering, staying too still and showing little interest in what's going on around them, sleeping more than usual, becoming aggressive or intolerant of petting or exercise or even by becoming more active - pacing, circling, wandering - as the pain is too much for them to sit still and rest.

It's said they developed the hairlike metallic whiskers which grow from the top of their heads as a survival mechanism for the hostile volcanic environment.

Global warming is the subject of «Migrations of the Arthropods», Paul's 2012 photo and video work in which wearable structures are created using recycled plastic bottles to affect a transformation from human to insect, thus re-envisioning Kafka's «Metamorphosis» as an evolutionary survival mechanism.

Drawing parallels between this book and the difficulties inherent in the search of the «transchild» to find suitable role models within a traditional familial structure «My Model / MySelf» becomes about a journey to escape traditional gender roles through a capitalist phantasm of self - creation as a survival mechanism.

Water is an extremely facinating piece of engineering that has developed survival mechanisms to try and stay as a large mass.

It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...

Just as the physical body develops survival mechanisms, so does the psyche by developing ways of perceiving and responding in a way that facilitates spiritual growth.