Sentences with phrase «on modern»

Enter McDonough and Loughry who are experts on modern armadillos, which also have an armoured shell.

Genetic data has even shed light on modern - day humans» hybrid ancestry, with most Europeans and Asians thought to have approximately 2 percent Neanderthal DNA.

Making metamaterials for shorter wavelengths such as visible light is more difficult because it entails making elements much smaller than a micron, approaching the sizes of components on modern computing chips.

He believes Turk's initial excavation and subsequent experiments using hyenalike jaws on modern bear bones show the bone would've split and had counterbite marks.

During the PETM, atmospheric carbon dioxide more than doubled and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius, an increase that is comparable with the change that may occur by later next century on modern Earth.

He hopes to learn more about how to best grow these grains on modern farms, and how to best use them in modern baking.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

His analysis included replicating the damage on modern teeth — relax, he used teeth that were already extracted.

Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.

«Very few, if any, medical discoveries have had a larger impact on modern medicine than the discovery and development of antibiotics,» said senior author Ronald C. Montelaro, Ph.D., professor and co-director of Pitt's CVR.

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

The Treptichnus burrows resemble those of modern priapulid, or «penis», worms — voracious predators that hunt in a remarkably similar way on modern sea floors.

«It could allow some of the molecular and genetic studies done on modern animals to be potentially used on dinosaur samples.»

On dinosaurs, as on modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the cold.

«We've got all this graphics - processing power on modern PCs that we're not using most of the time,» Wong says.

It's ironic that Carr, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, takes on modern life's short attention spans and worship of the superficial in a series of essays, some barely a page and one merely a sentence.

Overturning cars, flying missiles, and airplanes speeding across the screen — on modern computers, 3D objects can be calculated in a flash.

Plumes of methane could also be an exciting glimmer of geological activity on modern Mars.

Relying on modern forensic techniques, such as contour and trajectory analysis of the traumas, the authors of the study showed that both fractures were likely produced by two separate impacts by the same object, with slightly different trajectories around the time of the individual's death.

Similar to Yuval Noah Harari's recent, and equally expansive, Homo Deus, Lent's book seeks some perspective on our modern juggernaut of radical innovation and global polarisation.

She must figure out how best to sterilize spacefaring instruments; baking them, as NASA used to do, isn't a good option for the sensitive electronic components on modern spacecraft.

«It's fascinating that a prediction of a «ghost population» based on modern - day populations alone can be confirmed in this way,» he says.

As with the butterflies» wings, he imagined each chart drawn on a metal plate and simulated bending it to move the landmarks on the medieval chart to meet their locations on a modern map.

To examine the underlying structure of this 1475 portolan chart, Hessler took a grid on a modern map and transferred it point by point to the chart.

For the moment I will stick and not twist on our modern British Bill of Rights called the Human Rights Act.»

Iain Dale has blogged about tomorrow's session at the Convention on Modern Liberty on The Right and Civil Liberties.

National Public Works Week is observed from May 20 — 26, 2018 and allows communities an opportunity to celebrate the many impacts that public works have on modern society as well as the contributions that public Works» professionals make every day to communities across the country.

«What we really need to work on is enforcement of current laws and examining ways to make the workplace more flexible to better accommodate the tremendous pressures on the modern family in a bipartisan manner.»

What is his take on the modern Labour party?

Amaechi, who spoke with journalists along with Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State at the Ijoko Railway Station, the site of the flyover bridge, said the bridge and the right of way issues would have to be addressed before actual construction work could commence on the modern rail line.

One of the most stimulating books on the modern British experience comes not from the contemporary literary giants but from a thriller writer.

«The government must conduct a serious review of its stance on modern languages in the key stage four curriculum and examine how it should be promoting these subjects rather than presiding their decline,» he said.

The facility will also provide advisory services for farmers, and a unit for training farmers by equipping the knowledge of farmers on modern technology and best agricultural practices to increase productivity.

Then, he worsened the situation by not having a good grasp on modern economic management and not having the humility to allow those with the expertise to do so, leading to the killing of businesses and impoverishment of the masses.

And leading the world in cracking down on modern slavery — because if you are buying and selling another human being, you are undermining all that is right.

His take on the modern day political broadcast was not complimentary to any party.

It will also train Osun youths on modern, commercial and profitable farming.

Despite the running feud, May gave an interview to the Evening Standard today in which she renewed her calls for a crackdown on modern slavery.

«Growth of self - employment is one of the biggest and most important changes in the labour market,» declared shadow digital minister Liam Byrne at the Labour Party fringe on modern work practices.

An equally provocative book on modern warfare is Douglas Porch's Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (Cambridge University Press # 18).

For a hint of the new potential, see this Post piece on modern campaign tools» spread to Kenya (note that Dick Morris unfortunately went along for the ride).

on the Modern Ghana website on 5th September 2017 in which he opens with his conduct of restraining himself from commenting on my deliberate attacks on the former President and the NDC because of his respect for elders in the NDC...

The rich scholarship on modern governance in China could make for a fascinating comparison.

The agreement at the NPF to establish a Commission on the modern workplace is an important step in that direction.

He participated in the Convention on Modern Liberty, where he gave the keynote speech on the convention's final day.

You ask who on the modern right can «be found who would now speak seriously for the cause of the vanquished».

The theory on the modern state is commonly traced back to Thomas Hobbes» Leviathan, who defined the state as an aggregate of the plurality of all men «onto one will».

I think it is fair to say that without the Convention on Modern Liberty organised by Henry Porter and myself the previous February, such «looking again» would not have occurred.

As a working mum, she understands the pressures on modern family life.»