Sentences with phrase «pattern of activity of»

At the time, Martin Cohn, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, discovered snake embryos had a different pattern of activity of certain genes than other reptiles and that applying a growth factor could make those embryos start to grow limbs.
The pattern of activity of all sensory neurons in the olfactory system allows us to distinguish between different odors present in the environment.
LMU researchers have shown that patterns of activity of certain genes in vertebrate embryos correlate with differences in the length of the neck region.

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Deep learning's use of patterns to predict future activity appears to have tremendous potential for stock brokers, investment bankers, and asset managers — to assist them, at least for now.
Those who gave away money showed a particular pattern of activity in their brains, but that wasn't the most interesting part of the findings.
Kilduff said the science of pricing and trading has evolved into «a new animal,» with «a lot more electronic trading» affecting activity patterns, and «a lot more traders in general, who've never been in this space before.»
These predictions are based on an understanding of your Drive activity, as well as your interaction with colleagues and your workday patterns such as recurring team meetings or regular reviews of forecasting spreadsheets.
The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world.
«The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world,» said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
From monitoring activity during workouts to sleeping patterns to hearing aids, the devices that we «wear» are becoming much more sophisticated, connecting to all of our social media accounts, and tracking much more quality and quantity data.
It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.
Understanding your businesses» monthly deposit activity gives lenders a better sense of cash flow and sales patterns.
There's also the pattern of conflicts of interest and efforts to cash in on the presidency, and whatever other investigations are finding about his business activities before the presidency.
The CEO of Nasdaq Inc. states the company is open to listing cryptocurrencies and has tapped US - based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini to use its SMARTS surveillance technology, which monitors real - time activity and raises alerts with operators when it discovers unusual trading patterns.
general economic conditions, consumer confidence, consumer spending patterns and market disruptions including severe weather conditions, natural disasters, health hazards, terrorist activities, financial crises, political crises or other major events, or the prospect of these events;
Meghan Markle will have no difficulty in fitting in to this pattern of activity.
«There's a lot of pattern recognition,» he said, adding «the advantage of seeing a lot of activity is you can have better insights as to what constitutes a better [project].»
These are quite interesting developments in light of what we have discussed in late December regarding the technical and sentiment backdrop as well as time cycles and seasonal trends in precious metals (see: Gold and Gold Stocks — Patterns, Cycles and Insider Activity, Part 1 and Part 2).
While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.
The benchmarking feature is very useful to get an overview of your competitors very quickly, but it also allows you to keeping a close eye on their online activity, by tracking link growth patterns.
The result is the seasonal pattern of insider trading activities.
This pattern is expected to be reversed somewhat over the second half of the year, as activity in the house - building sector begins to pick up and growth moderates in the medium - density sector.
In a series of colorful emails they discussed a pattern of activity conducted by Cohen under the Google Ideas aegis, suggesting what the «do» in «think / do tank» actually means.
From brain scans, Schwartz found that certain regions in the brain of OCD patients (the caudate nucleus in particular) exhibited abnormal patterns of activity.
The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.
Scientists at the University of California discovered that when rats experience something new, their brains show new patterns of activity.
For conceptual acts like Schwartz's «mindful attention» to permanently alter patterns of brain activity that otherwise would remain stuck is therefore exactly what one would expect if the mind transcends the brain and yet is capable of physical effects.
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
By itself this finding is consistent with a materialist view of mind (if, as materialism requires, the brain enables the mind, then abnormal patterns of brain activity are likely to be correlated with dysfunctional mental states).
Equivalently, then, that successor presiding occasion prehends the mentality of its predecessor (s) in the dominant subsociety, not directly through spatial contiguity, but through the patterns of activity already present both in the brain as its immediate environment and in the entire organism as its overall field of activity.
3Pethaps some further explanation is needed of the manner in which a society as a unified field of activity serves as the medium for the transmission of physical feelings and conceptual patterns from one generation of occasions to another.
On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.
Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.
When we say that a social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.
The individuality of enjoyment in the momentarily dominant occasion is a shaping of the various activities of a mental environment into an esthetic pattern.
Further, the physico - chemical elements and activities that form the substrate of the author's biological and mental acts must also be reliably patterned and programmed.
Experiences during this process include feelings of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory of the lost one, pouring out of grief, idealization of the deceased, guilt feelings, anger, loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning of thousands of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning of other responses, resumption of normal patterns of living, and the establishment of substitute relationships.
Definite patterns of structure and behavior emerge from the mutual influence thereby restricting the larger range of activity to a narrower ensemble compatible with the established interactions.
A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.
On the other hand, when the body is kept in the same state of nourishment and in patterns of activity, the psyche retains the ironclad protection of its habituated condition.
Furthermore, it would be externally detectable if its occasions are identical with the internal synthetic unity of the whole pattern of those externally identifiable patterns of brain wave activity that are known to be associated with consciousness.
It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.
We must provide for the activity of the student's mind such that he or she freely perceives a new abstract pattern, in art or literature or mathematics.
There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.
A «cultural» analogue for communication insists that communicative activity can not be abstracted from patterns of meaning - making in culture.
Furthermore, it is not God's activity in the Exodus which is to be recalled but his pattern in creation, when he rested after six days of work.
The dramatic changes which have taken place in the activities and patterns of people's social lives over the past two generations are of major theological significance in themselves.
It seems that a couple usually enters into such activity on the urging of the husband; however, if the pattern lasts as long as a few months, most of the wives discover that they enjoy sexual relations with women as well as with men.
He suggests that consciousness results from «patterns of activity involving thousands or millions of neurons» (AT 44).
These activities conformed to entirely new patterns, patterns of which even today we have only a little understanding.
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