Sentences with phrase «powerful mechanism for»

Leaving aside the embarrassingly foolish Rawls rant, it seems to me that the quoted text in Chapter 7 was ambiguous enough to lend itself to the misinterpretation that GCRs might constitute a powerful mechanism for amplifying solar irradiance effects on global temperature.

We see it as an investment in our community because we believe that sport is a very powerful mechanism for building a sense of community, spirit and pride.

But SEL is about more than just improving academic achieve ment — it is also a powerful mechanism for improving children's mental health.

The tours have been a powerful mechanism for showcasing the work of excellent schools and showing leaders in the community what is possible in schools with the right conditions in place.

That for - profits aren't all bad, educators aren't all angels, the ability to disagree civilly is a virtue, good intentions are no excuse for sloppy thinking, transparency is a virtue, jargon should not be mistaken for expertise, healthy markets are a powerful mechanism for channeling human ingenuity, and research rarely offers conclusive answers to the most important questions.

Streetwear's culture of product collaborations, too, is a powerful mechanism for driving newness at the velocity of digital media.

«Our research has uncovered a powerful mechanism for immune suppression in cirrhosis patients and also proposes a relatively simple and safe treatment.»

«It really seems to be a powerful mechanism for understanding our solar system.»

Before beginning graduate school in psychology, my experiences teaching in elementary schools led me to believe that the relationships between children and teachers are powerful mechanisms for change.

Not exact matches

In 2005, NDRC, another powerful government department overseeing outward investment, and China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation set up a risk prevention mechanism for key overseas investment projects.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture's dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants.

Sending our children out into the world as adults with their needs met, with coping mechanisms in place for those times when the stresses overwhelm them, and with the knowledge of a safe haven where comfort is always available when the world hurts them is a powerful way to change the world for the better.

The discovery has powerful implications for cancer immunotherapy researchers say: by blocking the mechanism with a drug, it may be possible to turn the attack - suppressing cells into tumor - attacking cells.

«Ongoing cryovolcanism at present seems to be unlikely, because of missing plumes of water and a missing mechanism for creating such powerful activity,» Nathues says.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

Witton and Habib say that wings of the giant pterosaurs were so powerful that the vaulting mechanism could have launched them from a small clearing without the need for a «runway» or a cliff to leap from.

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

Working from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Janka has enlisted dozens of the world's most powerful computers on a decades - long quest to understand the incredibly complex mechanism of a supernova.

For sensor cells to receive signals, he says, there must be a mechanism for transforming the large, weak airborne sound waves into smaller but more powerful fluid - borne sound waves that the sensor cells can detect — a process called impedance matchiFor sensor cells to receive signals, he says, there must be a mechanism for transforming the large, weak airborne sound waves into smaller but more powerful fluid - borne sound waves that the sensor cells can detect — a process called impedance matchifor transforming the large, weak airborne sound waves into smaller but more powerful fluid - borne sound waves that the sensor cells can detect — a process called impedance matching.

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

If robots are going to learn by imitation, one of the most powerful learning mechanisms we know, it will clearly be useful for our bodies to be alike.

The study of genetic variation between individuals provides a powerful way to understand these mechanisms which underlie disease risk, which in turn will provide a stimulus for drug development.»

NIH scientists have discovered a mechanism involved in stabilizing key HIV proteins and thereby concealing sites where some of the most powerful HIV neutralizing antibodies bind, findings with potential implications for HIV vaccine research.

The stimulation of HSD17B7 expression by estradiol provides a powerful feed - forward mechanism for estradiol biosynthesis in breast cancer cells.

They paid for carbon off sets under the World Bank Clean Development Mechanism, to stop climate damaging chemical plants that were never built, or built only to not produce a certain powerful greenhouse gas.

Non-mammalian animals like zebrafish, fruit flies, nematode worms and even seemingly more exotic creatures like salamanders and Mexican blind cavefish provide powerful experimental models for understanding fundamental biology and disease mechanisms.

«These findings not only offer a glimpse into how these powerful new models can shed light on disease mechanisms» said Dr. Miller, «They may also prove invaluable for screening potential drugs that could be developed into better treatments for Alzheimer's disease, FTD, and related conditions.»

In Drosophila, there is a wealth of fascinating biological processes whose regulation and mechanisms can be deciphered, building from a groundwork of powerful tools developed by the Drosophila community for multidisciplinary approaches.

By uncovering the precise cellular mechanisms of nicotine's effect, this study suggests new and more precise targets for drugs designed to block this powerful craving.

tomato as this process results in bacterial speck, an economically important disease, and also serves as a powerful model system for understanding fundamental mechanisms involved in plant - pathogen interactions.

«Our method promises to be a powerful tool for studying the mechanisms of human diseases and developing new therapies,» they wrote in the journal Nature.

The results of this study suggest that high - resolution fine - mapping in large samples can convert many discoveries from genome - wide association studies into statistically convincing causal variants, providing a powerful substrate for experimental elucidation of disease mechanisms.

«While previous research in evolutionary biology has identified a number of paths for the evolution of cooperation, this study introduces a novel, previously under - appreciated but very powerful mechanism: conditioning acts of extreme cooperation on shared prior experience,» UT's Gavrilets said.

But there are also healers out there like Ted Kaptchuk, who get results, perhaps not so much because of the needles or the homeopathic remedy or the chiropractic manipulation as for the love they offer, the way they calm the amygdala in the patient's brain, the powerful activating effect on the body's natural self - healing mechanisms, and the efficacy with which the practitioner IS the medicine.

He seems to believe that for healthy people at least it's quite safe to consume large quantities of the precursors but playing Russian Roulette to take large quantities of the active forms and thereby bypass the body's normal mechanisms for tightly regulating the levels of the powerful active forms.

We have a very powerful mechanism that we developed for creating multi-language websites.

Perhaps the feeble structure and lack of conventional plot mechanisms make for a confused response that — simultaneously coupled with the powerful portrayal of a dry, broken family — delivers a somewhat meaningful experience.

Assuming that ESA administrators can successfully develop oversight techniques, ESAs could become the most powerful and flexible mechanism we have for customizing education to individual student needs.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can serve as a powerful mechanism to actualize this right.

Its durable construction, large - capacity, and powerful drive mechanism are three things that really work for the LM980, all for a price that will not break your bank.

A keyboard and mouse are still a much, much more powerful input mechanism than any touch interface for most tasks.

As noted above, if the planet resists forcing changes (negative feedback) rather than amplifies forcing changes (positive feedback), then the explanation (only physical possible explanation) for cyclic abrupt climate changes is there is a very, very, powerful forcing mechanism.

Only powerful evidence wins over that obstacle, and I haven't seen any powerful evidence for other mechanisms for the low frequency variability.

Its powerful combination of strong international leadership, progressive thinking and forward - looking policies are reflected in its calls for dramatic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions and for mechanisms to help vulnerable countries adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Claiming that the evidence for a particular mechanism of enhanced solar forcing (GCR - cloud) suggests a weak effect is not a counter to the admission of substantial evidence that SOME such mechanism does have a powerful effect.

For those who consider self - regulation to be essential to independence of the bar, the need for governance mechanisms and policy decisions to ensure that the public interest is advanced should be powerfFor those who consider self - regulation to be essential to independence of the bar, the need for governance mechanisms and policy decisions to ensure that the public interest is advanced should be powerffor governance mechanisms and policy decisions to ensure that the public interest is advanced should be powerful.

It is such a powerful tool and mechanism to move politics, and if done the right way, it can be used to change millions of peoples» lives for the better.»

It doesn't matter how powerful that tool is, it's still just a mechanism for increasing productivity.