Sentences with phrase «projecting human abilities»

Or are we projecting human abilities onto nonhuman animals?

Not exact matches

Managing anxiety in order to tackle a big project, managing anger to work through a marital conflict, managing fear to apply for a job — the ability of a human being to manage his or her emotions in a healthy way will determine the quality of his life in a much more fundamental way than his mental IQ.

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

However, no such mandatory review process occurs for research projects that involve the enhancement of a pathogens's virulence, transmissibility, or ability to evade countermeasures — even though such projects potentially place at risk tens, hundreds, or millions of humans.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

The great apes» ability to use language and tools, to feel pain, and to form lasting relationships with others is evidence, the Great Ape Project maintains, that apes are part of a «community of equals» with humans.

NASA is exploiting that ability with Human Exploration Telerobotics, a project that lets astronauts «inhabit» robots in locations that are fatal or inaccessible.

As many a video game player has noticed, the human brain has a remarkable ability to project itself outside the body and into other objects or virtual spaces.

This project, however, is the team's first effort to create a fully functional organ: one that not only replicates a human ability, but extends it using embedded electronics.

The Kepler team's computers are sifting through the data, but the Planet Hunters project is betting that there will be planets that can only be found via the human ability for pattern recognition.

The mice show many of the symptoms that human patients do, and so they were an especially good candidate to test iPS cells» abilities, says stem cell researcher Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, who collaborated with Townes on the project.

Experts project H5N1 could kill between 2 million and 7 million people if it acquires the ability to pass easily among humans.

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

The Human Function Model, as described in the University of Kentucky Assistive Technology Project, places assistive technology in its proper perspective, as an external support that can enhance an individual's ability to function within the environment.

«I saw how the dog does it; how, without the human's painful ability to project ahead and fear the inevitable, the dog simply wakes to each day as a new step in the journey,» she writes in her artist statement.

This project introduced Cubic Motion's unique ability to drive real - time digital humans as seen at GDC, and SIGGRAPH, where Cubic Motion received the Best Real - time Graphics award in 2016.

The water ice counteracts the traditional danger of living above ground by serving as a radiation barrier, offsetting fears of solar exposure that have, until now, projected Martian architecture into a dark underworld — buried beneath a regolithic surface that is believed to contain perchlorates, gypsum and other substances hazardous to human life.Water as a Radiation Shield By taking advantage of water - ice's ability to filter the sun's rays and protect against radiation, ICE HOUSE prioritizes a life above ground and celebrates the human presence on the planetary surface.

Freeman Dyson has long pointed to the diurnal and seasonal swings as existence proof of the ability of the biosphere to absorb much larger variations in CO2 levels than are «projected» from human activity.

For instance, one report, entitled Human Rights at Home: Miami's Housing Crisis and its Perpetuation of Poverty, analyzed raw data collected by Legal Services of Greater Miami and the Community Justice Project to show how Florida's rent deposit statute disparately impacts low - income people's ability to defend themselves: even if a tenant has a sudden financial hardship to overcome or alleges legitimate concerns about housing conditions, that tenant must deposit all the unpaid rent into the court to even have the dispute heard.

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