Sentences with phrase «putative life»

Since the ocean floor is in contact with rock like Earth's oceans, there would be minerals which could be used as nutrients by any putative life forms.

This has strong implications for astrobiology and planetary habitability as any putative life forms near the surface would be exposed to large radiation doses capable of sterilizing the top ~ 20 cm of the Martian subsurface (Simonsen & Nealy 1993; Mileikowsky et al. 2000; Pavlov et al. 2002; Dartnell 2011; Dartnell et al. 2007a, 2007b, 2010).

«The presence of organic carbon at or near the Martian surface provides a potential nutrient source for putative life,» says co-author Francis McCubbin.

Not exact matches

If Roe V. Wade were magically reversed today, the putative right to abortion would still inform our social and moral architecture; men and women would still think of abortion as necessary and structure their lives accordingly.

And this is even before the knuckle - dragging imam offers a harsh, well - received sermon fueled by anti-Semitism and formulations anchored in both qur» anic citations about the Israelites» putative failure to live as God's chosen people and in fever - swamp criticisms of the State of Israel.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

They collected DNA samples from 96 females, 131 putative sires and 458 offspring among a population of lizards living in California during the 1992 breeding season, and ran several different rounds of paternity testing.

We here described all the putative small RNA pathways present in both free living and parasitic flatworm lineages.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It may pay tribute to Marcel Duchamp's first bicycle - wheel ready - made, but it also echoes a small red painting here — a putative flower still life whose blooms are sewn - on buttons.

There is the thesis, that romance is displaced by the humans putative need to be in control of everything that happens in their lives, which causes a lack of passion, mysticism and thirst for adventure.

I'm not gonna name names, but there are lots of people who have worked in that area since the mid-90's, when the putative oldest sign on life paper came out.

The current designated target, online at least, seems to be her putative «experience» gained from having overcome various difficulties in her life, something President Obama made a point of praising.

Auld LJ points out the important difference between the Art 8 right to respect for family life and the putative right of a claimant at common law to a duty of care:

The contribution of adversity variables over the life - course in mediating excess risks of common mental disorders and poorer self - rated health at midlife was assessed.31 To assess mediation, three criteria needed to be fulfilled.31 First, the association of parental migration history with putative mediator was assessed using multivariable logistic regression.31 Second, the association of the putative mediator with the outcome variable (poorer self - rated health and common mental disorders at midlife) was assessed using multivariable logistic regression.31 Finally, the association of parental migration history with outcome --(either midlife common mental disorders or poorer self - rated health at midlife) was assessed in the presence of the putative mediator.31 If the coefficient for the association between parental migration history and outcome was reduced in the presence of the putative mediator, then it was presumed that the data were consistent with mediation.31

While a majority of states have statewide putative father registries, the implementation of a national putative registry is necessary to protect the rights of putative fathers whose possible children may have moved outside of the state in which the putative father lives.

Stress sensitivity as a putative mechanism linking childhood trauma and psychopathology in youth's daily life.

To investigate the extent to which three putative «environmental» risk factors, maternal punitive discipline (MPD), paternal punitive discipline (PPD) and negative life events (NLEs), share genetic influences with, and moderate the heritability of, externalizing behavior.