Sentences with phrase «reconstructing how»

Having an accurate time scale is a crucial aspect of reconstructing how anatomical and behavioral characteristics of early hominids evolved.

Statistical analyses aimed at reconstructing how much an adult Archicebus would have weighed in life show that it was slightly smaller than the smallest living primates, which are pygmy mouse lemurs from Madagascar.

A computer algorithm works almost as well as a trained linguist in reconstructing how dead «protolanguages» would have sounded, says a new study.

CSIC researchers compared the orbit of Annama with the evolution of a dozen orbits of near - Earth asteroids, reconstructing how their orbits evolved in the solar system over the past 10,000 years.

He reconstructs how Greece got into this mess in the first place, and documents the horror spreading through Paris, Berlin, and beyond as the rest of the world realized just how badly the Greeks had stepped in it — and what the potential consequences could be.

By understanding the molecular logic of how those modules can be combined in different ways, we can begin to reconstruct how this diversity evolved.»

The researchers compared the differences between the two sets of sequences to reconstruct how the H7N9 virus evolved through various species of birds and to determine the origin of genes.

Lucy had a smaller skull than later humanlike species, but her other bones showed that she walked upright, helping researchers reconstruct how humans began walking on two legs.

The model reconstructs how present - day continents, oceans and the atmosphere may have evolved.

Stardust's sample may be enough to reconstruct how material shuttled from planet to planet and even from star to star as Earth took shape 4.6 billion years ago.

Boutt says, «knowing something about how much sodium is there now can help us reconstruct how much water must have been coming in over the 7 to 10 million years as the Andes plateau uplift was taking place.

A group of scientists led by Dr Kara Hoover of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and including Professor Matthew Cobb of The University of Manchester, has studied how our sense of smell has evolved, and has even reconstructed how a long - extinct human relative would have been able to smell.

«Genomics allowed us to reconstruct how the virus traveled and changed across the epidemic — which also means that genomics could have helped detect it much earlier,» she said.

Manos and Duke doctoral student José Meireles combed the scientific literature to reconstruct how the biodiversity of U.S. eastern forests arose.

To analyze these data, the team developed custom computer software to reconstruct how gene activity changes as motor neurons form.

Using the high resolution x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner at UT, they produced 35,000 cross-sectional CT «slices» of Lucy's bones, which they used to explore how forces were distributed across the bones, and so reconstruct how Lucy moved.

«If we could build a «family tree» of all cancer nodules in a patient, we could determine how different tumors are related to each other and reconstruct how the cancer evolved,» says Kamila Naxerova, PhD, of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the report being published in PNAS Early Edition.

The new images can help researchers reconstruct how galaxies grew to form the variety of shapes and sizes seen today.

Using marine seismic technology deployed from an icebreaker, researchers were able to reconstruct how glaciers on the Sabrina Coast have advanced and retreated during the past 50 million years.

This is precisely where empathy and sympathy start — not in the higher regions of imagination, or the ability to consciously reconstruct how we would feel if we were in someone else's situation.

Using nearly 9000 samples from oak, pine and larch, Büntgen and colleagues were able to reconstruct how temperatures and rainfall in western Europe changed over the last 2500 years.

In so doing, they were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe.

My goal is to not only understand how oviraptorosaurs grew, but also to reconstruct how they may have lived and interacted with their environment based on their anatomy.

Combining their evolutionary tree with freezing exposure records and leaf and stem data for thousands of species, the researchers were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe.

This in turn will reconstruct how the crime happened.

In December 2014, for example, she and colleagues published a study that used NASA satellite and aerial data to reconstruct how the height of the Greenland Ice Sheet changed at nearly 100,000 locations from 1993 to 2012.

The aim of the C - SIDE working group is to reconstruct changes in sea - ice extent in the Southern Ocean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynamics.

The project used satellite and aerial data from NASA to reconstruct how the height of the Greenland Ice Sheet changed at nearly 100,000 locations from 1993 to 2012.

I can't imagine any paleoclimatology study being accurate without being able to accurately reconstruct how these influences would interact with the climate system.

Facebook said it no longer provided Kasperky Lab as an antivirus option but that it was «unable to easily reconstruct how many Facebook users downloaded Kaspersky software.»

It helps you reconstruct how you and your partner connect on an emotional level, which helps you establish deeper trust and understanding.

With exercises and examples from real - life marriage counseling sessions — The Marriage Counseling Workbook will reconstruct how you and your spouse think about, communicate with, and show love for one another.

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This bears significantly on how we picture Jesus and how we seek to reconstruct his earthly life and ministry.

Economics, even reconstructed economics, can not explain fully how the economic problem was resolved.

That this is what is being asserted in the principle of process, or ninth Category of Explanation, Whitehead himself makes explicit when, in the context of explaining how the genetic process can be reconstructed from the analysis of the satisfaction, he says:

Frost and his neighbor are reconstructing the wall that separates their land, because stones have fallen during the winter, when it occurs to him how very foolish this annual ritual has become.

In contrast to the main drift of the modern Western tradition, which asks how we can reconstruct or represent things within us and concludes that the activity of reconstruction or representation is almost wholly a matter of our own creation and projection, the theory of value and valuation suggests a different question.

The more accurately we reconstruct the history of Israel and the Church, the more precisely we can see how the men of the Bible understood themselves to be addressed by the divine Thou.

But there was little agreement about how to reconstruct a distinctively Christian view of nature, or indeed, whether it could or should be reconstructed.

But how are we to reconstruct the original historical context of a subject from the clues which survive?

And, thus, these motifs require us to explain how our reconstructed doctrine of a creator God avoids falling into the pitfalls uncovered and so eloquently articulated by the postmodernists.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Most commented on insights gained as the teacher explained, for instance, the various authorships of Genesis and how these authorships may be reconstructed from the text of the Bible itself.

They begin with a brief overview of fatherhood in nonhuman primates and a discussion of how anthropologists are reconstructing the family life of our ancestors.

Those Twitter posts have since been used to reconstruct a timeline on the assault, showing just how hard it is to keep anything under wraps these days, even for SEAL Team Six.

It was this desire to learn how mountain ranges develop that led me into the field of regional structural geology and tectonics, which examines the geologic features of an area, such as how the rocks are faulted or folded, and tries to reconstruct its history — how the mountains and valleys got to be there.

In a typical investigation, the RIO - led committee — made up mostly of faculty with relevant expertise — reconstructs the research behind a scientific result from its documentation (which may be sparse, cryptic, or fabricated)-- so the RIO job requires deep insight into how scientists work.

«Because certain geological events record everything, studying them helps to reconstruct the environmental past and to determine how human beings have influenced the environment.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

«That allowed us to reconstruct the moving direction, and how fast the animals were traveling.