Sentences with phrase «sensitive than that of humans»

Dogs have a sense of smell that can be between 10,000 and 100,000 times more sensitive than that of a human.

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Similarly, we recognize that some people are more sensitive than others to the spiritual dimensions of human existence and that some are particularly sensitive.

I think of HSPs as «canary people» — like the caged canaries that the minors used to take down into the mines with them because the birds were more sensitive to toxic air than humans.

Out of the brokenness and despair which now grips this institution will burst a new University of Evansville more sensitive to human needs, more resolute in purpose than ever before.

In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies.

Humans tested as generally more sensitive sniffers than monkeys and rats on a limited range of odors.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

DDVP is an organophosphate, one of a group of pesticides developed after World War II, when researchers discovered that insects» nervous systems were more sensitive to nerve agents than the human nervous system.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

He thus doubts whether science can compile a dictionary for decoding the neural signals corresponding to human memories, which are surely more complex, variable, and context sensitive than those of rats.

Other teams have used fluorescent molecules to map temperature in human cells, but the Harvard thermometer is at least 10 times more sensitive than those techniques, Maurer says, detecting fluctuations of as little as 0.05 Kelvin.

What remains unclear is precisely what fraction of the observed changes in these climate - sensitive systems can confidently be attributed to human - related influences, rather than mere natural regional fluctuations in climate.

Dogs» noses are said to be 1,000 times more sensitive than ours, and pooches can be trained to respond to the signature scents of human health conditions.

Several lines of evidence also suggest that mice and rats may be more sensitive to BPA than humans.

Situation needs to change immediately or we'll be as good as robots and look more of a Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Terminator movie than a beautiful, sensitive and loving human race that we are supposed to be.

The challenge for the human side of the nose work team is learning to trust the dog and let him be in charge; after all, he is the more skilled hunter, and his nose is thousands of times more sensitive than a human's!

Cats have a sense of smell much more sensitive than humans and their DNA is telling them all the time to be clean, very clean, it's a mechanism of survival.

Before using oils in a diffuser or homemade spray, remember that less is more — pets have a far greater sense of smell than humans and are therefore more sensitive to scents.

«Dogs do have fewer color sensitive cone receptors in their retinas than their human counterparts,» says Dr. Martin Goldstein, an integrative veterinarian and author of The Nature of Healing Animals.

«However, high concentrations of zinc can cause illness and toxicity, and birds are far more sensitive to the toxic effects of zinc than are humans,» says Dr. Keller.

Most scented commercial household products contain chemicals that can have a detrimental effect on the physical health of your human family, and especially your animal companions, who are much more sensitive than we are.

Much like a dog's sense of smell and hearing, their bodies are much more sensitive than humans as well and it's vital we fill them with natural ingredients that help maintain their proper nutrition and good health.

Cats have a much stronger sense of smell than humans, and while a scented product may smell nice and fresh to us, it can be overpowering to sensitive cat noses, and it can cause cats to avoid the litter box.

Dogs have more sensitive ears than humans do and while some dogs don't appear to mind the noise, others will bark, whine, howl, hide, cower or run into furniture and walls, said Dr. Melissa Bain of the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine's Clinical Animal Behavior Service.

A dog's skin is also more sensitive than human skin, which means dogs have a higher chance of developing skin problems.

After seeing James Bishop, which is currently on view at David Zwirner (September 6 — October 25, 2014), I would urge anyone who cares about what an artist can do with paint to go and immerse themselves in this beautiful, sensitive, astringent exhibition of eleven mostly square, human - scaled paintings in oil and four small works (all are less than six inches in height and width), done in oil and crayon on paper.

This is because over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global warming itself in both the deep past and the very near future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced greenhouse gases than had been hoped.

Since the climate is chaotic and sensitive to small perturbations (butterfly wings and all that) we can be somewhat confident that the climate of the earth with humans would be different than the climate without humans.

Some of Ms Laurie's beliefs are beyond what would reasonably be accepted by a rational and intelligent human being; turbines can rarely be heard or detected by an instrument other than an exquisitely sensitive seismometer beyond a couple of kilometres, how could they make anybody ill?

What remains unclear is precisely what fraction of the observed changes in these climate - sensitive systems can confidently be attributed to human - related influences, rather than mere natural regional fluctuations in climate.