Sentences with phrase «techniques used by humans»

It is able to learn that way and also employ afterwards other techniques used by humans, as is learn by experience.

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«The majority of private companies can accomplish most or all of their important goals by forgoing options entirely and instead making use of a phantom - stock technique,» says Jim Scannella, a principal in Arthur Andersen's human - capital - services group.

Zhang, by contrast, showed specifically how the technique could be used in the more complex (eukaryotic) cells of rhododendrons, rodents, and humans.

Recently, scientists developed a way to cut down on unwanted mutations by 40 %, which could make the technique a lot safer for human use.

That realm of nature which used to be beyond human understanding and control, with which, therefore, one could only establish a creative relation by means of this hypothesis «God», is now more and more being conquered by reason and technique.17

By technology I mean not only machines or pills or techniques but the central praxis of modernity — the most consistent and self - consciously methodical way of using contemporary science to alter the natural order so that it will serve human desires and needs.

To that end, Oxford grad student Samantha Brown reported in a poster that she discovered a human bone fragment by using a new technique, called ZooMS, to scan 2315 bones from the cave for uniquely human proteins.

What remains to be seen, researchers say, is whether the surgery was done to save the cow's life or whether it was used by aspiring surgeons for perfecting delicate techniques before operating on fellow humans.

Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.

There have been a number of human clinical trials using an alternative gene - editing technique, including one led by June, that have helped patients combat HIV.

Using a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environUsing a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environusing audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environment.

Begley and Doidge wade against this current with a strong message of hope: By recognizing neuroplasticity as a real and powerful force, we can tilt our theories of mind back into a realm where choice and free will are meaningful concepts, and where radical improvement to the human condition is possible using the right, scientifically proven techniques.

«Using a technique developed by our collaborators at the University of Iowa, we were able to get long - term expression of these human gene variants in the fluid that bathes the entire brain,» says Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH - MIND), senior author of the report in the Nov. 20 Science Translational Medicine.

«Humans may be uniquely identified by the proteins in their hair: Protein identification technique may be used in forensics, archaeology.»

The HFEA has approved an application by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan, at the Francis Crick Institute in London, to use the genome - editing technique CRISPR — Cas9 in healthy human embryos.

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The technique used by Wilmut and his co-workers — a technology called somatic - cell nuclear transfer — will probably be the way in which the first human clone will be created.

In future research, we will examine whether this technique also works in even larger bone defects and by using human cells.»

Moustapha Cissé, an AI researcher at Facebook, and his colleagues figured out that a similar technique — which they have called Houdini — can be used to fool both voice recognition and machine vision systems, by adding such small amounts of digital noise to images and sounds that humans would not notice.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

Several sites have yielded tools made by Neandertals using materials and techniques once attributed to anatomically modern humans alone.

The law permits the country's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to allow the technique to be used in fertility clinics on a case - by - case basis [4].

Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their production beginning about 12,500 years ago, following hundreds of years of consistent stone - tool production created using uniform techniUsing new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their production beginning about 12,500 years ago, following hundreds of years of consistent stone - tool production created using uniform techniusing uniform techniques.

«But we are hopeful that our technique, by treating the human genome like lines of computer code, could one day be used to reverse these harmful mutations, and essentially repair the damaged code.»

Using cutting - edge techniques enabled by next - generation sequencing, the authors generated complete methylome maps at single nucleotide resolution in a low - passage breast cancer cell line and normal breast tissue (primary human mammary epithelial cells).

He noted that while no technique has emerged as a proven clinical approach, the use of human rather than rodent cells as demonstrated by Pollok et al. is an important step in advancing the science behind liver cell transplantation.

In a presentation titled «Paradise Regained,» the team at the Genomic Solutions workshop proposed deploying a technique used by the British firm Oxitec in Brazil to defeat mosquitoes carrying human dengue fever.

In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.

We've been able to bridge those findings to human studies, developing ways to both look for those neurons in the retina, see whether or not they're sick using imaging techniques that Alf and Vivek have developed, and clinical tests along with Jeff Goldberg in order to detect whether or not patients are losing an excessive amount of those kinds of neurons by virtue of different types of field testing.

The first UK license for CRISPR / Cas9 use in editing genes in human embryos was granted in 2016, xvii and CRISPR - edited cells to treat lung cancer were administered in the world's first human trials for the technique by a Chinese group in late 2016.

In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.

Unlike most types of gene therapy, a longstanding approach that aims to alter only adult human tissues that die with the patient, the Crispr technique could be used to change human eggs, sperm and early embryos, and such alterations would be inherited by the patient's children.

We will focus on body postures (asanas), control of vital energy by using breathing techniques (pranayama), disciplining the mind, cleansing (kriyas) and vibrations (mantras), to resolve the energetic imbalances of the human body and mind.

With a background of geology, astronomy, and meteorology, Saint Exupéry presents the human struggle for knowledge and security against the powers of the natural world; with an anthropologist's understanding of tools and techniques, he compares the airplane and the plough, the flyer and the shepherd, and evaluates the long process by which the tool, even when it is as complicated as an airplane, comes to be taken for granted and used with the simple directness of an Indian's paddle.

The use of the pet's instincts and their desire to be loved by people along with classic behavior modification techniques allow us to create a healthy human companion animal relationship.

Lymph node mapping, a technique to visualize the lymphatic drainage of tumors by which tumor cells might spread, is increasingly used to improve cancer staging and treatment protocols in the treatment of cancer in humans.

By using positive, science - backed training techniques, we build skills on both ends of the leash to promote a life - long, adventure - filled friendship between dogs and their humans.

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Research done by the Comparative Orthopaedics Laboratory allowed the continued application of cartilage cell transplantation to the human knee; by early 2004 over 10,000 cartilage cell transplantation procedures had been performed in the United States using techniques validated by the laboratory.

By using this very specific technique, based on traditional secular weaving crafts common in Portugal, the overlapping human figures dissolve their forms and shapes of reality.

He then cast the clay in bronze using the lost - wax technique and completed the work by placing the casts next to each other so as to create the semblance of a human being.

Employing the technique used by artists such as Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst to create a surrealist human form, a family will come up with an abstract shape together.

The big canvases are unstretched and fastened directly to the wall, a 1980s technique used by Leon Golub for brutal images of human torture; it emphasizes the painting's surface as a metaphorical skin.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

We identify human and natural contributions to the observed IPWP changes since the 1950s by comparing observations with climate model simulations using an optimal fingerprinting technique.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

«To assess the natural variability before much human interference, the new study uses «multi-proxy climate reconstructions» developed by scientists in recent years to estimate historical temperatures, as well as fluctuation - analysis techniques from nonlinear geophysics.

As Mashey documents here, so well, this whole party has been a set - up, with scientists on one side, bound by the rules of evidence and by their own integrity, and think tanks, PR counsellors and their aides and allies on the other side, using any technique aailable (including, apparently, obtaining, using and disseminating stolen emails), to defend the right of fossil fuel companies to continue, unrestrained, in the sale and distribution of a substance that is threatening the human habitability of planet earth.

The recently released Senate and Red Cross reports on detainee treatment provide uncontroverted evidence that the torture techniques advocated by the attorneys were used on human beings over an extended period of time.