Sentences with phrase «testing human limits»

In a Western culture so focused on achievement, on striving for more, on testing human limits, it can be easy to transfer a «push yourself»...

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Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

Trade shows can test the limits of human endurance.

Once the system seemed to be working, Kopparapu arranged for tests at a Mumbai hospital to see how the app would perform in a real - life setting, and so far it's done just as well as a human specialist, although the data is limited.

For now, these fully self - driving minivans — sans human test driver — are limited to a defined «geo - fenced» area.

(We don't need to have our ability to obey tested because we are human and thus have limited ability to obey.)

He calmly snipped the cord, then tested the limits of human endurance by watching the exit of the placenta, a Technicolor extravaganza that should be viewed with all the precautions of a total eclipse of the sun — polarized glasses, mirrors, cardboard boxes, air - sickness bags, the works.

It's too much to talk about all that here, so I will limit my discussion to how Ava, the robot, seduces and basically destroys Caleb, who was chosen by Nathan, his employer, to interact with her to see if she passes the Turing test, which examines if a machine has consciousness and is indistinguishable from a human.

Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

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

The study didn't test humans and dogs head to head — I think the dogs might win depending on the odor — but what it shows is the limits of human smell tracking haven't really been investigated.

If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.

This is not only because tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in humans or other animals is severely limited by differences among major species.

Despite current lack of European Law regulating leaching of elements from metallic food contact materials, the Council of Europe resolved in 2013 that contaminants «must not be released in quantities which could endanger human health» and specifies limits for and methods of testing metals released into food.

Human - robot interaction is hard, and our ability to do tests in this area is limited by the number of robots already out there performing real - world tasks.

The next steps in this line of research include tests on whether boosting the effects of FGF21 can help limit or reverse liver damage in mice and decrease a preference for alcohol in humans.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

To ensure that the glial cell - to - neuron conversion method is not limited to rodent animals, Chen and his team further tested the method on cultured human glial cells.

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«But human trials of sitagliptin have been limited to date because they have lacked important tools like a placebo arm and allocation concealment (in which researchers do not know what the next treatment allocation will be, further preventing selection bias in testing),» said Loomba.

Other labs have done similar tests in monkeys, but monkeys can't describe sensations, limiting what we can learn on behalf of future human users.

Although human studies are limited, animal and test tube research have shown time and time again that cordyceps has the capacity to destroy cancer cells, help normalize low white blood cell count occurring as a result of chemotherapy, and even make certain medications more toxic to cancer cells.

Alison, I was tested recently at University of Florida Human Performance Lab and my fat burning only started diminishing when my HR hit 155 - 160 and the doctors there believed it was possible with proper training and diet to keep pushing that limit further and further.

Whereas enthusiasm for fasting is increasing, clinical relevance remains low because of insufficient human data, including almost nonexistent controlled trials (21, 33 — 36), few clinical outcomes studies (37, 38), lack of correction for inflated type I error rates from multiple hypothesis tests, and limited safety data (39 — 41).

Moreover, only very limited testing has been done to determine effects on humans.

We don't limit ourselves just to the HLA test (human leukocyte antigen) which are the genes in the immune system that are related to attraction.

Everest could have gone a similar route, taking this tragedy and amping it up for the cheap seats, as the events offer plenty of opportunity for jaw - dropping sequences depicting the ravaging potential of mother nature to decimate human beings who test her limits.

Frequency sweep — 1,000 to 20 hertz; a bass test tone that sweeps toward the lowest limit of human hearing to check subwoofer performance and panel resonance

Soon their lives will be tested to the very limits of friendship and human endurance.

Other works test the limits of photographic technologies and human vision, such as Tacita Dean's 16 mm film The Green Ray (2001) and Mary Lucier's 7 - channel video Equinox (1979/2016).

Performance, for her, became a method of testing the limits of intimacy and trust between artist and audience, as well as the limits of the human body.

Examined in unison, clusters of paintings exploring a single theme begin to stand out — functioning, together, as visual experiments which test the limits of human perception.

While the exhibition has particular relevance to Chicago — the city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type — artists throughout the world, in addition to authors, filmmakers, poets, and undoubtedly architects, have been enthralled by the human desire to build farther and farther into the sky, testing technological limits while embodying a yearning for spiritual connection to the heavens.

Because there has never been a leak of this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

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Among other things, the updated Policy «recognizes that it is a legitimate goal for employers to have a safe workplace,» however it makes clear that employers must nevertheless respect human rights laws and employee privacy rights which continue to limit and govern testing in the workplace.

However, its testing policies and programs have been struck down by human rights commissions, the courts and arbitrators in several decisions, including Entrop v. Imperial Oil Limited (2000), 189 D.L.R. (4th) 14 (Ont.

The primary limiting principle of religious accommodation is the «undue hardship» test in statutory human rights [5] or the section 1 «Oakes test» for Charter cases.

Although testing showed that the chemicals in the well water did not exceed the limits under the Ontario Drinking Water Objectives for human consumption, the Berendsens maintained that the water was unfit for their cows.

Anyone can understand the problem, which is simply that mice aren't humans, and tests on them are necessarily limited.

Entertainment based on space - travel can perhaps give us a glimpse of the experiences future generations might encounter when testing the limits of human discovery.

Now that digital media's performance has started to sail beyond the limits of human perception, test results matter less and less — while features matter more and more.

But a the full - fledged M virtual assistant is still only available to a very limited set of test users, and Facebook has acknowledged many of its capabilities are handled by a team of human «trainers» rather than true AI.