Sentences with phrase «understanding living systems»

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

Vedral presents quantum information as the key to understanding living systems, the universe, and everything.

«I wanted to do modeling of molecular biology and find out how we should put these networks of genes together conceptually to understand living systems.

Not exact matches

But some powerful statistics she encountered motivated her to figure out a way to balance motherhood while living out her passion to help people understand the complexities and nuances of the Social Security system.

Unless the poor understand that their poverty is caused by a few people who are exploiting them, sucking their blood... It is not caused by your past lives and bad acts, it is caused by the social system which depends on exploitation.

Really O. Your comment shows a total lack of understanding of cells and living systems.

But we can make use of it to understand not only how specific systems of matter, life and consciousness arise, but also to symbolize the manner in which cosmic purpose may be operating graciously, silently, caringly in the universe.

The problem is that many people who live under other systems of government do not understand the concept of «free speech.»

We need understanding based on a consistent system of thought giving us insights and appreciation for how each aspect of our lives effects us.

They survey the emergence of Islam in the seventh century; provide an overview of the life and teachings of Muhammad and of major themes in the Qur» an; clarify Muslims» understanding that theirs is the same religion God revealed through Abraham, Moses and Jesus; and explore the development, debates and practices of various Muslim groups as the religious system and broader civilization spread rapidly.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

Instead of saying all those belief systems need to go away or that it is somehow harmful to have a belief such as that, I propose we agree to disagree in life and understand that diversity means respecting those whose beliefs with which we disagree.

What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»

It is generally understood that those who support the «conservatives,» expect them to uphold the system which has been camouflaged by the loose term of «the American way of life.»

Freud's consuming passion was to develop a system for understanding human beings that would live after him and would eventually reorient all of psychiatry.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?

«When the church is perceived through this systems approach, it is seen as a place where the importance of fulfilling lives is probably more important than any program the church may produce or any building it may construct» («Organization Development: A Framework for Understanding and Helping the Church,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 179).

I understand why some succumb to the pressures of the system and become its agents, why some continually fight it and become its adversaries, why some are removed because they won't cooperate, and why some leave because they can no longer endure the emotional, spiritual, and eventually physical toll it takes upon their lives.

Before we can explain why persons might be persuaded by Christian theism rather than, say, Romantic harmony with nature or Nietzsche's defiant assertion of the self's powers, we have to understand how any of those systems could articulate ways that persons actually live.

NICE understands that it is a trailblazer and that similar «recommending» utilitarian / quality of life / cost containment bodies may soon be coming to a health system near you:

Fred... I realize that your silly belief system doesn't grant you the ability to look past your nonsensical book for any true answers to lifes questions, so I will try to get you to understand atheism a little better.

Karl Marx never understood the ability of the capitalist system to correct its own abuses and to guarantee the good life for the masses of people.

In this I believe I am not far from Pound's interest... [in his effort] to understand how a system of law comes to embody and perpetuate a general way of looking at social life - a special system of values.

Traditional Christianity understood not primarily as a system of ideas but as a shared way of life with caritas at its center, and the historical effects of the manifold failures to enact caritas from the Middle Ages to the present, is one of the book's major themes.

Please Bill understand that what is written in your dogma relates to your lot only, those that have been programed into the flock, leave the rest of the society to go through life with a different belief system or none at all.

Starting with Soil is a new app from the Center for Ecoliteracy and Whole Kids Foundation that offers a playful, visually rich way to help kids understand that soil is a living system full of fascinating relationships.

It's called «Starting with Soil» and it's described as «a playful, visually rich way to help kids understand that soil is a living system full of fascinating relationships.»

Since the Dunstan System teaches you to understand your baby's needs from the first days of life, you can begin to observe and tune - in to your baby's daily rhythms.

Somehow we all understand and appreciate the complexity and security of online verification processes when it comes to your life savings, but feel the same multi-billion security system pales in comparison to an elderly volunteer ability to look at your driver's license.

In Life Sciences, the book says «The circulation of blood is not a closed system and the pump model is not sufficient to understand the circulation of the blood and the sensitivity of the heart to the emotions.»

In a statement, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. said, «Governor Cuomo has long understood that new Metro North options in Co-op City, Parkchester, Morris Park and Hunts Point will not only make our region's transportation system stronger, it will also open up new economic opportunities for almost 95,000 residents living near the proposed stations.

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

The new unit will help develop students» understanding of energy transfer and conservation in both living and non-living systems so that they can explain fundamental processes in living organisms, a major topic in most high school biology courses.

«If we can understand the chemical complexity of these ices in the molecular cloud, and how they evolve during the formation of a star and its planets, then we can assess whether the building blocks of life should exist in every star system,» said Melissa McClure of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the principal investigator on a research project to investigate cosmic ices.

There is not a living system where we understand even most of the genes in the cell and what they all do.

A new perspective on chemical composition is thus indispensable for a thorough understanding of the origin of the Solar System and the origin of life on the Earth.

«I can remember in my second year thinking [that] in the... 50 years since Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA, molecular biologists had been taking living systems apart and understanding the various pieces.

Dr. Dotson and her collaborators on the study stress further primary research in understanding health system barriers and disparities, and standardization of care is needed to ultimately improve healthcare delivery and minimize healthcare disparities to improve the health and quality of life of children with Crohn's disease and other chronic conditions.

«If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the solar system.»

Drawing on the latest data, Barrie Jones, Nick Sleep, and David Underwood of the Open University in England calculate that as many as half the star systems in our galaxy known to harbor planets may contain ones that meet the basic requirements for life as we understand it.

Ultimately, NEON hopes to show how humans can maintain our quality of life on this planet by better understanding how ecosystems deliver vital services — clean water, air, pollination — and respond to our own impacts on these systems.

«Increasingly in the life sciences, developments are based on an understanding of processes at the molecular level, even where the molecules are large and in complex systems,» says Ashmore, «so an increased hiring of folk with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals is taking place.»

«No one would ever allow a spacecraft to take off if its engineers didn't have a thorough understanding of its life - support system,» he says.

So canny, experienced, and deeply knowledgeable a team surely understands the complexity and difficulty of bringing real change to an ossified system involving the livelihoods, work lives, and futures of hundreds of thousands of people.

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

The answer turns out to have a lot of implications for our understanding of how our solar system formed, how Earth evolved, and where to look for life elsewhere in the universe.

So we have to develop new approaches, and I think if we can build synthetic cells and substitute or insert whole cassettes of genes, we can try to understand empirically what the different genes do in developing living systems.

«Mass exchange in binary systems seems to be vital to account for Wolf - Rayet stars and the supernovae they make, and catching binary stars in this short - lived phase will help us understand this process.»

With recent advances in understanding the virus life cycle, how and where the virus damages the immune system, and the action of new drugs, however, the course of AIDS in many patients in the developed world has dramatically changed.

«However, with the capability to image live cells in the process of dividing, stopping, and then continuing to divide, under different conditions, the fruit fly system allows us to understand the steps necessary in this very basic process of cell biology.»