Sentences with phrase «used by humans across»

Combs are one of our oldest tools, used by humans across cultures and ages for decoration, detangling, and delousing.

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Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Intriguingly, even mammalian cells have been shown to respond to serum produced by post-feeding pythons, suggesting that the signaling function is conserved across species and could one day be used to improve human health.

«And now we have literally dozens and dozens of randomized controlled trials across a range of conditions in low - resource settings using low - cost human resources,» he says, «and they're backed by economic data of the cost effectiveness of these interventions.»

Funded by the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Rufford's Small Grants for Nature, and the National Geographic Society, Parusnath is developing and testing microsatellite markers similar to those used in human parentage tests to establish the genetic relatedness of Sungazers in different populations across the species» distribution.

The team used this ratio as a benchmark to identify and compare levels of mercury pollution caused by human activities across water samples from different oceans.

Using detailed maps of human impact created by David Theobald at Conservation Partners in Fort Collins, Colorado, they distinguished natural areas from areas disturbed by human activity across the United States.

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But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Under the Federal Food and Drugs Act, it's illegal to ship a drug across state lines that hasn't been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human use.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

A new paper (available here by subscription, a great summary at henry) uses 357 mtDNA coding region sequences to hypothesize about the size of the human population through time across eight major geographic regions.

A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

There's a whole lot of smirking and chortling to be had by reading Captain Olimar's notes on the human objects he finds scattered across the levels, and the collection and use of Pikmin to defeat the critters and get perfect ratings on levels is addictive.

To begin with, we found that even in 1700, slightly more than half of the terrestrial biosphere was already transformed by humans, though mostly at a relatively low level, creating seminatural anthromes across 45 % of earth's ice - free land and used anthromes across 6 %, leaving 49 % of earth's land as wildlands.

LONDON, 2 March, 2016 — Heatwaves that used to arrive once every 20 years or so could become annual events by 2075 across almost two - thirds of the planet's land surface — if humans go on burning ever more fossil fuels and releasing ever more greenhouse gases.

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

Companies are beginning to catch up and AI is growing in use across some sectors: 38 per cent of 10,400 respondents from 140 countries surveyed for 2017 Deloitte Human Capital Trends research said they are already using AI in their workplace, and 62 per cent expect to do so by 2018.