Sentences with phrase «very mechanistic»

We used to have a good sex life, but then things just became very mechanistic.

In addition, he adds, the research is part of «figuring out very mechanistic descriptions of how attention works,» which can be used in the future «to develop better tools and better objective measures for diagnosing disorders like ADD and dyslexia.»

Berlyne, author of an interesting but very mechanistic theory of experimental aesthetics, finds himself the keynote speaker in a chapter which, after some elementary physiology of the human eye, is almost entirely metaphysical, discussing at length the absolute truths expressed in mathematics and, by analogy, in music, and posing the question as to whether God did or did not put them there for mathematicians and musicians to find.

I moved here six years ago because biomedical research had allowed us to think about disease in very mechanistic terms and the rationality of the design of medications to treat diseases.

Unfortunately biology is still trapped in a very mechanistic analysis of living organisms (PE Chaps.

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When they were in the laboratory they were prepared to follow mechanistic methods to the very limit, but outside the laboratory and in other contexts they were eager to speak of mind, spirit, freedom, and God — yet without relating the two areas of concern.

The important event of the past century has been the complete collapse, save within a very limited field, of the older mechanistic scheme.

This whole picture is very different from the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century mechanistic scheme.

«The depth and breadth of evidence now implicating cow's milk as a cause of Type 1 diabetes is overwhelming, even though the very complex mechanistic details are not yet fully understood,» T. Colin Campbell wrote in «The China Study.»

When he saw their ad for a mechanistic chemist to help them with elucidating what the reaction mechanisms were, he thought it sounded very interesting.

I was always fascinated by physics, especially modern physics as it moved away from the mechanistic world of classical physics into the quantum world, and I found mathematics, especially pure mathematics, a very demanding and challenging subject that requires considerable powers of abstract thought and reasoning.

Although the AOPs developed until now have addressed chemical toxicity, the approach also lends itself to describing the mechanistic basis to potential adverse effects caused by nanomaterials, as demonstrated very recently by the JRC.

The researchers» findings contribute to the mechanistic understanding of how the machinery required to initiate and propagate action potentials of neurons are controlled at the level of alternative splicing — a very tiny piece of the neuronal maturation puzzle, but one that has a significant impact.

For this work, he has used a number of ultra-high vacuum surface science techniques to, for example, identify and explain several very unusual mechanistic features of the heterogeneous chemistry occurring in a catalytic converter including: a) the dramatically different CO oxidation reaction mechanism on ruthenium metal relative to other late transition metals; b) the structure sensitive selectivity of the NO reduction reaction on rhodium metal; c) deactivation of rhodium metal at high oxygen partial pressures; and d) the significantly different CO oxidation reaction mechanism over oxidized rhodium metal.

The skill set required to play chess at the masters» level is intense but very narrowly «mechanistic», patterns and all.

(2) In my view, there are very likely strong mechanistic links between the outcomes of Bob's analyses (briefly noting that most of his historic data is based on shipboard measurements) and the biophysical effects I am referring - to — especially from the later 20th century to now.

Unfortunately, the mechanistic, linear paradigm we (and Mr Liddell - Granger) have been surrounded by make it very hard to grasp a more intelligent, synergistic approach to ecosystem services.