Sentences with phrase «with biting humans»

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

Not exact matches

Both sharks and humans make antibodies to invading antigens — with one key difference: Human antibodies are shaped a bit like a serving fork, with one prong being the so - called heavy chain, and the other the light chain.

Which seems a little bit of a discouraging sign about the limits of human judgment, but ties in nicely with the final and perhaps simplest tip.

The chatbot is at least a bit convincing with some of its jokes because humans tell bad jokes on Twitter all day.

It can take a customer's order bit by bit, or it can let them connect with a human customer service rep at its virtual contact center.

Photo: goo.gl / JACPcv Healthy oceans keep humans alive — destroy them and we destroy ourselves «Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume.

You are correct, this world is better off with Religeon because God knows that the average human is not capable of standing on it's own two feet and needs a bit of a cruch in order to act even halfway civilized.

You will probably decide that means your God will be able to hold on a bit longer as the Creator with humans as its special creation.

rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more human.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

When a person takes the stories of the Bible as simply metaphorical with underlying lessons, then it becomes a bit more relevant in our human process.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

Jennifer Moorcroft, a lay Carmelite, brings a deep understanding of the Carmelite tradition, combined with sensitivity and insight into human nature to introduce the reader to the «bit players».

If you want to know / understand how God wants us to be human and so with this thought, please listen to every bit of Jeremy Myers and move into relationship with Jesus Christ and your fellow citizens of the world meant for you / us.

To expound a bit on this definition, the open view of the future holds that God chose to create a cosmos that is populated with free agents — at least humans and angels (though some hold that there is a degree of freedom, however small, in all sentient beings).

I did disagree a bit with some of what he wrote (such as on pages 23 - 27, and 75 - 94), but really appreciated his take on Romans 1 - 7, and his view that sin is basically trying to be «more than human» which only leads us to be «less than human.»

True, Hook never understood that bit of data as Maritain did, or accepted the interpretation of human life that went with it, but his experience of the movement of human intellect to utter thanks remains a phenomenon to be explained.

We are making our reflections public in the hope that they will help all Americans cut through the static of the sound bites and discuss the linked questions of abortion, human dignity, and American freedom with the moral seriousness demanded of citizens of a democratic republic.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Do a bit of study regarding genetic drift, population bottlenecks and the impossibility of the entire human race having come from 3 breeding pairs of humans, with all the males being 1st order relatives, a mere 4,000 years ago.

Yes, this messes a bit with our understanding of the inspiration of Scripture, but in the end (at least for me) it amplifies the grace of God for it shows that He was speaking His truth to lots of people at different times, not just to a select few Jews in a few hundred years of human history.

I'm reminded a bit of Ken Wilber's integral theory with the four quadrants of the human experience.

I might add that while I think that Bergman's diagnosis of the human condition is telling and provocative, I find his vision a bit too pessimistic and his understanding of love too simplistic to keep pace with those of Christian theology (cf. my Ingmar Bergman and the Search for Meaning [Eerdmans, 1969]-RRB-.

Her writing is so thoughtfully done with bits of humor that let you know she is in fact a human and not some robot that's trying to use the most flowery of words to sound smart.

And as this tiny human I have created squirms and wiggles and laughs and bites my shoulder with his razor - sharp little teeth, I can't help thinking that it is me he is here to teach, and not the other way around.

The problem with getting rid of the monogamous bit is that it's human nature to want a faithful partner.

Once they turn 1, things change a bit and it is generally recommended to use cow's milk if the parents are no longer feeding their baby with human milk.

Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.

With a new baby, you'll be accomplishing quite a bit — loving and nourishing another human being for example!

When you are 7 weeks pregnant, your embryo is starting to look just a little bit human, with tiny arm and leg buds, eyes and a hole for the mouth.

Even without an animal bitten, rabies can be transferred through saliva and enter the human body through cuts, wounds, or the mucus membrane of the eyes, for instance, said Peter Tripi, senior public health sanitarian with the Erie County Health Department.

Although this sounds a bit grim, she notes that there are multiple humans born each year with severe head defects.

The mutations effectively lower the threshold for what it takes for a mosquito to become infected with chikungunya, replicate the virus in its body and pass it on to humans with its bite.

After more than 20 years of genetic experimentation, researchers have discovered how to breed malaria - resistant mosquitoes that are unable to infect humans with their bites.

Tasmanian devils, while relatively docile with humans, are known for biting each other on the face as they fight over mates and food.

Although doctors officially have recorded only seven cases of new human infections in North America, a new study found that five of 13 kissing bugs collected from California and Arizona had bitten a human host — and many of the bugs they collected were infected with Chagas.

In 1967, Ruth found that irradiating malaria - infected mosquitoes with X-rays weakened sporozoites, the form of the malaria parasite that is transmitted to humans during mosquito bites.

Compared with chimps, humans have evolved weak jaw muscles and jaw bones — possibly because social organisation reduced the need to bite as a form of attack

But human bits mix with bits of the fly that happen to be in the machine.

This other toe — which felt every bit as much as its overstuffed human equivalent did, I should add — was attached to a 450 - pound western lowland gorilla, with calcified gums, named King.

But now two computer scientists report a tiny step toward that future with a robotic system that designs and builds robots with just a bit of help from a human hand.

But building a flapping robot with a six - inch wingspan that can be steered and won't shake itself to bits may still be beyond the skill of human engineers.

«It's a bit like human disease but in plants, to understand the pathogen and its interaction with the plant allows to develop a functional cure to treat the affected plants» emphasizes the specialist in plant genomics.

Fiddle just a little bit with any one of about 3200 genes in the human body and you could be toast.

And while these ants can certainly provide an unpleasant encounter for any unwitting humans who come across them — their en masse bites inject their victims with venom that produces a burning sensation and raises blisters that can become infected — they are actually more of a threat to local wildlife.

But INB found a way to trick spinach (along with Swiss chard and petunias) into producing harmless bits and pieces of common human pathogens that cause diseases like flu and plague (inset).

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Federico Becerra from the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, explains: «We found that a strain of rats bred to be aggressive towards humans bit often and with lots of force, whereas a highly tame strain never bit at all.

«It is a reasonable question: is human influence anything to do with this nasty bit of weather we're having?»

When the Max Planck scientists compared the bonobo genome directly with that of chimps and humans, however, they found that a small bit of our DNA, about 1.6 %, is shared with only the bonobo, but not chimpanzees.