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You could go out into the community in Monterey, and you'd have difficulty finding a boy that has this ability.
And we try to track the changes that occur as the new skill or ability is acquired.
So we might engage a rat, for example, to acquire a new skill or ability that might involve the rat using its paw to master particular manual grasp behaviors just like we might examine a child and their ability to acquire the sub-skills, or the general overall skill of accomplishing something like mastering the ability to read.
And I frustrate its ability to represent any meaningful sound as a consequence.
And it's focusing on skill after skill, or ability after ability, under specific attentional control.
And each one of them changes in ways that are specific to the skill or ability.
This results in declines in memory in cognition, and in postural ability and agility.
And what you see are substantial improvements of their immediate memory, of their ability to remember things after a delay, of their ability to control their attention, their language abilities and visual-spatial abilities.
Because we have become quite good at pulling out balls, but we don't really have the ability to put the ball back into the urn, right.
We could combat global warming, but you don't want it to get too easy either, you don't want any random person and his grandmother to have the ability to radically alter the earth's climate.
And then, you would have the ability, if one day it really looked like it was necessary, we would have like, a finite set of choke points.
NB: I think there are two general methods that we could use to achieve the ability to stabilize the world against the whole spectrum of possible vulnerabilities.
So, one is an extremely effective ability to do preventive policing.
You would need the ability, reliably, to prevent the worst kinds of global coordination failures, to avoid wars between great powers, arms races, cataclysmic commons problems, in order to deal with the Type-2a vulnerabilities.
Fortunately, Hedge’s ability to store data can help.
Have we become aware of it earlier because of all the inputs from people like you? AG: Our biggest strength: our people and our ability to make change without always necessarily relying only on the government.
But the problem is far worse than just losing some whimsical ability to gaze at the stars.
You are probably not surprised to hear that light pollution can affect your ability to sleep well at night.
And as a dancer, I had this tremendous faith in my ability to know my body, just as I knew how to sense colors.
Depression doesn't diminish a person's desire to connect with other people, just their ability.
The absence of the ability to just get over it is depression.
Now, I may never be able to communicate in sign language, but my increased resilience and general ability to problem-solve has been heightened by being forced to think laterally to overcome problems that most people aren't faced with.
Not only did it transform my ability to problem-solve, but I also felt I became more pragmatic, less sensitive to hindrances, in some cases, more patient, and magically transformed people's abilities to offer me their seats on public transport.
In the process they discovered the gas was irrevocably damaging the bone marrow of affected soldiers— halting its ability to make blood cells.
Ruminating about work, replaying the same thoughts and worries over and over again, significantly disrupts our ability to recover and recharge in the off hours.
Because, starting in the 2060s, with the ability to record the neural activity in the brains of patients with these different mental diseases, rather than defining the diseases on the basis of their symptoms, as we had at the beginning of the century, we started to define them on the basis of the actual pathology that we observed at the neural level.
But, if given the opportunity, they have the ability to foster insight and perhaps be forward-thinking enough to solve this problem.
Because I believe that film has the ability to take you across borders, I'd like you to just sit back and experience for a couple of minutes being taken into another world.
That child already, at four, understood the most important principle for success, which is the ability to delay gratification.
(Cheers and applause) The only curse here is the ability to convince half the population that the very biological machinery that perpetuates the species, that gives everything that we have, is somehow dirty or toxic.
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