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Sure enough, we all buy into that ... (Laughter) And with gated communities, we have a formalized expectation, with a homeowners' association.
So, Stephen Mather was a successful businessman from Chicago, and anytime there was a parks association that needed funding, anytime there was a highway association that needed funding, they'd step in, write the checks, make it happen.
The brain works by association.
Most of you are probably familiar with genome-wide association studies in the form of people covering in the news saying, "Scientists have recently discovered the gene or genes which affect X."
And something else that happens is that those image-making regions where you have the plotting of all these neural maps, can then provide signals to this ocean of purple that you see around, which is the association cortex, where you can make records of what went on in those islands of image-making.
And the great beauty is that you can then go from memory, out of those association cortices, and produce back images in the very same regions that have perception.
And an important part of my history got left out of that story, by association rather than out of any act of shame.
By association, what Kat wasn't was just like the little brown-skinned children frolicking through the streets of some incidental railway settlement like Tati Siding, or an off-the-grid village like Kgagodi, legs clad in dust stockings whose knees had blackened from years of kneeling and wax-polishing floors, whose shins were marked with lessons from climbing trees, who played until dusk, went in for supper by a paraffin lamp and returned to play hide-and-seek amongst centipedes and owls until finally someone's mother would call the whole thing to an end.
One of the features, though, of disgust, is not just its universality and its strength, but the way that it works through association.
But an association: The higher people's blood levels of vitamin D are, the less heart disease they have, the less cancer.
He politely agreed that an appropriate name for the members of the association did not exist.
By symbiosis, I mean a bidirectional and mutually beneficial association which is also called mycorrhiza.
So for the last few minutes, what I want to do is change gears and talk about some really new, breaking areas of neuroscience, which is the association between mental health, mental illness and sleep disruption.
So here we're trying to artificially make an association between the memory of the blue box and the foot shocks themselves.
So what we do is take all these data from all these different days and pool them together to extract a long-term association pattern by applying techniques with network analysis to get a complete picture of the social structure of the colony.
All they do is follow simple association rules, and from this simplicity emerges social complexity which allows the colony to be resilient against dramatic changes in the population structure.
The Mortgage Bankers Association is the trade association of the perps.
There was a fascinating study prior to the 2008 election where social psychologists looked at the extent to which the candidates were associated with America, as in an unconscious association with the American flag.
And as a result of the association, I'm now a director of the Mellon Financial Corporation that bought Dreyfus.
The implicit association test, which measures unconscious bias, you can go online and take it.
Look at them directly in their faces and memorize them, because when we look at awesome folks who are black, it helps to dissociate the association that happens automatically in our brain.
Not only could no one find a causal association between MMR and autism at the population level, but it was also found that this article had incorrect claims.
If you do this, the ingredients for the association of ideas are collected and form connections that will produce many ideas.
If the rate of nausea is higher in the herbal cohort, it suggests an association between the herbal supplement and nausea.
But what if the researchers were interested in investigating some association between ancestry and the risk for certain genetic traits?
Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent, and forbidden.
By denying basic freedoms of thought, speech, and association, cults stunt their members' psychological and emotional growth, a particular problem for children, who are deprived of normal developmental activities and milestones.
And so I'm going to use, as the metaphor, this association: quantum mechanics, which I really don't understand, but I'm still gonna use it as the process for explaining how it is the metaphor.
It's a 12-year cycle labeled with animals, starting with a Rat and ending with a Pig, and has no association with constellations.
And in this way, you can get a sort of fugue state of the network, I suppose, or a sort of free association, in which the network is eating its own tail.
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