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It was covered in concrete to prevent mudslides, and somehow we saw a sort of river in it, and we imagined this river to be a river in Japanese style with koi carp swimming upstream.
What they decided to do was they would first try and slow down this epidemic by rapidly building as many beds as possible in specialized treatment centers so that they could prevent the disease from spreading from those were infected.
They cannot prevent this.
So in San Francisco, we created the Center for Youth Wellness to prevent, screen and heal the impacts of ACEs and toxic stress.
Intense feelings of imposterism can prevent people from sharing their great ideas or applying for jobs and programs where they’d excel.
And then suing the state of Texas and its governor Rick Perry to prevent them from executing Stroman, exactly like most people shot in the face do.
That's because these insecticide sprays are difficult to find, they're expensive, and they don't prevent the insect from getting inside the plants.
Human beings in this model are threats, we could prevent the mathematical problem from being solved.
He sealed the transcripts and placed them under a protective order in an attempt to prevent someone like me from doing something like this.
By international security, I actually mean what we do, how we prepare our countries to better respond and prevent external threats, and how we protect our citizens.
What if your wristwatch tracked your mood, or your car sensed that you're tired, or perhaps your fridge knows that you're stressed, so it auto-locks to prevent you from binge eating.
By 11 o'clock they had called numbers 21 through 25; this was going to be a while, and there is no amount of free face painting or temporary tattoos that could prevent the meltdowns that were occurring outside of the store.
Because he's an open mouth sleeper, he says he has to floss more to help prevent gum disease, and so I asked him how often he flosses, and he said, "Every other day."
So my dream for people with autism is to change that, to remove the roadblocks that prevent them from succeeding.
So these are the things that can be done, but to do this, if we want to deal with a complete market failure, we have to change the way we view and prevent infectious diseases.
And yet, we spend virtually nothing to prevent something as tangible and evolutionarily certain as epidemic infectious diseases.
So if we want to be able to prevent epidemics like Ebola, we need to take on the risk of investing in vaccine development and in stockpile creation.
Today, of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, Alzheimer's is the only one we cannot prevent, cure or even slow down.
So, collectively, now we think we have enough evidence to say that neurogenesis is a target of choice if we want to improve memory formation or mood, or even prevent the decline associated with aging, or associated with stress.
We give aspirin to healthy men to help prevent them from having a heart attack, but do you know that if you give aspirin to a healthy woman, it's actually harmful?
And I started wondering, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening?
Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage.
The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be, to put systems in place that will help minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place.
It made me realize that despite two decades of hard work trying to save these animals, we still have so much work to do if we are to prevent them from disappearing.
And to my parents, they cannot understand why something as simple as fashion or women's rights would prevent me from seeing my brother again.
These legal frameworks aim to contain and prevent atrocities from being more atrocious.
It is clear that the capacity of the international community to prevent conflicts and to timely solve them, is, unfortunately, much worse than what it was 10 years ago.
Perhaps one day the exact cause of motion sickness will be found, and with it, a completely effective way to prevent it, but that day is still on the horizon.
All these networks and pathways work together to create your pain experience, to prevent further tissue damage, and help you to cope with pain.
Blistering or crusting is not typically seen with professional tattoos and complete epidermal regeneration requires 2-4 weeks, during which excess sun exposure and swimming should be avoided to prevent fading.
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