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Once we define the problem, we can prevent that death with something as cheap and safe as penicillin.
Why wouldn't we prevent cervical cancer in women?
This environmental problem that we have created is not thousands of years away; it's happening today, and must stop now to prevent growing landfills across the globe.
He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to prevent prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter.
Try obtaining a court injunction that would prevent the telling of a story in 76 different countries.
And so the industry has spent over 100 million dollars specifically on bait stations to prevent termites from eating your house.
So I look at that question from a bit of a different lens, and I want to know, how can we prevent concussion?
The reason we're able to prevent skull fracture with helmets is because it's pretty simple.
Now, the way that we're approaching this problem to try to understand the mechanisms of concussion and to figure out if we can prevent it is we are using a device like this.
And what we think is that if we can slow the head down just enough so that the brain does not lag behind the skull but instead it moves in synchrony with the skull, then we might be able to prevent this mechanism of concussion.
Some of you may have seen their work, and they're using the same principle of air to give you some extra space to prevent concussion.
But in order for us to actually realize the benefits of technology that can prevent concussion, it needs to meet regulations.
Similarly, it's not going to tell you is this helmet likely to prevent concussion or not?
You have to imagine how bad it would have to be to prevent us from making improvements in our technology permanently, generation after generation.
Is there reason to, for example, prevent your child from kicking a robotic dog, not just out of respect for property, but because the child might be more likely to kick a real dog?
This helps improve the quota system that's used to manage the fishery and help prevent a collapse of the fish stock and protects this fragile ecosystem.
And those calories are in foods that cause, not prevent, disease.
So we're calling our resilience-enhancing drugs "paravaccines," which means vaccine-like, because it seems like they might have the potential to protect against stress and prevent mice from developing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Regardless, the idea itself is completely novel in psychiatry, to use drugs to prevent mental illness as opposed to just treat it.
They passed a new law allowing the creation of genetically modified humans with the noble goal of trying to prevent a rare kind of genetic disease.
It said things like, "In many important ways we are causing real harm to the places we live in," and, "It is essential that we take steps now to prevent further destruction from being done to our Earth."
If you want to prevent hate and violence, we have to talk to as many people as possible for as long as possible while being as open as possible.
They're trying to just prevent sexting from happening entirely.
So instead of criminalizing sexting to try to prevent these privacy violations, instead we need to make consent central to how we think about the circulation of our private information.
We can support victims, and we can prevent some privacy violations by making these legal, individual and technological changes.
And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
In other words, what's so powerful about our approach is that it could turn on people's existing desire to do good, in this case, to help to prevent a blackout.
The most commonly prescribed ones prevent the viral genome from being copied and incorporated into a host cell's DNA.
Other drugs prevent the virus from maturing or assembling, causing HIV to be unable to infect new cells in the body.
For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one.
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