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And we used this opportunity to exploit the specific situation.
Although the government district is governed by a strict police order, there are no specific laws relating to digital communication.
If we become aware of the constellation, the terms and conditions of communication, it not only broadens our horizon, it allows us to look behind the regulations that limit our worldview, our specific social, political or aesthetic conventions.
Visitors were offered the opportunity to talk directly to a refugee who was or had been imprisoned in a specific detention facility and engage in a personal conversation.
Gelem means something specific in the Roma language.
If we're talking about geometric shapes, with specific, culturally recognized, agreed-upon meanings, than we could very well be looking at one of the oldest systems of graphic communication in the world.
Some researchers have begun to ask these questions about certain signs at specific sites, but I believe the time has come to revisit this category as a whole.
Moving up to the second rung, we filter in specific information and details from our experience.
Let me be more specific.
Performance is a mental and physical construction that the performer makes in a specific time in a space in front of an audience and then energy dialogue happens.
Strong and specific needs of the blind people made this opportunity to create digital books way back then.
They're able to calculate probabilities of having a specific trait or getting a genetic disease according to the information from the parents and the family history.
We use something called a clef, a weird-looking figure placed at the beginning of the staff, which acts like a reference point, telling you that a particular line or space corresponds to a specific note on your instrument.
Stem cells are cells that are undifferentiated, meaning they do not have a specific job or function.
While skin cells protect your body, muscle cells contract, and nerve cells send signals, stem cells do not have any specific structures or functions.
Scientists hope that with more research, they can not only develop specialized medicine that is specific to your body but also better understand how your body functions, both when it's healthy and when it's not.
Our first physiological hypothesis states that contagious yawning is triggered by a specific stimulus, an initial yawn.
Neuroimaging studies using fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, show us that when we seem someone yawn or even hear their yawn, a specific area of the brain housing these mirror neurons tends to light up, which, in turn, causes us to respond with the same action: a yawn!
In math and science, symmetry has a different, and very specific, meaning.
Ants have some of the most complex social organization in the animal kingdom, living in structured colonies containing different types of members who perform specific roles.
Before reaching our eyes, different gases absorbed those specific parts of the spectrum.
But why do these gases absorb specific colors of light?
We can represent this by a graph showing the probability of finding the object at a particular place, which looks like a spike, 100% at one specific position, and zero everywhere else.
If we shoot electrons one at a time at a set of two narrow slits cut in a barrier, each electron on the far side is detected at a single place at a specific instant, like a particle.
The answer might depend on the specific concept being looked at, but it can all feel like a distorted zen koan.
Finally, in the fourth stage of remodeling, the wound matures as the newly deposited collagen is rearranged and converted into specific types.
All of this allows dogs to distinguish and remember a staggering variety of specific scents at concentrations up to 100 million times less than what our noses can detect.
This allowed NASA to target a specific spot in Gale Crater, a previously un-landable area of high scientific interest.
It fills the spaces in between, and for that reason, it has some specific and important tasks.
So when an octopus sees food, its brain doesn't activate a specific body part, but rather a behavioral response to grab.
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