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On a more microscale, depression is associated with a few things: the abnormal transmission or depletion of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, blunted circadian rhythms, or specific changes in the REM and slow-wave parts of your sleep cycle, and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones.
You might even offer to help with specific tasks, like looking up therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor.
On the node's left-hand rim, other cilia sense this fluid flow and activate specific genes on the embryo's left side.
For example, the specific way in which millions of grains of sand collide and tumble over each other almost always produces the same basic pattern of ripples.
And when moisture freezes in the atmosphere, the specific binding properties of water molecules reliably produce radiating lattices that form into beautiful snowflakes.
What this shows us is that specific patterns with seemingly astronomical odds can emerge from a relatively small set.
The sheer size of the Universe guarantees that some of its random elements will fall into specific arrangements, and because we evolved to notice patterns and pick out signals among the noise, we are often tempted to find intentional meaning where there may not be any.
He wanted to teach them how to speak on a specific subject without using notes.
They may resort to acronyms to shorten long names, choose generic terms over specific, or refer to slides and other visual aides.
Assuming that we are getting glucose regularly, how does the specific type of carbohydrates we eat affect our brains?
Regional anesthesia blocks pain signals from a specific part of the body from getting to the brain.
And a few languages even have a specific form for addressing exactly two people, like Slovenian "vidva."
Their cavities were caused by the same thing that still plagues us today, specific tiny microbes that live in our mouths.
Social media companies are considering using algorithms to help prevent suicides by flagging posts that contain specific words or phrases.
We also know that specific foods can affect gut bacteria.
This puzzle adds a twist to the Hamiltonian path problem in that you have to start and end at specific points.
First, companies recruit between six and ten participants according to specific criteria that meet their research objectives.
And because researchers often use a small sample size in a specific setting, it's hard to generalize their results.
When ibuprofen molecules encounter a location where the body's pain response is in full swing, they bind to specific target molecules that are a part of that reaction.
If they find sufficient grounds to proceed, the House holds a separate vote on each of the specific charges, known as Articles of Impeachment.
It went from being this ridiculously niche creature suited only to this one specific environment, to being this world traveler that just happens to be in the Sahara, and could end up virtually anywhere.
Each siRNA molecule can turn off a specific gene inside the cell.
That means that instead of doing this at random and seeing what happens over generations, we're inserting specific genes, we're inserting specific proteins, and we're changing lifecode for very deliberate purposes.
And that's only if we launch on a very specific day, at a very specific time, once every two years, when Mars and the Earth are aligned just so, so the distance that the rocket would have to travel will be the shortest.
This is a project that was inspired by some work that was funded by the US Federal Government in the early 2000s, to look at video footage and find a specific actor in any video.
Sometimes you do this data and this work with real-time data to illuminate a specific problem in a specific city.
Not the man in the flesh, but for the first time in history, this is the genome of a specific human, printed page-by-page, letter-by-letter: 262,000 pages of information, 450 kilograms, shipped from the United States to Canada thanks to Bruno Bowden, Lulu.com, a start-up, did everything.
Let's get to a specific part.
A friend of mine, Art, he recently needed to be hospitalized for just a minor surgery, and he had to stay in the hospital for over two weeks, just because he needed a specific kind of IV antibiotics.
It was formalized and professionalized, but it was restricted to specific roles and generally applied in pursuit of commercial goals rather than being used intuitively, as Florence Nightingale, Blackbeard and Ying Zheng had done.
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