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This led us, for instance, to understand that they can not survive without a specific sugar called trehalose, without this sugar, they just dieWhile there are no clear practical applications for a deep understanding of cryptobiosis, that should not be a reason to stop the research, Dr. Teymuras Kurzchalia said.The discovery of semiconductors, or of the double helix structure of DNA, Teymuras Kurzchalia said, took decades to yield a practical use, but ultimately turned out to be revolutionary. – Teymuras Kurzchalia	Found on New York Times 8 months ago
One of the best ways to get an individual voter out to the polls is through a personal appeal. In this sense, a personal appeal means an appeal to a specific person and not people in general. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
Make sure the assistance [you give] works within your budget and be clear about the parameters, helping out shouldn’t be seen as a blank check or an indefinite handout. It might help to attach a specific dollar amount or time frame. – Ted Rossman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not saying there isn’t a hint of what the other crime is, but when you have this weird local statute – in which to prove one crime, you have to show he intended to commit another – you think you’d be very specific. – Robert Kelner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was back and forth with the neuroscientists. We were working on specific frequencies for the song because we wanted it to be easy for the kids. – Ghaliaa Chaker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Whether Stryke Club’s young sensitive skin, or acne, eczema or their first shave, boys have specific skin needs, we also have to help them overcome this stigma about being a boy and engaging in self care. – Sheilagh Maguiness	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on. – Rebecca Siegel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
During that, all the way from a polyp to the cancer stage, the person is exposed to a variety of things in their life. And to really pinpoint what is going on, we would need to follow specific individuals over time to really understand their dietary patterns, medications and weight changes, so that makes it really hard, because of the time that cancer actually takes to develop. – Ohio State University	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For incels, the reality presented to them by the red pill is that love and sexual satisfaction are commodities that women deny them, and that women, not men, control the sexual aspects of society, under this assumption, sex and relationships become almost like a game with specific challenges to overcome. – Brette Steele	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we knew about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet before now was not sex-specific, accordingly, this was a ‘reaffirmation study,’ demonstrating that the benefits observed for the Mediterranean diet in men and women remain statistically robust when exclusively women are considered as a major sub group. – David Katz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s still around 4 in 10, but when we started asking this question it was around 8 in 10. people have either realized that specific sectors are worse off, like health care or food distribution. Or they feel that the government has at least partly taken back control of migration by ending free movement from the EU and are more comfortable with it now. – Bobby Duffy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. – Oliver Sacks	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
We’re disappointed in the court’s ruling. But we note that the ruling does not resolve the issue of the time limit. It simply notes that the dispute about the time limit stands in the way of finding a ‘clear and indisputable right,’ as would be necessary for the specific relief sought in the lawsuit. – Linda Coberly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think part of the influence that media have on behavior has to do with the amount of exposure. Just in general, the volume of content that is focused on a specific topic or on a specific sort of interpretation of that topic – in this case misinformation – the repeated exposure to any given thing is going to increase the likelihood that it’s going to have an effect. – Ellen Selkie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People can call me ugly or stupid and I’m like, Whatever. But these people get detailed, they write paragraphs that are so specific and mean. I would constantly be crying. I constantly had anxiety. I couldn’t do it anymore. It was a waste of my time. – Selena Gomez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You must distance yourself from the past if you want to realize your specific ideal.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
From a health equity perspective, it’s important to say that the specific study population was 90% White, broader conclusions based on a more diverse population really have to be withheld. – Richard Isaacson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Vinyl chloride, however, has a specific and important risk in that is contains a bunch of chlorine molecules, which can form some really awful combustion byproducts, these are often very toxic and often very persistent in the environment. – Richard Peltier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It does this by changing biology in ways consistent with a slowing of the process of aging, although the specific mechanisms of how this occurs are still under investigation, we decided to drill down to the cellular level in people to see if the same is true. – Daniel Belsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Meta was able to point to new programs they were developing, tikTok was able to point to specific, new APIs they’re developing. Twitter simply had blanks. There was nothing they could say, and in fact what they did say was, ‘We’re already better than everyone else,’ which was true until a week ago. – Rebekah Tromble	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Down-specific gear like jackets and sleeping bags require machine drying, no amount of air drying will get those down clumps to break apart. – Nikwax McLean	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The tone has shifted towards Web3-driven fan engagement over crypto-specific advertising. – Silvia Lacayo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The average person doesn’t actually know the level of granularity that is helpful in accessing risk, when I talk to patients, what they’ll say is, ‘Oh, yeah, Grandma had cancer.’ There’s two questions I want to know: At what age was the cancer diagnosed, and what specific type of cancer was it? I need to know if she had cancer in her 30s or 60s, because it determines your level of risk. But they often don’t know. – Arif Kamal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of these systems use extremely high frequencies that are short range, can be absorbed by the atmosphere and being line-of-sight are very directional. It’s possible a balloon might be a better collection platform for such specific technical collection than a satellite. – Peter Layton	Found on CNN 1 year ago

This led us, for instance, to understand that they can not survive without a specific sugar called trehalose, without this sugar, they just dieWhile there are no clear practical applications for a deep understanding of cryptobiosis, that should not be a reason to stop the research, Dr. Teymuras Kurzchalia said.The discovery of semiconductors, or of the double helix structure of DNA, Teymuras Kurzchalia said, took decades to yield a practical use, but ultimately turned out to be revolutionary.

– Teymuras Kurzchalia

Found on New York Times
8 months ago

One of the best ways to get an individual voter out to the polls is through a personal appeal. In this sense, a personal appeal means an appeal to a specific person and not people in general.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

Make sure the assistance [you give] works within your budget and be clear about the parameters, helping out shouldn’t be seen as a blank check or an indefinite handout. It might help to attach a specific dollar amount or time frame.

– Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not saying there isn’t a hint of what the other crime is, but when you have this weird local statute – in which to prove one crime, you have to show he intended to commit another – you think you’d be very specific.

– Robert Kelner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was back and forth with the neuroscientists. We were working on specific frequencies for the song because we wanted it to be easy for the kids.

– Ghaliaa Chaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether Stryke Club’s young sensitive skin, or acne, eczema or their first shave, boys have specific skin needs, we also have to help them overcome this stigma about being a boy and engaging in self care.

– Sheilagh Maguiness

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.

– Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During that, all the way from a polyp to the cancer stage, the person is exposed to a variety of things in their life. And to really pinpoint what is going on, we would need to follow specific individuals over time to really understand their dietary patterns, medications and weight changes, so that makes it really hard, because of the time that cancer actually takes to develop.

– Ohio State University

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For incels, the reality presented to them by the red pill is that love and sexual satisfaction are commodities that women deny them, and that women, not men, control the sexual aspects of society, under this assumption, sex and relationships become almost like a game with specific challenges to overcome.

– Brette Steele

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we knew about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet before now was not sex-specific, accordingly, this was a ‘reaffirmation study,’ demonstrating that the benefits observed for the Mediterranean diet in men and women remain statistically robust when exclusively women are considered as a major sub group.

– David Katz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s still around 4 in 10, but when we started asking this question it was around 8 in 10. people have either realized that specific sectors are worse off, like health care or food distribution. Or they feel that the government has at least partly taken back control of migration by ending free movement from the EU and are more comfortable with it now.

– Bobby Duffy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

– Oliver Sacks

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

We’re disappointed in the court’s ruling. But we note that the ruling does not resolve the issue of the time limit. It simply notes that the dispute about the time limit stands in the way of finding a ‘clear and indisputable right,’ as would be necessary for the specific relief sought in the lawsuit.

– Linda Coberly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think part of the influence that media have on behavior has to do with the amount of exposure. Just in general, the volume of content that is focused on a specific topic or on a specific sort of interpretation of that topic – in this case misinformation – the repeated exposure to any given thing is going to increase the likelihood that it’s going to have an effect.

– Ellen Selkie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People can call me ugly or stupid and I’m like, Whatever. But these people get detailed, they write paragraphs that are so specific and mean. I would constantly be crying. I constantly had anxiety. I couldn’t do it anymore. It was a waste of my time.

– Selena Gomez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You must distance yourself from the past if you want to realize your specific ideal.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

From a health equity perspective, it’s important to say that the specific study population was 90% White, broader conclusions based on a more diverse population really have to be withheld.

– Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Vinyl chloride, however, has a specific and important risk in that is contains a bunch of chlorine molecules, which can form some really awful combustion byproducts, these are often very toxic and often very persistent in the environment.

– Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It does this by changing biology in ways consistent with a slowing of the process of aging, although the specific mechanisms of how this occurs are still under investigation, we decided to drill down to the cellular level in people to see if the same is true.

– Daniel Belsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Meta was able to point to new programs they were developing, tikTok was able to point to specific, new APIs they’re developing. Twitter simply had blanks. There was nothing they could say, and in fact what they did say was, ‘We’re already better than everyone else,’ which was true until a week ago.

– Rebekah Tromble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Down-specific gear like jackets and sleeping bags require machine drying, no amount of air drying will get those down clumps to break apart.

– Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tone has shifted towards Web3-driven fan engagement over crypto-specific advertising.

– Silvia Lacayo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The average person doesn’t actually know the level of granularity that is helpful in accessing risk, when I talk to patients, what they’ll say is, ‘Oh, yeah, Grandma had cancer.’ There’s two questions I want to know: At what age was the cancer diagnosed, and what specific type of cancer was it? I need to know if she had cancer in her 30s or 60s, because it determines your level of risk. But they often don’t know.

– Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of these systems use extremely high frequencies that are short range, can be absorbed by the atmosphere and being line-of-sight are very directional. It’s possible a balloon might be a better collection platform for such specific technical collection than a satellite.

– Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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