This technology, alert to body as well as brain, wants to respond to our behavior, not change it.

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Parasites developing in the lymph nodes might alert the body that an invader is present, and activate a protective immune response.

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The team, from the National Cancer Institute near Washington DC, say they were able to effectively prime the "sentry cells" which alert the body to foreign attack.

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Awareness of microbes that occupy 90% of the body can alert us before our abdomen hurts.

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The funding body put boxing on red alert at its most recent quarterly review because of serious concerns about "governance" and "climate within the sport".

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Then you can be more enthusiastically proactive, more clearly determine what the right things are to put first and more successfully negotiate a win-win position, for example, because your body and your mind are alert and in sync.

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She tries to relax into a high state of alert, if that is at all possible, and then picks up Zaak's pungent body odor, the unwashed detritus of a qaat-chewer's unhealthy living.

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Ms Dean and Dr Siva-Jothy were testing the idea that fine body hairs (known, technically, as vellus and terminal hairs) are there to alert their owner to creepy crawlies such as bed bugs, which might be intent on biting them, and that the hair may also get in the way of such arthropods' activities, giving the owner more time to react before he is bitten.

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