Despite all that, we are no less human than we were 10, 50, or 100 years ago.
Like Nordic skiing, a 50-kilometer race over relatively horizontal terrain, ski mountaineering relies less on gravity than human exertion.
Although the artificial neural networks used in the research are much less complex than the human visual system, this simplicity helped the researchers to identify and further understand what they believe is a fundamental principle behind why we see illusion: the statistics of our past visual experiences.
"They're smaller than the diameter of a human hair, less than 100 microns in size, " explains Dr Lane.
Megan is developing animal vaccines because they involve less costly clinical trials than human immunization and produce quicker cash flow.
In other parts of the world, the question of when a pro athlete on a team sport will come out is less pressing than other basic human rights issues.
The Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks hazardous-waste sites as less harmful to human health than radon, outdoor particulate pollution or working exposure to pesticides.
Da Vinci helps surgeons perform everything from cardiac bypasses through gastric bypasses with far more precision and less collateral damage than an unaided human.
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The sand will be severely shaken and sieved to make sure only fine-grained material, less than the width of a human hair in diameter, reaches the instruments.
" That cost, in his view, entails nothing less than "the extinction of the human race.
Although widely embraced by conservatives, critics said it failed to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior.
Monash University's Trounson puts the Raelians' chances of actually having a human clone at less than the chance that a person will be struck by lightning.
The site has a very low human density with less than 100, 000 inhabitants, and has suffered economically and socially from the closing of local mining and textile industries.
But Margaret Atwood's elegant and erudite canter round the literary, cultural and historical aspects of borrowing, lending, owing and repaying has less to do with economics than with human nature.
An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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Cancer is less a disease than a condition existing in the whole human body.
If God comes as a child through a woman, then women and children are fully human, endowed with no less dignity than men.
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Now he warns, human activity in the space of less than 200 years threatens to re-awaken extreme climate change of the sort never experienced in the era of recorded history.
The process is so labor intensive that researchers have sketched the structures of less than 2% of the 100, 000 or so human proteins.
In other words, some machine-based tutoring is approaching the effect size of real human tutoring and there is less variation than one might expect as the grain size of tutoring becomes finer.
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Drones flown by remote control are faster, more maneuverable (since instruments can tolerate far heavier G-forces than human pilots), far stealthier and use much less fuel.
With 96% of HR professionals saying their companies perform background checks on applicants, according to the Society for Human Resources Management, how do those with less-than-perfect pasts compete with perfect applicants?
In that case, Mr Kirchner would doubtless hope that the justices pay less heed to Argentina's bilateral investment treaties than they did to its human-rights pacts.
But the median tenure of CEOs worldwide was less than two years and nine months, according to Drake Bearn Morin, a global human-resources consultancy in New York.
Less than two percent of the freshwater on our planet exists in a readily usable form for human uses.
Though some agencies like the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been cooperative, other agencies -- like the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services -- have ignored the committee's requests or produced substantially less than was requested, the senator said.
The US investigation indicates the human and chimp lines split no more than 6.3 million years ago and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
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