Is this virus, this lesion, going to make us rethink the numbing, blinding, machinations of industrial giantism as we have known it?
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Luther's giantism is in part an effect of an isolation from his context that is deeply misleading, however well it serves hagiographers and demonizers.
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Even the federal government may soon privatize critical procurement functions, relying on Amazon's giantism to extract deals that the Defense Department is itself unable to demand.
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She described big tech companies as having "giantism" and said they're the free market, potentially hindering young entrepreneurs who might be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos.
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Pursuing this relationship between ornamentation and giantism further would not only shed light on larger evolutionary trends, it could provide clues about the environments and ecological niches these extinct animals inhabited.
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Moreover, ornamented theropods that weighed over 1,000 kilograms (2,203 pounds) experienced accelerated giantism, meaning they grew larger at about 20 times the rate of unornamented theropod species, suggesting there is a link between extravagant headgear and theropod size.
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If there is no systemic feedback inhibition, for example, the diminishment or absence of suppressors of cytokine signaling proteins, giantism may result as shown in mice models.
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With the help of the Wizard, Dorothy begins to unravel the mystery of the giant garden, and to follow the trail of a would-be witch called Old Magda who is its cause. The task isn't easy; the trio endure a thunderstorm and a near- crash-landing during a balloon flight. Magda created a giantism potion to make her gardening more productive and her life easier -- but lost control of it; giant moles, eating the giant vegetables, become a pest to all and sundry. Dorothy falls prey to giantism herself and endures a subterranean ordeal before she, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma resolve the problem and restore the normal order of Oz. In the end, Dorothy and her friends face a choice.
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Some critics regarded the trade center's "superblock", replacing a more traditional, dense neighborhood, as an inhospitable environment that disrupted the complicated traffic network typical of Manhattan. For example, in his book The Pentagon of Power, Lewis Mumford denounced the center as an "example of the purposeless giantism and technological exhibitionism that are now eviscerating the living tissue of every great city".
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He had a great-grandfather in Italy who was also of abnormal height. His parents consulted a physician who, through the use of X-rays, discovered the cause of his giantism to be an over-active pituitary gland. Tomaini was a sideshow performer. He was working in a circus at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland in 1943, when he met his future wife, Jeanie Smith.
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They rescue Old Magda and Imogene the cow from being buried alive; then they learn that they can revive one or the other, but not both. Saving the old witch can lead to the antidote for Dorothy's giantism; but Dorothy finds she cannot allow her bovine companion to die. Once recovered, however, Imogene supplies the golden milk that restores Magda too. The antidote is obtained, and Dorothy is restored to her normal size.
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When the family left, scientists were actively trying to find a cure for their giantism which would not diminish their intelligence. Several generations have passed, they have been forgotten, and their mother and "normal" siblings having died centuries ago. The children have only been alive for six subjective years. Bean's life has been extended by the low gravity on board the Herodotus, which allows his heart to keep beating despite his increasingly gigantic size.
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Gigantism (Greek γίγας, gígas, "giant", plural γίγαντες, gígantes), also known as giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average. In humans, this condition is caused by over- production of growth hormone in childhood, resulting in people in height. It is a rare disorder resulting from increased levels of growth hormone before the fusion of the growth plate which usually occurs at some point soon after puberty. This increase is most often due to abnormal tumor growths on the pituitary gland.
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Doctors believe that Bisad has a condition called pituitary giantism, that makes growth continue after most people stop developing. Expert in abnormal growth Professor Mike Besser, from Bart’s Hospital, Central London, said he probably has a tumour in the pituitary gland behind his eyes. Hussain Bisad is originally from Somaliland, and he hails from the Reer Sahal subdivision of the Issa Musse clans, part of the Isaaq Somali. He fled Somalia after being shot, and has been granted asylum in Britain, where he now lives.
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Although different animal tissues grow at different rates and produce organs of very different proportions, the overall growth rate of the entire animal body can be modulated by circulating hormones of the Insulin/IGF-1 family, which activate the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in many cells of the body to increase the average rate of both cell growth and cell division, leading to increased cell proliferation rates in many tissues. In mammals, production of IGF-1 is induced by another circulating hormone called Growth Hormone. Excessive production of Growth Hormone or IGF-1 is responsible for giantism while insufficient production of these hormones is responsible for dwarfism.
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Accepting that his children have achieved beyond his wildest expectations, Bean risks his life by docking with the ark's cargo hold to float down into the ecotat. Lying in the grass and basking in the artificial sunlight, Bean communes for three days with the formic males. Though the Formics think it is silly to believe the Queen would hide anything from them, Bean learns that workers could rebel against a Queen and regain their free will. After Bean has slept for a while, his children wake him, informing him that by studying how the Hive Queen suppresses her workers, Ender has devised and administered a virus that will develop an organelle to shut off their growth genome, leaving their intelligence intact but saving them from the giantism half of Anton's Key.
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Hess's revolt against public giantism reflected a distrust toward large-corporate business as well as big government. After Hess had made friends within the New Left and related circles, he began to encounter the young, new-breed appropriate technology enthusiastsHalle, Roland; and Ladue, Peter (1980) (exemplified, by the early 1970s, in the editors and readerships of the Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News). In the early 1970s, Hess became involved in an experiment with several friends and colleagues to bring self-built and -managed technology into the direct service of the economic and social life of the poor, largely African American neighborhood of Adams-Morgan in Washington, D.C.. It was the neighborhood in which Hess had spent his childhood. Afterward, Hess wrote a book entitled Community Technology which told the story of this experiment and its results.
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