SpaceWorks' Vision System Torpor Habitat Design Image: John Bradford via NASAThe Vision System Torpor Habitat DesignMany of the recent proposals were dedicated to what happens when we get into deep space.
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"If it's very warm, they can't use torpor," says Stawski.
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Economists point to a mix of reasons for the economic torpor.
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"Some of these numbers suggest a kind of torpor," Torsella says.
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It's similar to hibernation, but a shorter and shallower state called torpor.
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The opening piece was hectic and clangorous; after that, torpor set in.
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My mind and body, awakened from their torpor, felt invigorated, healthy, alive.
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Much of that is due to ongoing economic torpor in China and Europe.
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In part, the torpor is caused by a chronic lack of money and staff.
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After years of torpor, growth in GDP in France should reach 2% in 2018.
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Countries where profits are too low—Japan, for instance—can slip into morbid torpor.
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What will it take to shake the skeptics and deniers from their mental torpor?
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Retirement saving behavior is not the only driver causing economic torpor and lower rates.
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But it's risky: Because birds can't move during torpor, they're more vulnerable to predators.
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Torpor — the state of reduced bodily activity that occurs during hibernation — is not restful.
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A waking heart rate of 750 beats per minute drops to 150 during torpor.
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"Torpor" is the most accomplished of the three, a perfectly paced and surprisingly moving satire.
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And torpor, well, scientists are working on that, for lots of reasons we'll get to shortly.
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Induced torpor might be just what humans need to get us permanently off our Earthbound behinds.
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Despite the very strong feelings on both sides, the gun control debate is beset by torpor.
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And, synthetic torpor could offer crewmembers a hiatus from what is likely a challenging psychological environment.
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For the winter, the beetles are in a state of torpor — essentially hibernating — all season long.
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Many rappers who partake in this mode have also indulged in torpor and a sodden inertia.
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Neither fiscal nor monetary stimulus has done much to lift Japan out of its torpor, after all.
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He died of a heart attack in August, victim of a political torpor that is finally lifting.
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The Labour Party's current hard-left torpor could give some Conservatives a dangerous sense of electoral immunity.
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We played cards for a few hours, crossing the steaming Mississippi River in a kind of torpor.
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The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.
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Cohen does an able job of evoking the torpor and drift of the squadmates' lives after combat.
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If Buhari wins, his opponents say Nigeria faces another four years of political torpor and disregard for rights.
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Torpor is more a book of your 30s, and Summer of Hate is a book of your 40s.
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It was just the two of us there, her feathered outfit moving with the riotous torpor of jungles.
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And that has muted once-hopeful talk that Europe had finally transcended the torpor of the last decade.
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He insists that the torpor in the state capital demanded that citizens make an end-run around lawmakers.
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That would transform American politics—not least in a region where single-party rule has bred torpor and corruption.
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Italians like to think that their art, culture and way of life will lift them out of economic torpor.
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What does it mean to have a "female I aimed outwards toward the world," as you wrote in Torpor?
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Those neurons would have to be turned off during torpor, so researchers are looking for how animals do that.
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By bringing body temperature closer to the air temperature, torpor helps birds conserve heat and energy, especially at night.
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Angered by corruption, violence and economic torpor, they accepted his argument that the political system needs renewal, not technocratic tweaks.
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The hypothalamus is home to neurons that sense body temperature and body energy stores, which is also important during torpor.
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Last year, the global economy was finally accelerating out of the long torpor that followed the financial crisis of 803.
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In "Torpor," the wife, Sylvie, asks the downtown photographer Nan Goldin to provide a blurb for one of her videos.
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It's an image of dejection, torpor; it seems anti-ballet, and especially alien to the outgoing luster of Balanchine ballet.
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Reiss writes about a NASA-financed project that explored inducing astronauts into a "prolonged torpor" for a mission to Mars.
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The torpor of the typical proceeding was broken moments after Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of the Judiciary Committee, used his gavel.
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But it remains mired in corruption and political and economic torpor in a region where uprisings brought changes in neighboring countries.
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When fall arrives, some animals, like the ground squirrels Carey studies, suddenly depress their metabolisms, which is a process called torpor.
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Given such sentiment, it is unlikely Washington will be shaken from its political torpor by a summer of violence and rage.
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The good news is that more can be done to jolt economies from their low-growth, low-inflation torpor (see Briefing).
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The residential sector in some parts of the country has been in a torpor following the failure of some property developers.
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But for the 41-year-old president, plain speaking is needed to shake Europe out of its torpor before NATO's Dec.
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They had followed it through all its stages of silliness and excess and torpor — and, yes, its occasional moments of transcendence.
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Instead they enter a state of torpor, with heartbeat and body temperature turned way down to diminish the need for food.
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Others sit in helpless torpor by the intensive care ward, where their babies struggle on life support against preventable bacterial diseases.
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That in large part explains why tin has woken from its previous torpor to make its early-year move on the upside.
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Some may chalk this up to traditions of hospitality: even a "light lunch" in Cairo or Beirut leaves guests in a torpor.
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But he has entrusted much of his realm to Prince Muhammad, who is in a hurry to awaken it from its torpor.
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In a process called torpor, "birds are actually able to lower their body temperature by as much as 50 degrees," Strelka said.
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New mothers continue to hibernate, but they go in and out of torpor, staying alert enough to respond to their cubs' cries.
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A Western small-footed bat being wrested from its torpor and collected for study in an abandoned mining cave near Ely, Nev.
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But the torpor of the typical opening-day hearing was broken moments after Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of Judiciary Committee, began the hearing.
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As the Kafkaesque drama of a man unable to get a transfer, "Zama" shares the dislocation and torpor characteristic of the Salta Trilogy.
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Despite the sense of torpor under Mrs Merkel, it remains a minority view in the CDU that renewal demands a sharp rightward turn.
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All the research into therapeutic hypothermia has run adjacent to animal research in the field of "torpor," which most people know as hibernation.
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I'm afraid I found it harder to engage, and while Brodsky's imagery is often darkly brilliant, a sense of torpor set in eventually.
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In fact, in the dead of winter, antechinus can slip into a state called torpor, drastically lowering their body temperature and metabolic rates.
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The sight of that blood, on my fingers, on her thighs, shook me from the torpor that had enveloped me up to that point.
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Unless you're a bride-to-be or vacationing in Napa, spending a day at the spa, surrendering to complete physical torpor, just isn't realistic.
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When an animal induces torpor, its body temperature falls to just above air temperature, and they don't compensate by generating heat (say, by shivering).
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In her 1976 dissertation, "A Cruel Wind," Dorothy Ann Pettit argues that the 1918 flu pandemic contributed to a kind of spiritual torpor afterward.
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Rather than flattening the characters, "Torpor" 's comedy deepens Kraus's devastating evocation of the private disappointment and sorrow of a white middle-class couple.
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Getting to Hudson Yards isn't such an ordeal, and Eunjo Park's menu fights the shopping mall's big-box torpor every step of the way.
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In his paper, Moraes says their immobility is likely the result of the birds entering into a state of torpor while they sleep at night.
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It was the perfect temperature, just cold enough to slice through the torpor left by a day spent in a centrally heated, fluorescent-lit office.
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"C'mon!" the Swiss shouted repeatedly as he roused himself from torpor and hustled along the baseline pouncing ever more efficiently on the Canadian's second serve.
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We watch her lifted from the torpor of dinner and onto a higher plane by love: for the piano theme, and for the pianist playing it.
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Tales of catastrophe and transcendence are great for rousing the historian out of his saturnine torpor, but not so helpful to the daily practice of painting.
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They even went as far as testing different durations of sleep deprivation, and showed that, during torpor, sleep debt accumulates 2.75 times slower than during wakefulness.
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The main difference between the two species is that hamsters undergo daily torpor (hibernation that lasts less than 24 hours), while ground squirrels are seasonal hibernators.
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City workers had been hoping the torpor of the first quarter would be lifted if Britain left the European Union on March 21, or indeed, April 20.7684.
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Frustrated by the torpor of China's other regulators, he oversaw the creation of a vibrant exchange for "medium-term notes", a bond market in all but name.
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Such job opportunities and wages are starting to break through the deep economic and psychic torpor that gripped the region, said Roger W. Davis, the college president.
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An alternative method of suspended animation is to simulate hibernation, said Matteo Cerri, an assistant professor of physiology at the University of Bologna who studies synthetic torpor.
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City workers had been hoping the torpor of the first quarter would be lifted if Britain left the European Union on March 248, or indeed, April 21.
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Hardwick herself underscored this when she pointed a finger at the "torpor," the "faint dissension" and "minimal style" that had infected the book review in her time.
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A month ago, some Republican senators were briefly roused from their submissive torpor by Trump's cavalier decision to greenlight a Turkish attack on America's Kurdish allies in Syria.
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"Torpor" goes back to a madcap trip to Eastern Europe in the early nineties, during which the wife entertains a half-baked plan to adopt a Romanian orphan.
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They enter torpor in August or September, and stay in suspended animation underground for up to 270 days, reducing their metabolism by well over 90 percent to survive.
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There are times when the veil of illusion lifts, our vain hopes burn away like mist in the mocking dawn of reality, and a kind of torpor settles in.
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But the sci fi term cryosleep (also commonly called "stasis" or "suspended animation") does closely refer, more or less, to "torpor," a state of unconsciousness achieved by hibernating animals.
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Only fertile females that have mated — queens in waiting — seek refuges under the tundra, sometimes in old mouse burrows, where they outlast the winter in a state of torpor.
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Reuters has previously reported that private equity firms in Japan have had a similar boost to business after a long period of torpor, based on the same demographic imperatives.
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There are a few scenarios where torpor would be really useful—medical contexts like stroke, cardiac arrest, and major blood loss, or more dramatically: humans traveling into deep space.
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For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the "accidie" — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s.
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With no parenting responsibilities, and perhaps to avoid competing with the females, males will stay in torpor for longer — making their hibernation spaces real man caves in the spring.
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The key difference between therapeutic hypothermia and torpor is the fact that a hibernating body cools itself naturally, while a hypothermic one tries very hard to warm itself back up.
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And it was only a few years ago that a bout of gastric flu saw me in a 96-hour, Nyquil-induced torpor that necessitated the purchase of a belt.
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As hard as getting out of bed on a Sunday may seem, it's nothing compared to what our science writer found about when animals rouse from the torpor of hibernation.
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This observation has been confirmed both in seasonal hibernators, such as golden-mantled ground squirrels and European ground squirrels, and in animals that perform torpor, such as the Djungarian hamster.
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As Joe, the closeted gay Mormon, Christophe Montenez is oblivious to his own pain and that of others, including his wife, Harper (Jennifer Decker, who veers between childlike torpor and lucidity).
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In addition, research on animals suggests cells that are in a state of torpor aren't affected as strongly by radiation, which is one of the major concerns of deep space travel.
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In the House, after years of torpor, Democrats are fielding a flood of candidates in five Republican-held House seats around Los Angeles that Hillary Clinton carried against Trump in 2016.
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After a pair of disappointingly perfunctory early episodes, "Narcos" has found the sense of purpose that will hopefully carry it through the moral torpor and savage ironies of Escobar's last days.
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Marital torpor, love triangles, adultery: big themes that Deborah Shapiro touches on in her debut novel about female friendship, "The Sun in Your Eyes," but which are really beside the point.
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While it starts out promisingly enough, with a mysterious and exciting treasure box of information, as it speeds toward its inevitable end, Myshkin grows ever more steeped in regret and torpor.
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Mostly taken on wintry afternoons, the pale light of Atlantic City's photographs suggests a pervasive melancholy blanketing the concrete landscape, lacking even the artificial flash of neon to brighten its torpor.
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Although, if it gets too hot they will estivate, or enter a torpor-like state, and bury themselves to stay out of the unforgiving heat until some cooler weather or rainfall returns.
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And I wondered: Was the torpor that occasionally seemed to weigh down "The Fortunes" — an impression of impeccable research awaiting an animating spark — merely a symptom of its author's own writer's block?
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The word "narcissus" is related to the Greek nárke , or torpor, numbness, a narcotic quality; it comes from the myth of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who became entranced by his own reflection.
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But, my own work at the University of Bologna in Italy has supported the idea that brain activity during torpor or hibernation is more similar to wakefulness than it is to sleep.
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"The economy is in a torpor, with uncertainties around Brexit, interest rate rises, and international developments such as a possible trade war and rising oil prices all having an impact," the BCC said.
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Their stunning downfalls, after years in power, were prime evidence that the government Mr. Cuomo hailed as competent and effective is also a capital of graft, self-dealing, influence-peddling and ethical torpor.
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The study highlights that hibernation isn't as simple as a single hormone that sends the body into a months-long torpor, but that doesn't mean humans aren't mining its underlying biology for medicine.
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I read "Landmarks," in part, on the subway in New York, riding to and from work with the heat seething outside and the awful news of the world piercing even the summer torpor.
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And my grandfather would never escape the torpor of Washington, the basement at 226rd and E. Once again the start of the life he was destined to lead would have to be postponed.
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The Group of 20 (G20) finance ministers and central bankers agreed on Saturday to use "all policy tools – monetary, fiscal and structural – individually and collectively" to shake the global economy out of its torpor.
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The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers declared on Saturday that they needed to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor.
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Because mass is the most important (and most expensive) part of any deep space mission, human torpor is being looked at as perhaps the most important potential breakthrough for any long-term crewed missions.
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Now the UVEA clinic in Martin, in northern Slovakia, is testing a treatment that uses a pair of virtual reality goggles and a computer game to shake the lazy eye out of its torpor.
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As the weather gets slightly cooler here, gallerists and curators emerge from their sweaty, summer torpor to unveil solo debuts of emerging talents, highly anticipated career retrospectives, or group exhibitions that reframe artistic movements.
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In the end, though, he believes the solution to our societal torpor lies somewhere beyond the ordinary world, and that we can only find it by either praying to God or going to space.
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The hypothesis is bolstered by the famously present, engaged way he seems to live his life, photo-bombing and pranking his way among the masses in order to shake them out of their torpor.
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While hibernation overall can last seven months, characterized by long stints of torpor, throughout that time, the lemur will regain normal body heat for about 6 to 12 days, according to researchers at Duke University.
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So, too, here: When the game ended, the explosion of joy from the French players, and their small squadron of fans, felt somehow out of place, out of context, with the torpor that had descended.
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"But if for some reason they lose all their food—for example, there's a fire—they might not be able to deploy torpor, and then they would really struggle to have enough energy," she says.
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The euphoria of Monday night's arrival at the airport had gone, replaced by an air of torpor as hundreds of uniformed soldiers, civilian dignitaries and their wives dozed beside their luggage in the fierce heat.
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The past two decades of profitable torpor have been an incumbent's paradise, with big firms getting bigger in two-thirds of industries and finding it easy to crank out high profits even in low-margin industries.
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Hibernation isn't a really long night's sleep though, it's an extended duration of something called torpor—a controlled reduction of metabolic rate that reduces energy needs and allows an animal to go prolonged periods without eating.
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"For example, a drug cocktail that targets the brain's control center to reduce metabolic rate and inhibit the body's natural inclination to turn up heat production could induce and sustain states of synthetic torpor," Carey says.
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" Milo's deliverance from intellectual and spiritual torpor is the titular tollbooth, a gift left in his bedroom by persons or forces unknown, which grants him entry into a fantasyland of his own: the "kingdom of Wisdom.
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As Russia stumbled out of Soviet torpor into a brave freewheeling age, he was running a city that accounted for a quarter of the country's GDP and was soaking up most of its foreign direct investment.
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An optimistic view would be that Trump's fresh thinking and willingness to give Pyongyang what it wants so quickly is exactly the kind of unorthodox approach that can shake North Korea diplomacy out of its long torpor.
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There are several types of hibernation, which can last an entire season or just a part of a day (this is called "torpor"), and can even happen when the ambient temperature is high (which is called "aestivation").
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Structural reform to boost consumption and revive growth is one of the "three arrows" of Abenomics - aimed at reviving the economy after two so-called lost decades of torpor and deflation - alongside fiscal stimulus and massive monetary easing.
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The excitement around the index publisher's decision next month is injecting some life into a market suffering from torpor and seeking a sense of direction, Wu added, although he also cautioned that the rally could be short-lived.
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As a result of this torpor, stinkbugs remain mostly in place, so that even if thousands of them are living in your home, you will likely experience them less as a flood than as a constant, inescapable dribble.
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Unless the Pentagon bureaucracy truly awakens from its usual torpor and radically accelerates its development of both offensive and defensive hypersonic capabilities, the United States will be forced to default to MAD as its only other deterrent option.
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" These sections attest to Mr. Scranton's keen reportorial eye and his Michael Herr-like gift for conveying the surreal feel of modern war — where real-life bleeds into nightmare, and the default emotional setting is "manic paranoid torpor.
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Of course, Trump promised disruption and a new way of doing things designed to shake Washington out of the polarized torpor it has suffered for years and many supporters will see his conduct as exactly what they voted for.
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MORE: Self-driving cars will be a $6043T industry by 6033 Volvo's slim roof pillars keep outward vision very good, but the XC6023 ditches some of the XC6013's angular torpor for a nicely wedgy rise in the body.
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The world's top economies declared on Saturday that they need to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor, while renewing their focus on structural reforms to spark activity.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The run-up to Britain's referendum on European Union membership has revived volatility expectations for U.S. stocks after months of torpor, but some traders in the options market have been banking on a return of calm.
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But 31-year-old Djokovic, who in the 2013 final lost to Andy Murray in a similarly frenzied atmosphere, snapped out of his torpor and took charge once he broke in a pivotal seventh game of the second set.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The world's top economies declared on Saturday that they need to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor, while renewing their focus on structural reform to spark activity.
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Even if it doesn't, the contrast between American vigour and torpor abroad will delay interest-rate rises, argues Mark McClellan of the Bank Credit Analyst, a newsletter, because the Fed cannot tighten monetary policy without sending the dollar on a tear.
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"Crewmembers in synthetic torpor would consume less food, water and oxygen, reducing demands on the spacecraft's limited mass and volume capacities," says Hannah Carey, a professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences at University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
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The Rush household is a paradigm of the era's blithe suburban torpor: Perry Como is on the hi-fi, prescription pills conceal hurt and betrayal, a worried child eavesdrops from his "listening step" and the maid may be summoned by intercom.
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Her arms held tightly across her chest, her large, heavy-lidded eyes trained on her interior, she was locked in the solitude of memory, leached of liveliness, dead in the eyes, full of the torpor of anxiety, humiliated almost to tears.
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" Then, in 2006, Ms. Kraus published "Torpor," a well-received prequel of sorts about a faltering couple (with different names) seeking to heal their marriage through the adoption of a Romanian child, prompting Mr. El Kholti to reintroduce "I Love Dick.
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"During torpor they burn almost no energy," said Nathan W. Fuller, a postdoctoral biologist from Texas Tech who is part of the team, as he prepared to place bats in jars with plastic tubing to measure their inhalations and exhalations.
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The world's top economies declared on Saturday after the meeting that they need to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor, while renewing their focus on structural reform to spark activity.
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In the meantime, we have a treatment called "therapeutic hypothermia" that approximates at least some of effects of torpor, with scientists rapidly and unrelentingly pushing toward putting humans in a true torpid state, essentially mimicking cryosleep that you commonly see in movies.
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Beyond I Love Dick, Kraus is a filmmaker, professor, and author of three novels (2000's Aliens and Anorexia, 2006's Torpor, and 2012's Summer of Hate), several collections of criticism, and a new biography of Kathy Acker, coming out this summer.
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The world's top economies are set to declare on Saturday that they need to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money if the global economy is to shake off its torpor, while promising a new focus on structural reform to spark activity.
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"I don't think it's as cute of an adaptation as people thought it was" Though bears and ground squirrels evolved to hibernate — and many are successful hibernators — moving in and out of hibernation or torpor can be stressful events, especially in the case of ground squirrels.
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"The fantastic thing is when you wake up, the synapses regrow very fast and intensely"), gastrointestinal disorders (gut microbiomes change and are more easily influenceable when in torpor), and perhaps even memory manipulation ("if you interfere with the lost synapses, maybe your memory gets erased," Cerri said).
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They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times -- they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor.
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Pete falls hard for him during the art lessons Lanny's doting though somewhat distracted mother has persuaded him to undertake, and even Lanny's father finds himself obliged to emerge from his finance-world torpor enough to actually feel things, like fear and anger, around his son.
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Photo: APAs the sun passed over Gizmodo's New York office on Monday and staffers shook off the muggy torpor of the mid-afternoon, they found themselves drawn into a (seemingly simple, yet surprisingly contentious) debate: Is Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, a dry man?
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"GKN's track-record at improving its operating margins has been unimpressive, yet your team nevertheless claims that it can deliver on its most ambitious plan ever, and that a few potentially qualified individuals can extract the company from its torpor to deliver over a 35 percent increase in profitability," Elliott wrote.
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Has it really been 56 years since the publication of Percy's National Book Award-winning novel, "The Moviegoer," wherein the New Orleans executive Binx Bolling drifts between work and play in existential torpor, trying with limited success to find points of attachment in the world before returning, ultimately, to family?
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We recently premiered some slimy new tunes from Brighton's Sea Bastard, and are now pleased as punch to present a malodorous new track from the Bristolians in SONANCE, who are poised to release a new split EP with London's own thunderous trio, Torpor (who contribute a rumbling new song of their own).
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It is thus encouraging that in this time of torpor and climate denial at the highest levels of the federal government, voters in the state of Washington will soon be given the chance to adopt, by initiative, a carbon pricing plan that would charge polluters like refineries a fee for emitting greenhouse gases.
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The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers declared on Saturday they needed to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor, with a communique flagging a series of risks to world growth, including volatile capital flows and a sharp fall in commodity prices.
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I thought of dhansak and its heavy lake of sauce, repeatedly replenished from a seemingly endless buffet, and, so, too, the ritual of consuming the stew to break the fast after a loved one's death — as if only such a rich, torpor-inducing dish could properly stun you and let you expand, freed from the vise of grief.
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" Of his alcoholic father, whose deterioration reflects a post-war progression from stoic propriety to hippie-inflected liberation to ruinous torpor: "[H]e stood up in front of me in the semi-darkness, the fat bearded drunken man who was my father and had once been the very symbol of correctness—well dressed, slim and good-looking, a young respected teacher and politician.
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They had to finally sit down and look at bids from the pharmaceuticals, which were fighting their way onto the proposal, vying to be the providers of the chemical component that every memorial these days was more or less expected to have: a gentle mist to assist the emotional response of visitors and drug them into a torpor of sympathy.
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His sanctuary at the elegant suite occupied by Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner was equipped with a rocking chair ("the only talent I've got, I think is the talent for staying awake while reading," he said) and a writing desk ("the symptoms of deposition torpor began creeping over me," he explained, as he traveled past "the outer reefs of relevancy and beyond the cape of materiality").
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And in part it's because the boomers themselves contributed mightily to fragmentation, leaving too little standing when they tore things down and rebuilding haphazardly and self-interestedly, bequeathing a spirit of transgression and permanent revolution that's run out of things to deconstruct and is either feeding on itself, lapsing into torpor, or generating niche forms of radicalism on the further left and right that are too weak as yet to produce revolution or renewal.
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When Justin was gasping through the final weeks of his life, somewhere between a barely-there bedridden torpor and the great beyond, I spoke to a child psychologist about the smartest way to explain to my tiny little child — then most obsessed with tearing off his shoes and throwing them into oncoming traffic while strapped into his stroller — the very adult concept that he'd never meet his father, because his father was going to die.
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In this theory, there are four timelines: Dolores's life before the massacre (which we see mostly in flashbacks to her conversations with Arnold); her time with William (who is almost certainly the young Man in Black); the long torpor of her existence post-William (which seems a kind of punishment visited upon her by Ford); and the Man in Black and Teddy's journey to find Wyatt, whom I believe to also be Dolores.
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