Examples of capable

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They are capable of rapid inversion in the excysted metacercaria so extraneous tissue can be quickly drawn into them to secure attachment to host mucosa.
Agents resemble positioners in that they are capable of volition and control.
The extent to which a person feels capable of managing the external world.
Chameleon-like, it seemed capable of changing from educational association to political organization and back before anyone could react.
The ego, when it is identified with the persona, is capable only of external orientation.
The social model has however proved itself capable of revision and adaptation.
What is important is that the centre should not, in the name of decentralization, abrogate responsibility which only the centre is capable of fulfilling.
Critics have often questioned whether localist representations are capable of generalisation, so its occurrence in a localist network deserves scrutiny.
Under what circumstances are children capable of word learning?
If dolphins are capable of collaborative learning, based on experimental evidence of social cognition, cultural learning may prove not to be a uniquely human phenomenon.
In early development children are capable of interacting with the environment, but it is implausible to assume that they possess an emulator of the environment.
We see, therefore, that chimpanzees are capable of crying for extended periods of time, day after day.
Additionally, this knowledge must be contained within problem-solving units capable of interacting with other problem solvers within the strategic architecture.
Their members, living and working both in the rural and urban areas, are capable of paralysing the entire educational system.
Though not strong on the wing they are capable of sustaining their flight for some time but soon come to rest away from draughty places.
Several authors approach the idea of rap as an 'oppositional' form capable of expressing discontent and anger about racism, segregation and economic disparities.
Consider a random round-robin tournament between 6693 equally capable % players.
She was conscious and capable of responding to simple questions or commands, as well as responsive to painful stimuli.
However, futures-market systems would require the development and maintenance of a bureaucracy capable of accurately managing such a system.
Is such a person capable of making the decision to participate?
Most rank-and-file physicians will not be capable of this insight.
Would journalists have been capable of explaining the data and elucidating the issue of how to weigh risk versus benefit?
The dementia patient can have no evidentiary autonomy, because limited capacity renders him less capable than others of deciding what is in his best interest.
Accordingly, the contractarian model of how beings can alter their moral positions against each other presupposes that each is capable of having moral obligations.
We know that children are capable of observing statistical correspondences between contextual features and forms.
The phonology module is therefore capable of parsing the string into four words, with the third word initially identified only as something new.
Finally, it requires a degree of certainty about the influences capable of affecting the fatality rates of different diseases.
An (r, 1)-stack is obviously capable of sorting every permutation of length r or less.
In order to meaningfully assert this, these collectives must be capable of expressing certain attitudes, beliefs, or values.
Medical evidence indicates that many human beings are capable of postponing death for important cultural occasions.
Most areas were densely inhabited, their populations produced significant agricultural surpluses, and their leaders were capable of organising large scale engineering works, and wars.
How many are capable of implementing them in practice?
The human organism is capable of demonstrating long-lasting changes in behavior in response to information and experiences that have no conscious representation.
The reason for developing this type of model is that it is capable of simultaneously analysing production and consumption decisions.
Their cognitive intervention focused on helping women understand that infants are not capable of behaving with hostile intent.
We know that the renewable energy option alone is capable of meeting the world's future energy demands many times over.
All adult recipients whose children were age 3 years or older were required to participate if they were capable of working.
The numerical technique of this paper is capable of generalization to more complicated soliton flows.
As mentioned above, it is important to know to what extent stainer nymphs are capable of transmitting disease.
Early detection is essential to stop infestation and work is underway to develop systems capable of detecting early instar larvae.
Any system capable of communicating the content of these statements must rest on representations.
Prophylactic antiviral or antibiotic treatment may be considered during pregnancy for women with cytokine polymorphisms capable of altering the immune response to infection.
Genetic immunisation uses nucleic acids that encode antigens capable of eliciting humoral and cellular immune responses.
You can't learn by will what you are not capable of learning.
Such lesions are considered innocuous and capable of self healing.
The vector must be capable of mediating re l a t i v e l y short-term gene expression in the explanted tumour cell.
Linguists are capable of providing some of these answers.
Finally, young children might not be developmentally capable of experiencing sustained hopelessness, given their level of cognitive development and their tendency to be present oriented.
A necessary property of algorithms capable of handling large and growing datasets is their scalability, or linear complexity with respect to the data size.
A canonical description of a corpus of design diagrams should also be capable of mapping on to a variety of design semantics.
None of the models were capable of providing accurate predictions of ground acceleration when operating recursively.
Such surveys are also not capable of providing adequate information for distinguishing the important mechanisms that mediate between water supply and child survival.
In the end, this is what makes the infant into a ' converser ' capable of providing his\\her share of the cooperative effort.
Further, these data demonstrate that, even without hearing a story, children are capable of providing evaluative explanations for story events.
There is sufficient reason to believe that children younger than three are capable of disambiguating novel facts.
In such circumstances, the army would once again be the only actor capable of reinforcing order and stability.
They provide the immediate and naturally relevant dialogical context where the meaning of theories is shaped and capable of being understood.
A simple proportional visual servo controller with feedforward compensation, which is capable of driving the encoded errors to zero, is proposed.
I show that these travelers encountered educated people capable of understanding and answering their visitors'scholarly questions in non-trivial ways.
A stagnant smallholder agricultural sector will not be capable of generating these skills among many rural residents, for two reasons.
A decision that appears to be irrational must nevertheless be accepted by others if the decision-maker is capable of making that decision.
Preventing falls in hospitals and long-term care capable of standing and walking safely receive help with all transfers.
Even before perestroika, the similarities were noticed by those capable of distancing themselves from the over-familiar.
With this alternative education, they may be 'equally capable' of taking on various functions which were, in his time, exclusively set aside for men.
Either one programs a new solver that is capable of handling all kinds of constraints.
Their first aim is to implement an engine capable of processing multiple query requests concurrently.
In fact, declarative logic programming provides a powerful formalism capable of easily modeling and solving complex problems.
A physical examination was conducted in order to identify the most appropriate muscles capable to perform the desired contractions.
The result shows that the control 2 (21) is capable of steering the robot to follow this special path.
A robust obstacle avoidance scheme should be capable of dealing with structured and/or unstructured uncertainties, and moving obstacles.
Therefore, specific leaves may not be the primary level of patch structure capable of being detected by shredders.
Our approach is capable of doing model checking for a set of initial markings at once.
Telemedicine may have favorable attributes, but the existing system may serve the population well and be capable of improvement.
The outer surface of fresh mouse zona is not capable of inducing the acrosome reaction of hamster spermatozoa.
Another major finding of this study was that adult zebrafish visual processing is capable of neural regeneration.
However, extension of culture time can stimulate nuclear maturation and these oocytes are capable of fertilisation and development to the blastocyst stage at moderate rates.
Characterization of an ocular photopigment capable of driving pupillary constriction in mice.
The maximum spatial frequency capable of driving head tracking was determined first, and will be termed "acuity" here.
In cybernetics, a machine is defined as a system capable of accomplishing actions that lead to a certain goal.
Second, those multifactorial frequency analyses that are capable of testing interactions have not been widely used in the field.
Further, following ovulation the ovulatory follicle must be capable of forming a viable corpus luteum if pregnancy is to be maintained.
I felt that they were capable and in the absence of high risk, cer tainly they should be allowed to deliver babies.
Both men believed that a person who was balanced and capable of spontaneous action would live a more fulfilled and contented life.
Even very high-speed multiprocessor computers are not capable of solving this non-linear and non-equilibrium problem with sufficient accuracy.
Reinforcement is a possible outcome anytime species that are capable of hybridization come into contact.
Demonstration that critical processes are capable and in control.
A major characteristic of the groups we have considered is that every individual in the group is capable of performing every necessary task.
The possession of a consciousness capable of imagination comprises our guarantee of a measure of freedom with respect to the material world.
The trains were capable of stealing breath from those he knew and dearly loved, but the rails also led to federal prisons.
Of note is the fact that even less capable students often had the gratifying experience of solving a problem that stumped a peer.
With each superpower capable of launching a devastating nuclear strike against the other, they had achieved a stalemate in the central arena of their competition.
Clearly those testators desiring a non-standard soul bequest, and a wide variety at that, were capable of achieving that end.
The source presents other defects, however, capable of obscuring any possible patterns.
The lesser nobles could be dominated by the magnates, but they were also capable of going their own way.
Finally, they could not testify in court, because they were judged not morally capable.
Not all sponges contain hard parts capable of being fossilized.
Many different viruses have been shown in field trials to be capable of giving very satisfactory levels of control of their host insect.
Working with networks ought to be a fundamental social work skill capable of being exercised almost regardless of organizational characteristics.
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