Furthermore these animals do not have specialized organs ( Islets of Langerhans ), which sense insulin in response to glucose homeostasis.

There are no specialized sense organs, but there are sensory nerve endings in the body, especially on the proboscis.

An expert witness is one who allegedly has specialized knowledge relevant to the matter of interest, which knowledge purportedly helps to either make sense of other evidence, including other testimony, documentary evidence or physical evidence ( e. g., a fingerprint ).

The genre of Arcadia is, at the surface, a drama in the specialized, modern sense of being somewhere between a tragedy and a comedy.

Kip passes the information along to Professor Reisfeld, Peewee's father and a world-renowned synthesist ( a generalist who makes sense of what more specialized scientists discover ).

* Cable television physical networks including receiving stations and cable distribution networks ( does not include content providers or " networks " when used in the sense of a specialized channel such as CNN or MTV )

The sense of taste is based on the detection of chemicals by specialized taste cells in the mouth.

In the course of the 17th century, it acquired the more general sense of censure, as well as the more specialized meaning of the " discernment of taste ", i. e. the art of estimating the qualities and character of literary or artistic works, implicitly from the point of view of a consumer.

In this specialized sense " Black Madonna " does not refer to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as specifically ethnically black, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States, but rather refers to all portrayals of the Virgin Mary with dark skin that were created during this time period.

" Both segments, peri-and-plous, were independently productive: the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense ; however, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became a standard term in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.

* The olfactory segment is lined with a specialized type of pseudostratified columnar epithelium, known as olfactory epithelium, which contains receptors for the sense of the smell.

On the other side of the frequency spectrum are low frequency-vibrations, often not detected by hearing organs, but with other, less specialized sense organs.

The contemporary philosopher Michel Foucault used the term épisteme in a highly specialized sense in his work The Order of Things to mean the historical a priori that grounds knowledge and its discourses and thus represents the condition of their possibility within a particular epoch.

" Institute " in the sense of a school refers to a specialized " microuniversity " ( mostly technical ), usually subordinate to the ministry associated with their field of study.

* posthumous, as though related to humus, soil, although it is a specialized sense of Latin postumus, " last ".

Tuberous receptors are electroreceptors that are specialized to respond to high-frequency electrical fields ( electric organ discharges or EODs ), and hence are found only in fish with an active electrical sense that can generate their own electrical fields.

The commission worked only during office hours, forcing victims to ask their employer for permission to testify-which, in Chile's present day society, is not always an easy thing to do ... No sufficient psychological assistance was provided to the victims, who had to relive horrible experiences, some of them suffering flashbacks, except of referring statement givers to the Comprehensive Health Care Reparations Program ( PRAIS ) and some specialized mental health care NGOs that weren't able to satisfy all the demand ( giving sense to the concept of " re-victimization ").

The term inland port is also used in a narrow sense in the field of transportation systems to mean a rather more specialized facility that has come about with the advent of the intermodal container ( standardized shipping container ) in international transport.

Her specialized powers are psychokinesis, telepathy, hyperactive sense of smell and hearing, remote viewing, cryokinesis, and premonition.

The essence of his theory is that the lexicon functions generatively, first by providing a rich and expressive vocabulary for characterizing lexical information ; then, by developing a framework for manipulating fine-grained distinctions in word descriptions ; and finally, by formalizing a set of mechanisms for specialized composition of aspects of such descriptions of words, as they occur in context, extended and novel sense are generated.

In the social sciences more broadly, markedness is used to distinguish two meanings of the same term, where one is common usage ( unmarked sense ) and the other is specialized to a cultural context ( marked sense ).

A Green Book ( 1936 ) would list lodgings, restaurants, fuel stations, liquor stores, barber and beauty salons without racial restrictions ; the smaller Directory of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses in the United States ( 1939, US Travel Bureau ) specialized in accommodations.

These include cuckoldry, nuptial gifts, sperm competition, infanticide, physical beauty, mating by subterfuge, species isolation mechanisms, male parental care, ambiparental care, mate location, polygamy, and mechanisms that can only be called bizarre, including homosexual rape in certain male animals, cementing of females ' vaginal pores by males in some lepidopteran insects, and insect penises specialized to remove any sperm packets from females which may have been deposited by previous suitors.

Blessed with a stunning beauty and an assertive personality, Jurado specialized in playing determined women in a wide variety of films.

She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.

A specialized field of numismatics, scripophily is an interesting area of collecting due to both the inherent beauty of some historical documents as well as the interesting historical context of each document.

Many services were available in the village: beauty shops, barber shop, a news stand and Western Union headquarters, numerous gas stations, an auto repair garage and a general Fixit Shop which specialized in radio repair.

Without clear documentation, software can be hard to use — especially if it is very specialized and relatively complex like Photoshop or AutoCAD.

Their other son J. David Sapir became a Linguist and Anthropologist specialized in West African Languages, especially Jola languages.

This use of specialized handloading techniques often provides significant cost savings, especially in the case where a hunter in a family already has a full-power rifle and a new hunter in the family wishes to learn the sport.

Information about facts, especially empirically proven facts or facts derived from specialized experience, are more easily transmitted in the exercise of authority than are the expressions of values.

However, especially in Europe, many topics covered in the general education conveyed at American liberal arts colleges are also addressed in specialized secondary schools.

The science of extractive metallurgy is a specialized area in the science of metallurgy that studies the extraction of valuable metals from their ores, especially through chemical or mechanical means.

Women were generally relegated to lower positions in the temple hierarchy, although some held specialized and influential positions, especially that of the God's Wife of Amun, whose religious importance overshadowed the High Priests of Amun in the Late Period.

PRWatch. org is a sister site of CMD's ALECexposed. org ( a clearinghouse for information about bills and news about ALEC ), SourceWatch. org ( a specialized wiki that includes original research on corporations, policymakers, and policies, especially on environmental and economic issues ), BanksterUSA. org ( a website devoted to analysis of the financial crisis and Wall Street reform proposals ), and FoodRightsNetwork. org ( which is focused on information about the use of sewage sludge on crops ).

Sabermetrics is the specialized analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity.

These factors are quintessential in driving the demand for quality labor, especially in specialized area as it pertains to the energy sector.

Many government and private publishers use the artwork ( especially the contour lines ) from existing topographic map sheets as the basis for their own specialized or updated topographic maps.

Foster especially after a lifetime of involvement with Disney comic books and strips specialized in reprinting rarities even seasoned fans were unaware of.

Because of the tradition of intellectual brilliance associated with this institution, many groups have chosen to use the word " academy " in their name, especially specialized tertiary educational institutions.

This had to be injected into the base of the tree using specialized equipment, and was never especially effective.

They are stereotypically shrewd, especially with their money, and traditionally entrepreneurial, depending on a knack for inventing specialized gadgetry and processes.

However, because of the low equipment cost and wide applicability, the process will likely remain popular, especially among amateurs and small businesses where specialized welding processes are uneconomical and unnecessary.

Rather confusingly, genre works, especially when referring to the painting of the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting-the great periods of genre works-may also be used as an umbrella term for painting in various specialized categories such as still-life, marine painting, architectural painting and animal painting, as well as genre scenes proper where the emphasis is on human figures.

Many avian species, especially seabirds, can also excrete salt via specialized nasal salt glands, the saline solution leaving through nostrils in the beak.

Linkage mechanisms are especially frequent and manifold in the head of bony fishes, such as wrasses, which have evolved many specialized feeding mechanisms.

They also have a specialized crop of symbiotic bacteria that aid in their digestion, especially with the breakdown of the polysaccharide cellulose into simple sugars.

Some institutions use the relatively cheap, yet highly trained and specialized, postdoctoral labour ( especially in biomedical research where the NIH minimum guideline was, in the year 2011, approximately $ 38, 496 ), without any significant benefits of postdocs to further their own careers.

A specialized engineering analysis may be needed to provide sufficient protection, especially in situations of high lightning risk.

Other archaeological traces in the region of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense have led the scholars to talk about an El Abra Culture: In Tibitó, tools and other lithic artifacts date to 9740 BCE ; in the Bogotá Plain, especially at Tequendama Falls, other litic tools dated a millennium later were found that belonged to specialized hunters.