Word: constraint
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...lack of federal funding is a significant constraint as most scientific research funding comes from federal sources, according to Douglas A. Melton, HSCI’s other scientific director...
...superimposes images on others, displacing them in location and time. Musing on this pattern, Boym suggests, “Maybe it’s a condition of modern life—an immigrant sensibility.” Boym says that she prefers her artwork to float in space without constraint or definition. “I don’t like when images are framed. I like the dialectic of transience and framing.” And like her work, artist, scholar, and writer Boym defies simple classification. “I think that being a serious scholar and being...
...blind at a young age. Even when the brain suffers a trauma late in life, it can rezone itself like a city in a frenzy of urban renewal. If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy can coax next-door regions to take over the function of the damaged area. The brain can be rewired...
...decide which student groups get UC funding.Hwang says groups would post their grants online, and students would cast their votes for which organizations should receive funding. The UC would then grant funding to groups with the most votes. “The votes [would be] a recommendation, not a constraint,” he says, although the UC would consider those votes “a very strong mandate from the people.”Hwang says, for example, that the UC’s decision last semester to increase funding for residential Houses that do not charge member dues...
...instruct undergraduates in literature and the arts is simply to retain the current Literature and Arts A and B categories as they stand in lieu of the proposed Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change category. What should not be retained from the present system, however, is the general constraint that few departmental offerings satisfy Literature and Arts requirements. Any course—be it under a department or under some extra-departmental administration—should satisfy either requirement if it contains substantial engagement with that category’s subject matter. For instance, English 124d, “Shakespearean Tragedy...