Ms. Hamilton, an indomitable Thatcherite herself, earned the politically incorrect battle-ax moniker, which she said she considered "a badge of honor," as the human shield for her husband, Neil, who resigned as a government minister in 1994 amid a financial scandal.
Alex Sandy Pentlandnd, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT Human Dynamics Laboratoryy, is the inventor of data-gathering badges that record a type of human statistic called "sociometrics". This is a measure of how people interact, including things like what tone of voice they use, how much they gesture, and how much they listen or interrupt.
While studying a panel of chemicals for their effects on adipogenesis in MSCs, we unexpectedly found that BADGE elicited a dose-dependent conversion of human and mouse MSCs into adipocytes whereas BPA did not.
BADGE and its chlorohydroxy derivatives induced proliferation of human breast cancer cells but did not bind to the estrogen receptor (Nakazawa et al. 2002).
That is, we suggest that, in house sparrows, bill color is the more likely "badge-of-status" than is the badge.
Graying hair is a familiar badge of the elderly, both in humans and, to varying degrees, in other mammals.
Hands are strange, as we're reminded in these touchy-feely drawings of human appendages paired with plants by San Francisco-based scientific illustrator Noel Badges Pugh.
Olguin el al extended the use of the sociometer by introducing sociometric badges capable of sensing multiple types of features with the goal of understanding how patterns of human behavior shape individuals and organizations [16].
The badge of Clan MacLean.
The badge of welcome poverty".
