He has not been afraid to hire insurance outsiders — rare in this insular field — on the theory that fresh eyes uncover new opportunities.
An outsider to the insular field, Dr. Deolalikar set off shock waves because his work appeared to be a concerted and substantial challenge to a problem that has attracted intense scrutiny since it was first posed in 1971 by Stephen Cook, a mathematician and computer scientist who teaches at the University of Toronto.
We found the highest probability of connection with these regions in the most rostral ventral insular field, corresponding to the putative agranular insula, in line with animal findings [Aggleton et al., 1980; Amaral and Price, 1984; Kerr et al., 2007; Mohedano-Moriano et al., 2007; Mufson et al., 1981; Stefanacci and Amaral, 2002].
California water policy can be an insular, jargon-ridden field.
The prickly inner confidence that most buy-out firms have in their DNA can seem insular when applied to other fields.
A change of direction may expose you to recruiters who hold some rather disappointing opinions of scientists--not team players, insular, unable to communicate outside their fields, and so on.
Utilitarian and Kantian theories were dominant at the time, and Nussbaum felt that the field had become too insular and professionalized.
(Rizzoli, $65) Karen Rosenberg Seven Days in the Art World, by Sarah Thornton is a field guide to the insular, nomadic tribes of the contemporary art world.
Regional patterns of modulated activity include the retrosplenial, piriform, insular, entorhinal, cingulate, visual and auditory cortices, posterior fields of the hippocampus, and in particular the dentate gyrus.
The novel finding is that the neuromagnetic fields generated in the contralateral operculo-insular cortex showed progressive increases paralleling the subjects' perceived intensity of the sensation of heat and pain, linking this region to cerebral processing of C-fibre mediated pain and temporal summation of pain.
