Rather families are, and have always been, restructuring and reshaping constantly in response to wider social and economic factors and the AIDS epidemic is just one of the many forces that is causing households and family caring arrangements to change.
Down the road, such reprogrammable particles could be used to make materials that reshape themselves in response to light, or to create novel catalysts that reshape themselves as reactions proceed.
His team's findings suggest the ageing brain is more "plastic" than previously thought, meaning it retains a greater ability to reshape itself in response to the environment and could therefore be improved with properly designed games.
Mark R. Rosenzweig, a research psychologist whose studies in animals found that the brain reshapes itself in response to experience, in adulthood as well as in early childhood, died on July 20 at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
Subsequent studies, with the anatomist Marian Diamond, showed that the adult brain also reshaped itself in response to new experience; the changes in anatomy were not due to development or other factors, like diet.
Using a specially designed car game called NeuroRacer, the team of researchers suggested the ageing brain is more "plastic" than previously thought, meaning it retains a greater ability to reshape itself in response to the environment and could therefore be improved with properly designed games.
Billions of neurons in your brain can reshape themselves in response to what you do and learn.
One of the most significant factors in Judaism's ongoing survival has been its willingness to reshape itself in response to the needs of the times.
Japan is reshaping its defence in response to the shifting balance of power in Asia.
Company executives regularly reshape their rules in response to governmental and other pressure, and they do so without significant input from the public.
