Some tropical larvae are thought to mimic snakes.

And here is the long probosced fly that has not gotten any nectar from the mimic, because the mimic doesn't give it any nectar. It thought it would get some.

Of course, developing countries should not simply mimic developed economies tax systems.

The last track also dropped chaff to mimic the mining of Haiphong harbor.

India tried to mimic the event, with an India Africa summit in New Delhi in 2008.

Without an independent judiciary, secure property rights, and a check on corruption, Putin s modernization will mimic Brezhnev s.

A number of species mimic ants, bees, and wasps, though a majority of species are cryptically colored.

So I was positive that, if somehow we can make things mimic life, let's go one step further.

They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment s value will not fall.

Throughout history, robotics has been often seen to mimic human behavior, and often manage tasks in a similar fashion.

We could mimic this effect through stratospheric aerosol insertion essentially launching material like sulfur dioxide or soot into the stratosphere.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.

The nature of this ant mimicry (myrmecomorphy) varies, with some cases involving Batesian mimicry, where the mimic reduces the risk of predation.

The hard question, of course, is how we could tell that a robot really was conscious, and not just designed to mimic consciousness.

Of course, developing countries should not simply mimic developed economies tax systems. After all, no one size fits all approach exists, even among developing countries.

And I'm not saying that we should copy nature, I'm not saying we should mimic biology, instead I propose that we can borrow nature's processes.

Of course, China should not rule out the possibility of adjusting the composition of its foreign exchange reserves to mimic the composition of the SDR.

Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

Consider Moscow, a highly seasoned imitator (though nowhere in the league of St. Petersburg, that baroque Italianate city on the Neva, as an urban mimic).

Without the pencil, subjects were excellent judges, but with the pencil in their mouth when they could not mimic the smile they saw their judgment was impaired.

Described as the practice of lying down flat with arms to the side, to mimic a wooden plank, it involves posting photos of the participants on the net.

Pain radiates most often to the left arm, but may also radiate to the lower jaw, neck, right arm, back, and upper abdomen, where it may mimic heartburn.

Now the amazing thing here is that a ballistics gelatin is supposed to mimic what happens to human flesh when you get shot that's why you shouldn't get shot.

Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer.

6 Synthetic aperture radar uses electronics to vary the nature of the virtual aperture of a radar detector, so that a single instrument can be made to mimic a range of instruments.

We now live in a global village where we can mimic the ties that used to happen face to face, but on a scale and in ways that have never been possible before.

Latecomers among consuming nations, such as China, mimic the former habits of the industrialized West, with their long record of overlooking human rights abuses in order to secure lucrative deals with authoritarian, oil rich regimes.

The moonwalk was easy for him. He could mimic almost all of Michael Jackson's moves. But Adel Al Jaf, known by his stage name Adel Euro, would have to dance in isolation while living in Iraq.

The normal is often used in computer graphics to determine a surface's orientation toward a light source for flat shading, or the orientation of each of the corners (vertices) to mimic a curved surface with Phong shading.

Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether. Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

Every time a young baby learns something new to focus its eyes, to mimic a movement or a facial expression, to pick something up, to form a word or to sit up new synaptic connections are being built in the brain.

David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an emotional live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans.

Money market funds take excess cash from investors and use it to purchase short term IOUs from businesses, banks, and other financial institutions. They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment s value will not fall.

So, a solution to the problem, then, would be to build a device that could mimic the actions of that front end circuitry and send signals to the retina's output cells, and they can go back to doing their normal job of sending signals to the brain.

And at the end of the film, he says in this great voice that I can't mimic but I'll kind of try, but not really, he says, I remember attending an exhibition called, 'Photography The End of Painting.' And then he says, And, of course, it wasn't at all.

And ultimately we can control the branching to mimic what we think the continents were like, and run it a thousand times, so we can estimate the parameters, to answer the question whether we are on the mark or not, at least to know the barriers of the problems. So that's a little bit about the science.

So not only has the fly not got the nectar from the mimic plant, it's also if you look very closely just at the head end, you can see that it's got a bit of pollen that it would be transmitting to another plant, if only some botanist hadn't come along and stuck it to a blue piece of card.

In China, the concept of an independent European defense embodied in the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), as well as the EU s Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) and various police missions is thus generally seen as necessary and effective in a multi polar world system. China observes that on most security matters, the ESDP will (for now) mimic American security interests, because the EU and US share fundamental values of human rights and democracy.