Sentences with phrase «accumulated masses of»

I started it because I had accumulated masses of material while researching my book, and a blog seemed a good way to share this.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

The extent to which men of this generation are absorbed with themselves and permit that absorption to filter the accumulated masses of human experience and utterance is a formidable fact in teaching and in preaching.

According to theory, the enormous accumulated mass of the star ignites a special type of reaction that creates both electrons and their antimatter counterparts, called positrons.

All of these quasars formed just over a billion years after the universe's birth, but have still — through an as - of - yet inexplicable mechanism — managed to accumulate the mass of about a billion sons.

«The stimulation of the parasympathetic system increases the sensitivity of the weak myenteric reflexes [reflexes that lead to contraction of the digestive tube above and relaxation below the place where it is stimulated by an accumulated mass of food] within and accelerates both peristalsis and segmentation.»

As the famous thieves, you take back towns from the evil Prince John and defeat bosses while watching your Sherwood Forest hideout grow and accumulate a mass of gold that would make Smaug blush.

Whereas there is an accumulating mass of innovative / entrepreneurial energy building up around an apparent cosmic mandate to modernize legal services, it's impeded from flowing in a natural and organic manner due to a completely outdated regulatory construct called The Rules of Professional Conduct.

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At some point, the accumulating side effects may reach a critical mass and force a critical review of, and change to, the supply management system.

Colonial structures of land tenure and exploitation of natural resources were carried over, with the elite accumulating economic and political fortunes at the expense of the impoverished masses.

Protestants, of course, have long seen the Protestant Reformation as the resurrection of Christianity to new life, after its burial beneath the mass of superstition accumulated during the late Middle Ages.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

You can find ideas for small spaces, small budgets, or storing the never - ending mass of kids toys your home accumulates.

Some great houses have been in the same family for centuries and masses of papers and records have accumulated in the library, bedrooms, stables and outhouses.

Accumulating evidence suggests that rates of low bone mass are greater in HIV - infected males than in females.

«They are kind of stuck until the mass accumulated for decades or even centuries gets unleashed in a spectacular way.»

Jupiter is thought to have a rocky core with the mass of 10 Earths that helped it accumulate its gas shroud.

The sooner you accumulate a critical mass of information about your interests and your prospects, the sooner you will be able to make good decisions about how to get there.

Alternately, the planet can accumulate mass slowly as bits of dust collide and become pebbles, which collide to become boulders, which collide to become asteroids, and so on, until a rocky planetary core develops.

Patrick Meier and his colleague Peter Mosur, who both co-founded the Internet Response League (IRL), want to tap into this resource to comb through the masses of digital information that accumulates during a real - world disaster.

As ATLAS and CMS continue to accumulate data, they will either discover superparticles or exclude wider ranges of possible masses.

The protoplanet is now between one - half and three times the mass of Jupiter but will undoubtedly continue to grow as it accumulates dust and gas from the disk.

This is done, says Dr Lo, by harvesting the wisdom of the masses — accumulated through years of effort by thousands of software developers — hidden in these passive, distributed and diversified data sources.

The heavyweight planet, which has the mass of 10 Jupiters, has been observed repeatedly, allowing astronomers to accumulate a relatively large trove of data.

Patrick Meier and his colleague Peter Mosur, who both co-founded the Internet Response League, want to tap into this resource to comb through the masses of digital information that accumulates during a real - world disaster.

The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever - accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Models have predicted that planets forming here should quickly reach a mass of 10 Earth masses by accumulating most of the solid material in the vicinity.

The number of quasars in the early universe and their energy output provide information on the total mass that must have accumulated into black holes through quasar activity.

This spatial gradient in pH reflects the age and isolation of the water masses, which accumulate CO2 released by biological respiration as they move through the ocean basins.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that most galaxies harbor central mass concentrations that may be in the form of black holes with masses between a few million to a few billion times the mass of the sun.

Because of it's much higher thermal mass the oceans will represent the largest single location where heat accumulates.

In 2008 the predicted existence of a floating mass of pelagic plastic, a giant Garbage Patch, was confirmed in the stable waters of the North Atlantic gyre where plastic debris is accumulating over an area estimated to be twice the size of Texas.

He fed the offspring a buttery diet; tracked each mouse's weight, muscle mass and bone density; and noted where on its body pockets of fat accumulated.

Eggs are a rich repository of proteins that are adept in accumulating skeletal muscle masses like a pro.

On the other hand, accumulating evidence points to a bigger correlation between a lack of physical exercise and high body fat, measured by the body - mass - index, and high blood pressure.

This study proved that the subjects who took the appropriate dosage of HGH injections to lose weight stopped accumulating extra fat and dropped weight as they gained muscle mass.

7 - Keto ® DHEA is primarily designed to support those who are engaged in healthy diet and exercise routines with the intent of burning fat and accumulating lean muscle mass.

People on plant - based diets have lower levels of IGF - 1, which does not seem to affect their ability to accumulate muscle mass.

Instead of being worked into the mass of stock content Dead Island has to offer, the expansion requires the creation of a new game save; none of the accumulated experience points, skills, weapon mods or loot are carried over.

Retaining the mass of information that you accumulate over the course of a semester or even the first few weeks of it can be a challenge.

What It Might Mean & What To Do Gastrointestinal Stasis (GI Stasis)-- With GI Stasis, the gastrointestinal system begins to shut down, causing its contents to accumulate into a mass of food, hair (from the rabbit grooming itself) and mucus.

If it accumulates and doesn't pass through with food, it is regurgitated in a sausage - shaped mass of compressed fur which is either gray or stained by food colorings from a recent meal («red hairball syndrome».

Glynn's MASS MoCA exhibition responds to an economy, in the artist's words, in which «technology companies seem to generate billion - dollar valuations out of thin air, nanotechnology operates beyond the field of the visually apprehensible, and capital is accumulated as pure concept.»

Trapped within a suspended ceiling, a dynamic mass accumulates and dissolves into a shifting cycle of solid forms - islands, continents and archipelagos.

Offerings of fresh fruits and vegetables accumulate on these tables, at times massed into bountiful piles, at times organized into neat patterns.

The Laurie Parsons Coat Hanger, because of its special situation, also accumulates meanings: economic, it's mass produced, there are millions of them get it...; political, it conjures up the dangers of repealing abortion rights; and artistic, from its use by Jasper Johns, to Beuys, and Armleder.

Therefore, at any particular latitude (say 24 N) the total amount of northward mass flow is pretty much equal to the amount of southward mass flow (otherwise mass would be accumulating somewhere else).

But the study also assessed long - term records of changes in the mass of the individual calcium plates, or coccoliths, which accumulate on the sea bed.

Focusing on the Permian - Triassic boundary, Gregory Ryskin [1] explores the possibility that mass extinction can be caused by an extremely fast, explosive release of dissolved methane (and other dissolved gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide) that accumulated in the oceanic water masses prone to stagnation and anoxia (e.g., in silled basins).