Sentences with phrase «based picture of the nature»

Taken together, the newly discovered schemas lead to the first clear and empirically based picture of the nature of healthy and unhealthy patterns of parenting and their links to positive and negative life patterns and the development of the healthy adult.

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It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account of the nature and destiny of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially true (it speaks to our subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically true (it gives a true and adequate picture of the way our world objectively is and will be).

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

While profile pictures are usually the first thing someone will see, as it is human nature to base interest off of physical attraction, try to avoid scrutinizing every picture until you've gone through their entire profile.

The picture debates two natures: not English vs. Indian — though that's also of some interest — but rather the thornier conflict between our faith - based at odds with our experiential (scientific) natures as stereotyped onto these respective cultures.

Yet, the picture does feel authentic, probably because the adventure is semi-autobiographical in nature, ostensibly being based on the unfortunate childhood of its writer / director So - yong Kim.

He is a passionate advocate of service learning, environmental sustainability, big picture visioning, and using nature based coaching techniques for out of the box creative thinking and idea generation.

Unlike Auerbach, whose gestures structure his image, or Hodgkins, whose paintings are abstractions based upon memories yet still appear anchored in reality, Caivano's best results seem less emphatic statements and more queries into the nature of picture - making.

In a large - scale exhibition spanning several epochs, the Hamburger Kunsthalle traces based on important works how artists working in different media picture natural catastrophes while also shedding light on humanity's failure to come to terms with nature due, among other things, of our faith in...

I'm realizing that most of my everyday decor (non-holiday) is based on nature with birds, flowers, candles, nature pictures etc..