Evidence linking psychological stress to asthma continues to grow with our increased understanding of the natural history of asthma and the neurobiology underlying stress vulnerability.1 - 3 Stress exposure during infancy and early childhood may exert particularly robust effects on the physiological systems that respond to stress.4 - 6 Evidence
from animal and human studies strongly suggests that early life adversity shapes stress neurobiology, 7 resulting in disturbed regulation of endocrine and autonomic processes (eg, hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal [HPA] axis, sympathetic - adrenal - medullary system).
These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence
from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.
The imagined creatures are composites of simple shapes culled
from animal and human forms.
A: Breathe, slow down, and enjoy the journey!Learn
from every animal and human you work with.Ask questions.
Genetics prove just as madly incestuous in Vincenzo Natali's Splice (2009), in which childless biochemist couple Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrien Brody) unethically engineer a female creature
from animal and human (indeed Elsa's) DNA, and secretly raise it as both specimen and baby.
Data
from animal and human studies suggest vanadium mimics the action of insulin.
Based on evidence
from animal and human studies, lipoic acid offers the following essential health benefits:
Further clinical research is warranted on the basis of positive results
from animal and human studies, as well as the inadequacy of existing treatments in reducing the enormous medical and financial costs of untreated AD.
The new data —
from animals and human cells — show that the vapors released by e-cigarettes can alter the activity of genes.
LA - MRSA has been isolated previously
from animals and humans in the United Kingdom (UK), but the prevalence is unknown.
Our furry friends also carry zoonotic diseases (diseases that can be passed
from animals and humans) and one lick can lead to your potential death.
The carbon cycle moves carbon in and out of the atmosphere, the oceans, the forests, the soil, and even
from animals and humans.
Not exact matches
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging
from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in
humans and animals.
By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ —
from a
human patient
and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on
animals and proceed to
human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.
Google says that some parties worry that radio frequency (RF)
from Project Loon testing will harm plants,
animals and humans, who are in the vicinity where the test is conducted.
Whereas many
animal charities draw funds primarily
from within the movement (e.g.,
from other
animal advocates
and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system,
and human health.
Yet we are still
human beings,
and one of the things that separates us
from other
animals is that we make moral judgments.
We would expect that since
Humans are created in the image of God, they would be unique
and clearly distinguishable
from other
animals.
Some notable examples are the transitions
from reptile to mammal,
from land
animal to early whale,
and from early ape to
human
That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving
and returning
animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the
animals on the Ark was impossible — a few
humans keeping predators
from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..
Also, i guess a living zombie, a snake, a rib woman, a magical tree does sound strange... i find it much easier to believe in a cosmic event that produced life out of nothing one day
and that we slowly evolved
from animals into
human beings.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other
humans, have their own preferences
and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem
from animosity, if not to
animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs
and practices.
It is something
from which
animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to
human enterprise,
and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.
well if i had a theory
and later found it to not be ture
and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true
and further more i would like to think that me
and all other
humans are better than coming
from an
animal that eats bugs off its friends
and throws its own poo... I'm just saying
believerfred «Thor
and the like are man made
from known matter
and energy with most having
human or other
animal physiology»
Horned
animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned
animals seems to come
from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries
and fallopian tubes of
human women,
and the
animals are usually associated with fertility
and female symbols.
The
human body comes about
from the seed
and egg of parents in common with other
animals, but the soul is created immediately by God's loving command
and wise, eternal will.
The moving account of Helen Keller's transformation
from the essentially
animal to the truly
human level illustrates both the importance of a physiological basis for meaningful
human existence
and the dramatic contrast between life with
and without symbols.
Ernst Cassirer in his Essay on Man designates man as «
animal symbolicum,»
and shows that all of the typically
human functions stem
from this fundamental ability to formulate
and communicate meanings.
There is no
human being apart
from relations with other people, with other
animals,
and with the whole of creation.
And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the
animal species
from its beginning is the struggle for life, how can we expect, mere
humans that we are, to escape
from this essential biological condition without which there can be neither growth nor progress?
Also
human beings are made in the image
and likeness of God, we can know
and love, through the power of our spiritual soul - we are very different
from animals, not in our physical bodies but in our souls.
For historical precedents in the West to the contemporary concern with individual
animals, see selections
from Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill,
and Henry Salt in
Animal Rights
and Human Obligations.
The point of all this is that dominance is the one
animal instinct the
human race either inherited
from its primate forebears
and retained after losing all the other instincts, or acquired by imitating this
animal behavior when the
human race fell
from a higher nature.
Rolston's point is that individual mountains, plants,
and animals do indeed have value apart
from their usefulness to
humans, but not in isolation
from their environments.
If the
human community depicted in Genesis 1 is a utilitarian one, where man
and woman join together, like the male
and female of other
animals, to further the ends of their species, the community of Genesis 2 emerges
from a crisis of existential loneliness.
So the LORD said, «I will wipe
from the face of the earth the
human race I have created —
and with them the
animals, the birds
and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them.»
As we know
from mythology, it was the habit of Jupiter to wander the earth in the form of man,
animal, or bird
and thereby make contact with
human beings.
These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism
and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul through reincarnation
from humans to
animals and vice versa.
Coming
from the same source,
animals and humans clearly are divinely related,
and just as clearly they are separate.
If you look at the complexity of the universe
and everything in it, to think it happened by accident
from some chemicals mixing together
and eventually mutating into
humans and other
animals is way more difficult to believe in than god.
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin
and confession
and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the
animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples
and churches
and crosses
and «holy books»)
and all the
human beings left to feel separated again
and again
from the universe, Nature, each other
and their «gods.»
everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values
and morality,
and all we get back is hatred
from abortion groups, gay right movements
and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing
humans to the same level as
animals.
A possible real connection with the
animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of
human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself
from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation
and task of developing to his perfection
from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up
from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute
humans, comic
animals,
and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children
and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
Instead, I find increasingly within the
animal rights movement
and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated
from the rest of nature the
human species has become.
But cruelty to
animals is morally different
from human predation on
animals — eating
animals» flesh
and using their hides
and other parts for clothing, food or shelter.
Morals do not come
from belief
and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape;
human sacrifice;
animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.
(He insisted that
human society is
from but not of the
animal world, with its competition
and cruelty.)
But for Marxists, transcendence is the actual
human experience that the
human person, though belonging to nature, is different
from the things
and animals and that the
human being, able to progress always, is never complete.