Sentences with phrase «function as an agent»

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Suffice it to say, «it» is that element which functions as the agent of communication between incompossibles, as the immanent operator of disjunctive synthesis.

The focus of concern here would be to help each Christian learn how to function as an agent of the kingdom in the main institution with which he or she is involved.

He said he had offers to play pro ball this year in places like England and Denmark for $ 800 a month, but he and Bandy, who also essentially functions as his agent, decided against it.

The alert does not address when a mortgage broker is functioning as an AGENT of the borrower.

Deeply invested in the histories of photography and film, architecture and design, Williams has produced a concise oeuvre that furthers a critique of late capitalist society in which images typically function as agents of spectacle.

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SunEdison will now function as a private company, without $ 2.3 billion in former assets sold off by restructuring agent John S. Dubel.

It is a history, and it has functioned — as history tends to function — as a binding agent, melding disparate individuals together into a single people by giving them a common past.

The words «primordial nature,» «consequent nature,» and «superjective nature» should not be taken as nouns referring to different elements of God, each of which is an agent with its own distinctive functions.

Thus, because God's prehension and harmonization of the world necessarily involves functions attributed to the primordial nature, we can not distinguish the activities of the two natures and treat them as separate agents in this respect.

Government, as an agent of justice must therefore move beyond protection and deterrent functions to the» active and creative promotion of human rights.

The disciples are recruiting agents for the new people of God, but their function as such is simply to confront men with the reality of God coming in his kingdom, and leave it to them.

There is also a sense in which he can be called a dependent cause of the world, for his function as a concrete causal agent in the forward movement of process is itself shaped by the way he has appropriated previous stages of the developing world into his own reality.

We learned many things about these students» life situations that will enable us to help the succeeding student generations to be more effective ministers and to function as creative agents of mental health.

Here, too, consciousness functioned as conformation to the given as much as, or more than, as a constructive agent, for reasoning was discovery of what was there in the forms rather than a creative act.

As early as Paul the doctrine of Jesus» pre-existence was prevalent, and there is some evidence in his letters that he identified the Pre-existent Christ with the hypostatized Logos or Wisdom of God, who according to certain Hellenistic Jewish teachers, functioned as God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the worlAs early as Paul the doctrine of Jesus» pre-existence was prevalent, and there is some evidence in his letters that he identified the Pre-existent Christ with the hypostatized Logos or Wisdom of God, who according to certain Hellenistic Jewish teachers, functioned as God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the worlas Paul the doctrine of Jesus» pre-existence was prevalent, and there is some evidence in his letters that he identified the Pre-existent Christ with the hypostatized Logos or Wisdom of God, who according to certain Hellenistic Jewish teachers, functioned as God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the worlas God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the world.

Lacking creativity - characterization and, especially, creativity - esse, they can not function as real agents, and, thus, they can not establish the new actual entity with its own creativity

The best response to the concerns of Tillich and Heidegger is to create an actual case in which God functions both as the source of Being, what I called creativity - esse, and as one agent among other agents, at the level of what I called creativity - characterization.

Any idea if heating the potato starch (like using it as a thickening agent in soups / stews) negates its RS function?

She was speaking of Big Jim Peña, our county extension agent, and his wife Holly, who had undergone extensive training in agricultural psychology in Nicaragua and could therefore function as my pungency counselors.

The specialty products function as bodying agents, dispersants, energy sources, solubilisers, suppository bases, carriers, emollients, lubricants, nutritional supplements, viscosity modifiers, conditioning agents, emulsifiers, moisturisers, specialty bases and wetting agents.

PHOs also function as essential processing aids such as pan release agents so that products do not stick to baking trays and rollers during the manufacturing process.

The payoff function for the supervising agent is characterized as:

It means that as far back as 2004 - 2005, when this deal was consummated, Schumer apparently knew that Morris was functioning as a placement agent, selling his access to the state comptroller's office, even though Morris had performed precisely the same political function with Hevesi as he did with Schumer.

He also sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants and their agents from interfering with his rights and or privileges as a senator and preventing him from entering «or remaining within the precinct or chamber of the Senate or National Assembly or attempting to forcibly remove him from the chamber or precinct of the National Assembly or in any way impeding or undermining the plaintiff's ability to function as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.»

Through its mission of raising highly skillful, visionary, ethical, and God - fearing leaders to function as change agents, the University...

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

Does a professor have the skills to function as a patent agent and search the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to confirm that the relevant IP is not afoul of some existing patent?

Dr. Dong said the findings have significant implications in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes and could prove to be useful targets for modulation of insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis and as a target for therapeutic agents to increase liver function to prevent diabetes.

You will be invited to think of the two systems as agents with their individual abilities, limitations, and functions.

«Thus, every effort should be undertaken to achieve normal growth of lung function including non-smoking during teenage years, treatment of asthma in childhood and reducing exposure to agents such as passive smoking,» Professor Peter Lange concludes.

In this case, as in a recent case of gene borrowing between weeds (ScienceNOW, 13 November 2008), «humans were indirect agents in promoting these events,» says Enrico Coen, a geneticist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K. Geneticist Sheila Schmutz of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada wonders what else the dogs might have contributed to wolves, say, to metabolism or immune system function.

The PATR was shown to be integral in the transport of the virulence factors to the surface of the bacterial cell, where they need to be to function as disease - causing agents.

The rationale to the belief that agents which affect blood flow or neurotransmitter levels could function as smart drugs came first from research into the effects of stroke.

What makes this technique novel is the accompaniment of an imaging agent known as Ga - 68 DOTATOC, which binds to somatostatin receptors in neuroendocrine cells that use the hormone somatostatin to mediate endocrine function, the release of neurotransmitters and cellular proliferation.

Altes and her team decided to use a specific form of helium, helium - 3, as a harmless contrast agent in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to visualize lung function.

Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).

Therefore several trials previous published have as an exclusion criterion atelectasis, pleural effusion and tumor mass more than 5 cm of diameter.8 The rest of the criteria remain the same as in the case of intravenous infusion, renal function, blood values and performance status have to be appropriate according to the NCCN guidelines.38 Moreover; the administered drug has to be safe in order to be provided as aerosol, several chemotherapy agents have been reported to be toxic for the lung parenchyma.

One of the major parameters was the safety of these agents in the respiratory airways and lung parenchyma, since several of these agents are known to cause adverse effects.23 The main adverse effects observed were cough, transient fever and transient decrease in the respiratory functions after the aerosol administration.8, 19, 20 Moreover; it has been observed that excessive deposition of these agents in one site of the respiratory system can induce non-specific side effects in the form of pulmonary edema as observed with many other drugs.16 These side effects were milder when a premedication with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids were administered.8, 19, 20 Until now no long term trial (> 9 months) has been performed since all patients included in previous studies had stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Despite the protection offered by the cellular environment, the integrity of DNA is continuously challenged by a variety of endogenous and exogenous agents (e.g. ultraviolet light, cigarette smoke, environmental pollution, oxidative damage, etc...) that cause DNA lesions, interfering with proper cellular functions, such as transcription, inducing premature cellular death and finally premature ageing and organs dysfunctions.

Inclusion Criteria: • Availability of tumor tissue for mesothelin expression testing • Histologically - confirmed, mesothelin - expressing metastatic or advanced non-metastatic disease (tumour type specific inclusion criteria) • At least one measurable lesion according to either Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) modified RECIST 1.1 as applicable • Adequate bone marrow, liver, renal and coagulation function • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50 % of the lower limit of normal (LLN) according to local institutional ranges • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: • More than one prior anti - tubulin / microtubule agent • Corneal epitheliopathy or any eye disorder that may predispose the patients to this condition • Symptomatic Central nervous system (CNS) metastases and / or carcinomatous meningitis • Contraindication to both CT and MRI contrast agents • Active hepatitis B or C infection • Pregnant or breast - feeding patients • Tumor type specific exclusion criteria

The researchers note that in the mammalian brain, whose cells do not divide, prions pass between cells and function as infectious agents; in yeast, they produce heritable changes from one generation to the next.

The SKIP - e bioinformatics system has been developed to assist researchers in selecting antisense oligonucleotides that can be used as therapeutic agents to restore the production of a functional deleted protein such as for DMD or as tools to study gene function through the inactivation of a protein through nonsense mediated decay.

To illustrate, this talk will focus on infants» knowledge of objects, agents, and social beings, and on two new systems of concepts that emerge quite suddenly at the end of the first year: concepts of objects as kinds whose forms afford specific functions for action, and concepts of people as social agents whose mental states are shareable experiences of the things they act upon.

In addition, immune function is stimulated and the mucilage from the okra coats and provides intestinal lubrication that acts as a cooling agent, easing gastrointestinal discomfort.

Spinach: Spinach has an extremely high phytonutrient content that function as anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory agents.

Scientific study has identified no less than 13 different flavonoid compounds known as methylenedioxyflavonol glucuronides found in spinach which function as anticancer agents.

Isolated lauric acid functions as a skin conditioning agent.

It functions as a skin conditioning agent - occlusive, since it slows the loss of water from the skin by forming a barrier on the skin's surface.

Free radicals are naturally produced in the body through the normal functioning of body systems and various physiochemical conditions, or through exposure to external sources such as pollutants and chemicals, and other environmental agents.