Sentences with phrase «functions as a movement»

At the same time, a group of civic and education organizations formed the Character Education Partnership, which now functions as the movement's clearinghouse and professional organization (and promotes its own «Eleven Principles» of character).

Your left controller functions as your movement control, letting you slow down time to hop from place to place, while the right controller handles both your weapon wheel and combat functions.

Not exact matches

Nootropics have been around since the 1970s, but apparently the Silicon Valley «biohacking» movement — in which workaholic techies attempt to optimize their bodies and basic functions, such as eating, for maximum productivity — has given these so - called brain enhancers a new life.

This was a function of the low level of market yields, as well as the low level of volatility and yield movements.

As a function of this dynamic, we are seeing large movements in foreign exchange and global currencies, again creating tangible long - versus - short trading opportunities for relative value strategies.

Peoplehood functioned not only as a way of perpetuating Jewish children but as a placeholder and a worldview that upheld and solidified the core movements, institutions, and practices of twentieth century American Jewry.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

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.

The divine transcendent function as ground of the world posits the world as a world in movement, involved in becoming by rising above and beyond, and these ascents necessarily occur at points of time in the history of this developing world.

Certainly Nehemiah and Ezra, and presumably the leaders of the ritual movement likewise, took their course through an apprehension as well based as that which had functioned in the days of the prophets.

Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice allow us to envision new spaces of life together.

33 The chief difficulty which the reading of Process and Reality occasions is that the initial data of an event are represented as themselves in constant movement and as always performing different functions in the process of becoming.

For simple machines like a bicycle we also find the earliest stages of an explanation, which can be classified as mechanical and which looks away from a self - propelled movement and switches over to external influences; from seven to eight years of age the child is, in the realm of mechanical things, capable of understanding movements in function of transmissions (RME 221 - 266).

By «pastoral counseling movement,» I mean the several thousand clergy with extensive training in counseling and psychotherapy who practice this function as a major dimension of their ministry.

The very great advantage to this «system» was that society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order, as a function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.

Always active present, and life functions as timeless movement in love.

The missionary movement was very slow in recognizing the importance of the secular world in its thinking, but thanks to great theologians such as Bonhoffer and others it became clear that the church's nature and function needed to be rethought in relation to God's concern for the whole world.

However, several preachers tied to the movement — Anthony T. Evans and Jack Rayford — served as speakers at 2001 inauguration functions.

To understand these transubstantiations we must go back to the working, actual body — not the body as a chunk of space or a bundle of functions but that body which is an intertwining of vision and movement.

That's what I am trained in as a Tummy Time tutor that the first two to three weeks, when the baby is outside the womb, they have to be on the parent's chest and that will qualify as Tummy Time, and eventually, you know, as a baby girls, you want to put them and give them a lot of floor time and a lot of movement which kind of improve the breastfeeding, which improve the nervous system function.

Dual Head — refers to electric toothbrushes that have incorporated the rotating function, as well as the side - to - side movement function.

«The main function of cartilage is to seal the bone ends in a joint and absorb pressure on the bones during weight - bearing movement such as walking.

The researchers tinkered with N - WASP, a protein that functions as a switch to activate cellular movement.

The basal ganglia are structures deep within the brain, thought to be responsible for control of movements and responses to rewards as well as cognitive functions.

The symptoms of Parkinson's — which is characterized by stiffness and can lead to a loss of motor and speech function — are triggered by the progressive death of neurons in a midbrain region called the substantia nigra that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine (implicated in the pleasure and reward systems as well as in the maintenance of proper movement control).

They added that the ability to observe plant roots, other biological inhabitants or occurrences, or water movement within the substrate could expand the use of the mini-Horhizotron beyond its research function for use as a teaching tool.

«But scientists are studying whether the Parkinson's drug levodopa, which can ease movement symptoms, can also influence brain functions such as memory, quick thinking and learning.»

The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

Their nearly switchlike response as a function of membrane voltage comes from the movement of positively charged amino acids, arginine or lysine, across the membrane field.

The visceral exploration of living brain tissue is, in many cases, still the best way to unravel cognitive functions as diverse as language, memory, vision, and movement.

Moreover, perceptual experiments can be designed to ask which subdivisions of the system are responsible for particular visual abilities, such as figure / ground discrimination or perception of depth from perspective or relative movement — functions that might be difficult to deduce from single - cell response properties.

The results could suggest that a history of minor but repeated blows to the head can result in compensatory changes to the brain as it relates to eye movement function.

Focusing on musical and emotional attunement might be especially important for children with low functioning childhood autism as it might be specifically powerful when working with sensory processing, affect regulation, or deviations related to the child's movements all of which can be crucially affected in these children.

The frequency distribution of these neurons suggests that the planning of the physical goal is the dominant function: In both monkeys the neuroscientists found about three to four times as many neurons for the physical goal of the movement than for the visual goal.

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outer layer, is responsible for many complex brain functions, such as thought, movement, perception, learning and memory.

That study will measure the extent to which epidural stimulation will improve cardiovascular function as well as facilitate the ability to stand and voluntarily control leg movements below the injury level in 36 participants with chronic, complete spinal cord injuries.

The variation in fish response as a function of robot speed is unlikely to be related to sensory cues generated by the body movement only, since the fish do not behave differently if the robot is fixed and beats its tail at.

One is about understanding how the function of the brain circuitry is altered by different movement - related disease processes, such as stroke and Parkinson's disease.

Basic functions such as movement or nutrition are mainly mediated by ECM - rich organs (bones, tendons and muscles, cartilages, teeth).

Known as potassium channels, the proteins, which control the flow of signals in the nervous system, are implicated in a breathtaking array of functions, such as heart rate maintenance, hormone release, and muscle movement.

As a result, inflammation runs wild, and the immune system destroys the protective myelin sheath on neurons, crippling their ability to carry signals needed for movement and other functions.

Nevertheless, the burst properties reported in this study strongly support the idea that the deeper layers of the SC act as an optimal controller: the systematic organization of peak firing rates and burst durations as function of saccade amplitude along the motor map, the synchronous change in firing rate of recruited cells in the population, and the shaping of the temporal burst profile of a given cell with the currently planned saccade, all contribute to the generation of straight eye - movement trajectories with optimal kinematics.

Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).

Three different activity measures were used to quantify the magnitude of the saccade - related bursts of SC neurons for movements towards the center of their movement field as a function of their rostral - to - caudal location in the SC motor map: A) number of spikes in the burst, B) mean firing rate and C) peak spike density.

To test these theoretical predictions, Fig. 4 quantifies several burst properties of saccade - related SC cells for saccades towards the center of their movement field as a function their anatomical rostral - to - caudal location in the motor map: number of spikes in the burst (Fig. 4A), mean firing rate (Fig. 4B), and peak firing rate (Fig. 4C).

Crucially, their brains also have basal ganglia similar to ours — this is the area deep in the brain that, along with the cerebral cortex, is responsible for important functions such as the control of movement and «executive functions» such as decision - making, learning and habit formation.

Increases flexibility and strength throughout the body, necessary for healthy movement and functioning as well as weight management

It consists of the inner core muscles, such as the diaphragm, pelvic floor and transverse abdominus, which lie deep inside the abdomen and are the first to engage to protect the spine during heavy resistance training; the outer core muscles, including the abs, lats, spinal erectors, glutes and hip flexors, that generate movement and have an important stability function during high - speed activities.

However, these definitions are way too simplistic and merely serve a descriptive purpose, because in reality no muscle works in isolation — each muscle or group of muscle fibers works in synergy with others, functioning as one big unit at all times, even though some parts may be working harder than others during different movements.