Sentences with phrase «human functioning by»

Topics like grit and curiosity have formed a firm research base within Positive Psychology, a field in which the objective is to explore the science of optimal human functioning by investigating concepts such as; happiness, wellbeing, human strengths, and flourishing (Gable & Haidt, 2005).

Though the Feldenkrais Method is not typically considered to be an eastern movement or martial arts form, its founder — Moshe Feldenkrais — had a 2nd - degree black belt in judo, and aspects of this training certainly informed his development of the Feldenkrais Method, whose overall mission is to improve human functioning by increasing self - awareness through movement.

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They are mounted in a dummy head, inset in ear - shaped molds to fully capture all the audio frequency adjustments — known in the psychoacoustic research community as head - related transfer functions (HRTFs)-- that happen naturally as sound wraps around the human head and is «shaped» by the outer and inner ears.

On the one hand, says Haff, we can no longer live without the «support structure and the services provided by technology» — the communication, transportation, energy, and other networks that developed to make human life on an increasingly crowded planet function in the first place.

Their latest offering, the Brody WorkLounge was the outgrowth of an extensive research study conducted by Steelcase on how the human brain functions.

I am not above anyone as a Catholic, I am simply a human who believes that God is there for me when I need him, but also that God and Jesus, along with all of their followers have provided me with the tools I need to function in my life without God by my side every step of the way.

Following from the foregoing definition of religion are the sociological functions described by Thomas F. O'Dea: 13 (I) «It provides the emotional ground for a new security and firmer identity amid the uncertainties and impossibilities of the human condition and the flux and change of history.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

This function, which is God's giving of an initial aim to each new occasion, is more like the individual creation of each human soul than the single act by which matter was created.

Moreover, in days when the sum total of human knowledge could practically be held in the mind of one man the division caused by human specialization was little more than a superficial difference of function.

He calls it a place for «studying the dynamics of the planet earth and the role fulfilled by humans within the functioning of the universe.»

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

If, however, one regards the human person to be social by nature, then the function of the state is not to possess its citizens but to serve their social needs for each other.

The pandering function of the mass media merely weakens human personality by fostering self - deception.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

Since in other places, however, he makes a strong case for human equality, which is not a function of particular traits or virtues, perhaps I am reading incorrectly what he means by «democratizing.»

Throughout the centuries, others have attempted to carry out Hobbes's project; the attempt to understand the human mind in terms of the structure and functions of computers is but one of the more recent strategies for completing the Copernican Revolution along the lines charted by Hobbes.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

By definition and principle it is the specific function of the Church to Christianize all that is human in Man.

«It is only because human beings have an end toward which they are directed by reason of their specific nature,» he writes, «that practices, traditions, and the like are able to function as they do.»

Jesus grew, thirsted, hungered, was tired, was tempted by every type of sin, was tortured, experienced every biological function of the human body, and was killed.

He believed by virtue of the absurd; for all human reckoning had long since ceased to function.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

Crisis intervention takes place whenever one person responds to another human being who is overwhelmed by his own feelings and is unable to function in his normal manner.

Its purpose is not to list and describe all of the forms of human psyc functioning which are judged by the profession or some members of the profession as less than optimal.

Where a central problematic for all prior evolutionary cosmologists had been accounting for the evolutionary emergence of self - conscious mind, Whitehead presupposes the full - blown existence of human reason sundered initially by the apparently unlike functions of theoria and praxis.

The Church's responsibility to God for human societies doubtless varies with its own and the nations» changing positions, but it may be described in a general fashion by reference to the apostolic, the pastoral and the pioneering functions of the Christian community.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

Another claim made by Hasker is that if God were «routinely to intervene to prevent evil from being done, there would be far less incentive to form effective human communities, a large part of whose function is to encourage good behavior and to restrain evil.»

Katz has identified four major functions served by attitudes within the human personality: (1) the utilitarian function, by which certain attitudes enable maximization of rewards and avoidance of pain in adjusting to one's environment; (2) the ego - defensive function, by which specific attitudes protect the ego; (3) the value - expressive function, by which particular attitudes provide satisfaction from personal values and self - concept; and (4) the knowledge function, by which certain attitudes satisfy the need to structure and understand one's universe.

Since the followers of Jesus regarded him as essentially human, statements about his divine nature or function have been added to the authentic gospel, often by use of ideas derived from «mystery religions.

Now, that isn't to say that women who can't conceive children are powerless, but simply that the capacity to bring brand new life into the world is a power unmatched by any other human function.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

The human body follows a step by step process, where one area often relies on another to achieve full function.

Indeed, the human infant's physiology is not designed to function optimally outside the context by which usually the breastfeeding mother can compensate for the infants developmental (neurological) vulnerabilities.

You'd be wrong, of course, since no system run by human beings existing outside of the immediate personal orbit of Barack Obama will function in practice with anything resembling rational efficiency.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

«Natural antimicrobial peptides are designed by nature to optimally exert multiple functions in the human body,» said Nibbering.

The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.

Carlo Croce, a cancer researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus, and his colleagues created a diagram of interacting miRNAs for normal body cells by connecting them according to which genes they target and the function of those genes, in a way similar to analyses of human social networks.

By employing movies it was possible to investigate the function of the human brain in experimental conditions that are close to natural.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

«We at Rancho are dedicated to advancing rehabilitation and to restoration of neurologic function through new technologies, which can be assistive or can promote recovery by capitalizing on the innate plasticity of the human nervous system,» says Aisen, also a clinical professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.