Sentences with phrase «human movements such»

Scientists have developed an ultra-thin device, based on battery technology and made from layers of black phosphorus that are only a few atoms thick, that can power your smartphone, fitness tracker and other gadgets using human movements such as walking and waving.

The presence of different levels of muscle activity has been observed both using surface electrodes and fine wire (intramuscular electrodes) and during maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), resistance training exercises, and normal humans movements such as gait.

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It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

Recent years have seen the rise of firms such as Sportvision, which sell data - collecting cameras that track movements on the field imperceptible to the human eye, such as the precise path and velocity of a baseball pitch.

Other slower - acting occasions such as those constituting human temporal consciousness will attend only to the larger movements taking place in the electromagnetic field because only these larger movements are truly important for their self - constitution.

Would such belief be any more dangerous than an alignment with any human movement or world view?

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

The bioethics movement grows increasingly utilitarian, explicitly denying intrinsic human worth, with increasing support expressed in the most respectable and influential journals for antihumanistic agendas such as eugenic infanticide and abortion.

There have been — and still exist — rigid religious movements with such strict rules that they provoke neuroses in human development.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

Totalitarian movements, such as National Socialism, seek to reorganize the entirety of human life.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

Like Judge Benningfield's defense, claiming his ruling will lead to fewer «burdens» such as children, the eugenics movement was also cloaked in promising language, defined as an effort to «improve» the human race.

This is particularly effective when such movements for human rights are inspired by Christians, who are accused of «extra-territorial «loyalties, and whose religion is considered «foreign `.

In such a society one could see a certain role for oriental religious groups and the human potential movement — perhaps even for a small radical political fringe.

Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.

«The contemporary pope - hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human - centred way - as the great atheists of old such as Marx or Darwin might have done - and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the «evil» of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith.

Presumably this is the kind of work that would lay the intellectual foundation for bringing into being the human partnership at which a movement such as the Continuing Committee on Muslim - Christian Co-operation is aiming.

Christian interpretations of the human potential movement are in comfortable accord with such a point of view.

Some might argue that it is not the place of pro-life movements to engage with such philosophical, even, theological issues, and to do so risks alienating pro-life materialists, even that it might appear to denigrate the human body.

An important point to note is that the concept of a country is fairly new; I have read, and agree, that modern states did not become such an important unit of human organization until the Great Depression in the 1930s; at that time the problems facing them - broken economies and socialist movements - the country level government was the only organization existing that could solve these problems while the existing power structure stayed in power.

Such a static and retrogressive view of what are essentially peoples» movements fuelled by genuine concerns of power devolution and resource control, and accentuated by wide spread human rights abuses by military and para-military forces in the province, is indicative of the security establishment's pre-eminence in decision - making with regards to this and other issues.

«Our knowledge gained from penguins provides novel insight into the gait mechanics of humans with increased lateral movements, such as in pregnant women or obese individuals,» he says.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

«Our concept is to specifically design a way to turn low - frequency motion, such as human movement or ocean waves, into electricity,» said Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State.

«Given how brief the Civilization phase is, it includes much of relevance to real sociology, such as the division of labor, public opinion, and the fact that religious movements exploit unresolved human dissatisfactions.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

The SWDs during wakefulness may resemble conditions such as «absence seizures» in humans, which are characterized by a brief loss of consciousness, a blank stare, and cessation of movement, and are often confused with inattention or intellectual disability.

Within Studio 2, sensors detect human activity, such as a change in the position of an occupant of the room, speech, gesture, and head movement.

«Yet, the survival of all animals — including humans — strongly depends on our ability to perform simple movements since the moment of birth, such as primitive reflexes essential for feeding.»

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

There are numerous health benefits that rice can offer such as providing fast and instant energy, improving bowel movements, stabilizing blood sugar levels, slowing down the aging process, while it is also a rich source of vitamin B1 for the human body.

Although functional human movement is the foundation of FITMOVES, various themes can be emphasized, such as cardio, hypertrophy, stability, balance or core work.

The deep squat is such an important basic movement that should be performed regardless of how light or rigorous your training schedule is and this is because it is a fundamental movement and position that the human body should be able to perform at its most basic physical level.

Compound movements use more muscle groups, activate higher amounts of muscle fibers than isolation exercises (i.e. curls), and as a result, release higher amounts of anabolic hormones (such as human growth hormone) in your body.

Rolling up is such a common practice in so many forms of human movement, does anyone complain of injury of discomfort that bending the knee does not alleviate.

The basic human skills you get from having a conversation with a stranger, such as eye movement, posture, vocal inflection, etc. is completely lost when meeting an individual via internet.

Just like us human beings, dogs also suffer from digestive related complications such as bloating, irregular bowel movement, and constipation among a variety of others.

But to those who are supposed to be the standard bearers of our relationships with animals — those often regarded as «leaders» of the animal rights movement — such relationships are «unnatural» and therefore «bad» when one of the parties is a human being.

HLS SALDF was proud to host leaders in the animal protection movement, such as Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who spoke about history's progress toward recognizing groups as deserving of rights, and experts in the field of animal law such as Carter Dillard, ALDF director of litigation, who spoke on Animal Rights, Human Rights, and the Future of our Planet.

They often exhibit quirky behaviors observing shadows, moving lights, flying bugs, air movement, hearing sounds that we can not such as vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, and toaster sounds, rustling tin foil, a human cough or sneeze, baby crying, laughing, thunder & lightening, gunshots and fireworks... to mention a few.

Two related potassium (K +) channel defects in benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) have recently been identified.9 10 A defect in a receptor for a different neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) has previously been identified in a family with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) 11, which was later shown to affect calcium (Ca +) movement.12 In humans, so far, there has not been any success in identifying genes associated with more common primary epilepsy syndromes such as juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).13 No gene or marker linked to an epilepsy gene has been identified in any dog breed, as yet.

Spearheading this movement, Robert Irwin began to take ideas from philosophical inquiries into the nature of human experience and radical advances in perceptual psychology and combine them with the immersive abstraction that had been pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.

Major topics include the worldwide production and dissemination of photographic images; the local and global character of specific genres, such as portraiture and photojournalism; the photographic representation of human movement and migration; and (post) colonial photographies.

While her passion for the nature of human perception has tied her legacy to the contributions of the Op Art movement, it would be further understood in the context of the Bauhaus figures that were a major influence on her, such as Josef Albers.

Nowhere are the orthodoxies of the human rights movement, its wishful universalism and its proximity to power, challenged with such rigor, creativity, and severity than in the realm of culture.

It is perhaps this single aspect of Surrealism, striking such a major vein of human experience, which gave it such staying power as a movement.