Sentences with phrase «life studying various»

She spent several years of her young adult life studying various spiritual practices, including but not limited to Zen Meditation at Ryukoku University in Japan, and Transpersonal Psychology in Bali, Indonesia.

Not exact matches

The men spend their lives studying the Torah at various Yeshivas and Temples.

They are not only practices of teaching and learning, but also practices of raising funds and maintaining the school's resources; not only practices of governing various aspects of the school's common life, but also practices of various kinds of research; practices not only of assessing students and when they should be deemed to have completed their courses of study, but also of assessing faculty and judging when they should be promoted and when terminated; and so on.

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

A way to make this point is to exploit two metaphors: We could think of questions about the communal identities and common life of diverse Christian congregations as the lens through which inquiry about all the various subject matters studied in a theological school could be focused and unified.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

I really thought this was going to be a study on the image of fire in Scripture, but it turned out to be more of a study on the symbol of fire in Franciscan theology, applied to various sins and experiences in life.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

That allowed me to show why various subject matters that ought to be studied by a theological school (e.g., Bible, Christian history, theology, psychology and sociology of religion, etc.) are best studied in their theological significance (i.e., as means to understanding God) by studying them in their relation to the common life of actual congregations.

I long to see deeper studies on the Cuban American devotion to N. S. de Caridad and their Afro - Cuban sense of santeria; on the Puerto Rican devotion to San Juan Bautista and other religious practices; on the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas of Guatemala and other devotions and rituals of the various Hispanic peoples living in the United States.

Second, when one turns to anthropological study of primitive cultures, one discovers a somewhat startling revelation; namely that the economic factor of life more than any other factor has dictated the ethical behavior norms, particularly those norms which relate to the various generations.

The purpose, then, of New Testament study is to take the various documents and the insights expressed in the documents and to reconstruct the life out of which the documents and the insights emerged.

Has studying these various kinds of extreme, deep - dwelling microbes changed your thinking about what's necessary for life?

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

The study provides evidence that patients of various ethnicities and religious backgrounds will be seeking information from their physicians on the issue, many of them at what may be the most vulnerable time in their lives, she said.

By measuring the levels of various substances in the shoots of the legume, which lives in symbiosis with fungi, and combining the results with large - scale genetic studies, the researchers have found that the levels of secondary substances (flavonoids and terpenoids) rise in the shoots as a result of the increased hormonal levels.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

For the study, researchers counted live and dead butterflies along roadways in Alachua County in the spring, summer and fall of 2011, during various FDOT mowing intervals.

«Previous studies conducted in our laboratory have demonstrated that both pre - and postharvest application of lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) can retard aging and improve shelf life of various fruits,» Palta and Ahmed said.

The study highlights the dynamism of gene effects on brain function throughout the various stages of life such as adolescence or adulthood.

The group of imaging specialists led by Prof. Michael Schäfers, Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence, labelled the cells thus obtained with various fluorescent dyes in order to be able to study them in living organisms — initially with the optical method of fluorescence reflectance imaging.

Across two studies in the lab and field, women observed images and real life situations that varied in the risk of crime, such as crime hotspots and safespots, and were asked to rate their perceived risk of victimisation — a measure of fear of crime — of various crimes.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

GFP has been utilized in numerous studies as a marker protein that can track chemical reactions within living cells, along with various other uses.

Similar studies have found that other pharmaceuticals can also have various health effects on aquatic life.

Determining which fish are living in various bodies of water can be a daunting task for scientists studying those populations.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

These scientists can study many different subjects, including the microbiology and genetics of living organisms, how species that share the same community adapt to changing conditions over time, and the fossil record (to assess how various ancient communities of species might be related to each other and to modern - day relatives).

Many similar approaches to disrupting the well - studied operations of growth hormone and insulin metabolism also extend life in mice to various degrees, some of which are whole - body, while others are tissue - specific.

The study did not investigate the implications of dust size and aging fraction at various temperatures and cloud life cycles.

We are studying chromatin organisation and compaction, as well as the 4D human genome architecture by correlative imaging approaches, including live cell imaging and various super-resolution techniques (figure 2).

When astronomers study the Milky Way, they can learn about the birth, life and death of its stars because they see the stars at various evolutionary stages.

The study could be run on subjects of various ages to determine whether a potential «selfishness effect» is strongest during certain phases of life.

Studies have shown that pathogenic loss - of - function variants in this gene result in various types of epilepsies, mostly beginning early in life.

In the years that followed, Koch seemed to live five lives: She studied to become an international diplomat in Washington, D.C., traveled to study the intricacies of various NGOs, and surfed around the world with Billabong.

«If you are exposed to microbes, especially early in life, you stimulate the immune system in various ways and it becomes tolerant,» says study author Dr. Bill Hesselmar of Queen Silvia Children's Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Coffee drinkers may be at lower risk of liver and colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, and Parkinson's disease, and it may help you live longer: A 2008 study found that women who drank coffee regularly — up to six cups a day — were less likely to die of various causes during the study than their non-coffee-drinking counterparts.

Asthma: Adults with asthma have reported an increased quality of life and reduced asthma symptoms in various research studies.

Study and imbibe the pragmatic way of life, including the various ethics and principles (the Yamas and niyamas) as mentioned in the Sutras of Patanjali and the Great Upanishad of Bhagavad Gita.

Several studies of centenarians (humans who have lived to be over 100 years old) in various countries, including Poland, Italy and Denmark, have found very high levels of glutathione in their cells.

Unripe mangos have significantly more vitamin C according to this study, which analysed mangos at various stages of their life.

The original IGOB131 African Mango Integra Lean Irvingia Gabonensis Extract used by Life Extension and featured on Dr Oz is the original irvingia from Cameroon Africa that was used in various published studies.

He presented double - blind placebo - controlled studies on various nutrients as well as his own case studies, proving that eating foods in their natural state - unaltered by cooking, processing, preservatives, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, or genetic modification - does indeed provide the body with all the essential vitamins, minerals, live enzymes, and phytochemicals - everything it needs to prevent and fight off disease and create vitality.»

Tune in to hear live case studies on how we use special therapeutic diets and bioindividual nutrition strategies with complex clients who have anxiety, other mood issues and various related health problems.

She has studied, performed and taught various disciplines of dance and movement arts for most of her life.

Today, most of the evidence is based on the observations of Weston Price, an American dentist, who spent his life studying the diets of various cultures.

Though none of the Laron group died of these two age - related diseases, they didn't live any longer than their unaffected relatives — instead, the study found they had higher rates of death from various accidents and alcohol - related issues.

Dating for black men and women living with herpes - Black Herpes Dating According to various independent studies, black men and women are at a greater risk ofcontracting herpes.

Dazed and Confused sees a group of college kids on kick out day, the Before trilogy picks up with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy's characters at various crossroads points in their lives, and his masterful Boyhood is one glorious study of identity in transition as the central character grows from the age of 7 to 19 in front of our eyes.

Equally, when we were studying Henry VIII and Tudors, they created a character of the King at various stages in his life with animated speech bubbles that related to the major historical stories of that time.