Sentences with phrase «mechanistic processes»

«Peer behavior is perhaps the most enduring social correlate of both contemporaneous and subsequent alcohol use, so studies specifically designed to explore the etiology underlying these associations, and particularly those that examine mechanistic processes, are tremendously important to the field,» added Shawn J. Latendresse, assistant professor in the department of psychology & neuroscience at Baylor University.

Artistic process, in effect, integrates organicistic and mechanistic processes in «creative dwelling» (5, 9, 11, 12).

«The art of transforming a group of young, ambitious individuals into an integrated championship team is not a mechanistic process,» Jackson writes.

The primary answer is that modernist thinking assumes the validity of Darwinian evolution, which explains the origin of humans and other living systems by an entirely mechanistic process that excludes in principle any role for a Creator.

Internal teleological systems are accounted for by natural selection which is strictly mechanistic process.

Importantly, my theoretical results demonstrate that previous work — which does not consider sex bias, nonrandom mating, or the mechanistic process — misestimates population history parameters, such as the timing and intensity of migration.

Hyper - individualization does precisely what the emerging body of research says it does and more: it isolates children, it breeds competition, it assumes that children can learn entirely on their own, and it dehumanizes the learning environment, reducing the human experience of learning down to a mechanistic process, one where children become the objects of learning as opposed to the subjects of their own educational narrative.»

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Although some hiring managers balk at what they perceive to be a mechanistic approach, a well - designed process requires creativity and flexibility.

Currently, physical theory is in flux, and the proposal of process categories to replace the mechanistic ones, is a reasonable contribution to the discussion.

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

It is, as George Herbert Mead has said, a way of «taking time seriously «17 to the point that no definable space in the mechanistic sense can be designated, or fixed, except as a supposition for purposes which require one to arrest the process, which is to assume that time does not matter or that it does not exist.

Instead of a mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.

Lest this be taken in a mechanistic, totally deterministic fashion, I need to point out that another cardinal tenet of process - relational thought is creative freedom.

An over-arching reason for experimenting with process philosophy as a contribution to feminist construction of a new view of relations is that it provides a cosmology radically different from dominant mechanistic and patriarchal world views.

Compared with organicistic and mechanistic metaphors, the root metaphor of artistic process is difficult to understand.

This discussion of the «participant observer» gets at the crux of the difference between the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist presuppositions of much of modern science and the process - relational vision.

Process thought has filled the gap that mechanistic determinism could not fill.

In its encounter with the sciences, process thought has not only appropriated new scientific insights but has attempted a mutual transformation through which the sciences are liberated from the dominance of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view into a holistic relational vision that is more coherent, consistent, adequate to the facts, and congruent with the best in the contemporary scientific enterprise itself.

Gone from such accounts are not only ideals of homogeneous units but also any mechanistic disposition to employ a diagnostic process that might propel the church to greater efficiency.

One thing seems beyond peradventure: the mechanistic conception breaks of its own weight when one studies any process» (CSR 396).

They remain so to this day, despite the enormous advances in our understanding of many of the processes from a mechanistic standpoint.

As a biologist who was presented with a mechanistic, substance image of reality, the author found that process theology lifted the richness of human experience to a level that gave him a new perspective of care for all creation.

The processes of nature are regarded by the mechanistic view as being a relation of cause and effect, which is a relation of equivalence, energy and momentum remaining constant; causality implies quantitative equivalence.

The sum total of them presents a mechanistic world picture of the evolutionary process.

It seems to me, therefore, that the metaphysical background of process thought is far more germane to the evolutionary picture provided by biology than is the mechanistic philosophy, implicit or explicit, that so often accompanies evolutionary theory.

The metaphysical background of process thought is far more germane to the evolutionary picture provided by biology than is the mechanistic philosophy.

A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

In this paper I will try to show that the world view of process cosmology is reasonable from the standpoint of ordinary mechanistic, reductionistic science.

Last year her lab published evidence that one mechanistic consequence of the disease is a disruption of the process by which neurons can recycle and reuse proteins needed for neural control of muscle.

But a mechanistic understanding of how the chemical topology of silica surfaces alter the structure of water at the surface could lead to a rationale design of these processes.

Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three - dimensional structure of a gene - specific transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the process cells use to turn on, or activate, specific genes in response to changes in cell type, developmental state and environment.

Notophthalmus viridescens, an urodelian amphibian, represents an excellent model organism to study regenerative processes, but mechanistic insights into molecular processes driving regeneration have been hindered by a paucity and poor annotation of coding nucleotide sequences.

While translational research has traditionally moved basic immunology knowledge forward into clinical application, varying clinical presentations of human immune - related disease processes, as well as variability in therapeutic outcomes, have provided opportunities for discovery of novel mechanistic hypotheses directly from patients.

Inhibiting EMT arrests cell fate decision in these experimental models, suggesting a mechanistic link between both processes that has never been understood.

Our experiment provides new mechanistic insights into the role of memory systems in informing this process.

The short life span of MEF cells has necessitated repeated passaging for reprogramming cells onto new feeders, making mechanistic dissection of the reprogramming process difficult.

We chose to highlight a diverse set of biological processes and experimental systems to make the point that the principles of cross species analysis of basic gene function extend to the study of all human disorders, and can lead to mechanistic understanding of disease pathogenesis and rationale for the development of new therapies.

The role of mechanistic target of rapamycin (MTOR) signaling in this process is poorly understood, even though MTOR is known to determine brain size.

Such work yields unique mechanistic insight by directly illustrating the complex spatial - temporal dynamics of fundamental cellular processes such as mitosis, morphogenesis, polarization, embryonic development, membrane trafficking and cytoskeleton dynamics.

The easiest way to do the new style performance appraisal will be to link any pay progression to the outcome of the performance appraisal process in a purely mechanistic way.

Therefore, most DVMs are ill - prepared to receive messages examining the mechanistic underpinnings of the aging process.

Call it a wake - up call for how little veterinarians have been schooled in the mechanistic nuts and bolts underlying the aging process.

Continuously searching for new sculptural solutions, Fischer has built houses out of bread; enlivened empty space with mechanistic jokes; deconstructed objects and then replicated them; and transferred others from three dimensions to two and back again via photographic processes.

Here we quantify the effects of key parametric uncertainties and observational constraints on thermosteric SLR projections using an Earth system model with a dynamic three - dimensional ocean, which provides a mechanistic representation of deep ocean processes and heat uptake.

The research aims for mechanistic understanding of the processes important to the decadal modulation of ENSO and tropical Pacific decadal variability through model experiments and observational analysis.

Now, the process becomes mechanistic similar to the company analog provided above.

London, England About Blog Exploring the molecular mechanisms that underpin key biological processes, the Biochemical Journal is a leading bioscience journal publishing high - impact scientific research papers and reviews on the latest advances and new mechanistic concepts in the fields of biochemistry, cellular biosciences and molecular biology.