Sentences with phrase «normal human activity»

Distinctions between theatrical tropes and task - oriented performance art, in fact, often pivot on these points, particularly when instructional score - like texts and photo documentation becomes a genre unto itself, as reflected in the somewhat recent art history of Allan Kaprow's intimate Life Art «happenings» which aestheticized normal human activity while blurring the boundaries between art and life.

Because, for the environment, dealing with normal human activity can be a battle.

While we firmly believe that, as a thinking religious person, you engage in this quite normal human activity all the time, we hope this study will enable you to do theology more deliberately and effectively in the future, thereby deepening your faith and enriching your religious life.

But from that assumption we want to suggest something further which might surprise you: thinking theologically is also a normal human activity.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

Most worrisome, if humanity stays near its current path of greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC warns with «high confidence» that «the combination of high temperature and humidity in some areas for parts of the year is projected to compromise normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors.»

At the high - end scenario of global warming, in which global average temperatures increase to 8.46 degrees Fahrenheit above 1986 - 2005 average levels by 2100, the report found that «the combination of high temperature and humidity in some areas for parts of the year is projected to compromise normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors.»

Not exact matches

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

It is instructive that in Fromm's recent book, The Heart of Man, its Genius for Good and Evil, he seeks to answer the criticism of his optimistic view of man.7 He traces all the sources of human evil to some factor in the developing life of the person which has become fixed, and blocks normal activity.

Work is any activity entered into for the sake of an end, and it is normal for the, human spirit, in contrast with animal experience, to have ends in view for which the immediate pleasures of idleness will voluntarily be surrendered.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Point One should be «climate change isn't cause by human activity» or «this climate change is normal» (which are both closer to what Trump thinks).

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

Stingrays that interact with humans at an interactive tourism area change their normal activity patterns and interact with each other more aggressively than animals not dealing with people.

To see if the findings could be applied to humans the next step was to treat normal nice with doxorubicin plus a drug to inhibit the activity of PI3K?.

We're going to embed small teams in those communities for a week and do a bunch of activities like hosting a movie night, going to local coffee shops or the local bar — giving people a chance to see that we're just normal, nice humans.

Reduced mammalian target of rapamycin activity facilitates mitochondrial retrograde signaling and increases life span in normal human fibroblasts.

IgG and IgA with potential microbial - binding activity are expressed by normal human skin epidermal cells.

In addition, ActD has been shown to mimic nutlin - 3 in the activation of p53 - dependent transcription, induction of a reversible protective growth arrest in normal cells, and enhancement of the activity of the chemotherapeutic drugs, melphalan and etoposide, resulting in apoptosis of p53 positive human tumor cells [14].

1) Phytonutrients: * Occur naturally in fruits and vegetables * Promote the function of the immune system * Help fight off viruses as well as reduce inflammation * Associated with the treatment and / or prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease 2) Enzymes: * Responsible for metabolic processes that occur within a cell and are necessary for sustaining life * Assist and play a large role in digestion, energy production, blood coagulation and contraction of muscles 3) Amino Acids: * The basic building blocks of protein * Absorption of amino acids is essential for your metabolism 4) Essential Fatty Acids: * Reduce the risk of heart disease and some forms of cancer * Improve mood * Decrease inflammation 5) Vitamins: * Essential for the normal growth and development of all human beings * Healthy maintenance of cell tissues and organs * Help process proteins, carbohydrates and fats required for utilization 6 & 7) Macro and Trace Minerals: * Involved in electrolyte balance of body fluids * Essential for normal cellular activity * Provide hardness to bones and teeth

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.

Been prototyping this for a while, so this totally sounds like a normal human - in - a-dark-room activity.

Like in humans, weight gain occurs in pets such as dogs and cats when they consume more calories than they burn through their daily normal activities and exercise.

Ideally, you want the breeder to have raised the puppies in the house, around the normal daily activities of a household so they are used to the noises and activity of humans.

Laser surgery provides the same benefits to pets as human patients: less pain, less bleeding, less infection, less swelling and discomfort after surgery, and the ability to resume normal activities sooner.

The most obvious reason for feline obesity is the ingestion of more daily calories than a cat can burn off through activity or normal metabolic processes — the same basic issue faced by so many overweight humans.

Behaviors that owners take offense to, are naturally normal activities for felines, they are only problems when cats and humans cohabitate.

Possibly because activities of normal dogs better resemble human than is the case with most cats?

But there remains a vocal defense of the old orthodoxy — climate variation is normal and human activity can play no role.

If the answer is no, the next question is whether or not human activity can meaningfully avert this change outside of the normal variation.

Or no clear baseline to say something like the added CO2 from human activity has increased the normal global temperature, by xx.xx C.

A majority of the scientists of our time are unanimous in agreement that climate change is real, and is happening more rapidly than normal because of human activities.

There is a hard core of these who will die believing that it is not happening or that it is «normal» or that it is nothing to do with human activity.

When 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree that the Earth is getting warmer and that human activity is the cause, we're not obliged to suspend our normal conventions for asserting scientific truth simply because somebody handed a few well - funded squeaky wheels a microphone into which to do their squeaking.

Lead author Dr Sophie Lewis from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society said human activities had already locked in this new normal for future temperatures, but immediate climate action could prevent record extreme seasons year after year.

Competition is the normal way of things in science as in most human activities.

Since the Industrial Revolution, emissions from human activities of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have driven the earth's climate system dangerously outside of its normal range.

According to the National Geographic, human activity and changes to their normal habitats may be what's driving them north.

Writing a job post is a natural and normal activity for human resources representatives.

Environmental allergens consistent with normal business activities and human contact...