Sentences with phrase «presented as a function»

In this sense the likelihood as function on Y in the original paper and the likelihood presented as function of S in WG1 report tell exactly the same thing about the empirical results.

The important point then is that the 33 units stored within the atmosphere as radiatively invisible potential energy are present as a function of mass and gravity in the presence of solar input and NOT atmospheric composition which is why other planets show similar lapse rate characteristics despite huge variations in composition.

The total radiation leaving the layer in each direction is presented as a function of scattering for a range of absorption coefficients.

Not exact matches

The chart below presents slope estimates, showing the 6 - month change in the S&P 500 as a function of the 6 - month change in the monetary base, at various leads and lags.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioAs Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioas higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

The word «Redeeming» may also function as a present participle, with «God» as the object.

Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.

Our genome is nearly identical to the chimpanzee genome, a little less identical to the gorilla genome, a little less identical to the orangutan genome, and so on — and this correspondence is present in ways that are not needed for function (such as the location of shared genetic defects, the order of genes on chromosomes, and on and on).

God's function in the world is not to make time disappear, or to make the future as certain as the past and the present.

If one rejects hyletic data and the transcendental ego, as Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau - Ponty do, then consciousness takes on a somewhat different function: it does not constitute the meaning of the world; rather, it «presents» and appropriates a world already filled with meaning.

This view, at any rate, is the only one compatible with saying, as Whitehead does say, that an entity which is actual, is actual regardless of whether its present existence is that of a subject enjoying the universe from which it arises or that of a superject functioning objectively in subsequent processes.

I can not simply refer to the ordinary meaning of the word «memory» because that is precisely the problem: lam trying to elucidate how what is ordinarily called «memory» in fact functions as a bridge between two «present» total temporary states.

Let us rather accept the fact: Mankind, as we find it in its present state and present functioning, is organically inseparable from that which has been slowly added to it, and which is propagated through education.

As specialized cells are generated during embryonic development, they are programmed to use only a limited amount of the total genetic information present in the nucleus to produce the proteins required for their particular function.

As it becomes aware of the specific form in which ultimate human problems present themselves in our own time, the ministry, and therewith the schools that prepare men for it, begin to understand more sharply what the pastoral function is, in what language the gospel speaks to this need, and what form the Church must take in serving such men in such a time.

The confusion in modern Christendom about the meaning of the ministry makes itself evident in uncertainty about pastoral authority as well as in the vagueness present in thought about pastoral functions.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

Unfortunately faith has reduced as a definition of, in ethical categories, «what is» and it has assumed the social function of rationalizing the present.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

While the Christian's confession of Christ has provided the principal model for the present analysis, it also finds support in Mircea Eliade's discussion of theophanies or hierophanies in archaic religion, especially in their function as ontophanies, manifestations of the «real.»

In the first instance, it can function as a stimulus for internal integration of the theory as presented in Process and Reality.

And indeed this is the astonishing feature of it, that it can and does function as writing of the present day.

It further functions as a principle of social criticism; any idea or social reality in the present social order that does not conform to the vision of God's reign is to be rejected.

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.

He is not understood as the God who functions only in those «mysterious» areas in which we are not able as yet to see the connections of past and present.

After 25 years in seminary education, Clymer is particularly well equipped to handle his present responsibilities as chairman of the committee which functions as a liaison between the church's Council of Bishops and the denomination's ten seminaries.

Both fulfill their respective functions insofar as reason is present in history, but Hegel's God is that reason impelling history, while Whitehead's is that reason hoping history will see the need to be reasonable.

My point is that, at the time Leclerc wrote his interpretation of Whitehead, he understood Whitehead's systematic position to be that past actual entities function in the present concrescence only as passive perceived data, not as truly causally efficacious.

What Calvin likes to call the historia evangelica (the «gospel story») functions as a lens that focuses a picture: in it the true image of God is presented, and through it God can be recognized everywhere else.

Whitehead maintains that language functions as a mediator of present experience to both the past and other experiences (MT 33).

The awareness of intuitive realization of the subjective immediacy of concrescence then is the awareness of the energetic force present in all existents and as such serves the same ontological function as consciousness in Aurobindo.

We may now ask whether we can learn, from the way the Church actually functions, anything which bears upon our present problem — how the individual is to appropriate as personal experience that which is given to us in the Scriptures.

Russell believes that the loss of the family as a central social institution presents a problem, however, as the family's most important function is to preserve the habit of having children (p. 187).

If we recognize that it is through the imagination that a person presents alternatives to his present state of being (UMI 216), we may gain some idea as to how a neuroticized image of God can function as an inhibiting element.

Always active present, and life functions as timeless movement in love.

Traditionally, the rituals of religion were identified as serving the major function of transcending present profane time.

The persuasiveness of religious programs toward change appear to be greatest when they are viewed by a person who is in a state of attitude imbalance or transition and seeking new forms of gratification for his or her needs; when they are viewed by a person for whom religious faith has always been a viable, if not vital, option; when the options being presented are seen as realistic and leading to a desirable end; when opportunity for demonstration exists in proximate distance to the viewing situation; and when the attitude or behavior is not central to the individual's self - concept and ego - functioning.

Through the vitality perceived within evangelical programs, a viewer who is dissatisfied with the functioning of his present church may come to associate vitality with evangelical churches as a whole.

He insists that it is crucial for our understanding of experience that the immediately presented image functions as a sign; it serves as a symbol which refers to some region of the environment.

This meaning of «religion» needs to be kept in mind along with others, but in most discourse it functions more as one of the characteristics that may or may not be present than as the decisive basis of use of the term.

But one must remember that in the triple envisagement passage in Science and the Modern World, Whitehead did present the two as distinct functions: Whitehead developed his philosophical theism between the two writings.

Ivor Leclerc has suggested a concept of how compound entities may function as «one substance,» The present interpretation is consistent with, but somewhat more specific than, Leclerc's proposal (The Nature of Physical Existence [New York: Humanities Press, 1972] esp.

His Honour considered that, in the present case, the separation of wholesaling and retailing functions tended to confuse the analysis and that, in light of the more powerful constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains on Metcash, compared with the lesser constraint imposed by Franklins, it was not possible to determine the competition consequences of Metcash's acquisition without taking into account the constraints from the major supermarket chains as market participants.

Of course, his versatility is what makes this prospect particularly interesting; as he presents the ability to offer support as a «number 10» or function perfectly as a «number 9» so tactically offers many attacking combinations which Arsenal have lacked for years (I mean lets be honest most of us can name Arsenal's starting lineup in our sleep).

Michelle Emanuel will present «Interoception: Beyond the Homunculus... the real Sixth Sense and its primary function as Sensory input to the Autonomic Nervous System» where attendees will learn about the functioning of interoceptive pathways, how compromised systems can be linked to complex breastfeeding issues, and the ways this can be addressed clinically.

Even though there are two breasts present, each of them functions independently and acts separately as if it is the only breast in the body.

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The free market is presented as the best way of organizing economic life — but it can only function well against a background of equal personal and property rights that protect all members of society, from the very rich to the very poor.