Sentences with phrase «study of any human activity»

The philosophical study of any human activity aims at exhibiting the «logic» of that activity, that is, at uncovering the principles relevant to its understanding and criticism.

Read the latest articles of Journal of Archaeological Science at, Elsevier's leading platform of peer - reviewed scholarly literature Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Yet a warning should be voiced against too unguarded an application of terms and viewpoints derived from the sociological study of other human activities.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

``... a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming... is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity... these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun's rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space.

Archaeology is the study of the material remains of human activity.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Titled Talent Triage: Raising the Bar on CPG Sales Force Talent Management, the study also reports that CPG sales and human resource executives rated their talent management activities as «highly effective» only 9 percent of the time, but 68 percent of these executives plan to increase investment in their sales force talent management programs.

In a practice called grounding, studies show that activities such as walking barefoot outside, sitting on the roots of a tree or gardening relieves the human body of symptoms of anxiety and depression.

A study by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development found that children do best if they're cared for by someone who is genuinely concerned about their well - being and development, and who makes sure they're doing a variety of age - appropriate activities.

The disruption of prenatal cellular activity in zebra fish, which share 80 percent of their genes with humans and are considered a good model for studying human brain development, seemed to result in hyperactivity, according to the Canadian study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study shows streams and rivers up and down the East Coast are threatened by a legacy of acid rain and the impact of human activities.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Low levels of physical activity and inefficient sleep patterns intensify the effects of genetic risk factors for obesity, according to results of a large - scale study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

Wang points out that the current findings are preliminary and that comparing SLC13A5 activity in healthy and cancerous human liver tissue will be necessary before studies of this pathway as a cancer drug target should be contemplated.

«About 85 per cent of the world's chalk streams are in the UK, and the fish we studied are in an area of southern Britain that's under massive pressure from human activity.

The groundbreaking study, «Autonomic Activity During Sleep Predicts Memory Consolidation in Humans,» appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

Because a study just out in the ornithological journal Ibis concludes that human commercial activities, particularly those associated with poultry, are the major factors in the global dispersal of avian flu.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

They found that blocking ANGPTL3 activity with an investigative injectable antibody, known as evinacumab, reduced triglycerides by up to 76 percent and lowered LDL cholesterol 23 percent in human study participants, and largely reversed signs of atherosclerosis in a mouse models.

According to the study, the encroachment of human and industrial activity can have catastrophic effects.

A new study suggests that epigenetic effects — chemical modifications of the human genome that alter gene activity without changing the DNA sequence — may sometimes influence sexual orientation.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

The study also confirmed that in the last few years nearly all the region's overall seismicity of magnitude 3 or larger has been induced by human activity.

But Amedi and his colleagues found that the area of the visual cortex responsible for recognizing body shapes in sighted people — called the extrastriate body area — lit up with activity in the study participants when they were interpreting the human silhouettes.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

Since 2013, exploration and survey of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Mona Island — has revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in darkzone chambers far from cave entrances.

This study is the first to demonstrate causal evidence for a positive effect on corporate reputation of consumers» exposure to a company's social media activities, and the crucial role of a company's «online human voice» in these activities.

Results of the study have just been released in the article, Motor - enriched Learning Activities can Improve Mathematical Performance in Preadolescent Children, published in the internationally renown scientific journal, Frontiers of Human Neuroscience.

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

The new study shows that the synthetic compound is capable of inhibiting the activities of several DNA - processing enzymes, including the «integrase» used by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to insert its genome into that of its host cell.

«This is one of the few studies to explore how pollution from human activity impacts schooling behaviour in fish.

The study found that emissions from human activities at least doubled the risk of such an event.

«Our study shows, for the first time, in human skin that with increasing age there is a specific decrease in the activity of a key metabolic enzyme found in the batteries of the skin cells.

Its study, titled «Imagined Speech Influences Perceived Loudness of Sound» and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, offers new insights into the nature of brain activity.

In this study, Horney and colleagues focused on PAHs, which are a product of combustion from human activities such as petroleum consumption in transportation or natural processes such as wildfires.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

At a time when humans are imposing an unprecedented burden on the world's ecosystems, studying how organisms can tolerate pollutants is crucial to understanding the impact of human activities — and to helping to mitigate it in the future.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

The study, led by Dr Julie Jones from the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, has revealed that limited data on Antarctica's climate is making it difficult for researchers to disentangle changes caused by human activity from natural climate fluctuations.

The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.

A new study titled Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary, released Friday in the journal Science, is the first to quantitatively show that human effects on mammal body size predates their migration out of Africa and that size selective extinction is a hallmark of human activities and not the norm in mammal evolution.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.