Sentences with phrase «than those of human activities»

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Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

Surely we should talk in terms of intensity of divine Activity and fullness of human response, not in terms of «above» and «below,» «in» and «out,» «entrance,» and the like — these are mythological terms, and for our own day they are outworn rather than significantly evocative mythological terms.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

Nevertheless, human pride being what it is, some exponents of this prophetic social gospel seemed to lay more stress on the human builders than on the activity of God in the process.

Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived) which has been opened to men and women is nothing other than the working of the Self - Expressive Activity of God which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in human existence.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

Even more perfectly than the human soul with its field of activity can be said to overlap the field of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of activity within the human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

There is probably no human activity calculated to add more zest to the appetite than the business of navigating through snow on skis.

Scintigraphy, which has been used for years in treating humans, reveals more accurately than any other diagnostic tool the precise location and extent of the abnormal activity.

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.

No form of human activity appears to have been formed to arrest, entertain and motivate better than calisthenics.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

It's hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

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.

But it does mean that human activities have, more likely than not, affected the chances of such events occurring.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain than in the embryos treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.

The model calculations, which are based on data from the CLOUD experiment, reveal that the cooling effects of clouds are 27 percent less than in climate simulations without this effect as a result of additional particles caused by human activity: Instead of a radiative effect of -0.82 W / m2 the outcome is only -0.60 W / m2.

When it burrows, those tentacles can touch 12 different objects every second, appearing to the human eye as no more than a pink blur of activity.

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

The rate of carbon release during the PETM was determined to be much smaller than the current input of carbon to the atmosphere from human activities.

Killer earthquakes and volcanic activity more than a million years ago, argues Mark Maslin, may have been the making of modern humans

Human activities, like spreading cities, transport and construction, generate a lot of noise that travels faster in water than in air.

More than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activities.

«There are far more human settlements and activities near the slopes of glaciated active volcanoes today than there were 10,000 years ago, so the effects could be catastrophic,» he says.

While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

According to the report, cacti are under increasing pressure from human activity, with more than half of the world's 1,480 cactus species used by people.

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

The Augustine committee has been asked to present an array of options in its final report, rather than endorse a single plan for NASA's future human spaceflight activities.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

Although not all ambient noise comes from human activity, a busy interstate or a new housing development is a more persistent source of noise than intermittent natural phenomena like wind and rain, Horn said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Lights from human activity shine brightly in a collection of new images showing Earth at night more clearly than ever before.

They play a key part in regulating the activity of genes in many species, from yeast to humans Fewer than 10 years ago no one knew they existed

Antimicrobial resistance threatens many aspects of human activity including medicine and agriculture and could lead to more deaths than cancer.