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retrovirus
retrovirus type of RNA virus that, unlike other RNA viruses, reproduces by transcribing itself into DNA. An enzyme called reverse transcriptase allows a retrovirus's RNA to act as the template for this RNA-to-DNA transcription. The resultant DNA inserts itself into a cell's DNA and is reproduced... Read more |
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phoenix
phoenix fabulous bird that periodically regenerated itself, used in literature as a symbol of death and resurrection. According to legend, the phoenix lived in Arabia; when it reached the end of its life (500 years), it burned itself on a pyre of flames, and from the ashes a new phoenix arose. As a... Read more |
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Waino Aaltonen
Aaltonen, Wäinö (1894–1966). Finnish sculptor, born at Marttila, near Turku, the son of a village tailor. He became deaf in childhood and took up art as a way of overcoming his disability, studying painting at the School of Drawing of the Turku Art Association, 1910–15, and... Read more |
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Embodiment
Embodiment What concept of embodiment —of the bodily becoming of life itself and of any life-form—emerges in the interstices of religion and science? All religions minister to the vulnerabilities and passions of the body, lending meaning to mortality through practices of ritual,... Read more |
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Bobbio
Bobbio , town, in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy. It is a commercial center and a summer resort. St. Columban founded a monastery there in 612, and during the 9th-12th cent. it was a center of European cultural life. The monastery later declined, and the invaluable manuscripts of its great... Read more |
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Leisure
LeisureDefinition of leisureThe sociology of leisureBIBLIOGRAPHYSome authors hold that leisure has existed in all civilizations at all periods. This is not the view that will be taken in this article. Time-out is of course as venerable an institution as work itself. But leisure has certain traits... Read more |
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Digestion
DIGESTION CONCEPT Digestion is the process whereby the foods we eat pass through our bodies and are directed toward the purposes of either providing the body with energy or building new cellular material, such as fat or muscle. The parts of food that the body cannot use,... Read more |
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Drowning
drowning Drowning has always enjoyed mythic power. The Deluge, the sinking of the Titanic, and the drowning of Virginie in J. St Pierre's eighteenth-century bestseller Paul et Virginie (1788), are just some of the memorable drownings that carry with them arresting images of mankind's relation with... Read more |
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Necrotizing enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis Definition Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious bacterial infection in the intestine, primarily affecting sick or premature newborn infants. It can cause the death (necrosis) of intestinal tissue and progress to blood poisoning... Read more |
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Equal protection
EQUAL PROTECTION The constitutional guarantee that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws that is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in like circumstances in their lives, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence... Read more |
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photography
...century comprehension of the body itself within the emerging sciences. Ethnographers...photographs that emerged, the body itself was recorded in increasingly...on Christopher Isherwood's life in Berlin in the 1920s, I Am...this genre in which the body itself ... |
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State, The
...alternative is anarchy and a life both “brutish and short.” Given...the state. The Constitution itself confirmed the relevance of...somehow cope with threats to itself while maintaining the liberties...War tested the limits of war itself, while its political ... |
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feminism
...Political Union on which it modelled itself. There were some working...rising of 1916 (it addressed itself to Irishmen and Irishwomen, and...and in 1947 incorporated into itself the remnants of the IWSLGA. A small...education, employment, and public life. ... |
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joints
...restrict movement. The movement itself also depends on the arrangement...during the sixth week of fetal life, and develop from embryonic...surfaces involved in the joint itself. The opposing surfaces of bone...with more resilience than bone itself, which ... |
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perception
...fairly new notion that perception itself is an intelligent activity, requiring...the intelligence of perception itself.Are perceptions simply picked up by...time — in the world before life, existing apart from mind...clearly that red light is not itself red, ... |
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heart
...quintessentially represented life. Until the advent of the heart–lung machine...The heart, appropriately, is itself the first organ supplied with blood from the aorta...consideration of contraction itself.Electrical aspectsThe left...spontaneously within the heart ... |
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blood letting
...food. A normal body nourished itself from this blood, excreting waste material...the body's way of ridding itself of waste products.Blood letting...that is to help the body rid itself of ‘peccant’ or harmful matter that was causing inflammation...performed by lay people as a ... |
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vampire
...that continues to replicate itself throughout our culture rather...a mouldering corpse dragging itself out of graves to feed off the life-blood of the living. Premature...is Eastern Europe. The word itself is believed to be of Magyar... |
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death
...unprecedented as heart transplantation itself — a radically new issue produced...If death means the end of life, defining death implies defining life — a long-contentious issue indeed...changes in the concept of death itself, prompted in large part by... |
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drowning
...with nature, death, God, and itself. But as a theme in the history...physiological states and processes of life and death. The implementation of...idea of a ‘suspension’ of life intelligible. Second, because...popular accounts of the body itself, and these ... |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. J.
...established by social practice itself. To give the meaning of a word...depends on use, and use is itself established only in the context...about our inner, subjective life have to be rejected. Indeed, widely held images of language itself as an external ... |
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Lacan, Jacques
...major focus of intellectual life in Paris. His work, which...who has previously thought of itself not as a separate being from...is the mother/other and not itself. It is this misinterpretation...desire to have the mother to itself. Lacan argues that it is ... |
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Romans, Pauls epistle to the
...infiltrated into Caesar's palace itself. The Church had travelled...In fact, he claims, the OT itself shows that God chooses people quite...at the centre of a believing life (10: 4). The Law was not so much bad in itself, therefore (it is ‘holy... |
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labour theory of value
...private-property ownership itself.Almost thirty years elapsed...symbolized by the existence of money itself, is the exchange of equivalents...food and other necessities of life to enable them to continue presenting themselves...without recourse to the theory ... |
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Sex and religion
...fundamental in human and other life, it is not surprising that religions...well-recognized. This, in itself, reinforced the male control...control? In China this lent itself to the quest for immortality and the gaining...longer an end of that kind in itself. ... |
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class consciousness
...transition from a ‘class in itself’ (a category of people having...production) to a ‘class for itself’ (a stratum organized in...constituting this class in itself involves a set of environmental...mechanization), a distinctive way of life and distinctive ... |
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false consciousness
...by thought in the collective life of humanity. False consciousness...subversive of the ruling class itself in that their liberating thrust...the symptoms and not the thing itself), actual consciousness, and...emergence of the ‘class for itself. Lukács in ... |
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Parsons, Talcott
...American who worked all his life in the United States, apart...as the post-war consensus itself showed signs of dissolving...Similarly, the social system itself has four subsystems, these...adaptation). Each of these can, itself, be seen in terms of ... |
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protestant ethic
...capital as a duty or end in itself. This, in itself, is an irrational attitude...modern orientation to everyday life, since religion entails a choice...methodical conduct of their everyday lives. This theme is common to the...assurance of salvation, which is ... |
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God
...contrasting rural and urban life; a similar idea is found in De Re Rustica...otherwise accounted for. The phrase itself is recorded from the mid 20th century...sends cooks anything which is in itself good or useful may be spoiled or perverted...establishment of something ... |
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focus
focus • noun 1. schools are a focus of community life synonyms: center, focal point, central point, center...concentrate on, center on, zero in on, zoom in on; address itself to, pay attention to, pinpoint, revolve around, have as... |
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lonely
...desolate, forlorn, cheerless, down, blue.antonym: popular. 2. the lonely life of a writer synonyms: solitary, unaccompanied, lone, by oneself/itself, companionless.antonym: sociable. 3. a lonely road synonyms: deserted, uninhabited... |
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opinion
...affected by your personal feelings or biases (his views on life were essentially optimistic), while a sentiment is a more...religious beliefs; his belief in the power of the body to heal itself). A conviction is a firmly-held and unshakable belief whose... |
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origin
origin • noun 1. the origin of life synonyms: beginning, start, commencement, origination, genesis...often applies to causes that were in operation before the thing itself was brought into being. Source, on the other hand, applies to... |
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sensuous
...appetites or gratification of the senses as an end in itself (he leads a life of sensual excess). Luxurious implies indulgence...the pleasures of eating and drinking (the epicurean life of a king and his courtiers). To be voluptuous is... |
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Blackness-In-Itself and Blackness-For-Itself: Frantz Fanon's Program for...
...take on the in-itself and for-itself owes a debt to Hegel (1975...conceptualization of thought-in-itself and thoughtfor- itself. For Hegel, thought is the instrument...the "highest and most inward life" of the mind (Hegel 1975:15... |
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Complexity theory applied to itself
...and test the new language itself. Piecemeal hints at applying complexity theory to itself appear in the literature...apply complexity theory to itself. As these are just early...maybe even the origin of life? Yet it is natural to be... |
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The ANC must save it from itself.
...scorned, has become a way of life. Doing business with the government...is time that the ANC cleansed itself of fake ANC members, or those...argue, that the ANC cleansed itself and perhaps decided to become...party was built. The ANC got itself into this ... |
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NBC horror series 'Fear Itself' features individual stories directed by genre...
...an upcoming episode of "Fear Itself" called "Community." The story...Mad Men," the lure of "Fear Itself" was, well, fear itself. "I love walking around being...horror fan _ who fights for her life inside a remote police station... |
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NBC launches horror anthology series 'Fear Itself'
...an upcoming episode of "Fear Itself" called "Community." The story...Mad Men," the lure of "Fear Itself" was, well, fear itself. "I love walking around being...horror fan -- who fights for her life inside a remote police station... |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA REMAKING ITSELF ON INTERNET.(MAIN)
...three centuries, Britannica was itself doomed by the Age of Information...Christmas week gaves no sense of a life and death struggle here in the...may have been late in molding itself to the computer age, but it...Britannica afloat if it did not adapt itself ... |
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History doesn't repeat itself, people repeat what has worked in history.(News)
...that "history has repeated itself." People read such analogies...events, people get on with their lives. Normally, such news stories...repeat it. The "history repeats itself" tactic has always struck me...living thing that can divide itself or be cloned or ... |
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IT'S ALL ABOUT 'THE THING ITSELF'.(Editorial)(Column)
...Karzai. That is "the thing itself." The main reason our Iraq...their own guns and their own lives, taking on both al-Qaida...extremists. That is the thing itself, and right now I'm not seeing...avoid looking at "the thing itself" is with our banks. What we... |
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ECRI rebrands itself to reflect its reach and roots: key executive: but it's...
...This year, ECRI rebranded itself again, retaining the popular...find it necessary to rebrand itself as ECRI Institute? ROTHMAN...How does ECRI differentiate itself from what it considers the competition...and profoundly affect the lives of the patients you ... |
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Poem Under No Illusions of Itself as an Olive Branch.(Poem)
...tombstone in order to characterize itself as a poem of witness. All it's ever wanted was to pick itself up by the bootstraps of its...picking a fight with the dull life of its reality. It never asked...for lost causes larger than itself. It's more like an ... |
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