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Therapeutic touch
Therapeutic touch Definition Therapeutic touch, or TT, is a noninvasive method of healing derived from an ancient laying-on of hands technique. In TT, the practitioner alters the patient's energy field through a transfer of energy from the hands of the practitioner to the... Read more |
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dominant
dominant 1. (in genetics) Describing the allele that is expressed in the phenotype when two different alleles of a gene are present in the cells of an organism. For example, the height of garden peas is controlled by two alleles, ‘tall’ (T) and ‘dwarf’ (t). When both are... Read more |
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Saint Walburga
Saint Walburga , d. c.779, English missionary in Germany; sister of St. Willibald. She went there to assist St. Boniface, settling at Heidenheim, near Eichstätt (NW of Ingolstadt), where another brother, Winnebald (or Wynbald), had an abbey. St. Walburga's convent became a principal center of... Read more |
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barycentric coordinates
Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB) The time‐scale used in the Barycentric Celestial Reference System, the unit of which is the SI second. TCB differs from Terrestrial Time (TT) because of the movement of the Earth in the Barycentric Celestial Reference System and the Earth's immersion in the... Read more |
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Heavy Metals
Heavy Metals The heavy metals, which include copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and chromium (Cr), are common trace constituents in the earth crust. Their concentrations in the ambient environment have increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution,... Read more |
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ephemeris time
ephemeris time (ET), astronomical time defined by the orbital motions of the earth, moon, and planets. The earth does not rotate with uniform speed, so the solar day is an imprecise unit of time. Ephemeris time is calculated from the positions of the sun and moon relative to the earth, assuming... Read more |
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Ramon Perez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala , 1880?-1962, Spanish writer. He was educated at Jesuit schools, which he satirized in the novel A.M.D.G. (1910). His early realistic novels, among them The Fox's Paw (1912, tr. 1924), reveal ties with the Generation of '98 . After 1916 his novels became... Read more |
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more |
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Francisco Romero
Francisco Romero , 1891-1962, Argentine philosopher and essayist, b. Seville, Spain. One of the most prominent philosophers of Latin America, he was the leading representative of a reaction against the materialist doctrines of positivism in vogue at the turn of the century. A central theme in his... Read more |
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Jose Zorrilla y Moral
Zorrilla y Moral, José (1817–93), Spanish poet and dramatist of the Romantic movement. His best known play is Don Juan Tenorio (1844), which added yet another version to the numerous interpretations of the Don Juan legend. It is still performed in Spanish theatres, traditionally on All... Read more |
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