Memes spread by the behaviors that they generate in their hosts.

Memes that fit within a successful memeplex may gain acceptance by " piggybacking " on the success of the memeplex.

* Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, book by Alister McGrath

In the 2010s, the Organization abandoned Joshua, who then joined the Reconstruction after the Eurowar and worked in Quito, Ecuador on the GeoSync Cable and saw with Alice the beginning of the development of memes that would unify all countries and religions, leading to the War of the Memes ( referred to in some of Barnes ' other books ) that culminated in the takeover of Earth by One True.

From Sadi, whom Joshua had met as a woman after the Eurowar and was partnered with when Sadi was male during the War of the Memes, Joshua learns that it's possible to go through the singularity to 1988, when the technology to construct it was first built and put into orbit by the Soviets.

* " It's All About You ( album )", an album by Rebecca F & The Memes

“ Memes stay in memory and they are affected by marketers ”.

* " Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device ": article by Susan Blackmore.

Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts.

Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.

Memes, analogously to genes, vary in their aptitude to replicate ; memes that are good at getting themselves copied tend to spread and remain, whereas the less good ones have a higher probability of being ignored and forgotten.

Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and ( for better or for worse ) mutate.

Memes spread in cognitive transmission do not count as self-replicating.

Memes, in this sense, are a philosophical method ; they aren't a scientific object.

* Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life ( 2005 ) ISBN 1-4051-2538-1 ( A critique of scientist Richard Dawkins ' attitude towards religion )

See also Stephen Downes, Hacking Memes ( First Monday, volume 4, issue 11 ) for a detailed description of meme hacks.

The president's opportunity for influencing education reaches its highest point, as he decides which projects he will cut back, which he will advance by increased allowances or new fund-raising efforts.

After the Second World War, manufacturers in Europe and the Far East, such as Mercedes-Benz buses and Mitsubishi Fuso expanded into other continents influencing the use of buses previously served by local types.

The uncertainty of daily survival has been seen as creating a general mood of morbidity, influencing people to " live for the moment ", as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron ( 1353 ).

Rainfall patterns and temperature seasonality determine the amount of water available to the ecosystem and the supply of energy available ( by influencing photosynthesis ).

Monetary policy works partly by influencing how much interest the private banks charge each other for the lending of these funds.

* FLIM ( Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy ) can be used to detect certain bio-molecular interactions that manifest themselves by influencing fluorescence lifetimes.

His approach of influencing public policy by denying peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence concerning health and environmental topics has been criticized.

Influential critics, above all John Ruskin, far from denouncing mediaeval obscurantism, praised the imagination and fantasy exemplified by its Gothic architecture, influencing the Pre-Raphaelites.

The binding affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen is increased by the oxygen saturation of the molecule, with the first oxygens bound influencing the shape of the binding sites for the next oxygens, in a way favorable for binding.

His thought is an early influence on green anarchism but with an emphasis on the individual experience of the natural world influencing later naturist currents, simple living as a rejection of a materialist lifestyle and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy.

Both streams have existed side by side for few thousands of years, influencing each other.

Kemp is also remembered alongside George Wallace and William Jennings Bryan for influencing history by changing the direction of presidential elections despite their defeats.

As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

Jean is resurrected in this future timeline and becomes the fully realized White Phoenix of the Crown, using the abilities of the Phoenix Force to defeat Sublime and eliminate the dystopic future by reaching back in time and influencing Cyclops to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school together.

RFT theorists introduced the concept of functional contextualism in language learning, which emphasizes the importance of predicting and influencing psychological events, such as thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, by focusing on manipulable variables in their context.

Proteins that bind to either the 3 ' or 5 ' UTR may affect translation by influencing the ribosome's ability to bind to the mRNA.

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument.

One notable citation as an influence was by Kurt Cobain, on influencing Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ", which he admitted was a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies ' style.

" ( p. 432 ) The paper ends with a call to action: " Pain can be treated not only by trying to cut down the sensory input by anesthetic block, surgical intervention and the like, but also by influencing the motivational-affective and cognitive factors as well.

In addition, Bo Diddley introduced a new beat and unique electric guitar style, heavily influenced by African music and in turn influencing many later artists.

Modern romantic nationalism in the United States, characterized by the myth of the frontier, the assertion of natural dominance over North and South America expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, and the belief that U. S .- style democracy should prevail over other cultures ( e. g. Project for the New American Century ), has strongly influenced American foreign policy and is influencing global conflicts, and religious, ethnic and nationalist alignments.

All of these claims, however, are generally not supported by martial arts historians because the idea of Bodhidharma influencing Shaolin boxing is based on a forged qigong manual written during the 17th century.

The design is considered by many to be one of the most successful computers in history, influencing computer design for years to come.

Meanwhile, the experts speak of wars triggered by `` false pre-emption '', `` escalation '', `` unauthorized behavior '' and other terms that will be discussed in this report.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.

Something of the behavior of clouds of small particles can be illustrated by the following field trials:

The behavior of a biological aerosol, on a much smaller scale, is illustrated by a specific field trial conducted with a non-pathogenic organism.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

Although no national norms exist for the social development of children, the teacher can find a great deal of information concerning types of social behavior normally displayed by children at various age levels.

For example, it is evinced by the adolescent ( or adult ) whose beliefs and actions represent primarily his rebellion and reaction against the ideas and behavior patterns of others, rather than his inner conviction and choice.

It is mirrored by the individual Willie Lohmans, whose ideas and behavior patterns are so dependent and relativistic that they always coincide with those of the individual or group present and most important at the moment.

For example, some contemporary writing tends to fuse the `` good guys '' and the `` bad guys '', to portray the weak people as heroes and weakness as a virtue, and to explain ( or even justify ) asocial behavior by attributing it to deterministic psychological, familial, and social experiences.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

Theories of apparently altruistic behavior were accelerated by the need to produce theories compatible with evolutionary origins.

One is that people will be more helping when they know that their helping behavior will be communicated to people they will interact with later, is publicly announced, is discussed, or is simply being observed by someone else.

Another experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted in 2007 at the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina suggests a different view, " that altruistic behavior may originate from how people view the world rather than how they act in it ".

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

However, this did not explain similarities between different atoms, as expressed by the periodic table, such as the fact that helium ( 2 electrons ), neon ( 10 electrons ), and argon ( 18 electrons ) exhibit similar chemical behavior.

However, in general, an electron's behavior is not fully described by a single orbital.

They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.

Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for drunk driving or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior, and may lead to a criminal sentence.

She believes that he would not have stooped to unethical behavior if he had not been devastated by her abandonment and in dire financial straits.

Another famous anecdote from his job was used by Whorf to argue that language use affects habitual behavior.