: One or more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of one's past and either the loss of one's identity or the formation of a new identity occur with sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home.

We will now consider the purportedly “ positive argument ” for design encompassed in the phrase used numerous times by Professors Behe and Minnich throughout their expert testimony, which is the “ purposeful arrangement of parts .” Professor Behe summarized the argument as follows: We infer design when we see parts that appear to be arranged for a purpose.

" In other words, Weber argued that social phenomena can be understood scientifically only to the extent that they are captured by models of the behaviour of purposeful individuals, models which Weber called " ideal types ," from which actual historical events will necessarily deviate due to accidental and irrational factors.

Whereas the " higher " law Aristotle suggested one could appeal to was emphatically natural, in contradistinction to being the result of divine positive legislation, the Stoic natural law was indifferent to the divine or natural source of the law: the Stoics asserted the existence of a rational and purposeful order to the universe ( a divine or eternal law ), and the means by which a rational being lived in accordance with this order was the natural law, which spelled out action that accorded with virtue.

" More comprehensive is the description by Richard Alan Nelson: " Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages ( which may or may not be factual ) via mass and direct media channels.

Natural theology was not a unified doctrine, and while some such as Louis Agassiz were strongly opposed to the ideas in the book, others sought a reconciliation in which evolution was seen as purposeful.

* The final cause is that for the sake of which a thing exists, or is done-including both purposeful and instrumental actions.

The role of an occupational therapist is to work with a client to help them achieve a fulfilled and satisfied state in life through the use of " purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability and which develop, improve, sustain or restore the highest possible level of independence.

In 1971 the Standardization policy of Sri Lankan universities was introduced as an affirmative action program for students from areas which had poor educational facilities due to 200 years purposeful discrimination by British colonialists.

Benn's poetry offers an introverted nihilism: an existentialist philosophy which sees artistic expression as the only purposeful action.

Another key division within ASL is the Department of Student Success, which provides educationally purposeful programs, events, services and activities that promote academic, personal and professional growth within and beyond the classroom.

Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist ; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, in which, with purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word " No!

The psychic value of a man consists in being able to conceive ( think ) of the ends of his actions as purposeful ideas, which are distinct from the actions required to realise a given idea.

The Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike which would mark the modern age of labor relations in the United States.

Damage to the corpus callosum can give rise to " purposeful " actions in the sufferer's non-dominant hand ( an individual who is left-hemisphere-dominant will experience the left hand becoming alien, and the right hand will turn alien in the person with right-hemisphere dominance ) as well as a problem termed " intermanual conflict " in which the two hands appear to be directed at opposing purposes.

The ' alien ' movements, however, remain purposeful and goal-directed, a point which clearly differentiates these movements from other forms of involuntary limb movement ( e. g., athetosis, chorea, or myoclonus ).

Köhler concluded that the chimps had not arrived at these methods through trial-and-error ( which American psychologist Edward Thorndike had claimed to be the basis of all animal learning, through his law of effect ), but rather that they had experienced an insight, in which, having realized the answer, they then proceeded to carry it out in a way that was, in Köhler ’ s words, “ unwaveringly purposeful .”

The resolution, which touches on the many highlights of Collins's career, reads, in part, " It is the sense of this Legislative Body to take note of and publicly acknowledge the significant milestones of those individuals from this noble Empire State who have distinguished themselves through their exemplary careers, pioneering spirit and purposeful lives.

One core result of Holzkamp's historical and comparative analysis of human reproductive action, perception and cognition is a very specific concept of meaning that identifies symbolic meaning as historically and culturally constructed, purposeful conceptual structures that humans create in close relationship to material culture and within the context of historically specific formations of social reproduction.

An evaluation of an action as stemming from purposeful action or accidental circumstances is the key determinant in social interaction.

The diagnosis and evaluation made by the commission was that " Grigorenko's activity had a purposeful character, it was related to concrete events and facts … It did not reveal any signs of illness or delusions.

The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life partners with campus administrators, local and national volunteers as well as alumni members to encourage purposeful campus programming and service learning opportunities that promote lifelong friendships.

It was not, however, until the 1850 that the Bulgarians initiated a purposeful struggle against the Greek clerics in a number of bishoprics demanding their replacement with Bulgarian ones as well as other changes such as the use of Church-Slavonic in liturgy and fixed salaries for bishops.

:... One of the most well known ways our tradition has been able to hold onto both the scientific theory of evolution as well as the concept of a purposeful creation was by reading the creation story in Genesis in a more allegorical sense.

Only recently has the study of motivational processes been extended to integrate biological drives and emotional states in the explanation of purposeful behaviour in human beings.

Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.

This is considered to be neither purposeful plagiarism nor pure coincidence: Nietzsche's sister confirmed that he had indeed read the original account when he was 11 years old ; and Nietzsche's youthful intellectual prowess, his later cognitive degeneration due to neurosyphilis, and his accompanying psychological deterioration ( specifically, his increasing grandiosity as manifested in his later behavior and writings ) together strengthen the likelihood that he happened to commit the passage to memory upon initially reading it and later, after having lost his memory of encountering it, assumed that his own mind had created it.

For every man whose foot has touched this hallowed soil, has found a spirit, and has broadened and deepened it until what started out as an ambitionless meandering stream has become a purposeful river upon whose tide, now turbulent, now tranquil, floats the destiny of countless human hopes and dreams .”

He called upon Iranian musicians to produce purposeful and meaningful music.

In medicine, consciousness is assessed as a combination of verbal behavior, arousal, brain activity and purposeful movement.

The scientific literature regarding the neural bases of arousal and purposeful movement is very extensive.

Whereas the philosophical approach to consciousness focuses on its fundamental nature and its contents, the medical approach focuses on the amount of consciousness a person has: in medicine, consciousness is assessed as a " level " ranging from coma and brain death at the low end, to full alertness and purposeful responsiveness at the high end.

Within the definitional framework adopted here, all such things amount to ( psychological ) coercion if and only if the fear of falling out with the group is the result of purposeful threats by someone.

This purposeful random walk is a result of simply choosing between two methods of random movement ; namely tumbling and straight swimming.

However, the METI factor can also be viewed as somewhat misleading since active, purposeful transmission of messages by a civilization is not required for them to receive a broadcast sent by another that is, for example, seeking first contact.

The Zulu impi is popularly identified with the ascent of Shaka ( also rendered T ' chaka ), ruler of the relatively small Zulu tribe before its explosion across the landscape of southern Africa, but its earliest shape as a purposeful instrument of statecraft lies in the innovations of the Mwetha chieftain Dingiswayo, according to some historians ( Morris 1965 ).

He further testified that he knew of no earlier " peer reviewed articles in scientific journals discussing the intelligent design of the blood clotting cascade ," but that there were " probably a large number of peer reviewed articles in science journals that demonstrate that the blood clotting system is indeed a purposeful arrangement of parts of great complexity and sophistication.

The difference is purposeful creation of an environment likely to produce incriminating information ( Massiah ) and action likely to induce an incriminating response even if that was not the officer's purpose or intent ( Miranda ).

It is not simply a self-ordered process ; it involves an organized, “ purposeful ” activity .</ span >

Leitwortstil is ' the purposeful repetition of words ' in a given literary piece that " usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story ".

It is seen as a rational or purposeful behavior because a person weighs the costs and benefits.

Although this was the only application stated by Captain Kirk in " The Return of the Archons ", by the 24th Century, it had been indicated to include purposeful efforts to improve or change in any way the natural course of such a society, even if that change is well-intentioned and kept completely secret.

Apraxia ( from the Greek root word praxis, for an act, work, or deed, preceded by an privative a, meaning without ) is characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements.

At around 6 – 18 months there is a period of developmental stagnation followed by a developmental regression where language and motor milestones regress, purposeful hand use is lost, and acquired deceleration in the rate of head growth ( resulting in microcephaly in some ) is seen.