The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's reactions on visiting the Pont du Gard in 1737 produced in him the response that Hitler hoped for Berlin, to impress with its grandeur.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le Devin du Village ( part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons )

Rousseau's natural man significantly differs from, and is a response to, that of Hobbes ; Rousseau explicitly points this out at various points throughout his work.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

Many amplifiers are ultimately slew rate limited ( typically by the impedance of a drive current having to overcome capacitive effects at some point in the circuit ), which sometimes limits the full power bandwidth to frequencies well below the amplifier's small-signal frequency response.

Coin grading services are a relatively recent phenomenon, having emerged in the 1980s as a response to the need for buyers and sellers to agree on common measures of a coin's value.

In response, the royal house would be overthrown, and a new house would rule, having been granted the Mandate of Heaven.

In May 2011, in response to the increase presence of Over-the-Top ( OTT ) programming, the CRTC put a call out to the public to provide input on the impact OTT programming is having on Canadian content and existing broadcasting subscriptions through satellite and cable.

Many Earth plants and animals undergo major biochemical changes during their life cycles as a response to changing environmental conditions, for example, by having a spore or hibernation state that can be sustained for years or even millennia between more active life stages.

As a response to the criticism encountered, censored versions of the game were released in certain countries to avoid having it banned altogether.

He puts forward the idea that when men have the opportunity to possess property and work on it, they will “ learn to love the very soil which yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of the good things for themselves and those that are dear to them .” He states also that owning property is not only beneficial for a person and their family, but is in fact a right, due to God having “... given the earth for the use and enjoyment of the whole human race ”.

When the previously experienced scene fails to come to mind in response to viewing the new scene, that previously experienced scene in memory can still exert an effect — that effect may be a feeling of familiarity with the new scene that is subjectively experienced as a feeling of deja vu, or of having been there before despite knowing otherwise.

This results from systems composed solely of components ( or digital algorithms ) classified as having a linear response.

The input x is said to be " convolved " with the impulse response h having a ( possibly infinite ) duration of time T ( or of N sampling periods ).

With most IIR transfer functions there are related transfer functions having a frequency response with the same magnitude but a different phase ; in most case the so-called minimum phase transfer function is preferred.

His response to the threat of the rack was " Minare ista pueris are only for boys ", and he denied having encouraged Catholics to pray for the success of the " Catholic Cause ".

This is useful for retrieving meta-information written in response headers, without having to transport the entire content.

Immediate antibody-mediated allergic reactions ( wheals ) have been elicited in infected persons, but not in healthy persons ; immediate hypersensitivity of this type is thought to explain the observed far more rapid allergic skin response to reinfection seen in persons having been previously infected ( especially having been infected within the previous year or two ).

In 475 BC, in response to an oracle, Cimon of Athens, having conquered Skyros for the Athenians, identified as the remains of Theseus " a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword.

The album received a muted response, in part because many tracks had been given a commercial sheen, having been remixed by outside producers at the label's insistence.

He suffered a severe immune response after having received an adenovirus vector.

This occurs commonly in the setting of gastrointestinal illness such as viral gastroenteritis or acute cholecystitis, or in response to other stimuli, including carotid sinus massage, Valsalva maneuver, or pain from any cause, in particular, having blood drawn.

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

In response, Belgium withdrew all of its peacekeepers, blaming UNAMIR for failing to rescue their men, despite not having the mandate or the capacity to do so, leaving the UN mission utterly unable to respond to the ensuing violence.

However, the critical response to the album was generally very positive, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic claiming " The world is a better place for having Supergrass in it.

In some areas, emergency responders are provided with specialized equipment, such as an Mobile Infrared Transmitter, which allows emergency response vehicles, particularly fire fighting apparatus, to have high-priority travel by having the lights along their route change to green.

Rider is described in the book as having buttocks like a boy, which brought a response from Fleming's friend Noël Coward that " I was also slightly shocked by the lascivious announcement that Honeychile's bottom was like a boy's.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

She looked confused at this, and I felt sure it had been a wrong response for me to make.

But thus far there has been no response in kind.

This response is mostly secondary because salamanders have been observed to remain stationary near odoriferous prey but only feed if it moves.

The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

However, with the use of cre-lox technology, a caspase 8 knock-out has been created that exhibits an increase in peripheral T cells, an impaired T cell response, and a defect in neural tube closure.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

They have also been shown to act as mechano-sensory receptors — regulating the bone's response to stress and mechanical load.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

Kante created N ’ Ko in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a " cultureless people " since prior to this time there had been no indigenous African writing system for his language.

In France, zolpidem has also been used in diagnosis, and response may occur within the same time period.

The treatment is based on the theory that the fear response has been classically conditioned, and that avoidance of it negatively reinforces and maintains the fear.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

As a response to the increased global sedentarity and consequent overweight and obesity, one response that has been adopted by many organizations concerned with health and environment is the promotion of Active travel, which seeks to promote walking and cycling as safe and attractive alternatives to motorized transport.