Malcolm Gladwell wrote, " A meme is an idea that behaves like a virus -- that moves through a population, taking hold in each person it infects.

Consider, for example, what happens when an object in the periphery of the visual field moves, and a person looks toward it.

A housewarming party may be held when a family, couple, or person moves into a new house or apartment.

Waxy flexibility is when someone physically moves part of a catatonic person's body and the person stays in the position even if it is bizarre and otherwise nonfunctional ( such as moving a person's arm straight up in the air and the arm stays there ).

The output of a fixed radio frequency oscillator is mixed with that of an oscillator whose frequency is affected by the variable capacitance between the antenna and the thereminist as that person moves her or his hand near the pitch control antenna.

The Mesopotamians believed that the soul, or some part of it, moves out from the body of the sleeping person and actually visits the places and persons the dreamer sees in his sleep.

This implies that in constant time, a person or computer could list all of the possible moves from a given start configuration and discover a winning set of moves or, assuming the game cannot be solved, the lack thereof.

Just as CP can affect the way a person moves their arms and legs, it can also affect the way they move their mouth, face and head.

When a person moves from a cold climate to a hot climate, adaptive changes occur in the sweating mechanisms of the person.

Instead, a person in the crowded row moves into the empty seat the first person left behind.

The empty seat moves one spot closer to the edge and the person waiting to sit down.

As they exit that room, a person in the audience suddenly moves.

The names of moves may be somewhat arbitrary and vary from person to person and city to city.

The individual's awareness of first, second, and third person perspectives, and of each one's input needs and output needs, moves through a general pattern that is basically the same as Maslow's described pattern.

Pairs of dancers form a circle (" Rueda " in Spanish means " Wheel "), with dance moves called out by one person.

If the eye moves from out to in, the person has exotropia.

This usually takes about six or seven years, and after that the significant other is no longer needed, the child moves on to a general other which is not a real person, but an abstract notion of what society deems good or bad.

A unique version of April appeared in the final issues of Star Trek: Early Voyages where he appeared as a stubborn and extremely militaristic person, who ordered an attack against an unknown ship that was making provocative moves against the Enterprise, despite the fact that Number One was in command.

A chair is attached to the rail and the person on the chair is lifted as the chair moves along the rail.

This is clarified by the statement that God can communicate with people in many ways ( the next song you hear, the next sunset you experience, the next time you hear laughter, the next movie that really moves you ), and not necessarily through words ' spoken ' by God to a person.

Please do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.

With this movie-to-be in London, and new faces about her there, she would soon be a more tranquil, a wiser person, all the better for her stay out here.

This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina.

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

A person experiencing a panic attack will often feel as if he or she is about to die or lose consciousness.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

Little is known about Omari's life, and it is unclear whether some information refers to Omari or another person by that name.

Evangelical Protestants who use anointing differ about whether the person doing the anointing must be an ordained member of the clergy, whether the oil must necessarily be olive oil and have been previously specially consecrated, and about other details.

He organizes trios with the singers separated, while his duets are sung together, about a third person.

It ’ s not something any one person should do about another.

A teacher at Highland High School and arguably the only person who cares about Beavis and Butt-Head.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

* Stephen Kuusisto wrote about his experiences as a visually impaired person in Planet of the Blind, and his upcoming memoir, Eavesdropping: A Life By Ear.

* D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications ( 2011 )

This is highly unusual in a relatively well-documented period for a person of such distinction who was still only about 33 years old.

A Bildungsroman tells about the growing up or coming of age of a sensitive person who is looking for answers and experience.

On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain of Portland, Oregon, became the first person to swim the Columbia River's entire length, in an effort to raise public awareness about the river's environmental health.