Some argue that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification.

For example, helping an old lady across the road ( good exterior act ) to impress someone ( bad interior act ) is wrong.

The layer can also act as a release agent, helping the product separate from its mould.

To: ' Advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system.

The concept of “ reciprocal altruism ”, as introduced by Trivers, suggests that altruism, defined as an act of helping someone else although incurring some cost for this act, could have evolved since it might be beneficial to incur this cost if there is a chance of being in a reverse situation where the person whom I helped before may perform an altruistic act towards me.

In particular, phenomena such as kin selection and eusociality, where organisms act altruistically, against their individual interests ( in the sense of health, safety or personal reproduction ) to help related organisms reproduce, can be explained as gene sets " helping " copies of themselves ( or sequences with the same phenotypic effect ) in other bodies to replicate.

Halteres thus act as a balancing and guidance system, helping these insects to perform their fast aerobatics.

Throughout the Vanish Point tour Primal Scream employed the up and coming Asian Dub Foundation as a support act, helping them to break onto the mainstream.

Orpheus tells him of his encounter with his mother and Dream's act of kindness in helping her escape again demonstrates to Dream that he has changed from before.

They act by decreasing acetylcholine effects on the smooth muscle of the bladder, thus helping control symptoms of an overactive bladder.

Parents who unschool their children act as " facilitators ," providing a range of resources, helping their children access, navigate, and make sense of the world, and aiding them in making and implementing goals and plans for both the distant and immediate future.

Leamas believes helping Fiedler destroy Mundt is a worthy act.

The person helping also has to avoid actually doing the act that leads to death, lest they be convicted under Article 114: Killing on request ( Tötung auf Verlangen ) -

He instructed his followers to become active in kiruv, literally meaning " bringing close ", the act of helping another Jew embrace his Judaism more.

Chak 2003 argues that the most persuasive web sites focus on making users feel comfortable about making decisions and helping them act on those decisions.

On 17 January 2011, the website www. theyworkforstudents. co. uk was launched by a group of independent students, to act as a " hub of information on the NUS, helping to increase scrutiny, openness and accountability ".

The Byrds went on to become a major folk-rock act, helping to popularize some of Bob Dylan's compositions and eventually launching the careers of folk-rockers like David Crosby and country-rock fusionist Gram Parsons.

People within a social act often alternate social positions ( e. g., giving / receiving, asking / helping, winning / losing, hiding / seeking, talking / listening ).

:" A bird swallows small bits of gravel that act as ' teeth ' in the gizzard, breaking down hard food such as seeds and thus helping digestion.

Eckardt and Haushofer put Hitler in contact with the Great Old Ones with their goal of helping the Nazis engineer superhuman bodies that could act as physical vehicles for these Dark Gods.

Thus it is readily seen that FA proteins also act outside of the Fanconi pathway, either by helping neutralize ROS or by taking part in DNA repair.

Therapeutic interactions work toward developing a trusting, empathic therapeutic alliance, a forensic psychologist may not ethically nurture the client or act in a " helping " role, as the forensic evaluator has divided loyalties and there are substantial limits on confidentiality he can guarantee the client.

Lynn continues with his plans recruiting Tommy Haines ( Mike Cummings ), to act as a backup man, and procures firearms from Alf Coster an arms dealer with a middle-class grocer front ( Philip Hayes ).

Their 2004 album autour de lucie was produced by a new producer, Stéphane " Alf " Briat ( known for his work with the French electronic act Air ), and saw the band return to their original sound, albeit with more sophisticated arrangements and less overt pop leanings.

These act as terminals for the inter island ferry services which carry both freight and passengers.

These include concentration gradients of small molecules such as calcium, large complexes of enzymes that act together to carry out metabolic pathways, and protein complexes such as proteasomes and carboxysomes that enclose and separate parts of the cytosol.

First, Kennedy had explicitly promised the American people less than a month before the crisis that " if Cuba should possess a capacity to carry out offensive actions against the United States ... the United States would act.

However, in plant tissues that carry on photosynthesis, carotenoids act to quench electronically excited chlorophyll produced by visible light in a process called non-photochemical quenching, in order to prevent reactions which would otherwise infere with photosynthesis at high light levels.

In these organisms, hemoglobins may carry oxygen, or they may act to transport and regulate other things such as carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, hydrogen sulfide and sulfide.

At a conference between the two Houses, it was concluded that the Commons should consent to except him from the act of indemnity, the Lords agreeing, on their part, to concur with the other House in petitioning the King, in case of the condemnation of Vane, not to carry the sentence into execution.

Neutrinos do not carry electric charge, which means that they are not affected by the electromagnetic forces that act on charged particles such as electrons and protons.

He attended to Nobunaga as he sought a moment of peace to carry out his last act, then Ranmaru likewise killed himself in the same way.

Plasmids may carry genes that provide resistance to naturally occurring antibiotics in a competitive environmental niche, or the proteins produced may act as toxins under similar circumstances.

More complex systems may carry out all of these functions: generate electricity, recover thermal energy, and also act as a roof covering.

Michigan, led by the young and hot-headed Mason, responded with the passage of the Pains and Penalties Act just six days after Lucas County was formed ; the act made it a criminal offense for Ohioans to carry out governmental actions in the Strip, under penalty of a fine up to $ 1, 000 and / or up to five years imprisonment at hard labor.

In Serbo-Croatian, for example, the consonants and ( the difference is not written ) can act as a syllable nucleus and carry rising or falling tone ; examples include the tongue-twister na vrh brda vrba mrda and geographic names such as Krk.

I tell you this because I believe that the imperialists ' aggressiveness makes them extremely dangerous, and that if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba — a brutal act in violation of universal and moral law — then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever, in an act of the most legitimate self-defense.

At one point, the Tophatters had over 30 members, and eventually split into two, with one act who wanted to carry on playing dance-band jazz calling themselves The Dukes of Swing and the other, led by Turner becoming the Kings of Rhythm.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make such rules and regulation as is necessary to carry out the provisions of the act.

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.

In this model, classes act as collections of behavior ( methods ) and structure that are the same for all instances, whereas instances carry the objects ' data.

Although defenestrations can be fatal due to the height of the window through which a person is thrown or throws oneself or due to lacerations from broken glass, the act of defenestration need not carry the intent or result of death.

Prince Dabulamanzi was considered rash and aggressive and this characterization was borne out by his violation of King Cetshwayo's order to act only in defence of Zululand against the invading British soldiers and not carry the war over the border into enemy territory.

" Designer of the first successful glider to carry a human being aloft, he discovered and identified the four aerodynamic forces of flight: weight, lift, drag, and thrust, which act on any flying vehicle.

They also carry clubs, and act as security guards in the annual Grand Magal pilgrimages to Touba.

In 1833 the railroad cut was begun, to carry the New York and Harlem Rail Road through Murray Hill ; the route under the most prominent obstacle in its right-of-way was opened 1 May 1834 ; then the locomotives, which had met the horse-cars that ran through the city's streets at the station at 27th Street, could pass the reduced hill ; by an act of 1850 the city pemitted to roof over the cut for the passage of steam locomotives.

They approve some basic action, and then professional military personnel plan the detailed act and carry it out.

Car bombs act as their own delivery mechanisms and can carry a relatively large amount of explosives without attracting suspicion ; in larger vehicles and trucks, weights of at least 7000 pounds ( 3200 kg ) have been used.