Human sexual activity, like many other kinds of activity engaged in by humans, is generally influenced by social rules that are culturally specific and vary widely.

* The Bosman I like ( 1981 ) edited by Patrick Mynhardt ISBN 0-7981-1179-8 Human & Rousseau

When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.

The research psychologist Gary Marcus's book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind compares evolutionary kluges with engineering ones like manifold vacuum-powered windshield wipers – when you accelerated or drove uphill, " Your wipers slowed to a crawl, or even stopped working altogether.

“ By allowing deals with Burma ’ s state-owned oil company, the U. S. looks like it caved to industry pressure and undercut Aung San Suu Kyi and others in Burma who are promoting government accountability ,” HRW ’ s Business and Human Rights Director Arvind Ganesan said.

New Wave became a catch-all term, encompassing disparate styles such as 2 Tone ska, the mod revival inspired by The Jam, the sophisticated pop-rock of Elvis Costello and XTC, the New Romantic phenomenon typified by Ultravox, synthpop groups like Tubeway Army ( which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band ) and Human League, and the sui generis subversions of Devo, who had gone " beyond punk before punk even properly existed ".

Descartes in his Passions of the Soul and The Description of the Human Body suggested that the body works like a machine, that it has material properties.

Organizations like the International Humanist and Ethical Union use the " Happy Human " symbol, based on a 1965 design by Denis Barrington </ center >

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle.

However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character ( which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon ) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman.

Human capital is substitutable, but not transferable like land, labor, or fixed capital.

The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two tribes, the Só ' taeo ' o ( more commonly as Sutaio ) and the Tsétsêhéstâhese ( more commonly as the Tsitsistas ; singular: Tsétsêhéstaestse ), which translates to " those like us " or " Human Beings.

Human members in the Culture setting vary in size, colour and shape as in reality, and with possibly even further natural differences: in the novella The State of the Art, it is mentioned that a character " looks like a Yeti ", and that there is variance among the Culture in minor details such as the number of toes or of joints on each finger.

Human sacrifice is intended to bring good fortune and to pacify the gods, for example in the context of the dedication of a completed building like a temple or bridge.

One resident of a township told Human Rights Watch that it was like living in a " low-class motel ".

In some cases, the aliens already look much like Humans-in the Star Trek franchise, in the 133 years before their participation in first contact in 2063, no fewer than six Vulcans spent significant amounts of time on Earth ( though none were " invaders "-three were shipwreck survivors, the other half time travelers, in the company of at least one Human, from a future where their respective worlds were political allies ), and were able to pass themselves as Human simply by using hair or hats to conceal their pointed ears ; likewise the Bajoran Kira Nerys needed only to put a Band-Aid on her ridged nose, while at the same time the Trill Jadzia Dax was able to pass off her natural spots as tattoos.

True patriots are no longer champions of Democracy, Communism, or anything like that but champions of the Human Race.

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code ( 1979 ), the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms ( 1977 ), and the Alberta Bill of Rights ( 1972 ) also contain devices like the notwithstanding clause.

It did, however, feature prophetic female vocals by guest vocalists Lisa Strike and Katie Kissoon sounding like the yet-to-be-formed future Human League of 1981.

In 2001, paraphrasing an NME headline from 1980, Oakey once famously quipped: " The Human League: one day all music will be made like this!

Nelson played many shows with the band and also contributed to music for future songs like: " War Inside My Head ", " Human Guinea Pig ", and " Look Up ...( The Boy's Are Back )", “ You Got, I Want ”, Nelson never recorded anything with them ( except a live recording of the song " War Inside My Head ").

Human law is supported by reason and enacted for the common good.

Human swimming is the self propulsion of a person through water or other liquid, for survival, recreation, sport, exercise or other reason.

Virtually all commercially available baby formulas contain added vitamin C for this reason, but heat and storage destroy vitamin C. Human breast milk contains sufficient vitamin C, if the mother has an adequate intake.

Human reason requires more than being able to associate two ideas, even if those two ideas might be described by a reasoning human as a cause and an effect, perceptions of smoke, for example, and memories of fire.

::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President pro tempore to act as President under subsection ( b ) of this section, then the officer of the United States who is highest on the following list, and who is not under disability to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President shall act as President: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security.

* Human intelligence as intelligence in the human species ; the property of mind that encompasses the capacities to reason, plan, problem solve, think, comprehend ideas, use languages, and learn.

Resolutions: " The right reason for this war .. was to oust Saddam's regime and partner with the Iraqi people to try to implement the Arab Human Development report's prescriptions in the heart of the Arab world.

His first notable work was his Essay concerning the Use of Reason in Propositions the Evidence whereof depends on Human Testimony ( 1707 ), in which he rejected the distinction between " above reason " and " contrary to reason ", and demanded that revelation should conform to man's natural ideas of God.

In his short book Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines (" Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions ," 1809 ), Maistre argued that constitutions are not the product of human reason, but come from God, who slowly brings them to maturity.

Human choice, however, is a choice that can indeed be affected but not determined by impulses, and is therefore of itself ( apart from an acquired proficiency of reason ) not pure but can still be determined to actions by pure will.

Human action is an application of human reason to select the best means of satisfying ends.

Human reason and economic calculation have limitations, but Mises sees no alternative to economic calculation as a means of using scarce resources to improve our well being.

For example, the Iraqi Criminal Code of 1969 does not prohibit forming a trade union and the Iraqi Constitution promises that such an organization will be recognized ( a right under Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ), but for some reason the Iraqi courts and special tribunal seem to be operating under a slightly revised version of the 1988 legal code, and thus a 1987 ban on unions might still be in place.

He published a book titled " Computer power and Human reason " which talked about how artificial intelligence is good for the world ; however it should never be allowed to make the most important decisions as it does not have human qualities such as wisdom.

Human communication as a narration: Toward a philosophy of reason, value, and action.

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has advanced another reason for pre-emptively dispersing citizens living in opposition party strongholds.

The judge ruled that the current reading of the law must be in the spirit of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty ( enacted in 1992 ), hence such a refusal should be deemed legitimate unless the state-official has a reason to suspect that the person before him have committed an offence.

# Human behavior, experience, and cognition

Human cognition is a field of study which is focused on how humans learn from sensory information in order to acquire perceptual and motor skills.

Paivio ( 1986 ) states: " Human cognition is unique in that it has become specialized for dealing simultaneously with language and with nonverbal objects and events.

Several broad disciplines including Psychology, Human Factors and Cognitive Science subsume usability engineering, but the theoretical foundations of the field come from more specific domains: human perception and action ; human cognition ; behavioral research methodologies ; and, to a lesser extent, quantitative and statistical analysis techniques.

Human and animal cognition have much in common, and this is reflected in the research summarized below ; most of the headings found here might also appear in an article on human cognition.