In response to the lengthening days of February they budded, then bloomed their 4-inch velvety flowers.

When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.

Miss Upton spoke gratefully of the response of Spelman graduates and Negro friends in helping to raise the Fund, and their continuing efforts to raise money for greatly needed current expenses.

He bellowed orders and watched the alert response of some of his men and watched, too, the way a dozen or more turned their heads questioningly toward the shackled figure as though for further instruction.

In their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in October, 2006, they showed that both pure monetary rewards and charitable donations activated the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food and sex.

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.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

In response to the Black Codes and Southern recalcitrance, the Republicans prevented the secessionist states ' representatives from taking their seats in Congress in the fall 1865.

In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo-Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.

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.

In their anthology, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, editors Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith described black feminists mobilizing " a remarkable national response to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy.

The conservation profession response to this report was on the whole less than favourable, the Institute of Conservation ( ICON ) published their response under the title " A Failure of Vision ".

As a result, the malignant cells experience an abnormal response to apoptosis induction: cycle regulating genes ( such as p53, ras or c-myc ) are mutated or inactivated in diseased cells, and further genes ( such as bcl-2 ) also modify their expression in tumors.

Jensen was denied reprints of his work by his publisher and was not permitted to reply in response to letters of criticism — both extremely unusual policies for their day.

" In response to Marlborough's manoeuvres, the Elector and Marsin, conscious of their numerical disadvantage with only 40, 000 men, moved their forces to the entrenched camp at Dillingen on the north bank of the Danube.

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Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.

The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in 1986 in response to their concerns.

The first Persian invasion was a response to Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria had sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Persian rule.

However, the first modern studies of magnetism only started with the development of electrodynamics by Faraday, Maxwell and others in the nineteenth century, which included the classification of materials as ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic based on their response to magnetization.

In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.

By not asking about the horses, Confucius demonstrates that the sage values human beings over property ; readers are led to reflect on whether their response would follow Confucius's and to pursue self-improvement if it would not have.

As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an appropriate cognitive and emotional response to a perceived threat.

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.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

What was often sought was an emotional response to the information, the shock, the fear, and the confrontation.

For example, it is not the feeling of fear that produces an increase in heart beat, both are symptomatic of a common physiological origin, possibly in response to a legitimate external threat.

It describes mental processes as computational operations, so that, for example, a fear response is described as arising from a neurological computation that inputs the perceptional data, e. g. a visual image of a spider, and outputs the appropriate reaction, e. g. fear of possibly dangerous animals.

However, the medical view is that the rush or high associated with the activity is not due to adrenaline being released as a response to fear, but due to increased levels of dopamine, endorphins and serotonin because of the high level of physical exertion.

For example, the experience of fear usually occurs in response to a threat.

In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger leading to an urge to confront it or flee from it ( also known as the fight-or-flight response ) but in extreme cases of fear ( horror and terror ) a freeze or paralysis response is possible.

Panic occurs when one is intimidated of a certain thing that reminds them of their fear, and experiencing an alarm response.

There are many physiological changes in the body associated with fear, which can be summarized as the " fight or flight " response.

Once response to the stimulus in the form of fear or aggression commences, the amygdala may elicit the release of hormones into the body to put the person into a state of alertness, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.

The trait of the genre of horror is that it provokes a response, emotional, psychological or physical within each individual that causes someone to react with fear.

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

Myers and Davis ( 2007 ) describe the acquisition of fear as when a conditioned stimulus ( e. g., a distinctive place ) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus ( e. g. a electric shock ) to an end result in which the subject exhibits a conditioned feared response to the distinctive place ( CS + UCS = CR ).

The result of combining these two stimuli leads to a new association called the CR ( fear of heights ) which is simply the CS ( heights ) transformed by the aversive UCS ( being trapped on a roller coaster or elevator ) leading to the feared conditioned response.

In this experiment, Cook & Mineka, through the use of video, appraised 22 rhesus monkeys on their fear to evolutionary relevant stimuli ( e. g. crocodiles and snakes ), and evolutionary irrelevant stimuli ( e. g. flowers and artificial rabbits ) to see if fear conditioning using the direct conditioning model ( Pavlov's model ) leads to fear acquisition ( or more specifically the conditioned fear response ).