This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

A Nobel Prize was awarded to Earl Sutherland in 1971 for discovering the key role of AC-III in human liver, where adrenaline indirectly stimulates AC to mobilize stored energy in the " fight or flight " response.

However, several landmarks have been achieved in the fight against it in Latin America, including a reduction by 72 % of the incidence of human infection in children and young adults in the countries of the Southern Cone Initiative, and at least three countries ( Uruguay, in 1997, and Chile, in 1999, and Brazil in 2006 ) have been certified free of vectorial and transfusional transmission.

The Dilbert phenomenon accepts — and perversely eggs on — many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature ... As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.

A classical situation is when a child is attacked by a predatory animal ( or an armed human ), and a parent starts an all-out fight against the much stronger attacker, totally neglecting his or her personal safety.

The entire population of Home is secretly destroyed as a consequence of Brennan's and Truesdale's war with the Pak — Brennan turns the entire population into human Protectors to create an army to fight the Pak invaders.

When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala may trigger the release of hormones into the body to put the human body into an " alert " state, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.

It focused on several goals among which the most important were to ensure a right to decent work, fight pollution, end discrimination, protect the consumer and promote peace, human rights and civil liberties.

Bilateral Relations continues to be strengthen through talks and agreements on economic, security and cultural matters including concerns on Rice trade, fight on drugs and human trafficking.

The end was much different from the final cut — it was originally to have Cassiel turn human as well, and finding Damiel and Marion at the bar where they engage in a pie fight.

The evil side in the fight was shown in human form and under some sympathetic beginnings via Magneto, a character who was later revealed to have survived Nazi concentration camps only to pursue a hatred for normal humanity.

In addition The UN Convention on Climate Change helped coordinate the efforts of the international community to fight potentially disastrous effects of human activity on the planet and launched negotiations to set an ambitious program of carbon emission reduction that began in 2007 with the Bali Road Map.

** Hands Across America: At least 5, 000, 000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

By 1960, after 400 years of colonial tyranny, there was not a single university in the entire territory To counter this backwardness, more overtly political organisations first appeared in the 1950s, and began to make organized demands for human and civil rights, initiating diplomatic campaigns throughout the world in their fight for independence.

Rather than fight, citizens in market-oriented socio-economies care deeply about everyone ’ s rights and welfare, so they demand economic growth at home and economic cooperation and human rights abroad.

However, they do have a hidden agenda: to bioengineer the human race to help fight their mortal enemy, the Jaridians ( who are of Taelon origin ).

Then he discovered that he could never be human ' again ', but he eventually adjusted to his role after a fight with the Floronic Man.

At the United Nations, Argentina supported United States policies and proposals, among them the condemnations of Cuba on the issue of human rights, and the fight against international terrorism and narcotics trafficking.

A third method, developed by Funk and Buchman, and refined by others, classifies electronic games into six categories: general entertainment ( no fighting or destruction ), educational ( learning or problem solving ), fantasy violence ( cartoon characters that must fight or destroy things, and risk being killed, in order to achieve a goal ), human violence ( like fantasy violence, but with human rather than cartoon characters ), nonviolent sports ( no fighting or destruction ), and sports violence ( fighting or destruction involved ).

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

Apparently it takes little energy to do this, as he almost always is able to launch at the conclusion of a fight and get out of sight to change back into his human host.

Continuation author Raymond Benson agrees, and sees Goldfinger as a transitional novel, with Bond becoming more human than in previous books and more concerned with what Benson calls " the mortal trappings of life ", which manifest itself with the opening chapter of the book as Bond sits in Miami airport and thinks through his fight with and killing of a Mexican thug.

The central conflict in El-Hazard: The Magnificent World focuses on Makoto, who along with Nanami, Mr. Fujisawa and human residents of El-Hazard fight against Jinnai's conquest, but other, more sinister machinations lie below the surface.

One of them is Clef, who tries to guide the three girls in order to let them become the Magic Knights, awaken their Mashin and fight against the evil wizards from Cephiro, who are trying to invade the human world.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.

The Newton formula can lead one to believe that flight is more difficult than it actually is, due to this overprediction of drag and thus required thrust, and it may have contributed to a delay in human flight.

Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.

Although the FAI initially refused to recognize Gagarin's pioneering flight, it subsequently amended its position to recognize ( as the FAI website states ) that he was the " first human being to journey into outer space ".

It also actively lobbied for UK involvement in human space flight endeavours.

it also continued to provided consultation and white papers on the UK's changing space policy and helped determine the UK government's decision to actively engage in human space flight activities from 2010.

In the decade preceding faster-than-sound human flight, aeronautical engineers referred to the speed of sound as Mach's number, never " Mach 1.

Miyazaki's next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika, 1984 ), was an adventure film that introduced many of the themes which recur in later films: a concern with ecology and the human impact on the environment ; a fascination with aircraft and flight ; pacifism, including an anti-military streak ; feminism ; and morally ambiguous characterizations, especially among villains.

The flight marked the first time that a human entered outer space, as well as the first orbital flight of a manned vehicle.

* First successful human flight: a manned kite lands in the proximity of Ye, China.

The first free flight with human passengers took place on November 21, 1783.

Two discrete, sociological theories explain and justify gentrification as an economic process ( production-side theory ) and as a social process ( consumption-side theory ) that occurs when the suburban gentry tire of the automobile-dependent urban sprawl style of life ; thus, professionals, empty nest aged parents, and recent university graduates perceive the attractiveness of the city center — earlier abandoned during white flight — especially if the poor community possesses a transport hub and its architecture sustains the pedestrian traffic that allows the proper human relations impeded by ( sub ) urban sprawl.

Interactive simulation is a special kind of physical simulation, often referred to as a human in the loop simulation, in which physical simulations include human operators, such as in a flight simulator or a driving simulator.

One of the early examples of biomimicry was the study of birds to enable human flight.

In 2010, the OECD ( the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development ) encouraged the governments of advanced economies to embrace policies to increase innovation and knowledge in products and services as an economical path to continued prosperity .. International policies also often address human capital flight, which is the loss of talented or trained persons from a country that invested in them, to another country which benefits from their arrival without investing in them.

African nations have invoked this argument with respect to slavery, other colonized peoples have invoked it with respect to the " brain drain " or " human capital flight " which occurs when the most talented individuals ( those with the most individual capital ) depart for education or opportunity to the colonizing country ( historically, Britain and France and the U. S .).