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* 5 centers of chirality ( C5, C6, C9, C13 and C14 ) with morphine exhibiting a high degree of stereoselectivity of analgesic action.
Austin and further developed by John Searle, centers around the idea of the performative, a type of utterance that performs the very action it describes.
" The Viet Cong's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon.
The projective linear group PGL ( n, F ) and the projective special linear group PSL ( n, F ) are the quotients of GL ( n, F ) and SL ( n, F ) by their centers ( which consist of the multiples of the identity matrix therein ); they are the induced action on the associated projective space.
The construction of new teaching facilities, the set up of a training and career development center for teachers, as well as new hospitals and health centers, and the acquisition of equipment and the modernization of the civil and military polices are examples of this Government's action.
The metropolitan police and the Colombian Army have taken action to stop several high profile bomb attacks against military and administrative centers in recent years, such as the multiple FARC attacks against Cali's Palace of Justice in 2008 and 2010.
Call specialist at these centers would be informed of current disaster plans or place to receive help and could then inform the public of the correct course of action.
The Pressure Angle is the acute angle between the line of action and a normal to the line connecting the gear centers.
Through all the characters and all the action, Anderson's screenplay centers on the human qualities of the players ...
The action of all six books centers around the fictional Anglican diocese of Starbridge, which is supposedly in the west of England, and also features the Fordite monks, a fictional Anglican monastic order.
The study of the public sphere centers on the idea of participatory democracy, and how public opinion becomes political action.
To achieve the sense of family, he centers some action around a dinner scene at a table, and directs warm light into the faces of the characters.
Within the novels, much of the plot action centers around Corwin and his family as they plot against one another conspiring to become the King of Amber.
Duchesne centers its philosophy around five Sacred Heart Goals: a personal and active faith in God, a deep respect for intellectual values, a social awareness which impels to action, the building of community as a Christian value, and personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.
Its mechanism of action in this indication is not fully understood, but as an opioid-receptor antagonist is likely to be due to the modulation of the dopaminergicmesolimbic pathway which is hypothesized to be a major center of the reward associated with addiction ( being one of the primary centers for risk-reward analysis in the brain, and a tertiary " pleasure center ") that all major drugs of abuse are believed to activate.
Other houses are mentioned and occasionally seen in the series, but most of the action centers on the San Francisco house.
** First-person shooter – a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective ; i. e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist.
The action mainly centers on Mel Bakersfeld, the Airport General Manager.
On the eve of the Gulf War, for example, critics of proposed military action posited scenarios where tens of thousands of Iraqis would be killed by largely indiscriminate air attacks that would " carpet bomb " population centers, particularly Baghdad.
The occasions when Betty leads the action are extremely scarce: one episode centers around her working undercover as a gentle old lady to earn money for a present for Barney, and on another occasion the plot for her and Wilma was led by her suspicions of Barney being involved with another woman ( which turns out to be Fred in a disguise contrived in order to attend a ball game free of charge ).
The line of action of the ( aggregate ) vertical force no longer passes through the centers of the cylinders.
Walker then selected a number of " centers of action ", which included areas such as the Indian Peninsula.
Witte saw part-time action over three seasons ; his body spread over was not mobile enough for an NBA then stocked with very good centers.
Much of the action centers on the laboratory of Amvrosiy Ambroisovich Vybegallo ( roughly " one who runs out ", a fictional surname based on ancient Polish-Lithuanian names like Jagiello ), a professor whose gargantuan experiments are spectacularly wasteful and crowd-pleasing but utterly unscientific.

action and about
In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.
I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.
He knows that he is thinking about action in relation to a future which can be perceived but dimly through a merciful fog.
And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??
, Af and the Magnums, the long action ( about $135 for the Standard Coltsman and $200 for the Custom version ).
It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.
But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.
He is talking about an action which just as efficaciously does an evil thing ( and is known certainly and unavoidably to lead to this evil result ) as it efficaciously does some good.
He is talking about double effects, of which the specific action causes directly the one and indirectly the other, but causes both ; ;
We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.
In the 20th century, discussions about the afterlife address the interconnection between human action and divine judgment, the need for moral rectitude, and the eternal consequences of human action in this life and world.
While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.
Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
All of the characters in Herman Wouk's City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder ( 1948 ) live in the Bronx, and about half of the action is set there.
Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.
For example, a good crosscourt sliced dropshot will use a hitting action that suggests a straight clear or smash, deceiving the opponent about both the power and direction of the shuttlecock.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.
The laurel forest is a type of cloud forest, the cloud forests, are developed preferably about mountains, where the dense moisture from the sea or ocean, is precipitated by the action of the relief.
Consequentialist theories that adopt this paradigm hold that right action is the action that will bring about the best consequences from this ideal observer's perspective.
For this reason, some theorists have argued that consequentialist theories can only require agents to choose the best action in line with what they know about the situation.
As a result, it could be argued that there is a moral imperative for an agent to inform himself as much as possible about a situation before judging the appropriate course of action.
Whereas consequentialist theories posit that consequences of action should be the primary focus of our thinking about ethics, virtue ethics insists that it is the character rather than the consequences of actions that should be the focal point.

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