Captopril is also the only ACE inhibitor which is capable of passing through the blood – brain barrier, although the significance of this characteristic has not been shown to have any positive clinical effects.

The bacterial origin fMLF as a key component of inflammation has characteristic chemoattractant effects in neutrophil granulocytes and monocytes.

This property of causing molecular damage that is far out of proportion to all temperature-changing ( i. e., heating ) effects, is characteristic of all EMR with frequencies at the visible light range and above.

Note that that while bound orbits around a point mass or around a spherical body with an Newtonian gravitational field are closed ellipses, which repeat the same path exactly and indefinitely, any non-spherical or non-Newtonian effects ( as caused, for example, by the slight oblateness of the Earth, or by relativistic effects, changing the gravitational field's behavior with distance ) will cause the orbit's shape to depart from the closed ellipses characteristic of Newtonian two-body motion.

Information about the instantaneous frequency ( as distinct from spectral characteristic ) of the original voice signal is discarded ; it wasn't important to preserve this for the purposes of the vocoder's original use as an encryption aid, and it is this " dehumanizing " quality of the vocoding process that has made it useful in creating special voice effects in popular music and audio entertainment.

In addition to charging effects, AES data can be obscured by the presence of characteristic energy losses in a sample and higher order atomic ionization events.

" The extreme simplification of characters to mythic types, choral effects, declamatory dialogue and heightened intensity all would become characteristic of later expressionist plays.

The power of his physical effects was sometimes apparent even in the full-scale paintings which he exhibited in London ; The Chain Pier, 1827, for example, prompted a critic to write: " the atmosphere possesses a characteristic humidity about it, that almost imparts the wish for an umbrella ".

In the past, most researchers have agreed that the defining characteristic of an atypical antipsychotic is the decreased propensity of these agents to cause extrapyramidal side effects ( EPS ) and an absence of sustained prolactin elevation.

An arguable example is any rule imposing a conflicting obligation to prevent, interdict or vindicate crimes which also belong to jus cogens, namely aggression itself, crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, slavery, torture and piracy, so that a war waged consistent with the aim of repressing any of these crimes might not be illegal where the crime comes within the limit of proportionality relative to war and its characteristic effects.

The hallucinations, sensation of flying, often a rapid increase in libido, and other characteristic effects of this compound are largely attributable to the CNS and peripheral effects of hyoscyamine and other active drugs present in the ointments such as atropine, scopolamine, and other tropane alkaloids.

Its characteristic features are a private drama staged in the context of a significant historical event in which the chorus is dramatically engaged as a representative of the people, varied and piquant musical textures, grandiloquent marches, spectacular scenic effects and a statutory ballet.

" Another such argument is provided by Norman Sanders ; " because the play reveals a relatively unsure dramatist and many effects managed with a tiro's lack of expertise, it offers us an opportunity to see more clearly than anywhere else in the canon what were to become characteristic techniques.

Finally, some even revel in the unaccountable warping effects of the Wyld and, forgoing the characteristic silvered tattoos, become increasingly unstable until ending up as inhuman beings known as " chimera " with no unifying form, akin to both Fair Folk and Creation-born.

* Hard rock-style guitar amplifiers, which often include preamplification controls, tone filters, and distortion effects that provide the amplifier's characteristic tone.

Although a distinguishing characteristic of a benzodiazepine is that the withdrawal effects clearly may protract in course for an inordinate amount of time, iatrogenic dependence ( doctor induced ) can be an overlooked phenomenon with benzodiazepines.

Notable effects of adrenaline and noradrenaline include increased heart rate and blood pressure, blood vessel constriction in the skin and gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscle ( bronchiole and capillary ) dilation, and increased metabolism, all of which are characteristic of the fight-or-flight response.

The drive generated by linear induction motors is somewhat similar to conventional induction motors ; the drive forces show a roughly similar characteristic shape relative to slip, albeit modulated by end effects.

It has been claimed that this relationship, characterized by positive effects at an intermediate dose of the stressor ( exercise ), is characteristic of hormesis.

It modulates the brain activity at the level of the neuronal dynamics of excitation and inhibition which underlie the characteristic effects that are reported.

This lack of a physical record for the occurrence of Holocene mega-tsunamis is quite revealing given that geologists and palynologists have been quite successful in some coastal regions finding in cores and exposures the characteristic sediments deposited by tsunamis locally generated by either earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or submarine slides and recovering abundant well-defined records of their environmental effects by studying the pollen from cores and exposures.

Loud noises in the studio, such as rock bands or gunshot effects would cause the tubes to vibrate, producing a characteristic undesirable horizontal banding in the image.

The aim of psychotherapy is to assist the individual in reestablishing a healthy relationship to the unconscious: neither flooded by it — characteristic of psychosis, such as Schizophrenia — or out of balance in relationship to it — as with neurosis, a state that results in depression, anxiety, and personality disorders, a life devoid of deeper meaning.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

The second involves something deeper, but its characteristic form focuses on a shift in policy for the community, not in the truth on which the community rests.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

A major characteristic of Jain belief is the emphasis on the consequences of not only physical but also mental behaviors.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.

The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.

Adaptive radiation, a characteristic example of cladogenesis, can be graphically illustrated as a " bush ", or clade, of coexisting species ( on the tree of life ).

These give a characteristic " laddered " appearance on agar gel after electrophoresis.

An older moving iron ammeter with its characteristic non-linear scale and with the moving iron ammeter symbol mounted on a small form factor PC.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The latter notation corresponds to viewing R as the characteristic function on " X " x " Y " for the set of pairs of G.

Many biopolymers spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes ( see also " protein folding " as well as secondary structure and tertiary structure ), which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures.

As an ethologist, Morris further proposed that breasts, a secondary sex characteristic located on the woman's chest, encouraged face-to-face sexual intercourse that led to the establishment of an emotional bond between man and woman ; social progress from an essentially procreational function of human biology.

* A characteristic " fishy " odor on wet mount.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

" That year BJU enrolled students from fifty states and nearly fifty countries, representing diverse ethnicities and cultures, and the BJU administration declared itself " committed to maintaining on the campus the racial and cultural diversity and harmony characteristic of the true Church of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

A rustic characteristic and tradition was developed quite early on as Boer society was born on the frontiers of white settlement and on the outskirts of civilization.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.