Stoker's book also established Transylvania and Eastern Europe as the locus classicus of the Gothic.

As an anthropologist, his Sorcerers of Dobu remains the locus classicus of eastern Papuan anthropology, but he is best known instead for his Fortunate number theory.

The locus classicus of the 18th-century portrayal of the American Indian are the famous lines from Alexander Pope's " Essay on Man " ( 1734 ):

In 1847 large fragments of his speeches, Against Demosthenes and For Lycophron ( incidentally interesting for clarifying the order of marriage processions and other details of Athenian life, and the Athenian government of Lemnos ) and the whole of For Euxenippus ( c. 330 BCE, a locus classicus on eisangeliai or state prosecutions ), were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt.

The locus classicus for the origin of this use of the epithet is in the Memoirs of Saint-Simon.

But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife ") is a locus classicus used in favour of sacerdotal celibacy, the statement in that a bishop should be " the husband of one wife " and " one who ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection ", a locus classicus used against sacerdotal celibacy, indicates that at that time married men could indeed become clergy.

While Dryden's own plays would themselves furnish later mock-heroics ( specifically, The Conquest of Granada is satirized in the mock-heroic The Author's Farce and Tom Thumb by Henry Fielding, as well as The Rehearsal ), Dryden's MacFlecknoe is perhaps the locus classicus of the mock-heroic form as it would be practiced for a century to come.

The introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature is a locus classicus of this view ; Hume subtitled his book " Being An Attempt To Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects.

These turning points were viewed as changes from one kind of life, and attitude toward life, to another in the mind of the subject: the locus classicus is Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, C204 ‑ 207, which in turn gave rise to Shakespeare's delineation of the Seven Ages of Man.

The locus classicus of this view is Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's " Dialectic of Enlightenment " ( 1947 ), which traces the degeneration of the general concept of enlightenment from ancient Greece ( epitomised by the cunning ' bourgeois ' hero Odysseus ) to 20th century fascism.

The locus classicus for these practices is the biblical accounts of the Chariot vision of Ezekiel and the Temple vision of Isaiah ( Chap.

He had not been the first to use The Establishment in this fashion ; Ralph Waldo Emerson had it a century before — the Oxford English Dictionary would cite Fairlie's column as its locus classicus.

In 2002, City Journal published a critique of Three Guineas by Theodore Dalrymple ( later reprinted in Dalrymple's anthology, Our Culture, What's Left of It ), in which Dalrymple contended that the book is " a locus classicus of self-pity and victimhood as a genre in itself " and that " the book might be better titled: How to Be Privileged and Yet Feel Extremely Aggrieved ".

For example, at the gene locus for the ABO blood type carbohydrate antigens in humans, classical genetics recognizes three alleles, I < sup > A </ sup >, I < sup > B </ sup >, and I < sup > O </ sup >, that determine compatibility of blood transfusions.

Ann Arbor also became a locus for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

The locus also includes the genes for the proteins that attach themselves to the surface of F < sup >-</ sup > bacteria and initiate conjugation.

Several proteins coded for in the tra or trb locus seem to open a channel between the bacteria and it is thought that the traD enzyme, located at the base of the pilus, initiates membrane fusion.

For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus.

Agreeing with data implicating catecholaminergic mechanisms, modafinil increases phasic activity in the locus coeruleus ( the source for CNS norepinephrine ) while reducing tonic activity with respect to interconnections with the prefrontal cortex.

European breeding experiments have shown that in Biston betularia betularia, the allele for melanism producing morpha carbonaria is controlled by a single locus.

Locus of control scales include those used by Rotter and later by Duttweiler, the Nowicki and Strickland ( 1973 ) Locus of Control Scale for Children and various locus of control scales specifically in the health domain, most famously that of Kenneth Wallston and his colleagues, The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale.

The English sociologist Roy Wallis argues that a sect is characterized by “ epistemological authoritarianism ”: sects possess some authoritative locus for the legitimate attribution of heresy.

Originally a region in the Peloponnesus, Arcadia became a synonym for any rural area that serves as a pastoral setting, as a locus amoenus (" delightful place "):

The exchange is the locus for an impressive amount of technology and data.

It is important to note that this approach does not evaluate the genotype of any particular locus, but instead sums the contributions for a given repeated motif from the many positions in which that motif exists across the genome.

This locus was found to be a promoter for the gene.

Because the 13 loci that are currently used for discrimination in CODIS are independently assorted ( having a certain number of repeats at one locus doesn't change the likelihood of having any number of repeats at any other locus ), the product rule for probabilities can be applied.

In law, standing or locus standi is the term for the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case.

Even though the gene DMRT1 is used by birds as their sex locus, species who have XY chromosomes also rely upon DMRT1, contained on chromosome 9, for sexual differentiation at some point in their formation.

Alex de Waal has developed this theory to focus on the " political contract " between rulers and people that ensures famine prevention, noting the rarity of such political contracts in Africa, and the danger that international relief agencies will undermine such contracts through removing the locus of accountability for famines from national governments.

Improvement of some clinical features ( attention and concentration ) with beta-blocker therapy suggests a role for a hyperthyroid-induced hyperactivity of the adrenergic nervous system, possibly disrupting the adrenergic pathways between the locus ceruleus and frontal lobe that subserve attention and vigilance, and thereby accounting for many physical and mental symptoms.

topoi ), in Latin locus ( from locus communis ), referred in the context of classical Greek rhetoric to a standardised method of constructing or treating an argument ( see topos in classical rhetoric ).

" Commonplace " is a translation of the Latin term locus communis ( from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos ) which means " a theme or argument of general application ", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom.

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

These are the substantia nigra ( from the Latin black substance )-Pars Compacta part, the locus coeruleus ( blue spot ), the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve ( cranial nerve X ), and the median raphe nucleus of the pons.

Latin locus ( place ) was absent and represented by the hapax slaagid ( place ), which Italian linguist Alberto Manco has recently referred to a local surviving toponym.

Pastoral poems are set in beautiful rural landscapes, the literary term for which is " locus amoenus " ( Latin for " beautiful place "), such as Arcadia, a rural region of Greece, mythological home of the god Pan, which was portrayed as a sort of Eden by the poets.

* locus sigilli, Latin for ' place of the seal ', used in notarized and legal documents ; see: Seal ( contract law )

In geometry, a locus ( Latin for " place ", plural loci ) is a collection of points which share a property.

Liberation Theology is then a new way of doing Historical Theology in a particular locus theologicus: the historical present of Latin America, where a large portion of the population is oppressed by structures that deny them the possibilities to satisfy their needs and to develop.

A person's " locus " ( Latin for " place " or " location ") is conceptualised as either internal ( the person believes they can control their life ) or external ( meaning they believe that their decisions and life are controlled by environmental factors which they cannot influence ).

The name is derived from the Latin words coeruleus and locus.

The method of loci ( plural of Latin locus for place or location ), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman rhetorical treatises ( in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ).

Raskin refers to this as ' locus of attention ' ( from the Latin word locus meaning " place " or " location ").

In Denmark, the word ( Lokum ) has for a long time referred to a toilet in form of a barrel with a seat on top ( stemming from the Latin word locus, meaning ' place ').

Mount Grace became an important locus for the production and preservation of contemplative and devotional texts: among writers professed as monks there were John Norton and Richard Methley ( the latter known for his Latin translations of " The Cloud of Unknowing " and of the anonymous English translation of Marguerite Porete's " Mirror of Simple Souls ").