Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Aristotle also tended to stratify all aspects of human nature and activity into levels of excellence and, like Plato, he put the pure and unimpassioned intellect on the top level.

The play of novel lighting effects also entered into these compositions, whose controlled power and varied activity made them well worth meditating.

Then there was exercise, boating and hiking, which was not only good for you but also made you more virile: the thought of strenuous activity left him exhausted.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

The lack of financial benefit can also be seen as a sign of commitment to an activity ; and until the 1970s the Olympic rules required that competitors be amateurs.

Another court restriction overturned is the interpretation that an impairment that substantially limits one major life activity must also limit others to be considered a disability.

Anagrams are in themselves a recreational activity, but they also make up part of many other games, puzzles and game shows.

An abzyme ( from antibody and enzyme ), also called catmab ( from catalytic monoclonal antibody ), is a monoclonal antibody with catalytic activity.

Ampicillin ( originally branded as ' Penbritin ') also demonstrated activity against Gram-negative organisms such as H. influenzae, coliforms and Proteus spp.

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

The truth is complex ; art is both useless in a functional sense, and also the most important human activity.

Another extrinsic pathway for initiation identified in several toxin studies is an increase in calcium concentration within a cell caused by drug activity, which also can cause apoptosis via a calcium binding protease calpain.

IAP also normally suppresses the activity of a group of cysteine proteases called caspases, which carry out the degradation of the cell, therefore the actual degradation enzymes can be seen to be indirectly regulated by mitochondrial permeability.

These bacteria also secrete proteins that enable the AC-II to enter host cells, where the exogenous AC activity undermines normal cellular processes.

ACE inhibitors have also been shown to cause a central enhancement of parasympathetic activity in healthy volunteers and patients with heart failure.

Withdrawal effects may also occur when switching a person from one antipsychotic to another, ( presumably due to variations of potency and receptor activity ).

Some also block or partially block serotonin receptors ( particularly 5HT < sub > 2A, C </ sub > and 5HT < sub > 1A </ sub > receptors ): ranging from risperidone, which acts overwhelmingly on serotonin receptors, to amisulpride, which has no serotonergic activity.

There are also natural mechanisms for variation including climate oscillations, changes in solar activity, variations in the Earth's orbit, and volcanic activity.

Nitric acid in rainwater is an important source of fixed nitrogen for plant life, and is also produced by electrical activity in the atmosphere such as lightning.

Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.

Invasive exotics introduced by human activity have also displaced native wildlife including cockroaches and coconut palm.

Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game.

But even in relatively primitive laboratory animals such as the rat, sex activity closely identified with the hypothalamus and the visceral brain is enhanced by the neocortex.

The Poles were subjected to harassment in the fields of education, economic activity and the administration ; German was declared to be the only official language, but in practice the Poles only adhered more closely to their traditions.

Traditionally, Iraq ’ s manufacturing activity has been closely connected to the oil industry.

When the analysis of this information supports the supposition of illegal use of the financial system, the FinTRACA works closely with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute the illegal activity.

Mathematicians now know of many types of projective geometry such as complex Minkowski space that might describe the layout of things in perception ( see Peters ( 2000 )) and it has also emerged that parts of the brain contain patterns of electrical activity that correspond closely to the layout of the retinal image ( this is known as retinotopy ).

Protein – protein interactions also regulate enzymatic activity, control progression through the cell cycle, and allow the assembly of large protein complexes that carry out many closely related reactions with a common biological function.

These lines are closely associated with surface magnetic activity, so the period of variation measures the time required for the activity sites to complete a full rotation about the star.

Along with the NASDAQ Composite, the S & P 500 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index, the Dow is among the most closely watched U. S. benchmark indices tracking targeted stock market activity.

The different ethnic groups brought to the Americas closely corresponds to the regions of heaviest activity in the slave trade.

Many receptor enzymes have closely related structure and receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and it is said by Lehninger ( 2008 ) that the foundational or prototypical receptor enzyme, is insulin.

The Argentine territories, held back by their closed economies, lack of any activity closely linked to foreign trade, and the scant amounts of labour and capital they consequently received, fell far behind those of other areas of the colonial world that participated in foreign trade.

Computer surveillance programs are widespread today, and almost all Internet traffic is closely monitored for clues of illegal activity.

Hekla is closely studied today for parameters such as strain, tilt, deformation and other movement and seismic activity.

Due to lower than expected membership take-up, Age Concern restructured the Heyday scheme, introducing new recruitment channels such as through corporate schemes, and streamlined the supporting infrastructure to more closely meet the lower level of activity.

Outside of law, the term rape (" an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person's consent ") is often used interchangeably with sexual assault, a closely related ( but in most jurisdictions technically distinct ) form of assault typically including rape and other forms of non-consensual sexual activity.

Since the 1890s it has been known that changes in blood flow and blood oxygenation in the brain ( collectively known as hemodynamics ) are closely linked to neural activity.

After reviewing and conducting various studies, which found that blind and visually impaired people were consuming more television than ever but finding the activity problematic ( often relying on sighted family and friends to describe for them ), WGBH consulted more closely with Pfanstiehl and her husband, Cody, and then conducted its first tests of DVS in Boston in 1986.

Religious activity is monitored closely by the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance and by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security ( MOIS ).

The evidence does not either identify with certainty which characteristics of the built environment are most closely associated with physical activity behaviour.

Fueling speculation about Cohen's close involvement, ES5's unanticipated closing coincided closely with Cohen's arrest for activity related to sex. com.

The original definition of dogging – and which is still a closely related activity – is spying on couples having sex in a car or other public place.

Thirdly, all phases of the daily activities are closely planned, with one activity leading into the next at a prearranged time.

By studying evidence of past quakes and closely monitoring ground motion and current earthquake activity, scientists attempt to understand their causes and recurrence intervals.