(a.) Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thoreau's purpose is to reconcile us, after centuries of hazy anthropocentricity, to Nature as it is, relentless and remorseless.
(2) This article explores the interrelationships of environment, nursing, and caring and challenges the readers, particularly in light of the ecology crisis, to examine the apparent anthropocentric emphasis of current human care and caring theory.
(3) Despite appearances to the contrary (fostered by anthropocentric nursery stories), a distinct role for male parents does not exist in nature.
(4) The anagenetic approach is criticized as axiological and frequently anthropocentric.
(5) In its unsettlement of the entrenched binaries of modernity (nature and culture; object and subject), and its provocative alienation of familiar anthropocentric scales and times, it opens up rather than foreclosing progressive thought.
(6) These may be differentiated into two categories, anthropocentric ethics in which human interests prevail and biocentric ethics in which efforts are made to weigh the interests of man and animals more equitably.
(7) These positions are characterized as ethical skepticism and relativism, absolute dominionism, anthropocentric consequentialism, reverence for life, utilitarianism, and abolitionism.
(8) The anthropocentric bias, according to Gaylin, appropriately defends the risk of sacrificing the species of chimpanzees to relieve the suffering and premature death of many children on the grounds that man "stands above the general animal host."
(9) On this ground our reasoning led us to conclude that: (i) actual fitness measure units derive from an anthropocentric bias, and they mainly evaluate similarity to man rather than some objective parameter; (ii) a complete and meaningful unit is, at present, impossible to achieve in practice; (iii) since the study of evolution is only descriptive, and since the evolutionary process is time dependent, every ecological dominant living today must be considered as the most fitted to its environment; (iv) the view we can have of evolution is simply a transection, so that many generalized phyletic trees are trivial and it is impossible to claim the persistence today of those "ancestor organisms" upon which such trees are constructed.
(10) Starting with the latter, she shows how the lack of an 'anthropocentric orientation', the discouragement of egoistic and individualistic strivings, the doctrine of 'karma' and re-incarnation, all essential elements of traditional Hindu philosophy, and all pointing to an ultimate reality that goes beyond anything that speech or even thought can reach, leave very little to work on for someone who were to approach an entirely traditional Indian scene with the tools and methods of Western psychotherapy.
(11) According to the view adopted in this paper, bio-informational equivalence, in all its forms, has a deeply anthropocentric core which makes it unsuited for its present role as a quasi-theoretical perspective in biological science.
(12) The environmental holist (EH) claims that we must abandon the anthropocentric ethics of the TIs; however, the EHs suffer from both scientific and ethical problems.
(13) From our anthropocentric viewpoint, Q fever aerosol infection from parturient animals and Brill-Zinsser disease ignited epidemics of louse-borne epidemic typhus are exceptions.
(14) Spiritual worldliness is a form of religious anthropocentrism that has Gnostic elements.
Human
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
(n.) A human being.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(4) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(7) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(8) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(12) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(13) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(14) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(15) Detergent-solubilized HLA antigens were isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell using an anti-beta2-microglobulin immunoaffinity column.
(16) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(17) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(18) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(19) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(20) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.