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Stress is a general biological response to a potential danger.
But, before we get to that, let's talk a little bit about waves in general.
In general, this formula is called the geometric mean.
Albert Einstein used non-Euclidean geometry as well to describe how space-time becomes warped in the presence of matter, as part of his general theory of relativity.
This argument, by the way, is completely general.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
I mean, that's the general, conventional thought.
During the space race, funding for research and education, in general, increased dramatically, leading to many advances that may not have otherwise been made.
A hundred years ago this month, a 36-year-old Albert Einstein stood up in front of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin to present a radical new theory of space, time and gravity: the general theory of relativity.
One of the most important consequences of Einstein's general theory of relativity was the discovery that the universe began as a rapid expansion of space and time 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang.
The hope was that a complete combination of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which is the theory of the universe at grand scales, with quantum mechanics, the theory of the universe at small scales, might provide a solution.
And, in general, African countries are extremely welcoming of refugees coming, and I would say that in the Middle East and in Asia, we have seen a tendency for borders to be open.
That reflects the general underfunding of the organizations working on these issues.
As a general rule, the factorial of any positive integer is calculated as the product of that same integer and all smaller integers down to one.
These two major pitfalls, combined with more general dangers, such as conflicts of interest or selective use of data, can make the findings of any particular epidemiological study suspect, and a good study must go out of its way to prove that its authors have taken steps to eliminate these types of errors.
Your choices were limited to a couple of general interest magazines and newspaper of record, and three or four TV networks where trusted newscasters delivered the day's news at the same reliable time every evening.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is one of a handful of ideas from quantum physics to expand into general pop culture.
Or there's the non-Euclidean work of Bernhard Riemann in the 1850s, which Einstein used in the model for general relativity a century later.
So by correctly predicting the distribution of left-handed people in the general population, as well as matching data from various sports, the model indicates that the persistence of lefties as a small but stable minority reflects an equilibrium that comes from competitive and cooperative effects playing out simultaneously over time.
And together with them, we started a multi-layered approach, based on an on- and off-line signature petition, educational and inspirational presentations at schools and we raise general awareness at markets, festivals, beach clean-ups.
First, there were the laws like Maxwell's equations and general relativity that determined the evolution of the universe, given its state over all of space at one time.
Under extreme conditions, general relativity and quantum theory allow time to behave like another dimension of space.
Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more using a dual suffix absent in many other languages, while Russian's lack of definite articles might leave you wondering whether the children are eating some particular muffins, or just eat muffins in general.
And studying how intelligence can arise along such a divergent evolutionary path can help us understand more about intelligence and consciousness in general.
That is, until dividing the participants by age group showed that the nonsmokers were significantly older on average, and thus, more likely to die during the trial period, precisely because they were living longer in general.
Having defended France as a soldier and a general in those wars, he knew that the best defense is a good offense."
Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer: emergence, or the spontaneous creation of sophisticated behaviors and functions from large groups of simple elements.
Heuristics are also terrible at dealing with numbers in general.
The mathematician T.S. Motzkin once remarked that, "while disorder is more probable in general, complete disorder is impossible."
These general anesthetics also seem to work by affecting electrical signals in the nervous system.
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