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- (from the article "counterpoint") ...theorists generally use the word counterpoint in a narrow sense for musical styles resembling those of Palestrina or Bach and emphasizing clear melodic relationships (e.g., melodic imitation) between the voice parts.fugue
- imitation of Christ
- (from the article "Christianity") ...also does not appear-as in Buddhism-as suffering simply under the general conditions of human existence in this world; it is instead coupled with the specifically Christian idea of the imitation of Christ. Individual Christians are called to follow the example ...
- Imitation of Christ
- a Christian devotional book written between 1390 and 1440. Although its authorship is a matter of controversy, the book is linked to the name of Thomas a Kempis. Whatever the identity of the author, he was a representative of the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Imja River
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") The mountain's drainage pattern radiates to the southwest, north, and east. The Khumbu Glacier melts into the Lobujya (Lobuche) River of Nepal, which flows southward as the Imja River to its confluence with the Dudh Kosi River. In Tibet the ...
- immacolata
- (from the article "Madonna") ...showing the Virgin alone have theological significance. As the Madonna of mercy, which flourished in the 15th century, the Virgin spreads her mantle protectively over a group of the faithful. The immacolata, which in the 17th century emphasized her Immaculate ...
- Immaculate Conception
- Roman Catholic dogma asserting that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved free from the effects of the sin of Adam (usually referred to as "original sin") from the first instant of her conception. Although various texts in both the ... [7 Related Articles]
- immanence
- (from the article "Platonism") ...and hatred of the body seem to derive from non-Platonic and non-Greek sources). They stressed the transcendence of God though, by insisting that it is a transcendence that is also the deepest immanence, they acknowledged his intimate presence within the ...
- Immanent Will
- (from the article "Hardy, Thomas") ...own intellectual ambiguities. The Dynasts as a whole served to project his central vision of a universe governed by the purposeless movements of a blind, unconscious force that he called the Immanent Will. Though subsequent criticism has tended to find ...
- Immanuel Ben Solomon
- Hebrew poet who lived mainly in Rome, considered the founder of secular poetic writing in Hebrew. Probably a wandering teacher by profession, he was a prolific writer of Hebrew verse, sacred and secular (some of the latter being highly erotic), ...
- Immanuel Church
- (from the article "New Castle") The Immanuel Church (Episcopal; 1703, rebuilt after it burned in 1980) is a historic landmark. Other colonial landmarks include Amstel House Museum (c. 1730); Old Dutch House, perhaps the state's oldest dwelling, built in the late 1600s and now maintained ...
- immaterialism
- (from the article "mind, philosophy of") Some philosophers have held the doctrine of immaterialism, so named by Bishop George Berkeley, one of the classic British Empiricists, in whose view everything that exists is mental, of "the stuff that dreams are made on," and there is no ...
- immature hemangioma
- (from the article "hemangioma") Immature hemangioma, also called hemangioma simplex or strawberry mark, is a common reddish nubbin on the skin, constituted of aggregations of dilated small blood vessels, which may or may not occur singly. If not already present at birth, it becomes ...
- immaturity
- (from the article "sedimentary rock") Immature sandstones contain a clay matrix, and the sand-size grains are usually angular and poorly sorted. This means that a wide range of sand sizes is present. Such sandstones are characteristic of environments in which sediment is dumped and is ...
- immediate constituent analysis
- in linguistics, a system of grammatical analysis that divides sentences into successive layers, or constituents, until, in the final layer, each constituent consists of only a word or meaningful part of a word. (A constituent is any word or construction ... [1 Related Articles]
- immediate inference
- (from the article "logic") The simplest possible arguments that can be constructed from categorical propositions are those with one premise and, of course, one conclusion. These are called immediate inferences. In order to characterize the valid arguments with one premise, it is necessary to ...
- immediate toxic response
- (from the article "poison") Toxic responses may also be classified according to the time it takes for development of a toxic response. If it takes up to a few days after exposure, the response is considered immediate. There is no universal standard of minimum ...
- immediatism
- (from the article "Garrison, William Lloyd") ...from the American Colonization Society, which advocated the return of free blacks to Africa, to the principle of "immediate emancipation," borrowed from English abolitionists. "Immediatism," however variously it was interpreted by American reformers, condemned slavery as a national sin, called ...
- Immelmann turn
- (from the article "air warfare") ...the superior abilities of his Fokker Eindeker to climb and dive quickly, helped expand aerial combat from the horizontal into the vertical dimension. Immelmann developed what became known as the Immelmann turn, in which an attacking fighter dove past the ...
- Immelmann, Max
- (from the article "air warfare") ...Because a pilot's only warning system was the naked eye, attacking fighters, whenever possible, approached from the rear or dove out of the sun, where they could not be seen. The German ace Max Immelmann, in exploiting the superior abilities ...
- Immendorf, Jorg
- German artist produced provocative and often politically and socially engaged art in a variety of media. He was best known for his 16 Cafe Deutschland paintings, which examined the relations of East and West Germany and of Germany's past and ...
- Immermann, Karl Leberecht
- dramatist and novelist whose works included two forerunners in German literary history: Die Epigonen as a novel of the contemporary social scene and Der Oberhof as a realistic story of village life. [1 Related Articles]
- immersed tube
- technique of underwater tunneling used principally for underwater crossings. The method was pioneered by the American engineer W.J. Wilgus in the Detroit River in 1903 for the Michigan Central Railroad. Wilgus dredged a trench in the riverbed, floated segments of ... [3 Related Articles]
- immersion
- (from the article "Baptist") ...in newness of life, then the act of baptism must reflect these terms. The sign must be consonant with that which it signifies. It is for this latter reason that Baptists were led to insist upon immersion as the apostolic ...
- immersion foot
- (from the article "immersion foot") a painful disorder of the foot involving damage to the skin, nerves, and muscle that is caused by prolonged exposure to cold dampness or by prolonged immersion in cold water. See frostbite.
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- immersion objective
- (from the article "microscope") ...0.1 for low-magnification objectives to 0.95 for dry objectives and 1.4 for oil-immersion objectives. A dry objective is one that works with the air between the specimen and the objective lens. An immersion objective requires a liquid, usually a transparent ...
- immigration
- (from the article "Canada") ...which Quebecers revealed deep concerns about some religious and ethnic minorities. Early in the year the small rural town of Herouxville adopted a code of "norms" for prospective immigrants. Although the town had only a single immigrant family among its ...
- Immigration Act
- (from the article "eugenics") ...determine the feasibility of a plan whereby every prospective immigrant would be interviewed before embarking to the United States. He provided testimony before Congress that ultimately led to a new immigration law in 1924 that severely restricted the annual immigration ...
- Immigration Act
- (from the article "United States") ...for public and private education below the college level. The Higher Education Act of 1965 provided scholarships for more than 140,000 needy students and authorized a National Teachers Corps. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the discriminatory national-origins quota system. ...
- Immigration and Naturalization Service
- (from the article "cybercrime") ...States. In particular, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) issued several reports during the late 1990s and early 2000s concerning the extent of document fraud that had been missed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Finally, a 2002 report ...
- immigration control
- (from the article "Howard, John Winston") ...oversaw the implementation of a new taxation system in 2000. The centrepiece of the system was a goods-and-services tax, which was unpopular with the public. In the early 21st century, illegal immigration also became a key issue in Australia as ...
- Immigration Reform and Control Act
- (from the article "Immigration's Economic Impact") ...like to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, though they also oppose imposing great penalties or deporting the existing stock of illegal immigrants. In 1986 Congress enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which penalized employers for ...
- Immigration Restriction Act
- (1901), in Australian history, fundamental legislation of the new Commonwealth of Australia that effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country and that contributed to the development of a racially insulated white society. Representing a widespread sentiment in all of ... [1 Related Articles]
- immiscibility
- (from the article "mineral deposit") A different kind of magmatic segregation involves liquid immiscibility. A cooling magma will sometimes precipitate droplets of a second magma that has an entirely different composition. Like oil and water, the two magmas will not mix (i.e., they are immiscible). ...
- Immonen, Riitta Narhi
- Finnish fashion designer was cofounder, with textile artist Armi Ratia, of the Marimekko clothing, textile, and interior-design company. Immonen designed all 27 outfits in Marimekko's debut showing on May 20, 1951, and her stylish, elegantly cut dresses-fashioned from Ratia's boldly ...
- Immortal
- (from the article "Daoism") ...in autonomy, the natural spontaneity that Zhuangzi ceaselessly applauds. These striking portraits may have been intended to be allegorical, but whatever their original meaning, these Immortals (xian), as they came to be called, were to become the ...
- Immortal Game, The
- (from the article "Anderssen, Adolf") ...defeat by the Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz (1866). Anderssen was noted for his ability to discover combination plays calculated to force an immediate decision. One of his games was dubbed the "Immortal Game" because chess players thought that its fame would ...
- immortality
- in philosophy and religion, the continuity of human spiritual existence after the death of the body. The concept of immortality is to be distinguished from that of bodily resurrection. [10 Related Articles]
- immortelle
- (from the article "everlasting") ...their form and colour when dried and are used in dry bouquets and flower arrangements. Popular everlastings include several species of the family Asteraceae, especially the true everlastings, or immortelles, species of the genus Helichrysum. Helichrysum-native to North Africa, Crete, ...
- immune antibody
- (from the article "blood group") ...there has been no previous exposure to the corresponding red cell antigens-for example, anti-A in the plasma of people of blood group B and anti-B in the plasma of people of blood group A. Immune antibodies are evoked by exposure ...
- immune deficiency
- (from the article "immune system disorder") Immune deficiency disorders result from defects that occur in immune mechanisms. The defects arise in the components of the immune system, such as the white blood cells involved in immune responses (T and B lymphocytes and scavenger cells) and the ...
- immune response gene
- (from the article "Benacerraf, Baruj") At NYU Benacerraf began to study the genetics of the immune system. His experiments led to his development of the concept of immune response (Ir) genes, which control the immune system's ability to respond to antigens (infectious agents or foreign ...
- immune serum globulin
- (from the article "therapeutics") Immune serum globulin (ISG), obtained from the plasma of a pool of healthy donors, contains a mixture of immunoglobulins, mainly IgG, with lesser amounts of IgM and IgA. It is used to provide passive immunity to a variety of diseases ...
- immune surveillance hypothesis
- (from the article "immune system") ...cells. The idea that such a mechanism continues to function throughout life, weeding out newly arisen cancer cells, became popular in the 1950s and '60s when a number of immunologists postulated immune surveillance, the theory that T-cell-mediated immunity evolved as ...
- immune system
- the complex group of defense responses found in humans and other advanced vertebrates that helps repel disease-causing organisms (pathogens). Immunity from disease is actually conferred by two cooperative defense systems, called nonspecific, innate immunity and specific, acquired immunity. Nonspecific protective ... [10 Related Articles]
- immune system disorder
- any of various failures in the body's defense mechanisms against infectious organisms (see table). Disorders of immunity include immune deficiency diseases, such as AIDS, that arise because of a diminution of some aspect of the ...
- immunity
- (from the article "immune system") the complex group of defense responses found in humans and other advanced vertebrates that helps repel disease-causing organisms (pathogens). Immunity from disease is actually conferred by two cooperative defense systems, called nonspecific, innate immunity and specific, acquired immunity. Nonspecific protective ...
- immunity
- in law, exemption or freedom from liability. In England and the United States a legislator is immune from civil liability for statements made during legislative debate. He is also immune from criminal arrest, although he is subject to legal action ... [2 Related Articles]
- immunization
- process by which resistance to disease is acquired or induced in plants and animals. This discussion focuses on immunization against infectious diseases in vertebrate animals, specifically humans. [18 Related Articles]
- immunochemistry
- (from the article "biochemistry") ...component of a disease-causing bacterium, the antibody can protect an organism from infection by that bacterium. The chemical study of antigens and antibodies and their interrelationship is known as immunochemistry.
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- immunogen
- (from the article "antigen") ...of various species, including humans. An antigen that induces an immune response-i.e., stimulates the lymphocytes to produce antibody or to attack the antigen directly-is called an immunogen.
immune systemAntigens...substances, such as ...
- immunogenetics
- (from the article "genetics, human") Immunity is the ability of an individual to recognize the "self" molecules that make up one's own body and to distinguish them from such "non-self" molecules as those found in infectious microorganisms and toxins. This process has a prominent genetic ...
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