enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Objective correlative - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_correlative

    (28). According to Formalist critics, this action of creating an emotion through external factors and evidence linked together and thus forming an objective correlative should produce an author's detachment from the depicted character and unite the emotion of the literary work. The "occasion" of Eugenio Montale is a further form of correlative ...

  3. Ecosystem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem

    External factors such as climate, parent material which forms the soil and topography, control the overall structure of an ecosystem but are not themselves influenced by the ecosystem. Internal factors are controlled, for example, by decomposition , root competition, shading, disturbance, succession, and the types of species present.

  4. Darwinian literary studies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian_literary_studies

    Interest in the relationship between Darwinism and the study of literature began in the nineteenth century, for example, among Italian literary critics. [2] For example, Ugo Angelo Canello argued that literature was the history of the human psyche, and as such, played a part in the struggle for natural selection, while Francesco de Sanctis argued that Emile Zola "brought the concepts of ...

  5. Exogeny - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogeny

    An exogenous contrast agent, in medical imaging for example, is a liquid injected into the patient intravenously that enhances visibility of a pathology, such as a tumor.An exogenous factor is any material that is present and active in an individual organism or living cell but that originated outside that organism, as opposed to an endogenous factor.

  6. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture

    Nurture is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception e.g. the product of exposure, experience and learning on an individual. The phrase in its modern sense was popularized by the Victorian polymath Francis Galton , the modern founder of eugenics and behavioral genetics when he was discussing the influence of heredity ...

  7. Exposome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposome

    Example representation of the environmental factors characterizing the exposome. The exposome is a concept used to describe environmental exposures that an individual encounters throughout life, and how these exposures impact biology and health. It encompasses both external and internal factors, including chemical, physical, biological, and ...

  8. Developmental systems theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_systems_theory

    To adopt a computing metaphor, the reductionists (whom developmental systems theory opposes) assume that causal factors can be divided into ‘processes’ and ‘data’, as in the Harvard computer architecture. Data (inputs, resources, content, and so on) is required by all processes, and must often fall within certain limits if the process ...

  9. Biopsychosocial model - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model

    Biopsychosocial models are a class of trans-disciplinary models which look at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors. These models specifically examine how these aspects play a role in a range of topics but mainly psychiatry , health and human development.