Humors In medieval European medical thought, a fluid or juice, applied especially the four fluids -- blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) -- which were thought to determine a person's health and temperament. This theory derived from classical sources.

"These vital spirits and humors corresponded, however imperfectly, to the pranic fluids of ancient Hindu teaching -- considered to be both ethereal essences and physical humors. From early mediaeval times up to the recent present, medicine consistently taught that normal physical health in the human body was maintained when these vital spirits and humors were operating in equilibrium, and that disease and even death were products of their malfunctioning. The archaic ages were unanimous in their agreement on these points" (FSO 556).

(See also: Human Soul, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of Perspectives of Human Learning

Perspectives of Human Learning - [Psychology]

See Perspectives of Motivation

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Definition and meaning of Perspectives of Human Learning

Perspectives of Human Learning - [Psychology]

See Perspectives of Motivation

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Definition and meaning of Patterns of Human Activity

Patterns of Human Activity

Human beings influence physical geography, and the patterns of their activities, in turn, reflect influences of the environment. Patterns of human activity include the processes of migration and settlement, the distribution of cultures and their interrelationships, the structure of economic interdependence, and the ways political and cultural groups divide and distribute space. Humans tend to settle in fertile areas with accessible transportation routes, and their settlements become part of the physical environment. They modify the environment based on how their societies value and use the Earth's resources. They compete for control of physical and cultural spaces, and their patterns of cooperation and conflict influence the division of Earth's surface. Patterns of human activity leave marks on the landscape.

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Definition and meaning of Patterns of Human Activity

Patterns of Human Activity

Human beings influence physical geography, and the patterns of their activities, in turn, reflect influences of the environment. Patterns of human activity include the processes of migration and settlement, the distribution of cultures and their interrelationships, the structure of economic interdependence, and the ways political and cultural groups divide and distribute space. Humans tend to settle in fertile areas with accessible transportation routes, and their settlements become part of the physical environment. They modify the environment based on how their societies value and use the Earth's resources. They compete for control of physical and cultural spaces, and their patterns of cooperation and conflict influence the division of Earth's surface. Patterns of human activity leave marks on the landscape.

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Definition and meaning of Human and Physical Characteristics

Human and Physical Characteristics - [World Geography]

The physical characteristics of Earth include climate, landforms, soils, hydrology, vegetation, and animal life. The human characteristics include language, religion, political systems, economic systems, population distribution, and quality of life.

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Definition and meaning of Human Characteristics of Places

Human Characteristics of Places

Human characteristics of places include the types of houses people build, the ways they earn a living, the games children play, the languages people speak, their religious beliefs, their ethnicity, the daily schedules they follow, the foods they eat, and how they govern themselves.

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Definition and meaning of Human and Physical Characteristics

Human and Physical Characteristics - [World Geography]

The physical characteristics of Earth include climate, landforms, soils, hydrology, vegetation, and animal life. The human characteristics include language, religion, political systems, economic systems, population distribution, and quality of life.

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Definition and meaning of Human Characteristics of Places

Human Characteristics of Places

Human characteristics of places include the types of houses people build, the ways they earn a living, the games children play, the languages people speak, their religious beliefs, their ethnicity, the daily schedules they follow, the foods they eat, and how they govern themselves.

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The Human Ecology Program: synthesis of aerobics, biochemistry, homeopathy, naturopathy, orthomolecular medicine, philosophy, and psycho-cybernetics developed by artist and research physician Da Vid, M.D. Its theory depicts God as The Life Force: an eternal, fundamental, omnipotent, and omnipresent - yet mysterious (indeed, indefinable) - Power immanent in humans.

A fundamental component of the program is, in effect, the endeavor to become identical to The Power. The Human Ecology Program embraces: Artainment; bodywork (especially chiropractic); communion, meditation, and/or prayer; dietary supplementation; The Freedom Aerobic Exercise Program (a videotape program); homeovitics; and radionics.

(See also: Human Ecology Program, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of Human-Environment Interaction

Human-Environment Interaction - [World Geography]

[Interrelationships Among Physical and Human Processes] Humans depend upon the environment, modify it, adapt to it--in short, they interact with it. Humans have transformed the environment and adjusted to it, creating many different places on Earth. Humans affect the environment and the environment affects humans. In order to understand our world it is vital to understand not only its people but also the environments which sustain them. Most contemporary human-induced environmental changes have not been planned or intended. Many of the effects humans have on the environment are not anticipated. Some are not even felt in the places in which they originate. Rather, they appear in other locations, often places that are environmentally vulnerable. Consider the chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)-ozone-polar connection. Mid-latitude CFC use has weakened the ozone layer most at the Poles. The greatest effects are felt at high latitudes. Geography helps students to understand that the world is a single environmental system affected by its inhabitants. It helps them to understand the truth of the slogan "Act Locally, Think Globally." World solutions are required to address world problems such as ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. Geography is the one discipline that bridges the physical and social sciences and can help students, and the public at large, understand the processes which transform our planet. Geographers see it this way: "...humankind is dependent upon an earth incapable of supporting infinite demands and capable both of being improved and of being damaged by the way in which it is used" (W.B. Meyer and B.L. Turner 1996, 139). The ways people interact with the environment depend upon three factors: the nature of the environment; the culture and values of the human group; and their level of technology.

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Definition and meaning of Human-Environment Interaction

Human-Environment Interaction - [World Geography]

[Interrelationships Among Physical and Human Processes] Humans depend upon the environment, modify it, adapt to it--in short, they interact with it. Humans have transformed the environment and adjusted to it, creating many different places on Earth. Humans affect the environment and the environment affects humans. In order to understand our world it is vital to understand not only its people but also the environments which sustain them. Most contemporary human-induced environmental changes have not been planned or intended. Many of the effects humans have on the environment are not anticipated. Some are not even felt in the places in which they originate. Rather, they appear in other locations, often places that are environmentally vulnerable. Consider the chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)-ozone-polar connection. Mid-latitude CFC use has weakened the ozone layer most at the Poles. The greatest effects are felt at high latitudes. Geography helps students to understand that the world is a single environmental system affected by its inhabitants. It helps them to understand the truth of the slogan "Act Locally, Think Globally." World solutions are required to address world problems such as ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. Geography is the one discipline that bridges the physical and social sciences and can help students, and the public at large, understand the processes which transform our planet. Geographers see it this way: "...humankind is dependent upon an earth incapable of supporting infinite demands and capable both of being improved and of being damaged by the way in which it is used" (W.B. Meyer and B.L. Turner 1996, 139). The ways people interact with the environment depend upon three factors: the nature of the environment; the culture and values of the human group; and their level of technology.

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Definition and meaning of Basic Human Needs

Basic Human Needs

All humans require three things to survive: food, clothing, and shelter. People need food to eat, clothes to wear and a house to live in. They work to make a living to buy these things, or they make them. In some cultures people make their own clothes from wool they get from the sheep they raise. Others grow cotton and spin it into cloth for themselves or to sell to businesses which spin it and make it into clothing. Farmers provide most grain and meat to factories which process it into food for distribution through grocery stores. People can choose to pay rent or buy or build their own houses. These are some ways people meet their basic human needs. Some people experience better standards of living, they eat better food, wear nicer clothes and live in bigger houses than other people. While people can be happy with less, those who do not meet all three basic needs may not survive.

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Definition and meaning of Basic Human Needs

Basic Human Needs

All humans require three things to survive: food, clothing, and shelter. People need food to eat, clothes to wear and a house to live in. They work to make a living to buy these things, or they make them. In some cultures people make their own clothes from wool they get from the sheep they raise. Others grow cotton and spin it into cloth for themselves or to sell to businesses which spin it and make it into clothing. Farmers provide most grain and meat to factories which process it into food for distribution through grocery stores. People can choose to pay rent or buy or build their own houses. These are some ways people meet their basic human needs. Some people experience better standards of living, they eat better food, wear nicer clothes and live in bigger houses than other people. While people can be happy with less, those who do not meet all three basic needs may not survive.

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Door to the Human Kingdom Theosophical term expressing the idea that no more entities below the human stage will evolve into human beings in this round. The reason for this is that

"when Globe A of the new chain is ready, the first class or Hierarchy of Monads from the Lunar chain incarnate upon it in the lowest kingdom, and so on successively. The result of this is, that it is only the first class of Monads which attains the human state of development during the first Round, since the second class, on each planet, arriving later, has not time to reach that stage.

Thus the Monads of Class 2 reach the incipient human stage only in the Second Round, and so on up to the middle of the Fourth Round. But at this point -- and on this Fourth Round in which the human stage will be fully developed -- the 'Door' into the human kingdom closes; and henceforward the number of 'human' Monads, i.e., Monads in the human stage of development, is complete. For the Monads which had not reached the human stage by this point will, owing to the evolution of humanity itself, find themselves so far behind that they will reach the human stage only at the close of the seventh and last Round" (SD 1:173).

The "door" was closed into the human kingdom in the middle of the fourth round because the turning point had been reached between the monadic evolution of matter, or descent into matter on the downward arc, and the reverse process of involution, which automatically replaced it on the upward arc of the great light cycle.

Thus, as we are now past the middle of the fourth round, none of the monads now working in and through the animal kingdom can enter the human kingdom during the remainder of this round; with one probably exception, however: that of the anthropoid apes.

(See also: Door to the Human Kingdom, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of human rights policy:

human rights policy

President Carter asserted that his administration's foreign policy would place basic human rights--security, freedom from fear and hunger, etc.--before all other concerns. His administration was inconsistent in applying this standard.

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Ever-living Human Banyan. See BANYAN; WONDROUS BEING

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Definition and meaning of Human Life Value :

Human Life Value: For purposes of life insurance, the present value of the family's share of the deceased breadwinner's future earnings.

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Humanity (jen): Central Confucian concept advocating benevolent action towards people.

 (See also: Humanity, Eastern Philosophy, Body Mind and Soul)

Definition and meaning of Human Life Value :

Human Life Value: A method of determining Life Insurance needs by considering a person's income, expenses, remaining years of earning capacity, and depreciation in the value of the dollar over time. (LI)

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Definition and meaning of Department of Health and Human Services :

Department of Health and Human Services:  A federal department whose responsibility is primarily dealing with social service functions such as administration and supervision of the Medicare program. (H)

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