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PREHENSION. The lawful taking of a thing with an intent to, assert a right in it.

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If an actual occasion has positively prehended an immediate predecessor and that predecessor has positively prehended its immediate predecessor, then the actual occasion of the present has prehended the positive prehension of its predecessor.

WHITEHEAD AND RUSSELL ON THE ANALYSIS OF MATTER

He or she is unable to make the adaptations necessary to let go of negative prehensions and move towards a new concrescence.

Psychotherapy and the spirit-in-process: an integration of process theology, pneumatology, and systems psychology

We have moved beyond a model of encounter with stable and autonomous parties apprehending one another through shared terms, to prehension of otherness that presumes neither the distance of firm distinction nor fusion through epistemic grasping.

Embodying an ethics of response-ability

Abbreviations: CR = completion rate, D1-3 = Days 1-3, DoA = degree-of-actuation, DoF = degree-of-freedom, EMG = electromyography, IMES = implantable myoelectric sensors, JAT = joint angle transform, MEC = myoelectric control system, MT = movement time, nTar = no target, PC = postural control, PCA = principal component analysis, PE = path efficiency, PP = palmer prehension, Pt = pretest, RMS = root mean square, S1-4 = subjects 1-4, T = test, Tar = target, Tp = target posture, TMR = targeted muscle reinnervation, VH = virtual hand, VSA = vector summation algorithm.

Novel postural control algorithm for control of multifunctional myoelectric prosthetic hands

Drawing upon Whitehead's concepts of occasion, prehension, and concrescence, the second half of this paper presents one such event in which the world is transformed.

From things to events: whitehead and the materiality of process

7) << J'utiliserai le mot de prehension pour une apprehension de type non-cognitif, c'est-a-dire une apprehension qui peut etre ou non de type cognitif.

Grupmuv. Vers une pratique autocreative: cultiver l'observateur sensible

Reflejos palmomentoniano, glabelar y de prehension.

Perfil cognitivo en pacientes con infeccion por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana neurologicamente asintomaticos

The timing of the reconstructive process should ideally start before the development of prehension.

Polydactyly: a review

Les ennemis d'hier, qu'il denonce avec sa gouaille outranciere, deviendront les amis du jour ; l'important c'est d'arriver a ses fins, quels que soient les moyens utilises, parmi lesquels la prehension de la barbichette des uns par les autres semble etre le plus efficace.

Moi, je suis qui est-ce ?

1992) The contributions of peripheral vision and central vision to prehension.

The impact of a sports vision training program in Youth field hockey players

Indispensable response, responsibility, when the Other approaches, stands in place of prehension or comprehension of relation.

Phenomenology of happiness and ethics: from Aristotle to duns scouts and E. Levinas/Laimes ir etikos fenomenologija: nuo Aristotelio iki dunso skoto ir E. Levino

En ella se evalua el gateo, la sedestacion, la marcha, la prehension, la percepcion, el habla, el lenguaje y el area social del nino.