They predict that the parts of the brain related to anticipation of pleasure and pain, as well as those related to self-similarity and readiness to act, will be activated during the exercise of compassion, and may differ between adepts and novices.
While the federal Affordable Care Act is intended to narrow the divide between those with health care and those without, in its first day of operation the Web site aimed at helping consumers sign up for health insurance – Healthcare.gov – might have driven a larger wedge between technologically adept Americans and those who have yet to fully embrace the social Web and mobile technology.
Become adept at distinguishing the subtle differences between metal, nu metal, punk, hard rock, glam and grunge.
Distinctions between what one is adept at and what one is not adept at do not correlate with the folk distinction between practical and theoretical pursuits.
A cross-cultural communicator from an early age, Christopher is not only a multilingual economist, but an adept "translator" between professional disciplines: helping technologists understand policy makers, activists understand CEOs, and all of us understand trends shaping our inter-connected future.
It was written as a collaboration between Morgan Kuhli and SCNTFC himself, proving that Rohrmann is just as adept at music as he is at visuals.
If he was adept at switching between genres, he also found room for some of his more private obsessions.
The divide between the empiricists and the believers is also the fault line between the highly educated, technologically adept super-elite and the squeezed and scared middle class.
At the same time, Mr Fried fears, some European governments are not very adept at distinguishing between peaceful piety and the more violent kind.
He exhibits a poet's concern for precision, writing, for example, that "the sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity.
And while Northam has proved unusually adept at balancing between rising Democrats and worried Republicans, his reputation for niceness "is disarming.. . .
