In the 5th century bce Empedocles set forth the view that the universe is composed of four elements fire, air, earth, and water and this conception led to the doctrine of the four bodily humours: blood; phlegm; choler, or yellow bile; and melancholy, or black bile.
Then, 10 years ago, came the event that threatened to swallow us whole: My older brother — the same child whose conception led to my parents' decision to marry — returned home one night to their Queens apartment and said he needed to talk to them.
Paternal food deprivation in male mice before conception leads to offspring with impaired glucose metabolism [ 25].
And if that's true, reasoned epidemiologist Luc Smits at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, then longer conceptions should lead to a higher percentage of male babies.
Exposure to environmental toxicants early in life, and even parental exposure prior to conception, may lead to metabolic effects, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive problems later in life, said researchers speaking at the meeting.
Philo's and Diodorus' conceptions of conditionals lead to variants of the 'paradoxes' of material and strict implication a fact the ancients were aware of (Sextus Empiricus [S. E.] M. 8.109 117).
Weaker or stronger conceptions of 'personhood' would lead to the inclusion or exclusion of humans at various ages from the category of person.
In contrast, the pre-conception period may be optimal for interventions [ 23]: 1) Pre-conception periodontal therapy may lead to better outcomes as it can be more intensive compared with treatment during pregnancy (e.g., the use of adjunctive antibiotics).
A tendency to see the media as always generating rather than reifying popular conceptions leads Fejes to dubious conclusions; he insists, for example, that the media was the major "source" of Americans' "common sense knowledge" about homosexuality, and he specifically discounts religion's influence simply because most denominations were not especially vocal on the subject prior to 1977.
In the interviews with Huckabee and Hannity, he apologized repeatedly, acknowledging that rape can lead to conception.
