PARIS — Far from the enfeebled and senile general manipulated by his peers, as the French have long viewed him, Marshal Philippe Pétain was an unapologetic anti-Semite, said Serge Klarsfeld, one of France's leading Holocaust experts.
"Othello," Shakespeare's tragedy of a black general manipulated into killing his white wife, Desdemona, by Iago, the adjutant who despises him, has always seemed to me a story more about envy than about race, making it no less human, and all the more universal.
In general, behavior-manipulating parasites are thought to change host behavior by means of secreting neuromodulatory agents near both the central and peripheral nervous systems of their hosts [ 40].
We therefore concluded that change in resistance to heat shock was indeed an adaptive trait, and not simply a consequential response to the general conditions manipulated in our experiment to address the formal hypothesis.
After many years of development, biologists have learned how to modify nature's DNA recognition system into a general system for manipulating genes.
The 17 general techniques, like manipulating a prisoner's emotions or persuading the prisoner that it was futile to resist, formed a boundary that the American military had heeded in the recent past.
General concepts for manipulating growth factor signaling with these systems are discussed in the context of angiogenesis with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and these strategies may be broadly adapted to a multitude of other morphogens and growth factors.
Attentional processes usually serve as a "general gatekeeper" for manipulating information within working memory by exerting top-down control over which information is the most relevant and may occupy the limited space [19]; thus, mental impasse may be caused by an "attentional overload".
Interestingly, the entire butyrate/butanol (C4) metabolic pathway of C. acetobutylicum could be inactivated without a severe growth limitation and indicated the general feasibility to manipulate the central fermentative metabolism for product pattern alteration.
Acupuncture treatments included general acupuncture points, manipulated techniques of acupuncture, and hand acupuncture [ 9- 16].
