The results add to previous research that has shown that our pupils dilate when we look at something that fascinates or intrigues us, suggesting that the so-called pupillary light reflex isn't merely an automatic response (like jerking your hand back from a hot stove).
Importantly, this would be an active process and not merely an automatic electronic record to be unearthed and considered if things go wrong.
The country's moment of truth may have been in the Persian Gulf war in 1991, when, as Yoichi Funabashi, the international affairs commentator of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, wrote, "Japan found itself merely an automatic teller machine, one that needed a kick before dispensing the cash".
Lindsay himself a "progressive" Republican like La Guardia, though without the genius adopted a dumbed-down version of Marx's already-crude idea that ideas and values are merely an automatic reflection of the economic "base".
A papal decree issued Oct. 11 sets a retirement age of 75 but it fails to make retirement automatic, merely urging bishops to call it quits at that age.
By Xavier Rynne The New Yorker, October 22, 1966 P. 140 A papal decree issued Oct. 11 sets a retirement age of 75 but it fails to make retirement automatic, merely urging bishops to call it quits at that age.
An assault weapon is merely a semi-automatic rifle that carries its bullets in a magazine and looks vicious.
It would have been absurd not to have dropped those digits when designing unit records to be fitted into the 80 or 90 columns of a card.Programs coded for the first electronic computers brought into commercial use merely copied the less automatic procedures used with older, simpler punched-card machinery.
Studies in the OECD's most recent Economic Outlook find that, to cope with past downturns, an increase in the budget deficit of 2% of GDP has been needed merely to accommodate the automatic-stabiliser function.
