intromission


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Synonyms for intromission

the state of being allowed entry

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For example, paternal-lineage VIN females showed more proceptive behaviors and received more frequent intromissions than VEH, but they also gave more lateral kicks, considered a rejection behavior (Spiteri et al.
(iii) Penile licking: this is when the male bent and licked the penis without mounting or intromission.
The behavior parameters observed were: female receptivity (measured by the ratio of lordosis to mount frequencies), male latency time to first approach, latency time to first intromission, incomplete mount number (without intromission) and number of intrusions (CHAHOUD & FAQI, 1998).
Of course, as Karl Polanyi explained decades ago (2001), the aggressive intromission of international capital into the interstices of societies around the world does not go unchallenged.
According to figure 2B, there were no significant differences among the groups on number of intromission in 40 min.
Other topics include relativism and rationalism: a metacontroversy, the controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet, intromission versus extramission in Oxford, and the SSK in the name of prestigious ancestors.
(14) Following the irrefutable logic of the Islamic scholar Ibn al-Haitham Al Hazan, who argued that since the moon and stars are so far away, it is impossible for a ray from the eye to reach them and thus illuminate them, it became the accepted wisdom that vision was rather the result of rays from light sources reaching the eye by a process known as intromission. (15) Originating from sources such as the sun or a lamp, we characteristically see light scattered off an object's surface; objects that generate light-such as a television set--are reasonably uncommon in our everyday experience.
This study took the original questions used in the first study and added questions to address the issues outlined above; for example, envious looks were assessed, and beliefs in extramission, intromission (i.e., when someone or something is looked at, light enters the eye), and a sense of presence were measured.
Indeed, as Noel O'Sullivan has pointed out, a charitable reading of Oakeshott's accounts of civility in the face of the instrumentalisation of the political may be well-suited to the re-articulation of democratic fellowship against the impingement and usurpation of civility by the political intromission of enterprise associations.
According to Couso (2009), the state exposes adolescents to stigmatization and unjustified criminalization by applying -without scientific justification-legislation that has unlimited intromission in youthful development, a position documented also by Levine (2002).