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Vital Metals
Vital or Vitals may refer to: Places * Vital Creek, a creek located in the Omineca Country region of British Columbia * Vital Range, a subrange in the Omineca Mountains in British Columbia People *Vital (given name) *Vital (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Vital (Anberlin album), ''Vital'' (Anberlin album), 2012 * Vital (Fernando Otero album), ''Vital'' (Fernando Otero album), a 2010 album by Fernando Otero * Vital (Van der Graaf Generator album), ''Vital'' (Van der Graaf Generator album), 1978 * ''Vital'', a 2009 studio album by Norman Bedard * Vitals (Mutemath album), ''Vitals'' (Mutemath album), 2015 Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Vital (film), ''Vital'' (film), a 2004 Japanese movie directed by Shinya Tsukamoto * Vitals (novel), ''Vitals'' (novel), a 2002 science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Greg Bear Other uses * Vital (grape), a Portuguese wine grape grown in the Alcobaça wine region * USS Vital, USS ''Vital'', two US warships * Vital c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Creek
Vital Creek is a creek located in the Omineca Country region of British Columbia, flowing eastward from its source in the Vital Range to meet Silver Creek, joining that creek from the west about 5 miles from its mouth into the Omineca River, about 41 km northeast of Takla Landing. History The gold deposits of Vital Creek were discovered in 1869 by Vital Laforce, who had also been among the four discoverers of gold along Williams Creek (British Columbia), Williams Creek, which was the foundation of Barkerville. This was the first creek mined in the Omineca Gold Rush, Omineca. Late in the mining season of 1870, $7,000 was taken out by a party of 15 Chinese miners, giving some hope that significant gold might yet be found in the region. The creek has been mined for gold and silver, which occurred simultaneously and were unusual to find in that way. It has been hydraulicked and mined by Chinese syndicates like Gow Sing and Co. The bulk of the gold was obtained on bedrock and in cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Currents
In yoga, Indian medicine and Indian martial arts, prana ( sa2, प्राण, ; the Sanskrit word for breath, " life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects. In Hindu literature, prāṇa is sometimes described as originating from the Sun and connecting the elements. Five types of prāṇa, collectively known as the five ''vāyus'' ("winds"), are described in Hindu texts. Ayurveda, tantra and Tibetan medicine all describe ''prāṇa vāyu'' as the basic vāyu from which the other vāyus arise. Prana is divided into ten main functions: The five Pranas – Prana, Apana, Udana, Vyana and Samana – and the five Upa-Pranas – Naga, Kurma, Devadatta, Krikala and Dhananjaya. Pranayama, one of the eight limbs of yoga, is intended to expand prana. Etymology V. S. Apte provides fourteen different meanings for the Sanskrit word ' () including breath or respiration; the breath of life, vital air, principle of life (usually plur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Vital (other)
Saint Vital is the French translation of Saint Vitalis. It can also refer to: * Saint-Vital, a town and commune in Savoie, France * St. Vital, Winnipeg, a former independent city in Manitoba, Canada which is now part of the city of Winnipeg * St. Vital (electoral district), a provincial riding in the province of Manitoba {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elan Vital (other)
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Elan Vital may refer to: * ''Élan vital'', a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907, roughly translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force" * Elan Vital (organization), a nonprofit group formed in the United States, active from 1971 to 2010 * ''Élan Vital'' (album), a 2006 album by the music group Pretty Girls Make Graves * Elan Vital, a partially sentient machine from the anime series '' Melody of Oblivion'' See also * Elan (other) * Vital (other) Vital or Vitals may refer to: Places * Vital Creek, a creek located in the Omineca Country region of British Columbia * Vital Range, a subrange in the Omineca Mountains in British Columbia People * Vital (given name) *Vital (surname) Arts, ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitality
Vitality (, , ) is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. More simply it is the property of having life. The perception of vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a component to the will to live. As such, people seek to maximize their vitality or their experience of vitality—that which corresponds to an enhanced physiological capacity and mental state. Overview The pursuit and maintenance of health and vitality have been at the forefront of medicine and natural philosophy throughout history. Life depends upon various biological processes known as vital processes. As such, vitality is also the characteristic distinction of living from non-living things. Historically, these vital processes have been viewed as having either mechanistic or non-mechanistic causes. The latter of which is characteristic of vitalism, the doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained by purely chemical and physical mechanisms. Prior to the 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitalism (Jainism)
Vitalism is at the core of Jain philosophy which separates ''Jiva'' (soul or life) from '' Ajiva'' (non-soul). According to Jain cosmology, the whole universe is made up of six simple substances and is therefore eternal. These six substances (dravya) are: *Jiva *Time *Space * Dharma (medium of motion) *Adharma *Matter (Pudgala) ''Jiva'' or soul is distinguished from the rest five (termed '' Ajiva'') on account of the quality of intelligence with which it is endowed and of which the other substances are devoid. Overview According to Jainism, there are ten or life-principles: According to major Jain text, Tattvarthsutra: "The severance of vitalities out of passion is injury". Because life is to be considered sacred and in every living thing, Jains avoid killing any living creature. They are not only vegetarian, but decline to eat vegetables that grow under the ground because each underground stem contains infinite number of vitalities each of that can potentially grow into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitalism
Vitalism is a belief that starts from the premise that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things." Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark," "energy," or "''élan vital''," which some equate with the soul. In the 18th and 19th centuries vitalism was discussed among biologists, between those who felt that the known mechanics of physics would eventually explain the difference between life and non-life and vitalists who argued that the processes of life could not be reduced to a mechanistic process. Vitalist biologists such as Johannes Reinke proposed testable hypotheses meant to show inadequacies with mechanistic explanations, but their experiments failed to provide support for vitalism. Biologists now consider vitalism in this sense to have been refuted by empirical evidence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Stain
A vital stain in a casual usage may mean a stain that can be applied on living cells without killing them. Vital stains have been useful for diagnostic and surgical techniques in a variety of medical specialties. In supravital staining, living cells have been removed from an organism, whereas intravital staining is done by injecting or otherwise introducing the stain into the body. The term vital stain is used by some authors to refer to an intravital stain, and by others interchangeably with a supravital stain, the core concept being that the cell being examined is still alive. In a more strict sense, the term vital staining has a meaning contrasting with supravital staining. While in supravital staining the living cells take up the stain, in "vital staining" – the most accepted but apparently paradoxical meaning of this term, the living cells exclude the stain i.e. stain negatively and only the dead cells stain positively and thus viability can be assessed by counting the percen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Organ
In biology, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function. In the hierarchy of life, an organ lies between tissue and an organ system. Tissues are formed from same type cells to act together in a function. Tissues of different types combine to form an organ which has a specific function. The intestinal wall for example is formed by epithelial tissue and smooth muscle tissue. Two or more organs working together in the execution of a specific body function form an organ system, also called a biological system or body system. An organ's tissues can be broadly categorized as parenchyma, the functional tissue, and stroma, the structural tissue with supportive, connective, or ancillary functions. For example, the gland's tissue that makes the hormones is the parenchyma, whereas the stroma includes the nerves that innervate the parenchyma, the blood vessels that oxygenate and nourish it and carry away its metabolic wastes, and the conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Forsikring
Vital Forsikring ASA, branded as Vital is Norway's largest life insurance and pension insurance company, and part of the DnB NOR Group. Though Vital has roots back to 1847, it was created in its present form by a merger between Vital and Gjensidige NOR's life insurance section after the mother companies merged in 2003. Vital has its headquarters in Bergen, Norway and has total assets of . Vital also owns a large portfolio of real estate, valued about NOK 24 billion. This includes the entire portfolio of real estate owned by the entire DnB NOR group in Norway. History Vital has its roots back to 1847 when Gjensidige was created. Gjensidige merged with Glitne (1968), Samtrygd (1985), Forenede Forsikring (1992) and Sparebanken NOR Forsikring (1999). The brand name Vital was created in 1990 when Hygea (founded in 1884) and Norsk Kollektiv Pensjonskasse (founded in 1938) merged to found Vital. Vital was bought by Den norske Bank in 1996. In 2003, after the mother compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VITAL For Children
VITAL for Children is a charitable organization (a registered charity) which works to eliminate child poverty. It has registered offices in England (charity number 1121532) and the United States. The charity is 501(c)3 registered in the U.S. The main administrative function is carried out at the office on Grosvenor Road in London, England. VITAL aims to restore the basic human rights to all children suffering from the oppression & injustice of poverty by supporting projects which ensure the many disadvantaged and vulnerable children. That they receive access to quality education, healthcare facilities, nutrition and clean water, protection and emergency shelter. "In the very heart of Kolkata. From the red light district to the slums and the slave trade, VITAL is tremendously changing the quality of life among untold numbers of children." Projects Red Light Project Red Light District is part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented business, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Vital
The United States Navy lists two warships bearing the name USS ''Vital'': * , a steel-hulled minesweeper A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. History The earliest known usage of ..., laid down on 1 January 1942 at Chickasaw, Alabama. * , a wooden-hulled minesweeper, laid down as AM-474 on 31 October 1952 at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vital, Uss United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
