Sentences with phrase «as figure study»

It does, however, share the same coat motif as Figure Study II, and it has been suggested the screaming figure may be lurking under the coat waiting to emerge.

Not exact matches

To figure out when the more social among us flourish and when they struggle, the team studied 162 Belgian business students who were separated into 27 teams as part of a class project.

A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers of conventional cigarettes.

The number one industry set be transformed by A.I. appears to be healthcare, with $ 400 million invested by health care companies in the technology as of last year, a figure that's projected to grow to $ 3 billion or more by 2020, according to data from the Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.

The research team of international scientists wanted to figure out if the Milky Way matches the spiral shape observed in other galaxies, as part of a larger study that aims to sharpen our image of our galaxy.

The global market for 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is poised to grow to $ 3 billion by 2018 — a 76 percent increase from 2012 revenue figures — according to a study by Global Industry Analysts.

A new study by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada suggests that Canadian services exports are two and a half times larger than official figures, and that the stock of Canadian investment in India is at least twice as large as shown by Statistics Canada.

As we noted in the case of Freudians and Marxists, in the process of studying another figure, for example, Foucault, one may find that one is now understanding and appropriating Jesus from his point of view, that Foucault's insights have become the organizing principles for one's thought and life.

Pope Benedict's eagerly awaited volume should be seen not only as the second part of his exegetical - theological study of the figure of Jesus in the Gospels, but also as the necessary complement to his book The Spirit of the Liturgy.

There was a time when, in the early days of New Testament study, it was assumed that by the use of critical method «the quest for the historical Jesus» would be rewarded by a portrayal of that historical figure exactly as he was.

[citation needed] Other studies have suggested that there are roughly 54 million Christians in China, of which 39 million are Protestants and 14 million are Roman Catholics; these are seen as the most common and reliable figures.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

It is noteworthy that the Mulford study figures, cited above, showed that heavy drinkers were four times as prevalent among male as among female drinkers.

So the leading figures of the Renaissance commended the study of the classics as the means of nurturing our human potential.

And, as someone who switched from a very lucrative 6 - figure IS / IT career and invested a half - million dollars in my education (tuition and lost wages), you'd better bet I've investigated and studied this all quite seriously.

Until this century primary education was mainly a matter of mastering the three R's, sometimes known as the four R's because religion figured pretty largely through the study of the Bible.

Popularizations often have this effect, but Bloom is a major figure and a serious literary critic (jacket - cover blurbs rightly identify him as «America's pre-eminent literary critic» and «the critic of our time»), so in trying to comprehend the level of the argument I found myself opting at times for disingenuousness, bombast or simple ignorance of the field of biblical studies.

Furthermore, studies report that the vast majority of them have been sexually molested as children, and so they figure that if they are getting raped anyway, why not get paid for it?

And Marvin O'Connell's recent and splendid study, John Ireland and the American Catholic Church, has demonstrated that biography in the grand manner and within the classic story line is still possible even as contemporary research refines the standard account and our understanding of the major figures within it.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

A similar study, with similar consequences in terms of a possible challenge to our understanding of existence, could be carried out in connection with any figure from the past for whom we had sources: Socrates the philosopher, or even Attila the Hun, as well as Jesus the Christ.

It should be studied along with the treatments of this theme by Machiavelli and Rousseau, where there is discussion of such figures as Moses and Romulus.

Back when I was a freshman in college, as a way to procrastinate studying for finals, I was seriously struggling — struggling to figure out my place in life, struggling to find motivation (from studying to living life at all).

Hooton, for one, wasn't suprised by the University of Minnesota study's findings: «We identified this high rate of steroid usage over 5 years ago,» he says, noting, that he used the same 5 - 6 % figure that the U of M confirmed in their study as far back as 2005, when he testified at the now - infamous Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball.

British Cohort Study interviewer instructions for sweep 2 in 1975 (cohort child at five years) state that «if the [birth] father is divorced, separated or has «deserted» the mother, he is not considered as a «father figure» even if visiting the child daily» (see page 68 of our full report)!

The study also recognized, however, that the fact that those who specialize early may experience a more rapid improvement in performance provides some support for those who argue in favor of early specialization, at least in the case of sports, such as figure skating and gymnastics, in which athletic careers are shorter and attaining peak performance at a younger age may be advantageous.

Studies also show a range of negative developmental outcomes associated with fathers» (and father - figures») poor parenting or psychopathology — as is also the case with mothers.

Although in this study information on breastfeeding practice was reliant upon maternal recall at 9 months, breastfeeding figures are in agreement with data collected prospectively in the UK Infant Feeding Survey conducted in 2000.32 Likewise, the validity of maternal recall of the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery has been shown to be accurate.33 We were unable to adjust for maternal intention to breastfeed at antenatal booking, a factor shown to be important in previous studies34 as this information was not collected in the survey.

On that episode, she shared why she began Grapevine Studies and how it came to fruition, the purpose of stick - figuring through the bible, how to use Grapevine to teach bible in large families and special needs kids, as well as Grapevine's stance on discipleship.

These figures include studies from the US, Australia and the UK, as well as other countries.

For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour»As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour»as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour»as a warped form of normal behaviour».

Confirmation that the UK Border Agency has revoked the London Met's highly trusted status, meaning its international students are not permitted visas to study in the UK, came as new figures showed the government was beginning to make progress on its goal of cutting back on immigration.

As revealed on this website, data from the latest wave of the British Election Study (collected in February / March 2014) suggests that loyalty to UKIP between the 2014 European Parliament elections and the 2015 general election is likely to be around 60 % (a much larger figure than between the last European Parliament and general election in 2009 and 2010 respectively).

They also began studying how the ability to think visually is learned, employing wearable cameras to track the attention of study subjects as they figured out how to construct colorful patterns out of the component pieces of those patterns, for example.

The study found that more than 4.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the oceans from land each year, and that figure may be as high as 12.7 million metric tons.

The EPA partly arrived at the lower figure by excluding the cost of U.S. emissions on other countries, yet as the study shows, effects in developing countries have clear spillovers on developed countries.

Ghaemi details «case studies» wherein he examines respected political figures — such as Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy — who lived with depression or mania, or both, and argues that these qualities enhanced their leadership skills.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

By studying what pushes those 6 percent into their fate as photoreceptor cells, researchers might figure out how to generate a larger number of transplantable cells.

Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.

Since cavefish aren't a well - studied model for human metabolism, the researchers had to figure out protocols as they went, including developing a fish version of a glucose tolerance test.

Such figures cause conservationists alarm, as the study shows over 54 percent is a level of poaching that elephant birth rates are unable to overcome and will lead to population decline.

The study is «as close as you'll get to direct evidence» that inbreeding figures in extinction, Frankham says.

The team conducted multiple interviews with each man and studied the biographies of additional public figures as well.

Studies of genetic markers that are distinctive to ancestral groups show that typical African Americans have 20 percent European blood, although that figure can go as high as 80 percent in some people who call themselves black.

But as a law professor at Drake Law School who has been studying property transfers for years, I've seen that laws, regulations and court rulings are only recently trying to figure out how to handle the ever - changing realm of digital technology.

Postrel's claim was only that there was a spike in the number of people applying to study the weird little field of forensic science — not Science as a whole; that latter figure, in the U.K., is indeed declining, and in the United States is merely holding steady even as the pace and scope of science explodes.