Sentences with phrase «as concept studies»

Think of Darth Vader, Iron Man, or the 6 Million Dollar Man as concept studies.

He will lead the spacecraft's science mission from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kevli Institute (MKI) for Astrophysics and Space Research, where the mission began as a concept study in 2006.

Unveiled as a concept study at Pebble Beach this weekend, the GTR features a tweaked V8 3.8 - liter twin - turbo mid-mounted engine and the electric motor and managed to bump output of the hybrid system from 916 PS (674 kW) to 1,000 PS (736 kW).

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Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

Mastering something new starts out fun, then tends to get miserable as concepts get harder until, if you manage to push through the pain, you achieve enough skill that whatever you're studying becomes fun again.

Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia Business School and former Sears Canada CEO, discusses Macy's decision on buying Story, a retail entertainment concept, to implement in their stores as well as Amazon and Walmart in the race to acquire India's Flipkart.

Studies have found some differences in the structure of and activity in the brain, a concept known as sexual dimorphism.

According to Fraunhofer ISE, the concepts developed by joint study could reduce the production cost for BIPV modules as much as 35 %.

Using the concept of citizen representation as its main conceptual anchor, the study examines longitudinal patterns in two cities that underwent divergent institutional and political leadership experiences during the late 1990s and following.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Participants examine their businesses as case studies throughout the week and apply core business concepts through real - world applications.

This study examines the shared ideas and beliefs that make Canada what it is today, as well as the divisions that push back against long - held concepts of what Canada is, or is supposed to be.

During my studies, I really enjoyed my political economy classes, which dealt with concepts such as monetary policy and international trade.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

But if that concept is never introduced as a young child and / or you're casually told that they don't exist and keep the mindset into adulthood, do you fit into one of the study's categories?

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

Dr. Streett argues that the concept of the Kingdom of God is not how it is taught or understood in most churches and Bible studies, namely, as equivalent to going to heaven when we die... as a pie in the sky in the bye - and - bye.

To continue Robert, as I have studied the conceptof intelligence, especially how it pertains to other animals, most of those concepts are not even confined to humans.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

Buber's criterion of the uniqueness of the fact is of especial importance because, as in the concept of the historical mystery, it goes beyond the phenomenological approach which at present dominates the study of the history of religions.

And Whitehead's reopening of the theme used this concept only in passing, as an arbitrarily chosen case - study of the difference between scientific abstractions and adequate common - sense.

Recently, while chatting with an old friend who happens to be a professor of New Testament and biblical Studies at a prominent Christian university, I asked him what he thought of the concept of «Christian Privilege» and whether or not he felt as if it existed in practicality.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

@Poltergeist — Not precisely sure of the intent of the original evolved ligase post or your response, but is it safe to say that this study, as with other in vitro evolution research, is proof of concept, i.e. random variation and selection can and does yield novel functionality?

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

For a discussion of this concept see his most definitive theoretical statement, «A Theory of Therapy, Personality, Interpersonal Relationships, as Developed in the Client - centered Framework,» Psychology: A Study of a Science, Sigmund Koch, ed.

If they are not relevant, then mere behavior, as causally conditioned spatio - temporal changes and nothing more, is the only universal principle, and what we learn by studying animals adds nothing (beyond unusual complexity or subtlety) to our concept of reality in general.

Thus we have two forms of inquiry, the one restricting itself to the study of behavior, the description of behavior being austerely limited to geometrical and arithmetical properties, and the other also studying behavior, but interpreting it as far more than merely that, and as having its meaning, and perhaps also in part its causal explanation, in terms of a large class of concepts excluded from the physicists» explanations.

The book is complex, for it is nearly three books in one: (a) a study of the three successive concepts of God Whitehead espoused in Process and Reality, vet even the last is ultimately incomplete, prompting the possibility of further developments beyond the text; (b) a survey of previous attempts to show that in one way or another that it is possible to prehend the divine life; (c) my own approach, which recognizes that God as consequent is imprehensible.

These are cases similar to the passages from Process 31 - 32, 32 and 46 studied in section 2 of this article, but different insofar as it is not possible to ascertain the presence, in them, of a component that manifests a concept of God as non-temporal.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

The idea of theological concepts as they evolve over time really excites me, but I think it will be the hardest part of this study.

This study is so imbued with modern, sociological concepts, that the Church frequently appears as a circular, self - sustaining community, whose good seems to be simply herself: formation «comes forth from the Church and returns to it» (p. 59).

The concept of a study of St Francis as the «knight of Christ» is a highly attractive one, combining as it does two of the most loved (and problematic) images of the high Middle Ages — chivalric culture and the wandering friar of Assisi.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

The study makes an attempt at reclaiming the concept of human nature, through relating it to grace, which is seen as «constitutive of» and «integral to» human nature.

«This study was done as a proof of concept of the methodology.

The concept of «attachment parenting» — a term originally coined by parenting experts William and Martha Sears — has increasingly been validated by research in many fields of study, such as child development, psychology, and neuroscience.

Michigan State University Extension says that within the academic world, experts are studying how parents can establish healthy relationships with their children at an early age, using the concept of responsive parenting as a foundation for their relationship with their growing child.

Brittani loved volunteering as a part of Camp Kesem where she was able to apply concepts she had studied in the classroom and make an impact in the community.

This concept is primarily based on a 1977 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed women who got pregnant shortly after stopping oral contraceptives were twice as likely to have twins.

Whether you are studying basic concepts, such as shapes, colors, relative size, or counting, or more advanced concepts, such multiplication or fractions, there are plenty of play possibilities to engage your child.

Many studies are being conducted on the long term effects of GMO crops as it is a relatively newer concept.

Further, «political remittances» could be said to offer a historically - neutral alternative to concepts such as «transnational political space», which impose ideas of state - ness and territoriality as objects of study in contexts where this may not be appropriate.

British Professor of Development Studies Guy Standing proposed the concept of the precariat as the new class of insecure workers stemming from the globalisation of the late 1990's.

«A pair of medical magnets shows promise as a new tool for creating an anastomosis: Proof - of - concept study in patients shows use of the device is safe, easy for surgeons to use.»

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

«Complex models are needed to effectively evaluate PMed study designs, and this proof - of - concept trial validates the dog with cancer as a model for clinical evaluation of novel PMed approaches,» said Dr. Melissa Paoloni, the study's lead author and former director of the COTC.

Ubogu says the results of these proof - of - concept studies strongly point to CD11b as a treatment target for peripheral nerve inflammation.