Sentences with phrase «as objects of study»

Some of her concluding thoughts come across as causal relationships between x SDE action and y effect on school reform in z state, which is dangerous territory to tread when two nationally unrepresentative states served as the objects of study.
Beginning in kindergarten, children are to regard books as objects of study.
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.
A focus on the cultural dimension of religion represents a decision to take seriously the symbolism of which religion is constituted as an object of study.
The researchers also settled on the term «false news» as their object of study, as distinct from the now - ubiquitous term «fake news,» which involves multiple broad meanings.
As the object of study was the human body and its biological tissue, a 3D model of a human body compatible with the chosen simulation technique was developed.
«[Norman] used the RNA not as an object of study in and of itself but as a way of reading out the microbial community.
It presumes becoming open to the other, rather than seeing the other as the object of study.
The study concludes that video production, when understood as an instructional strategy and not as an object of study, has an important role to play in K - 12 content learning.
I'm fascinated by that relationship as an object of study (What forces cause change over time?)
Chief amongst these is that it offers, as the object of study, the contemplation of an exhibition rather than individual artworks
On the Possibilities of a Queer Criminology: Homophobia as the Object of Study in the Criminal Sciences — A Perspective Based on the Brazilian Reality

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And as a new study published in Health Physics recently explored, everyday foods and objects (yes, even the beloved avocado) emit a very small dose of radiation every hour.
For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.
New Testament studies has had as its object the historical reconstruction of early Christianity.
By making language use its central object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.
If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.
As being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertAs being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertas an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hitherto.
Science also studies living organisms, but this is almost exclusively a study of organisms as objects and not as subjects.
This act allowed each state to establish colleges «where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.»
Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those areas of study which have the appropriate competence, which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and theology.
Illustrations presented male and female bodies as objects for study, not as subjects of religious experience.
But as man became increasingly the object of this kind of study, science eventually arrived at a crossroads.
Some church groups, such as the Lutheran World Federation, objected to the Study's skewed focus, 10 and the editor of one of the project books acknowledged that:
Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.
Rollins argues that «while approaching things in the world as objects to study and understand is vital for the development of technology, our faith can not be treated as a detached object without fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of faith itself.
The bond is constituted through common interest in the object of study; the student respects the teacher as the possessor and mediator of certain crafts, a body of knowledge or an accomplished skill; he considers him worthy when this treasure is great and significant and when the teacher is willing to give of it freely.
Intellectual activity motivated by such interests may indeed make Ultimate Being and man its objects of study and so seem to share in the thought of the Church; but insofar as it is directed by a love that is not love of Being and of man it can not see or understand what love understands.
As shown in both quantitative and qualitative studies, the perception of breasts as sexual objects may lead women to feel uncomfortable about breastfeeding in publiAs shown in both quantitative and qualitative studies, the perception of breasts as sexual objects may lead women to feel uncomfortable about breastfeeding in publias sexual objects may lead women to feel uncomfortable about breastfeeding in public.
In addition, studies done in other cultures about the effects on children of nighttime child - rearing practices have shown that attachment object use was less common when children slept in the same bed or in the same room as their mothers and were breastfed longer (Gaddini & Gaddini, 1970; Hong & Townes, 1976; Litt, 1981).
Winnicott's 1953 work, «Transitional objects and transitional phenomena; a study of the first not - me possession» speaks of comfort objects as a normal part of childhood development, which play a part in the child's growing independence from its mother.
This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.
The study found a relationship between the size of the central object and the speed of the flickering produced by the disc, suggesting the physics of the accretion must be very similar around these different astronomical objects despite them being completely different in other ways, such as size, age, temperature and gravity.
Study participants received a low current of electricity while performing a memory task such as learning lists of words, names of objects (for example, «chair» or «cat») or recognizing particular faces.
The study, «Accretion - induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes», which is published in the journal Science Advances, shows how the «flickering» in the visible brightness of young stellar objects (YSOs)-- very young stars in the final stages of formation — is similar to the flickering seen from black holes or white dwarfs as they violently pull matter from their surroundings in a process known as accretion.
This idea, proposed by Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is called the holographic principle: Just as a two - dimensional hologram can depict a three - dimensional object, the surface of a black hole theoretically reveals everything inside of it.
Relying on modern forensic techniques, such as contour and trajectory analysis of the traumas, the authors of the study showed that both fractures were likely produced by two separate impacts by the same object, with slightly different trajectories around the time of the individual's death.
My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.
Boys often treat girls as sexual objects, which contributes to the higher rates of digital sexual coercion, as boys may feel entitled to have sexual power over girls, said study co-author Richard Tolman, U-M professor of social work.
Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.
The object of the study was to identify specific football drills that result in high - magnitude head impacts (measured as head accelerations greater than 40g).
In a preliminary follow - up study directed by Lillard, 16 girls and boys, ages 3 to 6, chose between playing with 10 real objects, such as a microscope, or toy versions of the same objects.
The first can be measured by studying changes in the wavelength of light, called Doppler shifts, as objects move toward or away from Earth.
Horst Thieme studies rapidly reproducing parasitic populations, which, as he notes, «are ideal objects to study the principles of evolution; in turn, it is important to understand these principles to control infectious diseases effectively.»
Since only a few objects of this type are known, 288P presents itself as an extremely important system for future studies.
Holographic, phase contrast or differential interference contrast (DIC) miscroscopes have been implemented especially for making «visible,» otherwise «invisible,» transparent objects, opening a new pathway towards the study and characterization of relevant structures such as biological cells or protein layers.
For example, studies of newly born infants found that girls attended more to a female face than infant boys, whereas boys attended more to a moving object, such as a mobile.
Nucleic acid and protein sequences, as well as three - dimensional structures of proteins, are frequently the objects of study, but gene expression as well as the simulation of pathways and biochemical networks are attracting more and more attention.
* This technique, known as integral field spectroscopy, allows astronomers to simultaneously study the properties of different parts of an object such as a galaxy to see how it is rotating and to measure its mass.
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