Sentences with phrase «as study subjects»

The company also launched a website, colorvisionawareness.com, to provide information about colorblindness, opportunities for affected individuals to serve as study subjects and new therapies.

Disagreement did not diminish, however, as the study subjects» climate - literacy test scores increased.

Wathan and McComb plan to continue to explore facial features related to the expression of emotion in their horses, noting that horses» rich social lives and close relationship to humans make them particularly interesting as study subjects.

Another drawback was that Malawian involvement was mostly limited to providing staff for fieldwork and as study subjects.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

With only a few degree choices explicitly titled for those interested in clean water as a study subject or career, finding the right public health specialization or concentration is particularly important.

Not exact matches

Also, as data was only collected over a few months, it's unclear whether this was a one time «pop» in aggressiveness that resulted from study subjects being worked up about the election, or whether the change in negotiating tactics will hold steady.

According to this study, when subjects were asked to evaluate products with different color names (such as makeup), «fancy» names were preferred far more often.

In one study, subjects were shown a video — either of comedy routines or a «placebo» video that wasn't as funny.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Numerous studies have also shown that emails are more likely to be opened if the Subject line is 2 or 3 words, as opposed a sentence.

You won't have much hope with an art degree, and you can't study «humour» as a subject.

His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

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.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

Choosing to photograph on the street as her way of studying the fashion world, Jeng focuses her time in NYC — and the city is as much a character as the stylish subjects on her blog «The NYC Streets.»

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

Studies in behavioral finance, which look into the effects of investor psychology on stock prices, also reveal investors are subject to many biases such as confirmation, loss aversion and overconfidence biases.

Hence, technology development and implementation must be studied as a single integrated subject.

The average New York City tech founder is thirty - one years old when she founds her company and founders are just as likely to have studied a non-technical subject in university as a technical one.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

The recent ferment in approaches to biblical study and new forms of criticism such as canonical criticism and narrative theology give promise of offering new insights on this subject.

Thechief difficulty is with the idea of science as the study of that which is under our control and can be subjected to examination and experiment.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

That which ultimately makes a theological school theological and provides the criteria of its excellence as a school is not the structure of its curriculum, nor the types of pedagogical methods it employs, nor the dynamics of its common life, nor the structure of its polity, nor even the «sacred» subject matters it studies; rather it is the nature of its overarching end and the degree to which that end governs all that comprises its common life.

Dr Dudley Plunkett FAITH Magazine March - April 2008 The Heythrop Institute Study On the Way to Life [1] argues for a «Catholic sacramental imagination» as a response to the «turn to the subject» that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

In hopes of a deeper understanding of God, we study such subjects as Jesus Christ and Israel, scripture in tradition, the history of practices of interpretation of scripture and practices of response to God in worship, moral responsibility and institution building.

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

However, not everything that might justifiably be treated as subject matter in theological study can be selected for study.

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

Recently, Laurent Ramambason has helpfully outlined the various points of view under four headings, namely «mission oriented theological studies»; «recognition of missiology as a separate subject»; «combination of missiology with some other subjects»; and «dimensional study of mission.»

The subject of his continuing studies was usually either a branch of theology or something that theology had given rise to, such as Oriental languages or history.

As you know I am busy with a specific study on this subject and I will add your post to my literature sources.

Most important, though lacking theoretical self - consciousness, I nevertheless acted as a theological subject attempting to rethink theological constructions from the marginal location of a «lay» woman engaged in the study of theology.

«The love of a subject in itself and for itself where it is not the sleepy pleasure of pacing a mental quarterdeck, is the love of style as manifested in that study» (AE 12).

The clause that includes mention of religious studies has «I» (that's me) as its subject.

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

Thus «religion» is not to be regarded primarily as a special subject of study, parallel to geography and physics, but as a life orientation to be effected in and through all special studies.

In the second half of the nineteenth century the importance of comparison as a help to the understanding of the subject of humanistic studies became recognized.

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

If one would learn to understand offense, let him study human envy, a subject which I offer as an extra course, pluming myself upon having studied it profoundly.

A way to make this point is to exploit two metaphors: We could think of questions about the communal identities and common life of diverse Christian congregations as the lens through which inquiry about all the various subject matters studied in a theological school could be focused and unified.

Science also studies living organisms, but this is almost exclusively a study of organisms as objects and not as subjects.

If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined study of other «subject matters,» and if study of those subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing in their interconnectedness and not in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to study them as elements of the Christian thing construed in some particular, concrete way.

On first thought, no subject of study would seem a less likely candidate for the office as liberator of the human spirit.