Sentences with phrase «classic studies of»

One of the better classic studies of social differences since George Bernard Shaw found an unspoken love between a professor and a sidewalk flower seller in «Pygmalion,» «The Second Mother» highlights the ways an allegedly liberal woman acts with condescension toward her long - employed maid.

In the classic studies of caloric reduction the result was a significantly lowered metabolic rate or Total Energy Expenditure (TEE).

How did that situation compare to the classic studies of bystander intervention?

Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.

The city pioneered the «centers concept» in modern urban planning, and when Reyner Banham wrote his classic study of LA's social - architectural geography, he famously relegated downtown to a brief afterthought «note» at the end of the book.

According to a classic study of laughter by Robert Provine of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and his colleagues, laughter is an unexpectedly serious business.

A classic study of nine healthy British volunteers found that bacteria accounted for more than half of the mass of their fecal solids.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

The perfect opening line of Grahame - Smith's audacious 2011 novel sets up what's to come; an on - the - nose mash - up of Austen's classic study of 19th century social mores and the bloody mayhem of a zombie apocalypse.

«Occupations shape people,» wrote Dan C. Lortie in his classic study of the teaching profession, [i] and most educators have almost no day - to - day socialization or support for sustained attention to or focus on their own learning.

I first learned about the 12 Stages of Physical Intimacy from Linda Howard, who used to give a very popular talk on the subject based on the work of Desmond Morris, Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy.

The Guggenheim's classic study of photo - based artworks that question gender identity is back in print at last.

The circular red ribs that make up the urn - like form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure / field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with black - and - white stripes.

As I look out my office window at the freshmen moving into the dorms, I'm reminded of a classic study of student housing at MIT demonstrating the importance of physical proximity on forming friendships.

Not exact matches

In fact, the classic «marshmallow study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.

A classic study from the University of Minnesota, for example, found that presentations using visual aids are 43 % more persuasive than unaided presentations.

He cites a classic decision - making study in which horse racing experts were given information to predict the outcome of a race, and asked their level of confidence in their prediction.

Rounding off another beaded string of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst of rhetoric referencing one of the ancient classics he had studied at Harvard and before.

The classic study from Anthony Bastardi of Stanford and Eldar Shafir of Princeton presented research subjects with scenarios in which they needed to choose between two alternatives.

(Poets & Quants)-- It has all the makings of a classic business school case study.

One classic study, outlined in the book Getting a Job, showed that among the 282 men surveyed, 56 percent had found their jobs through personal contacts, whereas only 19 percent had found theirs through job advertisements and 10 percent through applications of their own initiative,» says the post.

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

The latest Treasury - market news is from ICAP, which «is studying the possibility of temporarily halting Treasurys trading following large price moves,» a classic idea imported from the equity markets.

Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These studies often focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem of having to attract buyers without an established line of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381

But perhaps the classic entrepreneurial company is a pure technology play: Tonbo Imaging, a Bangalore - based company launched by Arvind Lakshmikumar, an engineer who studied at India's Birla Institute of Technology and at Carnegie Mellon.

For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization.

The study of the Greek and Roman classics, staples of the literary culture, was not displaced by the Scriptures.

Anyway, my take from 7 + years of some in - depth studies into dynamics of toxic systems is that malignant ministry can happen within any classic or contemporary theological paradigm, any denomination, as you've suggested.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

The interface of classical and Christian culture has its obvious pivot point in Augustine, of whom Brown has written a classic study

The classic anthropological picture, largely drawn from the study of primitive societies, of tightly - woven patterns of culture, each element of which has to be understood in relation to all the other interconnected elements, is decreasingly relevant to the understanding of man - in - relation.

(The cliched but classic example would be Milgram's experiment — but recent studies, such as one reported by the New York Times at the beginning of this month, reveal similar things).

As I was coming to an end of writing this book, I came across the advice given by Henri de Lubac, author of a classic study on Catholicism, to Fr.

This could mean putting an end to the classic youth group model that so many of us grew up with, the model in which teenagers participate in their own worship, their own Bible studies, their own social events, their own outreach activities, their own missions trips, and so on.

The person who studied the classics at home, who wrote poetry in the early hours, or who listened in private to Beethoven quartets was, in my little patch of suburban England, no more to be despised than the expert in tarot cards, the amateur acrobat, or the breeder of exotic chickens.

They correspond to what H. Richard Niebuhr in his classic mid-century study Christ and Culture termed the «Christ transforming culture» model of the Reformed tradition and the «Christ above culture» model of the Catholic tradition.

In the busy, striving age of progress, the study of the classics has seemed a luxury few could and none should afford.

In their classic study, reported in The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry, H. Richard Niebuhr and his collaborators concluded that «no substitute can be found for the definition of the goal of the Church as the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor.»

Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root of the study of metaphor is traced to the Greek classics, where it was understood as a single word.

Along with the Greek and Latin classics, the study of the Bible was revived and this contributed largely to the Reformation.

The revival of the study of the classics of the ancient world was destined to lead to the emergence of the modern world by reawakening that inquiring mind that marked at least some of the early Greeks.

It's also the finest classic historical writing I've read in a long time, a penetrating study of character, and a meditation on the unexpected and its role in era - defining events.

The title of a classic sociological study, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism, sums up my cultural and social surroundings.

His most recent works include two books in the field of Thomistic studies, namely Aspects of Aquinas (Veritas Publishing, 2005), and Aquinas 101: A Basic Introduction to the Thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Christian Classics, 2007).

The years of study that led to the four volumes of the Classical Pastoral Care series and the study of Gregory the Great (Pastoral Care in the Classic Tradition) helped free me to listen to supposedly «precritical» writers with postcritical attentiveness.

Yet for centuries, Christian institutions have nurtured the study of the classics.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

True Muslims studied the books of Confucius and Lao Tzu, but very few touched the Buddhist classics.

I was young, I was studying French literature in the course of becoming a teacher, and Charlie Hebdo was a weekly break from the classics.

Maritain came to the problems of politics and society rather late in his reflections and then, having achieved much, never took up a study of the great economic classics, especially those of the Austrian and Anglo - American worlds.