Sentences with phrase «classic study»

One classic study gave a daily selenium supplement to acne patients, and after 8 weeks, their total acne fell by 40 %.

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.

The requirement for dietary retinol (vitamin A) and its physiologically active metabolite all - trans - retinoic acid for normal spermatogenesis has been recognized for decades, initially from classic studies on male sterility in rats that resulted from vitamin A deficiency (VAD)(1; reviewed in in Refs.

As Colleen Sinclair and others explained, findings from one classic study conducted in the 1970s showed that disapproval from parents can make a relationship even stronger.

The Greek and Latin classics they studied became known as the humanities, for in Cicero's day humanitas meant the education of humankind.

Rudolf Otto's classic study finds in numinous experience a combination of fascination and dread.

«Classic studies tended to use pictures as cues, whereas we used words.

She now has the support of Hauser & Wirth and her story — a move from collegiate respect to global recognition — has a fabulous quality of the kind analyzed in Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz's classic study Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist (1934).

«Classic Study No. 39,» a 1979 painting depicting a black woman in profile, appears on the cover of the calendar.

By Jenny Hansen 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.

One classic study by the Chicago sociologists Richard and Carolyn Block examined gang homicides from 1987 to 1994 — the height of the crack wars and a period when gang violence soared.

In a now - classic study on crying, researchers Sylvia Bell and Mary Ainsworth at Johns Hopkins found that babies whose caregivers consistently responded quickly to their cries, cried less often and for shorter periods of time by the end of their first year.

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

According to one classic study on the subject, creative geniuses like poets, painters, and famous inventors, tend to be open - minded, with a high tolerance for chaos, disorder, and contradiction.

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.

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.

Though Homeric heroes seem also to be full - blooded individuals, Erich Auerbach, in his classic study Mimesis, makes this distinction between the Old Testament figures and Homeric heroes: the destiny of the latter, he writes, is clearly defined, and they «wake every morning as if it were the first day of their lives.»

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

In her classic study, Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler points out that women «go crazy» more easily and oftener than men do.

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.

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.»

In his classic study Suicide, Durkheim wondered why suicide rates have risen so sharply in modern industrial societies.

For a classic study of these two sets of needs see John Levy and Ruth Monroe, The Happy Family (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938).

(24) In his classic study of suicide, Durkheim observed what happened in societies where the fabric of value and cohesion is exhausted and persons must live in a context of normlessness.

In his classic study on Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong stresses the importance of writing in the development of human thought.

H. Richard Niebuhr in his classic study The Meaning of Revelation, put this idea in the context of religious revelation:»... no universal knowledge of things as they are in themselves is possible,... all knowledge is conditioned by the standpoint of the knower.

The classic study in the 1980s by Robert and Linda Lichter and Stanley Rothman of the media elite (major reporters and executives at ABC, CBS, and NBC news, Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Washington Post) confirmed what everyone who pays attention to such things had already known: the men and women who give us the news are, as a group, politically more liberal, morally more permissive, and religiously more indifferent than the general public.

Fascinated by the Aztec's constant use of a previously unknown spice, Sahagún documented this fiery cuisine in his classic study, Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva España, now known as the Florentine Codex.

Fascinated by the Aztec's constant use of a previously unknown spice, Sahagún documented this fiery cuisine in his classic study,

Their classic study of the crosses (produced as a result of different varieties being grown next to each other) revealed cross-pollination rates averaging 16.5 percent, with a high of 36.8 percent in an ornamental variety.

During the winter of 1934 - 35, H.L. Cochran of the Georgia Experiment Station conducted a classic study of the effects of temperature and irrigation on the germination of bell pepper seed.

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.

Most research involving peer statuses focused on social outcomes until a classic study was performed with 11 to 13 - year - olds in 1995, which found a clear relationship between popularity and achievement.

A classic study by psychologist John Gottman looked at the emergence of friendship between unacquainted children.

In a classic study by Hazan and Shaver, 56 percent of respondents identified themselves as secure, while 25 percent identified as avoidant, and 19 percent as ambivalent / anxious.

Woodrow Wilson in his classic study, [57] suggested:

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 in 1964 found that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food they had been offered if doing so meant that another monkey received an electric shock.

More than a century after Pavlov's classic study, there is still much to learn about Pavlovian responses.

In one classic study, mothers identified the smell of their child from two other newborns six hours after birth, even though mother and child were separated for most of that time.

Mandl, who knew both German and von Neumann's classic study, interrupted several times; the two continued their intense arguments well after the seminar had ended.

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

A few years ago, cognitive psychologist Axel Cleeremans of the Université Libre de Bruxelles attempted to replicate a classic study by John Bargh of Yale University, in which some participants were primed, without realizing it, with concepts associated with old age.

In 2008 Richard J. Davidson and his group at the University of Wisconsin — Madison published a classic study with the active participation of Ricard and other Buddhist monks.

In a classic study often dubbed the «Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in black.

«We've known since Lashley's classic studies on the mechanisms of vision that rats pay more attention to stimuli presented near the ground, but the field has persisted in presenting vertical 2 - D images or 3 - D objects,» Burwell said.