Sentences with phrase «few general theories»

By JEAN - CLAUDE CHESNAIS Demography is a science with few general theories, yet the two that dominate seem to be diametrically opposed.

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But there are woefully few books on the general subject of scandal, and for the age of Clinton and Spitzer — and, of course, Davidar and Hurd — Kipnis attempts to define a theory of scandal and map its psychodynamics.

A fertile few have managed to find a way to take on board some of the new theories without jettisoning the deep structure of their position, but the general sense is one of weariness and deep loss.

Einstein's General Relativity theory of how mass distorts time and space was only proven a few weeks ago, but we've been basing advancements on it for the last 80 years.

In theory and in practice parliamentary candidates and their helpers will have no time to read guides, polemics, biographies or memoirs before and during the general election, although a few may turn to them in desperation.

Albert Einstein came along a few centuries later and provided an interpretation: According to his general theory of relativity, gravity is a property of space - time, the fabric of the universe.

After only a few months at the University of Cambridge, U.K., my enthusiasm for research that might resolve the inconsistency between general relativity and quantum theory was waning.

Over the last few years, I have come to believe that we are in a new golden age for the general theory of relativity and that we should expect fantastic things to happen.

It is remarkable to think that, a century ago, quantum theory was barely formed, general relativity was a work in progress and only a few scientists believed there was a beginning to the universe.

New calculations extend Einstein's general theory of relativity into the universe's first few moments

Ninja Theory have allowed the general public an unprecedented access to the development of their latest title, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice over the last few years.

But I disagree that the reactions of the last few months is mere oscillation in general upward trend for the acceptance of the AGW theory.

That doesn't mean the skeptic is right just because he found a few anomalies in the general theory.

Second, minuscule proportions of contrarians notwithstanding, consensus absolutely does exist in other areas of science: special / general relativity, quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, germ theory of disease, to name a few.

This in turn will require the overturning of some parts of general radiative theory, or at least, a few decades of spectroscopic experiments, which consequently will surely require the overturning of..

The average intensity of the storms that do occur increases by a few percent (Figure 6), in general agreement with previous studies using other relatively high resolution models, as well as with hurricane potential intensity theory (Emanuel 1987).

Once again, although the classic adage is that we are all Legal Realists now, and a few people argue that critical legal theory has not died but been absorbed into general legal thought, I find on the whole that lawyers and law professors at least appear to have internalized very little of the lessons of Legal Realism or CLS, and retain in thought and deed a surprising attachment to the appearance of «reasoned elaboration.»

These programs generally require few or no general education classes, focusing exclusively on dental assisting techniques and theories.