Sentences with phrase «first modern study»

In 1911, the first modern study about fastening was conducted in France.

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Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

After Morrison became editor, his first campaign was a spirited defense of Herbert L. Willett of the University of Chicago, then a leading popularizer of the modern critical study of the Bible.

The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.

The modern study of the New Testament, which seems to have undermined the historical foundations for the traditional view, has at the same time brought to light that in any case this was not actually the way in which the first apostles understood the resurrection of Jesus.

Literary criticism is the foundation of all biblical study and was the first to be developed in the modern period.

In fact, he writes, it was while studying at Harvard Divinity School that he first learned American Christians are the Nazis» modern «ideological inheritors.»

The general point that has been made is that in the new conditions of the modern world the comparative study of religion has moved into a new phase — first, in that the object of inquiry has on a quite new scale been seen to be communities of persons.

David Novak is the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia and a member of the Editorial Board of First Things.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

«Genetics of the modern heirs of the Inkas shed new lights about their origins and lineages: The first study on families of documented Inka nobility ancestry shows at least two patrilineal clusters and their origins linked to the lake Titicaca and Southern Cusco region.»

According to John White, co-inventor of the scanning confocal microscope and Skop's Ph.D. adviser, Skop was the first to apply the modern techniques used to study proteins and genes to understanding the midbody.

As to «questionable rigor,» it was the first modern laboratory experiment of the phenomenon, so I naturally pointed out ways in which future studies could be improved — that is a standard part of science writing.

The team of researchers was the first in the world to use modern genetic, molecular and biochemical methods to study tooth enamel defects in detail.

This week, an international research team led by palaeogeneticists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) published a study in the journal Science showing that the earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern - day Europeans.

Because Nail - Patella is so rare, McIntosh said, when they first applied for funding NIH was concerned they might not find enough families to do the studies they proposed, but modern information technology has helped a lot.

In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «universal machine» — the modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan Turing.

From this study [subscription required], Zollikofer concludes that Neanderthal mothers may have had their first child, on average, when they were a year or two older than modern humans and that their time between pregnancies was probably longer.

The new study controverts the early origin model, concluding that the placentals originated after the mass extinction event, with the first modern groups evolving two million to three million years later — after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

Although Lassa fever was first described in modern - day Nigeria in 1969, the current study also suggests that these four LASV strains originated from a common ancestral virus more than 1,000 years ago and spread across West Africa within the last several hundred years.

Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover which species adult dragonflies and damselflies prey upon, as modern laboratory techniques enabled the study of the insects» diet.

Now a genetic study of modern - day cohanim has provided the first scientific evidence supporting the oral tradition of an ancient priestly lineage.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Now a new study conducted by MIT political scientists shows for the first time the modern political trajectory of all 50 U.S. states, since 1936, by examining their laws in relation to nearly 150 policy issues.

«The results of this study provide the first analog to understanding how habitat biodiversity in these systems has evolved since the first reef - building ancient ancestors of modern corals.»

In one of the first studies to directly compare the medical records of a large number of adults with their Neanderthal - derived DNA, researchers have confirmed that Neandertal genes have a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

The final and most mysterious component of the European genome first came to light in a study that showed modern Europeans were somehow related to Native Americans.

Putting together the genetic data on the ancient and modern samples, namely those already present in the literature and those analysed in this study, researchers have now proposed the following scenario to explain the Iceman's genetic history: Ötzi's paternal lineage, G2a, is part of an ancient genetic substrate that arrived in Europe from the Near East with the migrations of the first Neolithic peoples some 8,000 years ago.

Valentina Coia explains further: «The first hypothesis could not be ruled out given that the study considered only 85 modern comparison samples from the K1 lineage — the genetic lineage that also includes that of Ötzi — which comprised few samples from Europe and especially none from the eastern Alps, which are home to populations that presumably have a genetic continuity with the Iceman.

The structure and function of the auditory system is very similar in modern humans and the first primates, suggesting high evolutionary conservation of auditory perception among species,» says Docent Irma Järvelä, the principal investigator of the study.

The study, the first to examine the impact of sleep loss on 24 - hour fatty acid levels in the blood, adds to emerging evidence that insufficient sleep — a highly prevalent condition in modern society — may disrupt fat metabolism and reduce the ability of insulin to regulate blood sugars.

A new study of 565 million - year - old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth — possibly some of the first animals to exist — reproduced, revealing the origins of our modern marine environment.

Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»

Feb. 11, 2016 — The first study that directly compares Neanderthal DNA in the genomes of a significant population of adults of European ancestry with their clinical records confirms that this archaic genetic legacy has a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

He stressed, though, that the latest study was only a first step and that future work on other living primates were necessary to better understand the range of variation within modern humans.

Some studies estimate 99 % of the breast milk in women residing in the United States contains measurable levels of DDT (Dichloro - Diphenyl - Trichloroethane), the first modern chemical pesticide.

Based on more recent studies, the upper ends of these ranges are likely slightly larger than occur in modern elite lifters, with most studies reporting that the backward displacement in the first pull is around 4 — 7 cm and the forward displacement in the second pull is around 2 — 7 cm (Okada et al. 2008; Gourgoulis et al. 2002; 2009; Harbili, 2012; Akkuş, 2012; Harbili & Alptekin, 2014).

This is due to the fact that modern men and women want first to study and acquire a profession in order to become financially independent and able to support a family.

The story has always been first and foremost a study in persistence, and now director Vinterberg and Mulligan explore the modern day challenges faced by women in selecting a mate: slow and steady, financially set, or exciting and on edge.

There's a far more interesting study of modern fascism somewhere in Imperium; it's a shame then that it's buried beneath moral quandaries that never should have been asked in the first place.

Our first attempt at building a PBL challenge cycle took place when we studied the Early Modern Era (1450 - 1750) and focused on the theme of diplomacy.

Today, as explained on the site, ArtThink provides «in - depth investigation of twentieth - and twenty - first - century art and artists by using SFMOMA's award - winning interactive programs, Making Sense of Modern Art and Voices and Images of California Art, as the basis for study.

About 67 percent of students from both groups attend their first - choice school, according to the study, which was conducted by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass..

The second section, Tools, explores the tools used to study cosmology, including the naked eye, the first telescopes, refractors, early reflectors and spectroscopes, and modern satellites.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

Evolutionary studies suggest that the first identifiable members of the dog family, Canidae, appeared about 40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, with today's modern wolf appearing nearly two million years ago.

But neither the time nor the location of the first domestication is known: fossils place the earliest dogs anywhere from 33,000 years ago in Siberia to 11,000 years ago in Israel, whereas DNA studies of modern dogs put domestication at least 10,000 years ago, and in either Southeast Asia or the Middle East.