Sentences with phrase «known phenomenon works»

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This well - known psychological occurrence is called «frequency illusion» or, more colorfully, «the Baader - Meinhof phenomenon,» and you can make it work for you instead of against you.

But the company knows that the Jean Coutu brand is largely a francophone phenomenon, and likely wouldn't work beyond the provincial borders.

«That ordering of known phenomena which we call the world,» writes Buber, «is, indeed, the composite work of a thousand human generations.»

And for theological purposes the phenomenon can be subsumed under the more general and less visible working of the Spirit as this has been known and presented in the work of Christian thinkers.

As is well known, the method of Newton's Philosopiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which Russell and Whitehead's work was modeled, was to infer particular propositions from phenomena and then render these general by induction.

When David Yeager came to Stanford as a psychology graduate student in the mid-2000s, the department was home to some of the biggest names in the psychology of education, including Claude Steele, best known for his discovery of a phenomenon called stereotype threat, and Carol Dweck, famous for her work on student mindset.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

The placebo effect, also known as non-specific effects and the subject - expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work.

The attraction and repulsion effects make up what is known as the «optical force,» a newly observed phenomenon that works on microscopic scales.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

One of the problems Smith often sees is that «the entrepreneurs try to do all the work themselves without bringing in external help» — a phenomenon known as «founders disease.»

Their work relies on a phenomenon known as acoustic cavitation, in which sound waves rattling through a fluid create tiny bubbles and then cause them to expand and collapse.

«Synergy is a well - known phenomenon in drug design, and it always means at least two receptors working together,» DuBois says.

Materials scientists working to build tiny machines called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) struggle with surface interactions, called van der Waals forces, that can make nanomaterials sticky to the point of permanent adhesion, a phenomenon known as «stiction».

«This phenomenon is known as «yellowing,» which causes severe damage and negatively affects the aesthetic enjoyment of ancient art works on paper.»

Parsons says that unless volunteers in the experiments are not told the provenance of the music they are played, yet another well - known phenomenon could be at work.

If you work out on a regular basis you probably already know the phenomenon.

You probably experienced this phenomenon of human nature at school or work: There were certain people you weren't sweet on at first, but as you got to know them, they became more and more physically appealing over time.

Screenwriter George Di Pego has done some decent work in crafting psychological dramas in the past, most notable in Phenomenon and Instinct, but The Forgotten is just a little too ambitious, as so many little twists and revelations occur that leave no where to go with the material except into the Twilight Zone.

If you don't know the man behind the blacked out shades who made tuxedo football a midnight movie phenomenon, it helps to have a working knowledge of him and «The Room» before taking in «The Disaster Artist.»

I think some people get frustrated after putting one work out there and not seeing much in the way of sales — it's important to keep writing, build up a backlist, and continue to network via guest blog posts and such — and you also never know which work is going to take off and be the big hit (c.f. the phenomenon surrounding Hugh Howey's Wool).

To understand the tax ramifications of canceled debt, it helps to know how this phenomenon works in the first place.

However, the opposite phenomenon, known as webrooming — where shoppers research products online, then buy in - store — can work to retailers» advantage.

Through her work at UC Davis, the Center for Shelter Dogs / Animal Rescue League of Boston, Maddie's Fund ® and others, she's developed strategies to identify those effects not only in individual cats, but in the entire population of cats in a facility - a phenomenon known as «whole - shelter stress.»

A study at Edinburgh University in Scotland says the phenomenon known as «limber tail,» which causes a dog's tail to become limp and difficult to move, tends to affect larger working breeds, and is more common among dogs who live in the north.

Working in the human medical field for a number of years behind the scenes, I became familiar with a phenomenon known as «white coat syndrome.»

«I am not sure how the Trump phenomenon will manifest in my work but I do know it is impossible for anyone to negate it and its ability to submerge into our subconscious...»

The recipient of the 2008 Marcel Duchamp Prize, Grasso is known for making work that blurs the lines between belief and reality, memory and perception, present, past and future, technology and natural phenomenon.

By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate «Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings» at Cheim & Read from «Matta: A Centennial Celebration» at Pace Gallery and each show explosively refutes any notion of youthfulness being the province of the young while giving new life to the phenomenon known as «old age style» — used to distinguish formal characteristic of late works by Titian, Rembrandt, or Cézanne, where the artist just wants to get to the heart of the matter and sloughs off all the fine finish he had needed to impress his audience in earlier years.

A recipient of the 2008 Marcel Duchamp Prize, Grasso is known for making work that blurs the lines between belief and reality (present, past and future), memory and perception, technology and natural phenomenon.

Together with his ability to experience sound visually and vice versa — a phenomenon known as synesthesia — these formative experiences continue to shape his work.

European Painting and Sculpture after 1800: MFA Highlights features these well - known and much - loved works, organized into thematic chapters discussing the major art movements represented in the collection, with an introduction that describes the major phenomena that helped chart the course of art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

While he was influenced by Milton Avery, who was best known for his pastel - like, two - dimensional, flat - field works that were derived in part from Matisse's style, Rothko, however, is not two - dimensional and there is considerable «depth» in his fields and grounds, yet he stops far short of the Op Art phenomenon that would follow.

Takenaga's recent work examines the emotional weight of imagined spaces and to question the reliability of known reality through visual translations of natural phenomena.

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I know it is intellectually satisfying to identify a single cause for some observed phenomenon, but that unfortunately is not the way Nature works much of the time.

Of course this fact can not be known if scientists continue to refuse to do the necessary empirical work on phenomena such as ENSO.

A phenomenon known as sensitive dependence to initial conditions since Edward Lorenz's work on convection models in the 1960's.

It suggests that the fair use defense is being ignored by Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers, and that publishers are just saying no to what would otherwise be an entirely legal response to one of the major literary phenomenon of the age, and one that could only foster an interest not only in this literary work, but the value and pleasure of scholarly inquiry.

Eltis has written about and continues to research the phenomenon of link rot — hyperlinks that point to web pages that are no longer available — or reference rot, where the links work but he information is no longer present.

Some of this work identification is a North American phenomenon — in Europe new acquaintances will want to know about your family lineage.

This quality of following everyone is known as dogmatism; dogmatism is a very prominent phenomenon amongst the generation of working class people today and will continue to be a tendency for a very long time.

What you've experienced is a phenomenon known as stress spillover — stress that we experience in one life domain (e.g., work) «spills» out of that domain and into others (e.g., home life).1 And we know that spillover can have a detrimental effect on our relationships; individuals reporting higher levels of stress are less forgiving of their partners, more likely to criticize and blame their partners, less satisfied in their relationships, show poorer communication skills, and are more likely to have their relationships end.1, 2 (Find more about the effects of stress spillover here.)

What we do know is that both memory researchers and clinicians who work with trauma victims agree that both phenomena occur.