Sentences with phrase «known this phenomenon on»

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And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

But the manager, known for his vocal activist campaigns, has largely blamed his recent underperformance on the same phenomenon.

Given the inventions of our day, life might be even worse if there were not the leavening influence for peace, which shows itself in the renewed determination, on the part of millions, to try to make a world in which war is no longer a recurrent phenomenon.

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

Insurance companies are well aware of the phenomenon in which people who take out insurance against, say, burglary, are known (on average if not in every case) to modify their behaviour so that the risk of being burgled increases.

1 If it can be demonstrated that world affirmation is implicit within the way of identity, the Eastern approach need no longer place a negative value on change but can learn from the West that there is no necessary conflict between change and the divine, nor is there any need to view the dimension of the sacred as antagonistic to the phenomenon of change.

Any scientist on earth knows that the overwhelming body of evidence points towards h om os exu ality, hete ros exuality, and bis exu ality as normally occurring phenomenon within the spectrum of innate human (and hundreds of other animals) se x ual development.

Dewey's thoroughly secular «common faith» — which he did not hesitate to call a secular religion — could accommodate Christianity, on the condition that the latter drop the claims to truth and authority that identify it with the historical phenomenon known as Christianity.

Kierkegaard had a unique perspective on the phenomenon of scapegoating as a result of what has become known as The Corsair Affair.

This phenomenon appears less strange to those who know the power of supersti - tion upon idiots and of fanaticism on the human mind.

As a result, the scope of physics today is phenomena which is quantifiable, or measurable, and no longer focuses on material bodies from the point of view of being.

It would seem, then, that the grand phenomenon which we are now witnessing represents a new and possibly final division of Mankind, based no longer on wealth but on belief in progress.

Similarly, a momentary and passing sensitivity to time, or even a lasting one, are well known phenomena: when a decision has to be made in a fairly short span of time; when a job to be done is so urgent that its accomplishment amounts to a struggle against time itself; or when in waiting for pleasant or unpleasant events one's gaze becomes increasingly fixed on the hands of the clock.

Obviously on one hand, some see it as a supernatural (which doesn't mean «ghosts / spooky» but «beyond known natural occurrences / laws» event, while others see it as within the natural phenomenon, but in some way directly addressed to their specific need.

Since I am not a scientist, I am not always sure what I am looking at, nor do I have the theoretical background to discern all the implications of a particular phenomenon, but as a preacher — that is, someone who lives on stories — I find the stories rolling in from the frontiers of the new science as rich in meaning as any stories I know.

I read this book on a flight to San Diego, which seemed to pass in the blink of an eye — mainly because, although I was intimately acquainted with the phenomenon of «biblicism,» I'd never known what to call it.

argued that all humans could really know was their own experience, and that on the basis of some apparently common features of particular experiences, those who had control of a culture could give names to — could «nominalize» — some general phenomena to organize them for the sake of what would make sense to their own experience.

The results, slow or sudden, or great or small, of the combined optimism and expectancy, the regenerative phenomena which ensue on the abandonment of effort, remain firm facts of human nature, no matter whether we adopt a theistic, a pantheistic - idealistic, or a medical - materialistic view of their ultimate causal explanation.

Wikipedia states that the well - known phenomenon of «garlic breath» is allegedly alleviated by eating fresh parsley so you may want to follow this soup up with munching on a sprig of parsley or two.

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.

Some people, on the other hand, experience a phenomenon known as dawn syndrome, when their blood sugar rises near dawn even though they have not recently eaten.

Nor is this a UK phenomenon: the Finnish reactor is running a year behind schedule and the World Bank will no longer lend on nuclear projects.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Although much research has focused on understanding how animals guide their migrations across large regions of the planet, we know very little about this phenomenon, particularly for large, difficult - to - track species.

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.

Their findings shed new light on the physics of black holes with the first laboratory evidence of the phenomenon known as the superradiance, achieved using water and a generator to create waves.

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

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

Sometimes, a phenomenon known as «alternative polyadenylation» occurs in cells, through which these tails are added to different positions on mRNAs, thereby influencing their functions.

At UC Berkeley, he is probing how the brain imposes an interpretative framework on the sensory information that it receives — a phenomenon known as top - down modulation.

Two years ago, nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, hosted a conference on the astronomical phenomenon known as gamma - ray bursts.

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.

This phenomenon, confusingly called true polar wander, is known to happen on Mars, where huge volcanic eruptions change the planet's weight distribution, but it is controversial whether that could happen on Earth.

In 1905, Einstein wrote in the opening paragraph of his first paper on relativity theory, «It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics — as usually understood at the present time — when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena.»

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.

«Other people knew that Canadians live two to two and a half years longer than Americans,» says Steffie Woolhandler, an author on the paper and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, citing a phenomenon that many attribute to differences in lifestyle between the two countries.

Finding evidence for these strong electron - lattice interactions, known as polarons, emphasizes the need to quantify their impact on complex phenomena such as superconductivity (the ability of some materials to carry current with no energy loss) and other promising properties.

«It's important to know which species can adapt their morphology and behavior» in response to climate change, she says, and collecting data on such phenomena will help set priorities for conserving species.

This is a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity, and it is fundamental for learning new behaviors or improving on them.

Polar cyclones on Saturn are a puzzling phenomenon, since the planet, known as a gas giant, lacks an essential ingredient for brewing up such storms: water on its surface.

Now, that same research team has flipped the script on the phenomenon, known as magnetocapacitance.

This rare phenomenon is achieved by limiting the location of the magnesium ions to relatively uncomfortable atomic positions by design, based on the way the vanadium pentoxide is made — a property known as metastability.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

On the Antarctic Peninsula, this phenomenon — known as a föhn wind — can raise air temperature above zero.

Through a phenomenon known as «superposition» a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it.

The diagram labels by two red dots the location of an ESA Cluster satellite and NASA's IMAGE satellite on 15 September 2005, when particular conditions of the magnetic field configuration gave rise to a phenomenon known as «theta aurora.»

Ever since Curie conjectured on «the symmetry in physical phenomena, symmetry of an electric field and a magnetic field,» it has long been a dream for material scientists to search for this rather unusual class of material exhibiting the coexistence of magnetism and ferroelectricity in a single compound known as a multiferroic compound.

The new technique they've developed is based on a phenomenon observed in metallic structures known as plasmon resonance.

VULTURES have been filmed putting on make - up, a rare phenomenon in birds known as cosmetic coloration.

«It's been known since the 1960s that the pupil dilates with mental effort,» says Wolfgang Einhäuser of the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, and coordinator of the team that has developed and tested a communication system based on the phenomenon.