This research raises troubling questions about Charles Whitman and
the other subjects in the study — and for all of us.
Not exact matches
In one
study,
subjects with speedy answers to general - knowledge questions were considered quick - witted, funny, and charismatic by
others.
«Short sleep was more important than any
other factor
in predicting
subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the
study's lead author.
He did not approach a new
subject that interested him and say «Gee, if I pursue this new
study, I will never be a true master
in any of my
other studies.
The series of
studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership —
in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over
others while
others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.
The present volume is really a collection of
studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince
studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if
other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller
study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics
in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the
subject, Eschatology and Ethics
in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated
in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament
Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince
Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
That is certain to shape the school's decisions about which
subject matters to stress relatively more than
others in its course of
study, which courses to include
in what sequence.
Hence bits and pieces of the totality of things can become the
subject of an academic discipline that can then develop suitable methods of
study with little attention to what is happening
in other disciplines.
While these are properly regarded as special
subjects of
study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill
in reasoning and
in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every
other intellectual discipline.
The interdependence of this branch of
studies with
others, however, is not only historically conditioned but has its raison d'être
in the nature of its
subject matter.
If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined
study of
other «
subject matters,» and if
study of those
subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing
in their interconnectedness and not
in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to
study them as elements of the Christian thing construed
in some particular, concrete way.
Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many
other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial
subjects: Gandhi was arriving
in South Africa after completing his
studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years
in the future.
The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he
studies and its relation to
other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not
in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints
other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many
subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.
However, philosophy
in this country abandoned its synthetic and universal task
in favor of identifying its own limited
subject matter alongside that of
other disciplines and developing methods for its
study.
On the
other hand, a purely theological
study of a congregation or of «the church» that ignores its social space and social form ought to be
subject to equally vigorous objection
in theological schooling.
This perspective had been sharpened by a year's
study at Berlin, but it is striking that his interests at that time were such that he did not attend any lectures
in theology, even those of Harnack.5 Although he developed great appreciation for Harnack
in later years, he worked out his own approach to Biblical scholarship by applying to the scriptures methods developed with
other subject matters
in view.
In his
studies of gregariousness, Stanley Schachter described to his
subjects a frightening experiment and then asked them whether they would prefer to be «together» with
others during the experiment, «alone,» or «don't care.»
Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that
subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the
others wrong nor acquiesce
in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the
study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.
It is clear also that having such trust
in the
other means at some level that the learner is entrusting herself to the
other by relinquishing the sort of control that
subjects normally have over the objects they are
studying.
The question is not whether it will be
studied but with what sense of its unity,
in what context and
in what relation to
other subjects.
Potential
subjects were accepted into the
study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (
other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results
in screening blood or urine samples.
She helps out at school by tutoring
other students
in various
subjects, and is viewed by her peers as a leader and a supportive person who is willing to help people out at the expense of her own
studying.
The problem with any
study on anything is that unless the
subjects are all
in the same environment, with all
other factors completely the same, it's next to impossible to really say that X causes Y.
Studies have shown that children who are given this opportunity to be creative often will exhibit a greater ability to learn
in other subjects such as math, reading and writing.
Reading with good comprehension sets kids up for success
in all of their
other subjects, like social
studies, math, and science.
This meta - analysis that included
studies not featured
in previous meta - analyses on the
subject indicates that promoting breastfeeding for 6 months or more may help lower childhood leukemia incidence,
in addition to its
other health benefits for children and mothers.
Some
studies also matched
other variables (region or country of birth, residential neighborhood), and
in some matching was inherent
in the control
subject selection (neighbors, acquaintances, siblings).
How military personnel learn to shoot or engage
in close combat, and how that physical training is connected
in a military regime with what we can think of as ideological education, has been the
subject of close
study, as have
other regimes, disciplines, practices and settings such as sword fighting, or gang membership.
So programmes of
study in almost all
subjects -
other than primary English, mathematics and science — have been significantly slimmed down.
Scholnick also notes that his
study and
others in the Wastebook cover
subjects that are easy for nonscientists to relate to.
This interdisciplinary project convened a working group consisting of
subject matter experts
in archaeology, anthropology, and
other allied fields; specialists
in conflict
studies from political science, geography, and sociology; and methodological experts from the data sciences.
The scientists
studied 24 men and women (11 of whom were
in their 20s and 13 of whom were
in their 60s) who lived for more than three weeks
in an environment with no time cues
other than a weak cycle of light and dark that was artificially set at 28 hours and that gave the
subjects their signals for bedtime.
Meanwhile,
other researchers are
studying serum to garner clues about links between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and DNA methylation among individuals who served
in Iraq and Afghanistan, gleaning information from samples on 150 service members with mild to severe TBI, along with 50 control
subjects.
The survey also revealed a wide range of graduate curricula: programs within astronomy, physics - astronomy, and physics departments; direct - entry Ph.D. programs, and programs which required, and valued, the MSc; programs with extensive and compulsory course requirements, and
others which replace courses with minicourses, self -
study courses, or extra research projects; programs
in which coursework (if any) was purely astronomy, and
others which included physics or
other subjects; programs with comprehensive exams, and
others without or with an exam which was basically a defence of the Ph.D. proposal.
Eighteen out of a projected 21 patients
in Mithoefer's
study have already been treated, and
in many cases just two sessions dramatically diminished symptoms, which is remarkable because PTSD
in this group of
subjects has been resistant to
other types of treatment.
The predictor that emerged as most powerful
in both the UNC
study and the UC San Francisco analysis was letters of recommendation from applicants» undergraduate teachers —
in other words, subjective assessments from people who presumably knew both them and their
subjects well.
The
study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of
other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the
subject of structural
studies for decades
in labs across the globe.
The neuroprotective effects of nicotine were
studied in a randomized clinical trial involving 67
subjects in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, where memory was slightly impaired but decision - making and
other cognitive abilities remained intact.
In later decades, other scientists got much more rigorous in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subject
In later decades,
other scientists got much more rigorous
in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subject
in their
study of fear,
in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subject
in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test
subjects.
The
study, published
in Nature Scientific Reports, coincides with another publication on the same
subject but based on
other mathematical models, published
in Nature Physics
in December.
The birds have been the
subject of a long - term
study that started back
in 1959, and of
other studies that stretch back into the early 20th century.
Today, he still combines his interests
in language and science, teaching courses
in scientific communication, energy policy, and
other subjects at the Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies of the University of Washington
in Seattle, while also writing books.
Two
studies — one
in mice and the
other in human
subjects — offer the first definitive evidence that exercise alone can change the composition of microbes
in the gut.
It is a common issue with nutrition
studies, she notes — given the vast diversity of human research
subjects, variations
in the concentration or mixture of supplements, and often uncontrolled factors such as baseline diets or preexisting illnesses, it's not unusual to see different
studies canceling each
other out.
Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back
in service, to rejoin the roughly 800
other chimps that serve as
subjects for
studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines
in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.
Interestingly,
other studies in the Goodale lab have shown that blind expert echolocators are also
subject to illusions, for example the size - weight illusion
in which the perception of mass is influenced by the size of an object.
Asking whether the person pictured was black or white would have sped up their performance, yet
subjects — adults
in one
study and children as young as age 10
in the
other — rarely mentioned race unless their partner did so first.
Overall, there were three serious adverse events for every 1,000 participants, with several occurring
in subjects receiving placebos and
others judged unrelated to the
study drug or a
study procedure.
Compared with
other professions, having a Ph.D.
in a scientific
subject enables you to work abroad with relative ease, a welcome compensation for the personal sacrifices often made during graduate
studies.
In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemente
In contrast to previous
studies of access to care
in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemente
in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be
subject to potential biases due to patient recall or
other factors, the new
study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring
in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemente
in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.