Sentences with phrase «remarkable studies of»

Where other biopics seem to have made up their minds about their famous figures before the opening credits roll, this remarkable study of social psychologist Stanley Milgram remains curious, exploring and questioning his life, career and findings.
A remarkable study of poverty, family and personal responsibility, The Florida Project meticulously illustrates how life on the margins affects one impressionable six - year - old.
Over seven years, Dickey traveled to 15 states and interviewed 350 people as research for the book, which the Christian Science Monitor dubbed «a remarkable study of our capacities for cruelty and compassion toward dogs and other humans.»

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Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in «First, Break All the Rules», revealing what the world's greatest managers do differently.
Barn Raisers LLC has aggregated a fine arsenal of case studies on the subject — let's dive into two remarkable examples.
This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.
Although she is not specifically addressing environmental thought, this is an argument pressed by Caroline Walker Bynum in her recent and remarkable study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity.
Since the 1950s Bethge and his wife, Renate (Bonhoeffer's niece), have personally injected into Bonhoeffer studies and research a dynamic which has stimulated many others and formed a remarkable network of international relationships.
These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.
There are many organizations or caucuses within denominations that offer a remarkable inventory of literature, videos, speakers and other educational resources for individual study and congregational workshops.
Yesterday's birthdays: WALT WHITMAN and CLINT EASTWOOD Anerican Studies mid-term questions: Explain how each of those remarkable and in many ways admirable human beings could be no one other than an American.
It goes on for a while — he is a professor of cultural studies — but its message is well worth considering, all the more so because of the remarkable circumstances under which it was written.
Charles Francis Adams, scholar, gentleman, and an ambassador to England during the Civil War, remarked in 1871 that the years after the war «witnessed some of the most remarkable examples of organized lawlessness, under the forms of law, which mankind has yet had an opportunity to study....
As a transition to the study of sight in the Bible, I would like to refer here to the remarkable study by Paul Ricoeur that expresses this contradiction in philosophical terms: proclamation as opposed to manifestation.
The rise and decline of this remarkable reputation is now the subject of two major studies.
-- but also of his whole remarkable career, dedicated as it has been to the study of what Christians down the centuries have believed, taught and confessed.
There is a quite remarkable converging of Christian thinking today, including New Testament studies, on the idea that the powers of the kingdom of God are already present within history.
'» I find nothing remarkable in the Pope accepting mainstream science — things have moved on from the days of Galileo»» says Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
The chief general lesson of these studies has been the discovery that Christianity survived throughout the ages because it adjusted itself with remarkable ease to the changing demands of the peoples of whose culture it became an inherent part, while it never surrendered the essentials of its faith in Jesus Christ as the revealer of God the Father and the teacher and example of the love of God and fellow men.
Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.
'' DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who about 60,000 years ago began a remarkable journey.
A remarkable feature of the Study of the Missionary Structure of the Congregation was its inattention to the internal aspects of existing churches: their mechanisms and organic and symbolic functions.
During the 1960's a remarkable revival of the thought of the contemporary American process philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, took place in the studies and dens of graduate students in philosophy.
What is remarkable about all of this is that a notion so elemental and blasé as this one had the potential, not alone to engage the minds of university scholars, but also to direct their subsequent studies!
A remarkable thing has happened in recent years to the study of the Old Testament.
One of the most important and least studied factors of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is that it provides a catechesis in content and method that is remarkable in its philosophical and anthropological foundations.
In the case of New Testament studies a similar though less remarkable development is taking place.
When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»
Instead of viewing one model of morality as superior and the other as inferior, Gilligan advocates valuing both in mutual conversation — thus, of course, embodying in her own conclusions the development she has traced in her studies of women.9 There is a remarkable accord between what Gilligan cites as women's experience and the ontology of process philosophy.
The hop, step and jump boys were clearly too remarkable to miss but, the camera seemed to think, too implausible for attentive study; so they made their screen appearances (and disappearances) with the impromptu of interloping kangaroos.
At his most effective, Ratcliffe injects a remarkable dynamism — the sense of a constantly changing nature — into his ostensibly still - life studies.
What is really remarkable about the combined findings of the 18 studies is that the designs were biased in favor of making marriage look good.
What's even more remarkable is that to date, no study has shown adverse effects of kangaroo mother care (KMC).
According to the study, published in the widely read journal JCS (Journal of Crap Science), researchers have discovered a remarkable and powerful association between maternity clothes and pregnancy raising the possibility that maternity clothes cause pregnancy.
The findings of the new study are all the more remarkable after re-examining the comments made by the Duke's Rob Jackson, and critics of his study, when the original report was released, specifically on the sample size and baseline data:
We were also treated to the remarkable sight of a legislator actually refusing to vote on something she hadn't had the opportunity to study.
«Mark Boughton has shown remarkable leadership... as an advocate for the principles of limited government and economic growth at the state and local level,» said Connecticut Republican Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. «When people ask me if Republicans can govern effectively at the local level, I tell them Danbury is a case study in effective governance, primarily because of Mayor Boughton.»
«It is remarkable that in both states, even participants who were deeply spiritual (52 percent) were still in support of physician - assisted death,» said the study.
Psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species.
The study's first author Lida Xing from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing discovered the remarkable specimen at an amber market in Myitkyina, Myanmar in 2015.
Many studies on land have located regions that are home to a remarkable abundance of species; that knowledge has been a great boon to conservation efforts.
And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds,» said Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a co-author of the study.
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.
At the end of her shift, LaTuga stops at a freezer and inspects stool samples from some of the infants that are at the center of a remarkable new study.
«I think it's a remarkable study,» says cardiologist William Fay of the University of Missouri in Columbia, who was part of the research team that originally identified the girl's genetic defect but isn't connected to the new work.
And they did something else remarkable, too, according to a new study: They created a historical record of the cities they served.
«It's not only remarkable that we were able to predict a new phosphor compound, but one that's stable and can actually be synthesized in the lab,» said Zhenbin Wang, a nanoengineering Ph.D. candidate in Ong's research group and co-first author of the study.
The study showed a remarkable reversal of diabetes in mice placed on the fasting - mimicking diet for four days each week.
«What's remarkable is that B cells are the ones making antibodies and autoantibodies, so they're really crucial in both protective immune responses and autoimmunity,» said Montserrat C. Anguera, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine and the senior author on the study.
An editorial in the same issue of the journal notes that drug - based treatments for liver cancer are limited and that the UT Southwestern study showed «truly remarkable results that should prompt further research under preclinical settings, given its potential to lead to a paradigm shift in treatment.»
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