Sentences with phrase «studying as a phenomenon»

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The IMF, in a 2006 study, noted that non-financial corporations in the G7 had gone from aggressive borrowing in the mid-1980s to conspicuous saving in the mid-2000s, and described the trend as «an unusual phenomenon.»

My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

Because of the fundamental unity of the world, every phenomenon, if it is adequately studied even though under one single aspect, reveals itself as being ubiquitous alike in its import and in its roots.

Those who think of marriage counseling as an exclusively modern phenomenon may be surprised to read that Gregory counsels those who are married to «study to please» their sexual partner.5 Partners in marriage are above all counseled «to bear with mutual patience the things in which they sometimes displease each other «6 (cf. Gal.

He insisted that religious phenomena can be interpreted only if they are studied as something religious.

For this double reason the phenomenon of education as it affects Man possesses a greater amplitude and clarity than in any other context and calls for more exhaustive study.

Students may still be encouraged to come to their judgments as to what is the best way to study the phenomenon of religion, the solution of certain historical puzzles, the relation of religion to other aspects of culture, and so forth.

Even complex phenomena, such as the emergence of the human eye, can be explained by studying simpler versions of the same structure and positing some evolutionary succession of events.

Under the rubric of parapsychology is grouped the study of such things as telepathy, clairvoyance, communications with the dead and other exotic phenomena and pseudo-phenomena.

The reason for this is that such a position can itself be held in good faith, as far as it goes: one can, without logical inconsistency, maintain that the laws of nature (if completely understood) do (or could) explain the phenomena studied in the sciences.

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

It has sometimes been replaced now by the historical study of all religion as a human phenomenon.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

I think having questions about John as a gospel are very normal — sorry people that disagree — but you have to actually study this phenomenon to have any valid input.

The course would have made it clear that religion can and indeed should be studied as a natural phenomenon.

By refining its focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the study of performance activity.

Since the whole business of natural science is to study natural phenomena and discover the natural explanations of them, Colson's rejection of naturalism as he defines it is tantamount to a rejection of all natural science.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

Normative studies, such as theology and philosophy, and descriptive disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, and others, are concerned with various aspects of religions and religious phenomena.

First, it distinguishes theology from the attempt to study religion objectively — from the point of view of some philosophy, some branch of science such as psychology or sociology, or simply as a historical phenomenon.

As we have been urging that historical understanding goes beyond literary and textual criticism in the direction of subjectivity, we have neglected the objectivity which is given our study by the existence of what we may call the phenomenon behind the phenomena.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Winnicott's 1953 work, «Transitional objects and transitional phenomena; a study of the first not - me possession» speaks of comfort objects as a normal part of childhood development, which play a part in the child's growing independence from its mother.

China's resurgence, particularly since the turn of the century, has had global repercussions, as any number of studies of this phenomenon attest.

Additionally, as Alexei pointed out, Congress isn't statistically big - and there's even fewer valid «none» seats if you start looking at Politically Wonkish details - Texas electorate outside Austin guarantees a Christian representation, so TX seat - or West Virgina - doesn't get to be counted if you study this phenomenon.

This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.

Students should know that there are such things as the laws of nature and physics, which we believe govern every single phenomenon in the universe, even if they don't study in detail what those are.

«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.

As scientists continue to study the phenomenon, they have found more reason for concern.

A new way to observe this deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, from meteor impacts to high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts.

Studies by other scientists later documented the same phenomenon in other rodents as well as in primates and people.

As the study of cannibalism gained scientific validity in the 1980s, more and more researchers began looking at the phenomenon, bringing with them expertise in a variety of fields.

The researchers said this new way of watching plastic deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, such as meteor impacts, the effects of bullets and other penetrating projectiles and high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts and even how dust clouds form between the stars.

He is now studying how word - of - mouth phenomena like fads and rumors flow through groups of people, hoping to apply this knowledge to processes such as political mobilization.

Some previous theoretical studies have suggested that the magnetic field of a neutron star should break into smaller loops and dissipate as the star ages — a phenomenon known as «turbulent cascade.»

To further investigate the origins of these phenomena, James N. Reeves of the University of Leicester and colleagues studied the x-ray spectrum of the burst known as GRB011211.

The technique rapidly measures physical effects that are important to atomic clocks, thus improving the clock's precision, and it can add new atomic - level detail to studies of phenomena such as magnetism and superconductivity.

To better understand this phenomenon, Joy Hirsch and her colleagues at the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied two groups of bilingual people: early bilinguals who learned a second language while growing up, and late bilinguals who learned as adults.

Prior studies have found that people are more apt to persist in their beliefs, despite contradictory evidence, once they've written their beliefs down, a phenomenon known as the explanation effect.

Since the 1990s, most academicians studying this phenomenon have agreed that it reflects a «brand as partner» relationship between consumer and product.

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.

Vargas plans to work with professionals at DNREC and the St. Jones Reserve, as well as with Amy Trauth - Nare, senior associate director of UD's Professional and Continuing Studies, to develop a module using phenomena driven instruction — or place - based instruction, such as learning at the St. Jones Reserve — to specifically address topics on carbon and energy exchange in ecosystems.

In his capacity as president of the Batavian Society, dedicated to the study of Java's natural history, Raffles frequently toured the island and recorded his observations of geological phenomena.

For instance, the team can reconfigure the pattern of atoms to simulate and study new states of matter and quantum phenomena such as entanglement.

The phenomenon they studied is known as an electron density wave.

Several studies underline the importance of taking into account sociodemographic variables such as victims» sex to better understand the phenomenon.

During the Cold War, the U.S. military became convinced it was losing the «mind race» against the Soviet Union, and as recently as the late 1980s was investigating a range of paranormal phenomenon and their potential uses in espionage and combat, says Jonathan Moreno, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who studies military applications of cognitive science.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

This research opens new pathways for probing other electromechanical phenomena on the nanoscale that have not been studied before, such as charge trapping and properties of dielectric materials.