Sentences with phrase «subject of study for»

It is a crucial subject of study for the students as Public Economics offers a framework for thinking about whether or not the government should participate in the economic markets and to what extent they should do so.

Painting conservation and restoration turned out to be an ideal subject of study for science class.

Not exact matches

In a case study, subjects reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who used this technique.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

Thanks to technology, learners in every corner of the globe can now study nearly any subject online, often for free or next to free.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying in the workplace were more likely to report sleeping difficulties.

These findings might be comforting for teens (and their worried parents) currently suffering through the trial by fire that ninth grade can be, but it also has lessons to teach those of us who are decades beyond graduation, researchers studying the subject note.

In Health Canada's 2001 National Work - Life Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balance.

His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

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.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

Then the team retrieved the devices, crunched the stored data, and determined how often the study subjects actually got off of their butts during that period and for how long — whether they were at home, at work, or someplace else.

When I began my study of sales, I searched for the five best books on the subject.

It is not new for internet firms to use algorithms to select content to show to users and Jacob Silverman, author of Terms of Service: Social Media, Surveillance, and the Price of Constant Connection, told Wire magazine on Sunday the internet was already «a vast collection of market research studies; we're the subjects».

William Dudley, President and CEO (Speaker) Date: Friday, April 7, 2017 Time: 12:15 PM EDT Subject: Remarks on the State of Financial Regulation and the Potential for Reform Event: Special Luncheon with William Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Organizer: The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University Location: Princeton Club of New York, 15 W. 43rd Street, New York, NY (4th Floor — West Wing)

We don't expect a cheerleader in the chair, but we would think a professor of Catholic studies might have some respect for his subject.

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 Princestudies, 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 PrinceStudies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Islam recognizes that the right of private discretion belongs to any individual who possesses the capacity for clear thinking and study, whether man or woman, ruler or subject, leading government civil servant or private citizen.

The material object of (for instance) a science is the subject - matter, in general, with which it is concerned; its formal object is the specific aspect under which that subject - matter is studied.

Dr Dudley Plunkett FAITH Magazine March - April 2008 The Heythrop Institute Study On the Way to Life [1] argues for a «Catholic sacramental imagination» as a response to the «turn to the subject» that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

I am not Baptist nor do i intend to become a member of this church but I am thankful for the pastor letting me attend bible study despite our very different beliefs on biblical subjects.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

Lewis thought that, in Alfred North Whitehead's words, scientists who were «animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.»

«The love of a subject in itself and for itself where it is not the sleepy pleasure of pacing a mental quarterdeck, is the love of style as manifested in that study» (AE 12).

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

James Sanders, for example, a well - known and respected figure in American biblical studies, receives less than a page, since, Barr explains, «he does not do much to claim that [his work] leads toward an «Old Testament theology» or a «biblical theology,»» while David Brown, a British theologian of whom Barr says the same, is the subject of a substantial and highly laudatory chapter.)

Each discipline, once established, was free to develop the methods it found most fruitful for the study of its subject matter.

It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?

Criteria will be available for distinguishing essential from nonessential subjects of study and for wisely apportioning available resources of time and talent.

And while we are on the subject of being cognitive: a feature of normal cognition is a confirmation bias that allows us to be impervious to contradictory evidence and only notice information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs, hence the cherry picking, reinterpreting and mixing of what is convenient which has led to the approximately 40,000 Christian denominations and organizations in the world (Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary).

For a listing of Professor Crossan's studies and those of other contemporary historic Jesus scholars, see Historical Jesus Theories, earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html — and the titles of their over 100 books on the subject.

On first thought, no subject of study would seem a less likely candidate for the office as liberator of the human spirit.

This requires that each aspect of reality be identified as the subject matter for an academic discipline, and that the discipline then find the best method for studying this subject matter.

Illustrations presented male and female bodies as objects for study, not as subjects of religious experience.

In Diane Russell's study of rape, 44 per cent of the women interviewed had been subjected to rape or attempted rape, and contrary to the prevalent stereotype, strangers accounted for only 11 per cent of the perpetrators.

The study of God is to be enjoyed for its own unique subject: the One most beautiful of all, most worthy to be praised.

For many who have already studied the subject, Justin's thoughts on the various biblical passages related to homosexuality will perhaps be something of a repeat.

In my own studies, I have encountered dozens of leading world class scholars who have written more recently on the subject who disagree (Gordon Johnston, for example).

MLK might have been a great leader for his people, and he might have been a great man, but that doesn't mean that he was an expert on the subject of biblical studies or any other relevant subject like evolution or physics.

Thus the student is subjected to a confusing amalgam of tradition and criticism, which also undercuts the tradition, as a rationale for the whole package of study.

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.