Chemicals that seemed to have an effect were selected for closer study.

Similarly, a study of habitual non-seatbelt wearers driving in freeway conditions found evidence that they had adapted to seatbelt use by adopting higher driving speeds and closer following distances.

In 1631, he had published a Discourse on the Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish, a ground-breaking study of the early Irish church, which sought to demonstrate how it differed from Rome and was, instead, much closer to the later Protestant church.

Most umpires, players and analysts, including the authors of a University of Nebraska study on the subject, believe that due to QuesTec, the enforced strike zone in 2002-2006 was larger compared to the zone in 1996-2000 and thus closer to the rulebook definition.

By taking a closer look at the nine traits that Thomas and Chess revealed from their study, parents can gain a better understanding of their child ’ s temperament and their own.

The four-year degree structure makes undergraduate teaching at Trinity closer to the North American model than that of other universities in England and Ireland ( Scottish universities, like TCD, generally also require four years of study for a Bachelor degree ).

According to his study, the number who died in Pinto rear-impact fires was well below the hundreds cited in contemporary news reports and closer to the 27 recorded by a limited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database.

A May 2006 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited 14 examples of Friedman's declaring the next " few months " or " six months " as a decisive or critical period, dating from in November 2003, describing it as " a long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer ".

However in another large genome-wide association study of East Asian populations, it was both found that the Japanese are closer to Han Chinese, but the Koreans are relatively far away from Han Chinese if compared to Japanese.

The romantic temperament of the young Irishman found congenial soil in the wild surroundings of unexplored Canadian forests, and his enthusiasm for a life closer to nature may have been fortified by study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings, for which at a later period Lord Edward expressed his admiration.

A study of part of the cyt b gene sequence found a closer relationship between terns and the Thinocori, some species of aberrant waders.

A more recent study ( Johnson and Dunn, 2006 ) of the same parameter verified these results, but disagreed in the placement of the heath hen respective to its relatives, suggesting a closer relationship with the Lesser Prairie Chicken instead.

A study of species within the genus Merops based on plumage characteristics found that most of the subspecies of orientalis grouping together with the most similar species being Merops leschenaulti and subspecies ferrugeiceps appeared closer to that group.

In a 1935 speech the Prince of Wales had called for a closer understanding of Germany in order to safeguard peace in Europe and in response Conservative Party Members of Parliament Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet suggested setting up a study group of pro-German MPs.

This led to a closer study of such 15th century artists as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, whose work had an abiding influence on him.

Accepting this premise moves jurisprudence, or the study of law in the abstract, away from hypothetical predictions and closer to empirical reflections of fact.

A 2012 study by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong recommended policymakers across the region take a closer look at how ‘ shadow education ’ affects family budgets, children ’ s time, and national education systems.

The case study is well suited for identifying " black swans " because of its in-depth approach: what appears to be " white " often turns out on closer examination to be " black.

A 1984 study of protein allozymes signalled its closer relationship to cockatoos than to parrots, and Mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequence data places it amongst the Calyptorhynchinae ( Dark Cockatoos ) subfamily.

These are closer in appearance to female European Siskin, but differ in that they have a yellow-wash on the undertail-coverts ( white on European Siskin ), no yellow in the supercilium, reduced underparts streaking, and much yellow at the base of the tail and remiges ; there may also be a difference in the extent of yellow in the underparts but this needs further study.

Curved headjoint flutes with displaced keys which are closer together than normal flute keys & holes are also available making it possible for children as young as 3 years old to study the flute through the Suzuki method.

But as the matter was given closer study, people began to have doubts.

He rejected literal interpretations of his father's theology and Black-separatist views and on the basis of his intensive independent study of Islamic law, history, theology and his lifelong study of the Qur ' an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad, he accepted whites as fellow worshipers and forged closer ties with mainstream Muslim communities, including Latinos.

Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before.

Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.

In spite of several not insignificant reverses at the hands of Bulgarians, Serbians, and Ottomans, the Emperor had provided the Empire with active leadership, had cooperated with able administrators, and had come closer than any of his predecessors in re-establishing Byzantine control over the Greek peninsula.

According to one estimation, " Homeric Greek is probably closer to demotic than twelfth-century Middle English is to modern spoken English.

Similarly the original powers given to the Greek President under the 1974 Hellenic Republic constitution moved Greece closer to the French semi-presidential model.

Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, “ It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy ; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches .”

The paradox that Greek presence was more prominent in Bactria than in areas far closer to Greece can possibly be explained by past deportations of Greeks to Bactria.

Theodorakis has spoken out against the Iraq and Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has blasted Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou for establishing closer relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was guilty, he said, of " war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza.

He paid closer attention to expression and rhythm far more than any other Greek writer, but because his sentences were so complex and artistic, he often sacrificed clarity to demonstrate his messages.

Katharévousa is a purified form of the Greek Language midway between modern and ancient forms set in train during the early nineteenth century by Greek intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais, intended to return the Greek language closer to its ancient form.

" Recent genetic analysis comparing DNA samples of ancient Thracian fossil material from southeastern Romania with individuals from modern ethnicities place Italian, Albanian and Greek individuals in closer genetic kinship with the Thracians than Romanian and Bulgarian individuals.

Through his translations from Latin into Greek and from Greek into Latin he brought the Greek East and the Latin West into closer contact with one another.

The Greek alphabet was growing closer to the Latin alphabet.

Unknown to most, Korais held passionate views on how the legal system should function in a democracy ( views which of course, were greatly influenced by the French Enlightenment, closer to Montesquieu than to Rousseau ) and managed to have a great, albeit indirect, impact on the Constitutions of the Greek Revolution, but also, primarily, on the Constitutions or Syntagma created after the end of the Greek Revolution.

While Arab music is traditionally homophonic, based on melodic patterns called maqamat, Muzika Mizrahit is closer to Greek music, has harmonic accompaniment and usually uses a western, 12-tone scale.

While Xenophon and Plato also described realistic politics, and were closer to Machiavelli than Aristotle was, they, like Aristotle, also saw Philosophy as something higher than politics.

Philosophy of language also bears a stronger connection to linguistics, while semiotics is closer to some of the humanities ( including literary theory ) and to cultural anthropology.

In 1840, upon graduation from the gymnasium, Pisemsky joined the Faculty of Mathematics at Moscow State University, having overcome, apparently, serious resistance from his father who insisted upon his son enrolling in the Demidov Lyceum, for the purely practical reason that it was closer to home and his education there would have been free.