In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

A study of major denominational membership statistics over a twenty-year period revealed the appalling fact that nearly 40 per cent of those who joined the Church were lost to the Church within seven years.

One study examined the physical health of mothers who volunteered over a 30-year period and found that 52 % of those who did not belong to a volunteer organization experienced a major illness while only 36 % of those who did volunteer experienced one.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

A third major topic in the study of aesthetic judgments is how they are unified across art forms.

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.

Charles Grob directed the first major study of the effects of ayahuasca on humans with the Hoasca Project in 1993.

All three major international scholarly associations relate archaeoastronomy to the study of culture, using the term Astronomy in Culture or a translation.

In 2005 the US government body NIMH published the results of a major independent ( not funded by the pharmaceutical companies ) multi-site, double-blind study ( the CATIE project ).

In 2010 the Ministry of Defence completed a thorough study of the defence policy and issued a White Book, or a White Paper on Defence, calling for a major overhaul of the structure of Defence Forces.

The study of phase transition and the critical behavior of observables, known as critical phenomena, was a major field of interest in the 1960s.

A major question in the study of cognitive development is the extent to which certain abilities are innate or learned.

Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology.

The area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved ; the degree to which limited liability protects investors ; the extent to which a business can be held liable for the acts of an agent of the business ; the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of business organizations, and the structures established by governments to monitor the buying and selling of ownership interests in large corporations.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

Later a group consisting of the three major servants of Dalai Lama, eminent officials and troops will collect the boy and his family and travel to Lhasa, where the boy would be taken, usually to Drepung Monastery to study the Buddhist sutra in preparation for assuming the role of spiritual leader of Tibet.

A study published in 2009 took into account data sets from major world economies and correlated them with inequality indices.

In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.

It is a major theory of film study today.

A major problem confronting the study of the early history of gunpowder is ready access to sources close to the events described.

As a mathematician, Galileo's role in the university culture of his era was subordinated to the three major topics of study: law, medicine, and theology ( which was closely allied to philosophy ).

Students at Harvey Mudd are encouraged to take classes ( acceptable for academic credit at Harvey Mudd ) at the other four Claremont colleges, especially classes outside their major of study.

The study of religion is important because religion has been a major force in many human cultures.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

Towards the end of an intermediate or major rise, while the top is forming on the price chart, it is frequently observed that the odd-lot buying increases sharply.

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

The price of a convertible bond is sensitive to three major factors:

One of the suggested causes is that under Soviet planning, price ceilings created major problems ( shortages, queuing for bread, households hoarding money ) which made the transition to an unplanned economy more difficult.

A major risk to the household in achieving their accumulation goal is the rate of price increases over time, or inflation.

Coffee exports, equally unreliable as a major source of economic support, surpassed bananas in the mid1970s as Honduras's leading export income earner, but international price declines coupled with huge fiscal deficits underlined the vulnerability of coffee as an economic base.

As such, increase in the price of kerosene can have a major political and environmental consequence.

At that time the dangers of atomic power was not fully understood, Borst believing the major stumbling block was the price of uranium.

In the U. S., several major supermarket and fish market chains and at least one major pharmacy require the cards in order for customers to receive the advertised loyalty price.

Accurate business valuation is one of the most important aspects of M & A as valuations like these will have a major impact on the price that a business will be sold for.

Market liquidity is a major determinant of transaction cost in the sale or purchase of a security, as a bid-ask spread exists between the price at which a purchase can be done versus the price at which the sale of the same security can be done.

* In March 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced that it would sue six major publishers for price fixing in the sale of electronic books.

However, though with a heavy price, the Soviet Union was transformed from a largely agrarian economy to a major industrial powerhouse in a short span of time.

Originally available at a strength of 4. 9 % ABV, Victoria Bitter is now sold at an ABV of 4. 6 % ( which is equal to virtually every other major Australian lager ) and the price stayed the same when most other beers increased.

Many fast-growing economies throughout the world, especially in Asia, also were a major factor in the rapidly increasing demand for fossil fuels, which — along with fewer new petroleum finds, greater extraction costs, and political turmoil — forced two other trends: a soar in the price of petroleum products and a push by governments and businesses to promote the development of environmentally friendly technology ( known informally as " green " technology ).

Citing a lack of decent exclusives and an " astronomical asking price ", in 2009 video game website IGN chose the 3DO as its 22nd greatest video game console of all time, slightly higher than the Atari Jaguar but lower than its four other major competitors: the SNES ( 4th best ), the Sega Mega Drive ( 5th ), the Sony PlayStation ( 7th ), and the Sega Saturn ( 18th ).

In Britain in the nineteenth century the inflated price of bread due to the Corn Laws caused major political and social divisions, and was central to debates over free trade and protectionism.

While a guide dog, the other major mobility aid for blind people, can interact more with the user and the environment, making them more useful in certain locations, white canes are alternatives for reasons of price, care, and in case of some people, allergies.

For the time being, the global monetary system continues to rely on the U. S. dollar as a reserve currency by which major transactions, such as the price of gold itself, are measured.

It is the view within monetary economics that variation in the money supply has major influences on national output in the short run and the price level over longer periods and that objectives of monetary policy are best met by targeting the growth rate of the money supply.

According to Nevil Shute Norway it was a very advanced engine ( and the price struck Shute as low ; much lower than competing engines on the basis of power-to-weight ratio ), so its loss was a major disaster for Airspeed ( and Britain ).

On April 18, 2007 The European commission imposed punitive fines on three major European breweries for operating a price fixing cartel in the Netherlands.