The series polarized the comics community, with Batiuk being both praised for dealing with the topic and criticized for his graphic depiction of Lisa's slow deterioration and ultimate death.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

The retaliation, which was intended to encourage a Lebanese government crackdown on Palestinian militants, instead polarized Lebanese society on the Palestinian question, deepening the divide between pro-and anti-Palestinian factions, with the Muslims leading the former grouping and Maronites primarily constituting the latter.

He was able to make observations in polarized light, and his microscope was equipped with a hot stage ( sample holder equipped with a heater ) enabling high temperature observations.

The creation of the New Progressive Party polarized the political arena to a great degree as radical independence groups were formed in the 1970s and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party ( PSP ), a Marxist and Cuba-friendly party, was created.

The film also polarized the fanbase, with some loving the darkness and quirkiness, while others felt it was not true to the core aspects of the source material.

The rotation of the orientation of linearly polarized light was first observed in 1811 in quartz by French physicist François Jean Dominique Arago.

Washington's first term in office was characterized by ugly, racially polarized battles dubbed " Council Wars ", referring to the then-recent Star Wars films.

The phenomenon of light being polarized by reflection from a surface at a particular angle was first observed by Étienne-Louis Malus in 1808.

Contemporary Dutch politics is more polarized than it has been in recent years, especially on the issues for which Fortuyn was best known.

Soon after the start of the Mexican War, when the extent of the territories to be acquired was still unclear, the question of whether to allow slavery in those territories polarized the Northern and Southern United States in the most bitter sectional conflict up to this time.

According to Solon the poet, Solon the reformer was a voice for political moderation in Athens at a time when his fellow citizens were increasingly polarized by social and economic differences:

The same behavior would occur if each photon was either vertically polarized with 50 % probability or horizontally polarized with 50 % probability.

Having grown up as the child of working class Spanish immigrants in the Ruhr Valley, and coming of age in the politically polarized era of the German Autumn ( his response the left wing extremist terrorism of that time being thematized in the 2003 song " Kinderzimmer ( Heldenlied )" Bedroom ( Hero Song )", he was blunt and unromantically detached about social reality in West Germany, and unapologetic about the provocative potential of his songs.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format ( this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980 ).

Smith traces the origins of this ideology back to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain, where political life was polarized between defenders of classical republican values of the Country Party and proponents of a new pro-capitalist ideology of the Court Party, which believed in centralizing political power.

For the first 50 years of its existence, Rockwood was polarized by the temperance issue.

“ Natural calamity tests the administrative structures and social bonds of any society ”, Dickson notes, and Ireland in 1740 was, “ by contemporary western European standards, lightly governed, materially poor, and socially polarized .” The Protestants were the governing class who owned land.

It was controversial among reviewers, who were highly polarized in their judgments.

The company's original dominant market was in polarized sunglasses, an outgrowth of Land's self-guided research in polarization after leaving Harvard University after his freshman year — he later returned to Harvard to continue his research.

If a wave is combined with an orthogonally polarized copy of itself delayed by less than the coherence time, partially polarized light is created.

When a field is applied, a polarized hydrophilic surface is created, and the water droplet tries to ' get closer ' to the surface, resulting in much more spread out droplet.

Original Ebeye inhabitants with land rights were not compensated adequately for the tenants who came to live on their land, and this created enormous tensions that polarized migrants from other atolls and " landowners " or original " Kwajalein people " (, ).

Linear polarization in spectral lines is usually created by anisotropic scattering of photons on atoms and ions which can themselves be polarized by this interaction.

In the 2000s, computer animation, digital projection, and the use of sophisticated IMAX 70mm film projectors, have created an opportunity for a new wave of polarized 3D films.

A variety of factors created a rise in political writing and political satire, and Robert Walpole's success and domination of House of Commons was a very effective proximal cause for polarized literature and thereby the rise of parodic satire.

A variety of factors created a rise in political writing and political satire ( see above for some ), and Robert Walpole's success and domination of Commons was a very effective proximal cause for polarized literature and thereby the rise of parodic satire.

Both are important in the analysis of stress for a polarized dielectric solid under the action of an electric field, materials where the molecular structure is taken into consideration ( e. g. bones ), solids under the action of an external magnetic field, and the dislocation theory of metals.

All minerals which are not part of the cubic system are double refracting, where ordinary light passing through them is broken up into two plane polarized rays that travel at different velocities and refracted at different angles.

where corresponds to the quantum yield of left-handed circularly polarized light, and to that of right-handed light.

For these mechanisms the maximum expected CP fraction is, where is the fraction of linearly polarized ( LP ) light.

In this case the solutions are elliptically polarized electromagnetic waves with phase velocities ( where μ is the magnetic permeability ).

An easily visualized example is one where the propagation modes are linear, and the incoming radiation is linearly polarized at a 45 ° angle to the modes.

As the phase difference starts to appear, the polarization becomes elliptical, eventually changing to purely circular polarization ( 90 ° phase difference ), then to elliptical and eventually linear polarization ( 180 ° phase ) with an azimuth angle perpendicular to the original direction, then through circular again ( 270 ° phase ), then elliptical with the original azimuth angle, and finally back to the original linearly polarized state ( 360 ° phase ) where the cycle begins anew.

where ΔA ( Delta Absorbance ) is the difference between absorbance of left circularly polarized ( LCP ) and right circularly polarized ( RCP ) light ( this is what is usually measured ).

Measurement of CD is also complicated by the fact that typical aqueous buffer systems often absorb in the range where structural features exhibit differential absorption of circularly polarized light.

Based on the semi-classical radiation absorption theory within the electric dipole approximation, the electric vector of the circularly polarized waves propagates in the + z direction, where + and-denote to RCP light and LCP light respectively.

The phrase also generically denotes a polarized condition where nations are not actively fighting one another, but are fighting each other through client states, economic policies, and are prepared to engage one another with maximum force at any moment.

His work is more appreciated in his country of origin for finding a way to make an entertaining yet thoughtful story that grips the viewer in an industry where film offerings are more polarized between overtly intellectual auteur cinema and apparently content-lacking commercial films.

In places where more " moderate " forms of Protestantism ( such as Anglicanism / Episcopalianism ) prevail, the two traditions do not become polarized against each other, and usually co-exist peacefully.

Therefore, depending on where an observer is located, the light scattered from a small volume element may appear to be more or less polarized.

Voters within Quadra have tended to elect centrist candidates, which is an exception to the province as a whole where politics has tended to be more polarized.

There are many instances on the Internet where antiprocess can be observed, but the prime location to see it is in Usenet discussion groups, where discussions tend to be highly polarized.

As mediation is crossing between distinct states in neatly ordered, polarized traditional mindset, it is inherently dangerous causing individual to remain in sort of primordial limbo where distinctions are blurred and qualities uncertain.

It is a nonlinear-optical process, where an appropriate crystal material is quickly electrically polarized at high optical intensities.

This results in a polarized fandom where each side describes their preferred choice as a " team ".

It was hoped that the telescope would have spent around 2 years observing a total of around 1, 000 degrees of sky, made up of several patches of sky where polarized foregrounds ( synchrotron and thermal dust emission ) are at a minimum.

Cross-polarized light illumination, where sample contrast comes from rotation of polarized light through the sample.