A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

Although Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals, nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other than in the dog and cat ( Miller, '13 ; ;

Individual differences in Kohnstamm reactivity to controlled Kohnstamm situations were found among the subjects used in the study.

One study, which involved 1,524 pupils in grades one to six, found that 12 percent of the pupils were seriously maladjusted and that 23 percent were reading a year below capacity.

One study found that slightly altering photographs so that they more closely resembled the faces of study participants increased the trust the participants expressed regarding depicted persons.

Another study found more cooperative behavior the greater the number the perceived kin in a group.

In the study published in the February 2007 print issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers have found a part of the brain that behaves differently for altruistic and selfish people.

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.

A study on adults ages 55 + found that during the four-year study period, people who volunteered for two or more organizations had a 63 % lower likelihood of dying.

For example, one study on volunteerism found that feeling overwhelmed by others ' demands had an even stronger negative effect on mental health than helping had a positive one ( although positive effects were still significant ).

" A small pilot study has found no benefit from packing of simple cutaneous abscesses.

The nature of classifiers and their constructions allows the speaker to use them more frequently in narratives ; one study found this to be 17. 7 %.

A study in 2008 found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes or spiders among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint frogs, flowers or caterpillars.

The study found that the sensory scores of the taste, odor color and texture decreased with increasing amounts of amaranth.

In 1610 Pietro Della Valle found a Scot, George Strachan, resident at Anah ( to study Arabic ) as physician to the amir ( i. 671-681 ).

One study on respiratory tract infections found " physicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients who appeared to expect them ".

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

An international study of almost 6, 000 men and 11, 000 women found that persons who reported that they drank more than 2 units of alcohol a day had an increased risk of fractures compared to non-drinkers.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

An eight month study performed at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Science Malaysia showed daily supplements of a patented tocotrienol ( vitamin E ) complex may increase hair growth in people with male pattern baldness by 42 percent.

" Between 2003 and 2006, 720 trauma victims at thirty-two U. S. medical centers were " enrolled " in a research study to determine the efficacy of Polyheme, a patented blood substitute manufactured by Northfield Laboratories ".

The researchers asked Johnson & Johnson to produce this cream for the study, which the pharmaceutical company later patented.

One study found that the " reforms had a small adverse effect on domestic-oriented industries and skewed the ownership structure of patented inventions towards large corporations, away from independent inventors and small businesses.

The first device that could record actual sounds as they passed through the air ( but could not play them back — the purpose was only visual study ) was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

After a study that used implants with progestogens for contraception, the Population Council developed and patented Norplant and Jadelle.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Since a Skeletal Age rating can be made at any age during growth, from Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, or Foot as well as Hand, it seems to be the method of choice when one wishes to study most aspects of skeletal developmental progress during childhood.

He assured Mr. Martinelli and the council that he would study the correct method and report back to the council as soon as possible.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

In this method a known quantity of the element or compound under study is added, and the difference between the concentration added, and the concentration observed is the amount actually in the sample.

This method can be used for example for further study of enamel and dentin of human teeth and bones.

But the study of these curves was first developed in 1959 by mathematician Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau's algorithm, a numerically stable method to evaluate Bézier curves.

The method of study in the Classical World was “ Philo ’ s Rule ”: ( lit.

In the 20th century Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish made a study of criminalization as a coercive method of state control.

With charity, the other concept that most defines the work and spirituality of the Order, study became the method most used by the Dominicans in working to defend the Church against the perils that hounded it, and also of enlarging its authority over larger areas of the known world.

Joseph Stalin further delineated and defined dialectical and historical materialism as the world outlook of Marxism-Leninism, and as a method to study society and its history.

:“ While I am convinced of the critical importance of historiography in the study of esotericism ( and for this reason all of my academic books are firmly grounded in historical method ) I do not believe that historiography is adequate in itself to convey the complex, multivalent nature of esoteric thought, traditions, or most of all, experience.

Juan Vives ( 1492-1540 ) proposed induction as the method of study and believed in the direct observation and investigation of the study of nature.

The study was based on a sample of 15 teenagers who identified as goths, of which 8 had self-harmed by any method, 7 had self-harmed by cutting, scratching or scoring, and 7 had attempted suicide.

The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule appeared at a time when scholarly study of the Bible and church history was flourishing in Germany and elsewhere ( see higher criticism, also called the historical-critical method ).

A common method was for someone to make a study tour, gathering information where he could.

If this is not accounted for, results can be erroneously attributed to the phenomenon under study rather than to the method of sampling.

The Hebrew term Midrash (; plural midrashim, " story " from " to investigate " or " study ") also " Interpretation " or " Exposition " is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis.

The method of forcing is employed in set theory, model theory, and recursion theory, as well as in the study of intuitionistic mathematics.

While it has since become clear that an index ( search engine ) is the most expedient entre into unfamiliar subject matter, associational links have remained an effective navigational method for obtaining intensive coverage of a subject area under study.

While Chomsky's search for Universal Grammar could be considered an essentially platonic endeavor ( i. e. concerned with idealized forms ), Halliday's orientation to the study of natural language has been compared to Darwin's method.

Philosophical method ( or philosophical methodology ) is the study of how to do philosophy.

A related study method known as higher criticism studies the authorship, date, and provenance of text to place such text in historical context.