Thus for example Heraclitus ' The Allegorist ' quoted fr. 326 and part of fr. 6, about ships in a storm, in his study on Homer's use of allegory.

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.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

The team at the Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI ) in Bern, Switzerland later synthesized 6 atoms of < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh in the first definitive study of the chemistry of bohrium ( see below ).

The cane toad has a high tolerance to water loss — one study showed some can withstand a 52. 6 % loss of body water, allowing them to survive outside tropical environments.

Therefore a comprehensive study was conducted and finally a floor height of 3. 6 m ( 11. 8 ft ) was adopted.

According to another study, when measured in a particular solution, the DNA chain measured 22 to 26 ångströms wide ( 2. 2 to 2. 6 nanometres ), and one nucleotide unit measured 3. 3 Å ( 0. 33 nm ) long.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

In the United Kingdom, those training for the medical profession complete either a 5 – 6 year course of study or an accelerated 4-year graduate entry course of study that leads to the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ( MBBS or MBChB, standing for the Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus et Chirurgiae Baccalaureus ).

In a 2012 study, each star of the 100 billion or so in our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to host " on average ... at least 1. 6 planets.

A 2012 study of gravitational microlensing data collected between 2002 and 2007 concludes the proportion of stars with planets is much higher and estimates an average of 1. 6 planets orbiting between 0. 5 – 10 AU per star in the Milky Way Galaxy, the authors of this study conclude " that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.

In a privately funded study conducted under the auspices of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and based on an owner survey, Irish Wolfhounds in the United States from 1966 to 1986 lived to a mean age of 6. 47 and died most frequently of bone cancer.

The study also reported that 10 % of American males surveyed were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 " ( in the 5 to 6 range ).

On 6 December a study was released showing that some children had been infected before the six arrived in Libya, but it was too late for inclusion as evidence.

Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy ( 2002 ) found that spider diagrams ( similar to concept maps ) had limited, but significant, impact on memory recall in undergraduate students ( a 10 % increase over baseline for a 600-word text only ) as compared to preferred study methods ( a 6 % increase over baseline ).

The study of English and European artifacts in general has revealed that projectiles were made with a widely variable number of microliths: in Tværmose there was only one, in Loshult there were two ( one for the tip and the other as a fin ), in White Hassocks, in West Yorkshire, more than 40 have been found together ; the average is between 6 and 18 pieces for each projectile.

According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers ' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no collusion to fix the game.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

A 2012 study, analyzing gravitational microlensing data, estimates an average of at least 1. 6 bound planets for every star in the Milky Way.

* Quaternary science is an inter-disciplinary field of study focusing on the Quaternary period, which encompasses the last 2. 6 million years.

Philip Henry Gosse ( 6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888 ) was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology.

A 2006 study of 135, 000 people 50 or older found that those taking high doses of PPIs for longer than one year were 2. 6 times more likely to break a hip.

Nowadays, botanists study about 400, 000 species of living organisms.

Caltech was found to offer the highest return of investment of college education, at $ 1, 713, 000 over a 30-year period, according to the same study.

The study was completed in 1936 and the ban lifted, at which point large-scale releases were undertaken ; by March, 1937, 62, 000 toadlets had been released into the wild.

According to a 2004 study, 150, 000 jobs and $ 13 billion in annual production depend on the river crossings connecting Detroit to Windsor.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

In March 1961 Singer and another University of Maryland physicist, E. J. Opik, were given a $ 97, 000 grant by NASA to conduct a three-year study of interplanetary gas and dust.

Various questions and responses from approximately 4, 000 people who were surveyed each year from 1987 through 2010 made up the study.

A construction management study ( testing ) carried out by the firm Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall in association with Mark Lehner and other Egyptologists, estimates that the total project required an average workforce of 14, 567 people and a peak workforce of 40, 000.

Wild population estimates vary ; one estimate shows that there are about 1, 590 individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2, 000 to 3, 000.

Selye was one of the highly productive scientists in the 20th century, with over 1, 000 research publications, according a study by Kantha ( 1992 ).

Hefner donated $ 100, 000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called " Censorship in Cinema ," and $ 2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.

; Drivers: A one-year long study, conducted by a firm that provides statistical information to insurance companies so they can determine rates, found that drivers of H2 and H3 Hummers receive about five times as many traffic tickets as the national average for all vehicles ( standardized based on the number of violations per 100, 000 miles driven ).

" The prize was accompanied by a US $ 100, 000 award, which Pei used to create a scholarship for Chinese students to study architecture in the US, on the condition that they return to China to work.

However, a number of very large studies, including the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, an eight year study of 49, 000 women, the Nurses ' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, revealed no such links.

In 1873, a private philanthropist ( John Anderson ) gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ( south of New Bedford ), and presented him with $ 50, 000 to permanently endow it as a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology.

( 2006 ) ( in the continuing research effort by Freitas, Merkle and their collaborators ) reports that the most-studied mechanosynthesis tooltip motif ( DCB6Ge ) successfully places a C < sub > 2 </ sub > carbon dimer on a C ( 110 ) diamond surface at both 300 K ( room temperature ) and 80 K ( liquid nitrogen temperature ), and that the silicon variant ( DCB6Si ) also works at 80 K but not at 300 K. Over 100, 000 CPU hours were invested in this latest study.

The work of Theophrastus remained a dominant influence in the study of weather and in weather forecasting for nearly 2, 000 years.

The often referred to Interpreter ’ s Dictionary of the Bible, a book written to prove the validity of the New Testament, says: ” A study of 150 Greek of the Gospel of Luke has revealed more than 30, 000 different readings ...

In the United States, the ARIS 2001 study, based on a poll conducted by The Graduate Center at The City University of New York found that an estimated 140, 000 people self-identified as pagans ; 134, 000 self-identified as Wiccans ; and 33, 000 self-identified as Druids.