Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

For example, Yerkes analyzed chimpanzee sexual behavior in hopes of illuminating the evolutionary underpinnings of human development and providing information that could ameliorate dysfunction.

As an example of the evolution of the " family farm ", the history of North Dakota is illuminating.

For example, in the case of a hologram, illuminating the grating with just the reference beam causes the reconstruction of the original signal beam.

With this method, the axes of illuminating and viewing path intersect in the area of the anterior eye media to be examined, for example, the individual corneal layers

An example is his illuminating treatment of the moral difference between someone who tries and fails to commit murder and someone who succeeds, in his essay " Trying " in Ethics and Action.

The principal product of the oil in the 19th century was kerosene, which quickly replaced whale oil for illuminating purposes in the United States.

The ecumenical councils maintain the integrity of the teaching of the undivided Church concerning the saving, illuminating / justifying and glorifying acts of God and reject heresies which subvert the saving work of God in Christ.

Young open clusters may still be contained within the molecular cloud from which they formed, illuminating it to create an H II region.

* His letters, which convey many personal details, as well as illuminating a number of his historical engagements.

The latter's technique was to read a passage aloud, which permitted his students to copy it, then to deliver an excursus explaining and illuminating Justinian's text, in the form of glosses.

" Oberth criticized the German system of education, saying " Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past.

These are processes which modify the PSF of a microscope in a suitable manner to either increase the optical resolution, to maximize the precision of distance measurements of fluorescent objects that are small relative to the wavelength of the illuminating light, or to extract other structural parameters in the nanometer range.

Entertainment Weekly gave the release a " B +" rating and wrote, " Fans will drool over the extras, including some illuminating deleted scenes ( of particular note is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as Banzai's mother ) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some colorful behind-the-scenes battles with studio execs ".

Even the Winston-Salem Journal, which would be a significant force in illuminating North Carolina's past eugenics abuses in the modern era, was not immune.

The Lenoir engine ran on illuminating gas made from coal, which had been developed in Paris by Philip Lebon.

This was principally due to the writer's wide range of subject matter and depth of background plus a number of illuminating photographs which he took.

5th to 8th century ), where it is described as " a combination of tones which, with beautiful illuminating graces, pleases the people in general ".

Assuming that the scene contains objects which reflect all red light, and ( other ) objects which reflect all green light and still others which reflect all blue light, one can then deduce that the illuminating light source is described by ( r < sub > max </ sub >, g < sub > max </ sub >, b < sub > max </ sub >).

In his 1932-33 contribution to Erkenntnis, " Positivism and Realism ", Schlick offered one of the most illuminating definitions of positivism as every view " which denies the possibility of metaphysics " ( Schlick, p. 260 ).

The Logos has a special mystic influence upon the human soul, illuminating it and nourishing it with a higher spiritual food, like the manna, of which the smallest piece has the same vitality as the whole.

CUHK also houses the Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum, which houses " a wide range of artifacts illuminating the rich arts, humanities and cultural heritage of ancient and pre-modern China.

Letters indicated that he was " tamper ... with the science vulgarly known as Black Magic ", and to his former tutor Colin Taylor, Heseltine enthused about " the most illuminating and altogether wonderful book I have ever read "; this was Eliphas Levi's History of Transcendental Magic, which includes procedures for the invocation of demons.

Some aspect of the referent must be invoked and identified, in order for the tacit association to be made ; the allusion is indirect in part because " it depends on something more than mere substitution of a referent " The allusion depends as well on the author's intent ; an industrious reader may search out parallels to a figure of speech or a passage, of which the author under examination was unaware, and offer them as unconscious allusions — coincidences that a critic might not find illuminating.

In this vein, among his most illuminating works in the 1940s are restatements of analyses by other linguists, done with the intention of displaying properties of the linguistic phenomena which are invariant across diverse representations.

On March 18, 2010, the newly-renovated Paramount Center officially opened, with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino illuminating the Paramount's original art deco marquee, which Emerson had restored.

Non-human research still has a major place in this field, however, and is especially useful in illuminating which nonverbal behaviors signify components of theory of mind, and in pointing to possible stepping points in the evolution of what many claim to be a uniquely human aspect of social cognition.

This work has aimed at illuminating and understanding the factors which influence people's judgments of whether an action was done intentionally.

The oil was mostly a nuisance, but some salt producers saved it and sold it as illuminating oil or medicine.

Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was illuminating for Bacon.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

While the musical performance was more mainstream, the stage show was another over-the-top spectacle, featuring inflatable giraffes, dancers in eye ball masks illuminating the darkened stage with work lights, and a lead vocalist who seemed to change costumes throughout the show from wearing his eyeball mask to wearing a Richard Nixon mask, and at one point wearing only a wig and fake ears.

The 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Lipscomb " for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding ".

His concern with electric light was mainly prompted by the need to provide a safe method of illuminating the jute mills, where severe fires had devastated the lives of the workers.

At this point, Thias desired to know who she was so he hid a light, illuminating the room and discovering Smyrna's identity when she entered.

In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his " invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys ".

When reversed, a high-quality television monitor was set up in place of the projection screen, and unexposed film stock is run through at the point where the lamp was illuminating the film.

The amount of money lavished on her visit by the Dublin Castle administration was greater to her own personal contributions to famine relief ( one banquet, for instance, cost over £ 5, 000 ) and the official celebrations surrounding her visit were compared to the act of " illuminating a graveyard " in a newspaper editorial at the time.

" Nearing's reply was illuminating — he replied that he was a " pacifist " and left it at that.

A combination of color and high resolution black and white data from NASA's Galileo probe | Galileo spacecraft was used to produce this view looking down on the crater with the sun illuminating the scene from the right.

Medievalist Kenneth Setton also described Iorga as " the great Rumanian historian [...] who was sometimes intoxicated by the grandeur of his own historical concepts, but whose work is always illuminating.

In the early years of MGP operations, the goal of a utility gas works was to produce the greatest amount of illuminating gas.