The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

As a result of this the study of the Ainu language is limited and is based largely on historical research.

The result was a great schism among the Jews of Spain and southern France, and a new impulse was given to the study of philosophy by the unauthorized interference of the Spanish rabbis.

It involves the study of quantity, especially as the result of operations that combine numbers.

The authors of the study interpreted this as being the result of the ease by which primary commodities may be extorted or captured compared to other forms of wealth, for example, it is easy to capture and control the output of a gold mine or oil field compared to a sector of garment manufacturing or hospitality services.

The result of the Air Force study was a model for the military to use as an objective evaluation of software subcontractors ' process capability maturity.

Essentially, Euler-MacLaurin summation can be applied whenever Carlson's theorem holds ; the Euler-MacLaurin formula is essentially a result obtaining from the study of finite differences and Newton series.

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.

His study of Tagalog has been described as “… the best treatment of any Austronesian language … The result is a description of Tagalog which has never been surpassed for completeness, accuracy, and wealth of exemplification .”

One study on genetic variations between different species of Drosophila suggests that if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, the result is likely to be harmful, with an estimated 70 percent of amino acid polymorphisms having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.

As a result significant funding was made available to study various aspects of the problem and to confirm the initial findings.

As a result of the extensive study and use of this molecule, more than 200 morphine derivatives ( also counting codeine and related drugs ) have been developed since the last quarter of the 19th century.

It is fair to say that this general field of study has remained very active since then, with plenty more yet to be understood ( e. g., how interactions of moonlets with particles of the rings of giant planets result in maintaining the rings ).

Biogeography emerged as a field of study as a result of the work of Alfred Russel Wallace, although the field prior to the late twentieth century had largely been viewed as historic in its outlook and descriptive in its approach.

He discussed this subject in the correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, and as a result wrote his work The Passions of the Soul, that contains a study of the psychosomatic processes and reactions in man, with an emphasis on emotions or passions.

It was further argued that some groups may be the result of mixture between formerly distinct populations, but that careful study could distinguish the ancestral races that had combined to produce admixed groups.

In Homosexuality in Perspective, published in 1979, Masters and Johnson viewed homosexuality as the result of blocks that prevented the learning that facilitated heterosexual responsiveness, and described a study of 54 gay men who were dissatisfied with their sexual orientation.

" " Holmesian deduction " appears to consist primarily of drawing inferences based on either straightforward practical principles — which are the result of careful observation, such as Holmes's study of different kinds of cigar ashes — or inference to the best explanation.

Furthermore, because of the nature of the statistical tests used by experimenters, a very small proportion of all experiments conducted will yield an overall statistically significant result ( suggesting that clairvoyance took place at above-chance levels ), again simply because of chance.

Lord Rayleigh conducted similar experiments with improved accuracy, and obtained a negative result as well.

Another survey in 2007 conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found that 73 % of labor economists surveyed in the United States believed a 150 % of the then-current minimum wage would result in employment losses and 68 % believed a mandated minimum wage would cause an increase in hiring of workers with greater skills.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

The apparatus was more than accurate enough to detect the expected effects, but he obtained a null result when the first experiment was conducted in 1881, and again in 1887.

In 1904, as a result of experiments conducted on Edison effect bulbs imported from the USA, he developed a device he called an " oscillation valve " ( because it passes current in only one direction ).

In late 2006, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology published the result of studies conducted at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine that showed the beneficial relationship of resveratrol, a compound found in all red wine, in reducing the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease.

The boreholes on Funafuti at the site now called David's Drill are the result of drilling conducted by the Royal Society of London for the purpose of investigating the formation of coral reefs and the question as to whether traces of shallow water organisms could be found at depth in the coral of Pacific atolls.

* Science ( Latin )-medicine ( itself a Latin loanword ) uses a large vocabulary of Latin terms ( sternum, appendix ), as a result of medieval advances in medical science being conducted in Latin-even if some of the earliest Latin medical texts were translations from Greek and Arabic.

For example, the identity ⅓ + ⅓ + ⅓ = ( 1 + 1 + 1 )/ 3 appears to fail if the addition is conducted in decimal arithmetic ; however, if many significant digits are used, the calculation will result in a closer approximation to the correct results.

As a result of research conducted at the station, about 1, 000 scientific publications have been produced by Australian and international researchers since the station was set up in 1973.

In 1961, Brian's largest surviving work, the Gothic Symphony, which had been written between 1919 and 1927, was first performed at Westminster Central Hall, in a partly amateur performance conducted by Bryan Fairfax, and in 1966 the first fully professional performance was given at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Boult, both occasions largely the result of Simpson's lobbying.

He still walks rather awkwardly as a result of those injuries. The rest of his presidential campaign was thus conducted by his NARC colleagues in his absence, led by Raila Odinga who campaigned tirelessly for Kibaki after stating that " The captain has been injured in the field ... but the rest of the team shall continue.

As a result, recruiting training was conducted at the various Gurkha regimental training centres in Nepal.

On November 29 a PBY Catalina flying boat also conducted a search with no positive result, and O ' Hare was reported missing in action.

The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considers the greatest British people in history.

Samsenethai literally means " 300, 000 Thai ," thus reflected the result of a census conducted in his reign.

As a result of his races that year and the victory over War Admiral, Seabiscuit was named American Horse of the Year for 1938, beating War Admiral by 698 points to 489 in a poll conducted by the Turf and Sport Digest magazine.

As a result, the ( right ) atrial and ( right ) ventricular contractions are conducted up into the internal jugular vein and, through the sternocleidomastoid muscle, can be seen as the jugular venous pressure.

Multiple currency transactions must be treated as a single transaction if the financial institution has knowledge that: ( a ) they are conducted by or on behalf of the same person ; and, ( b ) they result in cash received or disbursed by the financial institution of more than $ 10, 000.

During the 1920s a number of experiments, both interferometry based, as in Miller's experiment, and others using entirely different techniques, were conducted and these returned a null result as well.

As a result of this failed test, it was decided that the land was unfit for multimegaton nuclear tests, so a calibration test was conducted at Amchitka Island, Alaska, in the fall of 1969 during Operation Mandrel.