The proposed mechanism of chronic nicotine causing desensitisation of nicotinic receptors, thereby leading to an antidepressant effect, is consistent with the theory first proposed over 30 years ago and subsequent research that confirmed excessive acetylcholine activity in the brain leads to depressive symptoms.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

It was during this time that Barnard first became acquainted with Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading to the first human heart transplant.

A map of many of the leading scholars and areas of research in complexity science

( 1855 – 1938 ), one of the leading international centres for Biblical research.

It was refounded in 1994 by the Thuringian state parliament and has regained its status as a leading German academic and research institution.

He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ).

An emerging area of research in the area of team leadership is in leading virtual teams, where people in the team are geographically-distributed across various distances and sometimes even countries.

While the United States is leading in digital content, South Korea is leading in broadband access, India is leading in software, and Taiwan is leading in research and development.

KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world's leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences.

Advocates respond that a preliminary research path leading to a diamondoid nanofactory is being developed.

" This call for research leading to demonstrations is welcomed by groups such as the Nanofactory Collaboration who are specifically seeking experimental successes in diamond mechanosynthesis.

Historical research has not identified any biographical details of a real Nicolas Chauvin, leading to the claim that he may have been a wholly fictional figure.

Recent research has shown that Bayesian methods that involve a Poisson likelihood function and an appropriate prior ( e. g., a smoothing prior leading to total variation regularization or a Laplacian prior leading to-based regularization in a wavelet or other domain ) may yield superior performance to expectation-maximization-based methods which involve a Poisson likelihood function but do not involve such a prior.

The controversial trend of artistic teaching becoming more academics-oriented is leading to artistic research being accepted as the primary mode of enquiry in art as in the case of other disciplines.

Research Infosource, Canada ’ s leading provider of research intelligence evaluation, named SFU the top comprehensive university in Canada for “ publication effectiveness ” in 2006.

Many Star Trek: Enterprise episodes refer to Starfleet having already been in full operation in 2119, when it funded research begun by Cochrane and Henry Archer leading to the first successful flight of Warp 3 vessels in the 2140s.

Conservative rabbis also play a leading role at a number of non-denominational institutions of advanced Jewish learning.

It has long been awarded by such leading institutions as Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Washington University.

The medieval idea of unifying all Christendom into a single political entity, of which the Church and the Empire were the leading institutions, began to decline.

For some reason, probably associated with local politics, he subsequently found himself unpopular in Halicarnassus and, sometime around 447 BC, he migrated to Periclean Athens, a city for whose people and democratic institutions he declares his open admiration ( V, 78 ) and where he came to know not just leading citizens such as the Alcmaeonids, a clan whose history features frequently in his writing, but also the local topography ( VI, 137 ; VIII, 52-5 ).

The firm's master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L. P., collapsed in the late 1990s, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998 among 14 financial institutions for a $ 3. 6 billion recapitalization ( bailout ) under the supervision of the Federal Reserve.

However, the majority of its apparatchiks were successful in obtaining leading positions in the newly formed democratic institutions.

The number of losers — which may add up to the size and severity of poverty — can be unexpectedly large if the method and process of privatization and how it is implemented are seriously flawed ( e. g. lack of transparency leading to state-owned assets being appropriated at minuscule amounts by those with political connections, absence of regulatory institutions leading to transfer of monopoly rents from public to private sector, improper design and inadequate control of the privatization process leading to asset stripping.

Coubertin credited these methods with leading to the expansion of British power during the 19th century and advocated their use in French institutions.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

In 2011-2012, a Roadmap political process providing clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions was launched.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

At some places, streets leading up to the institutions were also closed.

Spurred by the national emphasis on anti-communism, Senator Joseph McCarthy conducted hearings searching for communists in the U. S. government, the U. S. Army, and other government-funded agencies and institutions, leading to a national paranoia.

It also promotes cooperation in the field of combating desertification and mitigating the effects of drought through appropriate sub-regional, regional and national institutions, and in particular by its activities in research and development, which contribute to increased knowledge of the processes leading to desertification and drought as well as their impact.

In the 19th-century monasticism was revived in the Church of England, leading to the foundation of such institutions as the House of the Resurrection, Mirfield ( Community of the Resurrection ), Nashdom Abbey ( Benedictine ), Cleeve Priory ( Community of the Glorious Ascension ) and Ewell Monastery ( Cistercian ), Benedictine orders, Franciscan orders and the Orders of the Holy Cross, Order of St. Helena.

Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world where, as President of both the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association in the 1920s and 1930s, he exercised a formative influence in the establishment of its organisations, institutions and publications.

The work of these groups is overseen by the UB ’ s research centres and institutes which collaborate with leading research institutions and networks in Spain and abroad.

For forty-nine years prior to this, however, the city had a fledgling medical school ( or Estudi General, as the universities were known at that time ), founded by King Martin of Aragon, but neither the Consell de Cent ( Barcelona's Council of One Hundred ) nor the city ’ s other leading institutions had given it their official recognition, considering it an intrusion on their respective jurisdictions.

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton has an international reputation for being one of the UK's leading design institutions and it has educated many key figures in the Arts, Turner Prize winners Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread studied at the Faculty of Arts, as did Keith Coventry, the winner of 2010 John Moores Painting Prize, the artist Alison Lapper, Cliff Wright, illustrator of the Harry Potter books, the designer Julien Macdonald and the writer-illustrator Emily Gravett.

It was widely accepted that the Treaty of Nice has failed to deal with the basic question of wide-ranging institutional reform, the European Union institutions being widely viewed as overly complicated, and hence the establishment of the European Convention, leading to a new IGC in 2004, was agreed at Nice.

Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany.

The early French expeditions paved the way for explorations of a deeper scope that would follow from the 19th century until today, conducted by leading explorers, Egyptologists and major archaeological institutions.

* 1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Whorf had met Sapir, the leading US linguist of the day, at professional conferences, and in 1931 Sapir came to Yale from the University of Chicago to take a position as Professor of Anthropology.

Two of the leading centres have been the University of Rennes ( France ) and the University of Birmingham ( UK ).

* The Open University of Tanzania is a fully fledged and accredited public Institution of Higher learning, mandated to conduct academic programmes leading to Certificates, Diplomas, Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications.

Brown University, University of Maryland, College Park, Miami University, and the College of William and Mary, offer leading examples of Georgian architecture in the Americas.

These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, " contain a few fresh phrases of his own, are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious ".

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a leading rabbi at Yeshiva University, stated " It is very sad that an individual who attended our yeshiva sunk to the depths of what we consider a depraved society ,"

* Sudan University of Science and Technology, one of the leading engineering and technology schools in Sudan, founded in 1932 as Khartoum Technical Institute and has been given its present name in 1991.

Under his care, the University of Neuchâtel soon became a leading institution for scientific inquiry.

He undertook further studies at the University of Leipzig and the University of Göttingen in 1913 and 1914 with leading Indo-Europeanists August Leskien, Karl Brugmann, as well as Hermann Oldenberg, a specialist in Vedic Sanskrit.