Support for the self-categorization theory, which explains group polarization as conformity to a polarized norm, was found by Hogg, Turner, and Davidson in 1990.

Davidson also quotes from Harold McGee ( 1990 ), who explains that eggs are not needed at all and proper emulsification can simply be created with butter.

Davidson details that it would be difficult to ascertain whether a tree or pillar came first, and that this likely depends on if the holy location was in a thickly wooded area or not.

In November, it was revealed that Davidson was unable to complete the deal due to lack of finances, raising questions as to whether his interest was little more than a publicity stunt.

If they guessed wrong, Davidson would say whether the event happened before or after that year, and the other contestant had a chance to guess.

Just as the narrator is about to catch up to his mercurial uncle, Davidson is murdered by a group of Palestinians, leaving the end of the novel open as to whether Davidson was a martyr to the Jewish nation or a false Messiah whose heroic status was inflated by his nephew's eagerness to meet his elusive uncle.

Indeed, Davidson expands akrasia to include any judgment that is reached but not fulfilled, whether it be as a result of an opinion, a real or imagined good, or a moral belief.

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

Davidson says that the notion of an eagle atop a tree and the world serpent coiled around the roots of the tree has parallels in other cosmologies from Asia.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

He hired a young student ( Carolyn Davidson ) to design his logo, paying her $ 35 for what has become one of the best known marks in the world ( she was later compensated again by the company ).< ref name =" Nikebiz ">

Despite its progress, there are still many fundamental problems faced by this field as " unlike medicine, evaluation is not a discipline that has been developed by practicing professionals over thousands of years, so we are not yet at the stage where we have huge encyclopaedias that will walk us through any evaluation step-by-step ", or provide a clear definition of what evaluation entails ( Davidson, 2005 ).

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that it has been suggested that the figures are partaking in a dance, and that they may have been connected with weddings and linked to the Vanir, representing the notion of a divine marriage, such as in the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál ; the coming together of the Vanir god Freyr and his love, Gerðr.

Hilda Ellis Davidson says that, regarding valkyries, " evidently an elaborate literary picture has been built up by generations of poets and storytellers, in which several conceptions can be discerned.

" Davidson points out that Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan's detailed account of a 10th-century Rus ship funeral on the Volga River features an " old Hunnish woman, massive and grim to look upon " ( who Fadlan refers to as the " Angel of Death ") who organizes the killing of the slave girl, and has two other women with her that Fadlan refers to as her daughters.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

In Skírnismál, Gerðr mentions her brother's slayer in stanza 16, which Davidson states has led to some suggestions that Gerðr may have been connected to Iðunn as they are similar in this way.

" According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, while Valhalla " is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death ," the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as Ýdalir, and the goddess Freyja's afterlife location Fólkvangr has been lost.

Davidson County has the largest population in the 13-county Nashville-Davidson – Murfreesboro – Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Ingersoll Rand has its North America headquarters in the Iredell County side of Davidson.

Presently the Davidson Campus has grown to 11 buildings and two emergency services training facilities on approximately.

The College has a second campus in Davie County in the city of Mocksville, as well as the Uptown Lexington Education Center, located within a few blocks of the Arts Center of Davidson County and the historic Court House.

In the past, the Association has brought such artists as John Davidson, The Celtic Tenors, Presidio Brass, Alpin Hong, The Montana Mandolin Society, and QuatroCelli.

He represents many stars of daytime TV, especially from Days of Our Lives, and has worked with Grammy-winning singer Gloria Gaynor, Chad Michael Murray, Chris Tucker, Tommy Davidson, Susan Ward, and Nadia Bjorlin.

As Professor William L. Davidson wrote in Bain's obituary in Mind " In Dr. Bain's death, psychology has sustained a great loss ; but so too has education and practical reform.

Although Thomasville is located in Davidson County, it has its own public school system.

The game was originally created by Andy Davidson as an entry for a Blitz BASIC programming competition run by the Amiga Format magazine, a cut-down version of the programming language having been covermounted previously.

Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that all of the wives of the gods may have originally been members of the Vanir, noting that many of them appear to have originally been children of jötnar.

" Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that Wið færstice was originally a battle spell that had, over time, been reduced to a evoke " a prosaic stitch in the side ".

* Blaster Learning System, an educational software series originally created by Davidson & Associates

The Blaster Learning System is an educational video game series originally created by Davidson, but is now owned by Knowledge Adventure.

While originally joining the Labour Party due to opposition to fox hunting, Davidson ’ s animal welfare policies appeared to reflect a more dehumanised approach to animal welfare.

The group, originally composed of then adolescent Aqil " A-Plus " Davidson, Keith " K. C.

The band was originally fronted by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist " Dizzy " Dean Davidson.

The band originally formed in 1988 as a trio, featuring guitarist and vocalist Harley Davidson, bassist and vocalist Robert " RA " MacLean and drummer Les Vegas.

It was originally owned by Georgia Davidson, along with radio station KIDO-AM.

Newcastle was first settled by Scottish settlers, led by William Davidson ( lumberman ) in the late 18th century, and was originally called Miramichi.

Facial Action Coding System ( FACS ) is a system to taxonomize human facial expressions, originally developed by Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, and Richard J Davidson in 1978.

The position was originally put forward by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper Mental Events, which stakes an identity claim between mental and physical tokens based on the notion of supervenience.

It was originally licensed to the Nashville school board, which became an arm of the metropolitan government when Nashville and Davidson County merged in 1963.

The company was originally founded by Bill Davidson.