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Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.
Later research has shown this part of the legend of the Re Galantuomo to be false.
He has shown considerable ingenuity in adapting his earliest symbols and devices to the new work, and the fact that he has kept a body of constant symbols through all of his experiments gives an unexpected continuity to his poetry.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
At the scene he has just as clearly shown his military strength in unprovocative but ready position.
And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.
`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.
It is a revelation of what has been done, what is being done and what will be done in Newark as shown by architects' plans, models and pictures.
Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.
Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.
The Lord has shown time and time again His love for us.
But up to date he has shown as much as any in the big Simpson stable.
She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.
At the University of Washington Medical School, the electronics group has developed the `` Respiratory Gas Analyzer '' shown in Fig. 3.
Designers of signs and displays have shown a refreshing approach to the adaptation of plastics that has influenced the workings of other industries.
A study of their activity on thyroglobulin has shown that thyroxine is not preferentially released and that the degradation proceeds stepwise with the formation of macromolecular intermediates ( Alpers, Petermann and Rall, 1956 ).
It has been shown that thyroglobulin binds thyroxine, but the binding does not appear to be particularly strong.
It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;
Research at Fayette, Missouri on oxidation ponds has shown that the BOD in the treated effluent varied from 30 to 53 mg/l with loadings from 8 to 120 lb.
-- Glycerinated muscle, in the presence of the physiological agent ( ATP ) responsible for delivering energy to the mechanochemically active proteins of muscle, has been shown to undergo a contraction which is highly sensitive both to temperature and to solvent composition in mixtures of alcohols and water.
When this water level has been reached, inject steam into the wheel until the temperature reaches that shown in Column B of Table 2.
Drain off the soap solution of the suds cycle at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Column A of Table 2,, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.
When this water level has been reached, inject steam until the temperature is that shown in Column Aj.
Drain off the water at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of water at the end of the sum of the times shown in Columns A and C, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.

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Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.
Chewing gum has an uncanny effectiveness for reducing car sickness in those affected.
Georges Dumézil has argued that Summanus would represent the uncanny, violent and awe-inspiring element of the gods of the first function, connected to heavenly sovereignty.
This device, although it has the important virtue of making the narrative clear and easy to read, tends to falsify the character slightly since uncanny perception where his own feelings are concerned makes him a little less of the ordinary mortal which his behaviour would show him to be.
(' Brocs ' is, perhaps, the only obscure suit title ; the true suit image is that of a tree, but it has an uncanny resemblance to broccoli.
Of Sargent's early work, Henry James wrote that the artist offered " the slightly ' uncanny ' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.
He is very observant and has an uncanny ability to read people.
She has the uncanny ability to take discarded and unrelated items, and invent nearly anything with them, which she attributes to the fact that she has a " mind-bashingly high IQ " and is easily bored.
It has been noted that Charles Ryder has an uncanny resemblance to artist Felix Kelly ( 1914 1994 ), who painted murals for aristocratic country houses.
While the computer age has enhanced human capacity with inviting and uncanny prosthetics, the postdigital may provide a paradigm with which it is possible to examine and understand this enhancement.
The King Snake is also blind but has made it an asset rather than a handicap, as he has honed all of his other senses to an uncanny degree.
* In microbiology, the shmoo's uncanny resemblance to budding yeast — combined with its near-limitless usefulness — has led to the character's adoption as a mascot of sorts for scientists studying yeast as a model organism for genetics and cell biology.
Goldin's work since 1995 has included a wide array of subject matter: collaborative book projects with famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki ; New York City skylines ; uncanny landscapes ( notably of people in water ); her lover, Siobhan ; and babies, parenthood and family life.
A large, double-faced sign featuring this logo overlooks Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and has become a landmark, partly because of its uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Providence and its appearance in the background in televised baseball games.
The hypothesis has been linked to Ernst Jentsch's concept of " the uncanny " identified in a 1906 essay, " On the Psychology of the Uncanny ".
Hanson has also pointed out that uncanny entities may appear anywhere in a spectrum ranging from the abstract ( e. g., MIT's robot Lazlo ) to the perfectly human ( e. g., cosmetically atypical people ).
However, according to this theory, once such technologies gain further distance from human norms, " transhuman " individuals would cease to be judged on human levels and instead be regarded as separate entities altogether ( this point is what has been dubbed " posthuman "), and it is here that acceptance would rise once again out of the uncanny valley.
* In the 2010 film The Last Airbender, Appa the flying bison, which is a CGI character based on a character of the same name in the television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, has been called " uncanny ".
When the film was released in the United States in 1932, Mordaunt Hall, film critic for The New York Times, reviewed the film and liked the realism and the screenplay, writing, " is one of the finest examples of realism that has come to the screen ... scenes in the mine are so real that one never thinks of them as being staged ... hroughout the length of this tale of horror one feels as though one were permitted through some uncanny force to look into all parts of the mine ... all the noises and sounds are wonderfully natural.
Rex has an uncanny penchant for ham rolls, or " Wurstsemmeln " in the local dialect.
AMM percussionist Eddie Prévost reports that Rowe has " an uncanny touch on the wireless switch ", able to find radio broadcasts which seem to blend ideally with, or offer startling commentary on, the music.

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