Up to this study, only physicians and psychiatrists studied sexual behavior, and almost always the results were interpreted with a moral view.

The connections discovered would explain about 20 % of the cases studied, indicating that this is a highly significant but not the sole genetic factor determining sexual orientation.

Psychopathia Sexualis was one of the first books about sexual practices that studied homosexuality / bisexuality.

Extensive research has produced mathematical models of sexual behavior comparing the results generated with the observed prevalence of sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) to statistically estimate the probable sexual behavior of the studied population.

As early as 1803 Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher had published on the isogamy ( sexual conjugation ) in the algae, but it was in the early 20th century that reproduction and development began to be extensively studied.

A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late twentieth century, when issues of racial and sexual identity and identification have been studied.

Researchers studied the time required for an individual to reach the peak of sexual arousal and concluded that, on average, women and men spend almost the same time for sexual arousal — around 10 minutes.

Elizabeth Howe has objected that the male disguise, when studied in relation to playtexts, prologues, and epilogues, comes out as " little more than yet another means of displaying the actress as a sexual object " to male patrons, by showing off her body, normally hidden by a skirt, outlined by the male outfit.

He studied the effect and concluded that the stimulus for increased beard growth was related to the resumption of sexual activity.

The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies.

These species are unified morphologically in exhibiting sexual dimorphism in their plumage, as well as in possessing cryptic juvenile plumage ( in all the species thus far studied ).

Melatonin has been studied as a potential treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, cancer, immune disorders, cardiovascular diseases, depression, seasonal affective disorder ( SAD ), circadian rhythm sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction and some forms of insomnia.

Usually the most basic of these relationships studied is that between the mother and child, and second most basic is between sexual partners — the focus of feminism and Queer theory respectively, where relationships are central.

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Baby Tyrone is conditioned to associate erotic arousal with the smell of plastic Imipolex G. Decades later, his sexual behavior in London is studied in an effort to track V-2 rocket explosions because the plastic is used in the rocket.

Preferences for specific sexual practices among female same-sex relationships have been studied.

In their assessment of the knowledge about the sexual networks and behaviors of MSM in Asia, Dowsett, Grierson and McNally concluded that the category of MSM does not correspond to a single social identity in any of the countries they studied.

Bremelanotide ( formerly PT-141 ) is being studied in clinical tests to increase sexual desire in women.

Like other forms of social networks, sexual networks can be formally studied using the mathematics of graph theory and network theory.

One study of orgasm found that women who fake orgasms were more likely to neglect their partners and flirt with other men at social gatherings ; the authors of this study speculated that women who fake orgasms may be more likely to engage in sexual intercourse with men other than their partner, although they recommended caution at interpreting their findings due to a small data set and a large number of variables being studied.

Other variables studied included methods for finding partners, sexual behaviors undertaken while seeking infection, average number of sexual partners, length of time for which they will seek infection and life event changes if they were successful in becoming infected with HIV.

For example, Boas studied immigrant children to demonstrate that biological race was not immutable, and that human conduct and behavior resulted from nurture, rather than nature.

Animal behavior is studied in comparative psychology, ethology, behavioral ecology and sociobiology.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

Fundamental physical laws such as the conservation of mass, the conservation of momentum, and the conservation of energy may be applied to such models to derive differential equations describing the behavior of such objects, and some information about the particular material studied is added through a constitutive relation.

Immigrants ' behavior would be studied for difficulties in getting up the staircase.

Unlike many children, Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically at a relatively young age due to the influence of his mother ’ s younger brother, Harold Merkel, who had studied economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison under John R. Commons.

Authority is a well studied, primary mark of organizational behavior, and is straightforwardly defined in the organizational context as the ability and right of an individual of higher rank to determine the decision of an individual of lower rank.

The reproductive behavior of bush crickets has been studied in great depth.

Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws.

Pike's approach to the study of language put him outside the circle of the " generative " movement begun by Noam Chomsky, a dominant linguist, since Pike believed that the structure of language should be studied in context, not just single sentences, as seen in the title of his magnum opus " Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior " ( 1967 ).

All animals that have been studied show circadian fluctuations in neural activity, which control circadian alternations in behavior such as the sleep-wake cycle.

Alexander Balankin and coauthors have studied the behavior of toilet paper under tensile stress and during wetting and burning.

* Negative ( positive ) contrast effect, a phenomenon studied in psychology ( behavior analysis )

Scholarly research on jury behavior in American non-capital criminal felony trials reveals that juror outcomes appear to track the opinions of the median juror, rather than the opinions of the extreme juror on the panel, although juries were required to render unanimous verdicts in the jurisdictions studied.

In such cases, seeking informed consent directly interferes with the ability to conduct the research, because the very act of revealing that a study is being conducted is likely to alter the behavior studied.

Besides their highly adaptive foraging behavior and fast reproduction, the exact mechanisms for their rebound is unclear and are still being studied.

Donald Brightsmith, the principal investigator of the Tambopata Macaw Project, located at the Tambopata Research Center ( TRC ) in Peru, has studied the clay eating behavior of parrots at clay licks in Peru.

Alan Krakauer of University of California, Berkeley has studied kin selection in the courtship behavior of wild turkeys.

Lee Spector, Jon Klein, Chris Perry and Mark Feinstein studied the emergence of collective behavior in evolutionary computation systems.

These researchers studied various aspects of primate behavior, including basic biology, sensory function, reproductive systems, behavioral patterns, physiology and anatomy.

Others have argued that astronomy is an inaccurate term, what are being studied are cosmologies and people who object to the use of logos have suggested adopting the Spanish cosmovisión.

However, the term naive set theory is also used in some literature to refer to the set theories studied by Frege and Cantor, rather than to the informal counterparts of modern axiomatic set theory ; care is required to tell which sense is intended.

The term " cognitive " in " cognitive science " is " used for any kind of mental operation or structure that can be studied in precise terms " ( Lakoff and Johnson, 1999 ).

In the winter term 2008 / 09, approximately 4600 students studied there.

Bourland, who had studied under Korzybski, coined the term in a 1965 essay entitled A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime ( originally published in the General Semantics Bulletin ).

In every culture studied ownership and possession are the subject of custom and regulation, and " law " where the term can meaningfully be applied.

Long-term use of PPIs has been less studied than short term use.

It is seen by some to be a term only appropriate to the study of religions that worship a deity ( a theos ), and to presuppose belief in the ability to speak and reason about this deity ( in logia )— and so to be less appropriate in religious contexts that are organized differently ( religions without a deity, or that deny that such subjects can be studied logically ).

In the paper that coined the term " tachyon ", Gerald Feinberg studied Lorentz invariant quantum fields with imaginary mass.

Newer methods for treating varicose veins such as Endovenous Thermal Ablation ( endovenous laser treatment or radiofrequency ablation ), and foam sclerotherapy are not as well studied, especially in the longer term.

Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who studied archetypes, proposed an alternative definition of symbol, distinguishing it from the term sign.

Long before Harry Nyquist had his name associated with sampling, the term Nyquist rate was used differently, with a meaning closer to what Nyquist actually studied.

In evolutionary psychology and in cognitive neuroscience, patience is studied as a decision-making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short term, or a more valuable reward in the long term.

The term " sedenion " is also used for other 16-dimensional algebraic structures, such as a tensor product of 2 copies of the quaternions, or the algebra of 4 by 4 matrices over the reals, or that studied by.

Rather, the term comes from the use of program by the United States military to refer to proposed training and logistics schedules, which were the problems Dantzig studied at that time.

The term " Natufian " was coined by Dorothy Garrod who studied the Shuqba cave in Wadi an-Natuf, Palestinian Territories, about halfway between Tel Aviv and Ramallah.

Region is most commonly found as a term used in terrestrial and astrophysics sciences also an area, notably among the different sub-disciplines of geography, studied by regional geographers.

Seagal supposedly studied Obeah, a West Indian term for black magic rituals in depth to make the film.

Several yet later pupils, such as Winfried Zillig, the Catalan Roberto Gerhard, the Transylvanian Norbert von Hannenheim and the Greek Nikos Skalkottas, are sometimes covered by the term, though ( apart from Gerhard ) they never studied in Vienna but as part of Schoenberg's masterclass in Berlin.

The term is used to describe a wide variety of objects, from anomalies studied by mainstream science to pseudoarchaeology far outside the mainstream, to objects that have been shown to be hoaxes or to have mundane explanations.

She studied at the Harrow School of Art-University of Westminster, taking fashion and silversmithing, but she left after one term saying, " I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world ".

Some people, principally non-mathematicians, use the term folk mathematics to refer to the informal mathematics studied in many ethno-cultural studies of mathematics.