Epicurus is a key figure in the development of science and the scientific method because of his insistence that nothing should be believed, except that which was tested through direct observation and logical deduction.

The key observation hinged on on a repeatably greater radioactivity seen on a wooden table top than on an Italian marble table top, in Fermi's laboratory.

A key observation of falsificiationism is thus that a criterion of demarcation is needed to distinguish those statements that can come in conflict with observation and those that cannot ( Chorlton, 2012 ).

The key observation is that, ordinarily, most of the chlorine in the stratosphere resides in stable " reservoir " compounds, primarily hydrochloric acid ( HCl ) and chlorine nitrate ().

This allowed him to show a correspondence between statements about natural numbers and statements about the provability of theorems about natural numbers, the key observation of the proof.

The key observation that led to the adoption of unified models for powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars was that all quasars appear to be beamed towards us, showing superluminal motion in the cores and bright jets on the side of the source nearest to us ( the Laing-Garrington effect :).

A key element in Schön's claimed successful observation of various physical phenomena in organic materials was in the transistor setup.

A key observation is that rate depends on the decision boundaries and the codeword lengths, whereas the distortion depends on the decision boundaries and the reconstruction levels.

The key ingredient in the proof was the observation that for the

A key observation is that the zero-crossings of the second derivatives ( minima and maxima of the first derivative or slope ) of multi-scale-smoothed versions of a signal form a nesting tree, which defines hierarchical relations between segments at different scales.

The key observation which leads to this algorithm is the sub-matrix of where corresponds to the unbiased observation matrix of hidden components that do not have connection to the-th monitor.

The key observation is that near a phase transition or critical point, fluctuations occur at all length scales, and thus one should look for an explicitly scale-invariant theory to describe the phenomena.

The key observation is that at a phase transition or critical point, fluctuations occur at all length scales, and thus one should look for a scale-invariant statistical field theory to describe the phenomena.

The key observation is that, for all of these different systems, the behaviour resembles a phase transition, and that the language of statistical mechanics and scale-invariant statistical field theory may be applied to describe them.

By March 1915, a two seater on " artillery observation " duties was typically equipped with a primitive radio transmitter transmitting the dots and dashes of a Morse key, but had no receiver.

The observation over such long periods of time has never been done in previous missions to Venus, and is key to a better understanding of the atmospheric dynamics.

Her intention was to train nurses to a qualified and specialized level, with the key aim of learning to develop observation skills and sensitivity to patient needs, then allow them to work in hospital posts across the United Kingdom and abroad.

Using a natural key ( when one can be identified ) also simplifies data quality: It ensures that there can only be one row for a key ; this " one version of the truth " can be verified, because the natural key is based on a real-world observation.

A key point is that, on large scales, our universe appears to be constructed along very simple lines: All current observations suggest that, on average, the structure of the cosmos should be approximately the same, regardless of an observer's location or direction of observation: the universe is approximately homogeneous and isotropic.

The Carter Center, for example, played a key role — with the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division and the National Democratic Institute — in building consensus on a common set of international principles for election observation.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

It was the end of the afternoon when he took the huge key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

I waited until my man was coming out of the office with the key to a cabin before I went in to register.

Her door was locked and the key was missing.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

It was terribly off key, and poorly done, and Tommy could never admit to herself that male companionship was a very natural and important thing, but all at once she felt lonesome and put-upon.

Yes, there was the key.

* That the discipline grew out of colonialism, perhaps was in league with it, and derived some of its key notions from it, consciously or not.

Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

They encouraged farming and agriculture and taught farming and cultivation techniques, as they believed that agricultural development was the key to a stable and prosperous society.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

Much emphasis was given to quantitative data, seen as the key to unlocking all of social history.

It was designed to put the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act into the Constitution, but it went further.

For him the key to the kingdom's spiritual revival was to appoint pious, learned, and trustworthy bishops and abbots.

The key question is whether Linnaeus's type was a South African plant or a South American plant.

His reign was marred by a constitutional struggle with the Aragonese nobles, which eventually culminated in the articles of the Union of Aragon-the so-called " Magna Carta of Aragon ", which devolved several key royal powers into the hands of lesser nobles.

Symbolism as an art movement was in full swing at this time and L ' Ymagier provided a nexus for many of its key contributors.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.