In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

A study of major denominational membership statistics over a twenty-year period revealed the appalling fact that nearly 40 per cent of those who joined the Church were lost to the Church within seven years.

One study examined the physical health of mothers who volunteered over a 30-year period and found that 52 % of those who did not belong to a volunteer organization experienced a major illness while only 36 % of those who did volunteer experienced one.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

A third major topic in the study of aesthetic judgments is how they are unified across art forms.

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.

Charles Grob directed the first major study of the effects of ayahuasca on humans with the Hoasca Project in 1993.

All three major international scholarly associations relate archaeoastronomy to the study of culture, using the term Astronomy in Culture or a translation.

In 2005 the US government body NIMH published the results of a major independent ( not funded by the pharmaceutical companies ) multi-site, double-blind study ( the CATIE project ).

In 2010 the Ministry of Defence completed a thorough study of the defence policy and issued a White Book, or a White Paper on Defence, calling for a major overhaul of the structure of Defence Forces.

The study of phase transition and the critical behavior of observables, known as critical phenomena, was a major field of interest in the 1960s.

A major question in the study of cognitive development is the extent to which certain abilities are innate or learned.

Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology.

The area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved ; the degree to which limited liability protects investors ; the extent to which a business can be held liable for the acts of an agent of the business ; the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of business organizations, and the structures established by governments to monitor the buying and selling of ownership interests in large corporations.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

Later a group consisting of the three major servants of Dalai Lama, eminent officials and troops will collect the boy and his family and travel to Lhasa, where the boy would be taken, usually to Drepung Monastery to study the Buddhist sutra in preparation for assuming the role of spiritual leader of Tibet.

A study published in 2009 took into account data sets from major world economies and correlated them with inequality indices.

In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.

It is a major theory of film study today.

A major problem confronting the study of the early history of gunpowder is ready access to sources close to the events described.

As a mathematician, Galileo's role in the university culture of his era was subordinated to the three major topics of study: law, medicine, and theology ( which was closely allied to philosophy ).

Students at Harvey Mudd are encouraged to take classes ( acceptable for academic credit at Harvey Mudd ) at the other four Claremont colleges, especially classes outside their major of study.

The study of religion is important because religion has been a major force in many human cultures.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Besides the state owned airline Cubana ( Cubana de Aviación ), the two other major Cuban airlines are Aero Caribbean and Aerogaviota, both of whom operate modern European and Russian aircraft.

However, even here the value of cavalry was overrated and the maintenance of large mounted formations at the front by the Russian Army put a major strain on the railway system, to little strategic advantage.

The last major cavalry battle was the Battle of Komarów in 1920, between Poland and the Russian Bolsheviks.

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

The major reasons for rising political tensions among the Finns were the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar and the undemocratic class system of the estates in the Grand Duchy.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

The Red Finns did not accept total alliance with the Bolsheviks ; major disputes continued over demarcation of the border between Red Finland and Soviet Russia, and over the civil rights of Russian citizens in Finland.

The Russian guitar is traditionally tuned to open G major.

Today's major industrial cities of the Russian Arctic, such as Norilsk, Vorkuta, and Magadan, were originally camps built by prisoners and run by ex-prisoners.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

The disastrous performance of the Russian armed forces in the Russo-Japanese War was a major blow to the Russian State

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

A kremlin (, fortress ; same root as in kremen (, flint )) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities.

He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 20 ).

Libertarian socialists played a major role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Since the early Middle Ages, the trade in furs was of great economic importance for northern and eastern European nations with large native populations of fur-bearing mustelids, and was a major economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America.

The discovery of large populations in the North Pacific was the major economic driving force behind Russian expansion into Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, as well as a cause for conflict with Japan and foreign hunters in the Kuril Islands.

The major railroad junctions are Chişinău, Bender, Ungheni, Ocniţa ( Oknitsa, in Russian ), Bălţi, and Basarabeasca ( Bessarabka, in Russian ).