Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Musical composition embodying angst as a primary theme have primarily come from European Jewish composers such as Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg, written during the period of great persecution of the Jewish people shortly before and during the period of Nazi activity in Europe.

The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable ; particularly on the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available.

R. N. Whybray uses these passages to pinpoint the period of Deutero-Isaiah's activity to 550 – 539 BCE ).

Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.

Sexual abstinence, also known as continence, refers to abstaining from all sexual activity, often for some limited period of time.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

From 1 April 1935 to 31 March 1936 was the period of greatest activity and work accomplished by the CCC program.

Most of the ruins that survive today date from the most intense period of activity at the site in the 6th century BC.

In the period following Spain's grant of local autonomy to Equatorial Guinea in 1963, there was a great deal of political party activity.

In natural science, there is need for another time perspective, independent from human activity, and indeed spanning a far longer period ( mainly prehistoric ), where geologic era refers to well-defined time spans.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time.

That military respect for law began The Ten Years of Spring, a democratic period of free speech and open political activity, plans for national land reform, and the historical perception, by the intelligentsia, that much and great political progress could be made in realizing the civil governance of Guatemala.

Hence starburst activity usually lasts for only about ten million years, a relatively brief period in the history of a galaxy.

Painted artwork during the Tang period pertained the effects of an idealized landscape environment, with sparse amount of objects, persons, or activity, as well as monochromatic in nature ( example: the murals of Price Yide's tomb in the Qianling Mausoleum ).

Spain and the Polish Unitarians have reported a need for a period of reorganization, and that at this time they are unable to maintain the level of activity needed to be full Council members, be it moved that membership of these groups be suspended.

" Hence although men had become less forebearing, and although natural pity had already undergone some alteration, this period of the development of human faculties, maintaining a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our egocentrism, must have been the happiest and most durable epoch.

The remainder of the 19th century saw a relative period of stability, as Islamic, Druze and Maronite groups focused on economic and cultural development which saw the founding of the American University of Beirut and a flowering of literary and political activity associated with the attempts to liberalize the Ottoman Empire.

During the second half of the 1920s, France, Britain and Germany were all using the League of Nations as the focus of their diplomatic activity, and each of their foreign secretaries attended League meetings at Geneva during this period.

Hawkins, however, suggests that it was " Lie's prodigious research activity during the four-year period from the fall of 1869 to the fall of 1873 " that led to the theory's creation ( ibid ).

Professor Fredrik Book, Sweden's foremost critic of the period, acclaims it as follows: `` In this we have the verse of a painter ; ;

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

He is thought of as a painter of northern England, but his most important period was when he settled in Lamorna, Cornwall in 1902, and many of his most famous pictures date from this time and the beautiful Lamorna Cove is usually their subject matter.

Tempera painting was the primary panel painting medium for nearly every painter in the European Medieval and Early renaissance period up to 1500.

Masaccio (; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428 ), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.

* unknown date – Gian Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period ( d. 1710 )

** Tenshō Shūbun, Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk ( d. 1463 )

was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.

Having been awarded first prize in drawing by the Academy, in August 1797 he traveled to Paris to study with Jacques-Louis David, France's — and Europe's — leading painter during the revolutionary period, in whose studio he remained for four years.

Francesco Zuccarelli ( 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.

During his Tuscan period, though preoccuppied with figurative subjects, he began to experiment with drawings in landscape, and according to non-contemporary sources his introduction to the latter genre was through the Roman landscape painter and etcher Paolo Anesi ( 1697-1773 ).< ref > Lanzi, Luigi.

* Marietta Robusti ( 1560 – 1590 ), female Venetian painter of the Renaissance period

Two major commissions at this period resulted in Poussin's early masterwork, the Barberini Death of Germanicus ( 1628 ), partly inspired by the reliefs of the Meleager sarcophagus, and the commission for St. Peter's that amounted to a public debut, the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus ( 1629, Vatican Pinacoteca ), indebted to designs on the same subject by the contemporary Baroque painter, Pietro da Cortona.

In the Baroque period, for example, a painter was hailed for his ability to imitate other masters, one such imitator being Luca Giordano.

After a period as an errand boy ( from the age of 12 ), he was apprenticed to a Francis Whisler, house, coach and sign painter.

During a long period of his life, Hogarth tried to achieve the status of history painter, but had no great success in this field.

The Dutch painter Jan Steen lived in Warmond for a brief period, his house can still be visited.

As the Swedish art historian Ragnar Josephson calls it “ the second great period of his life as a painter ”.

The painter Domenicos Theotocopoulos, better known as El Greco, was born in Crete in this period and was trained in Byzantine iconography before moving to Italy and later, Spain.

He spent a long period in Rome where he became friends with Karel Lot and the well-to-do Utrecht painter Joan vander Meer, who had travelled to Italy in the company of the marine painter Lieve Verschuier in 1653 and became friends with him there.

* The " Neo-classical period " of painter Pablo Picasso immediately following World War I