The thesis dealt with colors and magnitudes of galaxies.

He graduated in 1981 and received the Dutch Society for International Relations prize for best Master's thesis of 1981, the subject of which dealt with the foreign policy of the Den Uyl cabinet.

He attended lycée in Nice, France, and graduated in Letters ( 1937 ) and Law ( 1940 ) from the University of Paris ( his Law thesis dealt with the antisemitic legislation passed by the governments of King Carol II in Romania ).

The thesis, which dealt with problems in differential geometry related to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, was defended in front of a jury of 11 mathematicians, including Levi-Civita, Vito Volterra, and Guido Castelnuovo.

His thesis dealt with Dewey's theory of inquiry.

Warming's doctoral thesis ( in Danish ) dealt with ontogeny of the cyathia of Euphorbia ( Euphorbiaceae ).

His thesis dealt with the Dissorophidae, a group of Paleozoic amphibians are considered the closest relatives of present day amphibians.

His first book, Unmanifest Destiny, which grew out of his doctoral thesis at Oxford University, dealt with many of the problems of American nationalism that still affect U. S. foreign policy.

His thesis dealt with the topic of the calculus of variations.

His thesis, titled " Trimethylxanthine and Some of its Derivatives ," dealt with the derivatization of caffeine and was an extension of Prescott's work.

His doctoral thesis dealt with a project to dam the Nahuel Huapi Lake and installing a valve to regulate the flow of the Limay River and the Río Negro, in Neuquén, in order to make them navigable.

thesis dealt with the problem of the overcoming of metaphysics in Heidegger and Carnap ; his Ph. D. dissertation was on the ethics of deconstruction in Emmanuel Levinas and Derrida.

Febvre broke decisively with this paradigm in 1912, with his sweeping doctoral thesis on Philippe II et la Franche-Comté.

The Bohrs returned to Denmark in 1945, and Aage resumed his university education, graduating with a master's degree in 1946, with a thesis concerned with some aspects of atomic stopping problems.

Since the second half of the 20th century most scholars have agreed with Martin Noth's thesis that the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings form parts of a single work.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.

During his time as an honors program undergraduate, Sagan worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey.

He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

Harvey Jay Fischer tested Dianetics therapy against three claims made by proponents and found it does not effect any significant changes in intellectual functioning, mathematical ability, or the degree of personality conflicts ; Jack Fox tested Hubbard's thesis regarding recall of engrams, with the assistance of the Dianetic Research Foundation, and could not substantiate it.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

Beardsworth here explains that it would be irresponsible to undertake a deconstruction with a complete set of rules that need only be applied as a method to the object of deconstruction because this understanding would reduce deconstruction to a thesis of the reader that the text is then made to fit.

Marx's doctoral thesis concerned the atomism of Epicurus and Democritus, which ( along with stoicism ) is considered the foundation of materialist philosophy.

This result is now known as Church's Theorem or the Church – Turing Theorem ( not to be confused with the Church – Turing thesis ).

In 1879, he went to work with Bernhard von Gudden at the University of Munich, where he completed his thesis, " The Place of Psychology in Psychiatry ".

After three years he studied the subject in Paris ( University of Paris ), then in 1749 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden with a thesis on blood circulation.

Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Weld Arnold, Apollo M. O. Smith, and Tsien Hsue-shen, along with Jack Parsons and Edward S. Forman, tested a small, alcohol-fueled motor to gather data for Malina's graduate thesis.

His thesis, along with some additional work, was published by the Vienna Academy of Science.

In keeping with the thesis that in evolution one can regard organisms simply as suitable " hosts " for reproducing genes, Dawkins argues that one can view people as " hosts " for replicating memes.

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

:" My thesis is ," says, " That if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff ' pure experience ,' then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.

Classical economists on the contrary defined profit as what is left after subtracting costs except interest and risk coverage ; thus, if one leaves aside risk coverage for simplicity, the neoclassical zero-long-run-profit thesis would be re-expressed in classical parlance as profits coinciding with interest in the long period, i. e. the rate of profit tending to coincide with the rate of interest.

* Shimer College in Chicago grants a Bachelor of Arts to students who complete a program composed of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, integrative studies and a capstone senior thesis.

* Critical legal studies is a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1970s which is primarily a negative thesis that the law is largely contradictory and can be best analyzed as an expression of the policy goals of the dominant social group.

Joseph Raz defends the positivist outlook, but criticised Hart's " soft social thesis " approach in The Authority of Law.

Whereas his Gymnasium senior thesis argued that religion had as its primary social aim the promotion of solidarity, here Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting / preserving political and economic status quo and inequality.

Generally proponents of the tabula rasa thesis favour the " nurture " side of the nature versus nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour, and intelligence.

" His doctoral thesis argues against oriental immigration, summed up in the following comments from an earlier 1908 report King authored while he was Deputy-Minister of Labour: " That Canada should desire to restrict immigration from the Orient is regarded as natural, that Canada should remain a white man's country is believed to be not only desirable for economic and social reasons but highly necessary on political and national grounds.

In his thesis " New Arrival Students in Hong Kong: Adaptation and School Performance ", Hei Hang Hayes Tang argues that adaptation is a process of activation and accumulation of ( cultural and social ) capitals.

A notable thesis propagated by Trevor-Roper was the “ general crisis of the 17th century .” He argued that the middle years of the 17th century in Western Europe saw a widespread break-down in politics, economics and society caused by a complex series of demographic, social, religious, economic and political problems.

The “ general crisis ” thesis generated much controversy between those, such as the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who believed in the thesis, but saw the problems of 17th-century Europe as being more social and economic in origin than Trevor-Roper would allow.

*" A study on Esset as a means of existence, social organization and ethnical identification for the Gurage people ", Master's thesis, University of Tromsø ( 2009 )

These differences are due to the differing nature of research between the humanities and some social sciences and the natural sciences, and to the differing expectations of the discipline in coursework, languages and length of thesis.

In a critique of Walden Two, Harvey L. Gamble, Jr. asserted that Skinner's " fundamental thesis is that individual traits are shaped from above, by social forces that create the environment ", and that Skinner's goal " is to create a frictionless society where individuals are properly socialized to function with others as a unit ", and to thus " make the community Two into a perfectly efficient anthill ".

Three years later he completed his doctoral thesis about social relations in the Turku dockyards.

Elsaesser argues that Kracauer had not studied enough films to make his thesis about the social mindset of Germany legitimate and that the discovery and publication of the original screenplay of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari undermines his argument about the revolutionary intent of its writers.

Mattei Dogan, a French sociologist, in his article " Paradigms in the Sciences ," develops Kuhn's original thesis that there are no paradigms at all in the social sciences since the concepts are polysemic, the deliberate mutual ignorance between scholars and the proliferation of schools in these disciplines.

Out of the one, many: republicanism and social unity in American writing of the 1790s ( thesis / dissertation ).

Holland in a 2004 thesis argued that biologists themselves have not sufficiently recognised that kin selection theory does not in fact require that genetic relatedness per se is the condition that mediates social bonding and social cooperation in any species.

One of the main thesis of her articles is that the social and economic development of Mar del Plata was quite atypical, with a strong prevalence of middle-class values that discouraged the policy of clientelism that is the common background in other urban environments of Argentina.

The second part of Khodorkovsky essay / thesis " Left Turn " was published in Kommersant on 11 November 2005, in which he expounded his social democratic manifesto.

* Transformations of Lisu social structure under opium control and watershed conservation in northern Thailand, Gillogly, Kathleen A. PhD thesis, Anthropology, University of Michigan.

The secularization thesis refers to the belief that as societies " progress ", particularly through modernization and rationalization, religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance.

These differences are due to the differing nature of research between the humanities and some social sciences and the natural sciences, and to the differing expectations of the discipline in coursework, languages and length of thesis.