The practitioners of strict rational choice theory never investigate the origins, nature, or validity of human motivations ( why we want what we want ) but instead restrict themselves to examining the expression of given and inexplicable wants in specific social or economic environments.

In order to dispel the myth of Vanbrugh's low origins, Downes took pains to explore Vanbrugh's background, closely examining the family and connexions of each of his four grandparents: Vanbrugh, Jacobs or Jacobson, Carleton, and Croft, summing up the characteristics of each line and concluding that, far from being of lower middle class origins, Vanbrugh was descended from Anglo-Flemish or Netherlandish Protestant merchants who settled in London in the 16th and 17th centuries, minor courtiers, and country gentry.

* A longer article examining the Gremlin's origins

* Joseph Wheless ( 1868-1950 ): American lawyer who traced origins of the scriptures, examining original Hebrew and Greek meanings, and the translations into Latin and English.

The origins of behavioralism is often attributed to the work of University of Chicago professor Charles Merriam, who emphasized the importance of examining political behavior of individuals and groups rather than only considering how they abide by legal or formal rules.

In August 2009, the online version of the English-language newspaper The Japan Times published a two-part series examining the TOEIC ’ s origins and early history as well as the use of test-taker fees by the IIBC on the internet.

Lyell began work on a book examining human origins.

Lyell began work on a book examining human origins.

In 2010, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans featured an exhibition entitled " Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures ", examining bounce's origins, development, and influence.

: A Short History of the New World Order continues the thread begun in A Short History of Progress by examining what Wright calls " the Columbian Age " and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium.

Mongrel Nation is a 3-part series made in 2003 and hosted by Eddie Izzard on the Discovery Channel, examining the ethnic origins of the English.

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine ; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

In the crisis of 1808, Llorente identified himself with the Bonaparte regime and was engaged for a few years in superintending the execution of the decree for the suppression of the monastic orders, in examining the archives of the Spanish Inquisition and in arguing for the submission of the Spanish church to the Bonaparte monarch.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

In 1864 Walter Kerr Hamilton, the Bishop of Salisbury, whose examining chaplain Liddon had been, appointed him prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral.

His first historical enterprise was interrupted by the French Revolution, which forced him to take refuge in England, where he took the opportunity of examining a vast mass of original documents in the Tower of London and elsewhere, and received much encouragement, from Sir Walter Scott among others.

Only at this moment -- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty's bed -- she found herself examining how others might regard her.

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.

After examining wild mice captured from both highlands and lowlands, it was found that: the genes of the two breeds are " virtually identical – except for those that govern the oxygen-carrying capacity of their hemoglobin ".

It was during this time that he developed his interest in anatomy, and was often found examining bones at the Cemetery of the Innocents.

By examining 10 microsatelite loci, researchers found two genetically distinct subpopulations of coconut – one originating in the Indian Ocean, the other in the Pacific Ocean.

Thus membership is not seen as the act of admittance by an insider group or even by anyone at all, but by examining individual behavior to determine how closely it resembles the known culturally determined behaviors found in the community of deaf people.

A U. S. study reported in May 2010 Annals of Neurology examining over 700 adults found evidence to suggest higher volumes of visceral fat, regardless of overall weight, were associated with smaller brain volumes and increased risk of dementia.

An additional study examining 158 subjects with German lineage likewise found no evidence of triplet repeat polymorphisms associated with autism.

Supporting evidence for an X-linkage is found by examining other causes of infant respiratory death, such as suffocation by inhalation of food or other foreign objects.

The jury found on March 31, 1830, that: " After examining all the witnesses, and maturely considering the charges for which these Iowa Indians are now in confinement, we find them not guilty, and they are at once discharged.

ArkanoiD's group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were unprotected and it spent several weeks examining the structure of the bank's USA-based networks remotely.

As it turns out, a major difficulty with this epicycles-on-epicycles theory is that historians examining books on Ptolemaic astronomy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have found absolutely no trace of multiple epicycles being used for each planet.

Research has found no or low levels of sperm in pre-ejaculate, though these existing studies are non-generalizable due to examining small numbers of men.

Vrij found that examining a " cluster " of these cues was a significantly more reliable indicator of deception than examining a single cue.

After examining the violins with X-rays, the researchers found that these violins all have extremely consistent density, with relatively low variation in the apparent growth patterns of the trees that produced this wood.

When examining muscle regeneration, a significant reduction was found in the amount of myonuclei.

On examining the lotus, the King found a female child in it.

Into modern times the Gospel of Peter had been known only from early quotations, especially from a reference by Eusebius to a letter publicly circulated by Serapion in 190 – 203, who had found upon examining it that " most of it belonged to the right teaching of the Saviour ," but that some parts might encourage its hearers to fall into the Docetist heresy.

Another study examining participants ' memories for the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion found that although participants were highly confident about their memories for the event, their memories were not very accurate three years after the event had occurred.

Additionally, an experiment examining emotional state and word valence found that people are better able to remember irrelevant information when they are in a negative, shocked state.

It is believed that Beckett found Snodland while examining a local map of the area whilst staying in Kent.

A 2007 fMRI study examining the difference in functional brain activation patterns associated with alien as compared to non-alien ' volitional ' movement in a patient with alien hand syndrome found that alien movement involves isolated activation of the contralateral secondary motor cortex, while non-alien movement involved the activation of primary motor cortex in concert with frontal and parietal association cortex presumably involved in a cortical network generating premotor influences on the primary motor cortex.

* Satisficing: examining alternatives only until an acceptable one is found.

At age 20, Berry entered a monastery of the Passionist order ( ordained 1942 ) and, traveling widely, he began examining cultural history and foundations of diverse cultures and their relations with the natural world.

In 1723, the apothecaries sued the RCP, and Arbuthnot wrote Reasons humbly offered by the ... upholders ( undertakers ) against part of the bill for the better viewing, searching, and examining of drugs.

A promiscuous student, for example, in The Fit describes it as a " dull pain, indefinite, vague ; it was like anguish and the most acute fear and despair ... in his breast, under the heart " and the young doctor examining the misunderstood agony of compassion experienced by the factory owner's daughter in From a Case Book calls it an " unknown, mysterious power ... in fact close at hand and watching him.

For four years the program, known then as the Philanthropic Roundtable, held occasional meetings where representatives of foundations and charities could converse with scholars and journalists about the way professional philanthropy was conducted in the U. S. It also published a bimonthly newsletter, Philanthropy ; offered member organizations a talent bank for hiring young staffers from its list of recent college graduates ( almost all of whom had worked at conservative college newspapers partially funded by IEA ); and conducted a " project development service " that assisted members " in examining their own programs ... to foster innovative programming.

It is clear that the present inquiry involves real potential for political controversy as to administrative conduct of successive state and local government administrations since ( the last major flood in ) 1974 ... It must be recognised that commissions of inquiry, by their nature, will find themselves examining issues of a character not contemplated upon commencement.

On Feb. 11, 1777, he became one of three members of a Dutchess County, New York commission for " inquiring into, detecting and defeating all conspiracies ... against the liberties of America ;" he served for the next six months administering oaths of allegiance, arresting suspects, informing upon and examining Loyalists.

On his examining the wound, the governor desired him candidly to tell him how many hours he had to settle his affairs ... but Mr Balmain made us all happy by confidently assuring the governor he did not apprehend any fatal consequences from the wound.

Lacan stressed the role of the signifier in repression-' the primal repressed is a signifier ' - examining how the symptom is ' constituted on the basis of primal repression, of the fall, of the Unterdrückung, of the binary signifier ... the necessary fall of this first signifier '.

For example, Bad Archaeology, a web page created by archaeologists Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser with the stated goal of examining fringe archaeology, states " it is difficult to understand why anyone might take this report seriously " and also identifies the object as " clearly a candlestick of obviously Victorian style ... why would anyone in 1852 believe that it was more than a few years old?