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light and scholarly
This phenomenon sheds light on the continuous scholarly debate questioning if language determines culture or culture determines language.
After little further discussion of the issue in the 1970s, the 1980s saw the publication of three scholarly editions of The Shrew, all of which re-addressed the question in light of the by now general acceptance of Alexander's theory ; Brian Morris ' 1981 edition for the Arden Shakespeare, H. J.
The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes ' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray.
Albright became known to the public for his role in the authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948, but made his scholarly reputation as the leading theorist and practitioner of biblical archaeology, " that branch of archaeology that sheds light upon " the social and political structure, the religious concepts and practices and other human activities and relationships that are found in the Bible or pertain to peoples mentioned in the Bible.
However, the relationship between the Dead Sea scrolls and the historicity of Jesus has been the subject of highly controversial theories, and although new theories continue to appear, there is no overall scholarly agreement about their impact on the historicity of Jesus, despite the usefulness of the scrolls in shedding light on first century Jewish traditions.
In the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley, in his introductory song, includes the fact that he " knows the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes " in a list of all his scholarly achievements.
Some characterize Graetz's main elements of Jewish experience through the ages to be ' suffering and spiritual scholarship ', while later Jewish scholarly works like Salo W. Baron's 1937 A Social and Religious History of the Jews, opposed the view of Jewish history as being'all darkness and no light ' and sought to restore balance, by writing a social history.
However, his identity is doubtful: " Abercromby has not come to light in recent scholarly work, nor is he found in the published records ...
It is still customary among certain old families to light candles on Friday at sunset and to mourn the deaths of dear relatives on the floor, though the real provenance and recency of these practices is still a matter of scholarly dispute.
Among his more than 80 books are dozens of titles presenting non-moralistic reinterpretations of nearly all biblical texts, including a monumental three-volume scholarly treatise on Genesis 2-11 ( Strukturen des Bösen, 1977-8 ) and a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Mark ; a number of titles on urgent social issues such as war ( Der Krieg und das Christentum, 1981 ), the environment ( Der tödliche Fortschritt, 1982 ), and burning moral issues such as abortion, living will, suicide ( Psychoanalyse und Moraltheologie ', 1982-4, 3 vols ); and, most recently, half a dozen volumes on the question of God in light of the findings of modern anthropology ( 1998 ), biology ( 1999 ), cosmology ( 2002 ), neurology ( 2006 – 2007 ); a depth psychological analysis of more than twenty of the most well-known fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and one by Hans Christian Andersen.
The scholarly legacy of Pavel Medvedev in the light of his dialogue with Bakhtin.
He published both light verse and scholarly articles.

light and engendered
The film's premiere engendered some local controversy, as some thought Johnstown was portrayed in a less than flattering light.

light and by
The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.
He seeks to make his dancers more `` godlike '' by relating them to the impersonal elements of shape, light, color, and sound.
Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Bright, is insufficiently appreciative of the views of Bright's opponents and critics, and makes light of the genuine difficulties faced by Peel.
wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.
During the discharge the magnetic forces set up by the passage of current cause the edges of the foil to roll inward toward its center line, thus allowing light to pass into the camera.
In the light of these circumstances, as well as the fact that the issue at trial in this respect centered entirely on the Department's recommendation, which petitioner repudiated but which both the appeal board and the courts below found supported by the record, we find no relevancy in the hearing officer's report and notes.
But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.
First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.
A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.
The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.
( Note: Because of light leakage from one ultraviolet source to another, the lights are switched by a commutator-like assembly rotated by a synchronous motor.
It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.
With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.
But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.
The photochemical exchange occurs with a quantum yield of the order of unity in the liquid phase at 65-degrees using light absorbed only by the Af.
The rate of the gas phase exchange reaction appears to be proportional to the first power of the absorbed light intensity indicating that the radical intermediates are removed at the walls or by reaction with an impurity rather than by bimolecular radical combination reactions.
The photochemical reaction cells consisted of 10 mm. i.d. Pyrex tubing, 5.5 cm. long, diffraction effects being minimized by the fact that the light passed through only liquid-glass interfaces and not gas-glass interfaces.
The light was filtered by the soft glass window of the thermostat thus ensuring that only light absorbed by the chlorine and not by the carbon tetrachloride could enter the reaction cell.

light and higher
Abbe numbers are only a useful measure of dispersion for visible light, and for other wavelengths, or for higher precision work, the group velocity dispersion is used.
Said more simply, areas with a higher density and repetition of atom order tend to reflect more light toward one point in space when compared to those areas with fewer atoms and less repetition.
Timbales are tuned much higher than a tom of the same diameter, and normally played with very light sticks.
Most electromagnetic waves of higher frequency than visible light ( UV and X-rays ) are blocked by absorption from electronic excitation in ozone and dioxygen ( for UV ), and by ionization of air for energies in the extreme UV and above.
While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.
* The receiving end of the light transmission must be located at a higher gravitational potential in order for gravitational redshift to be observed.
Fluorescence occurs when an orbital electron of a molecule, atom or nanostructure relaxes to its ground state by emitting a photon of light after being excited to a higher quantum state by some type of energy:
Hence, those with less pigmented skin survived and had children at higher rates because their skin allowed more UV light for the production of vitamin D. Thus, the skin of those in the group that left the African continent and went far north gradually developed adaptations for relatively greater translucence compared to equatorial hues.
In this process the light electron obtains a high velocity so that the temperature of the created electronic gas is much higher ( of the order of thousand K ) than the one of ions and neutrals.
* Improper design, especially of workplace spaces, by specifying higher levels of light than needed for a given task ;
The third feature helps to boost the light emission from the semiconductor by acting as a diffusing lens, allowing light to be emitted at a much higher angle of incidence from the light cone than the bare chip is able to emit alone.
This effect is known as droop and effectively limits the light output of a given LED, raising heating more than light output for higher current.
Using a scanning point of light instead of full sample illumination confocal microscopy gives slightly higher resolution, and significant improvements in optical sectioning.
Use of electrons instead of light allows a much higher resolution.
Rainfall is light, varying from per year, except in the higher land to the northwest where it is somewhat greater.
For example, an increase in frequency results in an increase in the maximum kinetic energy calculated for an electron upon liberation – ultraviolet radiation would require a higher applied stopping potential to stop current in a phototube than blue light.
If light ( photons ) of frequency ν < sub > 12 </ sub > pass through the group of atoms, there is a possibility of the light being absorbed by atoms which are in the ground state, which will cause them to be excited to the higher energy state.
If the higher energy state has a greater population than the lower energy state ( N < sub > 1 </ sub > < N < sub > 2 </ sub >), then the emission process dominates, and light in the system undergoes a net increase in intensity.
Piper species have a pantropical distribution, and are most commonly found in the understory of lowland tropical rainforests, but can also occur in clearings and in higher elevation life zones such as cloud forests ; one species ( Japanese Pepper, P. kadsura, from southern Japan and southernmost Korea ) is subtropical and can tolerate light winter frost.
A region of higher or lower density has a slightly different refractive index from the surrounding medium, and therefore it acts like a short-lived particle that can scatter light in random directions.

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