Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

In response to the need for unambiguous names for astronomical objects, it has created a number of systematic naming systems for bodies of various sorts.

In addition, although 2. 4 million responses is an astronomical number, it is only 24 % of those surveyed, and the low response rate to the poll is probably a factor in the debacle.

The principle was formulated as a response to a series of observations that the laws of nature and parameters of the Universe take on values that are consistent with conditions for life as we know it rather than a set of values that would not be consistent with life on Earth.

In 1592, he was commissioned to write a tract in response to the Jesuit Robert Parson's anti-government polemic, which he titled Certain observations made upon a libel, identifying England with the ideals of democratic Athens against the belligerence of Spain.

Braid soon assimilated Carpenter's observations into his own theory, realising that the effect of focusing attention was to enhance the ideo-motor reflex response.

It derived much of its justification from two observations: first, that animals with hippocampal damage tend to be hyperactive ; second, that animals with hippocampal damage often have difficulty learning to inhibit responses that they have previously been taught, especially if the response requires remaining quiet as in a passive avoidance test.

Over the course of a dozen evocative songs, Arthur fulfils its ambitious subtitle as Davies embellishes an intimate family chronicle with satirical observations about the shifting mores of the English working class in response to the declining fortunes of the British Empire.

It is possible that the story is merely a revenge fantasy, in which the indifferent wealthy suffer the fate they " deserve ", concocted by Poe in response to his observations of class distinctions of his day, a sublimation of his own frustrations at his own situation in life or perceived slights.

* A test of independence assesses whether paired observations on two variables, expressed in a contingency table, are independent of each other ( e. g. polling responses from people of different nationalities to see if one's nationality affects the response ).

The 60-inch telescope is used for a variety of projects including follow-up observations for the Palomar Transient Factory and is a rapid response telescope for gamma-ray bursts.

If this is not done, data distortions due to question-wording effects ( response error ) occur, and the data obtained may have no validity at all, because observations that do not have the same meaning ( it would be like " adding up apples and pears ") are counted up.

In recent decades, new methods have been developed for robust regression, regression involving correlated responses such as time series and growth curves, regression in which the predictor or response variables are curves, images, graphs, or other complex data objects, regression methods accommodating various types of missing data, nonparametric regression, Bayesian methods for regression, regression in which the predictor variables are measured with error, regression with more predictor variables than observations, and causal inference with regression.

The sintering response of the investigated powder was studied by careful microstructural observations using scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy both in reflection and transmission.

This pathway was believed to lead to a considerable boost of immune activation and potentially an antitumor response, which was supported by observations of a significant accumulation of NK-cells and neutrophils following the infusion of NDV / F3aa ( L289A ) in Hepatocellular Carcinoma cells.

Following Galileo ’ s observations of the Moon by means of a telescope, published in Sidereus Nuncius, Lagalla published a booklet in response.

The group formed in response to their observations that free speech rights were being infringed upon at their school and was active during the 1990s.

However, observations suggest that the 1982-1983 El Niño developed rapidly during July 1982 in direct response to a Kelvin wave triggered by an MJO event during late May.

NASS surveys are conducted in a variety of ways, including mail surveys, telephone interviews, online response, face-to-face interviews and field observations.

This is because notions are often created in response to empirical observations ( or experiments ) of covarying trends among variables.

The first observations of genetic variation in drug response date from the 1950s, involving the muscle relaxant suxamethonium chloride, and drugs metabolized by N-acetyltransferase.

The explained sum of squares ( ESS ) is the sum of the squares of the deviations of the predicted values from the mean value of a response variable, in a standard regression model — for example,, where y < sub > i </ sub > is the i < sup > th </ sup > observation of the response variable, x < sub > ji </ sub > is the i < sup > th </ sup > observation of the j < sup > th </ sup > explanatory variable, a and b < sub > i </ sub > are coefficients, i indexes the observations from 1 to n, and ε < sub > i </ sub > is the i < sup > th </ sup > value of the error term.

After repeated requests for a response, he was sent a one-line e-mail, thanking him for his observations.

In response to observations that March was the slowest month for sales of frozen foods, Murray Lender led an effort to declare March as Frozen Foods Month, raising sales dramatically.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

Although these instruments have slow response time and low accuracy, they were sometimes used in measuring radio-frequency current.

While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

With an amplifier and equalization devices, a bass player can boost the low frequencies, which evens out the frequency response.

For instance, if all of the coefficients were equal to unity, a so-called boxcar function, then it would implement a low-pass filter with a low frequency gain of N + 1 and a frequency response given by the sinc function.

Tremor intensity can worsen in response to fatigue, strong emotions, low blood sugar, cold, caffeine, lithium salts, some antidepressants or other factors.

Finally, the blood glucose response to glucagon given when the glucose is low can also help distinguish among various types of hypoglycemia.

Erythropoietin is released in response to hypoxia ( low levels of oxygen at tissue level ) in the renal circulation.

* Unacceptably slow response times in low temperature environments.

* A decremental EMG response, on low frequency, of the compound muscle action potential ( CMAP )

This pole can be as low as 10 Hz in a 741 amplifier and it introduces a − 3 dB loss into the open loop response at this frequency.

A high fidelity component system which cost under $ 1000 could do a very good job of reproducing very accurate frequency response across the human audible spectrum from 20 Hz to 20, 000 Hz with a $ 200 turntable which would typically have less than 0. 05 % wow and flutter and very low rumble ( low frequency noise ).

Most chemicals display a classic dose response curve-at a low dose

Magnetic tape has a nonlinear response at low signal strengths, as measured by its coercivity.

Consumer equipment, and in particular compact audio cassette recorders have the bias set at a compromise level ( usually a little higher ) to give good frequency response and acceptably low distortion.

In response to the low oil prices at the end of the 1990s, Chavez played a leading role within OPEC to reinvigorate that organisation and obtain members ' adherence to lower production quotas designed to drive up the oil price.

So for adequate low frequency response the capacitors used must have high capacitance ratings.

Generally a nonlinear optical material ( organic polymers have the fastest response rates, and thus are best for this application ) with an incident static or low frequency optical field will see a modulation of its refractive index.

While the direct usage of Servlets to generate HTML ( as shown in the example below ) has become rare, the higher level MVC web framework in Java EE ( JSF ) still explicitly uses the Servlet technology for the low level request / response handling via the FacesServlet.

When Kreisel's business partner, Jonas Miller, who owned a high-end audio store in Los Angeles, told Kreisel that some purchasers of the store's high-end electrostatic speakers had complained about a lack of bass response in the electrostatics, Kreisel designed a powered woofer that would reproduce only those frequencies that were too low for the electrostatic speakers to convey.

Some such systems are even supplied with a calibrated microphone to measure the subwoofer's in-room response, so the automatic equalizer can correct the combination of subwoofer, subwoofer location, and room response to minimize effects of room modes and improve low frequency performance.

Equalization is often unable to achieve flat frequency response at all listening locations in part because of the resonance ( i. e., standing wave ) patterns at low frequencies in nearly all rooms.