Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Since the early 1980s, Smyril Line has operated a regular international passenger, car and freight service using a large, modern, multipurpose ferry, the Norröna.

From the late 1980s to 2000, the Chargers wore white at home during some preseason games and dark for regular season games.

But in the late 1980s, the team suffered several losing seasons, including a 3-13 regular season record in 1988.

After winning Super Bowl II after the 1967 regular season, the Packers became a losing team for much of the 1970s and 1980s, only making the playoffs in 1972 and the strike-shortened 1982 season.

The Patriots were also considered a losing team for much of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including a dismal 1 – 15 regular season record in 1990.

Before cable-ready TV sets became common in the late 1980s, an electronic tuning device called a cable converter box was needed to receive the additional analog cable TV channels and transpose or convert the selected channel to analog radio frequency ( RF ) for viewing on a regular TV set on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4.

" Wimmin " was also a regular section of Private Eye Magazine during the 1980s, featuring quotes from feminist writing deemed to be ridiculous.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

Hillsborough was a regular venue for FA Cup semi-finals in the 1980s, hosting five matches.

Beck attended the initial OrlandoCon in 1974 and was a regular attendee into the early 1980s.

In the 1980s, near the end of his life, Gainsbourg became a regular figure on French TV.

In the late 1980s Brett and Hardwicke appeared in the stage play The Secret of Sherlock Holmes by Jeremy Paul, a regular contributor to the series.

Their use as particle detectors was proposed from the beginning of the 20th century, but the first regular, though pioneering, use was only in the 1980s because of the difficulty associated with cooling and operating a system at cryogenic temperature.

As Robin, Dick Grayson made regular appearances in Batman related comic books and other DC Comics publications from 1940 through the early 1980s until the character set aside the Robin identity and became the independent superhero Nightwing.

She was one of the regular cast members of Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s.

Ferrer, not usually known for regular roles in TV series, had a recurring role as Julia Duffy's WASPy father on the long-running television series Newhart in the 1980s.

A former trolley park, it was restored and converted into a regular outdoor park in the 1980s with a few historical buildings as well as the park's entrance sign restored, avoiding the fate of nearby Idora Park in Youngstown.

By the 1970s and 1980s the phrase was in regular use, if not precisely defined.

That track in particular has been a regular of psychedelic bands through the decades including Australia's Prince Vlad & the Gargoyle Impalers in the early-to-mid 1980s.

* 1961 – 1966 one-hour black-and-white episodes: These episodes have not been widely seen in regular syndication since the 1980s, although selected episodes did air from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s on CBN Cable / The Family Channel, and later on Encore Westerns on a three-year contract that ended circa 2006.

Until the mid 1980s, Locklear appeared as a series regular on T. J. Hooker, while making semi-regular appearances on Dynasty.

At the start of the 1980s another road to Coba was opened up and paved, and a regular bus service begun.

It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980s.

By the early 1980s, the Bakkers had built Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina, ( south of Charlotte ), then the third most successful theme park in the US, and a satellite system to distribute their network 24 hours a day across the country.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Warner Communications branched out into other business, such as its acquiring of video game company Atari, Inc. in 1976, and later the Six Flags theme parks.

It was not until the 1970s and 1980s that there was some mainstream exploration of the theme, with Holocaust survivors writing their memoirs, plays such as Bent, and more historical research and documentaries being published about the Nazis ' homophobia and their destruction of the German gay-rights movement.

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

The 1980s generated several major novels that develop a main theme over decades, are centered on a strong-central character person and are built around rural milieu or a local community of a not too distant past.

Composer Carl Davis created a new orchestral score for the film in the 1980s ( quoting the theme associated with Melisande in Axt's original setting ), and it was restored and released on video in the late 1980s as part of the MGM and British television Thames Silents project.

* The 1980s opening credits contain a re-recorded version of the original Jetsons theme song, which features the use of synthesized drums and synth lead tracks typical of 1980s music.

* While the 1960s episodes referenced rockets and other " space age " theme devices, reflective of the real-life U. S. space program which fascinated America, the 1980s episodes leaned more towards how computers would influence life in the future.

A major theme of Irving's writings since the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline.

In the original 1994 spot, Jack (" through the miracle of plastic surgery ", he says as he confidently strides into the office building ) reclaims his rightful role as CEO, and, apparently as revenge for being blown up in 1980, approaches the closed doors of the Jack in the Box boardroom ( a fictionalized version, shown while the aforementioned minimalist theme music from the 1980s Jack in the Box commercials plays ), activates a detonation device, and the boardroom explodes in a shower of smoke, wood, and paper.

During the 1980s, Knott's met the competition in Southern California theme parks by theming a new land and building two massive attractions:

The BBC used Moroder's film soundtrack " Ivory Tower " as theme song during the broadcast of the motor-racing event Formula 1 Grand Prix, during the late 1980s and the early / mid 1990s.

Brisbane is featured in music including The Saints " Brisbane ( Security City )" ( 1978 ); " Love You Brisbane " theme single from the 1980s ; " Footpaths Of Brunswick Street " – The Natives Of Bedlam ( 1993 ); Delta Goodrem's album " Innocent Eyes " ( 2003 ); Powderfinger's album " Vulture Street " ( 2003 ); R. E. M.

The couple composed and performed the theme tune to Button Moon, a children's programme broadcast in the 1980s.

This theme is one of the earliest in science fiction, demonstrated by H. G. Wells in The War of the Worlds and Doctor Who, where the invasions in the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s are small scale, and the invasions after the year 2000 are large scale, and also such works as Independence Day.

* During the 1980s and through the late 1990s the main theme of " Living On The Ceiling " was used as the intro for the Arabic news program on Israel's Channel One television.

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor restaurants, a chain with a " gay 90s " theme that blossomed to 139 locatios in the 1970s and disappeared in the late 1980s, offered a large sundae in a miniature pig trough.

Robbins wrote the first theme tune to Surprise, Surprise and provided almost all of the female voices on the television show Spitting Image in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

McKinney's Cotton Pickers ' performance of " Milenberg Joys " was used as the theme tune of Robert Parker's 1980s radio series " Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo ".

Nevertheless the 1980s were a period of contraction in which the main theme was course development.

He also recorded new versions of the theme songs to the 1970s versions of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, as well as providing the themes for their 1980s revivals.