The functions of these synapses are very diverse: some are excitatory ( excite the target cell ); others are inhibitory ; others work by activating second messenger systems that change the internal chemistry of their target cells in complex ways.

I – O psychologists rely on diverse data sources including human judgments, historical databases, objective measures of work performance ( e. g., sales volume ), and questionnaires and surveys.

Mitchell has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres, and her work is highly respected by critics.

is the pen-name of Japanese manga artist Michitaka Kikuchi whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences.

In Chinese, Gōngfu ( 功夫 ) is a compound of two words, combining 功 ( gōng ) meaning " work ", " achievement ", or " merit ", and 夫 ( fū ) which is alternately treated as being a word for " man " or as a particle or nominal suffix with diverse meanings ( the same character is used to write both ).

Translations of the work began to appear in all the major European languages almost upon its publication, and Sterne influenced European writers as diverse as Diderot and the German Romanticists.

As the course outlines of his Sorbonne lectures indicate, during this period he continues a dialogue between phenomenology and the diverse work carried out in psychology, all in order to return to the study of the acquisition of language in children, as well as to broadly take advantage of the contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics, and to work on the notion of structure through a discussion of work in psychology, linguistics and social anthropology.

However, later work by biologists and statisticians such as R. A. Fisher showed that if multiple Mendelian factors were involved in the expression of an individual trait, they could produce the diverse results observed.

Thus, this work of Vyasa, called Jaya deals with diverse subjects like geography, history, warfare, religion and morality.

Polanyi's scientific interests were extremely diverse, including work in chemical kinetics, x-ray diffraction, and the adsorption of gases at solid surfaces.

Based upon her work in the United States, sociologist Margot Adler found that the pagan movement was " very diverse " in its class and ethnic background.

In contrast, institutions and courts have upheld discrimination against whites when it is done to promote a diverse work or educational environment, even when it was shown to be to the detriment of qualified applicants.

The concept of religious pluralism is also relevant to human service professions, such as psychology and social work, as well as medicine and nursing, in which trained professionals may interact with clients from diverse faith traditions.

Most published work looks at the origins, growth, diverse typologies, culture, and politics of suburbs, as well as to the gendered and family-oriented nature of suburban space.

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

Timothy James " Tim " Curry ( born 19 April 1946 ) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions.

His chief christological work is the Eranistes etoi polymorphos (" Beggar or Multiform ") in three dialogues, describing the Monophysites as beggars passing off their doctrines gathered by scraps from diverse heretical sources and himself as the orthodox.

Interoperability is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together ( inter-operate ).

In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together.

There is also a more diverse type of whistle used for giving commands to sheepdogs at work, which can emit almost any tone the shepherd wishes, in order to signal different commands.

Today, Forest Service researchers work in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields to promote sustainable management of Nation's diverse forests and rangelands.

However, work on the variation of diatom diversity during the Cenozoic suggests instead that diatom success is decoupled from the evolution of grasses, and that diatoms were most diverse prior to the diversification of grasses.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

Many of today's academics that employ the term, cultural imperialism, are heavily informed by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Said, and other poststructrualist and postcolonialist theorists.

Many practitioners take Edward Saïd's book Orientalism ( 1978 ) as the theory's founding work ( although French theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon made similar claims decades before Said ).

Upon his arrival in London, Hayek was quickly recognized as one of the leading economic theorists in the world, and his development of the economics of processes in time and the coordination function of prices inspired the ground-breaking work of John Hicks, Abba Lerner, and many others in the development of modern microeconomics.

Prior to mercantilism, the most important economic work done in Europe was by the medieval scholastic theorists.

Drawing on the work of a number of string theorists ( including Ashoke Sen, Chris Hull, Paul Townsend, Michael Duff and John Schwarz ), Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study suggested its existence at a conference at USC in 1995, and used M-theory to explain a number of previously observed dualities, initiating a flurry of new research in string theory called the second superstring revolution.

The seminal work is by Jurgen Habermas in Germany but the most extensive literature has been in English, led by theorists such as Jane Mansbridge, Joshua Cohen, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson.

Since the 20th century, the work of physics research has been divided between theorists and experimentalists ( see scientific method ).

Lacking an aptitude or interest in experimental work, many theorists have earned a reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment.

Similarly, Belgium took no direct influence from the Statute or English copyright theory, but Joris Deene of the University of Ghent identifies an indirect influence " at two levels "; the criteria for what constitutes copyrightable material, which comes from the work of English theorists such as Locke and Edward Young, and the underlying justification of copyright law.

Though elements of their work necessarily relate to structuralism and are informed by it, these theorists have generally been referred to as post-structuralists.

They also looked to the Marxist dialectic and the work of such theorists as Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse.

So, the painted work is accompanied with a group of texts that at the same time clarify his work and make Kandinsky one of the main theorists of art.

Starting with work in the Neo-Piagetian tradition, theorists have argued that the growth of working-memory capacity is a major driving force of cognitive development.

For many critics and theorists, the most engaging aspects of Gombrowicz ’ s work are the connections with European thought in the second half of the 20th century, which links him with the intellectual heritage of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Rewired: A Brief and Opinionated Net History "> Marc Andreessen's realization of Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is now known.

Alessandrini agrees, saying, " in Australia in particular, neo-liberalism has been recast as economic rationalism and identified by several theorists and commentators as a danger to society at large because of the use to which they are putting social capital to work ".

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

The theorists of the Situationist International regarded the current paradigm of work in advanced capitalist society as increasingly absurd.

Some modern acting theorists and teachers have noted that Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and others often misunderstood each other's work, and that their criticisms were based on this misunderstanding.

Hamilton's later clarifications often go unnoticed, and because of the persistence of the long standing assumption that kin selection theory necessarily predicts that social cooperation requires innate powers of kin recognition, some theorists have tried to clarify the position in recent work:

While the theorists behind ISI or Latin American structuralism were not homogeneous and did not belong to one particular school of economic thought, ISI and Latin American structuralism and the theorists who developed its economic frame work shared a basic common belief in a state-directed, centrally planned form of economic development.