Observations of feral horses and barefoot domestic horses in natural boarding situations ( including being kept on roomy pasture, not in stalls ) have provided additional evidence that domesticated horses can grow hooves as healthy as those of feral horses and may not need shoes as often as many people think.

Observations of long-term depression in parallel fiber inputs have provided support for theories of this type, but their validity remains controversial.

Observations with this instrument provided valuable information about the chemical composition, density and temperature of the universe.

Observations of phenological events have provided indications of the progress of the natural calendar since ancient agricultural times.

Observations of the 1639 transit, combined with the principle of parallax, provided an estimate of the distance between the Sun and the Earth that was more accurate than any other up to that time.

They also provided a model, along with the other CIA-sponsored ground based paramilitary Korean operations, for the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group ( MACV-SOG ) activities conducted by the U. S. military and the CIA / SAD in Vietnam.

Observations by radio telescopes had for years suggested the Milky Way is barred, but Spitzer's vision in the infrared region of the spectrum has provided a more definite calculation.

Observations with the Herschel Space Observatory have provided resolved images, which show the disk to be located at a radius of 39 Astronomical Units from the star, or 39 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

Observations of superclusters likely tell us something about the initial condition of the universe when these superclusters were created.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

Observations of the Bullet Cluster are the strongest evidence for the existence of dark matter ; however, Brownstein and Moffat have shown that their modified gravity theory can also account for the properties of the cluster.

Observations also revealed that Pluto's orbit was very elliptical, far more than for any planet.

Observations announced in 1998 of distance – redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae indicated that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

In 1676 Sydenham published a seminal work, Medical Observations Concerning the History and Cure of Acute Diseases, in which he promoted his brand of opium tincture, and advocated its use for a range of medical conditions.

On 8 November 1985, Stephen Edberg ( then serving as the Coordinator for Amateur Observations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) and Charles Morris were the first to observe Halley's comet with the naked eye in its 1986 apparition.

He argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665, in a 1666 Royal Society lecture " On gravity ", and again in 1674, when he published his ideas about the " System of the World " in somewhat developed form, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".

) Observations by Eusebius and Georgius Syncellus can be taken to indicate that Bacchylides might have been still alive at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, but modern scholars have differed widely in estimates of the year of his death – Jebb, for example sets it at 428 BC and yet a date around 451 BC is more favoured.

Observations of Cepheid variables are very important for determining distances to galaxies within the Local Group and beyond.

A second pamphlet, Additional Observations on the Short Narrative, furthered the attack on crown officials by complaining that customs officials ( one of whom had left Boston to carry Hutchinson's gathered depositions to London ) were abandoning their posts under the pretense that it was too dangerous for them to do their duties.

Observations interpreted as evidence for the Westermarck effect have since been made in many places and cultures, including in the Israeli kibbutz system, and the Chinese Shim-pua marriage customs, as well as in biological-related families.

Although the biography was not intended for publication, it appeared in print in 1809 under the title, " Lady Murray's Narrative " in Observations on the Historical Work of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox.

Having finished the course of alterations in the hands of John Carr, Lord Fitzwilliam turned in 1790 to the most prominent landscape gardener, Humphry Repton, for whom this was the season's most ambitious project, one that he would describe in detail while the memory was still fresh, in Some Observations of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening ( 1803 ).

Observations of the star's dust ring by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array point to the existence of two planets in the system, neither one at the orbital radius proposed for the HST-discovered Fomalhaut b.

Horowitz writes that despite these changes, one of the academic certainties is that the problems which had dogged the court for the last two centuries persisted ; Observations on the Dilatory and Expensive Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, written in 1701, listed 25 different procedures, areas and situations which contributed to the problems of high fees and slow processes.

In 1789 his Observations sur les hôpitaux ( Observations on hospitals, 1790 ) procured him an appointment as administrator of hospitals in Paris, and in 1795 he became professor of hygiene at the medical school of Paris, a post which he exchanged for the chair of legal medicine and the history of medicine in 1799.

For this method, it is also necessary to check for divisibility by all primes that are less than c. Observations analogous to the preceding can be applied recursively, giving the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

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* Braid, J., " Facts and Observations as to the Relative Value of Mesmeric and Hypnotic Coma, and Ethereal Narcotism, for the Mitigation or Entire Prevention of Pain during Surgical Operations ", The Medical Times, Vol. 15, No. 385, ( 13 February 1847 ), pp. 381 – 382, Vol. 16, No. 387, ( 27 February 1847 ), pp. 10 – 11.

The Advantages of ‘ Demi-Naturalization ’: Hester Piozzi ’ s Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy and Germany ( 1789 ), Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 33: 2 ( 2010 ), pp. 165-180

He was born at Geneva, of a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his great-aunt, Marie Huber, was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of The Spectator ( Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753 ); and his father Jean Huber ( 1721 – 1786 ), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux ( Geneva, 1784 ).

* Thomas Gray publishes his first of five editions of Observations on a General Iron Railway, a book that accelerates the British debate on this means of transportation and promotes the concept of a national rail network.

* SEPS Project – The Self-adaptive Earth Predictive System ( SEPS ) concept combines Earth System Models ( ESM ) and Earth Observations ( EO ) into one system through standard Web services.

Observations of these quasars and active galactic nuclei are difficult, and interpretation of the observations is heavily dependent upon astrophysical models other than general relativity or competing fundamental theories of gravitation, but they are qualitatively consistent with the black hole concept as modelled in general relativity.

Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d ’ anonimo Autore Modense ( On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese Author ), was the first author to mention what is now called the Scotch Game.

It was through Collinson that Franklin first communicated to the Royal Society what would in 1751 be published as Experiments and Observations on Electricity.

The most detailed discussion of his theories on education is in an essay, " Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction ".

These include Metals and Materials ; the Secrets of Chemistry ; the Origin of Metals ; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone ; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.

In his Swedish paper " Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer " he reports on experiments to check that the freezing point is independent of latitude ( and of atmospheric pressure ).

A collection of these essays, entitled Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, was published by Penguin Press on September 1, 2011.

" It is here that he has taken up the hobby of beekeeping as his primary occupation, eventually producing a " Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen ".

Observations have detected more than ten times as much dust surrounding Tau Ceti as is present in the Solar System.

Observations do show a decrease of temperature of the mesopause, though the magnitude of this decrease varies and is subject to further study.

Observations like these eclipses, incidentally, are the main source of data about when Hipparchus worked, since other biographical information about him is minimal.

In her preface to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Cavendish states that she expects readers to say that her practice of writing prolifically is a disease.

In England he may have met Henry Owen whose seminal work Observations on the Four Gospels ( 1764 ) is listed among the books of Griesbach's estate, although he does not seem to have acknowledged any indebtedness to Owen.

Observations using the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS instrument showed that less than one percent of the halo mass is composed of red dwarfs.

Observations of blue stragglers have found that some are lacking in carbon and oxygen in their photospheres, which is evidence of having dredged up from the interior of a companion.

Observations have revealed that giant molecular clouds are approximately in a state of virial equilibrium — on the whole, the gravitational binding energy of the cloud is balanced by the thermal pressure of the cloud's constituent molecules and dust particles.

2009 saw the release of a collection of Bagge's Reason work called Everybody is Stupid Except for Me ( And Other Astute Observations ).

Bagge collected his work for Reason expressing his Libertarian views in the book " Everybody is Stupid Except me: and Other Astute Observations.

Rush is considered the " Father of American Psychiatry ", publishing the first textbook on the subject in the United States, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind ( 1812 ).

There is a reference to a fuchsia under the name of " Thiles " in the Journal des Observations Botaniques in 1725.

Huber is universally regarded as " the father of modern bee-science " and his " Nouvelles Observations sur Les Abeilles ( or " New Observations on Bees ") ) revealed all the basic scientific truths for the biology and ecology of honeybees.

Observations of IC 10 in the far-infrared show that the dust in this mild starburst galaxy is deficient in small grains.