Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

Scholars have debated whether Athanasius ' list in 367 was the basis for the later lists.

Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú.

Scholars have speculated about the bilingual literary structure of Daniel-Chapters 2 through 7 in Aramaic, the rest in Hebrew.

Scholars have identified several passages in Jeremiah that can be understood as “ confessions ;” they occur in the first section of the book ( chapters 1-25 ) and are 11. 18-12. 6, 15. 10-21, 17. 14-18, 18. 18-23, and 20. 7-18.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Scholars accept that Brahui could only have migrated to Balochistan from central India after 1000 AD.

Scholars have interpreted this to mean that Banquo has been dreaming of murdering the king as Macbeth's accomplice in order to take the throne for his own family, as the Three Witches prophesied to him.

Scholars have worked to develop a periodization of Angkorian architectural styles.

Scholars speculate that the total Araucanian population may have numbered 1 million at most when the Spaniards arrived in the 1530s ; a century of European conquest and disease reduced that number by at least half.

Other Scholars, such as Elizabeth Dunn and Julia Elyachar have claimed that neoliberalism requires and creates its own form of governmentality.

Dr. Gartzke, of Columbia University states, " Scholars like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, Norman Angell, and Richard Rosecrance have long speculated that free markets have the potential to free states from the looming prospect of recurrent warfare.

Scholars have debated how Christian antisemitism may have played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust.

Scholars have identified the Assakenoi and Aspasioi clans of Kunar and Swat valleys as a section of the Kambojas.

Scholars like Rudolf E. Kalman and Aleksandr Lyapunov are well-known among the people who have shaped modern control theory.

Scholars have also suggested that the Book of Revelation uses combat myth imagery in its descriptions of cosmic conflict.

Scholars such as J. N. Mohanty, Claire Ortiz Hill, and Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, among others, have argued that Husserl's so-called change from psychologism to Platonism came about independently of Frege's review.

Scholars such as Fannie Ratchford and Derek Roper have attempted to piece together a Gondal storyline and chronology from these poems.

Scholars have increasingly questioned Paul's authorship and attributed the letter to an early follower instead.

Scholars often have difficulty assessing whether Romans is a letter or an epistle:

Scholars debate whether the Victorian period — as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians — actually begins with the passage of Reform Act 1832.

Scholars have defined several " Clans " in Ukrainian politics grouped around businessman and politicians from particular Ukrainian mayor cities ; the " Donetsk-clan " ( Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Yanukovich and Mykola Azarov ), the " Dnipropetrovsk-clan " ( Yulia Tymoshenko, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Pinchuk, Sergey Tigipko and Pavlo Lazarenko ), the " Kiev-clan " ( Viktor Medvedchuk and the brothers Surkis ; this clan has also been linked to Zakarpattia ) and the smaller " Kharkiv-clan ".

Scholars such as Winthrop Jordan have traced the evolution of the legally defined line between " blacks " and " whites " to colonial government efforts to prevent cross-racial revolts among unpaid laborers.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

Scholars have found that the styles of Shakespeare and Oxford, based on a computerised textual comparison developed by the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, are " light years apart "; it was reported that the odds of Oxford having written Shakespeare are " lower than the odds of getting hit by lightning ".

Scholars on both sides of the question have believed Polonius is based on Lord Burghley.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.

Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the Jews before the Babylonian captivity were solar ( based on the return of the same relative position between the sun and the earth ) or lunisolar ( based on months that corresponded to the cycle of the moon, with periodic additional months to bring the calendar back into agreement with the solar cycle ) like the present-day Hebrew calendar.

Scholars such as Thomas Jones and N. J. Higham argue that the Annales entry is based directly on the Historia, with the obscure battle of Guinnion replaced with the more famous Badon, and the icon of Mary replaced with the more common cross.

Scholars have based interpretations about the culture at Teotihuacan on archaeology, the murals that adorn the site ( and others, like the Wagner Murals, found in private collections ), and hieroglyphic inscriptions made by the Maya describing their encounters with Teotihuacano conquerors.

Scholars place these manuscripts together based on similarities in artistic style, script, and textual traditions.

Scholars of Mishpat Ivri typically adopt methodologies based on legal positivism.

Scholars are fairly sure, based on a few fragments and on references in historic texts, that much lost secular poetry was set to music, and was spread by traveling minstrels, or bards, across Europe.

Scholars believe almost 62 percent of these were sacrificial victims, based on signs of ritual execution, method of burial, and other factors.

The St Chad's undergraduate gown ( rarely seen outside of Matriculation ) is based on the Oxford Scholars ' gown, but adds two black buttons at the lower end of the forearm, joined across the ( open ) seam by 5 inches of twisted green cord.

Students may also apply for entry into the Whittier Scholars Program, in which each student, under the guidance of a faculty member, designs his or her own major and course of study based on individual interests and career goals.

I blame this on the occupying power, which established a system based on division .” He is reported to have close links with Dr. Muhamad Ayash al-Kubaisi and the Association of Muslim Scholars.

The college awards scholarships based on academic potential and performance ( e. g., the Kuyper Scholars honor program ), activities ( e. g., sports, theater, music ), and demonstrated financial need.

At the end of the first year five students are also designated Siebel Scholars based on a combination of academics and extracurriculars.

Scholars disagree whether the original language of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was Greek or Syriac, based on the finding or lack of badly-translated Greek or Syriac vocabulary or idiom.

Scholars, including Burton R. Pollin and Richard Wilbur, suggest that the character of Augustus was based on Poe's childhood friend Ebenezer Burling or on Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe, who served in South America and elsewhere as a sailor aboard the USS Macedonian.

Scholars have disaggregated military power projection into nine different aspects based on the political goals being sought and the level of force employed: Four of these relate to the employment of " soft " military power ( securing sea lanes of communication, non-combatant evacuation operations, humanitarian response, and peacekeeping ) and five are primarily concerned with " hard " military power ( showing the flag, compellence / deterrence, punishment, armed intervention and conquest.

The ranking is based on a weighted average including ( 1 ) number of Scholars from the state, ( 2 ) Scholars per state population, ( 3 ) number of colleges in the state with Scholars, and ( 4 ) number of colleges in the state exceeding median Scholars per school based on nationwide data.