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Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

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

Scholars and observers who do not believe that Islam is a political ideology include Fred Halliday, John Esposito and Muslim intellectuals like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Scholars like Joana Breidenbach say that the Yugur's culture, language, and religion are closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Karakorum state than is the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang.

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 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 like Dr. Eitel connects it to the Rishi Gautama.

Scholars have argued that had he lived, Grenfell might well have become disillusioned like his fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

Scholars have always disagreed concerning when written record-keeping became more like " literature " than anything else ; the definition is largely subjective.

Scholars suggest that Maimonides instigated the Maimonidean Controversy when he verbally attacked Samuel ben Ali Ha-Levi al-Dastur (" Gaon of Baghdad ") as " one whom people accustom from his youth to believe that there is none like him in his generation ," and he sharply attack the " monetary demands " of the academies.

Scholars like Elias Lönnrot, J. F.

Scholars see Matthew as casting Jesus in the role of being a second Moses: like Moses, the infant Jesus is saved from a murderous tyrant ; flees the country of his birth until his persecutor is dead and it is safe to return as the savior of his people.

Scholars like Pál Nyíri and Joana Breidenbach say that the Yugur's culture, language, and religion, is closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Confederation at Karakorum, than the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang.

For example, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been supporting an academic major called the University Without Walls-UMass Amherst which is dedicated to helping non-traditional students complete their bachelor's degrees since 1971. Women's colleges also offer programs for older women who would like to return to school, such as Agnes Scott College's Irene K. Woodruff return-to-college program, Mount Holyoke College's Frances Perkins Program, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's Women's External Degree Program, Simmons College ( Massachusetts )' s Dorothea Lynde Dix Scholars Program, Smith College's Ada Comstock Scholars Program, Bryn Mawr College's Katherine McBride Scholars Program, and Wellesley College's Davis Degree Program.

Scholars like Chen Duxiu, Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, and Hu Shih, had classical educations but began to lead a revolt against Confucianism.

Scholars like Yi Zhongtian believe that this is an implication of Liu Bei's ambition to become the emperor, even long before the abdication of Emperor Xian.

Scholars like the Dutch humanist, Desiderius Erasmus ( 1467 – 1563 ), denounced the church and the way it taught.

Scholars like Arnaldo Momigliano, Carlo Ginzburg and Lincoln argue that Dumézil was in favor of a traditional hierarchical order in Europe, that his Indo-European dualism and tripartite ideology may be also related to Italian and French fascist ideas, and that he was in favor of French fascism ( but not of German Nazism ).

Scholars like Jeffrey Rubenstein and Daniel Boyarin argue that it was through the Yeshu narratives that Rabbis confronted this blurry boundary.

Scholars who share Justice Black's view, such as Akhil Amar, argue that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, like Senator Jacob Howard and Congressman John Bingham, included a Due Process Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment for the following reason: " By incorporating the rights of the Fifth Amendment, the privileges or immunities clause would ... have prevented states from depriving ' citizens ' of due process.

Scholars like Rabbi Jeffrey Rubenstein ( PhD.

Scholars point to Chapter 12 and the frame-editor's summary regarding fearing God and keeping His commandments as evidence of this.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Scholars also point to the silence of Photios as late as the 9th century, and the fact that he does not mention the Testimonium at all in his broad review of Josephus.

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

Scholars debate why Rashi chose a particular Midrash to illustrate a point, or why he used certain words and phrases and not others.

Scholars in Taiwan point out that more than half of its acid rain is actually brought by monsoon rains from mainland China.

Scholars point to the following defects as slowing movement toward rule of law.

Up to this point all undergraduates were Scholars, but soon after 1637 the practice of admitting students other than Scholars commenced.

Scholars have noted that the Klingons, not humans, are the ones who quote Shakespeare ; Gorkon claims at one point in the film that " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Wellesley offers housing for Davis Scholars as well, though not for their children or spouses, which is a point of frequent debate on campus.

Scholars in this intellectual camp point to the fact that even chimpanzees and bonobos have latent symbolic capacities that, in the wild, they rarely if ever use.

Scholars sometimes also point to the inclusion of some obviously later ( relatively new ) sections of the Kathavatthu in the Tipitaka as an indication that the Pāli Canon was more ' open ' than has sometimes been thought, and as illustrative of the process of codifying new texts as canonical.

Scholars who favored Irish parallels directly spoke out against pro-Scandinavian theories, citing them as unjustified.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

Scholars inside and outside Germany unanimously reject the notion, pointing out the German army was out of reserves and was being overwhelmed in late 1918.

Scholars have pointed out the Supreme Court itself already had engaged in judicial review before Marbury, although it had not struck down the statute in question because it concluded that the statute was constitutional.

Scholars disagree whether anyone no longer eligible to be elected president could be elected vice president, pursuant to the qualifications set out under the Twelfth Amendment.

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

Scholars have speculated that the eruption of the Xitle volcano may have prompted a mass emigration out of the central valley and into the Teotihuacan valley.

Aside from the Provost, Fellows and Scholars, Trinity College has a Board ( dating from 1637 ), which carries out general governance, and a Council ( dating from 1874 ), which oversees academic matters.

Scholars agree that historically Champa was divided into several regions or principalities spread out from South to North along the coast of modern Vietnam and united by a common language, culture and heritage.

Scholars have pointed out that Bunyan may have been influenced in the creation of places in The Pilgrim's Progress by his own surrounding environment.

Scholars during the Carolingian Renaissance sought out and copied in the new legible standardized hand many Roman texts that had been wholly forgotten.

The Presidential Scholars Program is very competitive ; out of the Boston College applicants invited to apply to the PSP program, 15 are awarded the scholarship.

Scholars Casson and Ryan have pointed out several policy-based reasons for adoption of open source, in particular, the heightened value proposition from open source ( when compared to most proprietary formats ) in the following categories:

Scholars such as Schütte and Kendrick have pointed out that there was probably an even earlier mention of the people of Öland in 98 AD, by Tacitus, who called them the " Aviones ":

Scholars have pointed out that part of Addison's book simply repeats material found in the English translation of Johannes Buxtorf's work, The Jewish Synagogue, or an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes ( Synagoga Judaica, London, 1657 ).

Scholars using the term " prison industrial complex " have argued that the trend of “ hiring out prisoners ” is a continuation of the slavery tradition.

Scholars have not been able to identify any passage in Giffen's writings where he pointed this out.

Scholars have pointed out that Kay's scornful, overly boastful character never makes him a clown, a coward or a traitor, except in the Grail romance Perlesvaus, where he murders Arthur's son Loholt and joins up with the king's enemies.

Scholars have pointed out that these five prophets exemplify the early prophetic missions: The prophet would be sent to his community ; the community would pay no attention to his warning and would instead threaten him with punishment ; after years of preaching, God would ask him to leave his community and his people would be subsequently destroyed in a punishment.

Scholars either dismissed it as a prank or felt unable to identify a sustainable historical context, and the stone was returned to Ohman, who is said to have placed it face down near the door of his granary as a " stepping stone " which he also used for straightening out nails.

Will wants to find out about his father, who vanished during an expedition ; Lyra is looking for Scholars who know about Dust.

) Scholars have also questioned whether personal characteristics have an influence on whether a person will willingly speak out.

Then Taliban ambassador-at-large Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said that the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the statues ' heads.