For all these authors, one of the main illustrations is the phase transitions of water.

One of the authors ' main arguments is that most prominent scientists who have been voicing opposition to the near-universal consensus are being funded by industries, such as automotive and oil, that stand to lose money by government actions to regulate greenhouse gases.

In addition to the main competition, the entries take part in the Miss Congeniality contest, where the participating authors vote for three games ( not including their own ).

For the first seventy-eight authors Eusebius ( Historia ecclesiastica ) is the main source ; in the second section, beginning with Arnobius and Lactantius, he includes a good deal of independent information, especially as to western writers.

The main focus of the publication house will be to publish textbooks and thesis written by research scholars and authors from all universities.

King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of fictional books in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in Misery and Jack Torrance in The Shining.

Some, like Louis Jacobs, argue that the main body of the Gemara is not simple reportage of conversations, as it purports to be, but a highly elaborate structure contrived by the Saboraim, who must therefore be regarded as the real authors.

While considerable research has since occurred and the knowledge-base has grown significantly, the main concepts remain unchanged, and indeed Newburgh's book continues to be cited by contemporary authors, including those attempting to develop thermoregulatory models of clothing development.

He is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to " degenerate " modern art.

Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline.

The city was pillaged by the Goths in 258, and, although it was afterwards re-built, Trebizond did not recover until the trade route regained importance in the 8th to 10th centuries ; 10th century Muslim authors note that Trebizond was frequented by Muslim merchants, as the main source transshipping Byzantine silks into eastern Muslim countries.

The main target audience of HyperTalk was beginning programmers, hence HyperTalk programmers were usually called authors, and the process of writing programs was called " scripting ".

But Arthur Rimbaud publicly mocked prominent Parnassians, and published scatological parodies of some of their main authors, including François Coppée — misattributed to Coppée himself – in L ' Album zutique.

Among the main classical authors are:

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

The Spanish volumes, with their authors and the names of their main characters:

Around 500 BC the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture, also known as culture of the Raeti, after the goddess Raetia who according to roman authors was the main deity of the people inhabiting the region, succeeds both the Laugen-Melaun culture of the southern and the Urnfield culture of the northern part of Tyrol.

Wilkins makes two main points: first, Webster is not addressing the actual state of the universities, which were not as wedded to old scholastic ways, Aristotle, and Galen, as he said ; and secondly Webster's mixture of commended authors, without fuller understanding of the topics, really was foolish.

Both authors used their main characters to address their readers directly ; however, Camus ' narrative was written in the first-person present tense, thus assuming that the reader will join the main character, Clamence, in the novel's imagined sphere of discourse.

The main authors of the " Bosniak renaissance " were the polymath, politician and poet Safvet-beg Bašagić and the storyteller Edhem Mulabdić.

The main storyline of the original Dragonlance series has been written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, with multiple books written by other authors, covering years between and sometimes during the main events.

Pedro Nunes lived in a transition period, during which science was changing from valuing theoretical knowledge ( which defined the main role of a scientist / mathematician as commenting on previous authors ), to providing experimental data, both as a source of information and as a method of confirming theories.

The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centuries.

Those that appear promising, defined by the authors as " programs for which the level of certainty is too low to make firm conclusions, but for which based on the limited evidence there is some reason to expect some successful reduction in crime ," include: proactive drunk driving arrests with breath testing may reduce accident deaths ; Community policing with meetings to set priorities may reduce perceptions of crime ; police showing greater respect to arrested offenders may reduce repeat offending ; polite field interrogations of suspicious persons may reduce street crime ; making arrest warrants to domestic violence suspects who leave the scene before police arrive may reduce domestic violence ; higher number of police officers in cities may reduce crime ; and gang monitoring by community workers and probation and police officers may reduce gang violence.

Crisp Gascoyne was openly abused and attacked in the street, while interested authors waged a fierce war of words over the fate of the young, often implacable maid.

It analyzed the results of 380 studies ; the authors reported an overall positive effect size that was statistically significant but very small relative to the sample size and could be explained by publication bias.

The authors suggest that studies of pair programming suffer from publication bias whereby studies that would not show that pair programming is beneficial were either not undertaken, not submitted for publication, or not accepted for publication.

Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial to contemporary historians for their unflattering portrait of King Richard III, a bias partly due to both authors ' allegiance to the reigning Tudor dynasty that wrested the throne from Richard III in the Wars of the Roses.

Despite the importance of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, and others female authors, as well as Moore's early heroine, sword and sorcery has had a strongly masculine bias.

In their 2003 book titled La Face cachée du Monde ( The Hidden face of " Le Monde "), authors Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen alleged that Colombani and then-editor Edwy Plenel had shown, amongst other things, partisan bias and had engaged in financial dealings that compromised the paper's independence.

The authors concluded that the placebo effect does not have " powerful clinical effects ," ( objective effects ) and that patient-reported improvements ( subjective effects ) in pain were small and could not be clearly distinguished from reporting bias.

Despite low effects in general and the risk of bias, the authors acknowledged that large effects of placebo interventions may occur in certain situations.

The authors concluded “ without acknowledgement of COI due to industry funding or author industry financial ties from RCTs included in meta-analyses, readers ’ understanding and appraisal of the evidence from the meta-analysis may be compromised .” Noting that most assessment tools for meta-analysis do not include a domain for study funding source the authors state: “ Currently, The Cochrane Collaboration ’ s Risk of Bias tool includes an optional ' other sources of bias ' domain, which meta-analysts could use to include information on COIs.

suggestions of bias were raised, and critics such as the evangelical Christian TEAR Fund's Humanitarian Chronicle stated that authors of the report were " supporters " of the sex industry, and thus not " neutral ".

The authors expressed concern that participant-observer bias would need to be assessed and addressed in order to ensure the reliability of adaptive designs.

Several failed attempts by the authors to have their replication study published highlighted difficulties in publishing replications and attracted media attention over concerns of publication bias.

In a paper published in the American Sociological Review, the authors concluded efforts to mitigate managerial bias ultimately fail in the organization's aim to increase diversity in the management and leadership ranks.

Examples of bias given by the authors include the failure of the media to question the legality of the Vietnam War while greatly emphasizing the Soviet war in Afghanistan as an act of aggression.

Positive results bias, a type of publication bias, occurs when authors are more likely to submit, or editors accept, positive than null ( negative or inconclusive ) results.

The authors conclude that such a persistent bias can only be explained by the propaganda model, which predicts that elections in favored nations will be seen as " legitimizing ," while those in nations with governments unfavorable to the US will be dismissed as " meaningless.

However the healer involved in the experiment was a personal acquaintance of the study authors raising the distinct possibility of experimenter bias.

The Power Line authors believe the media suffer from systemic liberal bias because too many reporters and editors are partisan liberals.

The authors have also published a follow-up paper in Europhysics Letters which provides a generic framework than can be used to assess sampling bias in certain social and biological systems.

While the authors reported an overall positive effect size that was statistically significant, it was small relative to the sample size and might be explained by publication bias.

The Independent Gay Forum became a significant online site for U. S. lesbian and gay authors that endorsed limited-government conservative or libertarian alternatives to what they saw as the ' impractical ' center-left bias that ' characterizes ' lesbian and gay identity and politics.

" In 2009, Engdahl's replacement, Peter Englund, rejected this sentiment (" In most language areas ... there are authors that really deserve and could get the Nobel Prize and that goes for the United States and the Americas, as well ,") and acknowledged the Eurocentric bias of the selections, saying that, " I think that is a problem.

A 2006 article in Pediatrics found that most VAERS reports related to thimerosal, and many related to autism, were filed in connection with litigation, leading the authors to caution that inappropriate reliance on VAERS data may be a source of bias.