271 - 307 ) indicate, that the concept of function in sociology has been built up from physiological and biological models, in which the notions of teleology, i.e., metaphysical purpose, are central.

At the same time, the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and later Wilhelm Dilthey, whose work formed the basis for the " culture concept ," which is central to the discipline.

Bandwidth in hertz is a central concept in many fields, including electronics, information theory, digital communications, radio communications, signal processing, and spectroscopy.

Parallel with the rise of cultural anthropology in the United States, social anthropology, in which sociality is the central concept and which focuses on the study of social statuses and roles, groups, institutions, and the relations among them, developed as an academic discipline in Britain.

The central concept which is needed for this purpose is called categorical limit, and can be dualized to yield the notion of a colimit.

The continuity of glaciers, inferred from oriented glacial striations and deposits called tillites, suggested the existence of the supercontinent of Gondwana, which became a central element of the concept of continental drift.

The central concept of utilitarianism, which was developed by Jeremy Bentham, was that that public policy should seek to provide " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ".

The commutator of two operators acting on a Hilbert space is a central concept in quantum mechanics, since it quantifies how well the two observables described by these operators can be measured simultaneously.

Chastity is a central and pivotal concept in Christian praxis.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

This is contrasted with the concept of a centrally planned, or command economy, where most of the economy is planned by a central government authority, and organized along a top-down administration where decisions regarding investment, production output requirements are decided upon by planners from the top, or near the top, of the chain of command.

: Dukkha is an extremely important concept and is central to understanding Buddhism in its entirety.

that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe ) means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion.

After articulating the biological species concept in 1942, Mayr played a central role in the species problem debate over what was the best species concept.

Relational ethics in close personal relationships form a central concept of contextual therapy.

Monetarist economists such as Milton Friedman argue against the concept of cost-push inflation because increases in the cost of goods and services do not lead to inflation without the government and its central bank cooperating in increasing the money supply.

This was a concept which played a central role in the development of Taguchi methods by Genichi Taguchi, which took place during his visit to Indian Statistical Institute in early 1950s.

Niche retail companies Wayfair and NetShops are founded with the concept of selling products through several targeted domains, rather than a central portal.

" The ecological niche is a central concept in the ecology of organisms and is sub-divided into the fundamental and the realized niche.

A central concept in science and the scientific method is that it must be empirically based on the evidence of the senses.

Political freedom ( also known as political autonomy or political agency ) is a central concept in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important ( real or ideal ) features of democratic societies.

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul ( France ), which he had conquered.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

The gardens were designed by Louis Fuchs and the central pavilion was built by architect Joseph Hubert in tavern style.

* St. Joseph River ( Maumee River ) in south central Michigan and northeast Indiana

The Smithsonian Institution developed its network of observers over much of the central and eastern United States between the 1840s and 1860s once Joseph Henry took the helm.

* Joseph Bazalgette-civil engineer ; his creation in the mid 19th century of the sewer network for central London eliminated the incidence of cholera epidemics

According to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., Adam-ondi-Ahman, situated in the central part of the county, was where Adam and Eve relocated after being banished from the Garden of Eden.

Buchanan County is the central hub of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The downtown area is located in the north central part of the city along the St. Joseph River.

The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the City of St. Joseph.

Joseph Deniker's map of European races ( 1899 ) identified " Dinarics " as the dominant group in parts of central Europe, Northern Italy and the North West Balkans.

The quest, in the form of the Hero's Journey, plays a central roles in the Monomyth described by Joseph Campbell ; the hero sets forth from the world of common day into a land of adventures, tests, and magical rewards.

The great clown Joseph Grimaldi was responsible for building the character up from the country bumpkin fool of the Commedia dell ' arte into the central figure of the harlequinade.

* In The Illusionist ( 2006 ), a central character is the fictitious " Crown Prince Leopold ", son of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria.

Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.

John L. Pollock and Joseph Cruz have stated that the Gettier problem has " fundamentally altered the character of contemporary epistemology " and has become " a central problem of epistemology since it poses a clear barrier to analyzing knowledge ".

* New York Avenue Junior High School-( now the Joseph M. Barton / New York Avenue Building ) Currently the central office and headquarters of Smithown Central School District

After about eighteen months Denard returned to the Congo to take employment under Moise Tshombe who was now the prime minister of the central government in Leopoldville from July 1964 till October 1965 when was dismissed by President Joseph Kasa Vubu.

His best-known students-many of whom continued to correspond with him during his long life-included ( in addition to Joseph Black, who became his colleague ) Benjamin Rush, a central figure in the founding of the United States of America ; John Morgan, who founded the first medical school in the American colonies ( the Medical School at the College of Philadelphia ); William Withering, the discoverer of digitalis ; Sir Gilbert Blane, medical reformer of the Royal Navy ; and John Coakley Lettsom, the philanthropist and founder of the Medical Society of London.

Joseph Tylenda summarizes the central theme of the third book with the teaching in Chapter 56, " My son, to the degree that you can leave yourself behind, to that degree will you be able to enter into Me.

* Joseph P. Hoar, Trustee, Commander of U. S. central command

Young emphasized what he said was Joseph Smith's authorization that the Quorum of the Twelve should be the church's central governing body of the church after Smith's death.

Intercontinental Press began a campaign denouncing the ICFI for the Wohlforth incident, with its editor Joseph Hansen writing that the concern over security indicated " paranoia " on the part of the IC's central leader, Gerry Healy.

In 1833, Joseph Reddeford Walker led the first known expedition into the area that would later be called the Owens Valley in central California.

The Smithsonian Institution developed its network of observers over much of the central and eastern United States between the 1840s and 1860s once Joseph Henry took the helm.