The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.

Amateur astronomers use a range of instruments to study the sky, depending on a combination of their interests and resources.

In their study they found that neither agent alone seemed deadly, but a combination of the virus and Nosema ceraneae was always 100 % fatal.

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources ; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.

One study suggested that TP53 codon 72 polymorphisms, MDM2 SNP309, and A2164G may collectively be associated with non-oropharyngeal cancer susceptibility and that MDM2 SNP309 in combination with TP53 codon 72 may accelerate the development of non-oropharyngeal cancer in women.

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.

However, a study of Dalton's own laboratory notebooks, discovered in the rooms of the Lit & Phil, concluded that so far from Dalton being led by his search for an explanation of the law of multiple proportions to the idea that chemical combination consists in the interaction of atoms of definite and characteristic weight, the idea of atoms arose in his mind as a purely physical concept, forced upon him by study of the physical properties of the atmosphere and other gases.

Long-term renal functional effects of shock wave lithotripsy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy and combination therapy: a comparative study of patients with solitary kidney.

Sybert, 1998 found that more than 50 % of the cardiovascular malformations observed in her study of individuals with Turner syndrome were bicuspid aortic valves or coarctation of the aorta, alone or in combination.

A study of peptic ulcer patients in a Thai hospital showed that chronic stress was strongly associated with an increased risk of peptic ulcer, and a combination of chronic stress and irregular mealtimes was a significant risk factor.

Attempting to reconcile the conflicting results, the Cahill team suggested that the high concentrations found by McCrone were due to a combination of contamination from modern dust, and poor sample selection ( i. e. choosing contaminant particles like those in the split ); however, they also chose not to publish or publicise Möller's loose particle study.

Their programme consists of a combination of intensive study of the English language, combined with preparatory work on the subjects that will form the major component of their Shumei University degree.

The main effects of Paregoric are to increase the muscular tone of the intestine, to inhibit normal peristalsis, and as an expectorant ; a peer-reviewed clinical study in 1944 reported " that all of ingredients have been found to contribute toward the expectorant action of paregoric, and, further, that an advantage is contained in the combination over the sum of the effects of the individual constituents ," that Paregoric " is expectorant by virtue of a reflex from the stomach ," and " preparations of paregoric which have aged for two or three years are superior as an expectorant to preparations aged for less time .".

Groulx was one of the first Quebec historians to study Confederation: he insisted on its recognition of Quebec rights and minority rights, although he believed a combination of corrupt political parties and French Canadian minority status in the Dominion had failed to deliver on those promises, as the Manitoba conflict exposed.

While noting that further study might find that the plant represented a new genus Cheesman thus created the combination Ensete lasiocarpum while reviving the genus Ensete in his 1947 paper.

In the HERB-CHF ( Hawthorn Extract Randomized Blinded Chronic HF Study ) clinical study, 120 patients took 450 mg of hawthorn extract twice daily for 6 months in combination with standard therapy and a standardized exercise program.

The aim of this study is to assess the use of perioperative medical intervention using a combination of a propranolol and etodolac in order to attenuate the surgically induced immunosuppression and other physiological perturbations, aiming to reduce the rate of tumor recurrence and distant metastatic disease.

However, a single study from 2006 has suggested that propranolol may reduce the dosages required for existing drugs to be effective against P. falciparum by 5-to 10-fold, suggesting a role for combination therapies.

In another well-designed cohort study, the combination of a plant based diet, frequent consumption of nuts, regular physical activity, normal BMI, and not smoking accounted for differences up to 10 years in life expectancy.

In combination with participant observation, they can be used for gaining access to various cultural and social groups, selecting sites to study, sampling of such sites, and raising unexpected issues for exploration.

In a study looking at the relationship between the combined effects of central serotonin activity and acute testosterone levels on human aggression, researchers found that aggression was significantly higher in subjects with a combination of high testosterone and high cortisol responses, which correlated to decreased serotonin levels.

As part of the same study, Aerospace also considered a missile and launcher combination that was small enough that two could be carried in existing C-141 Starlifter aircraft, which could land at practically any airport, setup and launch.

* Triangulation ( social science ), the application and combination of several research methodologies in the study of the same phenomenon.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

The scientific name Tragelaphus eurycerus is acquired from Greek words: " Tragelaphus " is derived from the Greek words " trago " ( a he-goat ), and " elaphos " ( a deer ), in combination referring to " an antelope ".

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun (), which means " the abandonment ", " the downfall ", or " the darkening of a heavenly body ", which is derived from the verb () which means " to abandon ", " to darken ", or " to cease to exist ," a combination of prefix (), from preposition (), " out ," and of verb (), " to be absent ".

Many Greek recipes, especially in the northern parts of the country, use " sweet " spices in combination with meat, for example cinnamon and cloves in stews.

The name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster ( gen .: gastros ) ( stomach ), enteron ( intestine ), and logos ( reason ).

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Whether it was because of the money he had ( most of which was from when he stole part of the ecclesiastic treasury ) or due to Greek influence that wanted to keep him in power for their own gains ( or perhaps a combination of them both ), it is clear that he must have had the support of an influential group to have stayed in power for as long as he did.

The term derives from the combination of the Greek ψιλός ( psilós ), " plain ," " mere " or " bare ," and ἄνθρωπος ( ánthrōpos ) " human.

The name " tetromino " is a combination of the prefix tetra-" four " ( from Ancient Greek ), and " domino ".

The mix gave Theseus a combination of divine as well as mortal characteristics in his nature ; such double fathers, one immortal and one mortal, was a familiar feature of Greek heroes.

The Greek and Latin words corresponding to " crucifixion " applied to many different forms of painful execution, from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole ( a crux simplex ) or to a combination of an upright ( in Latin, stipes ) and a crossbeam ( in Latin, patibulum ).

" Serigraphy " is a combination word from the Latin word " Seri " ( silk ) and the Greek word " graphein " ( to write or draw ).

A century or two after the work of Nirukta, the Greek scholar Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns ".

In combination with a Greek intellectual attitude unconcerned with practical problems, there followed a significant retreat from the development of techniques in arithmetic and algebra.

Gesso ( Italian: " chalk ," from the Latin gypsum, from the Greek γύψος ) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these.

The term " rhubarb " is a combination of the Ancient Greek rha and barbarum ; rha refers both to the plant and to the River Volga.

The combination of resistance and capacitance gives you the time constant of the filter ( represented by the Greek letter tau ).

He may be a representation of the syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.

The ending ergol is a combination of Greek ergon or work, and Latin oleum or oil, later influenced by the chemical suffix-ol from alcohol.

These attributes suggest an Eleusinian deity, and while the Greek original is most often taken as Triptolemus, no extant depictions of Triptolemus show the combination of poppies and grain, which is associated with Demeter ( Roman Ceres ).