Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes: a foreground in sharp focus -- either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; ;

State governments have been taking the lead in establishing area vocational schools, but their focus is still on area job opportunities.

How altruism is framed, organized, carried out, and what motivates it at the group level is an area of focus that sociologists seek to investigate in order to contribute back to the groups it studies and " build the good society ".

Bioartificial organs, which use both synthetic and biological components, are also a focus area in research, such as with hepatic assist devices that use liver cells within an artificial bioreactor construct.

The NDP has elected Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from New Brunswick, but most of the focus of the party at the federal and provincial levels is currently in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia.

Or will it become another focus for the arms race – and thus an area of dangerous and sterile competition?

An understanding of how biodiversity affects ecological function is an important focus area in ecological studies.

Most societies have a unique area of focus, such as a particular surname, ethnicity, geographic area, or descendancy from participants in a given historical event.

Some collectors choose to focus on a specific subtopic within their area of general interest.

Another area of focus in the study of hadith is biographical analysis (‘ ilm al-rijāl, lit.

An individual Working Group provides the focus for each area.

" Instructional theories focus on how to structure material for promoting the education of human beings, and more recently Edtech has been gaining recognition for helping to develop this area.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

Surgical residents who wish to focus on this area of surgery gain additional laparoscopic surgery training during one or two years of fellowship after completing their basic surgical residency.

Each area has a distinct focus, although many techniques and results are shared between multiple areas.

Rather, each mercantilist writer tended to focus on a single area of the economy.

In many mosques, even the carpeted prayer area has no designs, its plainness helping worshippers to focus.

The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities ( historical ), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs ( lullabies ).

The area around Potsdamer Platz had also become a focus for black market trading.

His speech met general applause, but little commitment to the Olympic ideal he was advocating for, perhaps because sporting associations and their members tended to focus on their own area of expertise and had little identity as sportspeople in a general sense.

This may include seeking guidance to improve their speaking skills — such as learning better storytelling techniques, for example, or learning how to effectively use humor as a communication tool — as well as continuous research in their topic area of focus.

Modern Christian descriptions of the New Testament teaching in this area focus on Gentile inclusion in God's plans, without much if any consideration of Jewish exclusion.

The southern, oil rich and prosperous Khuzestan and Basra area ( the main focus of the war, and the primary source of their economies ) were almost completely destroyed and were left at the pre 1979 border, while Iran managed to make some small gains on its borders in the Northern Kurdish area.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

Again, one major difficulty is the local focus.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

This type of sociology seeks contributions that aid grassroots and theoretical understandings of what motivates altruism and how it is organized, and promotes an altruistic focus in order to benefit the world and people it studies.

The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of cultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal.

* Earth Architecture-A website whose focus is contemporary issues in earth architecture.

* Kleiwerks-International organization recognized for their unique contribution to modern earthen and natural building techniques throughout the world, their focus is on education through hands on experience.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

He is the focus of unity, since no church claims membership in the Communion without being in communion with him.

* Senior Architect / Designer: Licensed architect, or non-registered graduate with more than 10 years of experience ; has a design or technical focus and is responsible for significant project activities.

Revolution Administered: Agrarianism and Communism in Bulgaria ( 1973 ), focus is post 1945

The main focus of the site is the forum, The Ark, and there is also a ( seemingly defunct ) web zine.

Among other things Thomas suggested to Sanders that were implemented ; KFC's signature chicken bucket ( to keep the chicken crisp ), reduce the number of items on the menu, focus on a signature dish, and introduce the trademark sign featuring a revolving red-striped bucket of chicken.

Much of the emphasis is on abundance of variation ( copia means " plenty " or " abundance ", as in copious or cornucopia ), so both books focus on ways to introduce the maximum amount of variety into discourse.

The subject is most commonly addressed in reference to fictional universes that differ markedly from reality, such as those that introduce entire fictional cities, countries, or even planets, or those that contradict commonly known facts about the world and its history, or those that feature fantasy or science fiction concepts such as magic or faster than light travel — and especially those in which the deliberate development of the setting is a substantial focus of the work.

Many feel this ignores basic democratic principles in that control of schools ' curricula is removed from local school boards, which are the nominal curricular authority in the U. S. While some maintain that it would be preferable to simply introduce mandatory national curricula, others feel that state mandated standardized testing should stop altogether in order that schools can focus their efforts on instructing their students as they see fit.

#* Conduct focus group customer interviews or introduce at trade show

Dorothy's attempts to introduce a more liberal and varied education to her students clash with the expectations of the parents, who want a strictly " practical " focus on handwriting and basic mathematics.

* cycling of resources: each setting has resources that need to be identified and possibilities for new resources to be developed ; a resource perspective emphasizes a focus on strengths of individuals, groups, and institutions within the setting and interventions are more likely to succeed if they build on such existing strengths, rather than introduce new external mechanisms for change

The questioning strategies are used to introduce dialectic along Platonic lines and in order to maintain philosophical focus.

Takalani Sesame also has a special focus on HIV / AIDS awareness and seeks to introduce HIV / AIDS safety while promoting tolerance and reducing stigma.

These new stories focus more on Batman's supporting cast and introduce new characters such as Tim Drake.

The name solidified into the current format in 1993 when Matt and Ceco decided to introduce horns into the band and focus on ska.

Her short story collection titled You Are Free ( 2011 ) contains eight stories, all of which draw upon Senna's familiar focus on black – white relations but also introduce a significant new theme of the contrast between motherhood and non-motherhood.

We can all introduce change and while people in the business consider the change program to be under management focus the benefits of the change will continue, but when this focus has moved ( as is inevitably the case ) performance once more slips.