B. Rhine, who was critical in the early foundations of parapsychology as a laboratory science, was committed to finding scientific evidence for the spiritual existence of humans.

These are collegiate foundations, which provide a home and an income for unmarried ladies, generally of noble birth, called canonesses ( Kanonissinen ) or more usually Stiftsdamen.

He was responsible for foundations at Scone and Inchcolm.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).

Then, following the programme he outlined in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians, he introduced the theory of schemes, developing it in detail in his Éléments de géométrie algébrique ( EGA ) and providing the new more flexible and general foundations for algebraic geometry that has been adopted in the field since that time.

He went on to plan and execute a major foundational programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which were then in a state of flux and under discussion in Claude Chevalley's seminar ; he outlined his programme in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians.

The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

This was particularly attractive as it would lay the foundations for the establishment of an English monarchy.

In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays.

In particular, the Unicode standard provides foundations for complete BiDi support, with detailed rules as to how mixtures of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts are to be encoded and displayed.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

Concrete is widely used for making architectural structures, foundations, brick / block walls, pavements, bridges / overpasses, motorways / roads, runways, parking structures, dams, pools / reservoirs, pipes, footings for gates, fences and poles and even boats.

Angkorian builders used laterite, a clay that is soft when taken from the ground but that hardens when exposed to the sun, for foundations and other hidden parts of buildings.

Zhu Yuanzhang or Hong-wu, the founder of the dynasty, laid the foundations for a state interested less in commerce and more in extracting revenues from the agricultural sector.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

Also, " the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences ", and the method for this science assumes " experience and observation " as the foundations of a logical argument.

It is claimed the works of counter-enlightenment philosophers such as Heidegger, along with Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph de Maistre, influenced Iran's Shia Islamists, notably Ali Shariati, in constructing the ideological foundations of the Iranian Revolution and modern political Islam.

A unique feature of Iran's economy is the presence of large religious foundations, whose combined budgets make up more than 30 % of central government spending.

That was the first recent event which shook to its foundations the nuclear deterrent with which we had lived these last 30 years ".

It has a status of naukograd ( i. e. town of science ), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and one of the largest scientific foundations in the country.

In January 1947 he was one of six ministers on the Gen 75 Committee that secretly authorised Britain's nuclear programme ; in March he was in the negotiations for the Treaty of Dunkirk, laying the foundations for NATO.

In addition to sending hundreds of young Pakistanis abroad for training, he laid the foundations of the Muslim world ’ s first nuclear power reactor KANUPP, which was inaugurated by Munir Ahmad Khan in 1972.

The foundations of the nuclear bunker can still be partially seen outlined in the concreted yard, which also contains the Air Training Corps hut during recent further development of the site.

The wartime, one mile long runway was removed and a new almost two mile long one was constructed on totally new, deep foundations, strong enough to take the Boeing B-47 Stratojet nuclear bomber.

Additionally, the Post Office / Government building was torn out of its foundations and taken into space by Ted Knight, to protect the city from a nuclear bomb planted deep within it by the Mist.

His research program vastly extended the scope of the field, incorporating major elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory into its foundations.

On the Infinite was Hilbert ’ s most important paper on the foundations of mathematics, serving as the heart of Hilbert's program to secure the foundation of transfinite numbers by basing them on finite methods.

Most of Carías's first term in office was devoted to efforts to avoid financial collapse, improve the military, engage in a limited program of road building, and lay the foundations for prolonging his own hold on power.

In the foundations of mathematics, this project is variously understood as logicism or as part of the formalist program of David Hilbert.

They proposed a kind of Neuroanthropology which would lay the foundations for a more complete scientific account of cultural similarity and variation by requiring an integration of cultural anthropology and neuroscience — a program that theorists such as Victor Turner also embraced.

Other financial support comes from individual donors, charitable foundations, corporations, government agencies, program sales and licensed products.

To establish the foundations of the Academy program, officials ultimately drew from sources within the Air Force, from West Point and Annapolis, and occasionally from outside the military entirely.

The report notes that 77 % of Cato's income that year came from individual contributions, 13 % from foundations, 2 % from corporations, and 8 % from " program and other income " ( e. g., publication sales, program fees ).

He contributed to Hilbert's program in the foundations of mathematics by providing a constructive consistency proof for a weak system of arithmetic.

Although the formalisation of logic was much advanced by the work of such figures as Gottlob Frege, Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Dedekind, the story of modern proof theory is often seen as being established by David Hilbert, who initiated what is called Hilbert's program in the foundations of mathematics.

Of this amount, 49 % is from government grants, 23 % from public support ( individuals, foundations, corporations ) and membership fees, and 21 % from program service fees.

Newell's work on the program laid the foundations of the field.

The arithmetization of analysis was a research program in the foundations of mathematics carried out in the second half of the 19th century.

Manuel Blum ( born 26 April 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela ) is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 " In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking ".

Bi-national Fulbright commissions and foundations, most of which are funded jointly by the U. S. and partner governments, develop priorities for the program, including the numbers and categories of grants.

The post-revolutionary leader – Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – first came to political prominence in 1963 when he led opposition to the Shah and his " White Revolution ", a program of reforms to break up landholdings ( including those owned by religious foundations ) and allow religious minorities to hold government office.

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Nova Southeastern University offers a Ph. D. in Conflict Analysis & Resolution which trains students in the skills and techniques of practice, interdisciplinary research, policy and program development, historical critique, cultural analysis, and theoretical foundations of the field.

There are other corporations, foundations, and individuals that also help fund the program.

The school offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in early childhood, elementary and secondary education and physical education ; bilingual / bicultural education ; social and cultural foundations in education ; curriculum studies ; educational leadership ; human services and counseling ; and a program in language, literacy and specialized instruction.

In mathematics, Hilbert's program, formulated by German mathematician David Hilbert, was a proposed solution to the foundational crisis of mathematics, when early attempts to clarify the foundations of mathematics were found to suffer from paradoxes and inconsistencies.

The main goal of Hilbert's program was to provide secure foundations for all mathematics.

The school does not have a foundations program, but it does require all new students to take a freshman seminar.