In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

Aeronautics ( from Greek ὰήρ āēr which means " air " and ναυτική nautikē which means " navigation, Airmanship ", i. e. " navigation of the air ") is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmosphere.

As an alternative means of producing long-lived bohrium isotopes suitable for a chemical study, the synthesis of < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh and < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh were attempted in 1995 by the team at GSI using the highly asymmetric reaction using an einsteinium-254 target.

He found, in Haydn's music and later in his study of the polyphony of Bach, the means to discipline and enrich his gifts.

For the study of the mechanical behavior of solids and fluids these are assumed to be continuous bodies, which means that the matter fills the entire region of space it occupies, despite the fact that matter is made of atoms, has voids, and is discrete.

Cytology ( from Greek, kytos, " a hollow "; and ,-logia ) means " the study of cells ".

One called for the Council to find means to study dishonest and inhumane uses of language and literature by advertisers, to bring offenses to public attention, and to propose classroom techniques for preparing children to cope with commercial propaganda.

The other called for the Council to find means to study the relations of language to public policy, to keep track of, publicize, and combat semantic distortion by public officials, candidates for office, political commentators, and all those who transmit through the mass media.

With over 30 million people worldwide today suffering Alzheimer's Disease each year, the study at UCLA helped discover that ongoing stimulation of the entorhinal cortex wasn't a necessary means to boost one's memory.

The more technical term, " costume ," has become so linked in the public eye with the term " fashion " that the more general term " costume " has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term " fashion " means clothing generally, and the study of it.

During the 1970s and 1980s, second-wave feminists saw the study of history as a male-dominated intellectual enterprise and presented " herstory " as a means of compensation.

Traditional devotion to Jewish study and scholarship was not replaced, but was spiritualised as a means to cleave to God.

In the study of mechanical properties of materials, " isotropic " means having identical values of a property in all directions.

For the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud, and for their successors today, the study of Torah was therefore not merely a means to learn the contents of God's revelation, but an end in itself.

In Judaism, " the study of Torah can be a means of experiencing God ".

Kwanzaa is a celebration that has its roots in the black nationalist movement of the 1960s, and was established as a means to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage by uniting in meditation and study of African traditions and Nguzu Saba, the " seven principles of African Heritage " which Karenga said " is a communitarian African philosophy ".

Latitude was calculated by observing with quadrant or astrolabe the inclination of the sun or of charted stars, but longitude presented no such manifest means of study.

# To study local conditions and attempt to remedy any that may be prejudicial to the best interests of Cornwall by the creation of public opinion or other means.

Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive ( rather than purely empiricist ) means, based on understanding the purpose and meaning that individuals attach to their own actions.

People began to study the Bible at home, which effectively decentralized the means of informing the public on religious matters and was akin to the individualistic trends present in Europe during the Protestant Reformation.

# The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.

Brito Figueroa carried his conception of the field to all levels of university study, emphasizing a systematic and scientific approach to history and placing it squarely in the social sciences.

The city is noted as one of the most politically liberal in the nation, with one study placing it as the third most liberal city in the United States.

While placing great emphasis on intellectually penetrating Talmudic study and analysis, emotionally he veered towards the Hasidic-style, and more-so than his Lithuanian-style colleagues reared as " misnagdim " could tolerate.

The number of US Visas issued to Chinese students to study at US universities has increased by 30 per cent over last year, from more than 98, 000 in 2009 to nearly 128, 000 in October 2010, placing China as the top country of origin for international students, according to the " 2010 Open Doors Report " published on the US Embassy in China website.

After two years of study, tutored by François-Benjamin Chaussemiche, a winner of the Prix de Rome, she finally passed the entrance exams in the Architecture Program, placing 13th out of 376 applicants, and was duly admitted.

The innovations included presentation of in-depth statistics and graphical analysis, placing miniature cameras in the stumps, multiple usage of cameras to provide shots from several locations around the ground, high speed photography and computer graphics technology enabling television viewers to study the course of a delivery and help them understand an umpire's decision.

* Eighty-one percent of Loyola students study broad, placing it 10tn on U. S. News & World Report's " Most students studying abroad " listing.

* The Hellenic Society Paideia has been promoting Hellenism and Orthodoxy since 1977 by placing Greek and Byzantium classes in high schools and universities, offering study abroad programs to Greece year round, and with various building projects throughout the country.

The number of British Erasmus students were 11, 723 ( for study and placement ), placing the UK, sixth ( respectively after, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland ) on erasmus outgoing.

Such techniques allow researchers to study the effects of particular substances and / or situations on a cellular sample at a genomic level ( for example, by addition of a drug, or by placing cells in a situation of stress ).

In a Worth magazine study, out of the 31, 700 private and public high schools in the United States, Spence ranked the sixth most successful school in the country in placing its graduates in Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

He conducted this study by placing a stomach tube in his own stomach, in order to learn more about the sensations of the alimentary tract.

* It should study national and international perspectives, policies, literature, culture, and history with an aim of placing current ideas of disability within their broadest possible context.

In the 1930s, Talcott Parsons ( 1902 – 1979 ) developed action theory, integrating the study of social order with the structural and voluntaristic aspects of macro and micro factors, while placing the discussion within a higher explanatory context of system theory and cybernetics.

The results determined that, “ depressed body condition and elevated plasmacorticosteron levels in the free-living animals suggest that a lack of food resources was placing individuals under chronic stress resulting in suppression of the reproductive system .” The study suggested that snakes living under stressful conditions such as high population densities or low prey resources had suppressed reproduction at multiple stages including steroidogenesis and gametogenesis.

While this research was aimed at placing the country in a strategically enhanced position, it also provided the Institute an opportunity to study the marine geology and geophysics of the Indian Ocean.

Leonardo Tarán, while finding parallels for many of the allegedly un-Platonic elements of the dialogue's style, declared it spurious based on ( in the words of a sympathetic reviewer ) " the much firmer ground of the misunderstanding or contradiction of Platonic doctrines, such as the placing of astronomy above dialectic as the supreme object of study, the rejection of the Ideas, the introduction of a fifth element, aether, between fire and air, and the elaborate theory of daemons inhabiting the three middle elements.

This term arose from the study of Greek art, where it mainly refers to styles of surface decoration and sculpture, placing it chronologically between geometric and Classical Greek art.

Active methods detect the presence of air pollutants by placing test plants of known response and genotype into the study area.

Current research conducted by GEERG involves the study of the behaviour of the Greenland shark by observing it underwater using scuba and video equipment and by placing acoustic and satellite tags ( telemetry ) on live specimens ; however, overall very little is known about this mysterious species.

Results of a genetic study by researchers from Gdańsk Medical University " support hypothesis placing the earliest known homeland of Slavs in the middle Dnieper basin ".

Throughout her career, she has directed many different projects of archeological investigation on the coast, the highlands and the rain forests of Peru, placing emphasis on the study of the development of the complex socio-political organizations.