The first paper by Puthoff and Targ on psychic research to appear in a mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journal was published in Nature in March 1974 ; in it, the team reported some degree of remote viewing success.

James famously asserts in his work " Radical Empiricism " that clear distinctions of type and category are a constant but unwritten goal of scientific reasoning, so that when they are discovered, success is declared.

They point out that the success of the scientific method comes from its adherence to open rational exploration, not its conclusions, in sharp contrast to dogma and predetermined predictions.

Phrenology's success was also due in part because it was introduced at a time when scientific lectures were becoming a form of middle class entertainment, exposing a large demographic of people to phrenological ideas who wouldn't have been exposed otherwise.

Gradually though the popular success of phrenology undermined its scientific merits in the United States and elsewhere, along with its materialistic underpinnings, fostering radical religious views and increasing evidence to refute phrenological claims by the 1840s it had largely lost its credibility.

Finally, Positive Risk Management recognizes that risk taking is essential to all enterprise, creativity, heroism, education, scientific advance – in fact to any activity and all the initiatives that have contributed to our evolutionary success and civilization.

Fredric Jameson has said that " Stalinism was [...] a success and fulfilled its historic mission, socially as well as economically " given that it " modernised the Soviet Union, transforming a peasant society into an industrial state with a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure.

Realists often point to the success of recent scientific theories as evidence for the truth ( or near truth ) of our current theories.

Antirealists point to either the history of science, epistemic morals, the success of false modeling assumptions, or widely termed postmodern criticisms of objectivity as evidence against scientific realisms.

Some antirealists attempt to explain the success of scientific theories without reference to truth.

Perhaps it was in part its scientific liberality that made Nature a longer-lasting success than its predecessors.

" The debate over what the success of science involves centers primarily on the status of entities that are not directly observable discussed by scientific theories.

Already in 1670, the physician Israel Conradi ( 1634 – 1715 ) had tried to organize a scientific society in the city, without success.

Six months later, Seiko approached Intel expressing an interest in using the 1201 in a scientific calculator, likely after seeing the success of the simpler Intel 4004 used by Busicom in their business calculators.

Admission to the Centralien engineering Programme implemented at École Centrale de Lille is possible after two / three year scientific undergraduate studies and requires success to either:

The reaction to the sentence was stronger abroad than in Croatia, as scientific colleagues from numerous countries tried to obtain his release, but without success.

Weizmann's success as a scientist and the success of the Institute he founded make him an iconic figure in the heritage of the Israeli scientific community today.

Entomologist Samuel H. Scudder resurrected the journal one year later and had some success while covering the meetings of prominent American scientific societies, including the AAAS.

However, due to the success of work in marriage issues and birth control, her scholarly work began to flag and her last scientific publications were in 1923.

He now gave his principal attention to the moral sciences, but his interest in natural science was by no means exhausted: throughout his life he continued to write occasional papers on scientific subjects, and his intimate knowledge of the physical sciences greatly contributed to the success of his chief logical work, The Principles of Science.

Schlick displayed an unusual success in organizing talented individuals in the philosophical and scientific spheres.

The history had a most extraordinary success, especially among the common people, owing, not to its scientific qualities, but to the fact that the author boldly and sternly sat in judgment upon men and events, and in his judgments voiced the feelings of the German nation in his day.

The award intends to celebrate success in scientific research and stand as a marker of excellence in these fields.

" The debate over what the success of science involves centers primarily on the status of unobservable entities apparently talked about by scientific theories.

Although visualization of success in athletic outcomes fosters more success than not visualizing, and / or not practicing, it is not as great a predictor of athletic success as practice alone, or practice mixed with visualization techniques.

Therefore for better athletic success, a combination of visualization and practice is ideal.

While the flyby of the asteroid was a partial success, the encounter with the comet retrieved valuable information.

The prevalent " urban " line, endorsed by North Vietnam, recognized that Sihanouk, by virtue of his success in winning independence from the French, was a genuine national leader whose neutralism and deep distrust of the United States made him a valuable asset in Hanoi's struggle to " liberate " South Vietnam.

Most of Clemens ' teammates, however, did not complain of such perks because of Clemens ' success on the mound and valuable presence in the clubhouse.

Cockburn entered the Faculty of Advocates in 1800, and attached himself, not to the party of his relatives, who could have afforded him most valuable patronage, but to the Whig party, and that at a time when it held out few inducements to men ambitious of success in life.

Feminist economists have argued that unpaid domestic work is as valuable as paid work, so measures of economic success should include unpaid work.

The following months frustrated the band — with an expected summons from Rudge at any time, they were unable to commit to long-term tours or to recording — they lost valuable ground in Australia when they could have consolidated on the success of the LP and singles.

Neerpasch had arranged the sale of Rosche's M12 / 13 engine to Talbot, but Rosche and Neerpasch's successor, Dieter Stappert, successfully protested to their board that such an undertaking deserved full works commitment, particularly as the fact that M12 / 13 was derived from a production road car engine meant that potential success could be extremely valuable to BMW from a marketing and sales point of view.

Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II so cigarettes were valuable, and the invention was a success.

The league's most valuable player failed to translate his regular season preeminence into October success, hitting safely but three times and scoring only one run.

The prevalent " urban " line, endorsed by North Vietnam, recognized that Sihanouk, by virtue of his success in winning independence from the French, was a genuine national leader whose neutralism and deep distrust of the United States made him a valuable asset in Hanoi's struggle to " liberate " South Vietnam.

But after a time, soil exhaustion, lack of support of African agriculture by the colonial authorities, incursions of Portuguese settlers who took over valuable property in the highlands, and a number of other factors contributed to a decline in the success of Ovimbundu cash-crop agriculture.

The NTSB would later credit this training as valuable toward the success of United 232's crew in handling their emergency.

The project was a success and provided valuable homes to low-income families.

The scientific approach to the origin and evolution of life has, in part due to the success of molecular biology, given us highly valuable accounts of the outer aspects of the whole process, but has overlooked the inner qualitative aspects of sign action, leading to a reduced picture of causality.

" We've kept Tribe going not because we believed it would turn into a phenomenal business success like Bebo or Facebook, but because I think it serves a really valuable role for the community.

Besides numerous dramas, some of which had a considerable success, Engel wrote several valuable books on aesthetic subjects.

The success of these shows provided a valuable source of revenue, and complemented the efforts of volunteers, so that the museum applied for the permanent transfer of the entire site to its use.

However, his comedy writing and television producing skills proved to be valuable to the early success of the show.

" One of the publisher's primary goals is to keep all of its books in print, regardless of their commercial success, in the interest of maintaining the availability of works that it deems culturally and educationally valuable.

While Scott's production machines were marketed as a kind of luxury " wheeled horse " for the Edwardian Gentleman, there was valuable publicity to be had in competition success and the early Scott motorcycles were so powerful that they often easily beat four-stroke motorcycles of the same capacity.

For instance, Stanton-Salazar & Dornbusch ( 1995: 121 ) examine how those people with the desired types of cultural ( and linguistic ) capital in a school transform this capital into “ instrumental relations ” or social capital with institutional agents who can transmit valuable resources to the person, furthering their success in the school.

In Singapore, traditional Asian culture was seen as a valuable bulwark against ' decadent Western values ', as well as a source of the nation's economic success thus far.

The Yankees ' success in the late-1990s was a key factor in the decision, as it had become a much more valuable brand than ever before.

This mixture of people, professions, skills and experience is a valuable component of the events success.

From the time of invention of the horse collar, horses became extremely valuable for agricultural success and for pulling heavy vehicles.