As the Apollo 16 spacecraft was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four, flight days two and three were largely preparatory days, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research.

The methodologies and research questions of the participants were considered so different that the conference proceedings were published as two volumes.

It was in the writings of his last two years that he laid out the research program of Linguistic relativity.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

While Brown is considered a small research university with 682 full-time faculty and 1, 919 graduate students, five of its professors and two of its alumni have been honored as Nobel Laureates.

The area of research within computer science that uses genetic algorithms is sometimes confused with computational evolutionary biology, but the two areas are not necessarily related.

Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.

While rooted in rather different theories, these two traditions have been characterised by a constant reference to experimental research to test hypotheses, both at clinical and basic level.

In March 1974, during a meeting of the audio group, two engineers from the Philips research laboratory recommended the use of a digital format on the 20 cm optical disc, because an error-correcting code could be added.

Led by Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology that began independently by the two companies.

Eyre's research has been criticized by some of his Christadelphian peers, and as a result Christadelphian commentary on the subject was subsequently more cautious and circumspect, with caveats being issued concerning Eyre's claims, and the two books less used and publicized than in previous years.

research fellowships ( which range from two to five years, and are aimed at younger mathematicians ), as well as shorter-term

Holzkamp, who had written two books on theory of science and one on sensory perception before publishing the Grundlegung der Psychologie in 1983, thought this major work provided a solid paradigm for psychological research, as he viewed psychology as a pre-paradigmatic scientific discipline ( T. S.

* LexisNexis and Westlaw in legal research ; the two companies together have been jokingly referred to as Wexis

* Docking ( molecular ), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex

The Master and Engineer's degree may consist of either research, coursework or a mixture of the two.

Some of Nepveu's businesses were then acquired by the Compagnie Belge de Matériels de Chemin de Fer: Nepveu was appointed the managing director of the two factories in Paris, and offered Eiffel a job as head of the research department.

Carver did research at the Iowa Experiment Station under Pammel during the next two years.

Carver taught there for 47 years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two additional college presidents during his tenure.

More than two years of intensive research was undertaken to chronicle the historical events that resulted in what was then Australia's worst peace time disaster.

In scientific research, the behavior of the two fluid phases of helium-4 ( helium I and helium II ), is important to researchers studying quantum mechanics ( in particular the property of superfluidity ) and to those looking at the phenomena, such as superconductivity, that temperatures near absolute zero produce in matter.

The results of the study show that reliability for each scale is good ; moreover, the Scale of Contraversive Pushing was determined to have acceptable clinimetric properties, and the other two scales addressed more functional positions that will help therapists with clinical decisions and research.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

With very few works published on memory in the previous two millennia, Ebbinghaus ’ s works spurred memory research in the United States in the 1890s, with 32 papers published in 1894 alone.

In its system, the NOAA fleet is divided into two broad categories, research ships and survey ships.

The Secretary of the Interior shall submit a report of his findings, together with recommendations for an effective safety program for metal and nonmetallic mines ( excluding coal and lignite mines ) based upon such findings, to the Congress not more than two years after the date of enactment of this Act.

The public interest is so dominant in such an issue that I cannot be so presumptuous as to attempt to settle it by an administrative order based upon conclusions reached in a summary action in one or two Superior Courts in the State.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

The two men were leaders of Alcott House, an experimental school based on Alcott's methods from the Temple School located about ten miles outside of London.

Another classification system is based on biological activity ; in this classification, antibacterials are divided into two broad groups according to their biological effect on microorganisms: bactericidal agents kill bacteria, and bacteriostatic agents slow down or stall bacterial growth.

There are two types of allophones, based on whether a phoneme must be pronounced using a specific allophone in a specific situation, or whether the speaker has freedom to ( unconsciously ) choose which allophone he or she will use.

FireTrack exploits a division in the way the Electron handles its display — of the seven available graphics modes, two are configured so that the final two of every ten scanlines are blank and are not based on the contents of RAM.

Anomalous perturbations are divided into two categories based on the magnitude of its effects, Macro-AP and Micro-AP.

The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

There are two types of adhesives that harden by drying: solvent based adhesives and polymer dispersion adhesives, also known as emulsion adhesives.

Dürer based these constructions on both Vitruvius and empirical observations of, " two to three hundred living persons ," in his own words.

In LS AAS background absorption can only be corrected using instrumental techniques, and all of them are based on two sequential measurements, firstly, total absorption ( atomic plus background ), secondly, background absorption only, and the difference of the two measurements gives the net atomic absorption.

The 5200 was based on Atari Inc .' s existing 400 / 800 computers and the internal hardware was almost identical, although software was not directly compatible between the two systems.

When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.

Power management happens in two ways ; through the above mentioned function calls from the APM driver to the BIOS requesting power state changes, and automatically based on device activity.

The film follows two juxtaposed families: the Northern Stonemans, consisting of the abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman ( based on the Reconstruction-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

The language is mainly split into two broad dialect areas, based on the different reflexes of the Common Slavic yat vowel ().

Most commentators structure Numbers in three sections based on locale ( Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab ), linked by two travel sections.