Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

A suggestion Hypothesis also seems inadequate as an explanation for those who shifted their reactions after they were informed of the possibilities of `` normal '' reactions different from those which they gave.

A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.

In contrast to this voluntary-control explanation for nonreactivity given by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects, the Kohnstamm-negative subjects offered an involuntary-control hypothesis to explain nonreactivity.

No single explanation is adequate to account for this.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

When Mayor Dever heard of the banquet he summoned Hughes for an explanation of why he had been dishonouring the police department by consorting with these felons and fixers.

This is not to say that the only explanation of the present infatuation with Norman Vincent Peale's `` cult of reassurance '' or the other types of a purely cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized gospel.

The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.

He thought about it for a minute, could find no reasonable explanation for the presence of a sweater in the refrigerator, got the salami, bread, and a Bermuda onion, and put the whole thing out of his mind.

Anthropology has been used in Britain to provide an alternative explanation for the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 to the technical explanations rooted in economic and political theory.

" In short, ANOVA is a statistical tool used in several ways to develop and confirm an explanation for the observed data.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

An explanation for this choice can only be conjectured from Ibn al-Athir ’ s account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and Kutalmish, in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and greatly mourned the loss of his kinsman.

The explanation for these different isotopes awaited the discovery of the neutron, a neutral-charged particle with a mass similar to the proton, by the physicist James Chadwick in 1932.

While the other main characters believe there is no rational explanation for the outbreak of plague, Paneloux believes there is.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

He argues that Hayek makes peculiar assumptions about demand curves for labor in his explanation of how a decrease in investment spending creates unemployment.

Although an explanation for the phenomenon was not provided until 1919, duralumin was one of the first " age hardening " alloys to be used, and was soon followed by many others.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

His explanation for this decision was, " Damn the Negroes, I am fighting those traitorous aristocrats, their masters.

Suicide or " martyrdom operations " are a lethal technique among radical Islamists, sometimes motivated by the much disputed explanation that " God will give " those who kill themselves in the path of jihad 70 or 72 female " virgins " and " everlasting happiness.

Sufficient energy in the flame will excite the electrons in some of the transient reaction intermediates such as CH and C < sub > 2 </ sub >, which results in the emission of visible light as these substances release their excess energy ( see spectrum below for an explanation of which specific radical species produce which specific colors ).

An explanation of this transformation is needed, and the answer may lie in Menno's transformation from Catholic priest and apologist to pacifist Anabaptist reformer — a transformation linked to his relationships to the radical Münsterites and peaceful Melchiorites.

" Another explanation dictates that the " kushi " character is a visual abstraction of the town's layout ; Shiono-Misaki and Oshima act as the smaller upper " kuchi " ( 口 ) radical, while the mainland acts as the larger lower one.

As a radical Nazi-like environmentalist party now controls the US government, the scientific explanation is denounced as " propaganda from life-hating technophiles ", and blame for the ice age is instead solely placed on the society surviving in orbit.

In 2002, his explanation for the defection was: The first Thatcher government did get a bit bogged down and it wasn't really the radical government that subsequently emerged ,... And the fact that you had a completely new opportunity to wipe the slate clean, with no baggage, was a very attractive thing.

In 1969 an alternative explanation was proposed by Closs, and, independently, by Kaptein and Oosterhoff, which relied on the ability of nuclear spin interactions to alter the recombination probability in reactions that proceed through radical pairs.

The first is that the epistle often uses a demonstrative pronoun at the beginning of a sentence, then a particle or conjunction, followed by an explanation or definition of the demonstrative at the end of the sentence, a stylistic technique which is not used in the gospel.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

A possible explanation of this shift is that, after the successful extirpation of the Cathars, the Inquisition needed new heresies to fight against and new revenues to sustain itself.

A comprehensive explanation of the hydrogen spectrum was an early success of quantum mechanics and explaining the Lamb shift observed in the hydrogen spectrum led to the development of quantum electrodynamics.

* ECE 209: Sources of Phase Shift — Gives an intuitive explanation of the source of phase shift in two simple LTI systems.

In 1923, Compton published a paper in the Physical Review which explained the X-ray shift by attributing particle-like momentum to “ photons ” which Einstein had invoked the use of for his Nobel prize winning explanation of the photo-electric effect, however was first postulated ( unenthusiastically ) by Planck, these " particles " conceptualized as elements of light “ quantized ” as containing a specific amount of energy depending only on the frequency of the light.

* ECE 209: Sources of Phase Shift – Gives an intuitive explanation of the source of phase shift in a low-pass filter.

* ECE 209: Sources of Phase Shift – Gives an intuitive explanation of the source of phase shift in a high-pass filter.

Resnais himself has offered an explanation of this shift in terms of challenging what has been the norm in film-making at the time ; having made his early films when escapist cinema was predominant, he has progressively felt the need to move away from exploration of social and political issues as that has itself become almost the norm in contemporary cinema.

An explanation of how the peer pressure process works, called " the identity shift effect ", is introduced by social psychologist, Wendy Treynor, who weaves together Festinger's two seminal social-psychological theories ( on dissonance, which addresses internal conflict, and social comparison, which addresses external conflict ) into a unified whole.

One explanation for the cause of the concentration of media ownership is a shift to neoliberal deregulation policies, which is a market-driven approach.

' But having said this, one must insist that the two concepts have a common denominator: they both emphasize the importance of a paradoxical yet inevitable shift of a ( dramatic ) movement to its exact opposite .” Szondi's grasp of the Poetics was heavily predisposed by Max Kommerell, whose explanation of peripeteia as ' change of fortune ' “ may have prevented him from realizing the dialectical significance of Aristotle's definition .”

Research results provide an alternative explanation of the shift of properties at nanoscale.

Guido's explanation, how to find this intervall at the monochord, made it already evident that the diesis, taken from the " enharmonic " division of the tetrachord, was used here as a microtonal shift in different melodic modes of the diatonic genus.

In his 2008 edition of Pirates, Prostitutes & Pullers, the author traces the roots of prostitution in Singapore and gives an explanation of the eastward shift of Singapore's red-light district from Chinatown that was east of the Singapore river, toward the Hylam Street – Beach Road locality where many Chinese, Japanese and European girls were pimped, and finally across the Kallang river to its present location.

Diffusion theory has been advanced as an explanation for this shift in technological development.

Elizabeth Howe has argued that the most important explanation for the shift in taste was the emergence of tragic actresses whose popularity made it unavoidable for dramatists to create major roles for them.

In practice, it is more likely that will be a simple linear shift of, rather than a circular shift as required by the explanation above.

The most obvious doctrinal explanation for this shift lies in the twentieth canon of the seventh ecumenical synod declared at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

Plate tectonics was a suitable explanation for sea floor spreading, and the acceptance of plate tectonics by the majority of geologists resulted in a major paradigm shift in geological thinking.

A possible explanation for the shift from having the first hour being the one after dawn, to having the hour after noon being designated as 1 pm ( post meridiem ), is that these clocks would likely regularly be reset at local high noon each day.

The modern explanation for the shift symmetry was first proposed by Yoichiro Nambu.

Little explanation or warning was given for this shift except for Maddow's comments that doing two shows was far too taxing.

The mainstream explanation is that human ancestors, prior to the advent of cooking, turned to eating meats, which then caused the evolutionary shift to smaller guts and larger brains.