After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of the explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was " the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation ".

The processualists were positivists, and as such had believed that the scientific method should and could be applied to archaeological investigation, therefore allowing archaeologists to present objective statements about past societies based upon the evidence.

According to archaeologist Sam Lucy, " The agendas of feminist archaeology and post-processualism highlighted the importance of social and political factors on supposedly ' objective ' investigation ".

Goenka's presentation describes Buddhism not so much as belief in a body of unverifiable dogmas, but an active, impartial, objective investigation of things as they are.

In 2007, Kline's successor, Paul J. Morrison, notified the clinic that no criminal charges would be filed after a three-year investigation, as " an objective, unbiased and thorough examination " showed no wrongdoing.

One would, however, wish for a strict proof of this ; I have, though, after some fleeting futile attempts, provisionally put aside the search for such, as it appears unnecessary for the next objective of my investigation.

He called for a much larger, objective investigation by independent experts, including those from overseas countries which already had fast trains.

Putin personally promised to the Mothers of Beslan group to hold an " objective investigation ".

Human science ( also, moral science and human sciences as typical in the UK ) is a term applied to the investigation of human life and activities by a rational, systematic and verifiable methodology that acknowledges the validity of both data derived by impartial observation of sensory experience ( objective phenomena ) and data derived by means of impartial observation of psychological experience ( subjective phenomena ).

Since its foundation, dialectologists in English-speaking North America have affiliated themselves with the American Dialect Society, an association which in its first constitution defined its objective as " the investigation of the spoken English of the United States and Canada " ( Constitution, 1890 ).

' The UANL has as objective to educate professionals, investigators, University teachers, and technicians, and to create and promote scientific investigation in its basic and applied forms, considering regional and national problems.

Based at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and named after Committee Chairman Dr. Edward Condon, a prominent physicist, the committee was advertised as an unbiased, objective, and thorough investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

So an objective look at our present procedures may move us to consider seriously this possibly analogous situation.

The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.

His objective is merely to determine `` what distinctions of length and syllabicity it may be desirable to make explicit in a Kikuyu orthography '' ( 59 ).

It may be that the objective function depends not only on Af but also on Af, as when the cost of the operating policy is considered.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

The " language-reality " objection may even suggest that " reality / non-reality " or " objective / subjective " distinctions themselves are merely artifacts of language and therefore are also solely abstractions of experience.

These combats often take place within the time and space of a battle and while they may have an objective, they are not necessarily " decisive ".

However, this may have been a mask, as Raymond through Eleanor tried to forcibly sway Louis to use his army to attack the actual Muslim encampment at nearby Aleppo, gateway to recovering Edessa, the objective of the Crusade by papal decree.

* Separation of concerns, a program design objective that may be sought with encapsulation

This may include the objective of business, targets set, and results in financial terms, e. g., the target set for sale, resulting cost, growth, required investment to achieve the planned sales, and financing source for the investment.

" As the main objective of the Sulvasutras was to describe the constructions of altars and the geometric principles involved in them, the subject of Pythagorean triples, even if it had been well understood may still not have featured in the Sulvasutras.

However, inclinations towards deeming hair texture " adaptively trivial " may root in certain cultural value judgments more than objective logic.

Captive insurance companies may be defined as limited-purpose insurance companies established with the specific objective of financing risks emanating from their parent group or groups.

Journalists who believe they are being fair or objective may give biased accounts — by reporting selectively, trusting too much to anecdote, or giving a partial explanation of actions.

Social actions may have easily identifiable and objective means, but much more subjective ends and the understanding of those ends by a scientist is subject to yet another layer of subjective understanding ( that of the scientist ).

Weber noted that the importance of subjectivity in social sciences makes creation of fool-proof, universal laws much more difficult than in natural sciences and that the amount of objective knowledge that social sciences may achieve is precariously limited.

::( c ) Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, imported into English law by the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that a person of unsound mind may only be detained where proper account of objective medical expertise has been taken.

The objective may be diversification of capital investment.

Pope Pius XII often reconsidered previously accepted truth, thus he was first to determine that the use of pain medicine in terminally ill patients is justified, even if this may shorten the life of the patient, as long as life shortening is not the objective itself.

They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of objective fact, and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists apologize for ( e. g., sacrificial rituals ) may result in psychosis, dissociation and magical thinking: particularly for the surviving children who had a sacrificed brother or sister by their parents.

Any event that may endanger achieving an objective partly or completely is identified as risk.

The scenarios may be the alternative ways to achieve an objective, or an analysis of the interaction of forces in, for example, a market or battle.

SEMs may have condenser and objective lenses, but their function is to focus the beam to a spot, and not to image the specimen.

The terms tactic and strategy are often confused: tactics are the actual means used to gain an objective, while strategy is the overall campaign plan, which may involve complex operational patterns, activity, and decision-making that lead to tactical execution.

Bowls ( also lawn bowls, variants include flat-green bowls and crown-green bowls ) is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ".

Other noteworthy and famous Greek historians include Plutarch ( 2nd century AD ), who wrote several biographies, the Parallel Lives, in which he wanted to assess the morality of its characters by comparing them in pairs, and Polybius ( 3nd century BC ), who developed Thucydides's method further, becoming one of the most objective historians of classical antiquity.

They include brightfield Becke line, oblique, darkfield, phase contrast, and objective stop dispersion staining.

Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.

A WBS ( work break down ) can be developed by starting with the end objective and successively subdividing it into manageable components in terms of size, duration, and responsibility ( e. g., systems, subsystems, components, tasks, sub-tasks, and work packages ), which include all steps necessary to achieve the objective.

Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sounds, smells or colors exist in objective reality rather than the mind of the perceiver.

In a project or contract, the WBS is developed by starting with the end objective and successively subdividing it into manageable components in terms of size, duration, and responsibility ( e. g., systems, subsystems, components, tasks, subtasks, and work packages ) which include all steps necessary to achieve the objective.

Such attempts include Friedrich Schlegel's triad of subjective form, the lyric ; objective form, the dramatic ; and subjective-objective form, the epic.

Like Amnesty International, its techniques include issuing action alerts and being an objective source of information.

Central nervous system mediated perceptual disturbances in BZ poisoning include both illusions ( misidentification of real objects ) and hallucinations ( the perception of objects or attributes that have no objective reality ).

The term used to describe progressive evolution is anagenesis, though this term does not necessarily include the idea of improvement. The objective description of complexity was one of the issues addressed by cybernetics in the 1950s.

Tensions rose when a French-speaking social geographer suggested in a televised lecture that an objective case could be made for changing the administrative status of the city of Leuven, to include it in a larger, bilingual ' Greater-Brussels '.

Prominent examples of objective personality tests include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III, Child Behavior Checklist, Symptom Checklist 90 and the Beck Depression Inventory.

Other recommended assessments include: opthalmologic evaluations, an examination for inguinal hernia, objective hearing assessment, blood pressure measurement, developmental and growth evaluation, orthopedic assessments on joints, muscle tone, and ongoing feeding and dietary assessments to manage constipation and urinary problems.

Exceptions may include pursuing a player who is carrying a critical objective into their own spawn for support, as may occur during Capture the Flag games.

Other fundamental reasons include “ as a basis for employment decisions ( e. g. promotions, terminations, transfers ), as criteria in research ( e. g. test validation ), to aid with communication ( e. g. allowing employees to know how they are doing and organizational expectations ), to establish personal objectives for training ” programs, for transmission of objective feedback for personal development, “ as a means of documentation to aid in keeping track of decisions and legal requirements ” and in wage and salary administration.

Main objective = sales and market share, include expansion of organization's offering.

Most important institutions, considered abstractly, have both objective and subjective aspects: examples include money and marriage.

The most basic optical tweezer setup will likely include the following components: a laser ( usually Nd: YAG ), a beam expander, some optics used to steer the beam location in the sample plane, a microscope objective and condenser to create the trap in the sample plane, a position detector ( e. g. quadrant photodiode ) to measure beam displacements and a microscope illumination source coupled to a CCD camera.

Related and derived concepts include Intelligent agents ( in particular exhibiting some aspect of Artificial Intelligence, such as learning and reasoning ), autonomous agents ( capable of modifying the way in which they achieve their objectives ), distributed agents ( being executed on physically distinct computers ), multi-agent systems ( distributed agents that do not have the capabilities to achieve an objective alone and thus must communicate ), and mobile agents ( agents that can relocate their execution onto different processors ).

Related and derived concepts include Intelligent agents ( in particular exhibiting some aspect of Artificial Intelligence, such as learning and reasoning ), autonomous agents ( capable of modifying the way in which they achieve their objectives ), distributed agents ( being executed on physically distinct computers ), multi-agent systems ( distributed agents that do not have the capabilities to achieve an objective alone and thus must communicate ), and mobile agents ( agents that can relocate their execution onto different processors ).