Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

Planned inoculation led to better observation of the body's responses and allowed people the ability to time the onset of the pox and control the disease's intensity.

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".

Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski made the observation in 1889 that removing the pancreas surgically led to an increase in blood sugar, followed by a coma and eventual death — symptoms of diabetes mellitus.

They are noted for their association with Charles Darwin, whose observation of animals here during the voyage of the Beagle led to his formation of the theory of natural selection as a means of evolution.

( This observation led to Albert Einstein's development of the theory of special relativity.

This, paired with his observation that people with different diseases exhibit similar symptoms, led to his description of the effects of " noxious agents " as he at first called it.

Also, contrary to common belief, David Lindberg writes, " the late medieval scholar rarely experienced the coercive power of the church and would have regarded himself as free ( particularly in the natural sciences ) to follow reason and observation wherever they led ".

This particular deviation is disputed by some if only because E. F. Codd himself eventually advocated the use of special marks and a 4-valued logic, but this was based on his observation that there are two distinct reasons why one might want to use a special mark in place of a value, which led opponents of the use of such logics to discover more distinct reasons and at least as many as 19 have been noted, which would require a 21-valued logic.

Bartolomé de Las Casas a 16th-century Dominican friar and Spanish historian participated in campaigns in Cuba ( at Bayamo and Camagüey ) and was present at the massacre of Hatuey ; his observation of that massacre led him to fight for a social movement away from the use of natives as slaves and towards the importation of African Blacks as slaves.

The paradoxical observation of a sedative inducing mania led to testing with depressed patients.

A convoy led by Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley L. Harriman of the Third Special Forces Group split off from the main TF Hammer force to reach the assigned observation point.

This observation led to a few common kitchen forms, commonly characterized by the arrangement of the kitchen cabinets and sink, stove, and refrigerator:

However, the observation that a substantial proportion of patients have altered mental states even after successful treatment of hyperthyroidism, has led some researchers to suggest the autoimmune process itself may play a role in the presentation of mental symptoms and psychiatric disorders in Graves ’ disease, whether or not ophthalmopathy is present.

Here is how I was led to make this observation: among the preceding experiments, some had been prepared on Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th of March, expecting to find the images very weak.

" This observation, which echoes the arguments about culture that originally led Boas to develop the principle, suggests that the use of cultural relativism in debates of rights and morals is not substantive but procedural.

Lomonosov's observation of iceberg formation led into his pioneering work in geography.

Whitman then lugged the dolly up the final flight of stairs to the hallway that led to a dog-legged stairway ascending to the rooms within the observation deck area.

Elevator mechanic for Otis Elevator Co., who led officers up the tower and assisted them in negotiating the stairs leading to the observation deck.

Others had had similar ideas, but Bouch put them into effect, and did so with an attention to detail ( such as design of the ferry slip ) which led a subsequent President of the Institution of Civil Engineers to settle any dispute over priority of invention with the observation that “ there was little merit in a simple conception of this kind, compared with a work practically carried out in all its details, and brought to perfection ”

The fact that the black hole entropy is also the maximal entropy that can be obtained by the Bekenstein bound ( wherein the Bekenstein bound becomes an equality ) was the main observation that led to the holographic principle.

His theories regarding knowledge and perception, linking the domains of science and religion, led to a philosophy of existence based on the direct observation of reality from the observer's point of view.

This led him to evolve the agroforestry concept of the " Forest Garden ": Based on the observation that the natural forest can be divided into distinct layers or ‘ storeys ’, he developed an existing small orchard of apples and pears into an edible landscape consisting of seven dimensions ;

This led to a dispute with Galileo, who showed that Marius provided only one observation as early as Galileo's, and it matched Galileo's diagram for the same date, as published in 1610.

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.

He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

The early use of Chinese astrology was mainly confined to political astrology, the observation of unusual phenomena, identification of portents and the selection of auspicious days for events and decisions.

Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation, interviews and surveys.

An alternate form of ( 2 ) – the machine successively prints all n of the digits on its tape, halting after printing the n < sup > th </ sup > – emphasizes Minsky's observation: ( 3 ) That by use of a Turing machine, a finite definition – in the form of the machine's table – is being used to define what is a potentially-infinite string of decimal digits.

One of his specialities was designing camouflaged armoured trees for use as observation posts ; he was wounded in 1916 helping to set up an observation post.

Nevertheless, they point out that this observation poses a challenge to the use of type Ia supernovae as standard candles.

His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.

Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro.

A brilliant London-based " consulting detective " residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

Both natural and social sciences use working hypotheses that are testable by observation and experiment.

In 1981, the International League Against Epilepsy ( ILAE ) proposed a classification scheme for individual seizures that remains in common use .< ref name =" ILEA1981 "> This classification is based on observation ( clinical and EEG ) rather than the underlying pathophysiology or anatomy and is outlined later on in this article.

Galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects, and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints.

For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was “ no use to the art ” of memory.

Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by researchers making use of scientific methods, which emphasize the observation, explanation, and prediction of real world phenomena by experiment.

The advantages of using northern blotting include the detection of RNA size, the observation of alternate splice products, the use of probes with partial homology, the quality and quantity of RNA can be measured on the gel prior to blotting, and the membranes can be stored and reprobed for years after blotting.

These telescopes use filtration and projection techniques for direct observation, in addition to various types of filtered cameras.

He described the use of orbiting spacecraft for detailed peaceful and military observation of the ground and described how the special conditions of space could be useful for scientific experiments.

The observation about the use of the word " cup ", rather than " chalice ", concerned only the English translation in use from 1973 to 2011, which employed both terms.