Oversized monsters are never brought home either alive or preserved, and field measurements are obviously open to doubt because of the universal tendency to exaggerate dimensions.

Diamagnetism appears in all materials, and is the tendency of a material to oppose an applied magnetic field, and therefore, to be repelled by a magnetic field.

However, in a material with paramagnetic properties ( that is, with a tendency to enhance an external magnetic field ), the paramagnetic behavior dominates.

However, in addition to the electrons ' intrinsic magnetic moment's tendency to be parallel to an applied field, there is also in these materials a tendency for these magnetic moments to orient parallel to each other to maintain a lowered-energy state.

Wilson had actually founded the field ) in his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, although focusing more on altruism than aggression, suggesting that anarchist societies were feasible because of an innate human tendency to cooperate.

A constantly, rapidly varying magnetic field also helps overcome magnetic hysteresis ( the tendency of paramagnetic materials to resist either being magnetized or releasing its magnetism ) of both the recording head and the tape medium.

The mirror effect results in a tendency for charged particles to bounce back from the high field region.

Because of the similarity of thinking and working with microorganisms other than bacteria, such as protozoa, fungi, and viruses, there has been a tendency for the field of bacteriology to extend as microbiology.

It differed also from the principles of the pure skeptic in the practical tendency of its doctrines: while the object of the one was the attainment of perfect equanimity, the other seems rather to have retired from the barren field of speculation to practical life, and to have acknowledged some vestiges of a moral law within, at best but a probable guide, the possession of which, however, formed the real distinction between the sage and the fool.

He also has a tendency to smoke on the field and has a crippling gambling addiction.

There is a tendency for auroras to occur around the March / April, September / October equinox periods, when the geomagnetic field is at right angle to Sun for efficient charged particle coupling.

As Presidents increasingly hired more staff to support them in the execution of their duties, some showed a tendency to pick aides and confidantes who had backgrounds in the field of journalism.

There is also a tendency for exisitng journals to divide into specialized sections as the field itself becomes more specialized.

So, on some occasions, Red Star supporters had the tendency to burst onto the field and literally burn both goal-posts.

For example, defensive coordinators may favor a tendency to play a less aggressive containment style zone coverage during wet or slippery field conditions to avoid problems associated with over-pursuit ( when a defender takes a poor angle on a ball carrier and cannot redirect in time due to poor footing ).

On a hit-and-run play the batter will often try to hit to the opposite field ( the opposite of the natural tendency for the right-handed hitter to pull the ball to left field and vice versa ).

Cultural studies have investigated changes in the increasing tendency of modern mass media in the field of politics to blur and confuse the boundaries between journalism, entertainment, public relations and advertising.

Even well-intentioned scientists can sometimes unintentionally create truth-distorting media firestorms because of journalists ' difficulty in remaining critical and balanced, the media's interest in controversy, and the general tendency of science reporting to focus on apparent " groundbreaking findings " rather than on the larger context of a research field.

Electric polarizability is the relative tendency of a charge distribution, like the electron cloud of an atom or molecule, to be distorted from its normal shape by an external electric field, which is applied typically by inserting the molecule in a charged parallel-plate capacitor, but may also be caused by the presence of a nearby ion or dipole.

All these activities will not only be looking for a landmark cultural but mainly nationalist politician who marked tendency, which organized festive days with a distinctly different areas of political geography Biscayan, as his nearest field.

He has also expressed distaste for carrying a firearm when in the field, a tendency that has brought several scoldings from co-worker Jim Brass.

" Individualism is thus also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors as so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.

Situationist theory first emerged as a smaller tendency within Lettrism, an artistic and literary movement led by the Romanian-born French poet and visual artist Isidore Isou, originating in 1940s Paris.

These members possessed much more of a tendency towards political theory over the more artistic aspects of the SI.

It was the tendency of the philosophy of Cousin to outline things and to fill up the details in an artistic and imaginative interest.

The term refers less to a particular movement than an artistic tendency.

Agustín Yáñez justifies this often criticized " moralizing " tendency in Lizardi as " a constant in the artistic production of Mexico … and moreover, it is a constant in Mexican life " (" El Pensador Mexicano ," in Cedomil Goic, ed., Historia y crítica de la literatura hispanoamericana, t. I, Época colonial, Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1988, pp. 428 – 29 ).

His artistic pre-eminence was due principally to the purity of his tone, which was free from any tendency towards the sentimental or rhapsodic, and to that impressive facility of execution that made him a virtuoso.

Born in Naples the son of a tradesman, he showed his artistic tendency at an early age.

The CurtainUp reviewer wrote: " At its comedic best ' Skyscraper ' gently satirizes the less enlightened city planners ' tendency to tear down edifices of historic and artistic significance ...

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

The article seemed to indicate a re-use of the 928 nameplate although Porsche's recent tendency to give non-numerical names to their vehicles and a desire to separate the vehicle from past models may preclude the possibility of calling the vehicle 928.

Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives.

But common people, as it was believed, also were seduced by incubi and succubae, especially while they were asleep, and sometimes when they were awake, in the form of a beautiful man or woman that excited their desire to the point of not being able to resist the temptation, although the possibility of resistance always existed as asserted by Christian theologians, but the tendency to sin was stronger than their faith.

Why the tendency is critical is for that the claim simultaneously opens the possibility to directly access to the constitution by those who have not direct legal interest so that the possible vain claim could be readily abused by some political movement ( s ) which is not regarded as normal work ( s ) of any law system.

For each tendency of society to produce negative selections, Darwin also saw the possibility of society to itself check these problems, but also noted that with his theory " progress is no invariable rule.

As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons.

Notably, for skewed distributions, the arithmetic mean may not accord with one's notion of " middle ", and robust statistics such as the median may be a better description of central tendency.

An evolutionary psychology explanation is that increased anxiety serves the purpose of increased vigilance regarding potential threats in the environment as well as increased tendency to take proactive actions regarding such possible threats.

In BrE, both irregular and regular forms are current, but for some words ( such as smelt and leapt ) there is a strong tendency towards the irregular forms, especially by users of Received Pronunciation.

Individuals who were not familiar with astrology had no such tendency.

In the meantime a strong tendency emerged to drop all ' decorative ' steps such as entrechats and ronds de jambes that had found a place in the Quadrilles and other dances.

The latter refers to the tendency of oral societies, such as that of Europe in the medieval period, to view knowledge as the product, expression, and property of the collective.

The media have a tendency to start to seek culprits if an event occurs that is of such significance that it does not drop off the news agenda within a few days.

Those who disapprove of coalition governments believe that such governments have a tendency to be fractious and prone to disharmony.

A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

Univariate analysis involves describing the distribution of a single variable, including its central tendency ( including the mean, median, and mode ) and dispersion ( including the range and quantiles of the data-set, and measures of spread such as the variance and standard deviation ).

Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as VAK are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning.

Thus, entropy is also a measure of the tendency of a process, such as a chemical reaction, to be entropically favored, or to proceed in a particular direction.

Among other conclusions, he found a tendency among the inhabitants of Ebla to replace the name of El, king of the gods of the Canaanite pantheon ( found in names such as Mikael ), with Ia.

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

The advantage of this capture is debatable due to the alleged tendency of Zulu warriors to close their eyes when firing such weapons.

Roughly speaking, bosons have a tendency to clump into the same quantum state, which underlies phenomena such as the laser, Bose – Einstein condensation, and superfluidity.

He criticized the tendency for delegates to cater to the particular interests of their constituents, even if such interests were destructive to the state at large.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

Of course, such an arrangement is unstable, and the bridge would have a tendency to fall down.

Fabrics in which the number of knit and purl stitches are not the same, such as stockinette, have a tendency to curl ; by contrast, those in which knit and purl stitches are arranged symmetrically ( such as ribbing, garter stitch or seed stitch ) tend to lie flat and drape well.