The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).

For instance, the claim that people of the Middle Ages widely believed that the Earth was flat was first propagated in the same period that originated the conflict thesis and is still very common in popular culture.

Several internationally recognized non-profit organizations have originated at Northwestern including the World Health Imaging, Informatics and Telemedicine Alliance, a spin-off from an engineering student's honors thesis.

In his later works he sets out the thesis that Celtic culture originated along the length of the Atlantic seaboard before being taken inland, a rather dramatic reversal of previous assumptions.

The show originated in 1970 as Tebelak's master's thesis project, under the direction of Lawrence Carra, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It originated in the Philippines ; made by an AMA Computer College student for his thesis.

In 1966, a daughter was born and Ras obtained his PhD degree cum laude on the basis of a voluminous thesis containing not only a careful edition of the text of the Hikayat Banjar but also a detailed description of the literary and cultural-historical context in which the text had originated.

The idea originated in a 1999 masters degree thesis by Georgia Tech student Ryan Gravel, who founded the non-profit Friends of the Belt Line and currently works for the city of Atlanta's planning department.

Proponents include Ralph-Johan Back, who originated the approach in his 1978 PhD thesis On the Correctness of Refinement Steps in Program Development, and Carroll Morgan, especially with his book Programming from Specifications ( Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 1994, ISBN 0-13-123274-6 ).

Back originated the refinement calculus, an important approach to the formal development of programs using stepwise refinement, in his 1978 PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki, On the Correctness of Refinement Steps in Program Development.

NSC-68's principal thesis was that the Soviet Union intended to become the single dominant world power.

In 1868, he visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in Ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock.

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

:" My thesis is ," says, " That if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff ' pure experience ,' then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.

They identified the two tenets of the Whorf thesis as ( i ) " the world is differently experienced and conceived in different linguistic communities " and ( ii ) " language causes a particular cognitive structure ".

Huntington divided the world into the " major civilizations " in his thesis as such:

Not all would agree with his thesis, of course ; but his unit of study is the Latin-speaking world of Christendom and Toynbee's ideas feed into his account very naturally:

The thesis of A New Kind of Science ( NKS ) is twofold: that the nature of computation must be explored experimentally, and that the results of these experiments have great relevance to understanding the natural world, which is assumed to be digital.

Christopher Tyerman incorporates both arguments in his thesis ; namely, that the Crusade developed out of church reform and theories of holy war as much as it was a response to conflicts with the Islamic world throughout Europe and the Middle East.

This idealist understanding of philosophy as interpretation was famously challenged by Karl Marx's 11th thesis on Feuerbach ( 1845 ): " Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways ; the point, however, is to change it.

In general, the early works in this vein, including Fritz Fischer's controversial ( at the time ) 1961 thesis that German goals of " world power " were the principal cause of the war, fit fairly comfortably into Ranke's emphasis on Aussenpolitik.

Sowell has also written a trilogy of books on ideologies and political positions, including A Conflict of Visions where he speaks about the origins of political strife, The Vision of the Anointed, where he compares the conservative / libertarian and liberal / progressive worldviews, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, where, like in many of his other writings, he outlines his thesis of the need for intellectuals, politicians and leaders to fix and perfect the world in utopian, and ultimately he posits, disastrous fashions.

Roger Dion, in his thesis regarding Philip the Bold's role in promoting the spread of Pinot noir, holds that the reputation of Beaune wines as " the finest in the world " was a propaganda triumph of Burgundy's Valois dukes.

Mcdonaldization thesis in cultural version is a comparatively recent idea of the world wide homogenization of cultures.

Cognitivism is so broad a thesis that it encompasses ( among other views ) moral realism ( which claims that ethical sentences express propositions about mind-independent facts of the world ), moral subjectivism ( which claims that ethical sentences express propositions about peoples ' attitudes or opinions ), and error theory ( which claims that ethical sentences express propositions, but that they are all false, whatever their nature ).

While Kant claimed that phenomena depend upon the conditions of sensibility, space and time, and on the synthesizing activity of the mind manifested in the rule-based structuring of perceptions into a world of objects, this thesis is not equivalent to mind-dependence in the sense of Berkeley's idealism.

The major argument in Khieu Samphan's 1959 thesis, Cambodia's Economy and Industrial Development, was that the country had to become self-reliant and had to end its economic dependency on the developed world.

The series has a thesis: as Rome became more powerful within the Mediterranean world, the old ways of doing things – through the deliberation of various interests, mainly aristocratic and mercantile – became impossibly cumbersome.

The bridge was designed by David B. Steinman ( in realization of his Ph. D. thesis in civil engineering at Columbia University in 1911 ) and was the longest plate girder arch and fixed arch bridge in the world when it opened in 1936.

The book's thesis is that throughout recent history, specifically beginning with the failure of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, the Islamic world has failed to modernize or to keep pace with the Western world in a variety of respects, and that this failure has been seen by many within the Islamic world as having allowed Western powers to acquire a disastrous position of dominance over those regions.

Edwards advanced the thesis that corporate structural factors conspire to make the mass media give a picture of the world that goes beyond the political indoctrination postulated by Herman and Chomsky, to encompass almost all aspects of personal life, by constantly promoting the values of blind consumerism.

The Uniqueness Assumption is the thesis that, for any antecedent A, there is a unique possible world where A is true, while the Limit Assumption is the thesis that, for a given antecedent A, there is a unique set of worlds where A is true that are closest.

The thesis can be stated as follows:

Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.

For example, in an article in The American Weekly magazine of October 24, 1954, Oberth stated, " It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system.

Its stated thesis is " that the exiled Lord Marchmain character in Brideshead Revisited was a version of Boom Beauchamp and Lady Marchmain of the Countess Beauchamp, that the dissolute Sebastian Flyte was Hugh and other Lygon siblings matched other roles.

The Reform party claimed that this thesis of two founding peoples was flawed and Preston Manning called for a New Canada with a new identity that would solve existing problems, and stated this in his book The New Canada ( 1992 ) and laid out a solution:

The third part of Khodorkovsky's essay / thesis " Left Turn " with the subheading " Global Perestroika " was published in Vedomosti on 7 November 2008, in which he stated: " Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential elections is not simply the latest change of power in one individual country, albeit a superpower.

But a thesis concerning the extent of effective methods — which is to say, concerning the extent of procedures of a certain sort that a human being unaided by machinery is capable of carrying out — carries no implication concerning the extent of the procedures that machines are capable of carrying out, even machines acting in accordance with ' explicitly stated rules.

As popular as the Duhem-Quine thesis may be in the philosophy of science, in reality Pierre Duhem and Willard Van Orman Quine stated very different theses.

5 .↑ In 1960, in his thesis intitled " L ’ évolution phonétique des parlers du Poitou ", where he mentions « poitevino-santongese area », Jacques Pignon, Poitevin linguiste professor at the university of Poitiers ( born in Latillé, Vienne ), stated: « It is obvious that the phonetical evolution of the Poitevin dialects and these of the santongese dialects is roughly parallel.

On 3 April Gyurcsány published a page from his course record book that stated that he submitted and defended a college thesis.

He also stated that he did not know where his own copy of his thesis was, but he would make efforts to locate and publish it.

Abolfazl Fateh in his PhD thesis, defended in 2011 at University of Oxford " entitled " the Power of News Production " stated about ISNA ( Iranian Student News Agecny )," During this period, ISNA turned into a major source of news, information and content in the Iranian media, attracting the attention of journalists, media experts and academics.

Though the stated thesis is that evolution is headed in the direction of " non-zero-sumness ," Wright argues that the realization of such prospects is dependent upon improvements in information processing, thus neatly carving out a reason for the creation and cultural evolution of the human species.

from the University of Washington in Seattle ( where he was “ stated to be a known Communist ”) and a Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where his thesis was entitled Lenin ’ s Economic Thought Prior to the October Revolution.

University also stated that there were no legal basis to dissolve the acceptance of the thesis.

Carr expanded on this thesis of " progress " being an unstoppable force in September 1978 when he stated: " I think we have to consider seriously the hypothesis that the world revolution of which Bolshevik revolution was the first stage, and which will complete the downfall of capitalism, will prove to be the revolt of the colonial peoples against capitalism in the guise of imperialism ".

An August 1976 review in Time magazine described Koestler's theory as " all too facile, despite the obvious effort and time the author spent on his study ", and stated that " Koestler offers a blizzard of information but not enough hard facts to support his thesis ".

His thesis stated that hot springs brought metals in a dissolved state from igneous rock deep in the earth through a thick block of metamorphised ancient seabed to form cinnabar ore near the surface of the mine.

Technically it is an extension of a master-like degree, always stated before names and awarded for elaborating a so called rigorous thesis and defending it at a viva voce ( rigorous ) exam.