For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

Indeed, one of the many famous passages of the Inquiry was on the topic of the incorrigibility of human custom.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.

Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle in flight at Mach 7, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm. On September 30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held in Rome with the topic of high velocity flight and the possibility of breaking the sound barrier.

The term archaeoastronomy was first used by Elizabeth Chesley Baity ( at the suggestion of Euan MacKie ) in 1973, but as a topic of study it may be much older, depending on how archaeoastronomy is defined.

The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.

For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

To give one such controversy, it is an active topic of discussion whether the typical Chinese peasant in 1900 was seeing his life improve or decline.

Due to the sexual revolution and feminism, female sexual desire, which previously was not discussed or understood, became a topic for discussion.

The use of descriptive and summary statistics has an extensive history and, indeed, the simple tabulation of populations and of economic data was the first way in which the topic of statistics appeared.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

" Having unsuccessfully approached both the University of Oxford and Harvard University, Morris was able to talk his way into Princeton University, where he began studying the history of science, a topic in which he had " absolutely no background.

His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a " State Sponsor of Terrorism ," however, many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion, stating that " If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea.

" Paul addresses hostility, division, and self-interest more than any other topic in the letter, leading many scholars to believe that his primary concern was not doctrinal, but behavioral.

As a result, the topic became — primarily in the USA — prematurely known as " computer science " — which, actually is like referring to surgery as " knife science "— and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment.

It was adopted unanimously on 24 April 1870 and was influenced by the philosophical conceptions of Johann Baptist Franzelin, who had written a great deal on the topic of faith and rationality.

In the 20th century, the historian François-Louis Ganshof was very influential on the topic of feudalism.

However some scholars have disputed the Pythagorean interpretation of this tablet ; see Plimpton 322 for details .</ ref > indicating, in particular, that there was sophisticated understanding on the topic " in Mesopotamia in 1850 BCE.

Before Cantor, there were only finite sets ( which are easy to understand ) and " the infinite " ( which was considered a topic for philosophical, rather than mathematical, discussion ).

The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy.

Much of his energy was devoted to the topic of oaths, having become convinced of its importance to Quaker ideas.

The author vaguely suggests that a massive strategic air attack might hold out better prospects, but that topic is not explored in any detail.

The topic of embellishment is explored further in another topic.

Another topic that is explored is the mapping of words to concepts.

This topic is explored in the 2003 documentary film The Corporation, in the 2010 Spanish film Even the rain by Icíar Bollaín and on Bechtel's website.

Many of the themes explored on previous recordings are revisited on Surfer Rosa ; however, unlike on the band's later albums, the songs in Surfer Rosa are not preoccupied with one overarching topic.

He also worked with noted zoologist and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and explored in a number of books and articles the topic of human sexuality and love.

Though this topic is thoroughly explored in Roth's series of Zuckerman novels, Operation Shylock even more radically attacks the distinction between art and life by making a fairly mimetic version of the author the protagonist of an obviously invented ( though plausible ) story.

The topic of undercover marketing is explored as part of the 2003 documentary film, The Corporation, as well as in the fictional movie, The Joneses, a satire which arrived in theaters in April 2010.

The topic is explored extensively in George Monbiot's book Captive State in which he examines the merits and demerits of the Private Finance Initiative.

Coast To Coast AM hosts George Noory and Art Bell have explored the topic of EVP with featured guests such as Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, and paranormal investigator and ' demonologist ' Lou Gentile.

This topic has been explored in A History of Private Life, under the general editorship of Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, published in English by the Belknap Press.

The Americanization of Puerto Rico is explored in this work, as well as the topic of Puerto Rican politics and the political situation of the island as a colony.

Most of the film revolves around action scenes in the style of 1990s blockbusters, and the topic of conspiracy theories is not adequately explored.

* Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm Sergey Dmitriev's paper that further explored the topic.

* Chapter 4: The role legalized abortion has played in reducing crime, contrasted with the policies and downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu ( Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled " The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.

The topic is explored in detail Paul Shepard's book Nature and Madness.

A distinct sub-genre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanu's Carmilla explored the topic of the lesbian vampire.

In De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero liber unus, published in 1616, he further explored the topic of embryogenesis.

In her recent work, she has focused on the way Muslims produce religious knowledge, especially patriarchal exegesis of the Qur ' an, a topic she has explored in her book, " Believing Women " in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur ' an.

A distinct sub-genre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanu's Carmilla explored the topic of the lesbian vampire.