Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.

Though Gregory conveys political and other messages through the Historia, and these are studied very closely, historians generally agree that this contrast is the central and ever-present narrative device.

Though Dōgen assiduously studied the kōans, he became disenchanted with the heavy emphasis laid upon them, and wondered why the sutras were not studied more.

Though he was initially unsure if he wanted to go to university, Fox's mother convinced him to enrol at Simon Fraser University, where he studied kinesiology as a stepping stone to becoming a physical education teacher.

Though presently theoretical, another near-realization of Maxwell's demon is a water filter studied by David Cohen-Tanugi and Jeffrey C. Grossman of MIT.

Though a local educated worker at the Jiangyong Cultural Office ( Zhou Shuoyi ) had collected, studied and translated many Nüshu texts into standard Chinese, he was unable to draw outside attention to the script until a report was submitted to the central government on this subject in 1983.

Though genetic defects causing iron deficiency have been studied in rodents, there are no known genetic disorders of human iron metabolism that directly cause iron deficiency.

Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own, but in the early 1920s he had lessons from Arthur Bliss ( then in Santa Barbara ) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian ( then called " Red Indian ") music, Arthur Farwell.

Though interested in being a soldier, he studied divinity, and was licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh in 1745.

Though Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code.

Though one might think that these " circadian rhythms " are controlled simply by the presence or absence of light, nearly every animal that has been studied has been shown to have a " biological clock " that yields cycles of activity even when the animal is in constant illumination or darkness.

Though algebras of operators are studied in various contexts ( for example, algebras of pseudo-differential operators acting on spaces of distributions ), the term operator algebra is usually used in reference to algebras of bounded operators on a Banach space or, even more specially in reference to algebras of operators on a separable Hilbert space, endowed with the operator norm topology.

Though he is said to have studied at the University of Cambridge his name is not found in any university or college records.

Though links are being studied with the state of Goiás, and other interior locations, in terms of product flow for export.

Though he had never studied visual arts in the academic sense, Carigiet's early graphic design was already strongly influenced by contemporary artists, such as El Lissitzky, whose use of photomontage in a poster announcing the exhibition of Russian avant-garde artists in Zurich, in 1928, inspired the design of a political campaign poster for Zurich's mayor Emil Klöti.

Though this came as somewhat of a shock to the American public, those who knew him privately were not surprised, as Gage had previously studied spiritualism, astrology, and prophesized the death of his own brother through a " psychic flash ".< ref >

Though there is no contemporary evidence, it has been claimed that he studied with Costanzo Porta ( Mompellio 2001 ), becoming choirmaster at the cathedral in Mantua by 1594.

Though Lawrence studied law, he entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1798.

Though Gabirol as a philosopher was not studied by the Jewish community, Gabirol as a poet kept alive the remembrance of the ideas of the philosopher ; for his best-known poem, Keter Malkut (" Royal Crown "), is a philosophical treatise in poetical form, the " double " of the Fons Vitæ.

Though he had not studied theology, he was ordinated as a priest in Treptow's St. Mary's Church in 1509, and served as a vicar at the Kanonikerkolleg of that church thereafter.

Though the education she received there was excellent, Helena often also studied on her own.

Though he originally studied law, he quickly realized his principal love was music, and he acquired a doctorate at Munich University, focusing on instrumental music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, in particular music for the viola da gamba.

Though born in Nebraska, Ruscha lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving to Los Angeles in 1956 where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute ( now known as the California Institute of the Arts ) under Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffer from 1956 through 1960.

Though current research has reversed the myth that dreaming occurs only during REM sleep, it has also shown that the dreams reported in non-rapid eye movement ( NREM ) and REM differ qualitatively and quantitatively, suggesting that the mechanisms that control each are different.

Though physical confrontations between the two species are usually dominated by the larger wolves, coyotes have been known to attack wolves if they outnumber them.

However, such an act was never a real possibility ; upon debriefing Philby in London on 24 May 1937, Maly wrote to the NKVD, " Though devoted and ready to sacrifice himself, does not possess the physical courage and other qualities necessary for this attempt.

Though it is the largest area of the city by both physical size and population, it has often been regarded by Southside citizens as Lansing's most overlooked and forgotten area, as most of Lansing's attention in recent decades has been put into the revitalization of the city's historic core located mostly on small parts of both the East and Westsides.

Though he valued first-hand experience as part of a proper education, he did not intend to found a professional school, but advocated instruction in useful knowledge that combined elements of both professional and liberal education, writing that " The true and only practicable object of a polytechnic school is, as I conceive, the teaching, not of the minute details and manipulations of the arts, which can be done only in the workshop, but the inculcation of those scientific principles which form the basis and explanation of them, and along with this, a full and methodical review of all their leading processes and operations in connection with physical laws.

Though often seen as static, isolated ‘ powerhouses ’ hijacked for cellular metabolism through an ancient endosymbiotic event, the evolution of the MAM underscores the extent to which mitochondria have been integrated into overall cellular physiology, with intimate physical and functional coupling to the endomembrane system.

Though his frailties are gradually mended, Miles ' physical development is severely affected and, as an adult, he is subtly but noticeably misshapen and no taller than an adolescent boy.

Though the original rules of Reversi were such that each player was limited to using no more than half of the disks ( those in possession at the start ), this rule has long been out of common practice ; and, if using a physical board and pieces, the player whose turn it is simply retrieves a disk that is in possession of the opponent as needed.

Though physical and biological scientists today avoid supernatural explanations to describe reality ( see naturalism ), many scientists continue to consider science and spirituality to be complementary, not contradictory.

Though God is outside of physical time and space and therefore is not constrained by physical laws.

Though Gibbs's research on physical optics is less well known today than his other work, it made a significant contribution to classical electromagnetism by applying Maxwell's equations to the theory of optical processes such as birefringence, dispersion, and optical activity.

Though the comic version altered the story to bring it in line with established Marvel Universe continuity ( such as making the Green Goblin identity a costume as in the comics, rather than a physical transformation as in the episode ), it was not considered part of said continuity.

Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt as a cause of the annual flood of the Nile river ; according to his translator and interpreter, Livio Catullo Stecchini, he left unsettled the question of an equatorial Nile, since the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to him.

Though few physical barriers exist above the mesopelagic, specific species of zooplankton are strictly restricted by salinity and temperature gradients ; while other species can withstand wide temperature and salinity gradients.

Though U. S. Route 101 remains a major coastal north – south link along the Pacific coast north of San Francisco, it has been replaced in overall importance for transport through the West Coast states by Interstate 5, which is more modern in its physical design, goes through more major cities, and has more direct routing due to significantly easier geography over much of the route.

Though he continues to play, and extends his consecutive-game streak to a seemingly insurmountable record, his physical condition continues its inexorable decline.

Though no physical boundaries separated the two groups, they did not interact often.

Though often claimed as being invented by the sōhei during the Nara period, physical evidence of their existence dates only from the mid-Kamakura period, and earlier literary sources are ambiguous.

Though the radios themselves are inexpensive, the ZigBee Qualification Process involves a full validation of the requirements of the physical layer.

Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral structures and his Manichean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order, hence, a marriage of heaven and hell.

Though some have speculated that waffle irons first appear in the 13th-14th centuries, it isn ’ t until 15th century that a true physical distinction between the oublie and the waffle ( wafel / gaufre ) begins to evolve.

Though he claims that he suffered no physical punishment as a schoolboy, violence was felt in ghastly mind-games, and in the teacher's cruelty: hence the line " bastard headmaster ".

" Though there appears to be something in the phenomena of living beings which cannot be explained by ordinary mechanical, physical or chemical laws, much may be so explained, and we may without fear push these explanations as far as we can, so long as we keep to the solid ground of observation and experiment.

Though the cost of power switching and other factors can limit projectile energy, a notable benefit of some coilgun designs over simpler railguns is avoiding an intrinsic velocity limit from hypervelocity physical contact and erosion.