While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

While most of the shelter's inhabitants considered a racist motivation for the attack obvious, the police and the local court have been accused of having ruled out racism as a possible motive before even beginning preliminary investigations.

While microscopy is a central tool in the documentation of biological specimens, it is, in general, insufficient to justify the description of a new species based on microscopic investigations alone.

While Maigret usually conducts his investigations in France, he has also been called upon to visit Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, and the United States.

While a comparison of his expositions of the Pauline and Johannine Christologies with the earlier Unitarian exegesis in which he had been trained shows how wide is the interval, the work does not represent a mifid that had throughout its history lived and worked in the delicate and judicial investigations he here tried to conduct.

" While we will not hesitate to send those found with cases to answer before the special military tribunal, no person will be kept in detention a-day longer than necessary if investigations have not so far incriminated him.

While his training scheme received popular attention in the press, it also resulted in a series of unwanted federal, state and local investigations, which subsequently led K ’ ang Yu-Wei to disavow Lea and his training scheme.

While the investigations started in Milan, they quickly spread from town to town, as more and more politicians confessed.

While Operation Ore did identify and prosecute a number of sex offenders, the validity of the police procedures was later questioned, as errors in the investigations were claimed by some to have resulted in a large number of false arrests.

While working for Proxmire he helped with investigations that helped determine the " winners " of the famous Golden Fleece Awards, presented by the senator to those responsible for government waste.

While official policy for Police Forces in Australia does not advocate the use of psychics for investigations, one former Detective Senior Constable, Jeffrey Little, has said police do use them " even though they officially say they don't ".

While no evidence she has supplied has solved murders or missing investigations on their own., her evidence had been used to corroborate theories, and in one case, included in a coroner's brief on a case Little, in reference to one case she assisted on, felt her description of what happened was " exceptional ", other officers also had been impressed by her assistance, while yet other NSW officers felt she had not helped solve any cases.

While the investigations were underway, Governor Gordon Wetherell suspended self-government in the islands on 16 August 2009.

While there was success related to ridership increases and service expansion, Metra has been marred by corruption allegations and investigations.

While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story.

While neuroeconomics has more academic aims, since it studies the basic mechanisms of decision-making, neuromarketing is an applied field which uses neuroimaging tools for market investigations.

While Curwen is locked up, Willett's continuing investigations lead him to a bungalow in Pawtuxet Village, which Ward had purchased under the influence of Curwen.

While the technical problems are being solved, military investigations are undertaken in order to thwart foreign espionage, especially from ' communist sympathizers ' who might be associated with socialist organizations.

While the use of spatial analysis methods in police investigations goes back many years ( think of detectives gathered around a large city map with pins stuck in it ), the formalized process known today as geographic profiling originated out of research conducted at Simon Fraser University's School of Criminology in British Columbia, Canada, in 1989.

While he was never indicted for war crimes after World War II, subsequent investigations have revealed that he was involved in war crimes throughout the Pacific war including the massacre of Chinese civilians in Singapore, the executions of numerous surrendered prisoners of war during the Bataan Death March, and other war crimes in China.

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a project of the Utility Consumers ' Action Network ( UCAN ): " While some people are not concerned about background investigations, others are uncomfortable with the idea of investigators poking around in their personal histories.

While the dominance of the behaviorist paradigm led to a decline in research, especially in the English speaking world, the later 20th century has seen a revival, with investigations of hypnagogia and related ASCs playing an important role in the emerging multidisciplinary study of consciousness.

While botanical investigations constituted much the greater part of Dr. Engelmann's scientific work, he always had in hand data for other investigations.

While the actual particle choice is dependent on the nature of the fluid, generally for macro PIV investigations they are glass beads, polystyrene, aluminum flakes or oil droplets ( if the fluid under investigation is a gas ).

While not publishing mathematical research in conventional ways during the 1980s, he produced several influential manuscripts with limited distribution, with both mathematical and biographical content.

While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).

While Jackson considers the theatrical releases of those three films to be a final " director's cut " within the constraints of theatrical exhibition, the extended cuts were produced so that fans of the material could see nearly all of the scenes shot for the script to develop more of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, but which were originally cut for running time, or other reasons.

While the comrades from both the and sympathised, a promotional brochure was produced for the project, which reads as a pamphlet for a new esoteric sect.

While the Egyptians had no unified religious scripture, they produced many religious writings of various types.

While performing on a brass instrument, the sound is produced by the player buzzing his or her lips into a mouthpiece.

While those two leagues focused on baseball, it may be football that produced the first version of the hobby.

While uncut and letterboxed, it features an English dub track produced by William Ross ' Tokyo-based Frontier Enterprises in 1968.

While this method can be effective at trapping particulates produced by combustion, it does not filter out harmful gases which may be toxic or which displace the oxygen required for survival.

While some identical types are clearly used on other pages, other variations, subjected to detailed image analysis, suggested that they could not have been produced from the same matrix.

While ahead of its time, foreshadowing the designs of revolvers, it was not adopted or produced.

While the original Syriac retained the original description which Mani created, the transformation of the deities through other languages and cultures produced incarnations of the deities not implied in the original Syriac writings.

While at Oxford University he produced The Tempest, and this led to his joining the Royal Court Theatre production team in London, and then Bristol Old Vic.

While the OSS " Dogwood-chain " produced a lot of information, its reliability was increasingly questioned by British intelligence.

While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.

While Plato's condemnation of rhetoric is clear in the Gorgias, in the Phaedrus he suggests the possibility of a true art wherein rhetoric is based upon the knowledge produced by dialectic, and relies on a dialectically informed rhetoric to appeal to the main character: Phaedrus, to take up philosophy.

While small interfering RNAs ( siRNA ; 20-25 nt ) are often produced by breakdown of viral RNA, there are also endogenous sources of siRNAs.

While simple images can be produced rapidly, more realistic and complicated higher-resolution images can now be produced in more reasonable amounts of time.

While the shape and colour of tiles was once regionally distinctive, now tiles of many shapes and colours are produced commercially, to suit the taste and pocketbook of the purchaser.

While a small family farm typically produced a wide range of crop, garden, and animal products, all requiring substantial labor, large industrial farms typically specialize in just a few crop or livestock varieties, using large machinery and high-density livestock containment systems that require a fraction of the labor per unit produced.

While out of the burrow, the rabbit will occasionally reingest its soft, partially digested pellets ; this is rarely observed, since the pellets are reingested as they are produced.

While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, dating back to a demonstration of a glowing wire by Alessandro Volta in 1800, Edison concentrated on commercial application, and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a complete system for the generation and distribution of electricity.