While plenty is known about the healthy heart, the bulk of the study in cardiology is in the disorders of the heart and restoration, where possible, of function.

While many Namibians are economically active in one form or another, the bulk of this activity is in the informal sector, primarily subsistence agriculture.

While the first factor, which describes the bulk of the variation in a set of data, is more likely to represent something objectively real, subsequent factors become more and more abstract.

While the seaway is currently ( 2010 ) mostly used for shipping bulk cargo, the possibility of its use for large-scale container shipping is under consideration as well.

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

While the bulk of the population is to be found in Tatarstan ( nearly 2 million ) and neighbouring regions, significant numbers of Kazan Tatars live in Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus.

While epithelial cells form the lining of body structures, it is fibroblasts and related connective tissues which sculpt the " bulk " of an organism.

While Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan monks generally continue to make daily begging rounds to receive their daily meal, monks in East Asia more commonly receive bulk foodstuffs from lay supporters ( or the funds to purchase them ) and are fed from a kitchen located on the site of the temple or monastery and staffed either by working monks or by lay supporters.

While the bulk of humanity's military power is found in the Imperial Guard, the Space Marines ( Adeptus Astartes ) – giant 10-foot-tall, genetically enhanced super-soldiers with world-destroying firepower and unswerving, fanatical loyalty to the Emperor of Mankind – are the most famous.

While some houses in Indian Hills were built in the 1920s, the bulk of the development occurred after World War II and into the 1950s.

While the bulk of Greenville lies within the Scarsdale zip code, none of Greenville is part of the village of Scarsdale.

While some electric instruments were produced in bulk, such as the Ondioline, the Hammond organ, and the Trautonium, many of these would not be considered synthesizers by the standards of later instruments.

While part of his army demonstrated in front of Chadds Ford, Howe took the bulk of his troops on a long march that crossed the Brandywine beyond Washington's right flank.

While the bulk of his troops attacked the slope of the hillock that looks at Alfaro, highlights some of its forces by the ravine of Christ to wrap up the summit.

While later American examples include the bulk of the careers of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and his use of Benday dots, a technique used in commercial reproduction.

While the bulk of the Forest Rangers went off to the East Cape von Tempsky and the other mutineers were allowed to return to Wanganui where he took part in McDonnell's and Chute's later Taranaki campaigns against the Hau Hau.

While some are actually used by visiting tourists and resident scientists, the bulk are sold overseas to collectors.

While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the Ph. D. projects are conducted in English.

While the force rose by a slope and narrow path, fire broke-out ... But 175 inexperienced soldiers made impotent for quarter of an hour, the repeated attacks by the bulk of the enemy.

While Edison seems to have conceived the idea and initiated the experiments, Dickson apparently performed the bulk of the experimentation, leading most modern scholars to assign Dickson with the major credit for turning the concept into a practical reality.

While they varied in design and appearance, cataphracts were universally the heavy assault force of most nations that deployed them, acting as " shock troops " to deliver the bulk of an offensive manoeuvre, while being supported by various forms of infantry and archers ( both mounted and unmounted ).

While the bulk of the AFL disappeared at the demise of the league, two members had an official existence after the 1926 season.

While this usually reduces the bulk, it does not reduce the extra weight of noise-cancelling headphones compared to traditional headphones.

While high-voltage direct current ( HVDC ) is increasingly being used to transmit large quantities of electricity over long distances or to connect adjacent asynchronous power systems, the bulk of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retailing takes place using alternating current.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary ( such as Wag the Dog and Man of the Year ).

While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.

While the stories depict a lack of intelligence in many of the individuals, they do not arise from any consistent genetic differences between them and the rest of humankind.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.

While Kate is friendly with Emma, who has a more senior position, Kate has fewer ethical qualms about stories than Emma, and tends to be in the middle of conflicts between Emma and the executive producer.

While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

While long-distance travel was unusual in Pictish times, it was far from unknown as stories of missionaries, travelling clerics and exiles show.

While the American magazines Amazing Stories, with Cele Goldsmith as editor, and the respected Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction had from the very start had a leaning towards unusually literary stories, Moorcock turned that into a concerted policy.

While real power remained with Gowron as head of government, the Emperor would be the formal head of state and teach the stories of Kahless.

While these latter accounts are common among martial artists, and often serve as origin stories for various martial arts styles, they are viewed by scholars as fictional.

While some styles and themes recur more often than others in its fiction, the stories are marked less by uniformity than by variety, and they have ranged from Updike's introspective domestic narratives to the surrealism of Donald Barthelme, and from parochial accounts of the lives of neurotic New Yorkers to stories set in a wide range of locations and eras and translated from many languages.

While Le Guin often has used otherworldly perspectives to explore political and cultural themes, she also has written fiction set much closer to home ; many of her short stories are set in our world in the present or near future.

While many homes have word processors on their computers, word processing in the home tends to be educational, planning or business related, dealing with assignments or work being completed at home, or occasionally recreational, e. g. writing short stories.

While there were many sensational stories in the New York World, they were by no means the only pieces, or even the dominant ones.

While the accounts were of dubious accuracy, the newspaper readers of the 19th century did not expect, or necessarily want, his stories to be pure nonfiction.

While none of the stories has a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.

While Miss Crawley likes Becky and keeps her around to entertain her with sarcasm and wit, and while she loves scandal and particularly stories of unwise marriage, she does not want scandal or unwise marriage in her family.