" While social change may occur as an unintended by-product of technological change, advocates of new technologies often have promoted them as instruments of positive social change.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

While the government still regulates many of the country's cultural interactions with others, it is very open to the concept of an open market and competition with other countries, allowing the flow of technological innovations to flow in and out of its borders freely.

While technological advances have enabled the leadership process to take place in such virtual contexts, they present new challenges for leaders as well, such as the need to use technology to build relationships with followers, and influencing followers when faced with limited ( or no ) face-to-face interaction.

While some exponents of capitalism believe that such a society's productivity and technological progress would stagnate out of lack of monetary incentives.

While far from universal, ancestor veneration occurs in societies with every degree of social, political, and technological complexity, and it remains an important component of various religious practices in modern times.

While Elizabethan England is not thought of as an age of technological innovation, some progress did occur.

While the offense dominated in the time of Napoleon, the technological advancements had overturned this.

While arcade systems such as the Sega Model 3 remained more advanced than home systems, consoles and computers began approaching technological parity with arcade equipment.

While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specializations and new, often interdisciplinary, fields.

While obviously meant to take place in the mid-Fifth century, Foster incorporated anachronistic elements: Viking Longships, Muslims, alchemists and technological advances not made before the Renaissance.

While technological innovation has enabled this unprecedented fluidity, this very process makes redundant whole areas and populations who are bypassed by informational networks.

While in the case with language skills such as shorthand, a system of stenography popular during the twentieth century, technological innovations occurring between generations have made these skills obsolete.

While Senatorial hearings sought to tar him for the success of his prudent strategy, no substantive charges were ever brought, and he actually worked closely with FDR and his administration in preparing the country's technological base for war, using his many contacts in New York finance, as well as generous sums from his own considerable fortune, to finance the early developments in radar, before government money could be provided.

While in power, Nikoladze promotes technological advances in information industries with the support of some countries in Europe as well as the United States.

While technological and cultural factors played an important role in the victories of the conquistadors in the Americas, this was facilitated by old world diseases, smallpox, chicken pox, diptheria, typhus, influenza, measles, malaria and yellow fever.

While most health professions are embracing technological advances of data storage, this may be an area of further investigation so that confidential information pertaining to a client ’ s whakapapa cannot be disclosed to others.

While this perspective suggests that the technology drives – and therefore is a determining factor – in the process of globalization, arguments involving technological determinism are generally frowned upon by mainstream media studies.

While Minds would likely have different capabilities, especially seeing their widely differing ages ( and thus technological sophistication ), this is not a theme of the books.

While the setting is distinctly futuristic and technological, several instances of mythology and supernatural events do occur.

While UPNG concentrates on the arts, pure sciences, law and medicine, Unitech focuses on research in technological or applied sciences.

While German procedures for CAS led the way, their loss of air superiority and technological advantage, combined with a declining supply of aircraft and fuel, crippled their ability to provide effective CAS on the western front after 1943.

While older vaults employed various weapons against burglars, such as blasts of steam or teargas, modern vaults instead use technological countermeasures.

While there are innumerable technological paradigms, all share the same basic life cycles.

While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.

While this applies immediately only to scalar-valued estimators, it can be extended to any measure of central tendency of a distribution: see median-unbiased estimators.

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

While many viewers came only to laugh, the Salon des Refusés drew attention to the existence of a new tendency in art and attracted more visitors than the regular Salon.

While this tendency decreased under his successors, it established the image of West Germany ( and later reunified Germany ) as a " chancellor democracy ".

While factorially distinct from Eysenck's previous R factor, the S-factor did positively correlate with the R-factor, indicating that a basic left – right or right – left tendency underlies both social values and economic values, although S tapped more into items discussing economic inequality and big business, while R relates more to the treatment of criminals, and to sexual issues and military issues.

" While this example also shows the tendency to see dreams as mantic ( as predicting the future ), Ninsun's interpretation also anticipates a contemporary approach.

While some tourist attractions provide visitors a memorable experience for a reasonable admission charge or even for free, others can have a tendency to be of low quality and to overprice their goods and services ( such as admission, food, and souvenirs ) in order to profit from tourists excessively.

While K-Y has a thick consistency and a tendency to dry out during use, it can be " reactivated " by the addition of saliva or more water.

While Dieudonné could reasonably speak on Bourbaki's encyclopedic tendency and tradition, it may be doubted — after innumerable frank tais-toi, Dieudonné!

While not classified as a shoegazing band, Dinosaur Jr. did share a tendency to blend poppy melody with loud guitars and laconic vocals.

While Jordaens drew upon Rubens ’ motifs throughout his career, his work is differentiated by a tendency to greater realism, a crowding of the surface of his compositions, and a preference for the burlesque, even within the context of religious and mythological subjects.

While in academia, Smuts pioneered the concept of holism, defined as " the tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution " in his 1926 book, Holism and Evolution.

While sharing the same core values of Captains Jean-Luc Picard and Kathryn Janeway, Sisko shows a tendency to compromise those values in extreme situations.

While the GAA's tendency towards overt nationalism has waned, some practices still remain in place which raise concerns in Northern Ireland where the Protestant unionist population still largely considers itself excluded from the games by a political ethos despite rules that prohibit sectarianism or involvement in party politics.

While these musicians may not sound similar to earlier cool artists, they share the same values: " clarity of expression ; subtlety of meaning ; a willingness to depart from the standard rhythms of hot jazz and learn from other genres of music ; a preference for emotion rather than mere emoting ; progressive ambitions and a tendency to experiment ; above all, a dislike for bombast.

While there is a tendency to misspell his name as " Aryabhatta " by analogy with other names having the " bhatta " suffix, his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name thus, including Brahmagupta's references to him " in more than a hundred places by name ".

While the veracity of these court records should reasonably be questioned ( given the particularly nasty nature of Puttenham's divorce and the tendency of early modern court cases to present the most fantastical accounts of their participants ), surprisingly little was said in defense of Puttenham's character.

While many characters from popular culture had a tendency to foppish appearance, e. g., Adam Adamant Lives !, the third incarnation of Doctor Who and Jason King, they tended not to exhibit mannerisms associated with fops.

While ' Ankoku Butoh ' can be said to have possessed a very precise method and philosophy ( perhaps it could be called ' inherited butoh '), I regard present day butoh as a ' tendency ' that depends not only on Hijikata's philosophical legacy but also on the development of new and diverse modes of expression.

While well known for his tendency to strike out, he also developed a patience at the plate which allowed him to walk 100 times in a season twice ( 1993, 1997 ) and to post a career OBP of. 359.

While still under communist regime at the time, Enkhbayar indicates the Russian tendency to ask metaphysical questions as the trigger to explore his spiritual path in the Mongolian Buddhist traditions.

While at Frankfurt in the mid-1920s, Grossman contended that a " general tendency to cling to the results " of Marx's theory in ignorance of the subtleties of " the method underlying Capital " was causing a catastrophic vulgarisation of Marxian thought-a trend which was undermining the revolutionary possibilities of the moment.

While pop and rock are forms enjoyed and played by local musicians there is a strong tendency towards electronica in the region.