Thanks to the preservation of these works by Arab scholars when they had been lost in the West after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Medieval scholars did not just study these texts and the works of the Arabs who added to them, but used them to make discoveries in their own right.
Citizen scientists "are trying to turn that on its head, " says Raymond McCauley, who had come up with the idea for the vitamin study with Ms. Swan and works for a start-up that helps groups run their own studies and trials.
Close textual analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as examination of historical evidence and study of how such works are transmitted in a culture, logically pointed to the works being the output of unknown authors over a very long period time.
Years ago I set out to purchase museum-quality ancient art from private hands, to care for it, study the works, keep them in trust and display and lend them.
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It works both as a character study, and as an effective mirror to the world at large.
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But the study authors suggest that the relationship works both ways, and that diet can alter sleep as well.
Rossi, one of the study's co-authors and an orthopaedic surgeon who works with the U.S. ski team under the direction of Dr. J.
When he attended college in Cairo, he undertook a study of Jewish life there, associating with Jews and reading the works of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl.
Assuming the relation between test scores and future growth is indeed causal, the OECD study also works out the economic benefits of improving cognitive skills by the equivalent of nine months' worth of schooling.
Unlike existing works that emphasise institutional and historical factors, this study analyses the importance of the presence of fixed costs as a source of market imperfections and very high profits in certain towns.
Nissen says that the study, and other trials being funded by Pfizer, will determine whether torcetrapib works.
Gordon is a 72 year-old economist who dedicated his career to the study of broad macroeconomic trends and Brynjolfsson is a 51 year-old economist who works alongside the technological wizards at MIT.
Gulfstream and aircraft designer Lockheed Martin Skunk Works are jointly engaged in a feasibility study on producing such a craft.
Melton landed enough money to start a separate lab, and he works on turning his stem line into insulin-producing cells to study where they go wrong in diabetics.
Keith Evans, the county council's cabinet member responsible for highways, property and works, said the Objective One bid would be made after the feasibility study ends in September.
Prof Daniel Simons, author of the original invisible gorilla study, explained that this effect is not unique to radiologists and reflects the way our attention system works.
Gary Sheffield's study of British generalship works better because it focuses on the system that fostered the military elite, and the ways in which that system responded to the experience of the first world war.
The field of study intrigued her because "it's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works, " she said.
He will continue to prescribe the drug to his patients, who all suffer from the genetic illness familial hypercholesterolemia and desperately need their cholesterol lowered, but he wants more evidence about how Zetia works before a big study of the drugs benefits concludes in 2012, at least a year later than originally expected.
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