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Max Planck
Max Planck , 1858-1947, German physicist. Seeking to explain the experimental spectrum (distribution of electromagnetic energy according to wavelength) of black body radiation, he introduced the hypothesis (1900) that oscillating atoms absorb and emit energy only in discrete bundles (called quan... Read more
William Prout
William Prout 1785-1850, English chemist and physician. Prout's hypothesis, advanced in 1815-16, suggested that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen and that elements are formed by a condensation or grouping of hydrogen atoms. Later work on the determination of atomic weight... Read more
Bene Israel
Bene Israel or Beni Israel [Heb.,=sons of Israel], Jewish community of India, living mostly in and near Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Many thousands of others have settled in Israel since 1948. According to their own legend, they are descended from Jews who fled persecutions in Palestine in the 2d ... Read more
Eve
Eve in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people, also known as mitochondrial Eve. In 1987 biochemist Allan C. Wilson proposed that all living human beings had inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from a single woman. Using statistical and computer analysis of mtD... Read more
mountain
mountain high land mass projecting conspicuously above its surroundings and usually of limited width at its summit. Although isolated mountains are not unusual, mountains commonly form ranges, comprising either a single complex ridge or a series of related ridges. A group of ranges closely related ... Read more
Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna
Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna , 1776-1856, Italian physicist, b. Turin. He became professor of physics at the Univ. of Turin in 1820. In 1811 he advanced the hypothesis, since known as Avogadro's law, that equal volumes of gases under identical conditions of pressure and temperature contain the... Read more
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1843-1928, American geologist, b. Mattoon, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1866. He was professor of geology at Beloit (1873-82), president of the Univ. of Wisconsin (1887-92), and professor of geology and director of the Walker Museum at the Univ. of Chicago (1892-1919). Cha... Read more
Kenites
Kenites , in the Bible, wilderness nomadic tribe friendly to the Hebrews. They came with the Hebrews and inhabited S Palestine up to the time of David. Moses' father-in-law was a Kenite, and so was the husband of Jael. Scholars have argued that the Israelites were introduced to the worship of God by... Read more
Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin 1934-94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his cancer research while still a student, working with his professor Renato Dulbecco and fellow student David Baltimor... Read more
Julius Wellhausen
Julius Wellhausen , 1844-1918, leading German biblical scholar of the 19th cent. He is recognized for his documentary hypothesis that sought to account for both the composition of the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) and for the evolution and history of Judaism. His Prolegomena to the History of Is... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "just world hypothesis"

God of the Gaps
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...divine intervention in the physical world to fill in the "gaps" in scientific...to introduce God as an explanatory hypothesis on the level of efficient causality...response to Carl F. von Weizsacker's The World-view of Physics that: Weizsacker's...causal explanation. God and the God hypothesis ... Read more
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Fisher's work in statistics was hypothesis testing. Many experiments, especially...basic "no effect" situation the null hypothesis, which the experiment is designed...Having satisfied himself that the null hypothesis is untenable, the experimentalist...probabilistic model on which the ... Read more
Indigenous Populations
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...paleoanthropologists uphold the "Out of Africa hypothesis," which states that contemporary humans...populations migrated to many areas of the world, sometimes settling among other hominid...disadvantaged minority groups, have more of just about every category of disease. Disparities... Read more
Gaia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...material conditions on Earth happen to be just right. The idea that these interactions...it makes sure they stay there. They hypothesis first grew from attempts to explain...to Earth led protagonists of the Gaia hypothesis to ask: ‘What purpose does constituent...salinity. In fact, the salinity of ... Read more
Famous Haunted Houses and Places
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...figures — is produced, in Fodor's hypothesis, by the merging of the two energies...investigator Edmund Gurney put forth the hypothesis that the collective sighting of a ghost...of the ghost. Once science determines just how the energy released by intense emotions...of wood, stone, metal, and gems ... Read more
Physics, Quantum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...theory is really saying about the world. In fact, it is not clear that quantum...consistent picture of what the physical world is like. Quantum theory seems to...x2013; 1947) proposed in 1900 the hypothesis that the energy absorbed and emitted...himself never felt satisfied with this hypothesis as ... Read more
Emergence
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...Emergence thus represents the hypothesis that the whole story (in science...of emergence in the natural world. Many emergent phenomena can...presuppose that the natural world is hierarchically structured...might complain that emergence just restates the concept of complexity...that the basic ... Read more
Sir John Carew Eccles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...scientists. He generally proposed a hypothesis, made it as precise as possible, and...feel it is a sign of failure if a pet hypothesis has to be abandoned, Eccles took pleasure...inhibition, at cell junctions. During World War II he aided in the Australian war...that he actually disproved his own ... Read more
Egyptian religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...myths explaining the creation of the world, natural phenomena, and the like were...religion, and much scholarship remains hypothesis and conjecture. Early Beliefs Probably...a crocodile, and the claws of a lion. Just as a god could represent various natural...Some attributed the creation of the ... Read more
Pantheism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...externally transcendent to the world, as in classical theism, nor immanently present within the world, as in panentheism, but rather is identical with the world. As a religious position...Pluralistic Universe (1908) as a hypothesis that supersedes his earlier...including James Lovelock's Gaia ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "just world hypothesis"

Luke, gospel of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...third gospel. However, the proto-Luke hypothesis has not won favour, and it is more usually...though those who have doubts about the Q hypothesis suggest that Luke used the gospel of...Jerusalem to the centre of the Gentile world (Rome), of which, in the gospel, he...improbably) applicable to the whole ... Read more
normative theory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...statements about what is right and wrong, desirable or undesirable, just or unjust in society. The majority of sociologists consider...Marx that ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point … is to change it’...relationships and institutions. Derek L. ... Read more
language
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...1980 ). Others maintain that it is just the child's natural intelligence that...political considerations of bilingualism is just one aspect of the relationship between...kingdom, colours, food, and the natural world. Each society has its own distinctive...ETHNOMETHODOLOGY ; SAPIR–WHORF ... Read more

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It's not just caffeine! Coffee, the most popular drink in the world after water, is a functional plant whose seeds produce a beverage that provides health benefits.(Coffee & Health)
Magazine article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...criticism against caffeine. Few people seem to know that coffee has just 1-2% of caffeine and many other substances in larger amounts...alcohol consumption among youth. It is tempting to raise the hypothesis that if every youth started drinking a cup of coffee with milk... Read more
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/27/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Consider first the naturalistic world view of Francis Crick. The Astonishing Hypothesis, he says, is about the mystery of...brain when I see something. And just what is The Astonishing Hypothesis to which the title refers? The Astonishing Hypothesis is that |You,' your joys and ... Read more
Using the permanent income hypothesis for forecasting.
Magazine article from: Economic Quarterly; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...consumption and income just mentioned underlie...in U.S. News & World Report, David Hage...1957) permanent income hypothesis. This hypothesis implies that households...the permanent income hypothesis, a decline in savings... Read more
The reptoid hypothesis: utopian and dystopian representational motifs in David Icke's alien conspiracy theory.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...agents acting as totalitarian world leaders, trans-dimensional...speaker and author in the world, David Icke. Icke, one-time...we are calling the Reptoid Hypothesis --the idea that alien lizards...Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster, passes...Taylor; Crumey). But they are ... Read more
The Two Hypotheses of HUMAN MEANING.(transcendentalism and empiricism)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...force, as conceived in the world view of deism. This line of...evolution? This is the empiricist world view of the human condition...spirituality clearly and directly, just as we cannot understand the...citadel, if the empiricist world view fails at this level, where...contradicted by the ... Read more
The paradox of Biophilia. (Note from a World Watcher).
Magazine article from: World Watch; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with Stephen R. Kellert in The Biophilia Hypothesis (Island Press, 1993), appears not to be...saved. If we can get back in touch with just how deep an emotional attachment to nature...of people, is fraught with treachery. Just as people who care about each other often... Read more
The futures of flu: an economist and an infectious disease doc launch futures market for flu.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance; 4/15/2007; ; 429 words ; ...knowledge of health-care workers around the world to help anticipate the course of the dreaded H5N1 strain of influenza. Our hypothesis is that there still is a lot of information...the total human cases according to the World Health Organization stood at 277. Another...that the AFM is an experiment. ... Read more
Six months of change. (evaluation of Trans World Maintenance Services) (Mid-Year Review & Forecast, Section IV) (Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 6/23/1993; ; 680 words ; ...coincides with significant changes at Trans World Maintenance Services (TWMS). It is the...without meaning to be as sexist as that hypothesis I always answer: Who knows cleaning better...Lost tenants are difficult to replace just as lost customers are difficult to replace... Read more
Wacky Times: An Analysis of the WAC in World War II and its Effects on Women.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...of women of the world in considerable dimension. The events of World War II have often...role. The war has just as often been earmarked...people claim that World War II was the defining...disagree with this hypothesis. Their point, opposite...interpretation which claims World War II ... Read more
Observing Eclipse: Kimber has set the 1911 World on Fire with Its Great Shooting, Good Looking Pistols. The New Eclipse only Fans the Flames Higher.
Magazine article from: Guns Magazine; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...brown and green shades. The overall result is a pistol that just reaches out and grabs you by the eyeballs. The kid here ain...up with the Eclipse designation. All that light and shadow just reminded me of an eclipse of the sun, Van Brunt told me...bull barrel configuration up front, which some believe adds ... Read more