By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction and in public policy.
In response to the expectation of political achievements from above, local leaders have the motivation to launch social policy innovation; however, they do not necessarily possess the expertise that is necessary for the configuration of innovative ideas and feasible policy programs.
They began discussions very quickly in their group of four, but also had a very fluid exchange of ideas between the sub-groups and the main configuration.
The perception of the Bush administration and the men of ideas around the Bush administration, however faulty, is that there is a new configuration in the world.
Ideas of colors, sounds, tastes and smells, or "secondary qualities," are caused by certain complex configurations of primary qualities that bear no resemblance to the ideas which they cause.
In this study, a comparative study was carried out among the most recent configurations of VRC, BF, EHP and two previously proposed ideas for thermal enhancement of VRC.
The gravitational configurations of the paintings included in Portraits and Ropes evoke ideas of skin and duration, posturing and adaptation, packaging and labor, as well as action paintings' relationship to feminism.
These results highlight the idea that similar network properties may arise from multiple configurations of individual components (Prinz et al., 2004; Marder and Goaillard, 2006).
The basic idea in this approach is to predict all possible spatial configurations of a mechanism using sign algebra.
The atomists held on the contrary that all change was in reality the motion of atoms into new configurations, an idea that was not to begin to realize its full potential until the Seventeenth Century, particularly in the work of Descartes.
