It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.
As Northrop Frye might have put it, The Hobbit is low mimesis, The Lord of the Rings high mimesis; we learn from the events and characters of the former because they are, to some degree, familiar to us and thus relatable; we learn from the latter for the opposite reason.
We sought to use a "dual task" that: 1) would load attention, 2) would reflect, to some degree, a familiar activity, 3) would not directly influence balance, and 4) would be fairly independent of educational background.
While the 2001 survey also showed that board members often have advanced degrees, becoming familiar with what is needed to operate a school district, from bond issues to the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, can be challenging for even the most educated person.
For the 2D shape localizer scans, we used grayscale images and line drawings (12 × 12 visual degrees) of familiar and nonfamiliar objects as well as scrambled versions of each set (Kourtzi and Kanwisher 2000; Denys et al. 2004).
In fact, it is likely that the degree of familiarity among the class of familiar stimuli (during encoding) was quite variable and that those stimuli whose encoding benefited most from reward were the least familiar (relatively most novel) ones.
To a lesser degree, these are familiar measures on many other state university campuses.
However, the preparation action time could hardly be estimated due to the miners psychology, ages and familiar degree to coal mine lanes.
English-speaking philosophers can be expected to continue to find life's meaning of interest as they increasingly realize that it is a distinct topic that admits of rational enquiry to no less a degree than more familiar ethical categories such as well-being, virtuous character, and right action.
Levine, from his liberal arts degree, was already familiar with works from Rand and George Orwell, and considered their ideas "fascinating".
It is likely that the degree of familiarity between men also influences the degree of trust: When men were more familiar with their partners they trusted their partners more.
