Despite prevailing conceptions, said Lisa Kersavage, the senior director for preservation and sustainability at the society, many historic buildings actually already incorporate energy-efficient design features — a legacy of having been built before the advent of cheap energy and modern mechanical systems.
Most modern evidence suggests that lungfishes are more closely related to tetrapods than are coelacanths, despite earlier conceptions of the coelacanth as an iconic "tetrapod ancestor".
Despite popular conception, the book was not instrumental in the adoption of the name: the name came gradually to be accepted over the following ten years.
The qualitative data from their research demonstrated that prospective teachers possessed increased understanding of evolution and NOS despite initial alternative conceptions.
This data suggests that conceptual change strategies, despite directly targeting misconceptions, cannot overcome students' prior conceptions of evolutionary concepts.
What is meant by (distributive) justice, and the related concepts of equality and fairness, is however open to significant conjecture and is not helped by the use of these concepts in an interchangeable fashion despite constituting in turn specific conceptions of fairness, justice and equality.
For the better part of the last century, conceptions of citizenship, despite many differences, have had one thing in common: the idea that the necessary framework for citizenship is the sovereign, territorial state.
Despite this enrichment, however, Rogier's conceptions remained essentially iconic: he pushed the figures into the foreground and isolated them from their surroundings as subjects for devotion.
The main findings of this study show that despite the negative nature of the conceptions of the participants they have a positive attitude towards the prevention of obesity.
But Southern, despite his lucid conception of Green's effects, was also eager to present him as eccentric.
