Furthermore, the fact that the same differences are also found among students, who are less socialised into the profession than academics, strongly suggests that to some extent people with a certain forma mentis are driven to study engineering and that this also predisposes them towards conservatism and religiosity.
"Denial" is Ms. Stern's plainspoken and very raw account of why, long before 9/11, she was driven to study terrorism and to put herself repeatedly into danger as she flew around the world, like some scholarly twin of the former CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour, interviewing committed terrorists.
The "Design for Innovation" approach drives to study "beyond use situations" and the influences among the actors involved in the innovation processes.
At Harvard, Bellah was driven to study tribal cultures and later East Asian civilization because of a self-professed "ambivalence about America".
One is therefore driven to study the dependence on the truncation size.
New research indicates that those same factors drive decisions to study abroad.
The appealing ability to perform a room temperature synthesis of amorphous silicon and the need for better understanding of the reaction pathways, drive us to study the reactivity of silicon anionic clusters (Zintl phases) under oxidation with mild reducing agents.
Perhaps it was that feeling of loss, and her father's resolute silence about the past, that had driven Mona to study history and, later, to teach it.
But, he told me in December: "I think the earliest desire that drove me to study consciousness was that I wanted, secretly, to show myself that it couldn't be explained scientifically.
The vivid memory of Nazi horrors, in part, drove him to study the mind.
