All subjects were evaluated (physical evaluation of lumbar and pelvic muscles [1] force and [2] extensibility, [3] trunk range of motion) and then divided in 2 groups: 10 patients received specific exercises (experimental group) based on their evaluation, and 10 patients received a commonly prescribed exercise program for low back pain (control group).
It is an exercise in experimental provocation and in pure insolence, while sometimes being horribly funny and fascinating, reviving the spirit of Tod Browning's Freaks and the ice-cold vision of Diane Arbus.
But perhaps my favorite recent crossover prizewinner is professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel in economics and namesake of the Wilson School's new Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, whose body of work is a powerful exercise of experimental reasoning – in psychology.
Above all, we recognize that as artists and art educators, we need to exercise our experimental and exploratory voices and investigate ourselves as we work within the myriad tensions that shape contemporary culture.
The present study aimed to exercise strict experimental control over the availability of monaural cues to localisation in the horizontal plane and the fitting of the CROS device to assess whether signal routing can impair the ability to locate sources of sound and, if so, whether CROS selectively disrupts monaural level or spectral cues to horizontal location, or both.
The musical score is another exercise in experimental scoring by Hans Zimmer, and he does some remarkable things with Electro's theme.
However, a mere data mining with bioinformatic methods is often considered as a theoretical exercise by experimental geneticists.
Manifestations of cardiovascular disease are blunted with exercise in experimental animal models, and epidemiological data in humans further support these findings (Wang et al. 1993; Hamalainen et al. 1995).
And we were exercising our experimental side in all different directions.
Again and again, the elements of his story are overwhelmed by what are apparently intended as exercises in experimental nonfiction.
