Partly because they are better educated, partly because Koreans have a long tradition of gathering all manner of wild and pungent roots to add zing to their suppers, North Koreans have been more successful in eking out their rations with what relief workers call "alternative foods" than were the Chinese in the 1950s.
If an animal's sources of food tend to occur together (that is, they are not distributed randomly in time or space), then it pays that animal, having once found food, to continue to behave in a food-gathering manner.
But though the storms are gathering, they will have to gather in a contained manner for at least the next month.
A White House spokeswoman, Anne Womack, added, "We expect the committee to use the information in a thoughtful and deliberative manner which lends itself to gathering facts rather than engaging in a partisan fishing expedition".
There were lots of pretenders to the throne running around first-century Israel, gathering people in the desert in the manner of Moses, promising liberation from the Roman slave-masters.
Evaluation research is defined as "a process for applying academic procedures when gathering reliable and valid evidence regarding the manner and the scale of which specific activities produce certain results and outcomes" [ 10].
In this way, new product developments can be evaluated in an objective manner without the laborious process of gathering a sample population of consumers for subjective studies each time.
This knowledge translation process recognises the importance of gathering and synthesising evidence in a robust and replicable manner, and emphasises use of appropriate dissemination techniques and effective exchange of knowledge between researchers and knowledge users.
Data gathered directly from the participant's parents allowed us to make inferences about their childhood circumstances in a manner potentially far less biased by retrospective data gathering.
"We are currently gathering facts about the issue and will assist Zimbabwe officials in whatever manner requested.
There's only one place in the world where representatives from the US, Austria, Britain, Korea, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, to name a few, are gathering to meet face-to-face to settle their differences in a civilized manner.
