Animal psychologist Karen McComb, also at Sussex, played back elephant sounds – the deep, gargling rumble they make – to discover how many individual voices one animal could recognise.
The setting of this novel is all-important – the wild and windswept coast of South Australia where, from 1866 to the 1960s attempts have been made to discover oil.
Additionally, it appears efforts were being made to discover who visited the Lawrence family home and who was involved in a support group, Youth Against Racism.
Since the rise of the comparative or historical study of religions in the latter part of the 19th century, attempts have been made to discover the origins of sacrifice.
Though some attempts have been made to discover the religious origins of secular clowns, fools, and jesters, it is the elaborate ritual roles of masked clown societies among such groups as the American Indians that have attracted most attention.
Efforts were also made to discover the cultural 'ways and means' of target institutions (especially, companies and traditional authorities) so as to be effective in negotiating access to information sources.
After performing a factor analysis, a special transformation of the retained factors was made to discover to what degree the above-mentioned explanatory variables affect the resultant variable and to give a rank of their influence (Jahn and Vahle 1968).
Ever since Schofield coined the term "niche" in 1978, great strides have been made to discover molecular signals and cellular support systems that maintain stem cell functionality in flies, worms, and mammals.
His exact pedigree is unknown, although extensive efforts have been made to discover his parentage.
Efforts made to discover the identity of the jester have yielded few results.
