And the "peak compressive load," as the scientific parlance goes, created by a football lineman slamming into his opponent can be close to 2,000 pounds.
Gregory Miller, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, has helped write a number of studies on quitting, or in the scientific parlance, "disengaging from goals".
In English and Spanish, the signs told shoppers how much produce the average customer was buying (five items a visit), and which fruits and vegetables were the biggest sellers (bananas, limes and avocados) — information that, in scientific parlance, conveys social norms, or acceptable behavior.
With the bravado of military commandos, city officials on Wednesday declared war on bedbugs (see battle plan, also below), known in scientific parlance as Cimex lectularius, which have exploded in number in New York and major cities across the world over the past several decades.
Meanwhile, their waistlines ("the cross-sectional area," in scientific parlance) and their body-fat percentage shrank; their insulin resistance came down; and their muscle-composition ratio shifted toward so-called slow-twitch fibres, which tire slowly and burn fat, and which predominate in long-distance runners.
Finally, the hormone is thought to contribute to feelings of fullness after eating, "satiety" in scientific parlance.
Catalysis is one of those rare scientific concepts that has entered common parlance.
This particular numerical example is admittedly extremely simple, but a wide variety of judgments of relative likeness to truth crop up both in everyday parlance as well as in scientific discourse.
This is the paradigm shift of modern parlance and after it has happened the scientific field returns to normal science, based on the new framework.
ll that changed in the early 1950s, when the causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer was finally "proven," in scientific terms, and more formally "alleged," in tobacco industry parlance.
What's needed is the correct and verifiable causal explanation; and the scientific method (the "hypothetico-deductive model" in philosophy of science parlance) arose in order to put causal explanations through a gantlet of empirical tests.
