In 2005, Tergat asked a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Sean Hartnett, to create a special elevation profile so he could study the minutiae of how the hills were set up.
The study of minutiae or ridge characteristics revealed that frequency of ridge ending (50.24 index fingers, 50.62 middle fingers) and enclosures (2.87% in index and 3.08% in middle finger) is higher in females as compared to males.
And the honer can study the minutiae of the game down to whether you should have four of these in a deck or three, what you should have in your sideboard, when you should mulligan.
They bear a passing resemblance to the angelologists Gideon Harvey knew, spending part of their time in ivory towers studying the minutiae of their subject.
The designers' estimation of audience attention spans can differ radically from those of museum curators, who typically spend years studying the minutiae of their chosen subject and are unwilling to see their essays reduced to 50-word captions.
Studies of minutiae are cited as reasons why the academic fails to capture the imagination of the general reader.
By offering readers the seemingly simple challenge of searching for a bespectacled tourist, Handford tricks us into studying the minutiae of his scenes far more closely than perhaps we would otherwise.
And it would be accessible, even to readers who have not spent years studying the minutiae of the financial markets.Philip Augar's "Chasing Alpha" scores well on both historical explanation and readability.
These are the questions that John Mullan answers in his crisp, witty study of the minutiae of Austen's universe.
The film may have dated as a cautionary left-wing tale, yet it has stayed fresh as a study in the minutiae of power — the hand on the shoulder, the dismissive wave, or the patronizing squeeze of a cheek.
