A review of previous attempts to test hypotheses derived from the functional theory of stratification suggests that to test the theory as formulated by Davis and Moore, the unit of analysis must be ...

As anyone who is familiar with personality trait theory knows, researchers have identified a “big five” of dispositional tendencies that reliably predict human behavioral patterns and show up almost ...

In 1929, the physicist Paul Dirac wrote, “The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the ...

Nearly a third of US supercomputer time is spent on molecular modeling, a way to test-drive new drugs and materials on the computer before making them in the lab. The most accurate approach is the ...