... literary genre in and of itself The Overflowing Brain stands out among these books owing to its breadth, lucidity, and to its engaging narrative The book first appeared in Swedish in 2007 and was met ... The Overflowing Brain This page intentionally left blank The Overflowing Brain Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience ... The point of Hallowell’s term is that it illustrates how the modern work situation, with its pace and simultaneous demands, often gives us the feeling of having attention difficulties and of not...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:09
... (Goetz and Shenoi 2008), the protection of intellectual property of firms and countries (Andrijcic and Horowitz 2006), the financial integrity of investment firms (Jolly 2008), and the control of ... economics and public policy, including information asymmetries and breach notification, externalities and the costs of malware, liability and software patching, and the current fragmented state of legislation ... of operational and fraud risk The chapter reviews the main safeguards in place, and concludes that there may be a need to reconsider some of them in view of the growing role of nonbanks and of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15
Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
... – especially DNA, RNA, and protein, the molecules that are essential for information storage, replication, and metabolism Then we will explore the concept of entropy and its ubiquitous increase ... i = × 106 × = × 106 bits of information (5) The total Shannon information “Is ” represents the number of binary decisions that must be made in order to get any sequence of base nucleotides in ... appears to be its capacity, through the use of information, to survive and exist in a nonequilibrium state, resisting the pull toward equilibrium that is described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital doc
... the impact of changing the quality of accounting information for a single firm on its price and cost of capital We now briefly discuss the effects of mandatory disclosure of accounting information ... world of homogeneous beliefs, defines terms, and derives the determinants of the cost of capital Sections and analyze the direct and indirect effects of accounting information on firms’ cost of ... impact of information on price, as the latter is sometimes used as a measure of cost of capital See, e.g., Easley and O’Hara (2004) and Hughes et al (2005) accounting examine the role of information...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Quantum information theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics c timpson
... uncertainty and probability; and for providing me with a copy of his unpublished PhD dissertation on measures of uncertainty and the uncertainty principle My understanding of measures of information ... semantic notion of information on ideas from information theory The function of various measures of information content for quantum systems is explored and the applicability of the Shannon information ... currently made of the concept of information in physics, following the rapid growth of the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computation These are new and exciting fields of physics...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:42
wandering in the gardens of the mind peter mitchell and the making of glynn
... because of a combination of lack of interest and confusion about details due to his inattention to the textbooks Some of the problem was more than lack of interest and reveals something of how ... our appreciation of the advice offered by Professor Mårten Wikström (University of Helsinki) on chapters and 11 and to Dr Harmke Kamminga (University of Cambridge) on chapters and The biography ... letters and unpublished material Finally, we wish to thank Professor Britton Chance and Dr Helen Davies for copies of letters and Mrs Helen Mitchell for her diary of the Nobel Prize celebrations and...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:35
báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article Maximality Principle and General Results of Ekeland and Caristi Types without Lower " potx
... generalized pseudodistances and τ-distances of Suzuki 32 , τ-functions of Lin and Du 33 and distances of V´ lyi 34 a By Remarks 6.5 and 6.6 and Definitions 6.3, 6.7, 6.9, and 6.10, the following ... literature, the several variants of the variational principle of Ekeland type for lsc maps and fixed point and endpoint theorem of Caristi type for dissipative single-valued and set-valued dynamic systems ... Variational Principle of Ekeland Type and Fixed Point and Endpoint Theorem of Caristi Type in Cone Uniform Spaces with Generalized Pseudodistances Let 2X denote the family of all nonempty subsets of a...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Hilbert’s Type Linear Operator and Some Extensions of Hilbert’s Inequality" docx
... 575–582, 2005 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications [6] B Yang, “On the norm of an integral operator and applications,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 321, no 1, ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 271, no 1, pp 288–296, 2002 [5] B Yang and T M Rassias, “On a new extension of Hilbert’s inequality,” Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, ... purpose of this article is to study the norm of a Hilbert’s type linear operator with the kernel Amin {x, y } + B max {x, y } and give some new generalizations of Hilbert’s inequality As applications,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Hilbert’s Type Linear Operator and Some Extensions of Hilbert’s Inequality" doc
... 575–582, 2005 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications [6] B Yang, “On the norm of an integral operator and applications,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 321, no 1, ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 271, no 1, pp 288–296, 2002 [5] B Yang and T M Rassias, “On a new extension of Hilbert’s inequality,” Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, ... purpose of this article is to study the norm of a Hilbert’s type linear operator with the kernel Amin {x, y } + B max {x, y } and give some new generalizations of Hilbert’s inequality As applications,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học: " AN APPROACH TO THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE AND THE NATURE OF INERTIAL FORCES" pptx
... 2nd rev.ed., Macmilan, New York, 1964 [5] S.Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of General Theory of Relativity, Copyright 1972 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc [6] P.de ... Acknowledgements: We extend our thanks to the professors in laboratory of theoretical physics of University of Natural Sciences, VNU-HCM, especially to the professor NGUYEN NGOC GIAO for helpful remarks ... forces which are caused by all matter of universe by means of the background font ϕg0 This satisfies Mach ‘s viewpoint and it also points out way that all matters of universe cause inertial forces...
Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo toán học: "Some Examples of ACS-Rings" pdf
... direct summand; Some Examples of ACS-Rings 13 (7) The left annihilator of every principal left ideal is essential (as left ideal) in a direct summand; (8) R is a left ACS-ring Proof n (1) ⇒ (2) ... extension of ring R by Z Let R be a ring and Z the ring of all integers Let S = R ∗ Z be the Dorroh extension of R by Z As sets, S = R × Z, the Cartesian product of R and Z The addition and multiplication ... idempotent of S is of form (e, 0), where e2 = e ∈ R Proposition 2.1 Let R be a commutative ring and I an ideal of R Let S = R ∝ I be the trivial extension of R by I If S is an ACS-ring, so is R Proof...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20
Information content and policy implications of stock splits, new evidence from the saudi arabian capital market
... consisting of the minister of finance and national economy, the minister of commerce and industry, and the governor of the Saudi Monetary Agency The purpose of this research is to study the impact of ... maintenance of accurate client information, liberation of bids and asks into the stock market and execution of transactions, delivery of sold shares and money payments through SAMA clearings, and price ... transfer the ownership of traded shares from the seller to the buyer and reissue a “certificate of shares” as a proof of ownership Although some trading convenience and a somewhat formal market...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34
Ekelands variational principle and some related issues
... generalization of Ekeland’s ε-variational principle and its Borwein-Preiss smooth variant J Math Anal Appl 246, 308-319 (2000) 38 L.J Lin, W.S Du, Ekeland’s variational principle, minimax theorems and existence ... celebrated Ekeland’s variational principle (Ekeland 1974) (EVP, from now on) is one of the most important results and cornerstones of nonlinear analysis in the last half a century with applications ... a more complete picture of local behaviors of a set-valued map Let X and Y be topological spaces and G : X → 2Y We propose the following new definitions of semi-limits of set-valued maps liminfo∗x→¯x...
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2016, 21:56
99 examples of pneumatic applications
... functions but in processes and must take a holistic approach to the development of solution concepts 12 99 Examples of pneumatic applications Examples of pneumatic applications Examples are provided ... the size of products and modules in the fields of precision engineering, optics and electronics requires similarly miniaturised versions of handling devices, assembly units, feed systems and grippers ... evaluation and control devices, sensors and bus systems, and often also facilities for linking pneumatic and electrical/electronic signals and connecting these to higher-level control systems 10 99 Examples...
Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 00:25
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Unfolding of human proinsulin Intermediates and possible role of its C-peptide in folding/unfolding pptx
... Isolation and purification of the scrambled disulfide isomers of HPI In the presence of denaturant and thiol catalyst as indicated above, HPI was converted into the mixture of native and scrambled ... molecular mass of the disulfide isomers of HPI and the enzyme-digested fragments were measured by ESI MS The molecular mass of the mixture of scrambled isomers was measured by MALDI-TOF MS CD studies ... formation of scrambled disulfide isomers The scrambled isomers each contain three disulfide bonds, of which at least two are non-native The denatured states of HPI under varying concentrations of urea and...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Photoregulation of DNA transcription by using photoresponsive T7 promoters and clarification of its mechanism doc
... thermal stability of the cis form between Azo and DM-azo (A) Illustration of the reversible photoisomerization of Azo and thermal isomerization of cis-Azo (B) Quantitative calculation of cis-form content ... with [32P]ATP[aP]) and the photoregulatory efficiency of transcription (a) was Fig Sequences of photoresponsive T7 promoters and the structures of Azo and its derivatives (M-azo and DM-azo) used ... a wide range of temperatures and time intervals Kinetic analysis of transcription with T7 promoters involving various isomers of DM-azo 10 Nat Azo M-azo DM-azo Fig Photocontrol of the transcription...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Sequences, geographic variations and molecular phylogeny of venom phospholipases and threefinger toxins of eastern India Bungarus fasciatus and kinetic analyses of its Pro31 phospholipases A2 docx
... the prey of Bf and king cobra consists mainly of snakes and reptiles, which are distinct from those of other kraits (e.g B candidus and B multicinctus, which prey on small catfishes, eels and rodents ... mutational rates of the exon of the 3FTx genes are much faster than those of the PLA genes, leading to high variation of KBf-3FTx Cloning and cDNA sequencing Venom glands of only one of the KBf specimens ... present in B candidus venom, while 3FTx-RK is 84% identical to bucain [25] of B candidus Calcium binding and kinetic parameter of the P31-PLAs Four PLAs (Va, Vb-2, VI and II) of KBf and Bf contain...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khóa học: Identification of a gene encoding Lon protease from Brevibacillus thermoruber WR-249 and biochemical characterization of its thermostable recombinant enzyme pptx
... used as the standards and their elution volumes, Ve, were determined The standard curve was plotted with the logarithm of molecular mass against Ve/V0 of the standard protein Peptidase and ATPase ... interaction [36] Analysis of promoter and heat-induced transcription of Bt-lon The lon gene of E coli and B subtilis belongs to the heatshock regulon, the transcription of which is increased on ... However, the mechanisms of induction of Bt-lon require more study Characterization of Bt-Lon To characterize Bt-Lon, the entire coding region of Bt-lon was expressed in E coli and its product was purified...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20
Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use doc
... thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and of the "wise men" of Babylon and Egypt "Laying on of ... progress of knowledge and of science, and then, having been fed with a limited historical pabulum, to turn and talk lightly, and with an air of the most superior condescension, of the weakness and ... strain of loaded teams and monster engines the cable that remained stolid under the pressure of human traffic, and the heavy tread of commerce, thrilled and surged and shook itself, as mad waves of...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Autophosphorylation of Archaeoglobus fulgidus Rio2 and crystal structures of its nucleotide–metal ion complexes pptx
... ATP and its analogs bind between the two lobes and, in most cases, the presence of a ligand results in a movement of one lobe relative to the other This is seen in structures of Rio2 as well, and ... determine the position of the labeled bands, and the bands were cut out for phosphoamino-acid analysis and phosphopeptide mapping and sequencing Phosphoamino-acid analysis A portion of the membrane ... disordered In the structure of Rio2 bound to ATP and Mn, residues 125–127 are ordered and clearly seen in the electron density Binding of ATP and ADP to Rio2 Our previous structures of Rio2 solved from...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20