civilization and the theory of civilizing processes

... abab}, and {aa, ab, aab, ba, bb, bab} The first of these is the union of {a} and {b}, the second is the concatenation of {a} and {b}, the third is the union of the first and second, the fourth is the ... (n) is the set of prime factors of n e (Here A is the set of all finite sets of primes and B is the set N − {0}.) g : A → B, where g(S) is the product of the elements of S (The product of the elements ... close resemblance of the statements 1–3 to the recursive definition of Expr The outline of the proof is provided by the structure of the definition We illustrate the technique of structural induction...

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... to the theory of light – provided that the speeds are less than about 300mph (which is certainly the situation at take of and landing) he rôle of viscosity is important in aerofoil theory, and ... on the ad to read more Fluid Mechanics and the Theory of Flight Introduction and Basics Note: A steady low is one for which the velocity ield is independent of time, and then the families of ... Mechanics and the Theory of Flight Introduction and Basics that the low is uniform at all sections away from the junction, and that the luid completely ills both the feed pipe and the two branch...

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... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however, ... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal...

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... k e ) PO = the current price of the stock DIV1 = the dividend paid at the end of year ke = the required return on investment in equity P1 = the sale price of the stock at the end of the first ... Pt + C Pt R = the rate of return on the security Pt+1 = price of the security at time t+1, the end of the holding period Pt = price of the security at time t, the beginning of the holding period ... Rationale Behind the Theory Rof > R* ⇒ Pt ↑ ⇒ Rof ↓ Rof < R* ⇒ Pt ↓ ⇒ Rof ↑ until Rof = R* In an efficient market all unexploited profit opportunities will be eliminated Stronger Version of the Efficient...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:56

... THE CONCEPT OF THE VALUE OF MONEY Subjective and Objective Factors in the Theory of the Value of Money The Objective Exchange-Value of Money The Problems Involved in the Theory of the Value of ... to the more abstract parts of the theory of the value of money Professor von Mises shares with Marshall and one or two others the merit of having assimilated the treatment of this theory to the ... categories of the pure theory of value: and his emphasis in the course of this assimilation on the relation between uncertainty and the size of the cash holding and the dependence of certain...

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... reliability level of 05 DISCUSSION The analysis of the characteristics of the most attractive and most unattractive places in the city TABLE Correlations between the aesthetic attributes and the Perceived ... how often they visited or walked by their first choice Once they had completed the ‘‘attractive’’ places section, participants were asked to place themselves on the other side of the aesthetic ... 1997) two types of variable in the context of urban design: Attributes of formal aesthetics and attributes of symbolic aesthetics Among the former, the authors highlight ‘‘openness’’ (and/ or spaciousness),...

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... issues of project management theory2 as the status and foundations of project management theory (subsection 1.1) and the nature and life cycle of projects (subsection 1.2) 1.1 Project management theory ... the circumstances surrounding the Manhattan project were extreme and the purpose of the project can be discussed Nevertheless, regardless of what one may think of the purpose of the project there ... navigate between the conflicting demands of time, cost and performance The project manager constantly has to weigh these demands against each other and trade off one against the other If there are time...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... only the use-value that they themselves attach to their products, but also the use-value that these possess in the estimation of the other members of the community The balancing of production and ... acquainted with at least the elements of the theory of prices Others are able to content themselves with references to the "nominality" of the unit of value No wonder, then, that these theories should ... the legal definitions of the content of contracts of indebtedness and of the system of public expenditure; it must be based on the executive authority of the state as controller of the mint and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... or the other of the two former The hurried recitation of the chant, the rhythmical progression of the hymntune, and the varied configurations of the anthem all indicate unmistakably that they ... change the effect THE THEORY OF MUSIC i8 and the purpose of the two phrases The melodies of each these two phrases are appreciably distinct from and the cadences form in the first phrase what other ... however great the line of demarcation be tween the two may have been in the past, there can be no question as to the mixing and the overlapping of the sacred and the secular at the present day...

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... Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion Theorem of the Addition of Velocities The Experiment of Fizeau The Heuristic Value of the Theory of Relativity General Results of the Theory Experience ... years later by the Theory of the Specific Heat of Solid Bodies, and the fundamental idea of the General Theory of Relativity During the interval 1909 to 1911 he occupied the post of Professor Extraordinarius ... these may be mentioned: The Special Theory of Relativity, Inertia of Energy, Theory of the Brownian Movement, and the Quantum-Law of the Emission and Absorption of Light (1905) These were followed...

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... 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 ... information theory is emphatically not information in the everyday sense of the word The following table provides a summary of some of the points that have been argued and of some of the positions ... information is that the greater the uncertainty of this distribution, the more we stand to gain from learning the outcome of the experiment In the case of the Shannon information, this notion of how much...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:42

... Carroll’s theory of historical narratives, one should take into account, for the reasons given above, Weitz’s sound intuition about the open character of the concept of art But on the other hand, the ... Jerrold (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press), 136-54 WEITZ, M (1956) The Role of Theory in Aesthetics’, in Neill, Alex and Ridley, Aaron, The Philosophy of Art: Readings ... product of a decision on our part to extend the concept (Weitz, 1956, 188) According to Weitz, this “openness” of the concept of art is the condition of the possibility of further creativity and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... terms of a co-recursion in which the similarity of properties is defined in terms of the similarity of arguments, and the similarity of arguments is defined in terms of the similarity of properties ... x2) In the second clause we not know that the man is standing on the ladder he could be on the r o o f - and we not know what "the top" is the top of These facts fall out of recognizing the parallelism ... that the object the m a n ' s weight is acting on is the ladder, and hence that the man is on the ladder The third pair of arguments are both downward directions The final pair of arguments, x~ and...

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... hand, which they reveal simultaneously If Bob selects the King then the highest card chosen wins the pot and the game ends If Bob chooses the Joker and Alice the Queen they split the pot and the ... Bob chooses the Joker and Alice the Ace then Alice may either resign (so that Bob gets the pot) or demand a replay If a replay occurs they each pay another pound into the pot and they play again, ... to read off the value of the game from Figures 16 and 17: It is given by the pay-off when playing according to the optimal strategies (the y-value of the intersection of the two lines) and is 3.4...

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... consisting of and a version of in which all its arcs are doubled The resulting network is Eulerian and has total length We shall show that under the hypothesis of the theorem, the removal from Q of (the ... denote the total length of Let denote the probability that the hider is in the subtree Assume that the searcher adopts the strategy of first using a random Chinese postman tour of and then at ... in the network Q as follows For any node other than or the hiding probability is the same for h and The probabilities and of choosing and when using h are given by the formulae and where is the...

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... evaluation of them on their mathematical elegance, the complexity of their notation, the journals in which they appear, or simply the reputations of those who design them.”39 A more extreme example of ... understand them better Since the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the sources of security threats, the composition and cohesion of alliances, and the shape of regional orders have been in flux The ... mistaken The first part of the chapter identifies two attributes of good theories—soundness and attention to meaningful questions The second part examines whether there is a tradeoff between good theory...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:53

... coalition of mother and son within the family of father, mother, and son One would suppose, however, that the larger the group, the more likely its inclusion of smaller groups within it.35 Finally, and ... contract theory 11 The Plural Subject Theory of Political Obligation 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 The theory assessed Comparison with three related theories Response to objections The practical import of political ... that they are tied in a special way to their government While they complain loudly and often, and not without justification, of the shortcomings of government, they feel that they are nonetheless...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:32

... device with 151 sensors (coils) The color encodes the Gaussian weighting, that is, the influence of the synthetic background signal The center of appearance of the synthetic signal is marked by a ... for the affine group and the WeylHeisenberg group, one obtains the Besov spaces and the modulation spaces, respectively In the setting of the affine Weyl-Heisenberg group and the specific case vs ... compare with (11), and with idi : Xi → Y the embedding operator, we may define the relationship between the data of the jth channel y j and the frame coefficients f j = (f , , f m ) of the m associated...

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... absolutely and triumphantly successful, and it stands with the work of Hadamard and de la Vall´e-Poussin, in the theory of primes, as one of the lande marks in the modern history of the theory of numbers ... this theory sharply from the other great side of the analytic theory of numbers, the ‘multiplicative’ theory, in which the fundamental idea is that of the resolution of a number into primes In the ... connexion THE THEORY OF NUMBERS with Oxford and with the Savilian chair The connexion of Oxford with the theory of numbers is in the main a nineteenth-century connexion, and centres naturally in the...

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