... top-to-bottomreview of its organization, which was directed by the Secretary of Energy (DOE, 2002). As a result ofthe review, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the Office of Science ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professionsin the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public. The Institute ... scientific and engineeringresearch, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to theiruse for the general welfare. Upon the authority ofthe charter granted to it by the Congress...
... Carroll’s theory of historical narratives, one should take into account, for the reasons given above, Weitz’s sound intuition about the open character oftheconceptof art. But on the other hand, the ... examples (e.g. the member of a primitive society with no conceptof art who creates the representation of a leopard and manages to endow it with something ofthe fearsomeness of the animal; see ... (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:...
... neurons project from the ARC to the PVN, andthe other in which they project to the MPA, bed nucleus ofthe stria terminalis and lateralseptal nucleus.Central administration of GALP activates ... regions ofthe rat brain. Injection of GALPinto the third ventricle induces c-Fos expression, amarker of cell activation, in the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca, POA, ARC and median ... mediates the production of fever via the prostaglandin pathway in the brain.Recent data also suggest that GALP induces the expression of interleukin-1 (IL-1) in the brain, and that its anorexic and...
... use the ancient atomistic idea ofthe randomly flying molecules of a gas. He explained the pressure of a gas on the wall ofthe container by the change of momentum ofthe molecules during their ... bombardment ofthe wall. Bernoulli also related the temperature to the square ofthe (mean) speed ofthe molecules, and he was thus able to interpret the thermal equation of state of ideal gases, – the ... History of Thermodynamics The Doctrine ofEnergyand EntropyABC60 3 Entropy Clausius’s derivation ofthe internal energy and the calculation ofthe Carnot function When a body absorbs the heat...
... device with 151 sensors (coils). The colorencodes the Gaussian weighting, that is, the influence ofthe synthetic background signal. The center of appearance ofthe synthetic signal ismarked by a ... measure on X. In the classical cases, that is, for the affine group andthe Weyl-Heisenberg group, one obtains the Besov spaces and the modulation spaces, respectively. In the setting ofthe affineWeyl-Heisenberg ... maximumamplitude at a channel in the center ofthe SQUID arraywhereas the amplitudes ofthe other sensors were attenuatedby a Gaussian weight function, see Figure 2. The sum of the two components (spontaneous...
... rest: The heating consists ofthe non-convective part oftheenergy flux andthe internal energy is the non-convectivepart ofthe energy. The power, or working ofthe force dG has no place in the ... itself. What happens in a plant is the photosynthesis of glucose from the CO2 ofthe air and from H2O ofthe soil andthe release of oxygen. We rewrite the stoichiometric formula from before, ... in the stomach. By inserting foodstuffs into the small intestine he showed that the major part ofthe digestion takes place there, under the influence ofthe secretions ofthe pancreas, the...
... calculation. Therefore they serve as prototypes for the treatment of defensive of Onsager when challenged, probably because ofthe pre- perature in air cannot be seen. And yet they are there, and they ... of Hankel functions are expansions in terms of what may be called the relativisticcoldnesskTc2c, which represents the ratio ofthe total energy àc2 ofthe rest mass to the thermal energy ... 283compressions and expansions of air – and gases generally – occur as a result of the random motion of molecules and atoms and they affect the dielectric constant, because it depends on the mass...
... frame. But then we take the cylinders andthe gas and put them on a carousel with the axis of rotation coinciding with the axes ofthe cylinders. Then the paths ofthe atoms are curved by the Coriolis ... these are based upon the equations of balance of mechanics and thermodynamics, viz. the conser-vation laws of mass and momentum, andthe equation of balance of internal energy, see Chap. 3 ... use of thermodynamic arguments, or ofthe Gibbs equation, nor did they need them. They proposed their laws on the basis of plausible assumptions about the phenomena of heat conduction and internal...
... the higher the surplus andthe quicker the electron moves. On the other hand, if the light quantum – for low frequency– carries less than the binding energyofthe electron to the metal, there ... scientists in the 1880’s and 1890’s that the second law of thermodynamics involves a principle of irreversibility, and that theflowofenergy from hot to cold is not analogous to theflowof water ... Kelvin) who conceived ofthe idea and suggested it for the atmosphere ofthe earth and for the sun.39 He says: The essence of convective equilibrium is that the density andthe temperature are...
... zH and zD= 1 – zH be the fractions of hawks and doves, and let all hawks and doves either employ strategy A or B. Therefore the gain expectations eiH and eiD(i = A,B) of a hawk and ... critical points and that these points had escaped the attention of thermodynamicists only, because they were far out ofthe usual and easily accessible ranges of pressure and temperature. Therefore ... was then sealed and gentle heating liberated the gas chlorine which mixed with the air ofthe tube and, of course, raised the pressure. The other end was put into ice water and it turned out...
... small mass of a substance is added to a homogeneous mass, while entropy and volume are unchanged; then the quotient ofthe increase ofenergyandthe increase of mass is the potential of this ... When, on the other hand, UMix and VMix are non-zero, they combine in the Gibbs free energy to HMix= UMix+ pVMix, the heat of mixing. The heat of mixing can be both positive and negative. ... the point of contact ofthe common tangent ofthe graphs Gƍ and GƎ, see Fig. 5.5right.For fixed p and changing T the common tangent shifts, since the end points g2(T,p) and g1(T,p) of...
... question on the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time. A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g. The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random ... of type 2 DM in four prospective studies [3;5-7]. The available data on the association between meat intake andthe risk of type 2 DM are limited to four health professionals cohorts andthe ... cross-sectional study and thus, may not be directly generalizable to the general population. To better understand the relationship between the intake of meat andthe risk of type 2 DM we prospectively...
... shaving cream with the tops off both of them andthe top ofthe cans were rusty. There was a box of Q-tips. There were used safety razors. There were stacks and stacks of old pari-mutuel tickets ... blouse. She’s standing on one leg, andthe other leg is bent at the knee, and the calf is horizontal to the ground. His sink is a miracle of detritus. There were a couple of cans of Edge Gel shaving ... through the house and shat out Racing Forms everywhere. The carpet ofthe house is like mouse hides have been sewn together. That is the texture. That is the color. Andthe mouse hide carpet and the...