Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
... screen, 11 2, 11 4; structural issues, 11 5 11 8, 12 0 12 1, 13 1 13 2; your own work, 11 1 12 8 Editor: as a potential mentor, 25; working with, 7, 8, 13 7 13 8 E-mail, 33, 49–50, 52 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10 9 Emotional ... 13 1 13 2; as initial concern, 11 5 11 7; problems flagged by repetition, 12 0 12 1 Strunk (Will, Jr.) and White (E. B.), The Elements of Style, 14 6 Subconscious as the writer’s friend, 96, 11 4 11 5, 12 0 12 1 Symptoms, ... on screen, 11 2, 11 4 Confidentiality of preliminary re- search, 57 Confusion, 11 7, 13 9 14 1 Continuity of effort, 9, 95 Copy-editing, 12 4 12 8, 13 1 13 2 Courtesy: asking for referrals, 58; leaving on time, ...
Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15
Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
... “un- sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not to scare the public. I well remember from the early 19 80s not one ... most part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an- swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends. ... certain scientists whom the others all respect, because they bring a certain breadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. They ask good questions. They know the latest. They never eat lunch...
Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15
Determining the Passage of Time
... checked 24 times a second) is subtracted from the value of startingTime: getTimer() - startingTime Remember that the value of startingTime is set to the current time at the point when the ... Step 10 : 12 . 13 . if (secondsElapsed >= totalTimeToAlarm) { 14 . 15 . activateAlarm(); 16 . 17 . } 18 . This conditional statement, which is executed 24 times a second like all the other ... Math.round((getTimer() - startingTime) / 10 00); 11 . It's critical that our script track the amount of time that has elapsed since the user clicked the Start button and activated the timer....
Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 14:15
The Use of Time in Flash
... is set up to call the rotateClip() function every 1. 5 seconds (1, 000 milliseconds equals 1 second). If you want to pass arguments to the called function, simply add them to the setInterval() ... remove the functionality of the setInterval() action, use the following syntax: clearInterval(myInterval); Using the syntax shown, you can initiate the setInterval() action at any time, ... turned on and off by assigning a variable name, as in the following example: var myInterval:Object = setInterval(rotateClip, 15 00); This example assigns the name myInterval to the setInterval()...
Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 14:15
The end of Angevin Brittany, 1186-1203
... journey of Fouge Á res. 47 Charters,R6. The end of Angevin Brittany, 11 86 12 03 15 9 6 THE END OF ANGEVIN BRITTANY, 11 86 12 03 The death of Duke Geoffrey brought yet another transformation to the Angevin ... 13 5. 11 4 Charters, pp. 11 1, A18. 11 5 Rot. Litt. Pat., pp. 5, 7. The end of Angevin Brittany, 11 86 12 03 17 3 and Dinan. 1 This may have been justiđed under the terms of the peace settlement, which ... octave of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 11 80 (sic)'. Friday in the octave of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in 11 96 fell on 16 August. 59 Again, the Chroniques de Vitre  (p. 31) gives...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time
... CY335B/Dembski 0 5 21 82949 6 March 10 , 2004 1: 21 Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time 19 9 The many-universes theory neatly solves the problem of the origin of the arrow of time. The wave ... (forthcoming). 12 . M. Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, trans. W. R. Trask (New York: Pantheon, 19 54). 13 . A. S. Eddington, The End of the World from the Standpoint of Mathematical Physics,” Nature 12 7 ... JzL 05 218 29496c10.xml CY335B/Dembski 0 5 21 82949 6 March 10 , 2004 1: 21 192 Paul Davies The association of the Second Law of Thermodynamics with atheism and cosmic pointlessness has been an enduring...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Sincerity and the end of theodicy - three remarks on Levinas and Kant
... refute itself endlessly. Levinas’s response to this return of the refuted is twofold. On the one hand, it attests to the saying of the said, to the fact that the self-contradictory nature of the thesis (the ... other’ ( us 15 9). Levinas, reluctant to endorse any discourse of ends or the end, will speakunapologetically of the end of theodicy. ‘For an ethical sensibility the justification of the neighbour’s ... his consistent oppositition to the theodicy of the friends. ‘Job refuses theodicy right to the end and, in the last chapters of the text, is preferred to those who, hurrying to the safety of heaven, would...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Tài liệu The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation pptx
... measured in years, then the units of à are per cent per year and the units of σ are per cent per square root of a year. The dimension of à is [time] 1 and that of is [time] 1/ 2 . The riskless bond ... i in the portfolio V, and L i =1 w i = 1. According to equation (2 .16 ), the expected return of portfolio V is à V = L i =1 w i à i (2 .18 ) and the variance per unit time of the return on the portfolio ... beta, the ratio of the covariance σ iM of stock i with the market to the variance of the market σ 2 M . By substituting the value of i in equation (2.29) into (2.27) one finds that the value of the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 14:15
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
... Hancock. p. cm. ISBN 0-8 018 -7329-0 — ISBN 0-8 018 -7330-4 1. Technical writing. I. Title. T 11 .H255 2003 808′.0665—dc 21 2002 011 065 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. ... Press 2 715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 212 18-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science ... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
... interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be ... But rather of a rich sensibility of respect. For lan- guage. For ideas. For people. For the surprising and the deli- ciously weird in us all. And most of all, respect for the world, the endlessly ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx
... terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process that begins with the first sentence. When ... . . See you at the bar?” Ten minutes later, while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bethell, combing through other people’s magazines ... interesting about how the world works, and then another something, and another, and an- other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid to talk to people and pass along the great stuff...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc
... alumnus who was at that time editor of the National Lampoon. The writer came back with the revelation that, yes, everybody at the Lampoon was really funny. The wisecracks flew—and whenever the joke ... parties, people often tell me that they have decided they want to be writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they get a new ... ideas from the New York Times or any other magisterial source. In fact, you’re better off without. If your idea has been in the Times, forget it. The world already knows. Paul Hawken (of Smith...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx
... on. Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under- stand the phenomenon then ... you get the picture. Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets us look at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars, from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... that, on the day after Sep- tember 11 , 20 01, his taste in music changed. “I always had the car radio on a rock station,” he said. Then the day after the Twin Towers fell, he got into the car and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt
... it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the reader along on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation as needed. At the same time, they anchor is- sues in the ... the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu- dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical Parapher- nalia . ... is the topic of this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a commitment to science and the public understanding thereof—upon...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu The life is at the end of the road doc
... 3m/s. The lifeisat the end of the road 2 010 Thinkgreenandactiongreen Page7 = L/5 = 0,22m = 22cm), ống dày 5-8mm (1) . Sau đó tiến hành các bước như hướng dẫn ở hình H10. 19 Chọn ... khảo:http://www.ginlong.com The lifeisat the end of the road 2 010 Thinkgreenandactiongreen Page6 6 Điện áp định mức không tải U đm : dựa vào đường đặc tính ở H 11. 45 V 7 Số vòng quay định mức n: theo ... những ó loại nhỏ. 0 a ge 1 N LG) k ính các tiên i bạt y đã t , và h và một N gân h iên N am Nếu khu Nếu The lifeisat the end of the road 2 010 Thinkgreenandactiongreen...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx
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