good will as an end in itself

... good will These facts, along with conditional P1, tell us that a good will is an end in itself Since only humanity is an end in itself, a good will must be humanity And if a good will is humanity, ... treat humanity, in ourselves or others, always as an end in itself But it is far from obvious what this means The key ideas in the principle—humanity, and treating something as an end in itself require ... equivalent, and I not mean to beg that question here My point is that Kant often speaks interchangeably of treating a person as an end in himself, and treating the humanity in a person as an end in itself...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:33

... Fish kills and observations of intersex in fish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia (Blazer and others, 2007) The fish kills and observations ... crop planting in the largely agricultural reaches of the watershed Desethylatrazine, an atrazine degradation product, also was measured in all samples with an approximate two-fold increase in the ... select waste indicator contaminants were measured in the POCIS SPMDs were processed and analyzed for PAHs, OC pesticides, and total PCBs Both POCIS and SPMD extracts were screened using the yeast...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20

... within the PIN domain (D141A and D226A) Transcription was inhibited by addition of actinomycin D, and RNA was collected after 3, and h The mRNA level for IL-1b (top panel) and MCPIP (bottom panel) ... protein as an RNase D Mizgalska et al means that IL-1b AREs are important in luciferase mRNA degradation but this process is performed in an MCPIP-independent manner Interaction of MCPIP protein ... L, Mian N & Bateman A (2000) Domains in gene silencing and cell differentiation proteins: the novel PAZ domain and redefinition of the Piwi domain Trends Biochem Sci 25, 481–482 Anantharaman V...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... observed in the discriminating power of CRP and PCT for differentiating pulmonary TB and other bacterial infections in this study CRP is an acutephase protein and nonspecific marker for systemic inflammation, ... after 30.Dandona P, Nix D, Wilson MF, et al Procalcitonin increase after surgery or trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis Crit endotoxin injection in normal subjects J Clin Endocrinol Metab ... 3.55 to 34.42) and 0.707 ng/mL (range, 0.018 to 22.994) in class IV, and 18.3 mg/dL (range, 8.52 to 36.61) and 0.525 ng/mL (range, 0.049 to 27.754) in class V Patients in risk classes III-V had...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... (F-measure of 0.96) and the English Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1994) (Fmeasure of 0.956) Additionally a lemmatisation and stemming module is included for both languages As an unifying exchange ... In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, Birmingham (UK) 3.5 Text Classification An easy to use text classifier (Waltinger et al., 2008a) has been implemented into the system In ... for single terms or entire phrases The contents can be accessed as rendered HTML as well as TEI P56 encoded In its current state is supports to browse and analyse the Patrologia Latina7 Alexander...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... results and hints have been suggested for researchers who are enrolling in this field, although some findings remain preliminary All in all, we hope that this issue will advance our understanding ... importance of the interval between signs and events In all of them, exercises were passive and subjects were sitting on the chair or standing while viewing motion videos Finally, Kiryu and colleagues ... by the cardiovascular system Preventing unpleasant situation is a key point for sustaining sufficient effectiveness and motivation Since the heart rate is different between virtual and real exercises,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Change in (kg) weight was defined as weight in 2000 minus weight in 2008 Stable weight was defined as weight in 2008 between -5.0 and 5.0 kg of weight in 2000 Women who lost or gained more than ... (moderate), (good) , 9-10 (excellent) [22] Change in quality of life was defined as QoL in 2000 minus QoL of life in 2008 resulting in the categories -3, -2, -1 defined as deteriorated QoL, defined as no ... activity and more than 42 MET hours per week = high activity Change in physical activity was defined as MET per week in year 2000 minus MET per week in year 2008 and coded as decreased when the change...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Figure 4, as a function of the annealing time at 350°C in a-Si (solid black line) and a-Ge (dash blue line) single layers hydrogenated at 0.8 ml/min annealing, indicating that H is still in the ... flow rate in a-Si and a-Ge single layers before and after annealing at 350°C for and h Irrespective of the initial H content (i.e H flow rate) in the as- deposited films, a decrease in the H concentration ... 2b giving the incorporated at.% of H as a function of the H flow rate were obtained The increase in H concentration in a-Si already tends to slow down significantly between and 1.5 ml/min flow...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... three transmitting DVB-H antennas, the “imaginary transmitter” ITx, and the routes (in red) used to determine the range to synchronize the transmitting frequency of the different transmitters in the ... scheme on the range to be higher than when changing the MPE-FEC rate, while keeping an inner code rate of 1/2 The range is again higher for route North, and the CINRR and ER EURASIP Journal on ... 1/2 Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... of Inequalities and Applications functions, we obtain the convergence in measure of the corresponding nondecreasing sequence of rearrangements In the third section we introduce, in a natural manner, ... we derive an exact formula in L∞ and an estimate in EΦ for the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness Then as a consequence of nonexpansivity of rearrangement we obtain inequalities involving such ... functions and the integral for integrable functions, and generalize the Orlicz spaces of σ-additive measures defined on σ-algebras of sets As in the previous sections, Ω is a nonempty set and Ꮽ is an...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... of continuous linear operators acting in a reflexive Banach space, and obtain conditions under which such operator has an eigenvector (clearly this implies that the operator has an invariant subspace) ... functional f which separates K0 and K1 In a linear topological space, any two disjoint convex sets, one of which has an interior point, can be separated by a nonzero continuous linear functional, that ... of inclusion y ∈ f (x) and a fixed-point theorem that is used in the following sections About completeness of the image of a set under a linear mapping In beginning, we will prove the following...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... nuisance tripping, and so forth SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTION Power quality monitoring is fast becoming an integral part of a general distribution system monitoring, as well as an M F McGranaghan ... capacitor bank, and characterize the events for database management and analysis (v) Performance indices calculation and reporting for system benchmarking purposes and for prioritizing of system maintenance ... 1: Time trend of an RMS voltage is a standard feature in many PQ analysis software packages ONLINE AND OFFLINE POWER QUALITY MONITORING As utilities and industrial customers have expanded their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... both MCAs before and after CAS, finding a relation between ICH in patients and an increase in peak systolic velocities in both MCAs after CAS Fujimoto et al (2004) examined the changes in the ... variations in CBF to be calculated in real time TCD has many advantages and multiple indications in cerebral vascular disease (Alexandrov et al, 2010) TCD monitoring can provide direct and real-time information ... Kolkman JJ, Mensink PB, van Petersen AS, et al Clinical approach to chronic gastrointestinal ischemia from ““intestinal angina”” to the spectrum of chronic splanchnic disease Scand J Gastroenterol...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... situations with speakers and hearers involved Utterance meaning is the main research object in pragmatics, whereas semantics focuses on sentence meaning For instance, from a pragmatic point of view, a ... wants to claim for himself” (Brown and Levinson, 1978: 66) According to Brown and Levinson (1978: 66), “face is something that emotionally invested, and that can be lost, maintained, or enhanced, ... legitimization) and the social meaning of the request according to cultural and situational factors In fact, requesting is defined as an act of requiring the other(s) to something performed through utterance(s)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 08:03

... use interrogative sentence for making invitation indirectly In other words, it is a reminding saying which contains the meaning of invitation People use it for expressing their warm and friendly ... p.167) Invitations help to establish, maintain, reinforce and further strengthen social rapports Americans and Vietnamese share certain similarities in terms of making and responding to invitations ... in considerations so as not to cause hurts, shocks, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations A frequently misunderstood area in American verbal interaction is that of extending, accepting, and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 08:03

... 2) In two remaining stands, Walusiówka and Gródek, current volume increment was the smallest among stands of the Pieniny Mountains, but in spite of the growing up stage, it was similar to increments ... climate warming up, similarly as height growth in beech stands in Bavaria, where height growth of beech increases with increase 286 of temperature, and in dry and warm areas these stands reach ... recruitment, and increment, determined during this study, contain important information which may be interpreted from the ecological as well as from the economical point of view In the case of primeval...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... are in uenced by provenance, e.g the size of the first-year shoot (an annual shoot is defined as an axis segment developed in one growing season) and the development, in the following years, of annual ... than those with terminal bud abscission and no dieback (N = 173; F = 1.1, p > 0.05; three-way ANOVA, including progeny and block as random factors; after pooling all progenies and groups I and ... L., Prévosto B., Balandier P., Kunstler G., Plasticity in growth, biomass allocation and root morphology in beech seedlings as induced by irradiance and herbaceous competition, Ann For Sci 62 (2005)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... be the reason of leptin resistance The closed-loop leptin/insulin feedback makes the GH/insulin/leptin relations understandable [30,31] According to Link et al leptin might serve as a good marker ... overweight status in our cohort was higher than in general European population (31% vs 20%), and increased regardless of introducing of CRT Leptin and leptin receptor levels may serve as good markers ... extracellular domain of membrane leptin receptors [9] By binding to this receptor, leptin delays its clearance from circulation [10] This results in increased leptin levels and bioavailability and, as a consequence,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... protein and capsids remaining were determined minutes In contrast, when heated at 67°C in the presence of DTT the rate of capsid disappearance was far more rapid than the decline of soluble protein ... to the C-terminus of the other suggested a simple means of introducing an inter-dimer covalent bond Duplicating the coat gene and joining the two copies together in a single reading frame fuses ... virus assembly, since the oneto-one complex was most abundant at the highest RNAto-protein ratio, and its quantity decreased as the RNA concentration was lowered Meanwhile, as the RNA-toprotein...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... atomoxetine with standard treatment, only data for patients who received methylphenidate as their initial treatment was included in the analysis [20] The final mean daily atomoxetine dose used in ... from baseline to endpoint in the ADHDRS-IV-Parent:Inv [20,21,28,29] One study defined response as a ≥25% reduction on the same scale [18] For another study ≥50% reduction in scores was used as the ... atomoxetine than that reported for MPH in studies using teacher ratings Therefore the advantage of methylphenidate over atomoxetine appears larger in school than at home In contrast long acting OROS-methylphenidate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20