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scientific american   -  2001 01  -  brave new cosmos  -  a special report

scientific american - 2001 01 - brave new cosmos - a special report

... study of chimpanzees Whiten, a fellow of the British Academy, is professor of evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland Boesch is co-director of the ... characteristics of intelligencelanguage, speech recognition and understanding, common sense, emotions, planning, strategy, and lip readingwe are incapable of rendering even a rough facsimile of a HAL ... in physics at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee in 1992 One of the chief formulators of the theory of quintessence, Caldwell is now assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth...

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scientific american   -  2001 02  -  are we almost tapped out  safeguarding every drop of clean water

scientific american - 2001 02 - are we almost tapped out safeguarding every drop of clean water

... projects—which often have price tags in the tens of billions of dollars A handful of countries are even taking steps to remove some of the most egregious and damaging dams For example, in 1998 and 1999 ... of Health Lahn, a native of China, is a researcher of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor in the department of human genetics at the University of Chicago Functional Coherence of ... PHOTON 64 posed of red, green and blue LEDs can be made to feel “cooler” by turning off more of the red LEDs and turning on more of the blue ones This flexibility offers novel ways of using light...

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scientific american   -  2001 03  -  sculpting the earth from inside out

scientific american - 2001 03 - sculpting the earth from inside out

... size of those under the Hawaiian Island chain and Iceland, or one very large plume Abbott and her co-worker Ann Isley of the State University of New York at Oswego have catalogued remnants of possible ... neurobiology and biochemistry He is an associate investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of physiology and biophysics and of pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, ... of taste from complementary angles Smith’s training is in psychobiology and neurophysiology He is professor and vice chairman of the department of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of...

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scientific american   -  2001 04  -  whose blood is it anyway

scientific american - 2001 04 - whose blood is it anyway

... expand our old practices— of chemical use, of water diversion, of plowing wild lands and converting them to farms, of nonagricultural sprawl and of the production of industrial waste One of the ... centimeter of leaf surface Recent studies of milkweed plants in and around the cornfields of Maryland, Nebraska and Ontario report far lower levels of Bt pollen, ranging from just six to 78 grains of ... Griffiths of Carnegie Mellon University, by Philip Kaaret of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and by Hironori Matsumoto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—announced Chandra...

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scientific american   -  2001 05  -  get the idea (tomorrow's web will)

scientific american - 2001 05 - get the idea (tomorrow's web will)

... Luann Becker of the University of Washington, Robert J Poreda of the University of Rochester and their colleagues extracted strange traces of helium and argon from rocks at the site in China and ... history of such discrepancies, and they have almost always portended great leaps of understanding Debates over the age of Earth were crucial to Charles Darwin’s formulation of the theory of natural ... errors and distortions in the book) but because the book is predicated on a misunderstanding of how science works and of the difference between anecdotes (on which Tierney’s book is based) and statistical...

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scientific american   -  2001 06  -  the paradox of the sun's hot corona

scientific american - 2001 06 - the paradox of the sun's hot corona

... island and destroyed its soil, leaving a bizarre landscape of condensed powder ridges and shock-fractured stones Because most of the island is devoid of trees, bushes and grasses, it looks and ... movements of the hands and arms, and the orientation of the hands (for example, palm up versus palm down) In American Sign Language (ASL) the signs for “summer,” “ugly” and “dry” have the same hand ... antiSemitic) and anti-gay crimes The occurrence of racial/ethnic offenses declined during the 1990s, while religious and anti-gay offenses held steady Many, perhaps most, of these incidents were spur -of- the-moment...

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scientific american   -  2001 07  -  shattering myths about hypnosis

scientific american - 2001 07 - shattering myths about hypnosis

... smell and flavor of the London air, the rapid soiling of our hands, our linen, the hangings of our rooms and the air-tubes of our lungs bear ample witness to the reality of this evil.” THE MINES OF ... Weitzenhoffer and Ernest TO STUDY MICHAEL R NASH is associate professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and is editor in chief of the International Journal of Clinical and ... countries and connected to them through the Rhine River Valley and overland routes The impoverished landlocked countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia are surrounded by poor countries and are often...

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scientific american   -  2001 08  -  cyber cells  -  simulating life for drug discovery

scientific american - 2001 08 - cyber cells - simulating life for drug discovery

... together collections of bait and collections of prey to see what falls out Repeat the analysis again and again, looking at tens of thousands of reactions a day, and the bulk of the interactions ... of the peaks and troughs of the light wave) on just one of the 50 bands In essence, each band of the light “looks at” a different database entry (a different part of the modulator), and only one ... the intelligence and humanity of the living Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and the author of How We Believe and The Borderlands of Science www.sciam.com...

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scientific american   -  2001 09  -  nanotech

scientific american - 2001 09 - nanotech

... nanometer From the classic book Powers of Ten, by Philip and Phylis Morrison and the office of Charles and Ray Eames weight But this wasn’t just the meanderings of a starry-eyed politician Surprisingly, ... billionths of a meter) This size is tiny by the standards of everyday experience— about one thousandth the width of a human hair— but it is large on the scale of atoms and molecules The diameter of a ... stepwise hopping of electrons onto and off the coulomb island Fulton and Dolan’s experiments demonstrate both the fundamental physics of single-electron charging and the potential of these devices...

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scientific american   -  2001 10  -  beyond the zone

scientific american - 2001 10 - beyond the zone

... hundreds of thousands of years One of the chief defenders of Multiregionalism, anthropologist Vincent M Sarich of the University of California at Berkeley, is well known for his vigorous and energetic ... World Wide Web.) enough? As economists Alan S Manne of Stanford and Richard G Richels of the ElecSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN took a random sample of 30 of the 1,400 tric Power Research Institute discuss ... winter’s storm, and when we wish to procure solid and durable articles, good prices have to be paid, as of old Stockings and stuff of that kind are rattled off with surprising dexterity, and manufactured...

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scientific american   -  2001 11  -  genetic traps for viruses

scientific american - 2001 11 - genetic traps for viruses

... the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Human Genome Sciences; he is also editor in chief of a new publication, the Journal of Regenerative Medicine, and serves on ... guarantee absolute safety And an inevitable cost of stepped-up security will be a loss of some personal liberty To those affected by the thousands of sons and daughters, mothers and fathers who perished ... invading pathogens and in cancer and other abnormal cells Stamler and Owen W Grifth of the Medical College of Wisconsin won patents (U.S.: 6,057,367 and 6,180,824) for ghting microbes and cells gone...

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scientific american   -  2001 12  -  india, pakistan and the bomb

scientific american - 2001 12 - india, pakistan and the bomb

... research teams— Melvin Greenblatt of the University of Southern California, working with Phillipe Shubik of the University of Chicago, and Robert L Ehrmann and Mogens Knoth of Harvard Medical School— ... the switching and logic functions— comes about from controlling the availability of electrons and holes above and below the band gap The existence and properties of an electronic band gap depend ... kept alive and potent during transport from place of culture to point of dispersal It must then withstand the heat and shock of a biological bomb explosion or the mechanical shear forces of being...

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Bảo hiểm gián đoạn kinh doanh tại Bảo Việt Hà Nội giai đoạn 1998 - 2001.doc

Bảo hiểm gián đoạn kinh doanh tại Bảo Việt Hà Nội giai đoạn 1998 - 2001.doc

... định Sau đó, với đời hai nguyên tắc Herry Booth & Commercial Union (năm 1923) Polikoff Ltd vs North British and Mercantile (năm 1936) thật đặt móng cho bảo hiểm gián đoạn kinh doanh hình thành...

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Giải pháp kế hoạch hóa chuyển dịch cơ cấu ngành kinh tế Vn giai đoạn 2001-2005.doc

Giải pháp kế hoạch hóa chuyển dịch cơ cấu ngành kinh tế Vn giai đoạn 2001-2005.doc

... khép kín nêu trên, lý thuyết phát triển cấu ngành không cân đối (A.Hirschman, F.Perrons, G.Destanne de Bernis )cho không thiết phải đảm bảo tăng trởng bền vững cách trì cấu cân đối liên ngành...

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