... with his silent work, 4'33", which caused confusion and disdain, but again, few would argue that Cage is not an artist Art, it seems, is something that is made by an artist And an artist is someone ... if there’s no risk The risk isn’t the risk of financial ruin (though that might be part of it) No, the risk is the risk of rejection Of puzzlement Of stasis Art requires the artist to care, and ... can Art is what it is to be human The Icarus Deception Just south of the Greek island of Samos lies the Icarian Sea Legend has it that this is where Icarus died—a victim of his hubris His father,...
... voaspecialenglish.com I’m Christopher Cruise Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled - English Listening Lessons.mp3 Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled ... devices One example is this wheelchair.” He says his team has set two goals JOSE MILLAN: “What we want is to bring this technology out of the lab and this has two components First is testing with ... 02:14pm This is the VOA Special English Health Report Israeli researchers say they have developed a substance that attracts and kills mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite However, the...
... clinical isolates with distinct coreceptor usage i.e CI #6, #14, #15, #19 (R5 isolates), CI #17 (X4 isolate) and CI #10, #16, #18 (R5/X4 isolates) The coreceptor phenotype of each of these viral isolates ... MIP-1α occurs in two highly related isoforms, designated LD78α and LD78β, and although they only differ in three amino acids, the LD78β isoform is much more potent as a CCR5 agonist than LD78α [13] ... the R5 isolate CI #14 and the X4 isolate CI #17, but not cytopathicity of the R5/X4 isolate CI #10 However, the combination of both compounds completely inhibited giant cell formation by this dual-tropic...
... pre-crisis levels or US$1.9 trillion by 2013 But it cautions: “Risk factors such as the unpredictability of global economic governance, a possible widespread sovereign debt crisis, and fiscal ... instance, have allowed the company to monetise innovations such as television sets with an integrated hard disk earlier than competitors Selective distribution is the other key to Loewe’s premium branding ... report When two worlds meet: How high- growth market companies are changing international business is a UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) report commissioned from the Economist Intelligence Unit It examines...
... is good evidence In the next chapter, we discuss other kinds of evidence, as we continue to ask the question, "How good is the evidence ?" Practice Exercises (J) Critical Question: How good is ... bread, but the price is still rising The bread does not last longer It is not softer Yet, the price is still rising! Someone should sue the bread manufacturers How Good Is the Evidence 1? 115 ... have any expertise to assist his or her judgment? ? How the person's value assumptions affect his or her testimony? ? Whose personal testimony might be helpful in assessing this person's testimony?...
... important relevant difference, we conclude that this analogy is not very relevant ff\ V ^ CRITICAL QUESTION SUMMARY: WHY THIS QUESTION IS IMPORTANT How Good Is the Evidence? When an author offers a reason ... generalize, given the research sample? We discuss this question in depth in our next section How Good Is the Evidence 11? 123 Are there any biases or distortions in the surveys, questionnaires, ... biased context Biased wording of a question is a common problem; a small change in how a question is asked can have a major effect on how a question is answered Let's examine a conclusion based...
... and occasionally, technical accident It is not obvious what the set of possible values is, or even how large that set is Although it is finite, the set is large and sparse, with all of the attendant ... were visiting the site from multiple IPs Results The frequency distribution of fingerprints we observed is shown in Figure Were the x axis not logarithmic, it would be a strongly “L”-shaped distribution, ... Agent strings are distinguished because the other measurements not comport with the User Agent.3 An example of the fingerprint measurements is shown in Table A In fact, Table A shows the modal fingerprint...
... nowadays his wife advises on his wardrobe This picture is illustrative: Torvalds represents himself as a hacker with a family And this can be seen as a generative metaphor His family consists not ... 1905) In 1968 the biologist and ecologist Garrett Hardin raised the issue again in a probing way in his famous article in Science, “The Tragedy of the Commons”: However, selfish households accumulate ... ‘automagic’ myth of anarchic decentralised developing Raymond shows that this is not magic; it is organised labour, in a framework of interconnecting personal itches, ego satisfaction, reputation politics,...
... thrombosis [28], periprostate vein thrombosis [29], and atherosclerotic plaques [30–33] These findings imply that mast cells are involved in thrombosis and fibrinolysis In fact, mast cells express tissue-type ... horseradish peroxidase, recognized the region between the first and second Kunitz domains of TFPI [62] Only TFPI antigen consisting of all three Kunitz domains was detected with this ELISA In this ... 17.47 ± 4.46 8.10 ± 1.11 0.46 Discussion because the efficiency of enzymatic proteolysis was estimated on the basis of the amount of remaining TFPI antigen As shown in Table 2, the apparent catalytic...
... this virus on basal activation of the reporter (data not shown) [19] Having established that IjBDN over-expression is effective at preventing induction of NF-jB transcriptional activity, this ... respectively This is again consistent with the published IC50 value for MEK1/2 inhibition (0.065 lM) suggesting that both PD098059 and U0126 are functionally active in A549 cells [26] Discussion The ... epithelium is the primary site of contact with airborne allergens, irritants, pathogens and other proinflammatory agents that trigger exacerbation in airway diseases [15] This epithelium is biosynthetically...
... success To make this planning worthwhile, you’ll need to answer the question How much is enough?” How much is enough money? How much is enough time with your family? How much is enough time to ... loan How depressing No wonder we’re not happier How did we get here? How Much Is Enough? alerts us to the fact that consumer marketing is increasingly focused on ensuring that we are dissatis ed ... question How much is enough?” For what is money without happiness? What is wealth without well-being? And what is life without meaning? One nal note To get the most out of reading How Much Is Enough?...
... built up information on howhigh the risk is of various types of personal injury leading to permanent disability For example, the risk of permanent disability is considerably higher in the case of ... if the number of head injuries ishigh in relation to the number of fractured ribs Weighted, this provides a measure of howhigh the risk of death or disability is in the event of a crash in a ... Mitsubishi Galant 93-96 Mitsubishi Galant 97-03 Nissan Primera 91-96 Nissan Primera 97-02 Opel Signum 03-04 Mitsubishi Galant 85-93 Opel Ascona 82-88 – – – – – – Mitsubishi Carisma 96-04 Nissan...
... liquidity in a major crisis” (Dowd, 1998) The methodology applied in this paper could be readily used to evaluate crisis liquidity risk using intra-day data specific to such crisis periods where liquidity ... liquidity risk premium is reduced at longer horizons, since market risk dominates liquidity risk Yet, liquidity risk remains economically significant for larger portfolios Disregarding liquidity risk, ... mid-quote return distribution (assuming normality) This quantile is then increased by a factor based on the excess kurtosis of the returns In a second step, liquidity cost is allowed for by taking...
... audience is, what facet of their product or service is to be sold, and finally, how it is to be sold If some part of those decisions is wrong, the commercial may not work The blame is sometimes misplaced ... client/agency side a How clients and agencies get together? b Who generates the theme of what is to be sold and how? c Howis it shaped? What is its “tonality”? d Howis it shepherded through ... demand an answer How long does it take to make a commercial? How much will this specific commercial cost? Another important area to consider is the client’s time How much is needed? How much can be...
... occupations (especially health-related jobs) the differential is reversed This is highly consistent with the previous literature that distinguishes between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ part-time jobs 27 2.6 Aspects ... (Ratti 1991) On the other hand, a distinction between high- skilled and low-skilled parttime labor is made as part of the discussion Again, high- skilled part-time labor is seen as a labor supply choice ... proportion than women (Stratton 1996; Wenger 2001) This is highly consistent with the literature on why and how women and men make their decisions relative to labor force participation (full-time...
... decades, shows how terrorism, even religious terrorism, is not new and not especially linked with Islam Like many others who have actually studied terrorists, she understands that terrorists are ... than that all terrorism is the same is to undermine the “moral clarity” needed to pursue the war on terrorism Further, U.S neoconservatives, Christian fundamentalists, and the Israeli Right are ... with respect to terrorism But we are far from agreeing on what terrorism is and how we can understand it, let alone how to respond to it and how to prevent it My judgments in this chapter are comparative...
... predictions are small with highest mean absolute difference at the state level of 0.054 and highest mean squared error of 0.005 Comparison to existing mapping Figure shows observed and predicted ... SF-12) when this is the only health status measure that has been included in the trial Therefore in practical applications the published results and algorithms are used and it is not feasible ... primary diagnosis on admission of a psychological illness or learning disability As well as information on inpatients, the survey includes outpatient clinics on a rotational basis where all patients...