... Species of Philosophy ii OftheOriginofIdeas iii Ofthe Association ofIdeas 12 16 Contents vi iv Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations ofthe Understanding v Sceptical Solution of these ... generate the observable behaviour ofthe mind Sections II and III: TheOrigin and Association ofIdeas Section II ofthe Enquiry sets out the basic principles of Hume’s ‘Theory ofIdeas , most of which ... vi Of Probability vii Ofthe Idea of necessary Connexion viii Of Liberty and Necessity ix Ofthe Reason of Animals x Of Miracles xi Of a particular Providence and of a future State xii Of the...
... generate the observable behaviour ofthe mind 9 Sections II and III: TheOrigin and Association ofIdeas Section II ofthe Enquiry sets out the basic principles of Hume’s ‘Theory ofIdeas , most of ... Natural History of Religion, A Dissertation on the Passions, Of Tragedy’, and Ofthe Standard of Taste’ (the last of these 1757 replaced Of Suicide’ and Ofthe Immortality ofthe Soul’, which ... a number of factors such as the opposition of contrary testimony; … the character or number ofthe witnesses; … the manner of their delivering their testimony; or … the union of all these circumstances’...
... scorneth the multitude ofthe city, neither regardeth he the voice ofthe driver The range ofthe mountains is his pasture The magnificent description ofthe unicorn and of leviathan, in the same ... everywhere find of his wisdom who made it If a discourse on the use ofthe parts ofthe body may be considered as an hymn to the Creator; the use ofthe passions, which are the organs ofthe mind, ... Sympathy 14 The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others 15 Ofthe Effects of Tragedy 16 Imitation 17 Ambition 18 The Recapitulation 19 The Conclusion Part II Ofthe Passion Caused by the Sublime...
... (1500-now) :the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great Vowel Shift WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGES SPAIN ( mosquito) PORTUGAL GREECE (marmalade) (theory) FRANCE ... The history of English begins a little after A.D 600 English is a Germanic Language ofthe Indo –European Family Indo – European English French Latin Greek Swedish Russian Hindi History of ... –cliffs wild and windy headlands, naessas, Ledges of mist Where and mountain Frence fen –gelid, there forge –steam torrents Under naessas genipap, neither gaited Downward plunge to dark abysses Flod...
... how living systems are able to sustain themselves against the downward pull ofthe Second Law of Thermodynamics and how thermodynamics affects theoriginof information-rich, living systems Finally, ... life is one ofthe great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this mystery is the generation ofthe critical information that is necessary to provide the three ... described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, theoriginof life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store...
... Ib in the genome of this snake These findings provide clues to the evolutionary position ofthe neurotoxic V a aspis population with respect to the other snakes studied The genome of one of these ... with the neutral evolution theory, which states that the strong conservation of exons serves to maintain the function ofthe mature protein [26] The protein-coding regions ofthe PLA2 genes of ... and the 5¢ part of exon encode the mature protein; exon encodes the 5¢-UTR, and exon and part of exon encode the signal peptide The 110 nucleotides at the 3¢ end of exon encode the 3¢-UTR The...
... provide an estimate of H0 , together with a strong confirmation ofthe validity ofthe Hubble law and, therefore, ofthe Cosmological Principle Another test of this principle is the so-called Hubble ... be the case in the early years ofthe 20th century when the first steps were taken, by Einstein and others, towards a scientific theory ofthe Universe Little was then known empirically about the ... to make sense of his existence and that ofthe world around him in some kind of theoretical framework The first such theories, not recognisable as ‘science’ in the modern sense ofthe word, were...
... mostly with the large-scale structure ofthe present universe: the debate over the extragalactic nature ofthe spiral nebulae; the discovery ofthe red shifts of distant galaxies and their dependence ... imaginable oftheoriginofthe universe Just as in the Younger Edda, there is an embarrassing vagueness about the very beginning, the first hundredth of a second or so Also, there is the unwelcome ... shift, due to the motion ofthe star away from or towards the earth For instance, the wavelength of every dark line in the spectrum ofthe star Capella is longer than the wavelength ofthe corresponding...
... for theoriginofthe solar system and their strengths and weaknesses are analysed The only theory to essay a complete picture oftheorigin and evolution ofthe solar system is the Capture Theory ... in gure 1.2 The rst of these is the longitude ofthe ascending node, ê, which is the angle between the ascending node and the rst point of Aires The second angle is the argument ofthe perihelion, ... interpretation of their densities is in terms ofthe relative size ofthe core to that ofthe whole body and also the total mass ofthe planet that will determine the degree of compression The relative...
... Picture B shows the works ofthe neighbors ofthe East wall that were forced to fall down their houses in order to clean the space at the end ofthe Citadel to better bomb the city Taken from Ròmul ... lot of controversies were raised to understand who is the responsible of inducing liquefaction: the reactivation ofthe bacilli trapped in the caseum of old lesions? the macrophage through the ... disturbance in the organization ofthe intragranulomatous necrosis The immune response and its magnitude, the bacillary load, the speed ofthe bacillary growth and the amount of extracellular...
... for theoriginofthe nucleus, endomembrane, and cytoskeleton Nonetheless, phylogenetic methods can still be applied to proteins, the appearance of which might have accompanied theoriginofthe ... convergent) originofthe insert itself (Fig 3B) Apart from theoriginofthe proeukaryote, ValRS data shed light on the intriguing question ofthe extent and evolutionary significance of LGT [52,53,75,76] ... proteins by means of paralogous multiplication may indicate theoriginof ER per se Similarly, multiplication ofthe enzymes of DNA metabolism may be tied to theoriginofthe nucleus with multiple...
... displayed the expected coordination ofthe tyrosine aromatic ring towards the iron atom However, the hydroxyl group ofthe aromatic ring was placed trans to His290 In contrast to the anchoring ofthe ... docking The computational approach allowed first, the creation of binary complexes ofthe natural pterin cosubstrate BH4 and the catalytic domain ofthe enzymes, followed by the docking of amino ... coordinates ofthe phenylalanine analog 3-(2-thienyl)-L-alanine bound to BH4ÆPAH Preserving in their model both the position ofthe main chain and the orientation ofthe ring structure, the authors...
... position ofthe intron to the vertebrate type of arrestin (Fig 1) Therefore, it may be presumed that the function was lost in vertebrate visual arrestin during the evolution The branch length ofthe ... constructed the corresponding mutant for Ci-Arr (V55D) This mutant, however, showed that the extent ofthe internalization was almost the same as that ofthe control (Fig 2B) in spite ofthe same ... Ci-Arr enhances the internalization of b2-ARs by the mechanism independent ofthe function of endogenous b-arrestin or related proteins To know the expression pattern of Ci-arr gene in the larva,...
... duplication and an inversion When they compared the sequence of these duplicated regions to the rest ofthe genome, they found 70% ofthe genes to be present elsewhere The genes were duplicated in ... 23S Fig 1.5 The gene map of spinach chloroplast DNA The two long thickenings in the lower half ofthe circle represent the inverted repeat Gene designations: rbcL, the large subunit of ribulose ... through the reorganization of genetic variability The processes of change are the same, regardless of whether we are dealing with wild or domesticated populations; only the selector differs In the...
... There are two senses in which one can speak oftheorigin and develop ~ ment of writing For want of better labels I shall call these the material and the linguistic The former refers to theorigin ... the writing of morphemically complex words like English buttercup, the third with the way in which the writing reproduces the grammar ofthe language as well as the meaning ofthe words All of ... must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes In the case of Chinese characters at the time of their invention, that language was the language of the...
... evolution of one ofthe most diverse osteichthyan groups, the Teleostei, and since the testing ofthe monophyly ofthe otophysan, ostariophysan and otocephalan fishes is one ofthe aims ofthe present ... support the monophyly of this taxon are the enlargement ofthe basal elements ofthe pectoral fin, the unique arrangement ofthe scales, the interlocking mechanism, and the presence of a single ... are the closest living relatives of teleosts, the amiids ofthe genus Amia, or both these fishes and the lepisosteids ofthe genera Lepisosteus and Atractosteus, that is, the members ofthe three...
... splitter The path including the objective and AFM is referred as the measurement arm, while the other is the reference arm The laser power going into the measurement arm is about mW The same amount of ... ofthe probe oscillating frequency ωo The lock-in amplifier then demodulates the signals, conveying the results to the AFM controller for the purpose of mapping Fig Schematic of s-NSOM setup The ... closer to the slit, the signal ofthe interference fringes is strongest, while at position the laser spot is further from the slit, the fringe is weakest This is another indication that the fringes...
... splitter The path including the objective and AFM is referred as the measurement arm, while the other is the reference arm The laser power going into the measurement arm is about mW The same amount of ... ofthe probe oscillating frequency ωo The lock-in amplifier then demodulates the signals, conveying the results to the AFM controller for the purpose of mapping Fig Schematic of s-NSOM setup The ... closer to the slit, the signal ofthe interference fringes is strongest, while at position the laser spot is further from the slit, the fringe is weakest This is another indication that the fringes...
... Chapter — The Evolution of Consciousness [Part I] 247 TheOriginof Life 248 TheOriginofthe Genetic Code 251 TheOriginof Sex ... phonation; the modification ofthe central nervous system, notably at the level ofthe temporal lobes, permitting the specific recognition of speech From the point of view of embryogenesis, these ... around a fire with others of their kind And so, from a very young age, children deposit deep within the recesses of their minds the images of these creatures crawling down out ofthe trees in Africa,...