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Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time

Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... at the basis of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, just as it lies at the basis of Darwin’s theory of evolution Since chance – or contingency, as philosophers call it – is the opposite of law and ... reducing the density and pressure of the gas adjacent to the piston The upshot is that the work done by the gas on the piston during the outstroke is somewhat less than the work done by the piston ... 2004 Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time 1:21 199 The many-universes theory neatly solves the problem of the origin of the arrow of time The wave function as a whole can be completely...
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IT''''S CHILD''''S PLAY: ADVERGAMING AND THE ONLINE MARKETING OF FOOD TO CHILDREN doc

IT''''S CHILD''''S PLAY: ADVERGAMING AND THE ONLINE MARKETING OF FOOD TO CHILDREN doc

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 01:20
... T-shirt” with the brand logo on the front), and in others they not So, 20 both the consumer and the marketer can benefit from these offers The consumer receives a desired item, and the marketer ... given the choice of their game player or opponent (52% of choice options involve players) Sometimes the player is a brand character or a vehicle that has a brand logo on it In other cases, the player ... the validity of the split 32 Not all of the games include the specific brands in our study These numbers reflect the total number of food-related games on the site, irrespective of which brand(s)...
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Báo cáo toán học: " A Note on the Asymptotics and Computational Complexity of Graph Distinguishability" docx

Báo cáo toán học: " A Note on the Asymptotics and Computational Complexity of Graph Distinguishability" docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 06:22
... denotes the collection of automorphisms of the graph G and id denotes the identity map One says that such a coloring “destroys the symmetries” of G Every graph G is then |G|-distinguishable and a ... We now return to the first theorem advertised in the introduction, namely Select a large rigid graph H and let GH be the graph formed by the disjoint union of K3 and copies of H Then Aut(GH ) = ... definition of AM in some detail, for a general introduction to complexity theory and detailed discussions of the polynomial time hierarchy and AM, we refer the reader to [9] and [4, 5] The polynomial...
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Báo cáo y học: " Network, degeneracy and bow tie. Integrating paradigms and architectures to grasp the complexity of the immune system" pps

Báo cáo y học: " Network, degeneracy and bow tie. Integrating paradigms and architectures to grasp the complexity of the immune system" pps

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 16:20
... challenge in network theory and systems biology [3] While the application of the network paradigm revealed the existence of structural complexity, many other layers of complexity in the system became ... Pauling L: A Theory of the Color of Dyes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1939, 25:577-582 84 Zuckerkandl E, Pauling L: Molecules as documents of evolutionary ... DR and GCC conceived of the study, AZ and MM participated in its development, PT, AG and CF drafted the manuscript All authors contributed to write the manuscript, and then read and approved the...
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Can the subaltern play postcolonial transition and the making of basketball as the national sports in the philippines

Can the subaltern play postcolonial transition and the making of basketball as the national sports in the philippines

Ngày tải lên : 12/09/2015, 09:22
... representation of the “benevolent America” has resulted into the decline of the former and the rise of the latter Furthermore, Chapter Four looks into the “Hollywoodization of Hoops”, which described the ... Republic Postcolonial Transition and the Making of a National Sport The Rise and Fall of Baseball Space Jam: The Geography of Games The Battle of Ballgames The Invader vs The Innovator Rural Baseball ... In metaphorical sense, “playing with the big boys” generally embodies the struggles, the joys of playing, the thrills of victory, and the frustrations of losing that the Philippines, as a subaltern...
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Nationalization of culture and the formation of national consciousness in modern china, 1890 1928

Nationalization of culture and the formation of national consciousness in modern china, 1890 1928

Ngày tải lên : 15/09/2015, 17:10
... conception of national essence and the likes 2) for 1912-1928, from the triumph of “1911 Revolution”, to the establishment of the Republican government of Nanjing, my thesis focuses on the change in the ... Chongke and Mr Goh Long Hoon, for their friendship and concerns throughout the last years I would like to dedicate this work to my beloved father and late mother For the last couple of years, ... 253-256 272-281 282-304 Abstract Between the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th, a family of new coinages began to emerge in China They included “Guocui” (national essence),...
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Ethnic consciousness and allegiance to the state weak state, weak (ethnic) society and the question of dual loyalties in myanmar

Ethnic consciousness and allegiance to the state weak state, weak (ethnic) society and the question of dual loyalties in myanmar

Ngày tải lên : 05/10/2015, 21:29
... prominent, the Mons, the Rakhines, the Karens, the Shans, the Kachins, the Chins, and a number of other minor groups The “foreign” minorities include the late-coming Indians and the Chinese The ethnic ... practised to the full The Burman later won the feudal war, and they subdued and subjugated all other nationalities in the land The Karens suffered untold miseries at the hands of their Burman ... with this work They offered advice, suggestions and corrections The views and opinions in this thesis are nevertheless of the author alone and the responsibility of any shortcomings and errors remains...
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Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf

Ngày tải lên : 21/09/2012, 10:54
... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...
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Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf

Ngày tải lên : 21/09/2012, 11:02
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character of the Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
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 Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform

Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2012, 09:33
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... conceptualization and recent evidence CTF clarifies the role of the financial system in the functioning of a monetary market economy of production At the start of the circuit process, the financial...
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Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2012, 09:40
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects of the collapse of the bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
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Facts of Vietnam Freight forwarding industry and the role of Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association (VIFFAS) to the industry in international economic integration processhelpful to Oristar.doc

Facts of Vietnam Freight forwarding industry and the role of Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association (VIFFAS) to the industry in international economic integration processhelpful to Oristar.doc

Ngày tải lên : 27/10/2012, 16:42
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market and the attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the members in order to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
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 Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

Ngày tải lên : 31/10/2012, 16:49
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
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Báo cáo y học: "HLA-DR regulation and the influence of GM-CSF on transcription, surface expression and shedding

Báo cáo y học: "HLA-DR regulation and the influence of GM-CSF on transcription, surface expression and shedding

Ngày tải lên : 03/11/2012, 09:57
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction of the total HLA-DR of the cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR and the density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...
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Báo cáo y học: "Human toxoplasmosis and the role of veterinary clinicians"

Báo cáo y học: "Human toxoplasmosis and the role of veterinary clinicians"

Ngày tải lên : 03/11/2012, 11:06
... where the consequences of infection can be very severe, while the risk of living with one’s beloved cat is practically nill References Angulo FJ, Glaser CA, Juranek DD et al Caring for pets of immunocompromised ... with the human immunodeficiency virus Clin Infect Dis.1994;18:14-24 Han K, Shin DW, Lee TY, et al Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity of ... women in Korea J Parasitol 2008; 94: 963-965 Grant S and Olsen CW Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 159-163...
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UN-REDD programme and the progress of implementing REDD in Vietnam

UN-REDD programme and the progress of implementing REDD in Vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 23/01/2013, 22:06
... well as the decentralization of power to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the land allocation under Decree 99 The goal of phase ... The participation of the private sector is not strong enough especially the companies working in the field of fisheries, agriculture related to conversion of agricultural land The awareness of ... governments of Vietnam and Norway on the implementation of phase II, Norwegian Government has also agreed to further sponsor Vietnam an amount of US$30 million What is the progress of implementing...
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Music cover, the effects of it and The attitudes of NEU’s students to Music cover in Vietnam

Music cover, the effects of it and The attitudes of NEU’s students to Music cover in Vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 21/04/2013, 20:53
... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of the ... understand the lyrics of the original song and they make comparison, they mainly recognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones Hence, they may look down on the musicians, ... newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, which...
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Sun tzu and the art of business

Sun tzu and the art of business

Ngày tải lên : 18/08/2013, 12:22
... his masterful handling of logistics for the Persian Gulf War, is another indicator of the robustness of the true military model The Six Principles and the Plan of This Book To make the transition ... Harbor and by the Allies to mislead the Germans about the exact location of their invasion of France The use of intelligence was critical to American success in the Cuban missile crisis The Viet ... and society to function effectively and prosperously Therefore, ethical use of the principles put forth here is required Thejourney When you come to understand the principles of Sun Tzu and the...
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Sanitation in Urban Poor Settlement and the Importance of Education for the Reduction of the Diffused Pollution - A Case Study of Bauniabad, Bangladesh

Sanitation in Urban Poor Settlement and the Importance of Education for the Reduction of the Diffused Pollution - A Case Study of Bauniabad, Bangladesh

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:08
... know the benefit of having the connection of their latrines to biogas plants At the installation, the community agreed to share the 20% of the installation cost and the 100% of cleaning cost of ... because the people were involved from the beginning of the installation and they understood the benefit of the option from the combination of hygiene education and their experience from the test ... according to the baseline and follow-up surveys, 98% of the sampled households used only one of the pits of the alternate pit latrine The other pit was no more used and the people extended their house...
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Evaluation of the Effects and the Programming of ‘Water Conservation Plan’ (WCP) for Total Water Resources Management in Tokyo

Evaluation of the Effects and the Programming of ‘Water Conservation Plan’ (WCP) for Total Water Resources Management in Tokyo

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 10:17
... proposed the necessity of city-wide recycling system and other measures The fluctuation of water consumption in this period reflects the people’s consideration on the WCP introduced The people ... relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory ... conservation They also continuously make efforts to promote the utilization of SWT devices including the distribution of free SWT-tap developed by them as shown in Fig.7 On the other hand, for triggering...
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