... Alexander Pope ‘O arms andthe man I sing’, wrote Virgil at the start of his epic about Aeneas andthe founding of Rome My theme is science and society or, more precisely, the importance ofthe ... crucially, they wrote down what they did, recorded their experiences, and taught other doctors The Greeks built on the lessons ofthe Egyptians The body of medical writing attached to the name of Hippocrates ... science, indeed public suspicion of science, is their own fault In my view, the lack of public understanding of science andthe apparent lack of concern ofthe public for the evidence-based approach...
... Darwin, the free market to the survival ofthe fittest The emergence ofthe corporation marked the presence of private power on a scale and in numbers thitherto unknown, the concentration of private ... dramatized the supremacy ofthe free market andofthe political system intimately associated with it in the United States and elsewhere, democracy, as defining features ofthe world ofthe twenty-first ... annual wage, the nationalization of public utilities, andthe protection of labor unions The striking feature ofthe three movements was their success in mobilizing the support ofthe poor, the unemployed,...
... notably in the Critique ofthePowerof Judgment While the ultimate end ofthe pure use of reason is the explicit topic ofthe first two sections ofthe “Canon of Pure Reason,” in the second of these ... affirmations ofthe importance ofthe concepts of freedom andof nature—or even, for that matter, his affirmations ofthe importance ofthe relationship between freedom and nature as a problem within the ... cited in the order of their publication The first text is from the first section ( The Canon of Pure Reason”) ofthe second chapter ofthe “Transcendental Doctrine of Method,” which is the second,...
... taken as half the pore width The total volume of pores in g of solid is defined as the specific pore volume (V) The area ofthe inner and outer walls ofthe pores located intra- and interparticles ... inorganic acid, used in the process and also temperature and time of activation The bleaching powerof an acid-activated bentonite is generally examined on the basis ofthe b-carotene and chlorophyll ... micropores to mesopores during the development ofthe activation Seventy percent of H2SO4 sample has two maxima at 1.84 and 2.68 nm On the other hand, the area ofthe PSD curve increases with increasing...
... in the national government James R Thompson outlines the design ofthe new personnel systems for the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, which together comprise a large portion ofthe ... recruited and managed More dialogue is required to understand what remains ofthe personnel as we know it in the public sector and whether these changes serve the greater good of governance in the ... Public Service The Executive as Initiator of Strategic Reform: The Case of Louisiana 36 The Courts as an Initiator of Reform: The Unique Case ofthe Personnel Board of Jefferson County,...
... adopted The pattern of answers was revealing The two other women in the group named Cheryl Two ofthe three men named Phil Ofthe men, only Phil named Cheryl In other words, in this instance, the ... grades for themselves if they made their predictions publicly If they made their predictions privately, the predictions were the same as those ofthe men – andthe same as their actual grades This ... in other words, What is the best way to communicate? The answer is that there is no one best way The results of a given way of speaking will vary depending on the situation, the culture of the...
... and no weaker system of law enforcement than this; for it delivers the enforcement ofthe law to the vicissitudes ofthe distribution ofpower between the violator ofthe law andthe victim of ... years, not only as a result ofthe end ofthe Cold War, the disintegration ofthe Soviet Union andthe demise of most command economies The earlier process of decolonisation, the acquisition by non-industrialised ... juris, the customary process andthe qualifying effects of international law The central aspect of this book’s explanation ofthe way in which powerand obligation interact within the process of customary...
... was the revolt of women against housework in Europe andthe US, and later the rise of feminist movements across the planet, in the 1980s and 1990s that triggered the most radical rethinking of ... of Marx's categories, and a new understanding ofthe history and fundamentals of capitalist development andthe class struggle Starting in the early 1970s, a feminist theory took shape that radicalized ... immediate was the refusal ofthe slogans ofthe Marxist left, such as the ideas ofthe "general strike" or "refusal of work," both of which were never inclusive of house-workers Over time, the realization...
... employment and our experience of work, andthe operation ofthe modern state The advent ofthe internet has generated new and heightened interest in the governmental operations ofthe state, ... focus on the way the internet (and other advanced ICTs) contributes to and transforms the workings ofthe parliament, the relationship between citizens and their elected representatives andthe conduct ... intention in the use of tools and reflect on the way in which instruments can transform the way in which we understand and see the world In a very literal way, the invention ofthe telescope and microscope...
... self-regulation and other symbols of professionalism THEACCO UNTANCYPRO E F SSIO INTHEUK : F RMATIO CO TITIO ANDCO NIZ N O N, MPE N LO ATIO N The development ofthe accountancy profession in the UK8 ... lucrative (and growth) areas (e.g other business services) In the words ofthe President ofthe Institute of Chartered Accountants in E ngland and Wales (ICAE : W) ‘because of audit’s high public profile, ... penetrate and defend new and highly lucrative areas of jurisdiction The remainder ofthe paper examines some ofthe stratagems deployed by members ofthe UK accountancy profession to deflect and neutralise...
... in the triumphalist declarations ofthe birth ofthe ‘new’ and death ofthe ‘old’.14 THE BOOSTER CITY. Like that of many of its peers, the story of late twentiethcentury Glasgow is of a city and ... class landscape, idealized it and estranged it from its roots Likewise, they have empowered the young, the middle class andthe outsider at the expense ofthe vulnerable, the working class andthe ... that the official future scored low on coherence and fidelity People feel that the values and beliefs ofthe main official institutions ofthe city are not the same as the values that they hold themselves...
... showered and left the hotel As she rode through Cairo’s rutted streets in a taxi and then onto the dirt roads leading to the Sphinx, the pyramids of Giza, andthe vast, endless desert around them, ... tell my soldiers all the time, there’s nothing you can’t if you get the habits right.” In the past decade, our understanding ofthe neurology and psychology of habits andthe way patterns work ... reached the top ofthe T, it often turned to the right, away from the chocolate, and then wandered left, sometimes pausing for no obvious reason Eventually, most animals discovered the reward But there...
... norms and regulations based on the experts’ classifying knowledge.21 Government (the project ofthe rulers) and mentality (the state of mind ofthe ruled) then fuse, as both begin to perceive the ... for the micro-processes of agency and governance that have loomed large in the work of other theorists of national and imperial power. 16 The empire whose emergence Hardt and Negri ambitiously prophesy ... in the 1950s by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the city of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana, accommodates a degree of...
... Incorporated in the United States and/ or other countries Altova and XMLSpy are registered trademarks of Altova GmbH in the United States and other countries All other trademarks are the property of their ... together The Structure pane andthe Tags panel work hand in hand to reveal the how The Structure pane gives you the big picture the view from 20,000 feet The Tags panel brings you up close and ... invention ofthe Generalized Markup Language (GML) In those pre-PC days, powerful mainframe and mini-computers ruled the landscape IBM, Univac, Burroughs, and others manufactured and supplied these...
... measures of value, but mere instruments of exchange; and, as the value ofthe mutual money is determined, not by the demand and supply ofthe mutual money, but by the demand and supply ofthe precious ... measures or standards of value The medium of exchange is one thing; the measure of value is another; andthe standard of value still another 'The dollar is the measure of value Silver and gold at a certain ... favorers ofthe scheme, and they have ever since been distinguished by the name ofthe Land-Bank House "Men of estates andthe principal, merchants ofthe Province abhorred the project, and refused...
... all one night, and all the following day until the going down ofthe sun, the Turks, leaving thirty thousand of their dead beneath the ramparts ofthe city, and taking with them the sultan desperately ... fourteen years of age They came to the court ofthe powerful Duke of Burgundy The dukedom extended over wide realms, populous and opulent, andthe duke had thepowerof a sovereign but not the regal ... add to the force of his words, he introduced ambassadors from the King of Naples, who informed the assembly ofthe conquests ofthe French, of their haughty bearing, and implored the aid of the...
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