... components ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier ofthe Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area ofthe great East African lakes There they ... fatal to cattle By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... between events in the cell were the direct result ofthe minimization of energy due to tight thermodynamic coupling, then it would make no sense to speak of their occurring on the basis of information ... 10, 2004 TheEmergenceof Biological Value 1:32 221 One ofthe most interesting lines of contemporary research that holds some promise of providing the missing piece ofthe puzzle is the investigation ... jostling of matter What makes the living cell profoundly different from ordinary inorganic matter is the way in which each reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good ofthe whole There...
... that the occurrence ofthe numbers 3, 7, and 22, in this series is not a coincidence and the above construction was behind the identification ofthe 22 micronotes in the Indian theory of music The ... to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting There, when I had been introduced to the art ofthe Indians' nine symbols through remarkable teaching, knowledge ofthe art very ... historical anecdotes regarding the combinatoric aspects of these numbers are given in Section 7.2.1.7 ofthe classic The Art of Computer Programming of Knuth (2004) Here we use the name Mount Meru since...
... created the army, they began the reconquest ofthe Moorish parts of Spain in 1482 About the same time, they petitioned Pope Sixtus IV of Rome to start the Inquisition as a way of protecting themselves ... understood as in the realm of God, of religion and metaphysics On the other hand, there is the knowledge ofthe universe, of what humans can discover and comprehend through their own efforts The dialectic ... whether there is a good match between the needs ofthe enterprise and the capacities and accomplishments ofthe person being considered The success of everyone involved depends on the quality of...
... CHAPTER II The Definition of Art CHAPTER III The Intrinsic Value of Art CHAPTER IV The Analysis ofthe Aesthetic Experience: The Elements ofthe Experience CHAPTER V The Analysis ofthe Aesthetic ... Experience: The Structure ofthe Experience CHAPTER VI The Problem of Evil in Aesthetics, and Its Solution through the Tragic, Pathetic, and Comic CHAPTER VII The Standard of Taste CHAPTER VIII TheAesthetics ... is–at a definition of life; so the student ofaesthetics observes works of art and other wellrecognized beautiful things, analyzes their elements and the forms of connection of these, arranges experiments...
... benefited from the comments and suggestions ofthe participants ofthe workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... innovations, the idea of cinema preceded the invention itself It is difficult to give an exact date to theemergenceofthe idea, or concept of cinema, but the first projection of moving images...
... on the Revolution in France In his theory ofthe sublime Burke is a keen appreciator ofthe political effects of personal appearance The sublime, the aesthetic value of power, is an attribute of ... Some of these problems are the difficulty of measuring desert, the prospects of unwarranted coercive interventions in the lives of citizens, the impossibility of comparing the relative deserts of ... minimum” (Narveson 2002, p 143) There is the benefit, the bestower ofthe benefit, and the person who deserves the benefit The crucial factor is the person who bestows the benefit because she identifies...
... regulatory role All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in government However, theemergenceof ideas about risk in the regulatory ... theemergenceof risk based approaches, the 1990s and beyond have witnessed an environment favourable to the development of them The UK in the 1990s and onwards has witnessed a reframing ofthe ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s These techniques are part ofthe changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based...
... in their lives The particularities ofthe Nilotic aesthetic relate to their deep appreciation ofthe physical qualities of their cattle and their ideals of bovine form Their appreciation of cattle-colour ... by their owners These concern the colour configuration and sheen ofthe hide, the shape ofthe horns, and the bigness and fatness ofthe body including particularly the hump (see Fig 10.1) These ... some ofthe ramifications of these elements of Nilotic ‘bovine’ aesthetics into the Nilotes’ appreciation of, and action in, the world, it is worth making the attempt to understand why the particular...
... subjectivity of defining beauty In this text, the subjectivity of aesthetic judgements is acknowledged by replacing the primary questions ofaesthetics with the following: "What are the criteria ... increase the aesthetic value of a work Some people may use beauty as a negative aesthetic criterion within their The Ethics ofAesthetics aesthetic perspective: the recognition of beauty within a work ... Because of their disregard for consequences, deontological theories of ethics are similar to inherent aesthetic theories in that they both have little or no regard for the consequences ofthe experience...
... outlook of two MAS user groups influenced their perception ofthe success ofthe new system The site chosen for this study is the Fibre Optics business unit (HLFO) ofthe Semiconductors Group of Siemens ... a role in the design and implementation ofthe PBTC system The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitative ... Following a discussion ofthe results ofthe investigation, the paper’s concluding section addresses some ofthe implications ofthe study and future research possibilities in the area Literature...
... TheEmergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis ofthe Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis ofthe humanities in the face ofthe problem of social technology, I want to so first of ... existence there Nevertheless, Leavis saw himself committed to the project of tending the health ofthe language and the national culture, of nurturing the refined sensibilities of that small company of ... to culture - was one side oftheThe Emergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis ofthe Humanities 15 coin; the depth of his engagement with cultural questions was the other As his neophytes, albeit...
... in the vicinity of Mecca Frequently, too, they stem from the scholars desire to assert the primacy of either Judaism or Christianity as the form of monotheism that inuenced theemergenceof Islam ... stereotypical monotheist theme and conrms that the Koran reects the condition ofthe Hijaz at the time ofthe Prophet.9 The traã dition interprets the Koran, the Koran documents the tradition We ... also in other genres of Muslim liter ature: lives ofthe Prophet, collections of material on the life and religion ofthe jahiliyya, collections ofthe sayings ofthe Prophet (hadths), and other...
... demanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing ofthe falsifiable and the ... in the fortunes of religion and the increase in the fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the abandonment of religion in favour of science was the inevitable outcome ofthe ... memoirs ofthe Family ofthe Wrens; viz Of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, &c but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General ofthe Royal Buildings, President of the...
... family together at the home of my grandparents, Hersch and Dora Zimels; we read the Haggadah, an account ofthe escape ofthe Jews from slavery in Egypt, and then enjoyed one of my grandmothers carefully ... part ofthe so-called Aryanization (Arisierung) of property, a purportedly legal form of theft From the time of my fathers release from prison in the middle of November 1938 until he and my mother ... professor of English literature at the University of California, San Diego He served as the first head ofthe National Endowment for the Humanities, in the Nixon administration At the urging of...
... hospitals in the western (low prevalence) part ofthe city None of clindamycin-resistant MRSA were related to either USA300 or USA400 strains (Fig 3) The six hospitals with the greater prevalence of USA300 ... located in the eastern section ofthe city, while the nine remaining hospitals serve neighborhoods in the western half ofthe city (Fig 2) To determine if patients with cultures positive for the USA300 ... were representative ofthe population ofthe high prevalence neighborhoods, records of 20 patients from two medical centers within the higher prevalence region were reviewed Ofthe 20 patients,...
... regardless of whether these autoantibodies are pathogenic [25] Despite intensive work on the characterization of autoantigens, the cellular basis of their production and the strong association of certain ... in the parotid gland These results suggest an important role for VL chain gene usage in the immune activation of B cells within the parotid gland ofthe pSS patient studied A restriction ofthe ... CD5, further supporting the hypothesis of homing and activation of specific B cells in the glands B cell malignancies and Sjögren’s syndrome In contrast to the focal sialadenitis ofthe minor...
... in drafting ofthe manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript and PA participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript ... stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning ofthe year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling ofthe drug outside the influenza-season[10] ... pharmacies, because ofthe mass of total demand in this period The consequence was that the complete sales of oseltamivir were registered in the Wholesales Statistics and not in the NorPD Privately...
... in drafting ofthe manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript and PA participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript ... stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning ofthe year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling ofthe drug outside the influenza-season[10] ... pharmacies, because ofthe mass of total demand in this period The consequence was that the complete sales of oseltamivir were registered in the Wholesales Statistics and not in the NorPD Privately...
... and the rotation of antibiotics Gruson and colleagues performed one ofthe first cycling studies in an ICU setting [71] Their program consisted of restricting the use of ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin ... can promote theemergenceof resistant pathogens Optimization of antibiotic regimens on the basis of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic principles could play a role in the reduction of antibiotic ... heterogeneity The concept of antibiotic heterogeneity has been suggested as a potential strategy for reducing theemergenceof antimicrobial resistance [70] In theory, a class of antibiotics...