... the dimension of a “racket.” Phase III: TheEmergenceoftheVolkerFundConcept A new and vital turning point in the postwar libertarian movement was theemergenceoftheVolkerFund program ... from Rothbard on the value—and often on the libertarian bona fides of dozens of thinkers and books that came to the attention oftheVolkerFund and Volker- associated groups such as the National ... output ofthe organization to what will attract the money When the latter happens, the gathering of money begins to become the end, not the means, and the organization begins to take on the dimension...
... 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...
... governs the size ofthe orbital (wave function) and determines the energy ofthe orbital The value of n corresponds to the number ofthe shell in the Bohr atomic theory and the larger the n, the ... approximately independent ofthe nature ofthe groups in the rest ofthe molecule The resultant ofthe vectorial addition of all bond moments yields the overall dipole moment ofthe molecule c02.qxd ... the energy ofthe electrons, and their location in space with respect to the nuclei they hold together are fundamental to the understanding of all chemistry The nature ofthe bonding of atoms to...
... ofthe HE-industry partnership; • The motive(s) for selecting HE or SETI partners; • The perceived benefits ofthe relationships funded by THRIP and the Innovation Fund; • The management ofthe ... contained the names of all the projects funded, the discipline in which they were funded and the names and contact numbers ofthe higher education beneficiaries A questionnaire was designed to gather ... maximum of R140 000 per person on an annual basis) ofthe costs and the participating firm pays the balance The TIPTOP funding is independent of whether or not the overall project qualifies for the...
... for the action ofthe Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund It is necessary to specify the objectives ofthe Cohesion Fund in relation to the new framework for its action and in relation to the ... transmission ofthe draft legislative act to the national Parliaments, Having regard to the opinion ofthe European Economic and Social Committee6, Having regard to the opinion ofthe Committee ofthe ... conditionality ofthe Cohesion fund/ Structural Funds and the new rules of budgetary surveillance ofthe Stability and Growth Pact EN Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council,...
... 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 ... 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 ... depression ofthe 1930s and the economic ruin ofthe previous decade laid the foundation for the rise of Hitler's Third Reich; the Axis Powers; and the horrifying reign of terror they unleashed...
... which were unknown to the other parts ofthe world.”5 In the eyes of many historians, the final realization ofthe idea of Europe came at the end ofthe 18th century In 1796, the Irish political ... permanent president ofthe European Council (also known as the president ofthe EU summits of heads of state and government), Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium The third is the president ofthe European ... politics and economics – Overall the EU is an amazing success story The Re -Emergence of Europe 15 16 The Re -Emergence of Europe DECLINE From the outset ofthe idea of a common currency, such prominent...
... 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 conceptof cinema, but the first projection of moving images...
... 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...
... situations in light ofthe expected expeditionary nature of anticipated contingencies The examination of this question was the focus ofthe project entitled The Value and Impacts of Alternative Fuel ... Because of these positive attributes, today the United States has the densest network of petroleum pipelines in the world Like the commercial sector, the U.S Army has had a history of investing in the ... an analysis ofthe ability of these various systems to meet the set of future requirements Inland Petroleum Distribution System (IPDS) The Army began development ofthe IPDS after the Vietnam...
... design The system concept specifications provide the starting point for the development ofthe interface concept. The goal ofthe interface design is to find a way to let the driver operate the system in a safe and effective way. The interaction ... guidelines. Several guidelines have been discussed, and it's decided to use them during a later stage ofthe design, to assist in evaluating the concepts. The problems regarding the system concept, as listed above, have their consequences on the design and the design ... This concludes the user analysis. It's been investigated who the future users ofthe system will be, and what their needs and requirements regarding ADAS are. The list of requirements can assist with the further definition ofthe system The following paragraph discusses the possibilities ofthe system concept, investigating which requirements can be ...
... and the subsequent use of brewing water for preheating the incoming wort and the mash tun; After preheating ofthe wort, the heating ofthe mash tun is thermodynamically suggested This cools the ... PT thermal energy management The experiences ofthe pinch analysis are incorporated in the Green Brewery ConceptTheconcept calculates a generic list of heat sources and heat sinks based on the ... value of 24.7 MJ/hl Within the Green Brewery Concept, the combination of real process data from the specific brewery and key data known SC from studies allow the calculation ofthe potential of...
... distinguish the atom from the ether into which it dissolved In other words, such a conception makes the atoms of matter a form of motion ofthe ether, and not a created something put into the ether THE ... air, for the friction ofthe air is the condition for producing them However they came to be, there is implied the previous existence ofthe ether and of energy in some form capable of acting ... motion ofthe earth and the other planets about the sun is one ofthe most stable phenomena we know The mean distance and period of revolution of every planet is unalterable in the long run If the...
... 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 ... independent of their prior educational training The professional conception ofthe legitimate role of Siemens’ accountants with BWL training was not conducive to the integration of accounting...
... 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...
... theories ofthe interconnections of all living things (e.g Bradley’s theory of internal relations) around the turn ofthe century, as well as the speculations ofthe British Emergentists in the ... in the philosophy of science and metaphysics from the end ofthe heyday of British Emergentism in the early 1930s until the Wnal decade ofthe century The gap between weak and strong theories of ... one ofthe major defenders ofthe ‘weak’ view oftheemergenceofthe mental, his view pushes strongly toward the physical pole The real causality in nature seems to come from events in the external...
... 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...