the emergence of utility

... of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... bc, while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge of the equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... fatal to cattle. By the first half of the second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top of the Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad. Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...

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... provided that they also acknowledge that the structure of this ratchet consists precisely in the intrinsic functional correlations among the parts of the organism. But if they do this, then they must ... means tending to support the continued homeodynamic stability of the oscillator. On this view, then, the meaning of information con- sists in the prediction of the success of functional action, ... jostling of matter. What makes the living cell profoundly different from ordinary inor- ganic matter is the way in which each reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good of the whole. There...

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... Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve. The devil himself tempts the mother of all humans with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. The consumption of the fruit leads ... chronically complain of the lack of time and energy they have to actually think about the long-term consequences of their actions and the real futures of their organizations. ... overwhelms the attention and physical energies of the leader. However, seeing to the long-term adaptation and survival of the organization remains the most important aspect of the job of ...

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... analysing the shape of the growth pattern of the quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema. The time of the take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the ... availability of the constituent technologies and the appearance of the innovation of the cinematograph. It is expected that the findings will show that it is highly unlikely that there was no ... α α ε − −=⋅=⋅= ∆ ∆ = 1 1 % % TRSq q dq dq q q q q l c c l l c c l qs (1) Where is the amount of spectator-hours of cinema consumed, the spectator-hours of live entertainment, TRS the technical rate of substitution and α the share of cinema expenditure...

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... role. All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of risk- based thinking in government. However, the emergence of ideas about risk in the regulatory ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s. These techniques are part of the changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based ... while the 1980s saw a political environment conducive to the emergence of risk based approaches, the 1990s and beyond have witnessed an environment favourable to the development of them. The...

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... and the organisational outlook of two MAS user groups influenced their perception of the success of the new system. The site chosen for this study is the Fibre Optics business unit (HLFO) of the ... role in the design and implementation of the PBTC system. The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light of the qualitative information ... PBTC: the possibility to visualise the numbers had emphasised the importance of the processes. The employees of the Technical Production Support division who are in charge of plan- ning the production...

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... The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis of the humanities in the face of the problem of social ... the poststructuralist debates, can 22 The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities himself has so far abjured the construction of a list in the manner of ... another rather than establishing them. They are a series of interruptions in the peaceful life of the humanities. There may be some idea that, now, late in the day, the...

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... historical contact; rather they are elements of the truth that other forms of monotheism happen to have preserved in the midst of their corruption of the revelation with which they too began. That ... of the main themes in the sociology of religion, following on from the work of Troeltsch and Weber in the early decades of the twentieth century, has concerned the emergence and development of ... in the vicinity of Mecca. Frequently, too, they stem from the scholar’s desire to assert the primacy of either Judaism or Christianity as the form of monotheism that influenced the emergence of...

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... honesty demanded the specification of the probability of any hypothesis in the light of the available empirical evidence. The honesty of na¨ıve falsificationism demanded the testing of the falsifiable and the rejection ... distinguish between the emergence of modern science and the emergence of a scientific culture which legitimates that science also lies at the heart of much of the kind of criticism of science that began ... that a good deal of the plausibility of the thesis derives. From the point of view of understanding sci- ence as a cultural product, the two most formative scientific events of the modern era have...

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... which were unknown to the other parts of the world.” 5 In the eyes of many historians, the final realization of the idea of Europe came at the end of the 18th century. In 1796, the Irish political ... actually takes place on the ground. 42 The Re -emeRgence of euRope At the moment, the fear nonetheless exists that Europe’s common values are fast vanishing into the mire of diverging national, ... Germans and others – escape to the South in the summer? Sim- ply for the sun, or are these temporary migrations destined to break the ethos of prudence and discipline in search of the delightful...

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... enzymes the results obtained on the substrate specificity of E domains could pave the way to engineering of biosynthesis of valuable non- ribosomal peptides in vivo. With the discovery of the rules ... moiety of the peptidyl-CoAs onto the invariant Ser of each PCP domain by exploiting the promiscuous Ppant transferase Sfp [8,9]. The advantage of this new minimal system for the investigation of ... exemplified by the reaction of TycB 3 -PCP-E with different substrates. After loading of the corresponding peptidyl-S-Ppant moiety of the CoA- precursors (shown in the legend underneath the plot) by the...

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... oVer a systematic overview of the re -emergence of emergence theories in contemporary thought. In the conviction that emer- gence must be anchored in the sciences of the natural world if it is ... physicalism. The Wrst condition does correctly express the anti-dualistic thrust of emergence theories. But if the emergence thesis is correct, it undercuts the claim that physics is the fundamental discipline ... Foundations of Emergence Theory 1 Philip Clayton I. THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES 2. The Physics of Downward Causation 35 Paul C. W. Davies 3. The Emergence of Classicality from Quantum Theory 53 Erich...

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