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this will make you smarter new scientific concepts to improve your - john brockman
... history of the universe This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the iron grip of an unbreakable pattern This view of the processes at the heart of the ... analogy, theory, and ideology, which frame how we see the world Bias is tentative Bias adjusts as the facts change Bias is a provisional hypothesis Bias is normal Although bias is normal in the sense ... uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight The idea behind the meta-induction is that all...
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T H E BENEFIT OF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
... and listeners as they try to determine the worth of what they read and hear The task is challenging and sometimes tedious, but the reward can be tremendous To distinguish the gold from the gravel ... characteristic of the panning-for-gold approach is interactive involvement—a dialogue between the writer and the reader, or the speaker and the listener Clearly, there are times when the sponge ... take notes summarizing the major topics and major points He checks his underlining or notes to be sure that he is not forgetting anything important His mission is to find and understand what the...
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Introduction - recent debates in maternal–fetal medicine – what are the ethical questions
... unwilling women put the patient at far greater risk Emphasizing that the patient is the woman and not the fetus, Savage then details the history of enforced Caesarean judgments between 1992 and 1998 The ... together clinicians and feminist theorists The clinician who herself most embodies this synthesis is perhaps the English consultant obstetrician Dr Wendy Savage, who was the subject of a lengthy ... acknowledging that ‘this future might be abnormal’ However, the very notion of ‘normality’ is seen by some disabled people as itself a form of discrimination At the end of his chapter, McIntosh...
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Tài liệu The Grid question practice ppt
... In the figure above, B is the center of the circle and A is the center of the square If the radius of the circle is , what is the area of the square? The radius of the circle is actually half the ... emphasis on relative speed The difference in their speeds is 20 mph and so the distance between them is getting shorter by the second If it took two hours to reduce the initial distance, the distance ... that is smaller than 100 is 97 The answer to this question is 2/97 If the product of two numbers is and their difference is 0, what is their sum? Let X and Y be the numbers We can write the following...
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Tài liệu THE RAILROAD QUESTION A HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS, AND REMEDIES FOR THEIR ABUSES docx
... among these was the old royal road on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, or the "Road of the Philistines" of the Scriptures This road crossed the Isthmus of Suez and led through the land of the ... rises and falls with the increase and decrease of the annual produce of the land The greatest interest of the sovereign, his revenue, is therefore directly connected with the cultivation of the ... to the welfare of a people as is the unimpaired circulation of the blood to the human organism The interest taken by man in the improvement of the roads over which he must travel is one of the...
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Tài liệu The Land Question in South Africa pptx
... www.hsrcpress.ac.za the separation of this issue from the burning question of what is to be done about the former bantustans and what vision there is for the future of people living there There is a further ... on the one hand and, on the other hand, a crumbling rural subsistence sector in the former bantustans cannot be denied, it is important to point out that the two systems cannot be viewed in isolation ... within the debate in South Africa, which is not represented in this book, namely, that land reform is not centrally relevant to the future of the country The ‘de-agrarianisation’ view is exemplified...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The QuALiM Question Answering Demo: Supplementing Answers with Paragraphs drawn from Wikipedia" ppt
... potential interest to the user is displayed In this paragraph the sentence containing the answer is highlighted This display of context also allows the user to validate the answer still experimental ... response to the question “How many Munros are there in Scotland?” The green bar to the left indicates that the system is confident to have found the right answer, which is shown in bold: “284” Furthermore, ... relating the answer to the question is shown, and in this paragraph one sentence containing the answer is highlighted Note also, that each paragraph contains a link that takes the user to the Wikipedia...
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Tài liệu Biodiversity and Local Perceptions on the Edge of a Conservation Area, Khe Tran Village, Vietnam doc
... exercises began during the very first days of the survey with two women and men groups of villagers using two basic maps, assisted by two research members to explain the objectives of the exercise ... (Acacia spp.) They were then paid a further VND 450,000 for the first year and VND 250,000 for each of the next two years under the terms of the forest protection contract (for comparison, the average ... and Hoà Bac One characteristic of the village is the isolation of the houses from each other, and it takes approximately 30 minutes to walk from one end to the other of this village of 20 households...
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The Land Question in South Africa potx
... www.hsrcpress.ac.za the separation of this issue from the burning question of what is to be done about the former bantustans and what vision there is for the future of people living there There is a further ... on the one hand and, on the other hand, a crumbling rural subsistence sector in the former bantustans cannot be denied, it is important to point out that the two systems cannot be viewed in isolation ... within the debate in South Africa, which is not represented in this book, namely, that land reform is not centrally relevant to the future of the country The ‘de-agrarianisation’ view is exemplified...
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A SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDE FROM THE EDGE ppt
... Participation is Marketing. The better the participation – in terms of tone, responsiveness and frequency – the better the marketing. Think about what the customers want to hear, not what you want them to hear. (And certainly not what you want them to buy. Social Media is not the right forum for a sales pitch. If you work on building loyalty to your brand’s personality, sales will follow in ... It’s important to note that many people who use del.icio.us for personal reasons draft quick notes (to themselves and/or to the community) about WHY they saved the link. This allows for a more meticulous approach, i.e., if someone has noted that they dislike the Social Media News Release template, they shouldn’t get the generic note used above! We could ignore them, or try a softer ... template (pdf). And only another 62 folks saved the actual PDF. That gives us roughly 146 people who expressed an interest in the Newsroom. The delta between the people interested in the templates for the Release vs. the Newsroom is at least 150. What to do? ...
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Principals who learn asking the right questions, seeking the best solutions
... opportunity to state their objections, and the proposal should be opened for more discussion If there are any fists held up, the issue is revisited and perhaps temporarily tabled No decision is Kohm-PrincipalsWhoLearn ... class.Were there any previous incidents? Did the teacher or mom know of any earlier conflicts between the two students? They both stated they had never seen the two boys interact.They had only noticed ... changes in the way we related to one another, our students, and their parents We found these leverage points clustered around four general themes We have organized the book around these themes The first...
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Weekly Focus Fiscal cliff negotiations will go to the edge doc
... with a fall in the new orders index and a rise in the inventories index This may mean that the potential for a further increase in the PMI in December is limited On the other hand, there are signs ... 2013 One of the key risks for the market at the moment is the fiscal cliff We expect an agreement to be reached at the very last minute It should further boost risk sentiment and support the euro ... if approved There is a consultation period, which runs until March 1, and therefore this is not a done deal Furthermore, it will also have implications for the capitalisation of the Norwegian...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "FIELD TESTING THE TRANSFORMATIOHAL QUESTION ANSWERING" potx
... Interpretation in the Request System, in Computational and Mathematical Linguistics, Proceeding: of the International Conference on C o m p u t a t i o n a l Linguistics, Piss, Z7/VIII-I/%X 1973, ... L d t a s t i n g of question answering systems provides certain information that is not otherwise available The d a y t o day u s a g e o f t h e system ~S different i n many r e s p e c t s ... It is likely that the real time performance of the system caused users sometimes t o l o o k up d a t a a b o u t a s p e c i f i c parcel in a hard copy printout rather than giving it to the...
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SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS docx
... partner is infected with HIV and the other is not These studies indicate either that the couples who used condoms consistently had very low seroconversion rates compared to couples who did not use ... include discussion of condoms and contraception not increase sexual intercourse; they not hasten the onset of intercourse, not increase the frequency of intercourse, and not increase the number ... reduces the risk of STI and this is particularly the case for HIV/AIDS Sexual health educators have a responsibility to inform their students of the scientific evidence concerning the facts about the...
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scientific american special edition - 2003 vol 13 no1 - the edge of physics
... the very early history of the big bang, but we cannot follow the details of cosmic history at those early times without a better theory of gravitation and the other forces There is a chance the ... atoms, the place where they are in sync gets shifted progressively farther back; in other words, the pulse is slowed The velocity of the pulse is called the group velocity, because the pulse consists ... recognizing the truth of the fundamental unified theory The test will be whether the theory successfully accounts IT IS IMPOSSIBLE for the measured values of the physical constants of the Standard...
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photographs from the edge of reality true stories about shooting on location, surviving, and learning along the way
... image There are essentially two settings in the Oval for photography The first is of two world leaders seated side by side in front of the fireplace The second—and less common—setting is of the ... Polaris, Sipa Press, and Abaca USA That day, I was the “pooler” for the ISP, and my images not only were distributed by my agent (Black Star), but also were distributed by the other eight ISP ... that they didn’t need to get them from the news agencies Instead, they could get them solely from me, and the entire twopage spread about the summit would be just my images Photographs from the...
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edge question 2006
... finding the truth) • In epistemology there is the dispute between the Tarskian correspondence theorists ("p" is true if p) versus two relativistic camps, the coherence theorists ("p" is true to the ... fit to the environment, under particular constraints But nothing about this claim leads to the good or the right or the permissible The reason this has to be the case is twofold: there is not only ... distinction between heaven and earth Darwin did the same, by dissolving the strict distinction between humans and other animals Could the next step be the dissolution of the strict distinction between...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The laval questionnaire: a new instrument to measure quality of life in morbid obesity" docx
... examining the ability of the Laval Questionnaire to distinguish between treated and untreated patients, we did not find any difference between the treated and the untreated groups at baseline (data not ... All the authors contributed substantially to the conception and design of the protocol and to the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data They also collaborated in drafting and revising ... and changes in the other related questionnaires The finding that the actual correlations meet these a priori predictions would strengthen inferences regarding the validity of the new questionnaire...
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báo cáo hóa học:"The ChQoL questionnaire: an Italian translation with preliminary psychometric results for female oncological patients" potx
... cultural context is necessary to solve this issue Until this comparison is completed, full equivalence between the ChQoL-IT and the ChQoL-CN cannot be claimed, and the ChQoL-IT should not be used ... we explored two alternatives The first is to compute g at the Domain level, and not at the Facet level Then the g can be applied either to the pool of items within one Facet or to the pool of ... balancing of the linguistic issues, of the psychometric characteristics, and of the adaptation to the cultural (and medical) context The main translation could have been the final version, but the secondary...
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