the sense of wonder rachel carson summary

... understand our aesthetic experiences of the world in which we live. Rachel Carson, 102 hould be the The displaying of a sense of wonder when responding to aesthetic experiences of natural phenomena ... assimilate. From The Sense of Wonder by Rachel L. Carson (1956) Despite many pronouncements over the past ten years of the importance of the affective notions of awe, wonder and interest ... are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the...

... held the exact same mayo and bore the exact same label. The only difference: the shapes of the bottles. The first was narrow around the middle, and thicker at the top and on the bottom. The ... aluminum inside, the other without it. The immediate reaction from the consumers to the lighter-weight remote? “It’s broken.” All because of the lack of weight. Even when they found out the lightweight ... still left manufacturers with the problem of what to do about the insides of eggs. A general rule of thumb of the egg industry is that the more yellow a yolk appears, the more it will appeal to...

... conception of the divine life. There is, then, a real propriety in calling beauty a manifestation of God to the senses, since, in the region of sense, the perception of beauty exemplifies The Sense of ... criticism with that of aesthetics, we shall unite two essential qualities of the theory of beauty. Criticism implies judgment, and aesthetics The Sense of Beauty 13 Table of Contents The Sense of Beauty ... that the word of the master held no objective account of the nature and origin of beauty, but was the vague expression of his highly complex emotions. It is one of the attributes of God, one of the...

... byte specifies the length of the descriptor, while the second byte indicates the descriptor type. If the length of a descriptor is smaller than what the specification defines, then the host shall ... follows. The host will send the Setup token telling the function that the following packet is a Setup packet. The Address field will hold the address of the device the host is requesting the descriptor ... host asks for the entire 18 bytes of the Device Descriptor. 7. It then asks for 9 bytes of the Configuration Descriptor to determine the overall size. 8. The host asks for 255 bytes of the Configuration...

... trademark of the Federal Reserve banks. making sense OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE 15 t the core of the Federal Reserve System is the Board of Governors, or Federal Reserve Board. The Board of Governors, ... reserve system making sense OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE 1 MAKING SENSE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE 17 1. Who created the Federal Reserve System? (page 1) 2. Name the three parts of the Federal Reserve ... that the nation’s payments system functions smoothly. In addition, the Board oversees the activities of Reserve banks, approving the appointments of their presidents and three members of the...

... and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the February 2009 Summit http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12668.html 20 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC In addressing the issue of involving ... publication, Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the 2009 Summit, provides an account of the discussion and presentations of the two-and-a-half day summit in Washington, ... NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of...

... that these vectors reflect the sum of the contextual behavior of a word’s underlying senses, i.e. they are mixtures of all senses occur- ring in the corpus. However, since reconstructing the sense ... at only the three main di- mensions of the context matrices. 1 Introduction The topic of this paper is word sense induction, that is the automatic discovery of the possible senses of a word. ... involves the difficult problem of recovering the sense vectors from the mixtures. In this paper we argue that the demixing problem can be avoided since the contextual behavior of the senses...

... MEDICINE of the national domestic agenda, the choice of EBM by the IOM Council as the theme of the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting underscores its centrality and importance to healthcare improvement and offers ... Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001). In the face of the growing awareness generated about the nature and implications of the gap between healthcare practice and the evidence base, the IOM Roundtable ... Hayward, associate professor of the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and director of the Centre for Health Evidence (CHE) at the University of Alberta, noted that in the messy informational...

... by the concordances of the instances of w1. Regarding the interpretation of the results, if the ratio between s3 and s4 should turn out to be similar to the ratio between s1 and s2, then the influence ... we look at the number of undecided cases is that the problem of data sparseness is much more severe if we consider the concordances of the homographs rather than the concordances of w1. This ... that the increase of incorrect cases is probably mostly an artefact of the sparse- data-problem as the number of undecided cases decreases faster than the number of correct cases increases. On the...

... game, the pleasure of sex and the pain of childbirth, peace and conflict. Most of all, they may have wondered about rhythms: the rhythms of the day and the seasons, the migrations of animals, the ... experience. Their creativity included both the mastery of the quotidian and the mystery of the ineffable. The ends of wit extended from wisdom of living in the world to wonder about the world they ... The core of aesthesis is the unity of subject and object, of the ongoing transactional play of humans and their environments in the dynamics of time and circumstance. The term aesthesis eventually...

... clustering but on understanding the expression of intent. 3 Method We address the main thesis of the work by retrospec- tively studying queries issued to a search engine over the course of 12 consecutive months. Q-queries. ... higher 7 An explanation of why the upward trend starts at the end of 2007 is beyond the scope of this work; we postulate that this coincides with the rise in popularity of community-based Q&A sites. Q-rate ... question: what is causing the rise in question-query usage? Irrespective of the cause, given that there is an increased use of Q-queries in spite of the seem- ingly inferior search results, there is a strong...

... take advantage of the prior probabilities of the senses, so they would be at a disadvantage relative to the baseline if one of the senses had a very high prior, as is the case for the test word ... let the baseline system peek at the test set and "estimate" the most likely sense for each word as the more frequent sense in the test set. Consequently, the performance of the baseline ... when there is an unusual trade-off between the cost of a Type I error and the cost of a Type II error. Nevertheless, the proposed baseline does seem to provide a usable rough estimate of the...

... togetherwithanexamination of keyuncertaintiesandlimitations;andaseries of conclusionsandinsightsgainedfrom the analysis.ItisimportanttorecallthatthisRIA restson the analysisdonein2008;nonewairqualitymodelingorotherassessments werecompletedexceptthoseoutlinedabove. The supplementincludesapresentation of the benefitsandcosts of attainingvarious alternativeozoneNationalAmbientAirQualityStandardsin the year2020.Theseestimates onlyincludeareasassumedtomeet the currentstandardby2020.Theydonotinclude the costsorbenefits of attaining the alternatestandardsin the SanJoaquinValleyandSouthCoast airbasinsinCalifornia,becauseweexpectthatnonattainmentdesignationsunder the CleanAir Actfortheseareaswouldplacethemincategoriesaffordedextratimebeyond2020toattain the ozoneNAAQS. InTableS1.1below, the individualrowestimatesreflect the differentstudiesavailableto describe the relationship of ozoneexposuretoprematuremortality.Thesemonetizedbenefits includereducedhealtheffectsfromreducedexposuretoozone,reducedhealtheffectsfrom reducedexposuretoPM 2.5 ,andimprovementsinvisibility. The rangeswithineachrowreflect twoPMmortalitystudies(i.e.PopeandLaden). Rangesin the totalcostscolumnreflectdifferentassumptionsabout the extrapolation of costsasdiscussedinChapter5 of the 2008OzoneNAAQSRIA. The lowend of the range of netbenefitsisconstructedbysubtracting the highestcostfrom the lowestbenefit,while the highend of the rangeisconstructedbysubtracting the lowestcostfrom the highestbenefit. The presentation of the netbenefitestimatesrepresents the widestpossiblerangefromthis analysis. TableS1.2presents the estimate of totalozoneandPM 2.5 ‐relatedprematuremortalities andmorbiditiesavoidednationwidein2020asaresult of thisregulation.  ... $47,000 a Estimatesareroundedtotwosignificantfigures.Assuch,totalswillnotsumdowncolumns.  S.2.4.4 Summary of TotalCosts   TableS2.9presentsa summary of the totalnationalcosts of attaining the 0.055ppm and the 0.060ppmalternativestandardsin2020.This summary includes the engineeringcosts of the modeledcontrolstrategy(presentedin the 2008OzoneNAAQSRIAChapter5 4 ), the additionalsupplementalcontrols,aswellas the extrapolatedcosts.ConsistentwithOMB CircularA‐4,costsarepresentedata7%discountrate.  7 The midrangeestimateconsists of usinganMvalue of 0.24for the estimation of the averagecostperton of controlbygeographicarea.Foracompletelisting of averagecostpertonbygeographicareaseeAppendixS2a. ... The costs of identifiedcontrolmeasuresaccountsforanincreasinglysmallerquantity of the totalcosts of attainment.Thisisamajorlimitation of the costanalysis.Weassume amajority of the costs of attaining the tighteralternativestandardswillbeincurred throughtechnologieswedonotyetknowabout.Thereforecostingfutureattainment baseduponunspecifiedemissionreductionsisinherentlydifficultandspeculative.  The uncertaintiesandlimitationssummarizedabovearegenerallymoreextensivethan thosefor the 0.075ppm,0.070ppm,and0.065ppmanalyses. The tablebelowcontrastsour level of confidenceineach of the keyresults.  TableS2.1:Keyuncertaintiesandlimitationsin the analysisfor 0.060ppmand0.055ppm Analyticalquestion...