Tài liệu Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature docx

Tài liệu Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 17:20
... spot. Imagining the feeling of jumping off the cliff and the fear of someone standing at the top of it accentuates the sublimity of the place. But this train of images would ... with the spectacular crashing sound of the The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism waves hitting the sand. I delight in the contrast of the still water in the horizon ... pair of swans in one of the ponds. My delight in these aspects of the place may have been heightened by my background knowledge of the debate and the history of the place,...
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Genealogies and the State of Nature

Genealogies and the State of Nature

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... retrospective look at my own state -of- nature account of the origins of the everyday concept of knowledge in Knowledge and the State of Nature, tosee how it looks in the light of the preceding discussion. ... gen- eral criticism of the state -of- nature method, exposing as they do the weak- nesses of its position at the less well-evidenced end of the genealogical spec- trum. But I think they would be better ... around the terrain a little more widely. 1. THE FORMS OF GENEALOGY Whether there is any important difference of type that we might mark by selective use of the expressions “state -of- nature theory”...
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The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed

The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... former hypotheses might be less probable a priori than the hypothesis of theism, the disjunction of the former is plausibly more probable than the hypothesis of theism as an explanation of the world’s ... from phenomena to the hypothesis of theism (that there is a God), which best explains them. 1 Each of these phenomena gives some probabil- ity to the hypothesis, and together they make it more ... explanation, for the same reason as the fact of order itself. The need for further explanation ends when we postu- late one being who is the cause of the existence of all others, and the simplest conceivable...
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Tài liệu An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Project Methodology docx

Tài liệu An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Project Methodology docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 06:20
... Research Council shall consult with and consider the views of the Office of Technology and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and other interested parties, including entities, ... draws extensively on the methodologies developed for the review of the previous NRC assessment of the SBIR at the Department of Defense, SBIR: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track ... succeed in the market. If the data permit, the study team may try to emulate the research of Feldman and Kelley to test the hypothesis that the SBIR increases/does not increase the number of small...
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Tài liệu Future Flight: A Review of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Concept pdf

Tài liệu Future Flight: A Review of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Concept pdf

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 06:20
... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the ... deployment (see Box P-1 of the Pref- ace for the statement of task). The absence of credible examinations of SATS by NASA compelled the committee to undertake its own analyses of the concept’s plau- sibility ... from those applicable to the scheduled carriers using larger aircraft. For instance, because of the nature of their services and the kinds of aircraft they operate, air taxis can often use single-pilot...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of small molecules in modulating the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin against ordered and disordered protein aggregation pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of small molecules in modulating the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin against ordered and disordered protein aggregation pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 16:20
... further enhanced by it (Fig. 1C). The sig- nificant decrease in the amount of precipitation in the presence of high concentrations of Arg-HCl in the absence of the chaperone precluded analysis of the ... to be determined by a number of fac- tors, including the rate of unfolding, the amino acid sequence of the protein, the experimental conditions and the nature of the intermediate state(s) that ... pre- cluding analysis of the effect of these concentrations on the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin (Fig. 4B,C). None of the compounds had an effect on the morphol- ogy of the amyloid fibrils...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Interaction of the small heat shock protein with molecular mass 25 kDa (hsp25) with actin doc

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Interaction of the small heat shock protein with molecular mass 25 kDa (hsp25) with actin doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 23:20
... preventing the formation of insoluble aggregates. Keywords: small heat shock protein; actin; thermal denaturation. Actin is the major component of the thin filaments of muscle cells and of the cytoskeleton ... effect of the 3D mutant of HSP25 on the initial rate of actin polymerization can be explained by the prevention of nonspecific aggregation of partially denatured actin that can trap intact actin. The ... electrophoresis. The quantity of actin in the pellet was plotted against the total quantity of actin in the sample. Results Heat denaturation of actin Before starting the investigation of the HSP25–actin...
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Báo cáo Y học: Modulation of the oligomeric structures of HIV-1 retroviral enzymes by synthetic peptides and small molecules pptx

Báo cáo Y học: Modulation of the oligomeric structures of HIV-1 retroviral enzymes by synthetic peptides and small molecules pptx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 09:20
... represent the next logical step in the unfolding story of the modulation of the oligomeric structures of HIV-1 viral enzymes by synthetic peptides and small molecules. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors ... due to the long-lived nature of the HIV-1 infection as well as the genetic plasticity inherent to the virus, emergence of viral resistance to these antiretroviral agents is inevitable. Furthermore, ... a search of the Cambridge Structural Database (www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk) for pharmacophores that could bridge the 10 A ˚ gap between the termini of a PR subunit [28]. Extensive kinetic analysis of one of these...
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Changing Nature Of Financial Intermediation And The Financial Crisis Of 2007-09 pptx

Changing Nature Of Financial Intermediation And The Financial Crisis Of 2007-09 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 23:20
... 2007). The fluctuations of credit in the context of secured lending expose the fallacy of the lump of liquidity in the financial system. The language of liquidity suggests a stock of available ... consisted of reverse repos in addition to other types of collateralized lending. Much of this collateralized lending was short term, often overnight. The other feature of the asset side of the balance ... 1980, the monetary policy literature primarily focused on the role of monetary aggregates in the supply of credit. However, with the emergence of the market-based financial system, the ratio of...
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Nature of the band gap of silicon and germanium nanowires

Nature of the band gap of silicon and germanium nanowires

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 15:18
... A ˚ .We examine the variation of the direct band gap with width, as well as the nature of the band structure of the nanowires. We confirm previous observations ab out the direct or indirect nature of the ... oriented along the (1 0 0), (1 1 0) and (1 1 1) directions. We show that the nature of the band gap and the variation of the zone centre band gap with nanowire width depends upon the nanowire stacking ... gap. For the (1 1 0) case, effective mass arguments are required to explain the nature of the energy gap in the associated nanowire. In bulk material the CB minimum for Si lies along the six equivalent...
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