... lives on It was the nation that was dying, andthe vision was for the nation; but I have done nothing with it ” In a nutshell Consider the whole of life as one, the seen andthe unseen, spirit and ... meditation, not in moldy books Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.” The commentaries that follow are more of a look in the pond than a direct experience of the moon, but I hope they ... children, and he met his second wife Leslie in connection with the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) Bach’s other books include Illusions, Bridge Across Forever, One, Flying, andThe Ferret Chronicles...
... previously read a draft of the whole book and discussed it among themselves With regard to all the occasions for speaking and discussion that I have mentioned, I am grateful for the invitations and ... turns onthe concept of tradition at least as much as onthe concept of a virtue, leads him to the conclusion that our best hope of escaping the collapse lies in a return to ‘ the tradition of the ... sense—hitting the target,¹⁴ choosing the correct action It belongs to virtue, he says, to feel and act ‘‘at the time, and about the matters, and toward the people, and for the reason [or the end], that one...
... , andthe theorem follows k-cuts In this section we consider the generating function of the multicuts of a graph and we derive an important relation between it andthe generating function of the ... time and hence, together with Theorem 1.6, yields an algorithm to compute TT (G, x) Other constructions leading to the same result are useful in the study of crystal structures We will discuss them ... endvertices The interiors of the embeddings of the edges are pairwise disjoint andthe interiors of the curves embedding edges not contain points embedding vertices The genus g of a graph G is that of the...
... an interesting solution Onthe other hand, conventional air-conditioning systems usually dry up the air for being controlled only by the return temperature level and not by the required humidity ... mass-exchange because Relative air Humidity (RH) is 100%, and heat exchange neither, as the air and water temperature are the same Thus, these conditions only depend on those of the inlet air and, consequently, ... systems consume water, also power plants require water consumption in the production of the electricity used by the conventional air-conditioning systems The problems associated to contamination by...
... response of the concatenation of two linear circuit is the convolution of the individual impulse responses (a), the shaping curve of the concatenation of two shapers is the convolution of the individual ... continuous or not If R(t) is a continuous function, we say that we have a fluid model Otherwise, CHAPTER NETWORK CALCULUS we take the convention that the function is either right or left-continuous ... is shown as the vertical deviation between input and output functions The virtual delay is the horizontal deviation If the input and output function are continuous (fluid model), then it is easy...
... reducing some of the conceptual ambiguity in the meaning and use of the term 'readiness.' Second, the article's discussion of determinants illuminates the theoretical basis for the various strategies ... implementation), then the idea of testing the theory at an intra-organizational level of analysis seems defensible However, careful consideration should be given to the question of whether the construct's ... organizational problem They might value it because they value the benefits that they anticipate the organizational change will produce for the organization, patients, employees, or them personally They...
... reducing some of the conceptual ambiguity in the meaning and use of the term 'readiness.' Second, the article's discussion of determinants illuminates the theoretical basis for the various strategies ... implementation), then the idea of testing the theory at an intra-organizational level of analysis seems defensible However, careful consideration should be given to the question of whether the construct's ... organizational problem They might value it because they value the benefits that they anticipate the organizational change will produce for the organization, patients, employees, or them personally They...
... translated in the same (5' > 3' and 3' > 5', only complementary, C) or the reversed and complementary (5' > 3' and 5' > 3', RC) directions One (and only one) codon complementary pattern of the eight ... translation and hence affect co-translational folding and assembly of proteins has been investigated in a number of studies [5-7] Studies onthe relationships between synonymous codon usage and protein ... obtained using the mfold tool (right column) The left diagonal portions of these two maps are compared in the central part of the figure Blue horizontal lines in the background correspond to the main...
... more) dimensions Our brains can only comprehend four dimensions – the three spatial dimensions (length, width and height) plus one temporal dimension (time) So according to string theory, six ... 4-atoms, etc The matter of the lower planes is composed of the matter of the higher planes, so all the planes can interpenetrate each other and occupy the same space Figure shows the number of ... (gas), Fire (plasma) and Aether (ether) They recognised aether as a phase of subtle matter that filled all space and supported the propagation of electromagnetic waves (e.g light and magnetism) According...
... the first triple corresponds to the document representation andthe second to the query representation In the context that the SMART annotation is used here, we will use the prefix SM ART for the ... factor, the second one corresponds to the inverse document frequency function andthe last one declares the normalization that is being applied The upper rows of tables 1, and present the three ... documents of only one or the other class and therefore dfi,j = Significant research has been done in IR on diverse weighting functions and not all versions of SMART notations are consistent (Manning...
... Times gigaword corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium These four verbs were chosen because of the synonymy among the first two, andthe reflexivity of the second two, and because all four have ... scores and our adjusted recall scores There are several ways to improve onthe random selection approach used in the adjusted recall calculation For example, one could simply select the candidate ... given) Arg2 is used only for the predications based onthe verbs give and receive, where it is used to indicate the other party of the action Our interest was in determining whether these five approaches...
... memory and comprehension (see Ortony, 1978) We think that one of the reasons for this confusion is due to the failure in distinguishing between the two types of concepts (concepts as rules and concepts ... some of the components of the parser so that the reader can follow the discussion of the examples in the next section We refer the reader to Gomez (1981) for a detailed description of these concepts ... DESCRIPTION activates the functions RECOGNIZE-TOPIC and RECOGNIZE-CONCEPT The former function checks in the dictionary if there is a frame associated with the concept parsed by DESCRIPTION The frame...
... impress us at any one moment of time Onthe contrary, they succeed one after the other To the blind, therefore, as Platner long ago remarked: Time serves instead of Space In Vision, onthe other hand, ... constant transmutations of Energy andthe form of Space is constituted by the laws of transmutation, which are thus at once the necessary conditions of my perception andthe universal conditions ... of these cohering masses Thus the operation of Natural Force andthe constraint and limitation which are thereby imposed upon our activity appear at once to determine the conditions of life and...
... inputs (eg land) and creating a conducive environment for investment Thus, the import of these items will be confined to meet only the marginal requirements of the consumers andthe hotel trade ... collection and processing network, good research and extension services Sri Lanka - The Emerging Wonder of Asia The income the dairy farmers earn from their cows’ milk depends onthe market andthe ... key role in the country’s economic development and its new role in the future has now been redefined in the light of the new development vision andthe future aspirations of the nation At present,...
... information contagion Section demonstrates the herding behavior in response to information contagion and incorporates flight to quality Section presents the welfare analysis Sections and 10, respectively, ... respectively, discuss the robustness of the model to extensions andthe incorporation of bank regulation Section 11 concludes Throughout the paper, empirical evidence is provided to support the theoretical ... that, conditional onthe state of the economy, the realizations of returns in the first and second period are independent Crucially, banks can choose the level of correlation of returns between their...
... the relatively high mass of the receptor used as analyte is considered Ligand occlusion by immobilization onthe sensor chip surface, as well as limited access to the ligand-binding site of the ... C-terminus (Fig 1) To obtain the highest yields of the individual constructs, optimization of the Mg2+ and K+ concentrations in the ranges 12–16 mm and 250–340 mm was critical Under optimized conditions, ... optimization of GPCR expression conditions, for the localization of ligand-binding sites, and for the identification of compounds with new properties that could be important for the pharmaceutical industry...
... energy of the food, and air movement by the existing ventilation system (Elson and King, 1975) When the birds are removed from the house, the slats are removed andthe manure is deposited onthe pit ... most cases, the moisture content of the manure is the determining factor onthe selection of handling equipment and facilities to be used by an operation The manure is handled either is liquid, ... The amounts and composition of poultry manure are a strong indication that this product of the industry can be used in a market economy When one has a product, one looks for a use onthe markets26...
... Switzerland), or liberal Anglo-Saxon (Canada, Ireland, UK, US) political parties They then compare these nations on key political, economic, and population health indicators The focus here is on their ... when the US, Canada, and Sweden are compared on numerous social development and population health indicators [14,15] Sweden fares the best, theUSthe worse, and Canada comes up the middle These ... work, we considered these issues in relation to Canada’s adherence to the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) [28,29] The conclusion reached in various reports...