true and false janusian thinking

thinking - the new science of decision making problem solving  prediction - john brockman

thinking - the new science of decision making problem solving prediction - john brockman

... amass them, and you protect them, and because they’re valuable, you maintain them and prepare them, and then you hand them on to the next generation, and some societies are rich, and some societies ... have to reinvent the wheel Our kids get the benefit of not just what grandpa and grandma and great-grandpa and great-grandma knew They get the benefit of basically what everybody in the world ... and I just would love them to worry about what their grandchildren and great-grandchildren would say about how their ancestors were so craven and so arrogant It’s a combination of arrogance and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:34

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under a green sky - global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future

under a green sky - global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future

... and Tertiary strata turned out to be at the back of a wide, sandy beach, the kind of sand that demands bare feet and a release of all other plans, thoughts, or anxieties Thousands of adults and ... both on land and in the sea, was suddenly killed off, was dead for a while, and then came back to life And it is entirely consistent with the fossil record of those two groups: Both larger land plants ... target outcrop—damn and finally—hundreds of feet of limestone sandwiching a 60-foot-thick band of mudstone containing some level where the Triassic ends and the Jurassic begins, and the realization...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:22

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Báo cáo y học: "What do biomarkers tell us about the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: "What do biomarkers tell us about the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis" ppsx

... lesions have features of synovial and subchondral marrow inflammation that is followed by erosion of subchondral bone, formation of woven bone and metaplastic cartilage, and finally synthesis of endochondral ... J: Serum levels of biomarkers of bone and cartilage destruction and new bone formation in different cohorts of patients with axial spondyloarthritis with and without tumor necrosis factor-alpha ... Fujita K, Janz S: Attenuation of WNT signaling by DKK-1 and -2 regulates BMP2-induced osteoblast differentiation and expression of OPG, RANKL and M-CSF Mol Cancer 2007, 6:71 ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

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Báo cáo y học: " Microbial co-habitation and lateral gene transfer: what transposases can tell us" pps

Báo cáo y học: " Microbial co-habitation and lateral gene transfer: what transposases can tell us" pps

... the host and soil Burkholderia species and even to a eukaryote pathogen, Plasmodium yoelii Similarly, Pseudomonas aeruginosa shares transposases with a variety of soil and host bacteria, and also ... (host) and B vietnamiensis G4 (soil) The first marine and aquatic species are ranked 11th and 12th, respectively There is no apparent correlation between the number of bridging connections and the ... area that has not received much attention so far and that hopefully will expand in the future with more sequenced genomes and metagenomes Materials and methods Identifying transposase co-occurrences...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: " What can nuclear microsatellites tell us about maritime pine genetic resources conservation and provenance certification strategies" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: " What can nuclear microsatellites tell us about maritime pine genetic resources conservation and provenance certification strategies" pptx

... Cómpeta, Boniches and Cazorla), two from Portugal (Oleiros and Leiria) and one from Morocco were used The DNA was extracted from needles according to the Doyle and Doyle [7] protocol and amplification ... Gard and Corbières), group comprising Corsica and populations from the south east of France (Maures, Alpes Maritimes, Var and Esterel), and group comprising populations from Portugal, Spain and ... Corsican and the Aquitaine provenances, and location of the statistics SD of Devinas population B S distribution at the locus FRPP91 for the Corsican and the Aquitaine provenances, and location...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

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Paleoclimate what can the past tell us about the present and future

Paleoclimate what can the past tell us about the present and future

... higher sea level (i.e., full deglaciation of Greenland and West Antarctica) – note that isostatic adjustments to Plio-Pleistocene ice sheet growth and recent deglaciation causes significant deviations ... of National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder Recent observed trends: Glacier extent Muir Glacier, Alaska Public domain image courtesy of National Snow and Ice Data Center, ... https://pangea.stanford.edu/research/Oceans/GES206/readings/Zachos2001.pdf 33 A few questions for paleo-records • Are modern conditions and rates of change exceptional? • What the links between GHGs and climate? – CO2-temperature sensitivity (˚C/doubling of CO2)...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:37

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báo cáo sinh học:" Internationally trained pharmacists in Great Britain: what do registration data tell us about their recruitment?" pot

báo cáo sinh học:" Internationally trained pharmacists in Great Britain: what do registration data tell us about their recruitment?" pot

... defines Great Britain (GB) as England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland (which is part of the United Kingdom) or the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (part of the British Isles) ... of pharmacy in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom) and passing the requirements of a 12-month preregistration training course in England, Scotland or Wales (Great ... here is based on the RPSGB Register of Pharmacists and therefore applies only to England, Scotland and Wales: Great Britain The growing demand for pharmacists in Great Britain is related, in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

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google adsense secrets or what google never told you about making money with adsense

google adsense secrets or what google never told you about making money with adsense

... nuts and bolts service that lets you hunt and buy names, order hosting plans and even submit your site to the search engines When you’re looking for a name, you can just toss in ten options and ... copy and paste a small piece of code into your website and you’re done! 2.3 Google Policies AdSense works I know it works because I’ve got the stats, the checks and the bank balance to prove it And ... web advertising And that would be ? Yup, the 468 x 60, the ubiquitous banner format that we have all come to know and love and IGNORE Everyone is familiar with the 468 x 60 And that’s exactly...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 14:48

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Báo cáo y học: "What epidemiology has told us about risk factors and aetiopathogenesis in rheumatic diseases" doc

Báo cáo y học: "What epidemiology has told us about risk factors and aetiopathogenesis in rheumatic diseases" doc

... additive and multiplicative interactions between PTPN22 and heavy cigarette smoking [44] It has also been proposed that risk factors such as smoking, alcohol and coffee consumption, obesity, and oral ... first CMC joint on chromosome 15, and two sites in the female DIP joint on chromosome and first CMC joint on chromosome 20) contain susceptibility genes for hand OA and that a jointspecific approach ... of RA and disease activity [21,22], supporting a role for smoking in the development of RA Other host factors that have been associated with RA include blood transfusion and obesity [23] and (high)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

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what u can do about the headaches

what u can do about the headaches

... skin diseases and ailments such as arthritis, gout, chronic headaches and sinusitis The leech therapy follows the traditional unani system of medicine that originated in ancient Greece and is recognized ... young people Smokers and people who drink alcohol often get such headaches Men are about six times more likely than women to have them The Cleveland Clinic says this is especially true of younger ... are suspected of being “triggers” that start migraines They include cheese and alcoholic drinks Food additives like salt and monosodium glutamate also may be triggers 3 The Mayo Clinic tells patients...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 14:44

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Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it? ppt

Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it? ppt

... receives and replies to client requests The front-end tier is responsible primarily for locating data on back-end machine(s) and routing it to and from clients in Content and ReadMostly, and for ... error-handling or load-handling capabilities from being deployed; online, this detects components that are faulty in their errorhandling or load-handling capabilities before they fail to properly handle ... Online fault injection and load testing would likewise have helped Online and other services This observation goes hand-in-hand with the need for better expos- ing failures and monitoring for those...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

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CA AMERICAN STIOB: Or,What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in theWest potx

CA AMERICAN STIOB: Or,What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in theWest potx

... According to Andy Bichnbaum of the Yes Men, “The retraction traveled very, very far, and a lot of the articles were sympathetic and brought Bhopal and Dow into the subject again and again and again ... in the West and in late socialism and the consequent emergence and popularity of stiob aesthetics and methods in both contexts in reaction 204 Institutional Conditions of Mediation and Political ... dominant vehicles for hegemonic political discourse and propaganda—especially in state-run broadcast and print media and other forms of popular propaganda that were treated as central institutions...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "What Humour Tells Us About Discourse Theories" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "What Humour Tells Us About Discourse Theories" pdf

... P1 and P2 are compatible, and the possible world is P = P1 ∪ P2 P1 is the preferred interpretation and P2 is hidden When t = T P , J2 is introduced, and P1 becomes incompatible with P2 , and ... distributions that is more capable at handling humour, and is based on the notion of expectation and dissonance It would be interesting now to find necessary and sufficient conditions under this framework ... Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin 1991 Script theory revis(it)ed: Joke similarity and joke representation model 4(3):293–347 Savatore Attardo and Victor Raskin 1994 Nonliteralness and non-bona-fide...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

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sexual selections what we can and can’t learn about sex from animals

sexual selections what we can and can’t learn about sex from animals

... philosophers and social scientists might have us believe It is nonetheless true that we and our culture and our history throw up different kinds of barriers to seeing clearly, especially where sex and ... on Rhum, an island off the coast of Scotland, which makes keeping track of births, deaths, and dominance much easier than it would be in a herd that wandered over great distances and became impossible ... is “just” terminology and that it is not the major issue The importance of language in structuring our thinking, sex and the death of a loon 31 and the use of “man” as a false generic, are beyond...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:54

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Why the User Experience of Enterprise Software sucks and what you can do about it

Why the User Experience of Enterprise Software sucks and what you can do about it

... RANKIN, AND I DESIGN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE I MAKE TECHNOLOGY EASY AND FUN TO USE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE RUNS ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENTS, & BUSINESSES WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WEB AND ENTERPRISE ... Consulting “as relevant as general health and safety considerations in the workplace.” out of 10 people recalled the last time they saw a product they just had to have, and it was because of the design ... BUSINESS STRATEGY ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDORS MUST REINFORCE THEIR BRAND IN THE PRODUCT TO STRENGTHEN OFFLINE RELATIONSHIPS Our brand is the only that (category) (benefit) IN A WORLD OF...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 18:29

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Báo cáo sinh học : "What do we know about influenza and what can we do about it" ppsx

Báo cáo sinh học : "What do we know about influenza and what can we do about it" ppsx

... induced by viral infection and in turn induces cellular anti-viral proteins that interfere with viral replication; and we have already mentioned the HA and the NA, and members of the viral polymerase ... the future and progress is being made in identifying conserved amino acid sequences associated with past pandemics [5] but we don’t yet know enough about what determines infectivity and virulence ... infecting virus and host factors Important host factors include age, basic health status and prior exposure to the same or related viruses, with the very young, the elderly, pregnant women and those...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Infrared images of heat fields around a linear heater in tree trunks: what can be learned about sap flow measuremen" pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Infrared images of heat fields around a linear heater in tree trunks: what can be learned about sap flow measuremen" pptx

... an ellipse in standard (right part of an ellipse) and polar (left part of an ellipse) system of coordinates: M, F1, F2 – center and foci of an ellipse; a, b and e – main axes and eccentricity ... In order to understand how to evaluate infrared heat field patterns for a better planning and handling of sap flow measurements based on a minimum of sensors, some physical and mathematical considerations ... understanding heat fields, a few basic features should be sketched here: Ellipses follow mathematical laws explained in Figure 2: They are described by two axes, a and b, two foci, F1 and F2,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo y học: "What magnetic resonance imaging has told us about the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis - the first 50 years" doc

Báo cáo y học: "What magnetic resonance imaging has told us about the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis - the first 50 years" doc

... variations within and between joints Pathophysiological perspective Erosion formation and cartilage pannus junction key to understanding RA Erosion and pannus are inevitable and predictable consequences ... synovitis and erosion were uncoupled and are linked by an intermediate osteitis that is secondary to synovitis, and these observations are further appraised below Uncoupling of synovitis and erosion—but ... and bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis Radiographic studies have fuelled the notion that synovitis and joint erosion could be uncoupled Our studies showed that synovitis was primary in RA and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

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