... each of these topics, but
I shall look at them from a different perspective: how they involve,
or relate to, the concept of probability. Some of the topics I discuss
require a certain amount of ... broad swathe through the physical sciences,
including such esoteric topics as thermodynamics, chaos theory, life
on other worlds, the Anthropic Principles, and quantum theory....
... into anything simpler. For Lavoisier,
these elements were the building blocks of the rest of matter.
1
It was left to John Dalton, in the first years of the nineteenth cen-
tury, to identify the ... that we are participators under the
doctrine of “as above so below.” Yet, as we shall see in this chapter, the
story of the nature of matter, of the movement f...
...
the Complexity
of
Life
8.3
Froni Science to Ideology -The Dangers
of
The Genetic All”
8.4
The Health Excuse -A New Utopia?
8.5
Behind Gene Therapy
-
The Dangerous Liaisons
of the ...
of
the
Oil
Crisis
Almost immediately, the readers of the report were to experience the
implications of a shortage of a key natural resource with the first oil...
... Hypothesis of cause
Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, the best known of all
dream investigators would be Sigmund Freud, who set out to
base his theory of the mind on brain science. ... strengthened over the past
SO years. In the process, the book offers the reader a unique
opportunity to reconsider his or her own dream theory and, into
the...
... 3) and
the model with only the regulation variables (column 4). The R
2
of the full model is
17.24%, i.e. the combined contribution of the systematic factor and the regulation to the
total timely ... constant
and the own funds decrease or increase.
With the help of the two other specifications, it is possible to disentangle the contri-
butions of the syste...
... pointing to a contribution of the free thiol
in the pathway leading to the formation of native
bonds [61].
The number of proteins studied up to now is still
too limited to try to generalize which structural,
sequence ... technique of choice also in
the study of the influence of the physiology of expres-
sion (i.e. temperature, induction, formation of dis...
... between the isoalloxazine ring of FMN and the
segment between His151 and Pro153 of the switch
loop, whereby the imidazole group of His151 interacts
with the bottom of F
420
H
2
and the side chain of
Trp152 ... points to the di-iron center. The iron closer to
FMN is, in the following, referred to as proximal iron,
and the other as distal iron. The distance...
... systematically to the red or to the blue by an
amount that depends on the velocity of the observed star relative to the Earth.
The overall relative velocity is the sum of the rotational velocity of the ... Earth,
the velocity of the Earth round the Sun and the Solar System around the centre
of the Galaxy, in addition to any velocity of the s...
... range of experts and organisations to
understand what causes delay in diagnosis, establish the best
ways of helping the public to recognise symptoms and to get
them checked out by a doctor, and to ... goals that,
together with our partners, we aim to accomplish by the
year 2020:
• People will know how to reduce their risk of cancer
Three-quarters of the UK public...