... been developed over decades of time employing well-defined selection criteria in a systematic and consistent manner. With the inclusion of The Book Citation Index in Web of Science, Thomson Reuters ... and efficiently. The aggregation of important book content in the Book Citation Index within Web of Science will enable researchers publishing in books to reach a far wider audience and to measure ... . .THE BOOK SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE BOOK CITATION INDEXINTRODUCTION: Web of ScienceSM is well known for its coverage of top tier international and regional journal literature in the Science...
... were aching savagely from their long restraint. He was on the point of moving, of whispering to ask the Boy what it meant, when the latter, divining his unrest, stealthily laid a restraining hand ... 101beavers had been notified of its coming, the real cold came. In one night the pond froze to a depth of several inches; and over the roof of the House in the Water was a casing of armour hard as stone. ... ABOVE.” 17 Following the usual custom of the wild kindreds themselves, the Boy stood motionless for some minutes behind his thin screen of bushes before revealing himself frankly in the open....
... recently, the independent committee investigating the disaster involving the space shuttle Columbia highlighted the importance of institutional culture in its findings, pointing to the self-protective ... engineering program at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (originators of the widely used ThermoCalc thermodynamic software) of a degree in materials design and engineering.9 ... representing the greatest engineering database in history. A parallel fundamental database initiative in support of computational materials engineering could build a physical science/engineering link...
... published Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insightsfrom the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (Keating and Gates, 1999). Thatdocument analyzed the Defense Finance and Accounting ... more in- depth examination of DFAS pricing policies, building upon the Keating andGates study. This report presents the results of that effort.Like other DWCF organizations—including the Defense ... 11. IntroductionAs its name suggests, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)provides finance and accounting services to its customers in the Department of Defense (DoD). DFAS’s finance...
... have heard of no absolutely certain representation of the phoenix in English architecture, and the difficulty of finding one is intensified by the great simi-larity of the carvings of all birds ... were buried in niches along the corridors or in the chambers, the walls and roofs of which were stuccoed and covered with paintings. These paintings were quite frankly pagan in influence, though ... mentioned as being destined to dwell among the ruins of Babylon. The syren was reputed to be deathbearing: it sang at the approach of a storm, but wept in fine weather. In the Odyssey, Book xii,...
... Cataloguing in Publication DataData availableLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataHutchinson, G. O.Talking books : readings in Hellenistic and Roman books of poetry / G. O. Hutchinson.p. ... The sending of speciWc books or pairs of books suggests distinctness in content, cf. p. 3 above andCPF 5 (P. Getty Mus. acc. 76.AI.27.5 7, i ad).Doing Things with Books 29 between lines, probably ... multiply meaning: in a single poem of several books the book- divisions add precision andshape to our understanding of the whole; when there are many poemswithin one book, the meanings can multiply...
... defines “intrinsic” thus: “belonging tothe essential nature or constitution of a thing.” And it defines “inher-ent” thus: “involved in the constitution or essential character of some-thing intrinsic.” ... “inherent” and “intrinsic.” The “more or less similar concepts inherent value, inherent orintrinsic worth” contain a core meaning; these labels define “which Dedicated to /In loving memory of the many ... an animal that dwells in the Arctic.The interests of sentient individuals vary according to physiology—but only in degree, not in kind. The duties of moral agents, forinstance the duty not...
... philosophy.Academic disciplines do not exist in a vacuum. The moral dilemmaentailed in patenting farmed animals will be decided in light of suchdiverse disciplines as genetic engineering, theology, law, ... harmful use of animalsin research, their “lesser” value being “sacrificed” for the“greater” value of humanity. Grounded in the recognition of the equalinherent value of all those who have inherent ... sense of the future,including their own future; an emotional life together with feelings of pleasure and pain; preference- and welfare-interests; the ability to ini-tiate action in pursuit of...