... His sink is a miracle of detritus. There were a couple of cans of Edge Gel shaving cream with the tops off both of them and the top of the cans were rusty. There was a box of Q-tips. There were ... want to know the truth, neither one of us could qualify as the most open, giving guy of the century. On one wall of his bedroom is this big huge picture of a leafy forest in autumn. On another ... and there’s a place to park in front of them. I pulled in, turned a U in front of the guard gate to the Sea Bluff development, and parked in front of the tennis courts. Jasper’s car, besides...
... major discoveries that–HISTORY AND NATUREOF SCIENCE–259shake the foundations of understanding and lead to newmodes of thinking. Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of sci-ence, called such discoveries ... scientist looks at nature and tries to understand it. The curiosityCHAPTERHistory and Nature of ScienceIN THIS chapter, you will read about what drives science, the nature of scientific knowledge, ... Darwin caused a lot of controversywhen he presented his theory of evolution. There is stillsome debate on whether evolution theory should betaught in public schools.The natureof light was not...
... proportion /prC/pc:Sn/ (n): [count] a quantity of something that is a part or share of the whole: phn, t l proportion of: Only a small proportion of graduates fail to find employment: Ch có ... khi tôi tan s. 21. waterproof //wc:tCpru:f/ (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không ... Prefixes are added to the front of the base (like dislike), whereas suffixes are added to the end of the base (active activate). Prefixes usually do not change the class of the base word, but suffixes...
... problem of unscrambling English affixes. The role of affixes is crucial in the study of word-breaking practice. In the automatic determination of the parts of speech (a central feature of automatic ... determination of parts -of- speech assignments E. The determination of the number of phonetic syl- lables corresponding to a written English word In the first case, we have taken a random sample of 100 ... obvious algorithms needed for most of the words and put this together with a list of irregular forms for a working procedure, except for the presence of a number of verbs where it is necessary...
... Science 295, 472–476.Fig. 2. EM of a transverse section of the contents of the third limb of themajor ampullate duct of Nephila edulis just before the start of the internaldraw down taper. ... crystalline spinning of spider silk. Nature 410, 541–548.2. Simmons, A., Michal, C. & Jelinski, L. (1996) Molecularorientation and two-component natureof the crystalline fraction of spider dragline ... fraction of secondary structure of B zone sample for a helix (solid), b sheet (dashed) and other (dotted).Ó FEBS 2002 Amyloidogenic natureof spider silk (Eur. J. Biochem. 269) 4161Amyloidogenic nature...
... con-cept of proof evolved. The Republic of Plato contains a clear articulation of the proof concept. The Physics of Aristotle not only discusses proofs, buttreats minute distinctions of proof methodology ... papers with mathematical proofs. A friend of mine recently had a paper rejected there for lack of a proof.0.2. THE CONCEPT OF PROOF 5and surprises.0.2 The Concept of ProofIt is well to begin this ... is not a mathematical proof.0.2. THE CONCEPT OF PROOF 9As a result of these questions, ancient mathematicians had to think hardabout the natureof mathematical proof. Thales (640 B.C.E.–546...
... part of their education or as part of their professional reputation-building. For them, sharing of code is not only part of their professional advancement, but an integral part of the professional ... others and thus offers partial insights into what kind of new patterns are emerging. This area is the development of software and the new practice of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). A ... Society?21Felix Stalder / Open Cultures and the Natureof NetworksFelix Stalder / Open Cultures and the Natureof Networkssoftware tends to be clean and free of hidden features. In the FOSS development...
... and off-label extensions of drugs and devices are increasing without any kind of formal evaluation. In addition, providers have been contending with the expansion of IT products, most of which ... standardization of data elements; clarification of patient privacy rules; development of new data harvesting tools; connection of longitudinal da-tabases; and growing collaboration among professional ... overviews of key issues. Comments were also provided as context for each session by the moderators: Denis A. Cortese, chief executive of cer of Mayo Clinic; Michael M. E. Johns, chancellor of Emory...
... kept out of a team asa substitute by being retained on the bench forthe duration of a game or even for several gamesbend (athletics) (1) the curved section of the track;(2) the part of a race ... 2009)Encyclopedia of Corporate Names Worldwide (2002; paperback 2008)A Dictionary of Art Titles: The Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,000 Works of Art (2000; paperback 2008)A Dictionary of Music ... Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,500 Musical Compositions (2000; paperback 2008)Literally Entitled: A Dictionary of the Origins of the Titles of Over 1,300 Major Literary Works of the...
... 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 funding ... 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 ... holdings were; out of a total balance-sheet size of $691 billion, cash holdings amounted to only $7.29 billion. Much of the liabilities of Lehman Brothers was of a short-term nature. The largest...