... and philosopher extraordinaire. A special word of gratitude to Jeevan Sivasubramanian, Berrett-Koehler's managing editor, and to Ken Lupoff, Rick Wilson, Maria xiv ConfessionsofanEconomic ... with our spreadsheets and financial projections, and we lecture at the Harvard Business School about the miracles of macroeconomics. xx ConfessionsofanEconomic Hit Man room, shagged balls ... experiences and the lessons. Beyond them, I thank the people who encouraged me to go out on a limb and tell my story: Stephan Rechtschaffen, Bill and Lynne Twist, Ann Kemp, Art Roffey, so many of the...
... war and the mass pro-duction of weapons, from the damming of rivers and the destruction of indigenous environments and cultures. I began to look at whobenefits when hundreds of thousands of ... development plan. This plan would create a jus-tification for World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, an dUSAID investment of billions of dollars in the energy, transporta-tion, and agricultural ... their answers to my questions and4about the validity of their data. For instance, I could never just walkinto an office with my translator and meet with someone; we firsthad to set up an...
... mysister and I hardly left the piano to eat and sleep. The dialect part of the libretto was in an ancient manuscriptcopy, torn, marked and dog's-eared, and written in an almost illegible German ... posters and drawings of famous artists and caricatures of Parisians. The performers are called on in turn by the master of ceremonies, and take their stand on a littleplatform in front of the piano ... her of her splendour, so wearranged something out of the pointed pink bodice of one of my other gowns, and the long white skirt of asummer dress, with a ladder arrangement of pink velvet bands...
... significant decrease of DH#with an unavoidable concurrent decrease of TDS#.Theslope of the Arrhenius plot, in the temperature range5–15 °C, corresponds to an approximately threefoldincrease of ... studies of wild-type and mutant alkaline phosphatases.(A) Temperature dependence of kcat of TAB5 (d), mutants G261A(r), G261A/Y269A (j)andE.coli (·) alkaline phosphatases attemperature range ... higher thanthe native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1). The mutantG261A/Y269A exhibits an Eaalmost the same as in the caseofthenativeenzyme(Table1).Thermal inactivation of mutant and wild-type...
... [211–215], Na+channels[216,217], K+channels [218], other unidentified chan-nels [203–207] and many members of the TRP family of channels (see below). In extreme cases, channelselectivity ... &Luckhoff A (2002) Activation of the Cation ChannelLong Transient Receptor Potential Channel 2(LTRPC2) by Hydrogen Peroxide. A splice variantreveals a mode of activation independent of ADP-ribose. ... phylogeny, and functions of the TRP superfamily of cation channels. Sci STKE2001, RE1.255 Chandrasekaran K, Mehrabian Z, Li XL & Hassel B(2004) RNase-L regulates the stability of mitochondrialDNA-encoded...
... majority share of the total. Another 17% is in the banking and finance sectors, and 16% is in the retail and wholesale trade sectors, reflecting purchases of department stores and other investments ... finance sector. Canada’s $86 billion investment in the U.S. banking and finance sectors surpasses the more than $53 billion invested in the finance sector alone by British firms (data for banking ... Switzerland ($97 billion), the Netherlands ($82 billion), France ($81 billion), Germany ($79 billion), and Japan ($76 billion) account for nearly three-fourths of the total amount of foreign...
... screening of selected victims of OPVand human rights violations at mobile clinics. Statisticaldata were collected from the Ministry of Health of Kos-ovo and the Organization for Security and Co-operationin ... and trans-lated into Albanian and Serbian. The questionnaire wasmodified on the basis of the knowledge generated fromthe interviews with key informants. The interviewer teamwas composed of ... outcomes and explanatoryvariables.Ethics evaluationThis study abides by the Declaration of Helsinki and Dan-ish law. Ethical clearance was granted by the Ethics Com-mittee of the Academy of Medical...
... unaware of any publishedestimates of effective population sizes of red deer, which would be an indicator of the rate of loss of genetic variation by drift, and whose ... effects of social and age structure ongenetic drift but not of isolation by distance which depends on the one-way variance of geographic dispersal distances (Chepko-Sade and ... Chambord; and antler length,antler diameter, point number of trophy, length of eye beam or length of middlebeam in stags (> 7 yr) from Chambord. Calves of less than 3...
... indebted to Anne van Aaken, Peter Behrens, Stephania Bonilla, Eberhard Feess, Henning Frọòdorf, Andrew Guzman, Jonathan Klick, Frank Mỹller-Langer, Jan Matauschek, Susan Russell, Stephan Wittig, ... Herausgegeben vonProfessor Dr. Peter BehrensProfessor Dr. Thomas EgerProfessor Dr. Manfred HollerProfessor Dr. Claus OttProfessor Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer Professor Dr. Stefan Voigt (schriftführend)Universität ... additional ones: insurance as a mechanism to enhance transactional security, the devaluation of assets as a strategy to avoid expropriation and lobbying. At the core of each of these mechanisms is the...
... point, see G. E. M. Anscombe, ‘Causality and Determina-tion’, in her Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind. Of course, the ‘Humean’ defini-tion of causation in terms of ‘constant conjunction’, ... asif he thinks that a human person is some sort of combination of an immaterial soul and a physical body, which stand to oneanother in a rather mysterious relation of ‘substantial union’.I shall ... Contentsviii4Mentalcontent69Propositions70Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74Theindividuationofcontent79Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82Broadversusnarrowcontent84Content,representationandcausality89Misrepresentationandnormality92Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99Conclusions1005Sensationandappearance102Appearanceandreality103Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107Otherargumentsforsense-data110Objectionstosense-datumtheories112Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116Primaryandsecondaryqualities119Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126Conclusions1286Perception130Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135Perceptionandcausation137Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143Thedisjunctivetheoryofperception145Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155Conclusions1587Thoughtandlanguage160Modesofmentalrepresentation162The‘languageofthought’hypothesis164Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167Imaginationandmentalimagery169Thoughtandcommunication175Doanimalsthink?178Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183 In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind. Using...
... 03 - 2008 Trang 55 3.2 Displacement measurement The output of indicator is digital signal and can be connected directly to micro processor and is recorded and saved exactly and easily. However, ... pressure change have some break points. This problem is caused by electrical noises of amplifier and A-D converter in measuring pressure and light noises and mechanical noises of drainage ... Phan Tan Tung(1), Nguyen Tan Tien(1) (1)University of Technology, VNU-HCM (2) H.A.I Survey & Construction Company, Hochiminh City (Manuscript Received on November 01st, 2007, Manuscript...