... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... fatalto cattle. By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herdedclose to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad.Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... provided that they also acknowledge that the structure of this ratchetconsists precisely in the intrinsic functional correlations among the parts of the organism. But if they do this, then they must ... means tending to support the continued homeodynamicstability ofthe oscillator. On this view, then, the meaning of information con-sists in the prediction ofthe success of functional action, ... jostling of matter. What makes the living cell profoundly different from ordinary inor-ganic matter is the way in which each reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good ofthe whole. There...
... Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve. The devil himself tempts the mother of all humanswith the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. The consumption of the fruit leads ... chronicallycomplain of the lack of time and energy they have to actually thinkabout the long-term consequences of their actions and the real futures of their organizations. ... overwhelms the attention and physical energies of the leader. However, seeing to the long-term adaptation and survival of the organization remains the mostimportant aspect ofthe job of ...
... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema. The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the ... availability ofthe constituent technologies and the appearance ofthe innovation ofthe cinematograph. It is expected that the findings will show that it is highly unlikely that there was no ... ααε−−=⋅=⋅=∆∆=11%%TRSqqdqdqqqqqlccllcclqs (1) Where is the amount of spectator-hours of cinema consumed, the spectator-hours of live entertainment, TRS the technical rate of substitution and α the share of cinema expenditure...
... role. All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of risk-based thinking in government. However, theemergenceof ideas about risk in the regulatory ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s. These techniques are part ofthe changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based ... while the 1980s saw a political environment conducive to theemergenceof risk based approaches, the 1990s and beyond have witnessed an environment favourable to the development of them. The...
... and the organisational outlook of two MAS user groupsinfluenced their perception ofthe success of the new system. The site chosen for this study is the Fibre Opticsbusiness unit (HLFO) ofthe ... role in the design and implementation of the PBTC system. The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitativeinformation ... PBTC: the possibility to visualise the numbers hademphasised the importance ofthe processes. The employees ofthe Technical ProductionSupport division who are in charge of plan-ning the production...
... The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis of the humanities in the face of the problem of social ... the poststructuralist debates, can 22 The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities himself has so far abjured the construction of a list in the manner of ... another rather than establishing them. They are a series of interruptions in the peaceful life of the humanities. There may be some idea that, now, late in the day, the...
... historical contact;rather they are elements ofthe truth that other forms of monotheism happento have preserved in the midst of their corruption ofthe revelation with whichthey too began. That ... ofthe main themes in the sociology of religion, following on from the work of Troeltsch and Weber in the early decades ofthe twentieth century, hasconcerned theemergence and development of ... in the vicinity of Mecca. Frequently, too, they stem from the scholar’s desire to assert the primacy of either Judaism or Christianity as the form of monotheism that influenced theemergence of...
... honestydemanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe available empiricalevidence. The honesty of na¨ıve falsificationism demanded the testing ofthe falsifiable and the rejection ... distinguish between theemergenceof modern science and theemergenceof ascientific culture which legitimates that science also lies at the heart of much ofthe kind of criticism of science that began ... that a good deal of the plausibility ofthe thesis derives. From the point of view of understanding sci-ence as a cultural product, the two most formative scientific events ofthe modernera have...
... which were unknown to the other parts ofthe world.”5 In the eyes of many historians, the final realization ofthe idea of Europe came at the end ofthe 18th century. In 1796, the Irish political ... actually takes place on the ground.42 The Re -emeRgence of euRopeAt the moment, the fear nonetheless exists that Europe’s common values are fast vanishing into the mire of diverging national, ... Germans and others – escape to the South in the summer? Sim-ply for the sun, or are these temporary migrations destined to break the ethos of prudence and discipline in search ofthe delightful...
... enzymes the results obtained on the substrate specificity of E domains could pave the way to engineering of biosynthesis of valuable non-ribosomal peptides in vivo. With the discovery of the rules ... moiety ofthe peptidyl-CoAs onto the invariantSer of each PCP domain by exploiting the promiscuousPpant transferase Sfp [8,9]. The advantage of this newminimal system for the investigation of ... exemplifiedby the reaction of TycB3-PCP-E with different substrates. Afterloading ofthe corresponding peptidyl-S-Ppant moiety ofthe CoA-precursors (shown in the legend underneath the plot) by the...
... oVer a systematic overview ofthe re -emergence of emergence theories in contemporary thought. In the conviction that emer-gence must be anchored in the sciences ofthe natural world if it is ... physicalism. The Wrst condition does correctlyexpress the anti-dualistic thrust ofemergence theories. But if the emergence thesis is correct, it undercuts the claim that physics is the fundamentaldiscipline ... Foundations ofEmergence Theory 1Philip ClaytonI. THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES2. The Physics of Downward Causation 35Paul C. W. Davies3. TheEmergenceof Classicality from Quantum Theory 53Erich...