... as the value of their degrees decreased While students may not like the discipline imposed on them by tough professors, they want tough professors to help them maintain the reputation of their ... however, the Chinamen told him to butt out, that they owned the barge, they earned more money the faster they got the cargo up the river, and they had hired the brute with the whip to eliminate the ... relative to the value they place on other products, the price of musical earrings will increase in response to increased demand, as will the profits ofthe firms producing them The increased profit...
... development of soils depends on five factors: the parent material; the climate; the biological forces; the relief or lay ofthe land; and time (1964) The kind ofsoil that develops depends on the interaction ... distribution He mapped the surficial geology ofthe area describing the geologic unit, the materials present, the topography, and the origin ofthe unit The geologic units identified in the two study ... used as the field-check for evaluating the validity of soils maps to represent the surficial geology ofthe study areas The localities of 248 point stations out of a total of 301 in the study...
... in the logical relationships between concepts rather than in the actual extensions ofthe concepts themselves This is in accord with standard linguistic practice, where the focus is on types of ... utterances rather than utterance tokens An example of an inheritance network is given in Figure We have followed the standard convention of placing the more specific elements toward the bottom ofthe ... both a d and an e On the other hand, if we assume that b is defined, then the presence of d and e in a conjunctive concept should ensure the presence of b, thus eliminating the sets {d,e,f}, {c,...
... values of or less (pH here is a measure 22 THE BIOLOGY OFSOILofthe concentration of Hϩ ions in soil water) Many northern ecosystems also have very acidic soils: the pH values ofthe soils of Boreal ... the activity ofthesoil biota strongly affects it, but also because the structure ofsoil determines the physical nature ofthe living space Aggregation determines the pore distribution of soil, ... variation in the mineralogy of rocks, therefore, strongly influences the type of soils that are formed and the character ofthe vegetation that they support (Fig 1.4) Soils formed from weathering of basic...
... “laws of nature,” the way formal mathematical logic does Only in the broadest terms can there be a single theory ofthe contingent, largely chance-driven process that is the evolution of life ... bloodrelationship ofthe species As the laws of Nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole organic world; therefore, the study of ... modifications of species, so truly all changes ofthe organization register themselves thereon Moreover, the same colourpatterns ofthe wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of bloodrelationship...
... Probability Theory: TheLogicOf Science by Edwin Jaynes Probability Theory: TheLogicOf Science By E T Jaynes The material available from this page is a pdf version of Jaynes' book If ... probability theory ofthe future History: The present form of this work is the result of an evolutionary growth over many years My interest in probability theory was stimulated rst by reading the work of ... ROBUSTNESS The Bayesian Basis of it All 2401 The Occam Factors 2402 Chapter 25 MARGINALIZATION THEORY Chapter 26 IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION Chapter 27 COMMUNICATION THEORY Origins ofthe Theory 2701 The Noiseless...
... in the context of human language and cognition In that TheLogicof Language context, the serene purity created by the mathematics oflogic is drawn into the realm ofthe complexities ofthe ... together the logical, the psychological, and the pragmatic; the empirical and the theoretical; the formalist and the empiricist; and situating it all in the context of two and a half millennia of ... and the well-defined semantic properties ofthe logical constants 6 TheLogicof Language When one accepts the dependency on the meanings ofthe logical constants involved, one may say that logic...
... and the inherent logicof MAD becomes irrelevant The same is true ofthe absence of collective goals; if one or the other ofthe superpowers had been more enthusiastic about destroying the other ... comparative study ofthe role of ideology in leadership The second case, Great Britain from the middle ofthe nineteenth century to the eve of World War One, is often seen as the classic example of international ... and theLogicof Money The conclusion summarizes and aggregates the findings ofthe case studies, and puts these in the perspective ofthe framework presented in Chapter It also addresses the...
... as a result of mixing thesoilofthe upper horizon with the central part ofthesoil profile – Higher values ofthe surface humus accumulation in the floodplain forest of Spačva as compared ... changes in nutrient concentrations This was caused by mixing the upper part ofthesoil and bringing thesoil with a lower nutrient content to thesoil surface There were fewer changes in the clearing ... sediments of various thickness of 1–2 m in general and underlying Pleistocene water-bearing sands The mineral composition ofthe soils corresponds to the geological composition ofthe catchment area the...
... knowledge of chemical sciences (both fact and theory) has grown so has the power of synthesis The synthesis of carbogens now includes the use of reactions and reagents involving more than sixty ofthe ... solutions The actual role played by the different types of strategies in the simplification of a synthetic problem will, of course, depend on the nature ofthe problem For instance, in the case of a ... retron for the Diels-Alder transform, the application of that transform to to generate synthetic precursor is straightforward The problem of synthesis of is then reduced retrosynthetically to the simpler...
... consequence ofthe presence of cyclic subunits gives rise to a topological complexity which is proportional to the degree of internal connectivity Topological strategies are those aimed at the retrosynthetic ... ring, the number of connections to the major skeleton and the location ofthe ring within the molecule Even when there is an advantage in disconnecting a ring, the precise nature of such a disconnection ... use simple graph theoretical approaches have been described.35 They make use ofthe dual ofthe molecular graph, i.e the figure 42 generated by drawing a line between the centers of each fused ring...
... 2) On the other hand, the C/N ratio ofthe organic layer was not correlated to any ofthesoil chemical properties investigated in the organic layer or the mineral soil (Tabs IV and V) The accumulation ... in the mineral soil are key factors for the accumulation of C and N in the organic layer The total pool of phosphorus was particularly large in the organic layer ofthe Tertiary sands and the ... mineral soil (0–10 cm; d), Nt ofthe organic layer and base saturation (e) and C/N ofthe organic layer or the mineral soil to base saturation, (Ca + Mg + K)ex or the C/N ratio ofthe mineral topsoil...
... comes to the fore Here, the original synthetic unity of apperception is recognized also as the principle ofthe figurative synthesis, i.e., ofthe forms of intuition; space and time are themselves ... through the shallowness ofthe deduction ofthe categories With respect to space and time one can glimpse it too in the deduction ofthe categories, where the original synthetic unity of apperception ... must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action ofthe understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications...