strengths of the nature debate

... drawn from the literature 1.7 Summary of major findings The analysis of the nature and extent of the adoption of the ASX recommendations reveals that the overall mean level of adoption of the ASX ... analysis of the changes engendered by the introduction of the recommendations, data is also collected for the two years prior to the commencement of the new code While a full comparison of the pre- ... and the efficacy of governance mechanisms in these firms Reasons for the lack of empirical evidence include the economic significance of the largest companies and the availability of data for these

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2017, 15:39

... the Vietnamese for their preventive activities before each natural disaster This fact raises the question of what is the fruition of their tireless battles against the nature’s furor, while the ... to mitigate the negative effects of the earthquake Halliday (2006) uses a set of panel data on workers and their family migrated from El Salvador to the US to examine the impact of the 2001 earthquakes ... the magnitude of the disaster in desinventar.net to form the damage measures (DMS): (1) The number of people killed (KIL); (2) the number of people injured (INJ); (3) the number of houses destroyed

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 11:41

... metaphysical issues concerning the nature of persistence in time,2 the nature of change and the nature of becoming Just to sketch the connection between the presentist/eternalist debate and becoming, which ... time), thenthere must be the same objective present across all the universe §3 A second blow at the debate: the pluralistic nature of existence Another, more promising way to defend the view that there ... Minkowskispacetime, of becoming, of the nature of change or of persistence in time §4 A debate on which of the two senses of existence is more fundamental? Let us go back to the definitions given

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 05:19

... influence the level of social approval in the more distant future The impact of public policy on the evolution of “values” as represented by the choices by already unwed mothers, but they do find ... center of the distribution, the fraction of agents contained in the shaded region would then rise at a faster rate initially (as the shaded region approaches the center of the type space where the ... versions of this analysis, as well as the option of purchasing child care The inclusion of a fixed monetary cost makes out-of-wedlock births less likely for the very poor (in the absence of Trang

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 10:43

... like the ideologues The lack of constraint of the ideologists is a function of their creativity The lack of constraint of the masses is a function of their cluelessness Ideologists are, in the ... problem with the nature-of-the-times theory The problem is that it is so often wrong (Achen and Bartels 2004) In place of an impossible omniscience on their Trang 22own part, nature-of-the-times ... raise the likelihood that there is no science-like corrective to the theoretical biases of the ideologue to get at what I take to be the properly understood normative subtext of “The Nature of Belief

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2022, 00:54

... nm, the mass increased by 0.05 ngÆmm )2 and the density decreased by 0.0167 gÆcm )3 , from the start of the experiment. By the end of the measurement, the thickness had increased by 0.342 nm, the ... fluores- cence. The subsequent plateau phase is associated with a decrease in the concentration of small species, or the aggregation and precipitation of fibrils [37]. The kinet- ics of these three stages of ... min. In the main, the pres- ence of a-crystallin significantly decreased formation of this large aggregate. As a result of the interaction of a-crystallin with reduced j-casein, a complex of similar mass

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... PROBLEMS OF THE BURGESS SHALE -the ORIGIN OF THE BURGESS FAUNA -the DECIMATION OF THE BURGESS FAUNA CHAPTER IV Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History -the BASIS FOR WALCOTT'S ALLEGIANCE TO THE ... AND THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS -LIFE AFTER THE BURGESS: soft-bodied FAUNAS AS WINDOWS INTO THE PAST -the SETTING OF THE BURGESS SHALE WHERE WHY: THE MEANS OF PRESERVATION WHO, WHEN: THE HISTORY OF ... -EVOLUTION OF THE EUKARYOTIC CELL -the FIRST FAUNA OF MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS -the FIRST FAUNA OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION -the SUBSEQUENT CAMBRIAN ORIGIN OF THE MODERN FAUNA -the ORIGIN OF TERRESTRIAL

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:54

... The Politics of Design19 None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial (with David Ehrenfeld ) 85 10 Twine in the Baler 91 12 A Politics Worthy of the Name 104 13 The Limits of Nature and the ... particular places Thereare, of course, many other examples, such as Helena Norberg-Hodge’s(1992) study of the impact of Westernization on the people ofLadakh and Gary Nabhan’s (1982) study of the Papago ... to one degree or another, but the level of ecological damagehas increased with the level of civilization and with the scale and kind of technology The average citizen of the United States now

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:57

... twice as often from their fathers off-as the offspring from any of the other three groups The researchers suggest in the May 14 Science that the culprits are microscopic airborne particles of soot ... ultimately dictatesthe overall course of cosmic events, ordinarymatter has the consolation of being the life ofthe universe, softening the brute forces of na-ture like a flower box in the city COPYRIGHT ... feature of climate on the southern Great Plains The blame falls not on the elements, but on our refusal to adapt to them The outbreaks of dust storms have closely followed the pattern of the original

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:20

... connection with the question of beauty Chapter 5 moves to the other side of the relationship with nature the end of the world, ” that is, the psychological impact of environmental ... The return to the green chaos, the deep forest and refuge of the unconscious —John Fowles, The Tree To enter the silence is to touch the fertile void and the nature of ... of the bird and the lion plunge the listeners into an “unfathomed deep” of profound silence There the voices of the nonhuman meet the receptivity of the listeners at a depth

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:48

... to trace the steps of his theoretical construction as an attempt to solve these problems and answer these questions (John Passmore, “The Idea of a History of Philosophy,” History and Theory [1964–65]: ... them, even if the reasons are similar For the questions to be the same, must the (implicit) range of possible answers also be the same, or at least largely overlap? The question “Why this?” often ... possibility of the same “that” but in the face of different “thises” that seem to exclude it, are they asking the same question—are they even then talking about the same “this”? When two theorists

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:50

... definition of “species.” Beatty’s theory has enjoyed the status of being the received view eversince The present book, on the other hand, is the first major-length study of Darwin on the nature of species, ... transcendnot only their social milieu but also the science of their time There is nofiner example of this than Darwin This is the grand theme of MichaelGhiselin’s The Triumph of the Darwinian Method ... existing outside of the mind,whether they are something we make or something we discover; and if thelatter is the case, it is the further problem of determining their precisenature and of formulating

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:55

... for the VIA-IS The inspection of the Eigenvalues suggested the extraction of five factors, which were rotated to the Varimax criterion The five factor scores were correlated (Pearson) with the ... playful-ness When examining the content of the items of the VIA-IS humor-scale, it can be noted that only three out of the ten items refer to playfulness while the others refer to humor directly ... each of the strengths in their classification One of the synonyms for humor is playfulness; which they briefly define as“humor [playfulness]: liking to laugh and joke; bringing smiles to other

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... toshow the relative positions and movements espe-of the sun, planets, and moon as they cled the earth As the center of the uni-verse, the earth was a sphere in the center cir-of the orrery The other ... confuses the common use ofthese words with the scientific use In science, theories do not turn into factsthrough the accumulation of evidence.evo-Rather, theories are the end points of science They ... theheliocentric hypothesis Then, in the latterhalf of the 17th century, Isaac Newton(1642 to 1727) showed that the force ofgravity—as measured on the earth—couldaccount for the movements of the

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... built up the body of knowledge known as the biological theory of the origin and evolution of life There is no currently acceptable alternative scientific theory to explain the phenomena The various ... use to inform themselves, their students, parents, and others about evolution and the role of science in human affairs One source of resistance to the teaching of evolution is the belief that ... terms, such as “theory” and “fact,” used throughout the book • The first dialogue, “The Challenge to Teachers,” follows the conversation of three teachers as they discuss some of the problems that

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... scientists—for thesake of profit, fame, or just the sheer fun of it—to create machineswith the potential to displace the rest of us and our children? Whohas given them the right to threaten the existence of ... notice the problem, nor did the dozen or so men, simi-larly anesthetized, standing around the pickup trucks at the edge ofthe field Believing the lack of twine to be a serious problem, one ofthe ... earth or to the legitimacy of humanwants On the face of it, the case is absurd Most physical laws definethe limits of what it is possible to do And all of the authentic moralteachings of 3,000 years

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... audit of the building, ing an estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide released by the con-struction, along with a menu of possibilities to offset these costs.The groundbreaking occurred in the ... describe it as their legacy to the college Because oftheir work on the project, many of them learned about ecological de-sign and how to solve real problems by working with some of the bestpractitioners ... meetings, the process of design must begin with faculty, students,and others meeting away from the busyness of the campus Given thenormal state of campus politics, it would be wise to engage the serv-ices

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... happened? The emergence of the consumer society was neither inevitablenor accidental Rather, it resulted from the convergence of a body ofideas that the earth is ours for the taking, the rise of modern ... calibrates the sum total ofour actions with the larger cycles of the earth When we do so, design at all scales entails not just the making of things, but becomes, rather,the larger artistry of making ... the world part of the environment of trees androcks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the naturalworld and competent to belong in it —Wallace Stegner It is odd that attacks on the

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... over-generalized, and chronic. The issues raised by these incompatible points of view attending the inception of the notion of social phobia are as relevant now as they were then; they are as controversial ... examine the validity of the measures devised to ascertain and quantify social anxiety, as this is most relevant to social phobia. Examination of the validity both of the construct and of the methods assessing ... Phobia? ‘ Of all the many wonders, none is more wonderful than man who has learnt the arts of speech, of wind-swift thought, and the living in neighborliness.’’ Sophocles in the grip of panic. The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... at the expense of another, the decision is easy – though it is the lesser of two evils, the latter is preferable to the former. As the journalist Polly Toynbee (2000) notes, the ethicist Professor ... mean the death of one of them. However, doctors believed that both twins would die unless this operation was conduc- ted, so with the permission of the parents of the twins, they separated them; one ... life. In the case of pregnancy, if a woman consents to the eVects of the fetus, we have an example of the symbiotic ideal of mother and child that cultures so often idealize. However, given the quality...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20