the elements of style part 6

... Atmospheric pressure held them together In 1648, Blaise Pascal showed that the weight of a column of air was less at the top of a 4000-foot (1220m) mountain than at the bottom In 1660, the Hon Robert Boyle ... formulated the Gas Laws and demonstrated the maximum height that water could be drawn by a suction pump Others took up the theme of producing a vacuum by the condensation of steam In 1659 the Marquis of ... on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the first public passenger railway in the world (see Figure 7) The Rainhill Trials were the highlight of the opening of the railway age over much of

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... virtue of the fact that the other—the minimal owner—does so These are not independent owners of mental states becauseone of them—the animal—cannot be in any such states unless the other one is Rather,its ... surely the identity of the first patient cannot hinge on the fate ofthe other Suppose both operations succeed; then one could say to either of the resultingpersons: ‘Count yourself lucky: if the other ... to depend upon the identity of physical things I have earlier in this chaptersuggested that it is a matter of the identity of the whole body rather than of the identity of parts of it, such as

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... the most part in a space outside the reach of the rule of law.The most prominent example in the United Kingdom of the leftwingideology is the functionalist school of thought associated with the ... Brunswick Court ofAppeal had held that the tribunal’s expertise had to do with the application of the law to the particular facts of the dispute, so that the tribunal’sinterpretation of the provision ... programmes of the welfare state.While it is often difficult to discern the normative theory of particularfunctionalists, they are in my view best understood as part of the positivistfamily, because they

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... centuries, the powerful mixture of the psychol- ogy of state and the psychology of nation, the first being the necessary guarantee ofthe safety and well-being ofthe second 7.116 The history ofthe twentieth ... selfand the other: the dilemma ofidentity – The one and themany: the dilemma ofpower – Unity ofnature, plurality ofvalue: the dilemma ofthe will – Justice and social justice: the dilemma oforder ... European Union is the partial integrating of the public realms ofEurope by the controllers of the public realms ofEurope (The public realm is that part ofthe total social process ofa society which

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... deemed to be toosevere, particularly if they offend the majority of the population The degree of Low Welfare level High Fig 6.1 Hypothetical changes in volume of sales of animal products with ... rites They are of much use to you Pronounce over them the name of God as you draw them up in a line and slaughter them; and when they have fallen to the ground eat of their flesh and feed the uncom- ... for the benefit of others.Animals do exactly the same, most famously the lemmings of Scandinavia, whosacrifice themselves approximately every four years for the benefit of the nextgeneration, thereby

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... restore the times of theirancestors Then from the first to the fourth, from the fourth to the third,from the third to the second, the thumb shall roll in oil The sixth shalloverturn the walls of Ireland, ... leaving the woods, shall huntwithin the walls of cities They shall make no small slaughter of those Trang 6that oppose them, and shall cut off the tongues of bulls They shall loadthe necks of roaring ... unpolished, or otherwise faulty init.Chapter 3 The prophecy of Merlin As Vortigern, king of the Britons, was sitting upon the bank of thedrained pond, the two dragons, one of which was white, the other

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope ofthe discussion The Ele-ments of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field Rather it proposes to give in brief space the ... Jr A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 1919 The book was known on the campus in those days as ... and usually the exhortation is followed by, or interlarded with, exaUlpIes in parallel colurnns-the true vs the false, the right vs the wrong, the timid vs the bold, the ragged vs the trim From

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2021, 16:44

... society within which they grow up For the vast majority of them, the place of their birth will remain theirpermanent home until their death, regardless of the membership status of law’ Citizenship ... Upon marriage, they weredivested of their citizenship, and, in the eyes of the law, ‘though loyal atheart, they became alien enemies by their marriage’.45Section 3 of the US Act of 1907 stated ... embraced the principle of sex equality in matters of ality in 1932, while the principle of the unity of the family from the point ofview of nationality was losing its privileged status.48The Convention

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... awareness, the notion that skilled readers must be conscious of the component sounds of words, in order, ul­ timately, to connect them to letters of the printed form The development of such conscious ... characterized the 60 words the way she did (Strauss, 2003) For example, the word phase was listed as an exception It cannot be on the basis of the voiced [z] pronunciation of the letter s, be­ ... the letters of the alphabet and the sounds of speech, is "non-negotiable." The principle, which identifies an abstract system, operates purely at the level of epistemology The funda­mental

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:21

... the signals propagate from the receiving pole of the neuron—thedendrites and the cell body—to the axon, and then along the axon to theoutput pole of the neuron—the presynaptic axon terminal The ... what the structure of DNA did for the rest of biology It unified thecellular study of the nervous system in general, and in fact, the study of ionchannels in general One of the strengths of the ... recognition of the ligand bythe receptor In each case, the receptors are part of a complex of moleculesthat initiate a cascade of events both in series and in parallel In the case ofthe aspartate

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:27

... terms of the aetiology of the perceptions There are, therefore, several interesting conceptual points highlighted bythese two cases The first is, as discussed, the presence of paranoia (in terms of ... still resisting the voices withthe aid of ice cubes when was told to hurt herself Carole still used subvo-calisation as a means of reducing the intensity of the voices At the end of the session Carole ... identified that ofthese 19 symptoms she was only suffering from one at the moment.Carole was asked to state the aspects of the CBT that had been the mosthelpful for her She picked out the ice cubes,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... at the end, and it has no other connections with the rest of the program The logical IF reduces the apparent complexity of the program Occasionally the third branch of an arithmetic IF can serve ... matter of fact the ANSI standard for squared and then negated - but the line should still be rewritten as: TERM = -TERM * X••2 I DENOM The first form invites misunderstanding on the part of the ... Title QA 76.6.K47 1978 001.6'42 78-3498 ISBN 0-07-034207-5 The Elements of Programming Style Copyright © 1978, 1974 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated All rights reserved No part of this

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2022, 15:38

... important phase, too often neglected in the past We have revised The Elements of Programming Style extensively to reflect these changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured ... Manual of Style Copyright© McGraw-Hill, Inc 1970 By permission Trang 6CONTENTS vii Trang 8PREFACE to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Pro-gramming ... Title QA 76.6.K47 1978 001.6'42 78-3498 ISBN 0-07-034207-5 The Elements of Programming Style Copyright © 1978, 1974 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated All rights reserved No part of this

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2023, 16:20

... and weights. First value of each array not used. 0.6794095682,0.8650633666,0.9739065285}; static float w[]={0.0,0.2955242247,0.2692667193, 0.2190863625,0.1494513491,0.0666713443}; xm=0.5*(b+a); ... phases: (i) the generation of the orthogonal polynomials p0, , p N, i.e., the computation of the coefficients a j , b j in (4.5.6); (ii) the determination of the zeros of p N (x), and the computation ... Moreover, it can be shown that the roots of p j (x) “interleave” the j − 1 roots of p j−1(x), i.e., there is exactly one root of the former in between each two adjacent roots of the latter This fact comes

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 04:15

... implements a simplified version of an elegant stopping accuracy, on the one hand, with the danger of iterating forever in the presence of roundoff error, on the other #include <math.h> #include ... synthetic division of P (x), i.e., a division of Q(x), yielding a remainder R1x+S1, then ∂R ∂C =−R1 ∂S To get the remaining partial derivatives, evaluate equation (9.5.20) at the two roots of the ... given polynomial of degree m, whose coefficients can be complex As usual, the first coefficient a[0] is the constant term, while a[m] is the coefficient of the highest power of x The routine implements

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 04:15

... language. They will hear the beat of new vocabularies, the exciting rhythms of special segments of their society, each speaking a language of its own. All of us come under the spell of these unsettling ... that style is the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style. If you write, you must believe — in the truth and worth of the scrawl, in the ... to another word in the sentence. She is the leader of our group. We opened the door by picking the lock. She went out the window. prepositional phrase A group of words consisting of a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20