... bazaars, Mecca and Medina, the idiosyncrasies of pampered kings, and the customs ofthe Bedouin It provides unique insights into the history ofthe house of Saud and the politics of colonialism and ... together According to Asad, the Crusades were the beginning of “a poisoning ofthe Western mind against the Muslim world through a deliberate misrepresentation ofthe teachings and ideals of Islam.” ... became one ofthe founding fathers ofthe Church, author ofthe famous De Civitate Dei ( The City of God”) and originator ofthe Augustinian religious order Yet the voice that speaks inThe Confessions...
... said ofthe students in my graduate seminars on virtue at Yale inthe spring of 2000 and the fall of 2001, and at Oxford inthe fall of 2004 As the preceding narrative may suggest, the number of ... judgments of rightness The concepts ofthe good and the right differ inthe shape ofthe characteristic frameworks of evaluation they offer us, that ofthe good being much more tolerant of ambivalence ... some importance in our world of cultural, religious, and ethical plurality OUTLINE A brief outline of some ofthe main lines of thought inthe book may help readers to orient themselves As already...
... embedded The following theorem is the main result of [2] Theorem 1.6 Let G be a graph of genus g Then P(G, x) may be expressed as a linear combination of 4g square roots of determinants T -joins There ... way: the vertices are embedded as points, and each edge is embedded as a continuous non-self-intersecting curve connecting the embeddings of its endvertices The interiors ofthe embeddings ofthe ... definition of even and odd splitting Next, observe that the T -joins W of G are in one -to- one correspondence with the perfect matchings PW of Gs Note that PW contains the set ofthe images ofthe edges...
... proper thermal environment in buildings There are many sustainable alternatives inthe air-conditioning of buildings, which consist in minimizing the energy demand by improving the thermal insulation, ... cooling, and that have been developed inthe Thermal Engineering Research Group ofthe University of Valladolid History of evaporative cooling Many examples ofthe application ofthe phenomenon of ... this supposing, making more interesting the idea of considering and analyzing the use of these devices Another disadvantage is the water consumption associated tothe operation of these systems,...
... (b) Since the electronic circuit of Figure 3(a) is a linear system, the response tothe sum of two inputs is the sum ofthe individual responses to each signal Call y(t) the response ofthe system ... minimum ofthe responses ofthe system to each input taken separately However, this also mean that the response tothe sum of two inputs is no longer the sum ofthe responses ofthe system to ... point y for the circuit, when the input x is a fixed constant voltage (this is the DC analysis) Next they will linearize the nonlinear element (i.e the transistor) around the operating point, to...
... changes in staffing, work flow, decision making, communication, and reward systems In exploring the meaning of organizational readiness and offering a theory of its determinants and outcomes, my intent ... supra-individual theories of readiness, such as the one presented here The article makes three contributions to theory and research First, the article's discussion ofthe meaning of Page of (page ... sought to conceptually define organizational readiness for change and develop a theory of its determinants and outcomes In contrast to much ofthe literature on the topic, the conceptual definition...
... changes in staffing, work flow, decision making, communication, and reward systems In exploring the meaning of organizational readiness and offering a theory of its determinants and outcomes, my intent ... supra-individual theories of readiness, such as the one presented here The article makes three contributions to theory and research First, the article's discussion ofthe meaning of Page of (page ... sought to conceptually define organizational readiness for change and develop a theory of its determinants and outcomes In contrast to much ofthe literature on the topic, the conceptual definition...
... containing the 20 amino acids (corresponding tothe other amino acid inthe co-locating pair) If the codons ofthe amino acid pairs followed the predefined complementary code, the co-location was ... coding the protein in question (Fig 1) Immediate RNA-assisted protein folding prevents any protein misfolding at the site of protein synthesis itself The insufficiency of folding information in ... lengths ofthe proteins (number of amino acid residues): 1CBI: CELLULAR RETINOIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN I (136), 1EIO: ILEAL LIPID BINDING PROTEIN (127), 1IFC: INTESTINAL FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN...
... of term i in document D according tothe BM25 scheme is notated as SM ART.okn or okn Most ofthe tf weighting functions in SMART and the BM25 model take into consideration the non-linearity of ... · N2 where Nj is the total number of training documents in class cj and dfi,j is the number of training documents in class cj that contain term i The above weighting scheme was appropriately ... tf.idf Martineau and Finin (2009) provide a solution tothe above issue of idf utilization in a classification scenario by localizing the estimation of idf tothe documents of one or the other class...
... identified the parse tree paths for each ofthe 10 arguments inthe training sets, and applied them tothe sentences in each corresponding test sets When applying the 50 training parse tree paths to ... is theagentofthe predication (e.g the person that has the belief or is doing the giving), and arg1 is the thing that is acted upon by theagent (e.g the thing that is believed or the thing ... inthe path was a non-branching pre-terminal, we added the lexical information tothe path node In addition, our paths led tothe lowest governing node, rather than the highest For example, the...
... what the system remembers of a given topic At the beginning ofthe parsing process, the active frames contain nothing At the end ofthe process, the meaning ofthe text will be recorded in them ... "book" into the INPUT-TYPE slot Another alternative is to let the INPUT-SUPERVISOR insert it inthe INPUT-TYPE slot and let the problem solver make sense out of it There is an interesting tradeoff ... all of them referring tothe same concept: "the previous balance," "the starting balance," "the old balance" "the balance at the beginning ofthe period." DESCRIPTION will return with the same token...
... speculation the Platonist, he who finds inthe constitution ofthe Mind the eternal principles or at least the types ofthe eternal principles of Reality; the Aristotelian, he for whom these seem to reside ... already beginning to recognise not only the inconsistency ofthe theory of two real things, but the dominating significance ofthe conception of Energy, and are gradually coming to claim for the conception ... Space brachial; then tothe information derived from walking and other movements ofthe lower limbs, and then tothe co-ordination ofthe information derived from the sensations of hearing, which...
... reliance in milk and The private sector needs to assume greater responsibility in developing the poultry sector The Sri Lanka - The Emerging Wonder of Asia The livestock sector consists mainly ofthe ... Rain without Letting it to Waste into Sea” is also an admirable lesson for our nation from the history Inline with these, water resources inthe country, have been intensively used for securing ... removing these inefficiencies Vibrant Financial Services and Capital Market The financial sector will be the catalyst for accelerated economic growth envisaged inthe future The resilience of the...
... unviable: depositors find it better to invest inthe storage technology than lend to their bank In other words, there is a “run” on the surviving bank induced by an updating ofthe state ofthe economy ... survival in an environment of failure ofthe other bank induces a countervailing incentive The effect of flight to quality is thus to weaken the herding incentives In fact, if the attractiveness of second-period ... increase the inter-bank correlation In other words, banks herd.2 Intuitively, banks prefer to survive together rather than surviving individually Inthe latter case, they face the risk of information...
... expression inthe presence of digitonin, Brij58 and Brij78 The highest apparent binding of cET-1 was obtained with protein CF expressed inthe presence of Brij78 This expression condition was therefore ... C-terminal domain, which are both often involved either in ligand binding or G-protein coupling Owing to their key role in signal transduction in eukaryotic cells, GPCRs are estimated to represent ... Localization ofthe ET-1-binding site In order to determine the ETB region that is essential for binding of ET-1, a series of eight plasmids coding for terminally truncated ETB fragments and containing...
... factors: @ The degree of automation required; @ The amount of dilution necessary, and therefore the size ofthe digester; @ The investment in addition tothe manure handling costs; @ The intended ... ineffective way of processing the manure The incineration ofthe manure allows for the escape of all the beneficial nutrients into the atmosphere It produces air pollution due to odours and the ... and the regulation of animal waste refeeding was left tothe individual states31 Because ofthe intensity of production of poultry facilities inthe U.S., it was though prudent to expand the...
... weakening of social infrastructure along the lines seen inthe UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline ofthe welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities ... responsibility ofthe National Institute of Public Health The six main strategies outlined are as follows: • Increase social capital inthe Swedish society: This includes efforts to decrease social inequality, ... have led tothe reform of health care and the shifting of care from hospitals tothe community These have included debt/deficit pressures, a recognition ofthe limits to health care, increasing technology...