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Nyström, Thomas. "Not quite dead enough: on bacterial life, culturability, senescence, and death." Archives of Microbiology 176, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 159–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002030100314.
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PHELAN, JOHN P., and MICHAEL R. ROSE. "Research in the Biology of Ageing." Ageing and Society 17, no. 1 (January 1997): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x96006319.
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The biology of ageing is finally becoming tractable science. After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing. And there is now the genuine prospect of substantially intervening in the process so as to postpone it. These developments have taken place quite rapidly over the last twenty years, and may not be widely known. Here we introduce some of the basic features of this intellectual revolution, along with its more portentous implications for the human predicament. At the centre of this reformation has been evolutionary genetics. Mathematical research has revealed the evolutionary necessity of ageing in most organisms. Experimental research has shown that evolutionary forces readily alter patterns of ageing. The evolutionary research has been allied with genetic and molecular investigations as well, allowing a broad-based attack on the diverse problems of ageing. This attack has now penetrated far enough that the postponement of ageing has become a problem limited by ‘technological’ restraints rather than shortcomings in our general understanding of the process.
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Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. "“It will be quiet enough when we're dead—Now is the time to live” Between planning the modern city and living in it." Planning Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (June 2009): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649350902884896.
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Seabury, Paul. "Marxism-Leninism and its Strategic Implications for the United States." Social Philosophy and Policy 3, no. 1 (1985): 192–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500000236.
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My central concern in this paper is with the implications of Marxist-Leninist ideology for Western defense policy and for United States strategic policy in particular. However, this is an extremely complex issue, and consideration of it will lead me to examine the ways in which ideas are related to interests, interests to strategy, and strategy to actions.II begin with an important observation: Americans in general, and for various reasons, have not taken Marxism-Leninism seriously for a long time. This is true even of many experts who consider the Soviet challenge to be very serious, affecting our very survival as a free society. At the risk of oversimplification, I would claim that many quite well-informed Americans, hardened to the realities of the Soviet “empire” and its activities, have come around to the view that Marxist-Leninist ideology has simply degenerated into a rigid system of enforced belief administered by authorities who have no particular commitment to it other than to employ it in order to remain in power. In this regard, “Marxism” (like “God” in America in the 1960s) is deemed “dead,” surviving only in the publicity offices of formal establishments as a means of maintaining their authority. Marxism-Leninism is thought to be no different from the moribund “divine right of kings,” which undergirded the monarchical establishments of 17th Century Europe.Oddly enough, the “socialism-is-dead” theme is today found in the writings of such prominent American neo-conservatives as Irving Kristol, George Gilder, and many others. It is also echoed in Europe in the writings of such eminent philosophers as Leszek Kolakowski of Poland and Paul Johnson of England.
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Zbądzki, Jakub. "Ukryte „exemplum”. O roli łaciny w „Wybrańcu” Tomasza Manna." Prace Literackie 56 (June 29, 2017): 127–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0079-4767.56.9.
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A hidden exemplum. On the role of Latin in Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner However Thomans Mann’s montage technique is very well known, there are still parts of his novels, which are not clear enough. It is the case of Latin in The Holy Sinner, which is used not only to simply imitate the medieval literature, but also in the purpose of parody and irony. What is more, in the beginning of the novel narrator quotes — as it turns out — words from De amore inordinato, a story from Gesta Romanorum quite similar to the story of Gregorius, and criticize them. It seems that this is not only an irrelevant statement, but a commentary to the whole work, which has to be recognized by readers to understand it. By the quotation Mann itself indicates the new way of showing the matters of unpure love, sin, grace and — wider — religion, which is based on the very specific irony. Because of this uncommon technique some researchers argue that The Holy Sinner is just a trifle, but behind it there seems to be misunderstanding. The type of thinking, which connects a sense of humour and religious solemnity, used to be popular in Ancient Greek literature, and Thomas Mann in some way brought it back — just as he did with Latin, in his novel not a dead language, but truly alive.
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DAI, SHI, and RENXIN XU. "QUARK-CLUSTER STARS: HINTS FROM THE SURFACE." International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series 10 (January 2012): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2010194512005855.
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The matter inside pulsar-like compact stars could be in a quark-cluster phase since in cold dense matter at a few nuclear densities (ρ ~ 2 - 10ρ0), quarks could be coupled still very strongly and condensate in position space to form quark clusters. Quark-cluster stars are chromatically confined and could initially be bare, therefore the surface properties of quark-cluster stars would be quite different from that of conventional neutron stars. Some facts indicate that a bare and self-confined surface of pulsar-like compact stars might be necessary in order to naturally understand different observational manifestations. On one hand, as for explaining the drifting sub-pulse phenomena, the binding energy of particles on pulsar surface should be high enough to produce vacuum gaps, which indicates that pulsar's surface might be strongly self-confined. On the other hand, a bare surface of quark-cluster star can overcome the baryon contamination problem of γ-ray burst as well as promote a successful core-collapse supernova. What is more, the non-atomic thermal spectra of dead pulsars may indicate also a bare surface without atmosphere, and the hydro-cyclotron oscillation of the electron sea above the quark-cluster star surface could be responsible for those absorption features detected. These hints could reflect the property of compact star's surface and possibly the state of condensed matter inside, and then might finally result in identifying quark-cluster stars.
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Ry, Nusyirwan, Djaimi Bakce, and Jumatri Yusri. "PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR INTERNAL DAN EKSTERNAL TERHADAP PENGEMBANGAN INDUSTRI KELAPA DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR." DINAMIKA PERTANIAN 33, no. 2 (February 14, 2018): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/dp.2017.vol33(2).1219.
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Indragiri Hilir District has 515,200 hectares of local coconut land with production of 418,200 tons (Statistic Board, 2015), but the area of land and its production is always decreasing. The decline of the area is caused by land damage, land conversion, the number of coconut plants that are old and dead and so affect to the need of raw materials for the development of the coconut industry in generating the number and type of product diversification. This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors that were influences to the development of local coconut industry which aims to know the internal and external factors in the development of coconut industry in Indragiri Hilir district. The result of the analysis showed that the internal factors that become the strength and impact on the development of the coconut industry are the large area of coconut plant that is large enough, the availability of a large workforce and already has a large scale coconut processing industry; while the weakness factor is the age of coconut plants is quite old, coconut farmers generally use local seeds, decreased coconut productivity and the limited number and type of diversification of coconut derived products. External factors that become opportunities for the development of the coconut industry is the high demand for coconut products and derivatives in the export market, coconut derivative products can still be developed and supported by local government and related agencies while external factors are a threat to the coconut industry development of coconut plantation damage due to sea water intrusion and high investment concerns in competing countries against the coconut industry.
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Ry, Nusyirwan, Djaimi Bakce, and Jumatri Yusri. "PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR INTERNAL DAN EKSTERNAL TERHADAP PENGEMBANGAN INDUSTRI KELAPA DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR." DINAMIKA PERTANIAN 33, no. 2 (September 24, 2019): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/dp.2017.vol33(2).3828.
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Indragiri Hilir District has 515,200 hectares of local coconut land with production of 418,200 tons (Statistic Board, 2015), but the area of land and its production is always decreasing. The decline of the area is caused by land damage, land conversion, the number of coconut plants that are old and dead and so affect to the need of raw materials for the development of the coconut industry in generating the number and type of product diversification. This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors that were influences to the development of local coconut industry which aims to know the internal and external factors in the development of coconut industry in Indragiri Hilir district. The result of the analysis showed that the internal factors that become the strength and impact on the development of the coconut industry are the large area of coconut plant that is large enough, the availability of a large workforce and already has a large scale coconut processing industry; while the weakness factor is the age of coconut plants is quite old, coconut farmersgenerally use local seeds, decreased coconut productivity and the limited number and type of diversification of coconut derived products. External factors that become opportunities for the development of the coconut industry is the high demand for coconut products and derivatives in the export market, coconut derivative products can still be developed and supported by local government and related agencies while external factors are a threat to the coconut industry development of coconut plantation damage due to sea water intrusion and high investment concerns in competing countries against the coconut industry.
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Talbert, Richard J. A. "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: the Cartographic Fundamentals in Retrospect." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 46 (September 1, 2003): 4–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp46.484.
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In time, space or purpose, the prospect of any close link between the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World [1] and the Historical Atlas of Canada [2] might seem remote indeed. As editor of the former, however, I instantly realized otherwise when first encountering the reflections of the director (Dean) and two editors of the latter (Cole Harris, Holdsworth) on their experience published in Editing Early and Historical Atlases: Papers given at the 29th annual conference on editorial problems, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 1993. [3] Naturally, to learn that in a quite different field others before you had wrestled with similar dilemmas, and had chosen to resolve them in broadly similar ways, is not enough to place your own choices beyond reproach. But such a discovery does offer reassurance; it acts to relieve a depressing sense of isolation, and demonstrates that your own painful choices need no longer be regarded as merely idiosyncratic.
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Allen, Brooke, and Marilynne Robinson. "Not Quite Dead." Hudson Review 51, no. 4 (1999): 775. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3852798.
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Ray, David. "Quite Enough." College English 51, no. 6 (October 1989): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/377945.
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Smith, Russell. "Dead Enough to Bury." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 33, no. 1 (July 19, 2021): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03301003.
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Abstract This essay examines the concepts of life and afterlife as they appear across Beckett’s trilogy, through focussing on representations of the act of burial, an act which draws attention to a caesura between biotic and abiotic conceptions of both life and afterlife. As the worlds of the trilogy become progressively less biotic, The Unnamable might be thought of as a laboratory in which the ‘lives’ of its characters are subjected to various biological experiments, experiments which suggest that narrative fiction, like the act of burial, is a kind of prophylactic against the fundamental processual nature of biotic life.
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Orlando, Lianna. "Not quite dead brains." Trends in Neurosciences 24, no. 7 (July 2001): 372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0166-2236(00)01909-3.
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Konigsberg, Lyle W., and Susan R. Frankenberg. "Paleodemography: “Not quite dead”." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 3, no. 3 (June 2, 2005): 92–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.1360030306.
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Awal, M. A. "Scale-up potentialities of some social safety net programmes to climate change shocks in Bangladesh." International Journal of Social Sciences and Management 2, no. 2 (April 25, 2015): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i2.11618.
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Although Bangladesh is quite advanced in terms of setting up systems of social safety net (SSN) but the services in dealing climate change has gained little attention. On the other hand some specific public SSN programmes (SSNPs) like Vulnerable Group Development (VGD), Food-For-Work (FFW), Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme (RERMP) and Chars Livelihood Programme (CLP) through which most distressed and right less poor especially vulnerable rural women are benefitted, not yet tested whether the programmes promoted as climate proofed. Therefore the study was conducted for adapting those four SSNPs in dealing with climate change shocks like cyclone, flood, drought, water logging and salinity for escaping climate vulnerable poor from chronic poverty. Quantitative analysis has been made using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2010 data set. Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) session and Case Studies were performed for addressing current SSNPs with their weaknesses or effectiveness and scale up potentialities to explore better livelihood and food security options for climate poor. Relevant stakeholders in government and NGO programmes have been consulted to assess the feasibility of options for further strengthening of aforesaid SSNPs. It is found that the SSN intervention with VGD, FFW and RERMP have minimum scope in dealing with climate change although the said tools are important especially to disadvantaged rural women for creating their employment opportunity as well as poverty alleviation. The VGD beneficiaries can properly be engaged to sustainable income generation and microfinance activities for future saving to promote adaptive capacity which would enhance their resiliencies to cope with climate change. The dead or silted-up rivers, canals or ponds and irrigation channels can be excavated or re-excavated by operating the major workfare SSNPs like FFW and the excavated soil can be utilized for creating, maintaining or elevating rural roads, embankment and other infrastructures which are quite crucial for mitigating the flood, storm surge, water logging or salinity issues. The canals or ponds can additionally be utilized for enough harvesting of monsoon rain or flood water thus salinity and drought problems would be minimized for a better agricultural intervention in the affected areas. The RERMP beneficiaries can be engaged to maintain embankments and tree plantation at pond periphery or at barren land with their proper nursing, compost preparation etc. The CLP is found as a concrete example for achieving climate change adaptation to uplift the socio-economic status of chronic poor char dwellers to recurrent floods in Jamuna and Brahmaputra basins. This programme can be extended from an 18-month to a two-year period and should have to spread-up to the chars of other vulnerable flood prone areas of Bangladesh. A good agricultural marketing system is also essential for proper and timely marketing of CLP-products in the locality.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i2.11618 Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-2: 78-92
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Sardella, Ferdinando. "Religious experiments in colonial Calcutta: modern Hinduism and bhakti among the Indian middle class." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 23 (January 1, 2011): 364–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67395.
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Any discussion of India from the point of view of the West must deal with the problem posed by the colonial past and the ways in which India was colonized, interpreted and constructed to fit into an imperialist agenda. The terms ‘Hinduism’ and ‘religion’, for example, are themselves quite problematic, since they are born of Western and Judeo-Christian thought, and may not reflect the complexity and diversity of Indic traditions well enough. A translation and transmission of terms and concepts from one cultural domain to another is required, but it is bound to be merely tentative and approximate, since a comprehension of the full meaning of words and concepts related to Indic religions presupposes an extensive grounding in the rich religious thought of India. Bhaktisiddhānta lived on the border between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, between the black and the white towns of Calcutta, between India and the West, and between two world wars. His effort to search for and apply bhakti to the social, political and cultural crises of his time is important for grasping the vitality and dynamism of Indic religions in our time. It is also important for appreciating the struggle carried out by a growing Indian and Hindu middle class to bridge the gaps between East and West, and on the basis of indigenous culture produce new ideas for reciprocal co-operation, which in the case of Bhaktisiddhānta were related to the idea and practice of bhakti.
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Verchick, Robert R. M. "Can ‘loss and damage’ carry the load?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376, no. 2119 (April 2, 2018): 20170070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0070.
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Even assuming a heroic rush towards carbon reduction and adaptation, some regions of the world will be hammered hard by climate impacts. Thus, a global consensus now sees the need for a supplemental plan to deal with the kind of harms that cannot be avoided—what Parties call ‘loss and damage’. For a loss-and-damage plan to work, it must be capable of carrying the load, the load being whatever minimal standards that morality and political consensus require. But if residual risk climbs too high, it will fall short of even the most basic expectations. The Paris Agreement calls for holding the rise in global average temperature to ‘well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels’, while working to limit the increase to 1.5°C. How much difference is in that half-degree? From the point of view of residual risk, quite a lot. According to a 2016 study published by the European Geosciences Union, a jump from 1.5°C to 2°C could produce outsize impacts, particularly in tropical latitudes. That difference could mark the line between a plan that is politically and morally defensible and one that is not. At the very least, the difference is enough to inform the design and expectations of any future plan. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.
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Hare, Paul. "Growth and development – catching up." Acta Oeconomica 69, s1 (January 2019): 215–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/032.2019.69.s1.13.
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Economists think they know a great deal about economic growth, both about why countries differ so much in their growth experience, and what needs to be done to get a country on track for faster growth, raising living standards. However, while there are many important theories about growth, and numerous country case studies of outstanding and sustained performance, there are also still too many countries that grow slowly if at all, where economic performance has somehow become ‘stuck’ at a low level. In the development context, a major policy concern is often to create enough jobs in a given period to employ all or most of those entering the labour force, preferably productively. Thus growth is not just about expanding aggregate output (GDP) but also about large-scale job creation. In the transition economy context, there was not only the complex matter of switching to a market-type economy in quite a short time, but generating growth and employment to catch up with more prosperous neighbours to the West. This has proved harder than many expected. Kolodko himself has written much about many aspects of economic growth, and has also contributed in important ways to concrete policy formation in Poland (especially when he served as Minister of Finance). In this paper I shall explore the ideas and challenges indicated above, drawing on Kolodko’s work as appropriate, but also developing some new ideas that seem to be needed to understand better both growth successes and growth failures around the world.
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Diez, Thomas. "NOT QUITE ‘SUI GENERIS’ ENOUGH." European Societies 14, no. 4 (September 2012): 522–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2012.724577.
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Hanlim, Seyeong. "Being Moral Isn't Quite Enough." Stance: an international undergraduate philosophy journal 14, no. 1 (April 6, 2021): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/s.14.1.67-77.
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Attempts to define morality or stress its importance are the center of ethical debates that aim to provide guidance for human life. Deviating from this goal, Susan Wolf shines a light on the significance of “nonmoral virtues” by discussing how a moral saint’s life, too immersed in morality, could be lacking in other spheres. She states that a moral saint’s life would be unattractive or dull, as one is not able to value or pursue nonmoral activities such as the arts or cooking due to one’s commitments under moral sainthood. I challenge this argument, which belittles moral sainthood in an attempt to give more credit to nonmoral qualities in life, by arguing that nonmoral virtues could be necessary and valuable for a moral saint in carrying out her duties.
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Hanlim, Seyeong. "Being Moral Isn’t Quite Enough." Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal 14 (2021): 66–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/stance2021145.
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Attempts to define morality or stress its importance are the center of ethical debates that aim to provide guidance for human life. Deviating from this goal, Susan Wolf shines a light on the significance of “nonmoral virtues” by discussing how a moral saint’s life, too immersed in morality, could be lacking in other spheres. She states that a moral saint’s life would be unattractive or dull, as one is not able to value or pursue nonmoral activities such as the arts or cooking due to one’s commitments under moral sainthood. I challenge this argument, which belittles moral sainthood in an attempt to give more credit to nonmoral qualities in life, by arguing that nonmoral virtues could be necessary and valuable for a moral saint in carrying out her duties.
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Cavalcanti, P. F. F., A. van Haandel, and Gatze Lettinga. "Polishing ponds for post-treatment of digested sewage part 1: flow-through ponds." Water Science and Technology 44, no. 4 (August 1, 2001): 237–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2001.0229.
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Polishing ponds are used to improve the quality of effluents from efficient anaerobic sewage treatment plants like UASB reactors, so that the final effluent quality becomes compatible with legal or desired standards. The residual organic material and suspended solids concentrations in the digested sewage are reduced, but often the main objective of polishing ponds is to improve the hygienic quality, measured by the concentration of two indicator organisms: helminth eggs and faecal coliforms (FC). The FC removal is normally the slowest process and for that reason becomes the main design criterion for a polishing pond. By contrast in conventional waste stabilisation pond (WSP) systems the organic material removal is the governing design parameter. The feasibility of operating a single polishing pond for the post-treatment of UASB effluent is shown in this paper and the final effluent quality as a function of the retention time is discussed. Even under the most adverse weather conditions (several weeks of rain) the population of algae remained stable and produced enough oxygen to maintain a predominantly aerobic environment. The final effluent TSS and BOD concentrations were not very low for retention times of less than 1 week, but this could be attributed to the presence of algae in the final effluent. Filtered effluent BOD and TSS concentrations were very low. For retention times of more than 1 week algae were efficiently removed from the liquid phase by the action of predators and algae flocculation and settling, so that a final effluent with a very low BOD and TSS concentrations was produced. To maximise the FC removal efficiency the polishing pond was constructed with the objective of approaching a plug flow regime. However, the observed efficiency was well below the expected value for all retention times, which was attributable to imperfections of the flow regime. From tracer studies it was established that the dispersion number was in the range of 0.14 to 0.16, which means that moderate mixing occurred, even though the pond was designed to avoid mixing as much as possible. Also the dead volume fraction ranging from 0.12 to 0.15 was quite considerable. Due to these imperfections the required retention time for an effluent to be used in unrestricted irrigation was produced for a retention time of about 10 days, twice the value of the minimum retention time for a batch or true plug flow pond. Although the plug flow regime could not be approached in practice, the required retention time of 10 days is still very much shorter than the value used in conventional WSPs (20 to 30 days).
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Zhang, Zhong Miao, Cun Gang Lin, and Shi Ming Wu. "Slurry Shield Tunnelling in Clayey Soils: Typical Problems and Countermeasures." Advanced Materials Research 243-249 (May 2011): 2944–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.243-249.2944.
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The distinguishing characteristics of clay are high cohesion and low permeability. For slurry shield tunnelling in clayey soils, favorable aspects are that slurry cake with low permeability can be established more easily and effectively at the excavation face thanks to clay’s high cohesion, which is advantageous for stability of excavation face, and long stand-up time of clay offers enough time for backfilling of the tail void before collapse of surrounding soils, thus lessening ground volume loss. However, some typical problems are encountered due to clay’s high cohesion and low permeability. One primary problem is the clogging of slurry pipeline, once in case of which, slurry pressure will fluctuate severely, thus inducing unstable condition at the excavation face. In extreme cases, the pipeline bursts and soils at the excavation face collapse towards the cutterhead for immediate drop of slurry pressure. Another common problem is clay’s adhesion to the cutterhead, which weakens the excavation efficiency of cutterhead and limits advance rate of the shield machine. Tunnelling will inevitably disturb surrounding soils and excess pore water pressure occurs. In clayey soils, due to clay’s low permeability, it usually takes quite a long time for the excess pore water pressure to disperse completely. The consolidation settlements associated with pore water dispersing account for a large percentage of the total settlements. Accumulated ground settlements threaten structures and pipelines nearby. For these problems encountered during slurry shield tunnelling in clayey soils, both preventive and counter measures are put forward in detail in this study. The proposed measures can be used as a reference to avoid, mitigate and deal with problems encountered during slurry shield tunnelling in clayey soils.
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Dove, Michael R. "Peasant versus Government Perception and Use of the Environment: A Case-study of Banjarese Ecology and River Basin Development in South Kalimantan." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 17, no. 1 (March 1986): 113–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400005233.
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I began this paper with a critique of current analyses of development problems, which I suggested were not “sociological” enough. I proposed to illustrate this by analyzing the recent development history of the Riam Kanan valley in South Kalimantan. Following a brief description of the valley, its inhabitants, and the hydroelectric project that has become the dominant factor in its development planning, the two major agroecosystems of the Riam Kanan valley were discussed in some detail: forest-based swidden agriculture, and grassland-based permanent field farming. Each system was found to be the object of both negative perceptions and prescriptive policies on the part of local government. I concluded, however, that there is little or no empirical basis for these perceptions and policies and that this explains the disruption and conflict to which development planning in the valley has led. The underlying problem is that government planners have automatically tended to equate their values with those of development, and the values of development with those of the environment—whereas in fact the values and interest of each of these are quite different. This should be recognized as a major problem in contemporary development, and as one with which the common paradigm of “top-down/bottom-up” cannot and does not deal. When a more sociological approach enables us to distinguish between disguised conflicts of interest and genuine development problems, the latter are found to be far less intractable than imagined. The conflicts of interest may still prove to be intractable, but better that they be seen as such, as inherent constraints on government policy, than as inherent problems of peasant ecology and economy.
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Plant, Bob. "On being (not quite) dead with Derrida." Philosophy & Social Criticism 42, no. 3 (July 2, 2015): 320–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453715593596.
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Keenaghan, E. "NOT QUITE ENOUGH TROUBLE WITH NORMAL." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2010): 312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-026.
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Et.al, Saslina Kamaruddin. "The Legalities of Trespass to Tenancyin Malaysia." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 3 (April 11, 2021): 768–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.783.
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The landlord-tenant relationship in Malaysia is mostly governed by the tenancy agreement, which spells out the rights and obligations of both parties. Despite having the legal agreements, it has been reported that many issues arise, such as trespass committed by landlords to the tenanted property and recovering losses from the tenants who disappeared. As of today, the country has yet to enact specific legislation to deal with issues arising between landlords and tenants. Hence, in the event of any dispute, the tendency for Malaysian landlords is not to go through the legal system to settle them as it is a costly and time-consuming process. Some tenants who are aware of this legal inefficiency choose to exploit it for their benefit at the landlord’s expense. Hence, the main issues in this paper will be the possible ways in of trespass could be committed by landlords into the tenanted property, and their rights are not very well-protected, and quite often, the safety deposits collected beforehand are never enough to cover the losses. Given several lacunae, this paper analyses the on the possible or several ways in which the landlord could commit trespass into the tenanted property. Also, this paper will investigate the current Malaysian legal system to identify the current solutions available for eviction and repossession of a tenanted property. Also, this paper seeks to similar practices in Australia and the United Kingdom, which havelong-standing legislation governing tenancy issues. The research adopts doctrinal research in which secondary sources,including academicjournals, online sources,and decided cases are referred. The authors contend that contrary to the United Kingdom and the Australian legal position, there is a gap in the Malaysian law in governing landlord-tenant relationship.
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Kolesnikov, A. Y. "Postmodernism is dead, and I’m not quite yet." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (May 27, 2019): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-2-42-49.
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The article polemicizes about the state of Russian Postmodernist culture in general and the country’s Postmodernist literature, in particular. The author finds that contemporary culture exists at the intersection of two paradigms: a dwindling Postmodernism and a nascent Metamodernism, giving rise to new literary vectors and phenomena. Mass culture appropriates Postmodernist methods and techniques: irony, intertextuality, and play-mode rethinking of classical subjects and ideas. The author observes a transformation of Postmodernism into an assembly line for mass production and consumption. At the same time, Metamodernism inevitably becomes an alternative cultural paradigm. Analyzing the cultural situation, the author references works by the writer V. Pelevin (his novels Generation P, iPhuck 10), rapper poet Oxxxymiron (M. Fyodorov), and other prominent figures of modern Russian culture. The article’s major focus is on Postmodernist irony.
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Gonzalez, M., F. Mearin, and C. Vasconez. "ESOPHAGEAL TONE IN ACHALASIA: "NOT QUITE DEAD YET"." American Journal of Gastroenterology 93, no. 7 (July 1998): 1184–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.01184.x.
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Zhao, Lihui, Lu Tian, Hajime Uno, Scott D. Solomon, Marc A. Pfeffer, Jerald S. Schindler, and Lee Jen Wei. "Utilizing the integrated difference of two survival functions to quantify the treatment contrast for designing, monitoring, and analyzing a comparative clinical study." Clinical Trials 9, no. 5 (August 22, 2012): 570–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740774512455464.
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Background Consider a comparative, randomized clinical study with a specific event time as the primary end point. In the presence of censoring, standard methods of summarizing the treatment difference are based on Kaplan–Meier curves, the logrank test, and the point and interval estimates via Cox’s procedure. Moreover, for designing and monitoring the study, one usually utilizes an event-driven scheme to determine the sample sizes and interim analysis time points. Purpose When the proportional hazards (PHs) assumption is violated, the logrank test may not have sufficient power to detect the difference between two event time distributions. The resulting hazard ratio estimate is difficult, if not impossible, to interpret as a treatment contrast. When the event rates are low, the corresponding interval estimate for the ‘hazard ratio’ can be quite large due to the fact that the interval length depends on the observed numbers of events. This may indicate that there is not enough information for making inferences about the treatment comparison even when there is no difference between two groups. This situation is quite common for a postmarketing safety study. We need an alternative way to quantify the group difference. Methods Instead of quantifying the treatment group difference using the hazard ratio, we consider an easily interpretable and model-free parameter, the integrated survival rate difference over a prespecified time interval, as an alternative. We present the inference procedures for such a treatment contrast. This approach is purely nonparametric and does not need any model assumption such as the PHs. Moreover, when we deal with equivalence or noninferiority studies and the event rates are low, our procedure would provide more information about the treatment difference. We used a cardiovascular trial data set to illustrate our approach. Results The results using the integrated event rate differences have a heuristic interpretation for the treatment difference even when the PHs assumption is not valid. When the event rates are low, for example, for the cardiovascular study discussed in this article, the procedure for the integrated event rate difference provides tight interval estimates in contrast to those based on the event-driven inference method. Limitations The design of a trial with the integrated event rate difference may be more complicated than that using the event-driven procedure. One may use simulation to determine the sample size and the estimated duration of the study. Conclusions The procedure discussed in this article can be a useful alternative to the standard PHs method in the survival analysis.
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Gamble, Andrew. "A Not Quite Robust Enough Political Economy." Critical Review 28, no. 3-4 (October 2016): 484–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2016.1264159.
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Schatzmayr, G., and E. Streit. "Global occurrence of mycotoxins in the food and feed chain: facts and figures." World Mycotoxin Journal 6, no. 3 (August 1, 2013): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/wmj2013.1572.
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Mycotoxins are ubiquitously present in agricultural commodities, such as cereals and oil seeds. If ingested in sufficiently high concentrations, they exert severe toxic effects in humans and animals. In 2004, a survey programme was launched to assess the extent of mycotoxin contamination in feed and feed raw materials. Since then, over 19,000 samples have been analysed and more than 70,000 individual analyses have been conducted. While it is difficult to infer any long-term trends on a global level, the data confirm that high mycotoxin contamination is often linked to unusual weather. Overall, 72% of the samples contained detectable amounts of aflatoxins, fumonisins, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone or ochratoxin A. Co-contamination with two or more mycotoxins was detected in 38% of the samples. In most cases the concentrations were low enough to ensure compliance with EU guidance values or maximum levels. However, co-contaminated samples with concentrations below guidance and maximum values might still exert adverse effects due to synergistic interactions of the mycotoxins. Emerging mycotoxins and masked mycotoxins may also contribute to the overall toxicity of the feed and their presence is frequently detected with multi-mycotoxin LC-MS/MS. Since by-product feeds, such as distillers dried grain with solubles, often concentrate the mycotoxins of the original substrate, they contribute excessively to the overall contamination of feed rations and therefore need special attention. Regarding food the situation is quite similar: low level contamination is frequently observed in official controls but maximum levels are rarely exceeded in developed countries. As it is very difficult to remove mycotoxins from contaminated commodities, preventing them from accumulation in agricultural commodities is the most effective strategy to combat the problem. Preventive measures range from crop rotation and resistance breeding to inoculation with microbial antagonists. Nevertheless, excessive mycotoxin levels may occur despite all preventive measures. Therefore, continuous monitoring is essential and efficient detoxification strategies are needed to deal with such outbreaks.
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Tolhurst, D. J., and D. J. Heeger. "Comparison of contrast-normalization and threshold models of the responses of simple cells in cat striate cortex." Visual Neuroscience 14, no. 2 (March 1997): 293–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952523800011433.
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AbstractIn almost every study of the linearity of spatiotemporal summation in simple cells of the cat's visual cortex, there have been systematic mismatches between the experimental observations and the predictions of the linear theory. These mismatches have generally been explained by supposing that the initial spatiotemporal summation stage is strictly linear, but that the following output stage of the simple cell is subject to some contrast-dependent nonlinearity. Two main models of the output nonlinearity have been proposed: the threshold model (e.g. Tolhurst & Dean, 1987) and the contrast-normalization model (e.g. Heeger, 1992a, b). In this paper, the two models are fitted rigorously to a variety of previously published neurophysiological data, in order to determine whether one model is a better explanation of the data. We reexamine data on the interaction between two bar stimuli presented in different parts of the receptive field; on the relationship between the receptive-field map and the inverse Fourier transform of the spatial-frequency tuning curve; on the dependence of response amplitude and phase on the spatial phase of stationary gratings; on the relationships between the responses to moving and modulated gratings; and on the suppressive action of gratings moving in a neuron's nonpreferred direction. In many situations, the predictions of the two models are similar, but the contrast-normalization model usually fits the data slightly better than the threshold model, and it is easier to apply the equations of the normalization model. More importantly, the normalization model is naturally able to account very well for the details and subtlety of the results in experiments where the total contrast energy of the stimuli changes; some of these phenomena are completely beyond the scope of the threshold model. Rigorous application of the models' equations has revealed some situations where neither model fits quite well enough, and we must suppose, therefore, that there are some subtle nonlinearities still to be characterized.
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Svítil, Martin. "The Use of Qualitative Indicators in Banking Rating Systems." Financial Assets and Investing 9, no. 2 (February 25, 2019): 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/fai2018-2-2.
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The article compares internal rating systems of three banks from the German-speaking region, continuing with last year's research. In this paper a detailed analysis of qualitative indicators (soft - facts) is made. These qualitative indicators, as one of the two main components of banking rating systems have the wage of between 30% and 50% of the overall rating score. This makes this part of rating certainly important enough to be further researched. The research is focused on the rating of business entities, more precisely the corporate, (especially limited liability companies or joint-stock companies). It does not deal with the rating of natural persons or non-profit organizations, municipalities etc. The procedure of collecting empirical data as well as data from relevant literature, their assessment according to the criteria of verifiability and relevance and the application of the induction method was used and a generalization of conclusions was subsequently made. The goal of this research was to find out if the structure of used qualitative factors (soft- facts) is similar or even the same across the rating systems included in the comparison and what weights of individual factors are used. The result of the research shows that two categories of qualitative indicators (soft - facts) are present in all considered rating systems: (i) quality of company’s management and / or strategy and (ii) market on which the bank client operates. (iii) Accounting or related indicators like information system or audit quality also play a significant role in rating systems. On the other hand, the use of the factor (iv) relationship with the bank (or similar) is quite different across the rating systems included in the research. The number and structure of guidance questions that help risk-management analysts determine indicator values also differ. In one case, there is an extensive catalog of questions with a standardized set of responses. In other cases, the number of questions is lower and each one has its specific variation of the predefined answers the analyst selects from.
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Hedlin, Michael A. H. "A global test of a time-frequency small-event discriminant." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 88, no. 4 (August 1, 1998): 973–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/bssa0880040973.
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Abstract The Comprehensive nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was recently adopted by the UN General Assembly and signed by President Clinton, has lowered the testing yield limit to zero and raised the profile of small earthquakes and mining blasts. Because relatively small events are very common, there is a strong need for automated algorithms that can be used to screen out the events that are obviously chemical or natural and identify those few curious enough to warrant closer scrutiny. The primary objective of this article is to assess the utility of high-frequency spectral modulations for the discrimination of mining blasts from earthquakes and single explosions at near-regional distances. Mining blasts commonly yield spectral modulations that are independent of time and the recording component. This article describes an automated discriminant that looks for these delay-fire diagnostics in data recorded on one or three components by single stations, arrays, or regional networks. Distinct deployments in central Asia, Europe, and North America are used to assess the transportability of the approach. The discriminant tests give misclassification probabilities, estimated with multivariate statistics, ranging from 0.5 to 3.5%. Discrimination using time-frequency expansions does not rely on expert interpretation but is quite routine. The article explores likely causes of the occasional discrimination outliers. Factors that can eliminate spectral modulations from a delay-fired event include attenuation, detonation anomalies (where deviations from the designed, regular, shot sequence occur), and waveform variability. Some natural events and single explosions will exhibit spectral modulations that most likely result from propagation resonance. Data from Kyrgyzstan and Nevada is used to illustrate these effects; however, inadequate ground truth information and lack of calibration explosions in most of these datasets keeps definitive conclusions, regarding why the method will sometimes fail, out of reach. These observations underscore the need to train this algorithm to most effectively deal with these processes and pair it with other, complementary, discriminants to allow accurate characterization of all small events.
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Bütler, Rita, and Rodolphe Schlaepfer. "Wie viel Totholz braucht der Wald? | Dead wood in managed forests: how much is enough?" Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 155, no. 2 (February 1, 2004): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2004.0031.
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Dead wood is of paramount importance for forest biodiversity. For this reason it was adopted as an indicator for sustainable forest management by the Ministerial Conference on the protection of forests in Europe. This paper aims to answer the question of how much dead wood is necessary for the maintenance of biodiversity in sub-alpine spruce forest ecosystems. For this purpose we studied the habitat preferences of the three-toed woodpecker, a bird species that depends heavily on dead trees. Previous ecological studies had already demonstrated that this woodpecker is an indicator of spruce forests with a high degree of naturalness and biodiversity. Our field study in Swiss sub-Alpine spruce and Swedish boreal forests showed that, below a threshold level of about 20 m3 standing dead trees per ha, the probability of finding these woodpeckers drastically decreases. Similar results were obtained using a bioenergetic model, which calculated the energy requirements of this insectivorous woodpecker. Based on the results, our recommendation is to ensure a scattering of dead-wood rich areas in forest landscapes. Each area should cover about one square kilometre and have a mean of 5% of standing dead trees (≥ 18 m3 ha–1), and a total of approx. 9% of dead wood(≥ 33 m3 ha–1 standing and fallen).
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Howells, L. "Knowing the score – it's not quite enough anymore." British Journal of Dermatology 182, no. 4 (October 23, 2019): 828–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18544.
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Ashcroft, F. "Type 2 diabetes mellitus: not quite exciting enough?" Human Molecular Genetics 13, no. 90001 (January 13, 2004): 21R—31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddh066.
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Voice, Paul. "Not quite dead yet: a liberal response to Van Heerden." South African Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 4 (September 1998): 354–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.1998.10878171.
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Michaelis, Laura C. "Cytotoxic therapy in acute myeloid leukemia: not quite dead yet." Hematology 2018, no. 1 (November 30, 2018): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/asheducation-2018.1.51.
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AbstractGiven the recent approvals of new agents for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a clinical trial pipeline stocked with novel therapies, and the rapid integration of imaginative approaches in diseases like acute lymphocytic leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, it is reasonable to ask whether treatment of AML might finally depart from the classical cytotoxic induction therapy that has been employed since the 1970s. However, for better or worse, in 2018, cytotoxic induction regimens remain the standard of care for most patients. Indeed, the future likely lies in combinations of therapies that act with a spectrum of mechanisms. Using a case-based format, this review will outline current treatment expectations for patients according to karyotypic risk and familiarize readers with the basis for common induction choices. Relapsed/refractory disease may be especially amenable to interventions with novel agents or clinical trials; however, there are still some patients who most benefit from intensive chemotherapy. This review will outline risk systems that help the practitioner identify those with the best chances for response and survival. Finally, clinical tools, including geriatric assessments and comorbidity calculators, may help clinicians recognize patients for whom disease risk and comorbidity tip the balance against classical chemotherapy, a frequent challenge for those who treat this devastating disease.
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Drewry, Gavin. "Judicial Review — Quite Enough of a Fairly Good Thing?" Public Policy and Administration 5, no. 1 (March 1990): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095207679000500103.
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Gee, Lisa. "‘A Task enough to make one frantic’: William Hayley’s Memorialising." European Journal of Life Writing 9 (July 6, 2020): LW&D35—LW&D55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.36899.
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This paper explores Hayley’s approach to, and writing about, memorialising, focusing on his manuscript collection of epitaphs, his letters to Anna Seward about her epitaph on Lady Miller, and his memoirs and biographies. How typical was he of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century memorialists? What does his writing about death—and his writing about writing about death—tell us about how his contemporaries were supposed to feel and express their feelings about the dead? How do his works illustrate what he and his contemporaries were expected to reveal or conceal about the dead, and about the living? How different, in that respect, were the works designed to be read by the public from those intended only for the deceased’s nearest and dearest? How did the author’s death change the expected readership?
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Johinke, Rebecca. "Not quite Mad Max: Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead End Drive-In." Studies in Australasian Cinema 3, no. 3 (January 2009): 309–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sac.3.3.309_1.
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Ladetto, Quentin, Bertrand Merminod, Philippe Terrier, and Yves Schutz. "On Foot Navigation: When GPS Alone is Not Enough." Journal of Navigation 53, no. 2 (May 2000): 279–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300008894.
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Integration of GPS/INS navigation systems is a common topic for aeronautical and road applications. The use of these technologies for personal localisation requires more than just portable sensors and a change of ergonomics; it requires a totally different approach for dead reckoning algorithms. This paper will focus on different human applications and reveals the particular problem encountered.
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Birnbrauer, Jay S. "Two Factors are Quite Enough: A Response to Molloy (1984)." Behaviour Change 2, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0813483900008731.
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External variables and measurable aspects of human behaviour, biology, mind, emotions, and whatever else one cares to name are all that psychologists and other professionals concerned with behaviour change have to respond to and manipulate. A two factor model thus is proposed to maintain attention and action on goals and methods. In the course of arguing this position, some common misconceptions of the operant model are corrected.
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Barbara, J. "Why ‘Safer than Ever’ May Not Be Quite Safe Enough." Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy 31, no. 1 (2004): 2–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000076974.
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Papousek, Ilona. "Humor and well-being: A little less is quite enough." HUMOR 31, no. 2 (April 25, 2018): 311–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2016-0114.
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Abstract Paul McGhee, one of the most influential pioneers in the field of humor research has been engaged for decades in exploring how humor can be used for the maintenance or improvement of well-being in the face of adversity. The present paper reviews recent empirical research corroborating several of his propositions. Undeniably, the benefits of humor can be much greater when one generates his or her own humor compared to just passively consuming humor. The active use of humor can be a potent tool to successfully cope with and appropriately recover from stressful situations, especially if it becomes a habitual response to adverse circumstances. While the ice is thin with regard to any beneficial effects of humor on physical health, it certainly may enhance the quality of life of patients. The paper concludes with the general evaluation that the documented potential of humor for the maintenance of well-being is impressive, thereby rendering exaggerations and insufficiently substantiated claims of additional effects unnecessary. Paul McGhee, one of the most influential pioneers in the field of humor research, as well as of structured humor training, has been insisting for decades that using humor can have many benefits beyond being fun, and many followed his lead. Moreover, he had always taken care to systematically collect relevant empirical, scientific evidence and to expertly evaluate it. Not all of his followers took his lead on this matter.
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Brown, Sarah. "How do I know if this tortoise is dead?" Companion Animal 25, no. 5 (June 2, 2020): 144–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/coan.2020.0023.
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A client asking ‘how do I know if this tortoise is dead?’ might seem a bizarre or silly question, but is actually one we are asked at our exotics practice quite frequently by both tortoise keepers and also other veterinary professionals. The quick answer is that it can be difficult to tell! This short article explains why, and gives some pointers for consideration.
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Olszewski, Thomas D., and Susan M. Kidwell. "The preservational fidelity of evenness in molluscan death assemblages." Paleobiology 33, no. 1 (2007): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/05059.1.
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The richness (number of species) and evenness (uniformity of species abundances) of death assemblages can differ from corresponding living communities due to processes such as between-habitat transport, environmental condensation, and differential taphonomic destruction. Analysis of 132 single-census live-dead comparisons of benthic molluscs from a variety of soft-bottom marine settings indicates that on average evenness does not differ greatly between live and dead assemblages, regardless of the particular depositional setting or grain size of associated sediment. However, individual death assemblages can deviate quite substantially from their corresponding living assemblages, especially if processed using a fine mesh. In addition, death assemblages collected using sieves with 2 mm mesh or coarser showed consistently and significantly greater evenness than corresponding living assemblages. These results are encouraging for broad-scale assessments of evenness in the fossil record based on the comparison of average values (rather than for individual assemblages) and where trends in evenness are the aim of the study.Our live-dead comparisons of richness sample-size corrected by rarefaction revealed that death assemblages were on average ~1.45 times richer than the corresponding living assemblages regardless of rarefied size. In 63.6% of death assemblages both dead richness and dead evenness were greater than live, suggesting sufficient time-averaging to catch significant random or directional changes in the living community and/or introduction of individuals from outside the sampled habitat. In 12.9% of collections both dead richness and dead evenness were less than live, suggesting either rapid loss of dead shells so that dead diversity is depressed below the local living community or selective loss of taphonomically vulnerable taxa. In 18.2% of data sets dead richness was elevated but dead evenness was depressed relative to live: these are interpreted to reflect the addition of low-evenness allochthonous material. The remaining 4.5% of data sets had elevated dead evenness but depressed dead richness, suggesting that live and dead in this case may not be closely related.In seven available time series, temporal volatility in living communities over 6–24 months was considerable but could not account for observed (mostly higher) evenness values in corresponding death assemblages, whose evenness and composition were quite stable in the few examined studies. A densely sampled spatial transect shows that changes in living-assemblage evenness along an environmental gradient were preserved in the corresponding death assemblages, although dead evenness at any location on the gradient was substantially higher than living evenness.
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Degasperis, Antonio, Sara Lombardo, and Matteo Sommacal. "Rogue Wave Type Solutions and Spectra of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations." Fluids 4, no. 1 (March 22, 2019): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids4010057.
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The formation of rogue oceanic waves may be the result of different causes. Various factors (winds, currents, dispersive focussing, depth, nonlinear focussing and instability) make this subject intriguing, and yet its understanding is quite relevant to practical issues. Here, we deal only with the nonlinear character of this dynamics, which has been recognised as the main ingredient to rogue wave formation. In this perspective, the formation of rogue waves requires a non-vanishing and unstable background such as a nonlinear regular wave train with attractive self-interaction. The simplest, best known model of such dynamics is the universal nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This has proven to serve as a good approximation in various contexts and over a broad range of experimental settings. This model aims to give the slow evolution of the envelope of one monochromatic wave due to nonlinearity. Here, we naturally consider the same problem for the envelopes of two weakly resonant monochromatic waves. As for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which is integrable, we adopt an integrable model to describe the interaction of two waves. This is the system of two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations (Manakov model) with self- and cross-interactions that may be both defocussing and focussing. We first discuss the linear stability properties of the background by computing the spectrum for all values of the parameters such as coupling constants and amplitudes. In particular, we relate the instability bands to properties of the spectrum and compute the gain function (or growth rate). We also relate to the stability spectrum the value of the spectral variable, which corresponds to a rogue wave solution. In contrast with the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, different types of single rogue wave exist that correspond to different values of the spectral variable even in the same spectrum. For these critical values, which are completely classified, we give the corresponding explicit expression of the rogue wave solution that follows from the well known Darboux–Dressing transformation method. Although not all systems of two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations that have been derived in water wave dynamics are integrable, our investigation contributes to the understanding of new effects due to wave coupling, at least for model equations that, even if not integrable, are close enough to the model considered here. For instance, our findings lead to investigate rogue waves generated by instabilities due to self- and cross-interactions of defocusing type. An illustrative selection of two coupled rogue waves solutions is displayed.