[PDF] Top 20 Is the concept of “nature” dispensable?

... discard the second sense of “nature”, and the distinction between natural systems and social systems, how are we to understand systems such as the global climate, affected, as it ... See full document

... recognition of the inevitable intertwining of the aesthetic, cultural, social, phenomenological, and ecological significations of nature (Keulartz, ...on nature to ... See full document

... function of genes that could not have been previously envisaged made evident that the classical molecular gene concept was completely ...once, the gene seemed to have lost its identity both as ... See full document

... which the “excited” molecule transfers its energy to an oxygen molecule, which then reacts with other molecules to initiate damaging chemical ...While the sequence of events can be extremely complex, ... See full document

... trends of the population settlement point to the strengthening of the processes of resource concentration around large cities and the formation of both monocentric ... See full document

... It is proposed that depending upon the specific pattern of cognitive abilities, each individual lives in an idiosyncratic “cognitive ...how the world is understood) are ...aware ... See full document

... as the ceaseless, cyclical oscillation of paired, complementary ...devoid of any permanent order, nature is nevertheless characterized by an immanent equilibrium and rhythm: one ... See full document

... The enterprise is perceived as a legal unit (or not) where relationships of resource exchange are continually established between different economic agents, through which assets are ...objective ... See full document

... case: the Cave of the Fairies (Grotte aux Fées) in Switzerland is a prototypical case of cave that goes through various ups and downs, including a speleological investigation which ... See full document

... realism is the metaethical counterpart of moral relativism, and advocates the idea that moral truth cannot be relativized; it has an absolute ...It is a plausible intuition for most  ... See full document

... suffered the worst economic period during the Great Depression, we all are familiar with ...It is only when a recession comes, when agents begin to think reasonably, so a recession is a ... See full document

... evaluating the quality of interpreters' ...emphasizes the need for looking at process quality and the differences among quality requirements according to the individual translation ... See full document

... for the recognition of hand gestures acquired from a data glove, with an appli- cation to the recognition of some sample hand gestures of LIBRAS, the Brazilian Sign ...Language. ... See full document

... set of instruments for the laptop orchestra to play – how do we go about playing together? When first trying to make music with PLOrk one is immediately struck by its elephantine inertia; my ... See full document

... Scientific method, both scientific laws and broader scientific theories are accepted to be “true” (accurate) by the scientific?. community as a whole[r] ... See full document

... parts of De Unitate Intellectus, he addresses this ...that the intellect does not contain any particular nature of those sensible natures it knows because its only nature consists in ... See full document

... entails the quantification of risk exposures such as Value-at-risk, earnings-at-risk, stress scenario analyses, duration gaps, ...upon the type of risk being measured and the degree ... See full document

... This model consider the characteristics of customers mobility and the characteristics of the geographical zone using the concept of attractor where the number of customers is finite and [r] ... See full document

... oriented the structure descriptive logic ALCN, within to this formalization is descibed a design which determines concept ...A concept C is satisfiable in (ABox) A, if it admits a model ... See full document

... that. The transaminases go up in all sorts of diseases – it’s hard to say it’s liver ...specific. The hepatologists would say that we should look at albumin – but we know that that’s pretty useless ... See full document