Anton Weczera's Flying Machine

1900 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
L. W. Broadwell
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Lifting Capacity ◽  
Air Bag ◽  
The Many

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Aeronautical Society:—The flying machine—a working model of which I have now the honour to submit to your critical inspection— is the invention of M. Anton Weczera, a Hungarian architect, who has devoted many years to the study of a question which has such a special interest for your Honourable Society.I, too, have devoted considerable attention to this subject; but whilst studying the construction of the many flying machines that dispense with the use of an air–bag, I have invariably failed to find in any of them an adequate and reliable lifting capacity, which, in my opinion, is the most essential element in all of them, and without which there can be no practical success.

scholarly journals ISMB 2003 Bio-ontologies SIG and Sixth Annual Bio-ontologies Meeting Report

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 663-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Lord ◽  
Robert Stevens
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there were many fewer, no doubt a result of the distance, global politics and SARS. The meeting consisted of a series of 30 min talks with no formal peer review or publication. Talks ranged in style from fairly formal and complete pieces of work, through works in progress, to the very informal and discursive. Each year's meeting has a theme and this year it was ‘ontologies, and text processing’. There is a tendency for those submitting talks to ignore the theme completely, but this year's theme obviously struck a chord, as half the programme was about ontologies and text analysis (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevensr/meeting03/programme.html). Despite the smaller size of the meeting, the programme was particularly strong this year, meaning that the tension between allowing time for the many excellent talks, discussion and questions from the floor was particular keenly felt. A happy problem to have!

External Knowledge Search Strategy as an Essential Element of a Knowledge Management Strategy

2011 ◽  
pp. 70-89
Author(s):  
Fergal McGrath ◽  
Rebecca Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Knowledge Management Strategy ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
The Many

This chapter introduces external knowledge search strategy as a central element of an organizations overall knowledge management strategy. The argument cites how knowledge management has developed around a myopic internal focus and has thus far failed to take full account of the many sources of knowledge external to the organization. The chapter offers external knowledge search strategy as a means of integrating this external focus into knowledge management understanding, by providing a conceptual framework for organizations involved in the external knowledge management activity of external knowledge search. The framework identifies 10 search paths organizations may follow into the search space, four of which relate exclusively to external knowledge search. The authors hope that establishing an external element within knowledge management strategy will inform knowledge management’s recognition of the value of the extended enterprise.

The Inner Life of Sound

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Walter S. Reiter
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Messa Di Voce ◽  
The Voice

One essential element of musical expression is the living sound, capable of holding the constant attention of the audience. This lesson traces that ubiquitous concept from Caccini’s “swelling and abating of the voice” (1602) to the violin études of Mazas (1843). In the Baroque sound world, free from the all-pervasive vibrato of modern times, it was the responsibility of the bow to provide this ‘inner life of sound.’ Based mainly on the writings of Tartini, Geminiani, and Leopold Mozart, all of whom are quoted, this lesson contains five exercises for perfecting the expressive device that guaranteed this living sound, the “Messa di voce.” The many different aspects of its technique, gleaned from the sources, are isolated and explained in detail, from simple pressure with the forefinger to the addition of vibrato: two composers who indicated this device in their compositions, Veracini and Piani, are quoted and illustrated.

“So New Sincerity”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Rutten
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
Post Soviet Space

This chapter examines the relationship between sincerity and digitization and how sincerity relates to such central concepts in the sincerity-and-media debate as amateurism, imperfection, and craft. It considers the many online “produsers”—media expert Axel Bruns's term for denoting that, online, “distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance”—who use online self-publishing tools to publicly share their views on sincerity. The chapter problematizes existing notions of mediatization and authenticity and discusses current debates about our “mediated” world. It calls for a move beyond Western paradigms and more transcultural sensitiveness in the academic debate on new media, reality, and honesty. It also looks at existing studies' near-exclusive emphasis on authenticity, sincerity's conceptual twin. It shows that in post-Soviet space, those who reflect on the impact of new media on our lives show a special interest not in authenticity but in sincerity.

Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Jacqueline Lantsman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
The Many

Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death watch, and impending dates of execution. Death row narratives offer a nuanced account of the many ways condemned prisoners must contend with their powerlessness as an essential element of life under sentence of death.

IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH JIGSAW TECHNIQUE

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-360
Author(s):  
Estella B. Barbosa ◽  
Ariel Epan San Jose ◽  
Maria Gregoria Robles Concepcion
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Reading Teachers ◽  
Reading Technique ◽  
The Many ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Jigsaw Technique

Despite the many efforts given by the academe, reading comprehension still one of the most challenging language skills among many learners. Anchor on Cooperative Learn-ing Theory, this qualitative-phenomenological study aimed to determine how the jig-saw reading technique helped the college students improve their reading comprehen-sion, vocabulary words and knowledge of context clues, recalling of prior knowledge, sharing correct information, asking relevant questions, and organizing and summariz-ing ideas. The participants were purposively chosen. Focus Groups Discussion (FGD) was used to obtain information from 20 participants. Thematic analysis presented nine themes with varying frequency of responses and core ideas. It was also found that jigsaw technique had in influenced improving not only the students’ reading compre-hension but also their interpersonal, motivational, critical thinking skills; more so their sense of accountability. However, it was noted that time was as essential element in reading comprehension. It implicates that employment of any reading approach or strategy must always take into account some essential factors; students’ needs, teach-er’s role, students’ progress, and learning environment. Thus, reading teachers should possess compassion and patience to the learners.

Modification of specular reflexion and light transmission by biological surface structures

1968 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. Bernhard ◽  
G. Gemne ◽  
A. R. Møller
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Light Transmission ◽  
Surface Structures ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Biological Surface ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Apply Physical ◽  
The Many

Biophysicists, who, by definition, apply physical and mathematical principles to their analysis of biological problems for the understanding of the functions of living organisms, are to a great extent concerned with basic characteristics more or less common to all organisms. As pointed out by Griffin (1958) in his book on acoustic orientation, it may well be that ‘this fruitful preoccupation with the universals of protoplasm tends to foster an unduly restricted view of its many intricate potentialities’. The knowledge of the many ways in which animals and plants are adapted for a ‘successful life’ has had a great impact upon the concepts of evolution and natural selection. As a contribution to the proper understanding of these concepts the study of the biophysical principles, by which various geometrically oriented tissues serve different functions, becomes of special interest.

scholarly journals Historical Roles of Selenium and Selenoproteins in Health and Development: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Petra A. Tsuji ◽  
Didac Santesmasses ◽  
Byeong J. Lee ◽  
Vadim N. Gladyshev ◽  
Dolph L. Hatfield
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Male Reproduction ◽  
Mammalian Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Aids Progression ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The Many

Selenium is a fascinating element that has a long history, most of which documents it as a deleterious element to health. In more recent years, selenium has been found to be an essential element in the diet of humans, all other mammals, and many other life forms. It has many health benefits that include, for example, roles in preventing heart disease and certain forms of cancer, slowing AIDS progression in HIV patients, supporting male reproduction, inhibiting viral expression, and boosting the immune system, and it also plays essential roles in mammalian development. Elucidating the molecular biology of selenium over the past 40 years generated an entirely new field of science which encompassed the many novel features of selenium. These features were (1) how this element makes its way into protein as the 21st amino acid in the genetic code, selenocysteine (Sec); (2) the vast amount of machinery dedicated to synthesizing Sec uniquely on its tRNA; (3) the incorporation of Sec into protein; and (4) the roles of the resulting Sec-containing proteins (selenoproteins) in health and development. One of the research areas receiving the most attention regarding selenium in health has been its role in cancer prevention, but further research has also exposed the role of this element as a facilitator of various maladies, including cancer.

Professor Stout's Realism: A Criticism

Philosophy ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 7 (28) ◽  
pp. 446-453
Author(s):  
J. E. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Social Product ◽  
The Many

Among the many outstanding features of Professor Stout's Gifford Lectures, Mind and Matter, there are two which possess special interest to readers of Philosophy: the author”s exposition of a more definite Realism than has been presented in his earlier works, and a renewed defence of the much-maligned faculty, Common Sense, here regarded as “a social product maintained and transmitted from generation to generation through the co-operation and conflict of many minds in thinking and willing ” (p. 8).

Home Truths from Travellers’ Tales: On the Transmission of Culture in the European Iron Age

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Nash Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Many ◽  
Research Students

I must have been one of Barry’s first research students in Oxford when he took over supervision of my doctoral thesis in 1973. Central Gaul and its coinage in the late Iron Age were still frontier areas for research for a British student and I had come to them from Classics and Roman history, with a special interest in coinage but with no experience whatever of archaeology. I am eternally grateful to Barry for his kindly and enthusiastic guidance as I completed my thesis on time and for his encouragement to continue afterwards with research into Iron Age economy and society. He invited me to give my first public paper at the landmark Oppida conference at Rewley House in 1975 (Nash 1976) and we jointly supervised a number of research students while I was at the Ashmolean Museum as Assistant Keeper first of Roman, then of Greek coins in the Heberden Coin Room, which I left in 1986 to pursue another career as a Child Psychotherapist. I doubt I would have had the energy or self-discipline to return to part-time, freelance study of Iron Age Italy in its wider European setting a few years ago had Barry not greeted a draft of something I had written on French prehistory with, ‘Don’t stop now!’ and sponsored my application for an Honorary Research Associateship at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford. With this chapter based on work in progress I would like to thank him for all his support over the years, and celebrate a long association. Re-reading some of Barry’s recent books with this paper in mind I found I kept wanting to engage him in conversation in the many places where, with an enviable narrative freedom that it is difficult to imagine in the academic archaeology of thirty years ago, he evokes the reality of people’s lives in the past, whether it be Pytheas’ journey to the frozen north (Cunliffe 2002) or the Celtic raiding mentality (Cunliffe 1997: 88–9) or wondering whether old fighters living in the Fayum oasis in the mid-third century BC told ‘their incredulous children stories of the fertile Danube plain or the pine-clad slopes of Mount Parnassos remembered from the time when they had camped in its shadow waiting to pillage Delphi’ (Cunliffe 1997: 182).

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