There Is No Really Good Definition of Mass

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Hecht
Keyword(s):  
Good Definition ◽  
Definition Of

High energy resolution spectrometer for the dedicated STEM

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 558-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.E. Batson
Keyword(s):  
Collection Efficiency ◽  
Core Loss ◽  
Beam Current ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Resolution ◽  
Acquisition Time ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Loss Analysis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Acceleration Voltage

Use of the STEM to obtain precise electronic information has been hampered by the lack of energy loss analysis capable of a resolution and accuracy comparable to the 0.3eV energy width of the Field Emission Source. Recent work by Park, et. al. and earlier by Crewe, et. al. have promised magnetic sector devices that are capable of about 0.75eV resolution at collection angles (about 15mR) which are great enough to allow efficient use of the STEM probe current. These devices are also capable of 0.3eV resolution at smaller collection angles (4-5mR). The problem that arises, however, lies in the fact that, even with the collection efficiency approaching 1.0, several minutes of collection time are necessary for a good definition of a typical core loss or electronic transition. This is a result of the relatively small total beam current (1-10nA) that is available in the dedicated STEM. During this acquisition time, the STEM acceleration voltage may fluctuate by as much as 0.5-1.0V.

scholarly journals Lying, speech acts, and commitment

Synthese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neri Marsili
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Adequate Analysis

AbstractNot every speech act can be a lie. A good definition of lying should be able to draw the right distinctions between speech acts (like promises, assertions, and oaths) that can be lies and speech acts (like commands, suggestions, or assumptions) that under no circumstances are lies. This paper shows that no extant account of lying is able to draw the required distinctions. It argues that a definition of lying based on the notion of ‘assertoric commitment’ can succeed where other accounts have failed. Assertoric commitment is analysed in terms of two normative components: ‘accountability’ and ‘discursive responsibility’. The resulting definition of lying draws all the desired distinctions, providing an intensionally adequate analysis of the concept of lying.

A Simple Algorithm for the Inframammary Fold Reconstruction, Balcony-Like Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
Claudio Cannistrà ◽  
Angelo Trivisonno ◽  
Alexis Deschler ◽  
Celine Aboud ◽  
Melvin A. Shiffman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Reliability ◽  
Simple Algorithm ◽  
Inframammary Fold ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Fascial Flap ◽  
Natural Support ◽  
Cosmetic Outcomes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Imf

The inframammary fold (IMF) is one of the most important landmarks that defines the breast region. Most of the current IMF reconstructive techniques are based on the creation of fibrotic structures to maintain the breast. We present a surgical technique of IMF reconstruction by the creation of a fascial flap underpinned by an anatomical evaluation of this structure and a simple algorithm to define the localization of the new IMF. Fifteen patients underwent our procedure of IMF reconstruction from 2004 to 2016. The patients were followed during at least 6 months after IMF reconstruction. This technique is based on the creation of a pectoralis major fascial flap fixed to the dermis by inverted resorbable sutures. The fascial flap represents a new ligament of the IMF reconstituting a physiological support. Cosmetic outcomes and stability over time were assessed. The long-term aesthetic outcome is optimal on all the patients treated with a natural shape and a good definition of the new IMF. There were no noted complications or revision surgery during the follow-up. Our technique consists of an anatomical reconstitution of IMF recreating a natural support “balcony-like” formed by the pectoralis fascia fixed to the dermis. This technique is useful to correct reconstructive or aesthetic procedures of the breast, with great cosmetic outcome and high reliability underpinned by the use of our position algorithm which is easy to use and enables a symmetrical position of the IMF.

The Dilemmas of Freedom

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 714-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
American People ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

During the Civil War, which was a war for freedom in a truer sense than most of the wars which have been so called, Abraham Lincoln laid bare the essentials of the dilemma which has baffled the philosophic understanding of freedom and which has made it appear that there was always something left to be desired in its political realization. On April 18, 1864, Lincoln gave a brief and unpretentious address to the crowd assembled at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore.“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty,” he said,and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names—liberty and tyranny.

Pure and Utilitarian Prisoner's Dilemmas

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven T. Kuhn ◽  
Serge Moresi
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Payoff Matrix ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
Definition Of

The prisoner 's dilemma game (henceforth, PD) has acquired large literatures in several disciplines. It is surprising, therefore, that a good definition of the game is hard to find. Typically an author relates a story about captured criminals or military rivals, provides a particular payoff matrix and asserts that the PD is characterized, or illustrated, by that matrix. In the few cases in which characterizing conditions are given, the conditions, and the motivations for them, do not always agree with each other or with the paradigm examples elsewhere. In this paper we describe several varieties of PD's. In particular, we suggest there are two distinctions among PD's with philosophical significance, the pure/impure and the utilitarian/nonutilitarian distinctions. In the first section, we explain and characterize the two distinctions. In the second, we discuss an issue of moral philosophy that illustrates the significance of the former.

Are there hybrid regimes? Or are they just an optical illusion?

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Morlino
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Optical Illusion ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Hybrid Regime

In recent years there has been growing interest and a related literature on hybrid regimes. Is there a good definition of such an institutional arrangement? Are there actually sets of stabilized, political institutions that can be labelled in this way? Is it possible that within the widespread process of democracy diffusion these are only ‘transitional’ regimes and the most suitable distinction is still the old one, suggested by Linz and traditionally accepted, between democracy and authoritarianism? This article addresses and responds to these questions by pinpointing the pertinent analytic dimensions, starting with definitions of ‘regime’, ‘authoritarianism’, and ‘democracy’; by defining what a ‘hybrid regime’ is; by trying to answer the key question posed in the title; by disentangling the cases of proper hybrid regimes from the cases of transitional phases; and by proposing a typology of hybrid regimes. Some of the main findings and conclusions refer to the lack of institutions capable of performing their functions as well as the key elements for achieving possible changes towards democracy.

Pyrosequencing analysis of the Oral Microflora of healthy adults

2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (11) ◽  
pp. 1016-1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J.F. Keijser ◽  
E. Zaura ◽  
S.M. Huse ◽  
J.M.B.M. van der Vossen ◽  
F.H.J. Schuren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hypervariable Region ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Units ◽  
Oral Microflora ◽  
Supragingival Plaque ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Human Oral Microflora

A good definition of commensal microflora and an understanding of its relation to health are essential in preventing and combating disease. We hypothesized that the species richness of human oral microflora is underestimated. Saliva and supragingival plaque were sampled from 71 and 98 healthy adults, respectively. Amplicons from the V6 hypervariable region of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene were generated by PCR, pooled into saliva and plaque pools, and sequenced by means of the Genome Sequencer 20 system at 454 Life Sciences. Data were evaluated by taxonomic and rarefaction analyses. The 197,600 sequences generated yielded about 29,000 unique sequences, representing 22 taxonomic phyla. Grouping the sequences in operational taxonomic units (6%) yielded 3621 and 6888 species-level phylotypes in saliva and plaque, respectively. This work gives a radically new insight into the diversity of human oral microflora, which, with an estimated number of 19,000 phylotypes, is considerably higher than previously reported.

Structural Explanation: Garfinkelian Themes

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Bradford Skow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Structural Explanation ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

This chapter proposes a new definition of “structural explanation.” The definition says that something is a structural explanation iff it (i) is an answer to a question of the form “why did such-and-such have a certain effect?” that (ii) cites a structural fact. On this definition structures don’t explain in the way that causes do, but instead in the way that background conditions do. This definition is not meant to compete with other definitions. Another good definition says that a structural explanation is a causal explanation that cites a structure as a cause. The new definition is needed because many examples of explanations in the social sciences that seem, intuitively, to be structural explanations meet the new definition but not the old one. The new definition is developed by examining some claims about structural explanation Alan Garfinkel makes in his book Forms of Explanation.

The Nature of English Puritanism: Three Interpretations

1954 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerald C. Brauer
Keyword(s):  
Basic Problem ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
Impossible Task ◽  
Definition Of

Several recent scholars appalled by the seemingly impossible task of defining Puritanism have contented themselves with the supposedly easier task of describing the movement. But, a really accurate description is actually a good definition. To the extent that a description enables one to identify and thus partially to understand a man or a movement, it serves as a definition. Thus, whether one wishes to engage in a definition of or a description of the nature of Puritanism makes little difference. The basic problem is that of so delineating the Puritan movement that its differences from other contemporary movements are clearly discernible. Only in that way can one assess its role in its own epoch and its contributions to the ongoing stream of history.

scholarly journals Toward an Integrated Vision of Undergraduate Liberal and Accounting Education in the Public Interest: The Holistic Development of Persons and Institutions

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian P. Shapiro ◽  
Michael Naughton
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Good Definition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

ABSTRACT This paper puts forward a vision that integrates liberal and accounting education to engage students with the idea of vocation and pursuit of the common good through their chosen field of accounting. We adopt a common good definition of the public interest that seeks to advance not only the good of institutions and communities (mutual interests) but also the good of individuals (private interests). This approach engages students to critically reflect on how their life experiences, personal commitments, and future professional work can relate to one another. We first discuss disciplinary fragmentation in higher education and its implications for integrating liberal and accounting education. Next, we describe general learning objectives and concepts that support the integration of liberal learning and accounting education with a public interest orientation. We then apply the approach to critique accounting practices that arguably harm the public interest. The concluding section provides a summary and describes how accounting educators may adapt and scale an approach that fits their institutional setting.

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