Prediction and Control: The Specific Role of Business Angels in the Investment Process

We live in a research era marked by impressive new tools powering the scientific method to accelerate the discovery, prediction, and control of increasingly complex systems. In common with many disciplines and societal challenges and opportunities, materials and condensed matter sciences are beneficiaries. The volume and fidelity of experimental, computational, and visualization data available, and tools to rapidly interpret them, are remarkable. Conceptual frameworks, including multiscale, multiphysics modeling of this complexity, are fueled by the data and, in turn, guide directions for future experimental and computational strategies. In this spirit, I discuss the importance of competing interactions, length scales, and constraints as pervasive sources of spatiotemporal complexity. I use representative examples drawn from materials and condensed matter, including the important role of elasticity in some technologically important quantum materials.

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Language is a ‘Beautiful Creature’, not an ‘Old Fridge’

Metaphor and the Social World ◽

10.1075/msw.7.2.02bog ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 190-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ksenija Bogetić

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Organization ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Language Change ◽

Specific Role ◽

Cognitive Perspective ◽

Language And Communication ◽

And Control

Abstract Direct metaphor has been widely studied from the cognitive perspective, but its functions in the communicative dimension (Steen, 2011) remain less well understood. This study investigates direct metaphor as a tool of metaphorical framing (Ottati et al., 2014; Ritchie & Cameron, 2014) in discourse, by examining a corpus of British newspaper texts on the topic of language and language change. The analysis of direct metaphors is sufficient to point to major ideologies of language and communication in the observed media context, which echo broader anxieties over social change, social organization and control. Most notably, unlike the meanings stressed in existing studies, the vast majority of direct metaphors are here found to serve the specific role of relational argumentation. This function is achieved through a kind of ‘corrective framing’, which explicitly juxtaposes two conflicting representations through an ‘A is B and not C’ type of metaphor. The findings are discussed with respect to deliberateness, metaphorical framing and rhetorical goals in discourse. It is hypothesized that corrective framing is among the major functions of direct metaphor in public discourse, which can influence public opinion in ways different from other metaphorically created representations.

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Prediction- and Control-Based Strategies in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Information

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal ◽

10.1002/sej.1211 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 43-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Graciela Kuechle ◽

Beatrice Boulu-Reshef ◽

Sean D. Carr

Keyword(s):

Prediction And Control ◽

And Control ◽

Role Of Information

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Role of seed particles in the prediction and control of product particle size in fluidized-bed dryers

10.2172/5430544 ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

E. S. Grimmett

Keyword(s):

Particle Size ◽

Fluidized Bed ◽

Product Particle ◽

Seed Particles ◽

Prediction And Control ◽

And Control

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Morphogenesis of a New Human Herpes-Type Virus Isolate (Sasha Virus)

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100073404 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 592-593

Author(s):

R. F. Zeigel ◽

W. Munyon

Keyword(s):

Virus Isolate ◽

Calf Serum ◽

Uranyl Acetate ◽

Human Herpes ◽

Human Embryonic Lung ◽

Human Herpes Virus ◽

Intracytoplasmic Inclusions ◽

Hel Cells ◽

And Control

In continuing studies on the role of viruses in biochemical transformation, Dr. Munyon has succeeded in isolating a highly infectious human herpes virus. Fluids of buccal pustular lesions from Sasha Munyon (10 mo. old) uiere introduced into monolayer sheets of human embryonic lung (HEL) cell cultures propagated in Eagles’ medium containing 5% calf serum. After 18 hours the cells exhibited a dramatic C.P.E. (intranuclear vacuoles, peripheral patching of chromatin, intracytoplasmic inclusions). Control HEL cells failed to reflect similar changes. Infected and control HEL cells were scraped from plastic flasks at 18 hrs. of incubation and centrifuged at 1200 × g for 15 min. Resultant cell packs uiere fixed in Dalton's chrome osmium, and post-fixed in aqueous uranyl acetate. Figure 1 illustrates typical hexagonal herpes-type nucleocapsids within the intranuclear virogenic regions. The nucleocapsids are approximately 100 nm in diameter. Nuclear membrane “translocation” (budding) uias observed.

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