Animal thought, recent work on

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Rey ◽  
Marc Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Infant Cognition ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Basic Concepts

In recent years there has been a good deal of experimental work on the question of animal cognition, much of it modelled on recent experiments in infant cognition. Indeed, current research suggests that the distinction between the mental capacities of humans and many animals is far subtler and more difficult to determine than traditionally has been supposed. A promising proposal is that, although humans and animals share a surprising number of basic concepts and categories, only humans have the capacity to deal with them recursively. Throughout this entry ‘animal’ and ‘primate’ will be understood as prefixed with ‘non-human’.

Consumer rights Protection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Шувалова ◽  
Irina Shuvalova
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Current State ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Basic Concepts

The manual was prepared based on the current state of legislation and practice. Taking into account recent changes in the rules of substantive and procedural law. The publication contains sample documents: claims, applications, complaints, petitions, writs, etc. on various issues in the field of consumer protection. The basic concepts and categories in the field of consumer protection, specific examples are given practical advice. The manual is intended for students, practitioners and anyone interested in the issues of protection of consumer rights.

Electrical Conduction in Granular Metal Films

1990 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.E. Morris ◽  
A. Mello ◽  
C.J. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Particle Size ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Electrical Conduction ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Field Effect ◽  
Metal Particle ◽  
Metal Films ◽  
Metal Particle Size ◽  
Gap Width

ABSTRACTIn the early 1970's, Abeles et al developed a widely accepted model for electrical conduction in granular metal films based upon an assumed correlation between metal particle size and inter-particle tunneling gap width. The paper critically examines this assumption and other aspects of the theory. No observation of any such correlation has been reported, nor should it be expected, particularly in discontinuous films. The latter point requires separate considerations of the very different structures of discontinuous metal films, granular metals and cermets, using the “granular” term here in a more limited sense than usual.Other aspects of the theory considered include its implied percolation topology and the field effect. Experimental data are also re-evaluated in terms of other common models. The paper concludes with a brief review of recent work in discontinuous metal films with suggestions for future theoretical and experimental work.

‘RESONANCE AND DISTANCE’: SIMON BAINBRIDGE IN CONVERSATION

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (265) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Malcolm Miller
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Primo Levi ◽  
Gunther Schuller ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis interview, based on a conversation with Simon Bainbridge at London's City Literary Institute in June 2011, presents something of a rounded portrait of the composer while covering a good deal of ground. We began our conversation with a discussion of a recent work for orchestra, Concerti Grossi, going into some detail in matters of scoring and structure. The discussion then broadened to cover such topics as the creative process, formative influences (for example, his parents' activity in the visual arts, Debussy's Jeux, John Lambert and Gunther Schuller), instrumentation and the relationship of music and text. This led on specifically to Bainbridge's settings of Primo Levi, in for example the cycle Ad Ora Incerta, and to a consideration of the composer's relationship with the audience.

scholarly journals Identifying Wheel-Thrown Vases in Middle Minoan Crete? Preliminary Analysis of Experimental Replicas of Plain Handleless Conical Cups from Protopalatial Phaistos

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Ilaria Caloi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Minoan Crete ◽  
Technological Study ◽  
Wheel Throwing

Recent work in Middle Bronze Age Crete has revealed that most Protopalatial or First Palace period pottery is produced through the use of a combination of coil-building and the wheel, i.e., wheelcoiling. Experimental work conducted on pottery from Minoan sites of Northern and Eastern Crete (e.g., Knossos, Myrtos Pyrgos, Palaikastro) has indeed determined that Minoan potters did not develop the skills required to adopt the wheel-throwing technique. However, my recent technological study of Protopalatial ceramic material from Middle Minoan IIA (19th century BC) deposits from the First Palace at Phaistos, in Southern Crete, has revealed that though pottery was produced by the wheelcoiling techniques, yet other forming techniques were practised too. In this paper I present a preliminary analysis of experimental replicas of MM IIA Phaistian plain handleless conical cups, manufactured on the potter’s wheel using three different forming techniques: wheel-pinching, wheel-coiling, and throwing-off-the-hump. This analysis will proffer answers to several questions on the use of the potter’s wheel in Middle Bronze Age Crete and opens the possibility that at MM IIA Phaistos there co-existed potters who had developed skills to employ different forming techniques on the wheel, including possibly that of throwing-off-the-hump.

Effects of warm water effluents from power stations on marine life

1972 ◽  
Vol 180 (1061) ◽  
pp. 497-509 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Thermal Pollution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
Marine Life ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
Nassarius Reticulatus

A brief review is given of recent work on the biological effects of thermal pollution in the British Isles. Some of the effects of the Hunterston Generating Station, Ayrshire, Scotland are briefly described. Experimental work suggests that the planktonic larvae of the locally abundant bivalve Tellina tenuis are unlikely to be harmed by heating during passage through the cooling system. On the other hand, growth of the gastropod Nassarius reticulatus is affected on a beach near the outfall. Spawning times of this species are advanced by about 3 months compared with a locality not affected by warm water. Experiments also show that hatching of Nassarius egg capsules is more rapid at higher temperatures. Some possible implications of thermal pollution are discussed.

An Experimental Investigation Into the Effect of Lubricant on the Local Film Thickness of Artificial Roughness Features

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Furtuna ◽  
R. P. Glovnea
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Film Thickness ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Viscosity Coefficient ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Experimental Point ◽  
Artificial Roughness ◽  
Random Roughness ◽  
Interferometry Method

The lubrication of rough surfaces has been a focus of researchers in the field for many years now. A good deal of work has been carried out either on the experimental or on the theoretical sides of the research. From the experimental point of view it is obviously more convenient to study the lubrication of artificial roughness features such as ridges, bumps or dents rather than real, random roughness. The advantage of model roughness features is that they are well individualized, located, and characterized, thus a comparison of the surfaces geometry inside and outside an elastohydrodynamic contact can be made. The studies carried out so far have focused on the effect of the geometry of the features and that of the entrainment speed. No detailed experimental work on the effect of the lubricant properties on the behavior of the EHD films has been performed, to the authors’ knowledge. The present study uses the optical interferometry method to measure the EHD film thickness between a flat disc and a ball on which artificial ridges have been sputtered. Two lubricants, with different viscosity and pressure/viscosity coefficient are used in a range of pressures and entrainment speeds.

scholarly journals Muhammadiyah dan Problema Hubungan Agama-Budaya

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Biyanto Biyanto
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Unique Aspect ◽  
Basic Concepts

This article deals with Muhammadiyah’s view of the inter-connection between religion and culture. Religion is a divine product while culture is a human invention. How these two different domains are inter-related will be a kind of formidable task to expose. To do this, the paper will discuss first the possible relation between Muhammadiyah and Salafiyah as far as theology is concerned. Many have contended that Muhammadiyah is an extension of this rabian theology. The paper will try to trace if there is any such theological relation between the two by appealing to some basic concepts that both Muhamadiyah and Salafiyah hold such as the concept of puritanism; that the Qur’an and the prophetic traditions are the sole sources for both religion and culture. But we also try to explore the unique aspect of each movement of which the other does not share. Thus, Muhammadiyah—unlike Salafiyah—has a good deal of awareness in culture and even adopts the “cultural approach” in propagating Islam. As a religious organization whose task lies mainly in calling people into Islam, Muhammadiyah has advocated what is commonly known as the “dakwah cultural”; a cultural approach in dakwah. For this purpose, Muhammadiyah has designed a guidebook on how “dakwah kultural” is carried out, its steps, and strategies. In writing his paper, we hope to shed a better light on the objective nature of Muhammadiyah and its view concerning religion and culture.

Bakerian Lecture - The more recent work on the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen

1946 ◽  
Vol 188 (1012) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Chemical Kinetics ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

It is not infrequently in the evolution of a scientific problem that the following course of events is observed. First, there is a preconceived notion about the way in which a certain phenomenon should occur. Next, this idea is rather rudely dispelled by experiments which reveal all sorts of unsuspected complexities. The subject seems to become more and more difficult and stimulates a good deal of effort and contributions from many sides. At this stage the clearest way of treating the matter is usually to approach it historically, or at any rate analytically, and even then expositions of it usually give the impression of being accessible only to specialists. Gradually, however, things clarify, the complexities seem in an increasing degree to assume the guise of details which can be derived as consequences from the general theory, and a synthetic treatment becomes possible. In the light of all the intervening work it almost appears as though everything could, from the start, have been deduced from first principles. Although this appearance may from one point of view be illusory, it is none the less a sign that the task is approaching completion. In the development of modern ideas on chemical kinetics the study of gaseous reactions has played an interesting part. Many unexpected and sometimes disconcerting observations have shown that the kind of relations which might have been assumed in the light of the earlier ideas do not exist, and yet one begins to see that the tangle of facts has after all a coherence of its own, though quite different from what was first imagined.

Can We Learn From Nature to Design Membranes? The Intricate Pore Structure of the Diatom

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Rosengarten
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Pore Structure ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Regular Array ◽  
Silica Membrane ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Separation Processes ◽  
Unicellular Algae ◽  
Desalination Plants

Membranes are ubiquitous functional elements used in separation processes. An ideal membrane will stop certain species penetrating it while having excellent transport properties for others. Membranes are used in synthetic systems such as fuel cells and desalination plants, but are also formed naturally in biological systems. For example all cells use a membrane to contain the cellular contents, while allowing transport of nutrients though the cell wall. I will present our recent work on examining diatoms, which are unicellular algae that grow in water. They have a self assembled silica membrane wall with a regular array of nanopores whose function is very poorly understood. I will outline the unique structure of the pores and our experimental work on understanding their structure to help develop membranes with better performance.

scholarly journals Recent Experimental Work on ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Semler ◽  
Paul Henne
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Ought Implies Can ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Recent Experimental Work

While philosophers generally accept some version of the principle ‘ought’ implies ‘can’, recent work in experimental philosophy and cognitive science provides evidence against a presupposition or a conceptual entailment from ‘ought’ to ‘can’. Here, we review some of this evidence, its effect on particular formulations of the principle, and future directions for cognitive scientists and philosophers.

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