An Analysis of Automatism

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Settings ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
Conscious Will

This chapter illustrates how automatisms involve the lack of the feeling of doing an action but may even go beyond this to include a distinct feeling that the person is not doing. The loss of perceived voluntariness is so remarkable during an automatism that the person may vehemently resist describing the action as consciously or personally caused. It seems to come from somewhere else or at least not from oneself. This experience is so curious that automatisms often are noteworthy events in themselves rather than just unnoticed lapses in conscious willing. The chapter examines the key features of behavior settings that promote the occurrence of automatisms, and points to the ways in which the lack of perceptions of priority, consistency, and exclusivity underlie lapses in the experience of conscious will.

The Oslo Principles and the Enterprises Principles: Legal Strategies to Come to Grips with Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap Spier
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Global Temperature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Legal Strategies

AbstractIt is almost commonly accepted that we must keep the increase of global temperature below 2 degrees C and preferably below 1.5 degree C. This begs the question: do states and enterprises have concrete reduction and other obligations to stem the tide? The Oslo Principles, adopted on March 2015, tried to discern the legal obligations of states and to a lesser extent enterprises. The Enterprises Principles will map the legal obligations of enterprises, financiers and long term investors such as pension funds. Both set of principles are based on an interpretation of the law as it stands or will likely develop. This article and Philip Sutherland’s contribution to this volume focus on the core obligations of both the Oslo and the Enterprises Principles. Since the adoption of the Oslo Principles a lot has happened. This contribution also discusses a few key features of the Oslo Principles in light of these developments.

scholarly journals Ahead of the Curve: New Insights into Microtubule Dynamics

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoma Ohi ◽  
Marija Zanic
Keyword(s):  
Structural Biology ◽  
Dynamic Instability ◽  
Microtubule Dynamics ◽  
Cell Physiology ◽  
Gtp Hydrolysis ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Tubulin Structure ◽  
Intense Research

Microtubule dynamics are fundamental for many aspects of cell physiology, but their mechanistic underpinnings remain unclear despite 40 years of intense research. In recent years, the continued union of reconstitution biochemistry, structural biology, and modeling has yielded important discoveries that deepen our understanding of microtubule dynamics. These studies, which we review here, underscore the importance of GTP hydrolysis-induced changes in tubulin structure as microtubules assemble, and highlight the fact that each aspect of microtubule behavior is the output of complex, multi-step processes. Although this body of work moves us closer to appreciating the key features of microtubule biochemistry that drive dynamic instability, the divide between our understanding of microtubules in isolation versus within the cellular milieu remains vast. Bridging this gap will serve as fertile grounds of cytoskeleton-focused research for many years to come.

scholarly journals BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 297 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
V. KUCHKOVSKY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Type ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Direct Function ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
Consensus Algorithms ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come

This article describes the main consensus algorithms, their positive and negative aspects. Consensus in the general sense means a way to come to an agreement. In the blockchain, which is a decentralized system that does not have a single governing body, various algorithms have been developed to achieve consensus. In a blockchain network, it does not matter whether the system participants trust each other or not. They must agree on certain principles of work that will apply to everyone. And this is a direct function of the consensus mechanism. Algorithms are described and an example of solving this problem is given, namely the problem of choosing a consensus for future systems. An example of using multiple consensuses in blockchain networks is given. Such consensuses as Proof of Work (PoW), proof of Capacity (PoC), proof of Authority (PoA), proof of activity (PoAA), proof of Importance (PoI), proof of Burn (PoB), proof of Stake (PoS) are described, as well as its subspecies: Leased Proof-of-Stake (LPoS), Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS). Many different nuances about the mixed type of consensus are described and examples of such cryptocurrencies and systems are given. The subtleties of mining for each consensus are described. Examples of hash functions, masternodes, nodes, algorithms, as well as key features of certain cryptocurrencies with mixed consensus are given. It is concluded that the choice of consensus for building systems based on blockchain.

scholarly journals Genre Originality of Novel by M. Vargas Llosa “Green House”

2021 ◽  
pp. 205-220
Author(s):  
O. K. Voicou ◽  
A. P. Zhukov ◽  
B. V. Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Green House ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
Definition Of

The genre nature of the novel “Green House” by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is analyzed in the article. Special attention is paid to three approaches to the definition of the genre: “Green House” as a total novel, as a chivalric novel and as an Indianist novel. Definitions of each genre under consideration are given. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the prevailing approaches to defining the genre of the “Green House” in contemporary Latin American studies is analyzed in the paper. In the course of the work seven stable characteristics of the total novel are distinguished: a radically realistic author’s intention, a clear structural organization of the text, compositional and semantic unity, the consciousness of the infinity of language, the comprehensiveness of the novel, nonlinearity of narration, and the use of dialogue as a structure-forming device. The question of the presence in the novel “Green House” of signs of a chivalric romance is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the “Green House” and the Catalan novel “Tyrant White” are presented. A comparison of the structure of the “Green House” and the generalized structure of the Indianist novel is given, the key features of this genre are analyzed. It is concluded that in the case of the “Green House” it is impossible to come to genre definiteness. The authors dwell on the fact that “Green House” is a work of fiction that combines elements of different genres, without any other restrictions in interpretations, except for those directly rejected by the text.

scholarly journals The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction by Ina Bergmann

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Maurya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
Edgar Allen Poe

The nineteenth century is a crucial phase in America’s history. Key features such as geographical expansions, the industrial revolution, development in science and technology, and America’s emergence as a super power, after the American Revolution and the War of 1812, mark the century. The Civil War becomes the most important historical event of this phase that will impact the lives of Americans in the years to come. The century has literary importance also because, during this phase, forerunners of American literature, like, Edgar Allen Poe, James Cooper, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, etc., come to the scene. Thus, the century as the setting has always been a literary choice for historical novelists.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
Jan Rybak
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
National Infrastructure

The Conclusion revisits some of the communities in which Zionists had worked during the war, showing how they were transformed in those years. The numerical growth of the Zionist movement and electoral victories in many places throughout the region speak to the transformation of the Jewish social and political landscape, and to the mass appeal of the Zionist movement and its ideas. Furthermore, Zionist nation-building meant the establishment of a vast national infrastructure, ranging from newspapers to schools, kindergartens, social centres, and so on, that came to be key features of Jewish society. These ‘outcomes’ show that it was concrete activism rather than ‘big ideas’ that made the Zionist movement attractive to the Jewish population, but also that this activism could assume very different forms, depending on local context. Looking at the diverse forms Zionist nation-building took in communities throughout the region highlights the necessity to rethink the ‘big story’ of Zionism in this period. Rather than a single process connected to wider events, it involved many different small, everyday struggles that activists and communities fought throughout the region. Not one but many Zionist ideas flourished in these years. This was the way in which Zionism experienced its great breakthrough, becoming a leading force in Jewish social and political life in the decades to come.

scholarly journals The Water Wars Novel

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Hannah Boast
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Water Wars ◽  
Key Features ◽  
To Come

‘Water wars’ are back. Conflicts in Syrian, Yemen and Israel/Palestine are regularly framed as motivated by water and presented as harbingers of a world to come. The return of ‘water wars’ rhetoric, long after its 1990s heyday, has been paralleled by an increasing interest among novelists in water as a cause of conflict. This literature has been under-explored in existing work in the Blue Humanities, while scholarship on cli-fi has focused on scenarios of too much water, rather than not enough. In this article I catalogue key features of what I call the ‘water wars novel’, surveying works by Paolo Bacigalupi, Sarnath Banerjee, Varda Burstyn, Assaf Gavron, Emmi Itäranta, Karen Jayes and Cameron Stracher, writing from the United States, India, Canada, Israel, Finland and South Africa. I identify the water wars novel as a distinctive and increasingly prominent mode of ‘cli-fi’ that reveals and obscures important dimensions of water crises of the past, present and future.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

Scanning Electron Microscopy-cuticular Lesions on the Roundworm Ascaris Suum

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
P. A. Madden ◽  
W. R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Freeze Drying ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
Silver Paint ◽  
To Come ◽  
Scanning Electron

The intestinal roundworm of swine is pinkish in color and about the diameter of a lead pencil. Adult worms, taken from parasitized swine, frequently were observed with macroscopic lesions on their cuticule. Those possessing such lesions were rinsed in distilled water, and cylindrical segments of the affected areas were removed. Some of the segments were fixed in buffered formalin before freeze-drying; others were freeze-dried immediately. Initially, specimens were quenched in liquid freon followed by immersion in liquid nitrogen. They were then placed in ampuoles in a freezer at −45C and sublimated by vacuum until dry. After the specimens appeared dry, the freezer was allowed to come to room temperature slowly while the vacuum was maintained. The dried specimens were attached to metal pegs with conductive silver paint and placed in a vacuum evaporator on a rotating tilting stage. They were then coated by evaporating an alloy of 20% palladium and 80% gold to a thickness of approximately 300 A°. The specimens were examined by secondary electron emmission in a scanning electron microscope.

The microstructure change of low-carbon electrical steels by residual aluminum

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
C.K. Hou ◽  
C.T. Hu ◽  
Sanboh Lee
Keyword(s):  
Annealing Treatment ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Electrical Steels ◽  
Vacuum Degassing ◽  
Spherical Inclusions ◽  
Residual Aluminum ◽  
Average Grain Size ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Fine Size ◽  
To Come

The fully processed low-carbon electrical steels are generally fabricated through vacuum degassing to reduce the carbon level and to avoid the need for any further decarburization annealing treatment. This investigation was conducted on eighteen heats of such steels with aluminum content ranging from 0.001% to 0.011% which was believed to come from the addition of ferroalloys.The sizes of all the observed grains are less than 24 μm, and gradually decrease as the content of aluminum is increased from 0.001% to 0.007%. For steels with residual aluminum greater than 0. 007%, the average grain size becomes constant and is about 8.8 μm as shown in Fig. 1. When the aluminum is increased, the observed grains are changed from the uniformly coarse and equiaxial shape to the fine size in the region near surfaces and the elongated shape in the central region. SEM and EDAX analysis of large spherical inclusions in the matrix indicate that silicate is the majority compound when the aluminum propotion is less than 0.003%, then the content of aluminum in compound inclusion increases with that in steel.

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