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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The intelligibility of nature was a persistent theme of William A. Wallace, OP, one of the most prolific Catholic scholars of the late twentieth century. This Reader aims to make available a representative selection of his work in the history of science, natural philosophy, and theology illustrating his defense and development of this central theme. Wallace is among the most important Galileo scholars of the past fifty years and a key figure in the recent revival of scientific realism. Further, his long and productive scholarly career has been shaped by a continuous effort to bring the resources of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition to the solution of contemporary problems of philosophy and science. Through all of these contributions, Wallace has provided the foundation for a renewed confidence in the capacity of human knowers to attain understanding of the natural order. Consequently, the overall aim of this volume is to secure continued access to his scholarship for readers in the new millennium. Intelligibility of Nature contains twenty-nine previously published essays written by Wallace over a period of some forty years. Many of these essays are currently not readily accessible. They are arranged in five thematic groups, each representing a major subject-area of Wallace's scholarly interests. The first group is devoted to essays on making nature intelligible through the use of scientific models. The second group of essays investigates various ways in which the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition is foundational to contemporary scientific research. Essays in the third group are historical studies on the origins of modern science. The fourth group of essays discuss the viability of the cosmological argument for the existence of God in light of natural science. The final group of essays consider the relation of science and religion. Together these essays provide a representative sample of Wallace's multifaceted contributions to scholarship.
Get the most out of "Exploring Leadership." This workbook offers students an avenue for deeply applying the content of "Exploring Leadership, Third Edition "in their efforts to develop their leadership skills. Aligned with the "Facilitation and Activity Guide, " it includes guided activities, discussion questions, journal prompts, and space for reflective writing.
'Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international relations has remained poorly understood. In contrast to the bulk of writings on 'rogue states' that address them merely as a policy challenge, this book studies what we can learn from deviance about international politics.
Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international relations has remained poorly understood. In contrast to the bulk of writings on 'rogue states' that address them merely as a policy challenge, this book studies what we can learn from deviance about international politics.
The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, "A New History of Korea (Han'guksa sillon)" was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. Translated twice into Japanese and currently being translated into Chinese as well, Professor Lee's work presents a new periodization of his country's history, based on a fresh analysis of the changing composition of the leadership elite. The book is noteworthy, too, for its full and integrated discussion of major currents in Korea's cultural history. The translation, three years in preparation, has been done by specialists in the field.
The 4th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2009) was held August 18-23,2009 in Novosibirsk,Russia, hosted by the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University. It was the fourth event in the series of regular international meetings, following CSR 2006 in St. Petersburg, CSR 2007 in Ekaterinburg, and CSR 2008 in Moscow. The opening lecture was given by Andrei Voronkov, and four other invited plenary lectures were given by Sergei Odintsov, Wolfgang Thomas, Nikolai Vereshchagin, and Hongseok Yang. This volume contains all the accepted papers and some of the abstracts of the invited speakers. The scope of the proposed topics for the symposium was quite broad and covered basically all areas of computer science. We received 66 papers in total, and the Program Committee selected 29. Yandex provided the Best Student Paper Awards; the recepients of these awards were selected by the Program Committee: - Dmitry Itsykson, "Structural complexity of AvgBPP" - Yuri Pritykin and Julya Ulyashkina, "Aperiodicity measure for in?nite sequences." The reviewing processwasorganizedusing the EasyChairconferencesystem, created by Andrei Voronkov. We are grateful to our sponsors: - Russian Foundation for Basic Research - Yandex (the largest Russian Internet portal providing key Web services). We also thank the group of local organizers and in particular Pavel Salimov.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS '94), held in Caen, France, February 24-26, 1994. Besides three prominent invited papers, the proceedings contains 60 accepted contributions chosen by the international program committee during a highly competitive reviewing process from a total of 234 submissions for 38 countries. The volume competently represents most areas of theoretical computer science with a certain emphasis on (parallel) algorithms and complexity.
This volume contains the proceedings of the tenth annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS '93), held in W}rzburg, February 25-27, 1993. The STACS symposia are held alternately in Germany and France, and organized jointly by the Special Interest Group for Theoretical Computer Science of the Gesellschaft f}r Informatik (GI) and theSpecial Interest Group for Applied Mathematics of the Association Francaise des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et des Syst mes (afcet). The volume includes the three invited talks which opened the three days of the symposium: "Causal and distributed semantics for concurrent processes" (I. Castellani), "Parallel architectures: design and efficient use" (B. Monien et al.), and "Transparent proofs" (L. Babai). The selection of contributed papers is organized into parts on: computational complexity, logic in computer science, efficient algorithms, parallel and distributed computation, language theory, computational geometry, automata theory, semantics and logic of programming languages, automata theory and logic, circuit complexity, omega-automata, non-classical complexity, learning theory and cryptography, and systems.
Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse ARIC, a project of the Center for Environmental Information, Inc.
Der Geburtstag des Herrn KARL HEINRICH BAUER war in der akademischen Welt ein Ereignis besonderer Bedeutung. Der emeritierte Professor der Chirurgie und Initiator des Deutschen Krebsforschungs- zentrums hatte es schon fruher verstandell, geistige Anregungen auszu- streuen, seine Leser und Horer zu fesseln und durch sein Beispiel zu wirken. So ist es nur naturlich, daB zur Feier der Vollendung des 75. Le- bensjahres sehr viele Schuler, Freunde, Verehrer und Fachgenossen aus aller Welt nach Heidelberg gekommen sind, urn dem Jubilar die Reverenz zu erweisen. 1m Mittelpunkt der Feierlichkciten stand ein wissenschaft- liches Symposion, welches reich war an thematisch weit streuenden Beitragen, gleich einem bunten, farbenfrohen Geburtstags-BlumenstrauB. Die nachfolgende Zusammenstellung gibt ein naturgetreues Bild von clem Ductus der Einzelvortrage. Herausgebern und Verlag war daran gelegen, durch diese Festschrift, deren Teile wie die Komponenten eines Kraftfelcles auf Teilgebiete des Lebcnswerkes von K. H. BAUER ausge- richtet sind, sowohl eine bleibende Erinnerung als auch einen Eindruck von der imposanten GroBe und Mannigfaltigkeit des Lebenswerkes von K. H. BAUER zu vermitteln. Heidelberg, Marz 1966.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Diese kompakte Einfuhrung in die Theoretische Informatik stellt die wichtigsten Modelle fur zentrale Probleme der Informatik vor. Dabei werden u.a. folgende Fragestellungen behandelt: Welche Probleme sind algorithmisch losbar? (Theorie der Berechenbarkeit und Entscheidbarkeit) Wie schwierig ist es algorithmische Probleme zu losen? (Theorie der Berechnungskomplexitat, NP-Theorie) Wie sind informationsverarbeitende Systeme prinzipiell aufgebaut? (Theorie der endlichen Automaten) Welche Strukturen besitzen Programmiersprachen? (Theorie der formalen Sprachen) In der Erarbeitung dieser Themen wird der Abstraktionsprozess von den realen Gegenstanden der Informatik zu den in der Theoretischen Infromatik etabliertern Modellen, wie z.B. Random-Access-Maschinen, Turingmaschinen und endliche Automaten, nachvollzogen und umgekehrt verdeutlicht, was diese Modelle aufgrund der uber sie gewonnenen Erkenntnisse fur die Praxis leisten konnen."
Battleground models Wisconsin's contentious political communication ecology: the way that politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news and social media content, and state-wide surveys, we combine qualitative and computational analysis with time-series and multi-level modeling to study this hybrid communication system - an approach that yields unique insights about nationalization, social structure, conventional discourses, and the lifeworld. We explore these concepts through case studies of immigration, healthcare, and economic development, concluding that despite nationalization, distinct state-level effects vary by issue as partisan actors exert their discursive power.
Mediated Democracy: Politics, the News, and Citizenship in the 21st Century takes a contemporary, communications-oriented perspective on the central questions pertaining to the health of democracies and relationships between citizens, journalists, and political elites. The approach marries clear syntheses of cutting-edge research with practical advice explaining why the insights of scholarship affects students' lives. With active, engaging writing, the text will thoroughly explain why things are the way they are, how they got that way, and how students can use the insights of political communication research to do something about it as citizens.
Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fourteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from the most recent American National Election Study to provide a thorough analysis of the 2016 elections and the current American political behavior.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.
Spacepower, analogous to airpower and sea power, is the ability to use the space medium to project military power. Since the end of the Cold War, the contributions of spacepower to national security and military operations have become increasingly visible in the open press, leading to an increased stated need for a comprehensive spacepower theory. This research is focused toward that need. It explores the central themes and specific points of the "theoretical masters" of land, sea and air, in order to draw analogies to the emerging presence of military spacepower. Space will continue to aid combat in other mediums as it offers persistence, range, and near instantaneous speed-enabling a global presence that is unmatched by capabilities in any other medium. However, for spacepower to emerge as a fully competent component of the future joint force, or simply to mature as a combat arm within the US Air Force, a body of serious thought must be given to why we need spacepower and what we intend it to do. Through this analysis, five lessons emerge for spacepower theory: 1) Spacepower must control space lines of communication; 2) Decisive points are key to space control; 3) Spacepower requires superior observation capabilities and the ability to take offensive action; 4) Robust spacepower could lead to enemy paralysis; and 5) Spacepower requires masters of the space medium.
Spacepower, analogous to airpower and sea power, is the ability to use the space medium to project military power. Since the end of the Cold War, the contributions of spacepower to national security and military operations have become increasingly visible in the open press, leading to an increased stated need for a comprehensive spacepower theory. This research is focused toward that need. It explores the central themes and specific points of the "theoretical masters" of land, sea and air, in order to draw analogies to the emerging presence of military spacepower. Space will continue to aid combat in other mediums as it offers persistence, range, and near instantaneous speed--enabling a global presence that is unmatched by capabilities in any other medium. However, for spacepower to emerge as a fully competent component of the future joint force, or simply to mature as a combat arm within the US Air Force, a body of serious thought must be given to why we need spacepower and what we intend it to do. Through this analysis, five lessons emerge for spacepower theory: 1) Spacepower must control space lines of communication; 2) Decisive points are key to space control; 3) Spacepower requires superior observation capabilities and the ability to take offensive action; 4) Robust spacepower could lead to enemy paralysis; and 5) Spacepower requires masters of the space medium.
A new approach to spacepower acquisition is essential to ensure America's continuing advantage in space. The United States must create better options to guarantee that its political leaders and military commanders can continue to depend on military spacepower, and that it remains a continuing competitive advantage for America. At the center of a new space acquisition strategy, advocated in this thesis, is the creation of a spacepower system development and demonstration phase similar to other DOD acquisition cycles. Military spacepower continues to enhance the elements and instruments of US national power and increases the effectiveness of military forces. The useful operational lives of the spacecraft that currently provide these benefits, however, are rapidly running out. Each DOD spacecraft constellation is currently in transition, and the Air Force is attempting to recapitalize every space mission area near simultaneously. These recapitalization efforts have been fraught with technical problems, delays, and significant cost overruns.
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of mathematics. The titles in this range include "Ratio and Proportion" "Simple Equations" "Simultaneous Equations" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "A Beginner's Guide to Quadratic Equations" contains a selection of classic educational articles containing examples and exercises on the subject of algebra. It is intended to illustrate aspects of quadratic equations and serves as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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