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The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
No full textMany years ago, two Jewish artists from Germany met in Brazil, started a business, fell in love, and got married. The Brazilians could not pronounce their German names, so the couple shortened them to H.A. and Margret Rey. While honeymooning in Europe, the Reys decided to stay in Paris so H.A. could pursue a career as a children\u27s book author and illustrator. During this time, H.A. started developing stories about a curious little monkey, influenced by the many monkeys he saw in Brazil. But Hitler\u27s forces delayed H.A.\u27s plans for the little monkey until he and Margret could safely escape Europe
Out and All About: Fables for Old and Young
No full textThe title-page is missing in this book, and the only reference on the web is to a reprint of a book before 1923. At least this reference gives us an author. “Routledge” appears on the spine. I read only the first fable, “The Spider and the Ants,” which lasted some 20 pages and seemed to me to lose some of its focus along the way. The book is generously illustrated with partial-page black-and-white illustrations of various sizes along the way. As the beginning T of C shows, there are here some 31 fables on 256 pages before 18 pages of advertisements. Pretty cover and spine, including gold and black on red cloth.H.A. Pag
LIMESTONE OF BUKIT KAMANG AS A CALCIUM SOURCE FOR LAYING HENS
No full textA feeding trial was conducted to study the use of natural limestone meal originated from Bukit Kamang
located at Agam district of West Sumatra to substitute fresh water oyster shell as the main source of
calcium in diet of laying hens. The mineral feed formula, as treatments, composed of limestone in combination
with freshwater oyster shell in five different percent ratios: 100:0; 75:25; 50:50; 25:75 and 0:100. The minerals
were mixed in the level of 6 % into basal diet composed mainly corn, rice bran and concentrates. The five
experimental diets were then fed to 150 laying hens. They were divided into 5 groups; each group was
subdivided into 3 replicates groups containing 10 hens. Parameters measured included: feed intake, egg
production, FCR, eggshell quality, Ca and P retention, tibia bone mineralization. Results showed the nutritive
values of limestone of Bukit Kamang as mineral source of laying hen diet were found not significantly
different from those of oysters shell. The hens fed with diet supplemented with Bukit Kamang’s limestone
tended to give better laying performances than those of supplemented with fresh water oyster shell. The
laying performances, egg shell quality and Ca and P retentions did not significantly improved, when limestone
was mixed by oyster shell.
Keywords: Mineral Feed, Limestone, Freshwater Oyster Shell, Layer Nutrition
The Bayesian Fallacy: Distinguishing Four Kinds of Beliefs
No full textThis paper distinguishes among four kinds of beliefs: conviction, confidence, perception, conception. Conviction concerns self-ability:“I can build these stairs.” Confidence also concerns the self—ut focuses on the assertion of will in the face of weakness of will. Perception is about the environment such as weather prediction. Conception is also about the environment—but usually couched with context. While convictions are noncognitive and nonevidential beliefs, the other beliefs are either cognitive, evidential, or both. This paper uses the terms “cognition” and “evidentiality” as axes to distinguish the four beliefs. While “cognitive beliefs” are about one’s environment, “noncognitive beliefs” are about one’s self. While the cognitive/noncognitive divide is unconventional, it generates a payoff in light of the evidentiality axis. While “evidential beliefs” are correctable via Bayes’s rule, “nonevidential beliefs” are not. However, when the nonevidential belief is about the environment, the evidence can at least make the belief more (or less) warranted—where “warrantability” is a weaker criterion than “correctability.” And when the nonevidential belief is about the self, i.e., a conviction, the evidence cannot even make the belief more (or less) warranted. The evidence itself develops when one tries to test a conviction. This paper highlights that convictions are the basis of tenacity—crucial for entrepreneurship and economic growth. This paper further demonstrates how three major theories of action—standard rationality, normative theory, and procedural rationality—fail to distinguish the four kinds of beliefs. They, hence, commit, although in different ways, a set of confusions called here the “Bayesian fallacy.”Cognitive Dissonance; Internal Motivations (convictions); Normative Theory (embodied cognition); Other Beliefs (confidence, perception, conception); Procedural Rationality Theory (pragmatism); Self-Perception Theory; Standard Rationality Theory
Altruism and Selfish Behavior. The Docility Model Revisited
No full textHerbert A. Simon is widely known for his studies on rationality, artificial intelligence and for his pioneering approach to organizational studies. In one of his latest works, he presented a theory of human interaction, focused on the conflict between the selfish and the altruistic that can be seen as the essence of human relationships. The model is quite ambiguous: (1) it follows a kind of social Darwinism that (2) postulates selfish individuals’ extinction. Taking up Simon’s hypotheses on altruism, docility, and selfish behavior, we develop an alternative model of human interaction. The main objective of the paper is to show that rejecting neo-Darwinism and assuming slight complications in the model can explain more in terms of social system interactions. We assume that docility and then altruism, in a technical sense, is the basis of social interaction as it shapes the whole system. It is worth noting that, in the model, selfish individuals do not disappear.docility, altruism, social system, bounded rationality, social interactions, social Darwinism
Thiazolidinediones associated with recurrent pleural effusions post coronary artery bypass surgery
No full textWe report the case of a patient in which thiazolidinediones (TZDs) were associated with recurrent pleural effusions post coronary artery bypass surgery, in spite of a normal left ventricular function. The potential mechanisms are discussed, particularly in relation to the vascular leak syndrome. This finding has important implications for the management of diabetic patients who are referred for coronary artery bypass surgery and who are on TZDs for glycemic control. © 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.Emoto M, 2001, DIABETES, V50, P1166, DOI 10.2337-diabetes.50.5.1166; GARG A, 2003, MAYO CLIN P, V78, P1088; Kennedy FP, 2003, MAYO CLIN PROC, V78, P1076; Nesto RW, 2003, CIRCULATION, V108, P2941, DOI 10.1161-01.CIR.0000103683.99399.7E; Tang WHW, 2003, J AM COLL CARDIOL, V41, P1394, DOI 10.1016-S0735-1097(03)00159-121
De bouw der Alpujarras en het tektonische verband der Oostelijke Betische Ketens
No full textCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Geologische onderzoekingen in de randzone van het venster der Sierra Nevada (Spanje)
No full textCivil Engineering and Geoscience
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