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Universalism and junk
No full textThose who accept the necessity of mereological universalism face what has come to be known as the junk argument due to Bohn [2009], which proceeds from (i) the incompatibility of junk with universalism and (ii) the possibility of junk, to conclude that mereological universalism isn't metaphysically necessary. Most attention has focused on (ii); however, recent authors have cast doubt on (i). This paper undertakes a defence of premise (i) against three main objections. The first is a new objection to the effect that Bohn's defence of that premise presupposes far too much. I show that one can defend premise (i) from a much weaker set of assumptions. The second objection, due to Contessa [2012], is that those who accept unrestricted composition should only accept the existence of binary sums (which are compatible with junk) rather than infinitary fusions. I argue that this conception of unrestricted composition is problematic: it is in conflict with an intuitive remainder principle. The final objection is due to Spencer [2012]. His view is that there is no absolutely unrestricted plural universal quantifier; so any statement of the unrestricted fusion axiom will simply not rule out the existence of junky worlds. I argue that the failure of unrestricted quantification will not be enough by itself to establish the existence of junk. Furthermore, it is not clear whether this view counts as a form of mereological universalism. As a result, I suggest that if one wants to reject the junk argument, premise (ii) is the only viable option.Peer reviewe
junk junks
No full textjunk n[PT] ...I don't know if /there was fourteen or sixteen hundred feet o' lumber - short junks about this length, you know, drift timber.YesJ. D. A. WIDDOWSONUsed I and SupUsed I and Sup1Not Usedback junk, fore junk, middle junk, billet, junk of a boy, junk-buoy, a cold junkChecked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 18 Aug 201
William Gaddis’s J R and the Many Faces of Junk Bonds
No full textThis article reads William Gaddis’s 1975 novel J R as a way of probing the relation between finance and fiction in the 1970s, showing that the novel is related to the revolution of the junk bond market in the 1970s and 1980s, as personified by the junk bond king, Michael Milken. While the question of junk bonds may appear to have little purchase on the much bigger story of the economy as a whole, the author argues that junk bonds were integral to the transformation of the finance economy in the direction of an entirely debt-driven one and that a literary work such as Gaddis’s novel may offer an insight, however complex and convoluted, into this particular transformation. The article concludes with some critical remarks on Gaddis’s critique of capitalism
Useful junk?
No full textGuidelines for designing information charts (such as bar charts) often state that the presentation should reduce or remove 'chart junk' - visual embellishments that are not essential to understanding the data. In contrast, some popular chart designers wrap the presented data in detailed and elaborate imagery, raising the questions of whether this imagery is really as detrimental to understanding as has been proposed, and whether the visual embellishment may have other benefits. To investigate these issues, we conducted an experiment that compared embellished charts with plain ones, and measured both interpretation accuracy and long-term recall. We found that people's accuracy in describing the embellished charts was no worse than for plain charts, and that their recall after a two-to-three-week gap was significantly better. Although we are cautious about recommending that all charts be produced in this style, our results question some of the premises of the minimalist approach to chart design
The Comparative Biodiversity of Seven Globally Important Wetlands. An Initiative from the Global Wetland Consortium (GWC)
No full textpg. 239 The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands. Junk WJ. pg. 240-253 Biological diversity of peatlands in Canada. Warner BG. Asada T. pg. 254-277 Species diversity in the Florida Everglades, USA: A systems approach to calculating biodiversity. Brown MT. Cohen MJ. Bardi E. Ingwersen WW. pg. 278-309 Biodiversity and its conservation in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Junk WJ. da Cunha CN. Wantzen KM. Petermann P. Strussmann C. Marques MI. Adis J. pg. 310-337 Species diversity of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Ramberg L. Hancock P. Lindholm M. Meyer T. Ringrose S. Sliva J. Van As J. VanderPost C. pg. 338-354 Biodiversity and its conservation in the Sundarban Mangrove Ecosystem. Gopal B. Chauhan M. pg. 355-373 Species diversity and ecology of Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia. Campbell IC. Poole C. Giesen W. Valbo-Jorgensen J. pg. 374-399 Biodiversity of the wetlands of the Kakadu Region, northern Australia. Finlayson CM. Lowry J. Bellio MG. Nou S. Pidgeon R. Walden D. Humphrey C. Fox G. pg. 400-414 The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands: a synthesis. Junk WJ. Brown M. Campbell IC. Finlayson M. Gopal B. Ramberg L. Warner BG
Synthesis and structural characterization of two monomeric potassium phenolates
No full textCopyright © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Marcus L. Cole, Luke T. Higham, Peter C. Junk, Kathryn M. Proctor, Janet L. Scott and Christopher R. Strausshttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/504086/description#descriptio
Tree ring analysis reveals age structure, dynamics and wood production of a natural forest stand in Cameroon
No full textIn a semi-deciduous natural forest stand in Cameroon a forest inventory and increment estimations on all trees with a diameter above 10 cm were carried out in an area of 1 ha. The stand is dominated by Triplochiton scleroxylon and is a part of a forest type which is widely distributed in West Africa. The existence of annual rings in the wood of trees was proven by radiocarbon dating and tree ring analysis. The oldest tree (Celtis zenkeri) of the stand was 220 years old. The age class between 41 and 60 years is the strongest in number of individuals. Trees with an age of more than 120 years were found exclusively in the storey of the emergents. The age of the trees correlates very weakly with the diameter and the height. The mean diameter growth rates vary between 0.2 cm per year in understorey tree species and 0.82 cm per year in emergent species. The major timber species (T scleroxylon) reaches in mean the minimum felling diameter of 80 cm within 90 years. According to their age and height distribution together with the wood density, we distinguished three major types of life strategies of species cohorts. Species with high wood density and low increment rates in all age classes are generally restricted to the understorey. Species with exclusively old individuals, low or moderate wood densities and high increment rates are restricted to the upper storey and can be classified as long-living pioneers (T scleroxylon). Finally, species with moderate or high wood density, some old individuals in the upper storey and many recruits in the lower canopy can be defined as mature forest trees or trees of the future (Nesogordonia papaverifera, Sterculia rhinopetala). These findings lead to the assumption that the investigated stand can be classified as a very late secondary stand in transition to a mature forest. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
The Comparative Biodiversity of Seven Globally Important Wetlands. An Initiative from the Global Wetland Consortium (GWC)
No full textpg. 239
The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands.
Junk WJ.
pg. 240-253
Biological diversity of peatlands in Canada.
Warner BG. Asada T.
pg. 254-277
Species diversity in the Florida Everglades, USA: A systems approach to calculating biodiversity.
Brown MT. Cohen MJ. Bardi E. Ingwersen WW.
pg. 278-309
Biodiversity and its conservation in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Junk WJ. da Cunha CN. Wantzen KM. Petermann P. Strussmann C. Marques MI. Adis J.
pg. 310-337
Species diversity of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Ramberg L. Hancock P. Lindholm M. Meyer T. Ringrose S. Sliva J. Van As J. VanderPost C.
pg. 338-354
Biodiversity and its conservation in the Sundarban Mangrove Ecosystem.
Gopal B. Chauhan M.
pg. 355-373
Species diversity and ecology of Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia.
Campbell IC. Poole C. Giesen W. Valbo-Jorgensen J.
pg. 374-399
Biodiversity of the wetlands of the Kakadu Region, northern Australia.
Finlayson CM. Lowry J. Bellio MG. Nou S. Pidgeon R. Walden D. Humphrey C. Fox G.
pg. 400-414
The comparative biodiversity of seven globally important wetlands: a synthesis.
Junk WJ. Brown M. Campbell IC. Finlayson M. Gopal B. Ramberg L. Warner BG
Frontiers of organo-f-element chemistry
No full text[Extract] It is with a sense of pride that we can present to you this themed issue of New Journal of Chemistry. The issue was planned in connection with a symposium entitled "Frontiers of Organo-f-Element Chemistry" (Symposium #125) to be held at the Pacifichem 2015 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (December 15–20, 2015). The two-day symposium was jointly organized by Yaofeng Chen (P. R. China), Paula Diaconescu (USA), David Emslie (Canada), Frank T. Edelmann (Germany), and Peter Junk (Australia). This symposium is considered to be the major international gathering of organo-f-element chemists in 2015. The present NJC themed issue is scheduled to appear near the time of the conference. It can thus be considered an excellent snapshot of the state of the art in this steadily growing and important field of organometallic chemistry. Leading experts from all over the world working in the organolanthanide and organoactinide areas made valuable contributions to the issue
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