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Niche describes a specific Complement fixation test

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The complement fixation test is an immunological medical test looking for evidence of infection. It tests for the presence of either specific antibody or specific antigen in a patient’s serum. It uses sheep red blood cells (sRBC), anti-sRBC antibody and complement, plus specific antigen (if looking for antibody in serum) or specific antibody (if looking for antigen in serum).

If either the antibody or antigen is present in the patient’s serum, then the complement is completely utilized, so the sRBCs are not lysed. But if the antibody (or antigen) is not present, then the complement is not used up, so it binds anti-sRBC antibody, and the sRBCs are lysed.

The Wassermann test is one form of complement fixation test.


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Condos equestrian Waterstock

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Waterstock is small sleepy village in Oxfordshire, England. It is located approximately 7 km west of Thame just off the A418 and about 1 km from the M40 motorway Junction 8.

In the village itself there is very little other than around 50 houses, a church, farm and a public phone box along one main street. Near the motorway junction there is a motorway service station (named Oxford services) and a public golf course. The creation of both caused much opposition from the village residents who saw them as a threat to the quiet village life.

There is a strong equestrian presence in the village; many of the houses in Waterstock have their own stables. Waterstock House Training Centre was once the main equestrian centre of the area, and was once owned by the famous Lars Sederholm, a well known horse trainer.


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Niche describes a specific Rigidity

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Generally, rigidity refers to inflexibility or resistance to change. It has a number of specific meanings depending on the field of application.

In medicine (neurology) rigidity describes an increase in muscle tone, leading to a resistance to passive movement throughout the range of motion.

In psychology, rigidity refers to an obstacle to problem solving which arises from over-dependence on prior experience, which makes it difficult for a person with experience in a specific problem domain to recognize novel solution strategies. This phenomenon is also known as a mental set. A specific example is functional fixedness, which is a difficulty conceiving new uses for familiar objects.

In solid mechanics, “rigidity” refers to the degree of deforming ability of a solid material. Modulus of elasticity times moment of inertia (E*I) is the numeric value of rigidity. According to this expression , one can see there only two criteria affect deformation, which are Geometry and the material of an object.

Rigidity is also known as the material property of shear modulus which is a measure of force per unit area needed to change the shape of a material.


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Market. Market sector

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The term Market Sector is used in economics and finance to describe a set of businesses that are buying and selling such similar goods and services that they are in direct competition with each other. Analysts divide the stock market itself into market sectors so that shares of companies that are in direct competition are listed alongside each other.

In the bond market it refers to the division of the market by the type of issuer. E.g. government, state, corporate, or utility.

The term is also used in marketing to describe sections of the mass market that can be specifically targeted in advertising campaigns. In this context it is correctly called Market segment.

Markets are often split into sectors using the Global Industry Classification Standard.

  • Findlay Market-Historic renovated Cincinnati Public Market and Cincinnati's historic public market sells fresh meat, poultry, fish, cheese, produce and groceries all year round in its newly renovated cast iron building,
  • Market Wire Breaking news and press release distribution, multimedia, media management, and monitoring services for public relations and investor relations
  • Eugene, Oregon's Saturday Market, the oldest weekly open air Saturday Market, the oldest weekly open air crafts market in the US.
  • Pike Place Market Directory of merchants and services including maps, hours, parking and bus schedules.var mb10=ManyBox.register(’10′,3,’raDp-aRY_K8J’,”,’98e3′,10,’Map of 1501 Pike pl, Seattle, WA 98101′)
  • High Point Market • Home Page The High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, bringing more than 80000 people to High Point every six months.
  • North Market: Home Public market in Columbus offers fresh and prepared foods, flowers, ethnic cuisine and unique gifts.var mb60=ManyBox.register(’60′,3,’doFM1sR6QkkJ’,”,’3aa3′,10,’Map of 59 Spruce St, Columbus, OH 43215′)
  • Wegmans Regional supermarket chain. Information on store departments, locations and the shoppers club along with featured recipes and online shopping available.
  • Market Research Reports - Business Market Research Reports Business Market Research Reports and Industry Analysis available from Market Research.
  • Essex Street Market: New York City's Public Market on the Lower Offering premium meats, gourmet cheese, fresh produce and more, Essex Street Market is the Lower East Side's Public Market.
  • Dane County Farmers’ Market Information about the outdoor farmers' market that takes place in Capitol Square in Madison. Site includes vendor information, schedule, a virtual tour,
  • CNET Investor Despite a drop oil prices, the market fell during the midday with the Dow tumbling The markets opened mixed as investors focused on corporate news and a
  • NCDA&CS - Marketing Division - Raleigh Farmers Market This market sells over 300 different items and offers products for both the large wholesale buyer and individual consumer. Over 35000 spaces are rented to
  • california market center California Market Center. Directory Search Attendee / Buyer Exhibitor / Tenant Facility LA Fashion, Gift & Home Market Fall '08 also featuring Kids On 6
  • Market@Usnews.com advertisement. U.S. News & World Report. Monday, February 25, 2008. Subscribe |; Contact Us. Search U.S. News. Nation & World · Health · Money & Business
  • West Side Market, Cleveland Ohio cleveland's historic west side market on the web. Includes history, tour, recipes, vendors information.
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Property Premises

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For other uses, see Premise

Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant “the aforementioned; what this document is about”, from Latin prae-missus = “placed before”.

Some people suppose that since “premises” looks like a plural, a single house or other piece of property must be a “premise”; but the word “premise” is reserved for use as a term in logic meaning something assumed or taken as given in making an argument.


Premises liability

Premises liability is the liability for a landowner for certain torts that occur on the real property.


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See also

  • Apartment building
  • Parking lot
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Associates Inc. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, commonly known as Finnegan Henderson, or just Finnegan, was founded on March 1, 1965 by Marc Finnegan and Douglas Henderson, and is currently one of the largest law firms focusing exclusively on the practice of intellectual property (IP) law in the United States.

Finnegan Henderson has 300 intellectual property lawyers. Finnegan Henderson web site, About us :: Fact sheet. Consulted on August 15, 2007. They are supported by an IP infrastructure of over 500 professionals and support staff that include dedicated docketing, research, graphics, and technology specialists.

As a place to work, Finnegan has ranked on various Top 20 lists in the Avery Index, http://www.averyindex.com including #18 Family Friendly Firms, #5 Happiest Associates, #15 Highest Paid Associates, #12 Dedicated to Pro Bono Work, and #2 Most Perfect Law Firm.


References


External links

  • Official firm Website
  • LawPeriscope Profile
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Real Clash of the Tartans

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Clash of the Tartans is the second album by the band Real McKenzies, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music).


Track listing

  1. “Stone of Kings” (Real McKenzies, Walker) – 2:35
  2. “Thistle Boy” (Priske, Real McKenzies …) – 2:29
  3. “Mainland” (Walker) – 3:56
  4. “Kings O’Glassgow” (Chapman, Real McKenzies …) – 3:24
  5. “Will Ye be Proud” (MacLeod) – 2:38
  6. “Ceilioh” (McKenizen) – 2:28
  7. “Wild Mountain Thyme” (Real McKenzies) – 1:45
  8. “Pagan Holiday” (Walker) – 3:43
  9. “Scots Wha’ Ha’e” (Burns, Priske, Walker) – 2:53
  10. “Bastards” (McKenzie, Robertson) – 2:30
  11. “MacPherson’s Rant” (Real McKenzies) – 2:56
  12. “Tae the Battle” (McKenzies, Walker) – 3:46
  13. “Auld Lang Syne” (Real McKenzies) – 2:11
  14. “Macleod” (Macleod) – 2:57
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Luxury homes. These are Luxury tax (sports)

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A luxury tax in the sports sense is a surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league. The ostensible purpose of this “tax” is to prevent teams in major markets with high incomes from signing almost all of the more talented players and hence destroying the competitive balance necessary for a sport to maintain fan interest. The money derived from the “tax” is then divided among the teams that play in the smaller markets, presumably to allow them to have more revenue to devote toward the contracts of high-quality players.

Currently in North America, Major League Baseball has implemented the luxury tax system; as of this writing it has seemed to have little impact on the free-spending ways of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who was largely regarded as its primary target. The National Basketball Association also has a luxury tax provision; its utility is somewhat limited by the fact that the league also has a salary cap provision. The “hard” salary cap of the National Football League has, at least to this point, prevented any need for a luxury tax arrangement there.

It was widely assumed that the negotiations between the National Hockey League owners and players would have had to result in the implementation of a luxury tax, a salary cap, or some combination of both either under those or other names; most NHL teams were not financially long-term viable enterprises under the current arrangements. In the end, a hard salary cap was agreed upon.

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Founded by Temple US Records

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Temple US Records is a record label founded in the mid-1980s by Robin Morton. Morton, a former member of Boys of the Lough, had already founded Temple Records in the UK.


See also

  • List of record labels
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Usage. Direct material total variance

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In variance analysis (accounting) direct material total variance is the difference between the actual cost of actual number of units produced and its budgeted cost in terms of material. Direct material total variance can be divided into two components:

  • the direct material price variance,
  • the direct material usage variance.


Example

Let us assume that standard direct material cost of widget is as follows:

2 kg of unobtainium at € 60 per kg ( = € 120 per unit).

Let us assume further that during the given period, 100 widgets were manufactured, using 212 kg of unobtainium which cost € 13,144.

Under those assumptions direct material total variance can be calculated as:

Direct material total variance can be reconciled to direct material price variance and direct material usage variance by:

See direct material usage variance#Example and direct material price variance#Example for computations of both components.


See also

  • Variance analysis (accounting)
  • Direct material price variance
  • Direct material usage variance
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1972. Rainer Seifert

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Rainer Seifert (born on December 10, 1947 in Wiesbaden) is a former field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the West-German squad that won the golden medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 122 international matches for West Germany, participated in two Hockey World Cup and four European Nations Cups. Seifert was a member of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klubs, with whom he won eight club titles.

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Real estate marketing companies Home a/s

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home a/s is a Danish chain of real estate agencies, wholly owned by Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark. The chain was established 1 January 1990, and as of 2005 has approximately a quarter of the Danish real estate market.

From 1998 to 1999 the chain was co-sponsoring a professional road bicycle racing team, named Team home - Jack & Jones, together with the clothes brand Jack & Jones.


External links

  • Official website
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2006. ERA was founded The Dark Times (Star Wars)

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“For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.
.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The Dark Times
Conflict Tied into the birth of the Empire and the Galactic Civil War
Date 19 - c. 4 BBY
Place Throughout the galaxy
Result rise of the Galactic Empire; near complete destruction of the Jedi Order

The Dark Times refer to the era in the fictional Star Wars universe during which the grip of Palpatine’s Galactic Empire tightened around the galaxy. The era began with Order 66, and the subsequent Great Jedi Purge. It arguably ended with the death of the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. The Star Wars Live-Action TV series, set for production in 2007, is to be set during the Dark Times in the chronological period between the two movie trilogies.
As of now, few books have been written or are scheduled to be written in this era. The “Coruscant Nights” Trilogy by Michael Reaves was set to make its debut on April 26 2006.


Expanded Universe Materials Based on this Era

Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (book)

Enemy of the Empire (book)

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Categories in Taxation in the Netherlands

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The Netherlands has a rich history dealing with taxation, predating the Romanic period.

Some of the most important taxes are that of the Income Tax (Wet op de inkomstenbelasting 2001), the Wage Tax (Wet op de loonbelasting 1964), the Value Added Tax (Wet op de omzetbelasting 1968) and the Corporate Tax (Wet op de vennootschapsbelasting 1969).

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Income Tax

The Netherlands has a progressive tax rate. For a while, the highest income bracket in the Netherlands was 72%, but now this is 52%. The brackets are 1.8%, 9.35%, 42% and 52%. The first two brackets also contain the Social Security payments (premiums, AOW, ANW and AWBZ), making it effectively 32.6% higher - or 34.4%, 41.95%, 42% and 52%.


Value Added Tax

Generally speaking, there are two categories. There are foods and essentials, and non-foods and luxuries. These two categories have rates of 6% and 19% respectively.


Corporate Tax

20% for the first € 25,000, 23.5% for the second € 35,000 and above that a corporate tax rate of 25.5%


Games of Chance Tax

There will be no taxes when people win € 454 or less or when the entry fee was higher than the won price.
If the price is higher than € 454 then there will be a tax rate of 29%, but when the host takes care of the taxes you multiply it by 100 and divide it by 71, after that you take 29% of that amount which will be the tax.

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Used by real Totally real number field

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In number theory, a number field K is called totally real if for each embedding of K into the complex numbers the image lies inside the real numbers. Equivalent conditions on K, a finite extension of the rational number field Q, are that K is generated over Q by one root of an integer polynomial P, all of the roots of P being real; or that the tensor product algebra of K with the real field, over Q, is a product of copies of R.

For example, quadratic fields K of degree 2 over Q are either real (and then totally real), or complex, depending on whether the square root of a positive or negative number is adjoined to Q. In the case of cubic fields, a cubic integer polynomial P irreducible over Q will have at least one real root. If it has one real and two complex roots the corresponding cubic extension of Q defined by adjoining the real root will not be totally real, although it is a field of real numbers.

The totally real number fields play a significant special role in algebraic number theory. An abelian extension of Q is either totally real, or contains a totally real subfield over which it has degree two.

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By ethnicity Vibeke Maria Larsen

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Vibeke Maria Larsen (born 1979-06-04) is a Norwegian archaeologist and bookseller. Larsen was born in Strømmen, Norway.

Larsen is known for speculative theories on ethnicity and migration. Her work at the University of Oslo on the Goths has been well received, but she has been criticized for mixing archeology with modern technological devices. She travelled to South America in the late 1990s.

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Founded as Electronic Realty Leura Collins

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Leura Collins was a member of Retail Clerks Union Local 455 and subject of a workplace theft investigation that resulted in the 1975 Supreme Court of the United States case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc., .

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History

Weingarten Inc. was founded in 1948 as a retailer. By 1972, Weingarten Inc. operated 100 stores, some of which included “lunch counters”, and others which included “lobby food operations.” These counters/lobbies provided eat-in or carry-out dining options for customers. Collins was employed from 1961-1970 at store #2 as a “lunch counter” sales person. She transferred to store #98 where she was a sales person at the “lobby food operation.”

Loss Prevention Specialists were employed by Weingarten Inc and operated at the companies stores undercover, sometimes unbeknownst to management to observe/apprehend people suspected of theft, including employees. In June of 1972, Loss Prevention Specialist “Hardy” observed the lobby operation at store #98 for 2 days (without the knowledge of management) to investigate a report that Collins was stealing money from the cash register. Hardy disclosed his presence to the store manager only after his 2 day investigation turned up no evidence. The store manager then told Hardy that he was just informed by a coworker that Collins had taken a $2.98 box of chicken and put only 1$ into the cash register. Collins was then interviewed by both Hardy and the store manager.


Interview #1

Collins repeatedly requested union representation at the meeting, but her requests were denied. The interview continued and Collins explained that the “lobby” had run out of small boxes, so she had to use the large size ($2.98) box to hold her small ($1) order of chicken. Hardy left the interview and was able to verify with another employee that they had indeed run out of small boxes, and the employee who reported her was unaware of how many pieces of chicken were in the box. Hardy returned to the interview and apologized for the confusion and informed Collins that his investigation was over.


Interview #2

Collins then burst into tears and proclaimed the only thing she ever took was her free lunch. Hardy and the manager were surprised to hear this because their understanding was that free lunches were provided in stores with “lunch counters” (e.g. #2), but not in those with “lobby food operations” (e.g. #98). A new interrogation proceeded and Collins’ renewed request for union representation was again denied. Hardy computed a total of $160 owed the company by Collins for these free lunches. However, a call to company headquarters revealed much confusion regarding the companies 2 different free lunch policies. In fact, most other employees at the “lobby food operation” at store #98, including the manager, had taken free lunches. The store manager asked Collins to keep the interview confidential, but she informed her union shop steward.

In 1985, Weingarten Inc was restructured into a realty investment firm, Weingarten Realty Investors.


See also

  • Weingarten Rights


External links

  • The Weingarten Decision and the Right to Representation on the Job
  • Weingarten Realty Investors Official Site
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Real Peter Latham

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Peter Latham was a British racquets and real tennis player. He held the racquets world championship title from 1887 to 1902. He was also the world champion of real tennis from 1895 to 1905, and again from 1907 to 1908.


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  • Real tennis world champions
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Companies Worshipful Company of Weavers

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The Worshipful Company of Weavers is the most ancient of the Livery Companies in the City of London. It existed in the year 1130, and was perhaps formed earlier. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1180. At present, the Company retains a connection to textiles through its contributions to the textile industry. It has, however, like most other Livery Companies, evolved into a charitable institution rather than remaining a trade association.

The Company ranks forty-second in the order of precedence of the Livery Companies. Its motto is Weave Trust With Trust.


External link

  • The Worshipful Company of Weavers
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About the property they Anglo Swiss Capital

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Anglo Swiss Capital Ltd is a small British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. It is privately owned and managed.

Anglo Swiss was formed in 2005 as a vehicle for investment in Swiss commercial and residential alpine property, offering innovative para-commercial developments for UK investors. Anglo Swiss is a specialist manager of investments in prestige destination properties, providing finance for developments for European luxury holiday operators and destination clubs. The Group has ambitions to participate in the growing strength of the market for luxury property, hotels and spas in ski resorts and major urban centres around the world.


External links

  • Official site
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A specific segment of 16-bit application

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A 16 bit application is any software written for MS-DOS, OS/2 1.x or early versions of Microsoft Windows which originally ran on the 16-bit Intel 8088 and Intel 80286 microprocessors. Such applications used a 20-bit or 24-bit segment or selector-offset address representation to extend the range of addressable memory locations beyond what was possible using only 16-bit addresses. Programs containing more than <math>2^{16}</math> bytes (64 kibibytes) of instructions and data therefore required special instructions to switch between their 64-kibibyte segments, increasing the complexity of programming 16-bit applications.


See also

  • Win32s
  • 32-bit application
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Seek. They are also Barney’s Hide and Seek

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Barney’s Hide and Seek is a game that was released in 1993 by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis video game system. In this game, the objective is to move Barney around four themed levels and locate children and items, who are hiding throughout the level. It was the object of heavy mockery amongst gaming circles. When you found the ten objects at the different levels you get a “special surprise”, where purple balloons popped and drizzled confetti and streamers.


Songs Instrumental

  • Barney Theme Song (Tune: Yankee Doodle)
  • Forest Melody
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  • Music Town Melody
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Part 2)
  • Sea Melody
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Part 3)
  • Farm Songs
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Finale)
  • I Love You (Tune: This Old Man)


Cast

Barney’s Voice: Bob West


External links

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Property Mental property

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A mental property or a mind property is a property of a/the mind. Mental properties are studied by many sciences and parasciences. We may only mention: psychology, cognitive sciences and recently also systemics.

There are three main scientific approaches to the study/modeling of mind (properties).

  • The primary is the classical one, it considers mind as an intrinsic property of the human brain only.
  • The second is focused on the engineering research for the development of an abstract/synthetic mind/brain for robots and computers which satisfies requested functional properties.
  • The third is a most universal research, dealing with a concept of generalized/universal and synthetic mind as a possible or existing property of the Universe. Such research is the common interdisciplinary domain of interest of the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and different systemic and meta-systemic approches with a strong contribution from physicists and mathematicians.

The basic concrete objective of all these research is to develop such model of mind/intelligence which could be implemented on the computer and could be considered sufficiently “humanlike” or better (?).


Philosophy of mind perspective

A simple concrete example:
If someone pricks you with a pin, you will most likely feel pain. That instance of feeling pain is an instantiation of the property being in (or a) pain.
It is important to distinguish between the predicate ‘is a pain’ which is a linguistic entity, and the property denoted by the predicate. This becomes important in the philosophy of mind when the two are confused, especially concerning intertheoretic reductionism and ontological reductionism.


See also

  • Mental events
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Qualia
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Or socio-economic group eg Culture and Society 1780-1950

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Culture and Society 1780-1950 ISBN 0-231-05701-6) is a book on culture by Raymond Williams, first published in 1958.

Raymond Williams’ most influential book, it is perhaps most famous for coining the phrase ‘cultural studies’. Influenced by both Karl Marx and F. R. Leavis, Williams applies the apparatus of literary criticism to examine the formation of culture itself, looking at the ways in which culture both reflects the socio-economic conditions of the day, as well as creating a prism in which we understand society itself.

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August August Wilhelmj

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August Wilhelmj (21 September 1845, Usingen – 22 January 1908, London) was a German violinist.

He has become famous for his late nineteenth century arrangement of the second movement of J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 for the violin and piano, known as Air on the G String.

Among his pupils was American violinist Nahan Franko.


See also

  • List of violinists
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Real estate marketing companies Title owner

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In property law, the title owner the one holding the greatest number of rights, or most important rights in a piece of real estate. As explained by the Bundle of Rights theory, a property can be owned in some sense by many different parties at the same time, through a mortgage, a lease, a lien, a future interest, among many others. In common parlance, the title owner is called the owner, even if we are aware that the property is encumbered by a mortgage.


See also

  • List of real estate topics
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United States. L clearance

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A United States Department of Energy (DOE) clearance equivalent to a United States Department of Defense (DOD) Secret clearance. L clearances are issued to non-military personnel only and deal specifically with atomic and/or nuclear related materials, including nuclear weapons.


See also

  • Classified information in the United States
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