Number Work in Nature Study. Wilbur S. Jackman

James ’ s Empirical Assumptions by Henry Jackman

William James is well known for his rejection of materialism and his lifelong defense of what he referred to as, among other things, the “religious hypothesis.”1 Part of this defense can be understood in terms of James’s frequent identification with the “sick souls” who are highly sensitive to the evils in our world, rather than the “healthy minded” who are more disposed to either ignore or dow...

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Pyrethrum : Nature ' s Pesticide

Pyrethrum is derived from the dried flowers of the plant Tanacetum cinerariifolium. The name given to the active insecticidal components of the dried flowers is "pyrethrins". Tasmanian pyrethrum production is among the most innovative, high-tech agricultural industries in the world. With an output that nearly quadrupled since 1996, Botanical Resources Australia (BRA) now supplies more then 30% ...

Nature Related Work Summary in Swedish

is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all. List of Papers This thesis is based on the following papers, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals. Dixon ...

The Nature of Academic Work in Engineering*

The paper examines the nature of academic work in engineering in the context of the many stakeholders to whom universities are accountable and the multiple foci on which university staff concentrate their activities. The distinctive characteristics of academic work are identified, and analogies drawn between the processes of innovative thinking in universities and research and development in en...