This paper gives a novel analysis of identificational sentences such as This is Mary, That is a beautiful woman, or This looks like Mary based on the notion of a trope. On that analysis, bare demonstratives in the subject position of an identificational sentence involve reference to a trope as the direct object of perception and the sentence itself states the identification of the bearer of the...

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the improvement of air quality in various countries world, such as China, Italy, New York, India, Spain and Korea. This study aims to compare ambient during with new normal periods, assess effect meteorological factors on quality, map spatial distribution normal, ITDC Nusa Dua area. Air concentration parameter data were collected using midget impinger direct ...

This study is concerned with recent analyses of seven marble statues from the imperial cycle Augusteum Rusellae, in south Tuscany, Italy. The sculptures represent deified couple Augustus and Livia, Livilla, Claudius, an anonymous young girl a headless cuirassed emperor (maybe Domitian). In addition, fragment leg, another statue, was also considered. All them are preserved city Grosseto, Maremma...