[There are] one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of the fact collectors as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. (Oliver Wendell Ho...

The development of karst in Karst area leads to poor stability stratum. If earthquake occurs, the will produce destructive disaster. In order improve capacity grassroots region, this study investigates seismic response inter-story isolation structures considering soil-structure interaction (SSI) three-dimensional earthquakes. A model structure incorporating SSI was developed, and one-dimensiona...

Medical interviewing has evolved considerably during the last 35-50 years. Nowhere has progress been greater than with the articulation of the interview's endpoint, the biopsychosocial model (Engel, 1977b; 1980). Interviewers collect personal information and physical symptoms from the patient and, then, synthesize these data to produce a biopsychosocial description — the patient's story. We gen...

This study analyzes consumer purchasing behavior of organic fresh fruits and vegetables using the 2006 Nielsen Homescan panel. An ordered logit model was estimated to quantify the impacts of economic and socio-demographic factors on the probability of a household belonging to a specific organic user group—devoted, casual, or nonuser. Results suggest that price and income, to some extent, affect...

Agricultural practices in Jiangnan water towns have historically been identified as maintaining a balance between human activity and the local environment, but are now a significant local source of water pollution. Using a multi-methods approach, this study deduces the environmental impact of traditional practices, and the socially desired conditions for successfully reintroducing critical ones...

abstract the present study is conducted to find various forms of times in two fictional genres “tale” and “minimalist story”, and also to disclose the factors behind the difference of the aforementioned forms in the two mentioned genres. time is represented in the levels of plot, setting, language and the images in various forms. in case of tales, due to the absence or weakness of the plot, the...