A Two-Levelled Ontology In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues for a two-level ontology along the following lines. Facts on the lower level – which he calls brute facts – can exist independently of human beings and their institutions. Facts on the upper level, which he calls institutional facts, depend on human institutions and above all on an associated ‘collective intention...

Microscopic size particles of the cholesteric double-stranded DNA (RNA) liquid-crystalline dispersions, containing the ions of the rare earth elements in their content, have been obtained for the first time. The properties of these particles differ from those of classical DNA cholesterics noticeably. The local concentration of the rare earth elements in a particle reaches 200 mg/ml. The particl...

Various address georeferencing (AG) tools are currently available. But little is known about the quality of each tool. Using data from the EPIPorto cohort we compared the most commonly used AG tools in terms of positional error (PE) and subjects' misclassification according to census tract socioeconomic status (SES), a widely used variable in epidemiologic studies. Participants of the EPIPorto ...

A new Dobson Umkehr ozone profile retrieval method optimising information content and resolution K. Stone, M. B. Tully, S. K. Rhodes, and R. Schofield School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, ...

Let us now ask if it is possible to present the idea of CAM in other positive ways. Since more and more people are attracted to CAM, there must be a new point of view from which CAM can be defined affirmatively. Certainly, the people who are turning to CAM are not merely escaping from something: they must be hoping to enter a new horizon of medicine rather than accepting secondary non-orthodox ...

YIFEI SUN*†, YU ZHOU‡, GEORGE C. S. LIN§ and Y. H. DENNIS WEI} *Institute of China Innovation (ICI), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China †Department of Geography, California State University –Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA. Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA. Email: [email protected] §Departme...

Mass balance inverse modelling of methane in the 1990s using a Chemistry Transport Model T. M. Butler , I. Simmonds, and P. J. Rayner School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne, Australia Present affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Received: 7 April 2004 – Accepted: 24 May 2004 – Published: 22 June 2004 Corresponde...

1 German Meteorological Service, Richard-Aßmann-Observatory, Lindenberg, Germany 2 IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany 3 Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Japan 4 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands 5 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany 6 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerha...

This study investigates the effects of sieved wastes generated from the brewing industry on lightweight aggregates manufactured with clay. Sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, bagasse and diatomaceous earth were used to obtain the samples. These wastes are usually dumped in landfills, but the current increase in restrictions on dumping and interest in improving the environment make our pro...