According to Gabriel Marcel, being cannot be approached directly through a conceptual way, because it belongs to the real territory of mystery rather than that of problem. One of the most important concepts in Marcel’s philosophy is that of hope. Marcel’s conception of hope relies upon a distinction between “having” and “being.”  We do not have a belief; we are in a belief. Similarly, ...

EPIDEMIOLOGY Cervical artery dissection accounts for up to 20% of strokes in patients under 30 years of age (Bogousslavsky et al. 1987). The incidence of carotid dissection is about 2–3 per 100 000 per year (Schievink et al. 1993; Giroud et al. 1995); the incidence of cervical dissection must be higher because these fi gures do not take into account vertebral dissection (about 25% of all dissec...

There is recent evidence that we directly map observed actions of other agents onto our own motor repertoire, referred to as direct matching (Iacoboni et al., 1999). This was shown when we are actively engaged in joint action with others' (Sebanz et al. 2003) and also when observing irrelevant movements while executing congruent or incongruent movements (Brass et al., 2000). However, an open qu...

In his novel Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust argues that conventional descriptions of the phenomenology of consciousness are incomplete because they focus too much on the highly-salient sensory information that dominates each moment of awareness and ignore the network of associations that lies in the background. In this paper, I explicate Proust's theory of conscious experience and sh...

Marcel survived the genocide. So did Monique. Their five children were not so fortunate. With a resilience almost super-human, Marcel and Monique rebuilt their lives, Marcel resuming his work with UNICEF in successive duty postings in Africa and Europe. I remember meeting with him in Bamako a few years back. There was a funding shortfall for the measles campaign. He was all business, pulling ou...

As a graduate student, I learned to question assumptions. Michael Barbour taught us to challenge the assumption that we could ever really know the "native" condition of California. Marcel Rejmánek taught me to ask, "Is your invasives problem truly growing over time, or does it just look that way because you are doing a better job of measuring it?" These questions underlie my develop­ ment of mo...

Ewa Szalowska ([email protected]) Martijn Dijkstra ([email protected]) Marieke G.L. Elferink ([email protected]) Desiree Weening ([email protected]) Marcel de Vries ([email protected]) Marcel Bruinenberg ([email protected]) Annemieke Hoek ([email protected]) Han Roelofsen ([email protected]) Geny M.M. Groothuis ([email protected]) Roel J. Vonk (r.j....

In his 1961 paper, Marcel Golay showed how the search for pairs of binary sequences of length n with complementary autocorrelation is at worst a 2 3n 2 −6 problem. Andres, in his 1977 master’s thesis, developed an algorithm which reduced this to a 2 n 2 −1 search and investigated lengths up to 58 for existence of pairs. In this paper, we describe refinements to this algorithm, enabling a 2 n 2 ...

The impact that nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) application rates on the sulfur (S) fractions in leaves and fruits of greenhouse-grown cucumbers plants (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Brunex) are presented. The treatments were as follows: N (N11⁄4 5 g NO3NH4=m, N21⁄4 10 g NO3NH4=m, N31⁄4 20 g NO3NH4=m , N41⁄4 40 g NO3NH4=m), two levels of P (P11⁄4 8 g H3PO4=m 2 and P21⁄4 16 g H3PO4=m), ...

Suggested Reading: Jenkinson, D. S. and J. N. Ladd. 1981. Microbial biomass in soil: Measurement and turnover. p. 415-471. In E. A. Paul and J. N. Ladd (eds.), Soil Biochemistry, Volume 5. Marcel Dekker, New York. Tunlid, A and D. C. White. 1992. Biochemical analysis of biomass, community structure, nutritional status, and metabolic activity of microbial communities in soil. p. 229-262. In G. S...