Is the Dismal Science Really a Science? By Russ Roberts This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on February 26‚ 2010 For an economist‚ these are the best of times and the worst of times. We live in the best of times because everyone wants to understand what happened to the economy and what’s going to happen next. Is the mess we’re in a market failure or a government failure? Is the stimulus plan working? Would tax cuts for small business spur employment? When will the
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Art for Arts’ Sake Dear Friends‚ When I was asked to write to you about my views of the role of the Arts in society‚ I did not hesitate to embrace the task. Over the past three years‚ I have been working on a PhD in Music Education. I have finished all of my coursework‚ and have "only" my dissertation remaining. In this program of study‚ I recall many discussions in our seminar classes that were seeking to answer this very question: What is the role of the Arts in our society? For purposes
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Science Revision Half-Yearly’s Name the lenses found in a microscope. Eyepiece or ocular lens Objective lens Recall the units used to measure microscopic objects. Micrometres Recall what happens to the field of view as the magnification used increases. As the magnification increases‚ then the amount of the specimen you can see (the field of view) gets smaller. Name two different types of: Light microscope- monocular microscope and the binocular microscope. Electron microscope- transmission
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and Image Understanding journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cviu Adaptive Census Transform: A novel hardware-oriented stereovision algorithm q Stefania Perri‚ Pasquale Corsonello ⇑‚ Giuseppe Cocorullo Department of Electronics Computer Science and Systems‚ University of Calabria‚ Rende‚ Italy a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 21 March 2012 Accepted 6 October 2012 Available online 17 October 2012 Keywords: Stereovision algorithm VLSI Disparity Map Calculation
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Public transport could be made free of charge. Are there more advantages or disadvantages to this change? In many countries around the world there is considerable debate about the role of public transport. One suggestion that is commonly put forward is that it should be made free of charge. My belief is that while this policy might be difficult to implement in practice‚ there are at least two strong reasons for considering it. The one significant problem with making public transport free
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE Political Science is in part a social science‚ and in part a humanity. Both are important. In this topic‚ we will look at the basics of social science inquiry‚ and then proceed to show how this differs from‚ on the one hand‚ inquiry in the natural sciences and‚ on the other‚ inquiry in the humanities. Social Science Social science inquiry seeks to develop empirical theory. �Empirical�
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Re: Stop public funding for construction of stadiums for professional sports teams Dear Mayor Rybak: Recently it was announced that the city of Minneapolis agreed to a deal with the Minnesota Vikings‚ a franchise in the National Football League‚ to help fund the construction of a new stadium for the team to play in. While this will be deemed as great news by local fans of the team‚ I believe that using public tax revenues to fund the construction of this new stadium is a misuse of public funds and
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Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer Research Topics Hypoxia “At 29‚028 feet up in the troposphere‚ so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child” (6). Lesser Peaks “To the South‚ where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier‚ a blanket of clouds now hid Purmori‚ Ama Dablam‚ and other lesser peaks surrounding Everest” (6). Oxygen Tanks “Wanting to conserve what-ever oxygen remained in the tank‚ I asked him to reach inside my backpack and
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and physical. There are criteria of water quality set for each of these three categories of properties. The standards for drinking water are developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)‚ World Health Organization (WHO) etc. All municipal (public) water supplies must be measured against these standards. Testing how ground water is affected by different contaminants was the bases of the experiment. II. Body Paragraph #2 – Objective~ in this lab we explored how contaminates affect the
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when particles obtained cannot be divided further. Democritus called these indivisible particles atoms (meaning indivisible). How and why elements combine and what happens when they combine. Antoine L. Lavoisier laid the foundation of chemical sciences by establishing two important laws of chemical combination. (a) The Law of conservation of mass states that mass can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction. (b) The law of constant proportions which is also known as the law of
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