- Allenâs contribution was to take an assumption we all shareâŠ
- That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.
- One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.
- Some species of trees have been âread out of the partyâ by economicsâminded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.
- Today they argue that market prices overstate losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts.
- Consumers say theyâre not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good.
- Now the nationâs top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on businessâmethod patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.
- Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, todayâs people â especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations â apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s.
- George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death.
- Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.
- If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a wouldâbe lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so.
- The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.
- Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.
- Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.
- Contrary to the descriptions on record, no systematic evidence was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.
- When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.
- The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the maleâdominated job market have limited the opportunities of teenagers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japanâs rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs.
- When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political...
- The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketingâs impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
- The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.
- A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankeeâs safety and Entergyâs management â especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.
- ⊠the way you present yourself has an impact.
- Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams.
- The point of a style upgrade isnât to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.
- In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent.
- The idea is intuitively compelling, but it doesnât explain how ideas actually spread.
- Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
- But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance.
- However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
- From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism.
- Itâs hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.
- For example, British anthropologists Grafton Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry incorrectly suggested, on the basis of inadequate information, that farming, pottery making, and metallurgy all originated in ancient Egypt and diffused throughout the world.
- The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more (and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.
- Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.
- These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.
- Curbs on businessâmethod claims would be a dramatic aboutâface, because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the soâcalled State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual fund assets.
- Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.
- But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.
- But as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviews the companyâs application, it should keep in mind what promises from Entergy are worth.
- The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, ...
- Concerns were raised that witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ensure guilty verdicts.
- As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.
- Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.
- Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.
- Contrary to the descriptions on record, no systematic evidence was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.
- The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate.
- If we are serious about ensuring that our science is both meaningful and reproducible, we must ensure that our institutions incentivise that kind of science.
- It hoped they would learn how shopâfloor lighting affected workersâ productivity.
- What is being called artificial general intelligence, machines that would mimic the way humans think, continues to elude scientists
- A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.
- It hoped they would learn how shopâfloor lighting affected workersâ productivity.
- The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain's former colony.
- The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might.
- Two and threeâdimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.
- Carnegie would be right if arguments were fights, which is how we often think of them.
- Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.
- So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.
- For the time, attention, and money of the artâloving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.
- âThose first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,â he claimed.
- In addition, new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities, quicker use of information at the speed of Twitter, and thus shorter attention spans in financial markets.
- The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.
- Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.
- During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds â including government, higher education, nonâprofit and corporate â varied from around 4% to 25%; ...
- ⊠the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system of career advancement positively encourages it.
