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Contents Chapter Page DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi 1 THE NEED FOR BETTER LISTENING . . . . . . . 1 2 FALLACIES ABOUT LISTENING . . . . . . . . . . 5 Fallacy #1: Listening Is Not My Problem! . . . . . 5 Fallacy #2: Listening and Hearing Are the Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fallacy #3: Good Readers Are Good Listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fallacy #4: Smarter People Are Better Listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fallacy #5: Listening Improves with Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Fallacy #6: Listening Skills Are Difficult to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 THE PROCESS OF LISTENING . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Attending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Responding . . . . . . ...

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This magazine from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences showcases diverse scientists who do cutting-edge research and lead interesting lives. Each issue also contains brief research highlights, a puzzle or other activity and links to online extras. It is available in PDF format (see http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/issues.asp for links to PDFs of all issues)....

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This magazine from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences showcases diverse scientists who do cutting-edge research and lead interesting lives. Each issue also contains brief research highlights, a puzzle or other activity and links to online extras. It is available in PDF format (see http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/issues.asp for links to PDFs of all issues)....

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This magazine from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences showcases diverse scientists who do cutting-edge research and lead interesting lives. Each issue also contains brief research highlights, a puzzle or other activity and links to online extras. It is available in PDF format (see http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/issues.asp for links to PDFs of all issues)....

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This magazine from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences showcases diverse scientists who do cutting-edge research and lead interesting lives. Each issue also contains brief research highlights, a puzzle or other activity and links to online extras. It is available in PDF format (see http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/issues.asp for links to PDFs of all issues)....

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This booklet from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences explains the role of genes in health and disease, the basics of DNA and its molecular cousin RNA, and new directions in genetic research. It is available in e-pub (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/epubs/TheNewGenetics.epub) and PDF (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/thenewgenetics/thenewgenetics.pdf) formats....

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A science café is a conference upside-down. The location is where people, and not experts are at home; ina café, in a pub, in a public place. The discussion is driven by the public, and the experts are asked to follow it. In this book we shall try to examine several aspects of this participation practice....

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What is a science café The SciCafé project How to start a café Technology for a science café Scenarios Into the world

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– 19. decembrie 2004 – Hai în India! Lilia topaie de bucurie. Drumul pâna la aeroport e strangulat, lânga Los Lunas, de un accident... un truck are cabina turtita, vreo 4-5 masini de politie cu becurile semnalând, un elicopter învârtindu-se pe deasupra... Masini puzderie, camioane pe 2-3 mile oprite... Începem sa ne agitam... Pierdem avionul... De când cu teroristii si controalele astea nebune, trebuie sa fii cu doua ore înainte de plecare. Ne descalta,...

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In the present volume there have been covered in a comprehensive and popular manner the various departments of Astronomy. Owing to its treatment in a definitely historical and descriptive manner, however, it may be possible to supplement the general review by a few brief statements of some of the results and problems that confront us in the actual work of the observational astronomy of to-day....

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The astronomical beliefs of prehistoric man were doubt similar to those entertained by the Eskimo of the Arctic regions and the untutored tribes of Argentine' Republic, South Africa and Australia, tribes who, living only for the day, concern themselves but little with to- morrow and yesterday and care nothing about the universe......

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The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative ...

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Author Sharon E. Cathcart ("In The Eye of The Beholder," "Les Pensees Dangereuses") presents a sampler of essays and short fiction. The collection features "Heart of Stone," a short story never previously published. ...

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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New Theory of Thermal Stability in Boiling Systems, Nucleonics, May, 1964, 22 (5), pp 92-101

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Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions....

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Taking an unusual approach to its topic, “Principles of Anarchism” applies classical logic and deductive reasoning to the subject of human interactions and rights. Beginning with the assumption that all human beings are equal, a concept which is termed the human equality axiom, the author goes on to draw a number of conclusions from this postulate in the manner of a Euclidean proof. These include the surprising contention that no such thing as human rights can exist, the assertion that anarchism is essentially intellectual rather than activist, and the uncomfortable suggestion that historical developments such as cities and industries are harmful to the human race rather than helpful. More centrally, though, the pamphlet argues very simply that any form of authority or government is logically incompatible with the existence of humanity. And it is the implications of this theory, rejection of which requires rejection of the equality axiom as well, which make the argument offered both novel and exceptionally relevant....

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În anul 1972 Florentin Smarandache prezentase o ipoteză supraluminala (prin care susţinea că nu există barieră a vitezei în univers), infirmând postulatul einsteinian. Autorul l-a contrazis din nou pe Einstein în 1982 construind, prin calcule matematice simple, o Teorie Absolută a Relativităţii (T.A.R.), din care erau înlăturate fanteziile ştiinţifice din Teoria Specială a Relativităţii precum dilatare a timpului, contractare a spaţiului, simultaneitate relativistă, sau paradoxuri relativiste. In 1972 Smarandache hypothesis provided a warp (which claims that there is speed barrier in the universe), refuting Einsteinian postulate. Author Einstein contradicted again in 1982 built by simple math, an Absolute Relativity Theory (ART), which were removed scientific fantasies special theory of relativity and time dilation, space contraction, relativistic simultaneity, or paradoxes relativistic....

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„Neutrosofia” deschide uşi noi în matematică şi în fizică Florentin Smarandache, şef de promoţie al Facultăţii de Matematică din Craiova, nu este doar matematician, ci şi scriitor (poet, prozator, dramaturg), întemeietor al mişcării literare de avangardă numită de el „Paradoxism” (pentru că utilizează în mod programmatic paradoxuri, antiteze, oximoroane), editând şase antologii internaţionale paradoxiste. Are contribuţii şi în alte ştiinţe (filozofie şi fizică), bazate pe aplicarea paradoxismului în ştiinţă. Pornind de la faptul că pentru o entitate „A” există nu doar opusul ei, „antiA”, ci şi neutrul ei, „neutA” (care nu este nici „A”, nici „antiA”), Florentin Smarandache a generalizat „Dialectica” (un capitol al filozofiei, bazat pe existenţa „contrariilor” – „A” şi „antiA”) în „Neutrosofie” (bazată pe existent „contariilor” şi a „neutraliilor”). ...

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22 septembrie 2011: CERN confirmă primul experiment supraluminal - Smarandache Hypothesis, by Philip M. Parker .. . 7 - Un cercetător român a dedus existenţa particulelor cu vitezele supraluminale descoperite recent la CERN, de Prof. Ion Pătraşcu.......... 8 - Un cercetător român postulase că viteza luminii poate fi depăşită, înaintea descoperirii făcute de CERN, de Ichim Vasilică .......... 13 - Profet în Ţara Fizicii: Smarandache confirmat, Einstein infirmat?! de Mircea Monu, fizician....23 - Follow-up on CERN's OPERA Neutrino Results, by Huping Hu & Maoxin Wu ........ 34 04-11 noiembrie 2011: Participare la Conferinţa Internaţională IEEE de Calcul Granular, Universitatea Kaohsiung, Taiwan, cu lucrări despre Logica Neutrosofică - Florentin Smarandache duce neutrosofia şi în Taiwan!, de M. Monu .......... 37 18 noiembrie 2011: Premiul Statului New Mexico la categoria Ştiinţă şi Matematică în Albuquerque - Renaissance Man, Shondiin Silversmith ... . 46 - Un profesor român a câştigat Premiul statului New Mexico (SUA) la Ştiinţă şi Matematică pe anul 2011, de Prof. Mircea Eugen Şelariu ......... 48 premiul statului New M...

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Author’s imagination of how would look the physical micro-universe using composed, found, changed, modified, alternated, or computer-programmed art works. These images are part of a series of about 100 cyberart creations representing the unimaginable little word of physics particles, anti-particles, un-particles that compose the matter, anti-matter, and un-matter....

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Electronic Art (forward): 4 QUANTUM: 5 …micro-universe images QUANTUM THEORY: 23 …micro-universe images QUANTIZATION: 39 …micro-universe images QUANTUM NUMBERS: 56 …micro-universe images QUANTUM MECHANICS: 72 …micro-universe images GENERALIZATION OF SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION: 88 …micro-universe images...

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This book has six chapters. First chapter gives a brief description of biotechnology. Second chapter deals will proper proportion of mix of raw materials in cement industries to minimize pollution using fuzzy control theory. Chapter three gives the method of determination of temperature set point for crude oil in oil refineries. Chapter four studies the flow rates in chemical industries using fuzzy neutral networks. Chapter five gives the method of minimization of waste gas flow in chemical industries using fuzzy linear programming. The final chapter suggests when in these studies indeterminancy is an attribute or concept involved, the notion of neutrosophic methods can be adopted. The authors feel that the reader should be well versed with fuzzy models like neural networks, fuzzy relational equations, fuzzy control theory, fuzzy linear programming and neutrosophic fuzzy models like NRE together with a knowledge of the technical functioning of chemical industries....

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2.4 Finding the MIX of raw materials in proper proportion and minimize the waste dust using fuzzy neural network. The study of proper proportions of material mix during the clinkerization process is very difficult due to inconsistency in the chemical and mineralogical composition and the variation of these characteristic affects kiln operation, fuel consumption, clinker quality and above all the amount of CKD vent into the atmosphere. Further the raw mix should maintain a fixed range for a specific quality of cement. The problem of satisfying this range involves lot of randomness and uncertainty, which in turn speaks about the desired quality of the clinker. ...

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Preface 5 Chapter One INTRODUCTION 7 Chapter Two BIOTECHNOLOGY IN CHEMICAL INDUSTIRES 11 2.1 Description of waste CKD in cement kiln 13 2.2 Monitoring and control of the system using FCT and improvement of burning zone and combustion 16 2.3 Determination of gas volume setpoint and temperature set point for CKD processing 26 2.4 Finding the MIX of raw materials in proper proportion and minimize the waste dust using fuzzy neural network 35 Chapter Three DETERMINATION OF TEMPERATURE SET POINTS FOR CRUDE OIL 47 3.1 Introduction 47 3.2 Description of Crude Oil Refineries 48 3.3 Determination of Temperature Set-Point of Kerosene Resulting in Better Distillation Using Fuzzy Control Theory 52 3.4 Determination of Temperature Set Point of Naphtha Resulting in Better Distillation using Fuzzy Control Theory 61 3.5 Determination of Temperature Set-Point of Gasoil Resulting in Better Distillation using Fuzzy Control Theory 69 3.6 Conclusions 78 Chapter Four STUDY OF FLOW RATES IN CHEMICAL PLANTS 79 4.1 Use of FRE in Chemical Engineering 79 4.2 Fuzzy neural networks to estimate velocity of flow distribution in a pipe networ...