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Procedural and declarative knowledge: an evolutionary perspective
It appears that there are resemblances in the organization of
memory and the visual system, although the functions of these faculties
differ considerably. In this article, the principles behind this organization
are discussed. One important principle regards the distinction between
declarative and procedural knowledge, between knowing that and knowing
how. Declarative knowledge is considered here not as an alternative kind of
knowledge, as is usually the case in theories of memory, but as part of
procedural knowledge. In our view this leads to another approach with
respect to the distinction. Declarative knowledge has occupied more
attention in (cognitive) psychological research than can be justified on the
basis of the importance of procedural knowledge for behavior. We also
discuss the question whether there are other brain faculties that reflect the
same organizational characteristics. We conclude with some speculations
about the consequent role of consciousness in such a tentative model
Pregnancy diagnosis using bovine pregnancy-associated glycoprotein in purebred beef heifers mated at a first or second synchronised oestrus.
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Half-life of serum bovine pregnancy-associated glycoprotein (bPAG), post-partum anoestrus and performance of beef cows.
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Post-Partum decline in serum pregnancy-associated glycoprotein (bPAG) in four breeds of cattle under different nutritional regimes.
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Methods for estimating types of soil organic carbon and their application to surveys of UK urban areas
The occurrence of substantial quantities of black carbon (BC) in urban soil due to local dispersal following
incomplete combustion of fossil fuel complicates the determination of labile soil organic carbon
(SOC). Estimates of SOC content were made from loss on ignition (LOI) analyses undertaken on samples
(0–15 cm depth) from comprehensive soil geochemical surveys of three UK urban areas. We randomly
selected 10 samples from each decile of the LOI distribution for each of the surveys of
Coventry (n = 808), Stoke-on-Trent (n = 737) and Glasgow (n = 1382) to investigate the proportions
of labile SOC and BC. We determined their total organic carbon (TOC) and BC contents, and
by difference the labile SOC content, and investigated the linear relationship of the latter with SOC
estimates based on LOI analyses. There was no evidence for a difference in the slope of the regression
for the three urban areas. We then used a linear regression of labile SOC based on LOI analyses
(r2 = 0.81) to predict labile SOC for all survey samples from the three urban areas. We attribute the
significantly higher median BC concentrations in Glasgow (1.77%, compared with 0.46 and 0.59% in
Coventry and Stoke-on-Trent) to greater dispersal of coal ash across the former. An analysis of the 30
samples showed that LOI at 450 C accounts for a consistent proportion of BC in each sample
(r2 = 0.97). Differences between TOC (combustion at 1050 C after removal of inorganic carbon) and
an LOI estimate of SOC may be a cost-effective method for estimation of BC. Previous approaches to
estimation of urban SOC contents based on half the mean SOC content of the equivalent associations
under pasture, underestimate the empirical mean value