Contributions of aesthetics

Journal ArticleThe most tempting answer to the question posed as the topic for these remarks -- "what can aesthetics contribute to a young person's ability to understand and value art?" -- is "nothing", or, at least, "embarrassingly little". Aesthetics, after all, is a field of philosophy, and hence a field dedicated to the analysis of abstract, foundational questions rarely raised in everyday life. The concerns of aesthetics include metaphysical questions about the ontology of art, epistemological questions about valuational judgments in art, and ethical questions about the intersection of aesthetic and other values. But, as we all know, you can live your life, and you can furthermore enjoy and contribute to the arts, without any formal examination of questions like these

Marshall University Music Department Presents Variazioni, Facutly Recital, Wendell Dobbs, flute, Stephen Lawson, horn, Júlio Ribeiro Alves, guitar

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Intern experience at Fluor Engineers, Inc.: an internship report

"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes vita (leaf 106)Includes bibliographical references (leaf 74)This report demonstrates how the author's internship with the Houston Division of Fluor Engineers, Inc. fulfilled requirements of the Doctor of Engineering program and met the internship objectives. During the sixteen-month period between May 1980 and August 1981, the intern held the position of Engineer with the Cost and Scheduling Department. This position allowed the author to observe and participate in a wide variety of projects in both technical and supervisory capacities, dealing primarily with scheduling and cost control for construction of large chemical process plants. Substantial experience was also obtained from interface with other departments of the company, including accounting, procurement, process engineering, project engineering, finance, and design engineering. Additionally, the intern's position allowed regular contact with project and corporate management, providing exposure to the company's top decision makers. A brief overview of both cost engineering and scheduling engineering is presented to demonstrate the technical aspect of the internship. Finally, several of the author's positions at Fluor are described in order to detail the intern's experience and show specifically how each objective was achieved

Marshall University Music Department Presents Music from the Age of Invention, The Maelzel Woodwind Quintet

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Marshall University Music Department Presents a Faculty Recital, Woodwind Quintets

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Music from the Age of Invention, The Maelzel Woodwind Quintet, performing on historical instruments from the early 19th century, Wendell Dobbs, flute, Richard Kravchak, oboe, Richard Spece, clarinet, Stephen Lawson, horn, Kay Lawson, bassoon

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Dynamic somite cell rearrangements lead to distinct waves of myotome growth

The myogenic precursors responsible for muscle growth in amniotes develop from thedermomyotome, an epithelium at the external surface of the somite. In teleosts, themyogenic precursors responsible for growth have not been identified. We have usedsingle cell lineage labeling in zebrafish to show that anterior border cells of epithelialsomites are myogenic precursors responsible for zebrafish myotome growth. These cellsmove to the external surface of the embryonic myotome and express the transcriptionfactor Pax7. Some remain on the external surface and some incorporate into the fastmyotome, apparently by moving between differentiated slow fibres. The posterior cellsof the somite, in contrast, elongate into medial muscle fibres. The surprising movementof the anterior somite cells to the external somite surface transforms a segmentallyrepeated arrangement of myogenic precursors into a medio-lateral arrangement similar tothat seen in amniotes.Fil: Stellabotte, Frank. Ohio Wesleyan University.; Estados UnidosFil: Dobbs McAuliffe, Betsy. Ohio Wesleyan University.; Estados UnidosFil: Fernandez, Daniel Alfredo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego; ArgentinaFil: Feng, Xuesong. Ohio Wesleyan University.; Estados UnidosFil: Devoto, Stephen Henry. Ohio Wesleyan University.; Estados Unido

Exploring the financial and investment implications of the Paris Agreement

A global energy transition is underway. Limiting warming to 2°C (or less), as envisaged in the Paris Agreement, will require a major diversion of scheduled investments in the fossil-fuel industry and other high-carbon capital infrastructure towards renewables, energy efficiency, and other low or negative carbon technologies. The article explores the scale of climate finance and investment needs embodied in the Paris Agreement. It reveals that there is little clarity in the numbers from the plethora of sources (official and otherwise) on climate finance and investment. The article compares the US$100 billion target in the Paris Agreement with a range of other financial metrics, such as investment, incremental investment, energy expenditure, energy subsidies, and welfare losses. While the relatively narrowly defined climate finance included in the US$100 billion figure is a fraction of the broader finance and investment needs of climate-change mitigation and adaptation, it is significant when compared to some estimates of the net incremental costs of decarbonization that take into account capital and operating cost savings. However, even if the annual US$100 billion materializes, achieving the much larger implied shifts in investment will require the enactment of long-term internationally coordinated policies, far more stringent than have yet been introduced.</i