Where do meanings come from?

What is the relation between the bearer of meaning and the source of meaning, and what is it for something to bear meaning? This essay explores two sets of metaphors: on the first, the bearer of meaning is the source of the meaning, and meaning is something revealed, disclosed, or brought out from within the bearer; on the second, the bearer of meaning is distinct from the source of meaning, and meaning is something imposed, added, or placed onto the bearer from outside. Through readings of André Bazin, Denis Donoghue, Adam Phillips, Walter Pater, Stanley Cavell, Henry David Thoreau, William James, Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, the conflict between the two sets of metaphors is seen to open up onto the question: What are the limits of sense, and are they to be acknowledged or overcome? The author invites us to think of the limits of sense as facts we need to acknowledge if we are to make sense. The essay ends with a discussion of how we might acknowledge limits of sense as limits of sense and of how we might acknowledge fact as fact.Philosoph

A Route to Surface-bound Metalloporphyrins as Models for Oxygen Reduction Catalysts

The attachment nonmetal and magnesium ethynyl terminated porphyrin (TEPP and MgTEPP) to glassy carbon electrode was achieved through voltammetry. These attached porphyrins were studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and UV-visible spectroscopy. Surface-bound TEPP displayed reversible oxidation and reduction (E1/2 = 0.52 V and E1/2 = -1.74 V vs. ferrocene), and absorbance peak of 425 nm on indium tin oxide (ITO). While surface-bound MgTEPP possessed two reversible oxidations (E1/2 = 0.61 V and E1/2 = 0.97 V vs. Ag/AgCl) and an irreversible (Epc = -1.65 V vs. Ag/AgCl). MgTEPP had an absorbance maximum at 431 nm on ITO. Both porphyrins had irreversible pre-waves, which could be regenerated. This is the first example of covalently-bound Mg porphyrin to an electrode surface

Corporate Social Responsibility on the Zambian Mining Industry

This report presents the different approaches to CSR in Zambia among mining companies whose activities have huge impacts on the environment. The mining related issues raised in the report include health and safety, security, education, migrant and settlement patterns, environmental management, poverty reduction, job creation, local economic development, gender and HIV/AIDS

Review of Klusmeyer and Papademetriou, Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany

Review of the book Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation by Douglas B. Klusmeyer and Demetrios G. Papademetriou

The Wilderness Remainder: Deep Ecology in the Wild

Dr. Van Wyck\u27s research explores various aspects of environmentalism and ecology through the lens of culture studies, philosophy, and critical theory. His work includes discussions of the function of nature in popular culture; nuclear waste policy and nuclear testing; European and North American social and political thought; trauma theory and ecological disaster; ethnographic and pyschoanalytic theories of culture, nature and subjectivity; radical environmental theory; and critical and interpretive methods. Dr. Van Wyck is the author of Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (SUNY 1997)

Memorial of the Applicant

TesisCon los objetivos fijados para esta investigación en ESTUDIANTES DEL INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION SUPERIOR TECNOLOGICO PUBLICO SANTOS VILLALOBOS HUAMÁN, Se formaron dos grupos de 10 estudiantes cada uno; el grupo A (Grupo Control), no se le administró el paquete instruccional de educación ambiental basado en los siete saberes de la educación para el futuro y al grupo B (Grupo Experimental), se le administró a cada estudiante el paquete instruccional; antes de empezar el trabajo y al final del mismo se le aplicó una prueba objetiva de 40 peguntas en la escala vigesimal de cero a veinte. El efecto del estímulo; (el paquete instruccional) se midió según el calificativo alcanzado. Para la recolección de datos del proceso se utilizaron hojas de registro, de participación en el desarrollo del curso de educación ambiental, de asistencia a las evaluaciones y de intervenciones destacadas. Se generaron tablas y gráficos en la hoja de cálculo Excel del Microsoft Office 2007, El tratamiento estadístico de los datos fue realizado con la prueba del ANOVA utilizando el paquete computacional SPSS (Paquete Estadístico para las Ciencias Sociales). Se concluyo que: 1. Los módulos Educación ambiental en la educación intercultural y Los siete saberes de Edgar Morin, administrados a estudiantes de las especialidades de enfermería técnica, producción agropecuaria y de administración de empresas del Instituto de Educación Superior Tecnológico Público “Santos Villalobos Huamán permitió determinar la alta eficiencia de las estrategias didácticas para la total comprensión de la educación ambiental y de Los Siete Saberes de Edgar Morín.2. Los resultados de las evaluaciones en el pre test y post test en el grupo control no mostraron diferencia estadística significativa. 3. Los resultados de las investigaciones pre test y post test en el grupo experimental si mostraron diferencias estadísticas significativas y 17,6 para el saber uno; 19,6 para el saber dos; 18 para el saber cuatro; 15,2 para el saber cinco; 19,6 para el saber seis y 17,2 para el saber siete. 4. En el grupo experimental para Educación Ambiental en escala vigesimal la mayor nota fue de 14 mientras que en el post test del grupo control fue 13,6

Salt and Milwaukee street trees

Many trees are not well-adapted to the rigors of urban life. Some are highly susceptible to the effects of S02. Others, such as the oaks, grow too slowly while cottonwood and horse chestnut for example, good city trees, in most respects, produce quantities of fruit or seeds considered a nuisance by many residents. Trees best adapted to urban life appear to be those native to floodplains such as elm, ash, silver maple and sycamore. These species evolved to survive spring floods, summer droughts and therefore are better suited to the poorly aerated city soils. Since the rapid demise of elms as a result of the Dutch elm disease trees planted most frequently in Milwaukee have been maple, ash, and honeylocust. Many of these trees are now 15-25 years old and are beginning to show the effects of urban life