A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1997

Journal of Political Science and Leadership Research, 2022

Intuitively, artificial intelligence, robotics, and information and communication technologies are important because they give enterprises and institutions insights into their operations that they may not have been aware of previously and because, in some cases, they perform tasks better than humans. As tools for business and education management, artificial intelligence, robotics, and information and communication technologies in the 21st century are Business and education systems have been described as vital to keeping abreast with rapidly changing technologies. Its importance has been translated into huge potential in terms of positive outcomes, although investments in ICT in Nigeria's business and education systems have not yielded much when compared to similar investments made in communication. This paper briefly discussed the roles of artificial intelligence, robotics, and information and communication technologies as tools for business and educational management. At the end of the paper, suggestions were made for how to use artificial intelligence, robotics, and information and communication technologies in business and education management in the best way possible.

These are notes for both my Partial Differential Equations course and my MS324 Course.

Amplissimae atque ornatissimae domus (Aug., Civ., II, 20, 26). L’edilizia residenziale nelle città della Tunisia romana, 2003

in Amplissimae atque ornatissimae domus (Aug., Civ., II, 20, 26). L’edilizia residenziale nelle città della Tunisia romana, Saggi, a cura di Silvia Bullo, Francesca Ghedini, Antenor Quaderni 2.1, 2003

Influencia del cine en el diseño del siglo XX Así como durante el siglo XIX escritores de la talla de Víctor Hugo, Dickens, Flaubert, y Balzac, representaron a través de sus narraciones las grandes ciudades de la época, el cine fue quien retrató y le otorgó imagen a las ciudades del siglo XX. Luego, la televisión se encargó de mostrar masivamente al público, aquellos lugares que de otra forma nunca llegarían a conocer. El cine de los inicios hizo posible que el espectador viajara a lugares donde nunca había estado, y con ello debió influir profundamente en la percepción de su propio mundo. Los referentes se ampliaron y permitieron, en la retención de imágenes nuevas, transformar la manera de ver y de comprender la realidad. El cine de entonces es por ello, uno de grandes proveedores de nuevas fuentes para la construcción de memoria colectiva. El habitante de la ciudad, muchas veces con la imposibilidad de percibir sino sólo fragmentos de su entorno, pudo tener una visión global, diversa, la que ineludiblemente debió procesar, ampliando con ello su propia mirada y sus puntos de vista. Sin embargo la ciudad cinematográfica, desde sus inicios, no solo ha servido de escenario y con ello ha desplegado lugares históricamente reconocibles; el cine como medio de representación espacial, ha contribuido a construir un discurso urbano. Desde esa perspectiva, el cine debe ser entendido como un medio ideológico, el que influye a su audiencia en la construcción de significados espaciales. De esa forma, la ciudad ha sido representada, desde el inicio de la industria cinematográfica, como un receptáculo de significados que van desde un espacio de aventura, progreso, y diversidad cultural, hasta un lugar habitado por gánsteres, asesinos, individuos de escasa moralidad, o un lugar lleno de tentaciones sexuales. Dependiendo de la época, el país y el género cinematográfico, la ciudad casi nunca se presenta como un telón de fondo neutro. El cine como medio de comunicación y difusión, ha contribuido también a la popularidad de ciertas ciudades. París, Nueva York, y Venecia, se han convertido en verdaderos íconos de la pantalla. Para el espectador de cualquier lugar del mundo, estas ciudades le son familiares sin necesidad de haberlas visitado nunca, o por lo menos, se ha podido formar una imagen de ellas, la que será ineludible al momento de traer a su memoria una imagen de algo que nunca ha experimentado, sino sólo como espectador de una pantalla.

For thousands of years the Eurasian steppes have been a centre of human migrations and cultural change. Here we sequence the genomes of 137 ancient humans (about 1× average coverage), covering a period of 4,000 years, to understand the population history of the Eurasian steppes after the Bronze Age migrations. We find that the genetics of the Scythian groups that dominated the Eurasian steppes throughout the Iron Age were highly structured, with diverse origins comprising Late Bronze Age herders, European farmers and southern Siberian hunter-gatherers. Later, Scythians admixed with the eastern steppe nomads who formed the Xiongnu confederations, and moved westward in about the second or third century bc, forming the Hun traditions in the fourth-fifth century ad, and carrying with them plague that was basal to the Justinian plague. These nomads were further admixed with East Asian groups during several shortterm khanates in the Medieval period. These historical events transformed the Eurasian steppes from being inhabited by Indo-European speakers of largely West Eurasian ancestry to the mostly Turkic-speaking groups of the present day, who are primarily of East Asian ancestry. The Eurasian steppes stretch about 8,000 km from Hungary and Romania in the west to Mongolia and northeastern China in the east. These regions have, in the past four to five millennia, been dominated first by Iranian-and later by Turkic-and Mongolic-speaking nomadic groups with herding and warrior economies. To understand the population genetic processes associated with the linguistic and cultural changes of the steppes after the Bronze Age migrations 1-3 , we sequenced 137 ancient genomes-to about 1× average depth (see Supplementary Tables 1, 2)-from Europe to Mongolia and the Altai to Tian Shan mountains; these genomes covered approximately 4,000 years (about 2500 bc-ad 1500) (Fig. 1). A list of the population labels used throughout this Article can be found in Supplementary Table 3.

Sains Malaysiana, 2014

In order to protect our planet and ourselves from the adverse effects of excessive CO 2 emissions and to prevent an imminent non-renewable fossil fuel shortage and energy crisis, there is a need to transform our current 'fossil fuel dependent' energy systems to new, clean, renewable energy sources. The world has recognized hydrogen as an energy carrier that complies with all the environmental quality and energy security, demands. This research aimed at producing hydrogen through anaerobic fermentation, using food waste as the substrate. Four food waste substrates were used: Rice, fish, vegetable and their mixture. Bio-hydrogen production was performed in lab scale reactors, using 250 mL serum bottles. The food waste was first mixed with the anaerobic sewage sludge and incubated at 37°C for 31 days (acclimatization). The anaerobic sewage sludge was then heat treated at 80°C for 15 min. The experiment was conducted at an initial pH of 5.5 and temperatures of 27, 35 and 55°C. The maximum cumulative hydrogen produced by rice, fish, vegetable and mixed food waste substrates were highest at 37°C (Rice =26.97±0.76 mL, fish = 89.70±1.25 mL, vegetable = 42.00±1.76 mL, mixed = 108.90±1.42 mL). A comparative study of acclimatized (the different food waste substrates were mixed with anaerobic sewage sludge and incubated at 37°C for 31days) and non-acclimatized food waste substrate (food waste that was not incubated with anaerobic sewage sludge) showed that acclimatized food waste substrate enhanced bio-hydrogen production by 90-100%.