What makes 2010 such a deadly year is the recent
emergence of high - tech gear that only started being used in the last 6 - 12 months.
Energy and Civilization synthesizes his canon, offering a broad picture of the evolution of Homo sapiens, the rise of agriculture, and the very recent
emergence of a high - energy industrial civilization.
On one hand, pet retailers must deal with price increases that drag down the margins of existing products; but at the same time, the continued
emergence of high - margin product categories such as natural, specialized and raw diets is providing opportunities to make each transaction in the pet store more profitable.
The automation of this process, systematic value investing, has become possible with
the emergence of high - quality data on company fundamentals and the ever - increasing computational power available to researchers.
With
the emergence of high deductible health plans (HDHP's), this decision has become a little more difficult.
The emergence of high - stakes assessments and accountability has been more controversial in the scholarly community.
Here, we profile an organization connecting Smart Cities — the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE - Trust)-- and its work helping city - based organizations support
the emergence of high - quality blended learning.
Michael Schlesinger speaks to
the emergence of High Noon's producer, Stanley Kramer, a man who understood how to make messages entertaining.
The completion of the Human Genome Project and
the emergence of high - throughput technologies at the dawn of the new millennium, are rapidly changing the way we approach biological problems.
«It became clear that the mirrors introduce a strong backaction that hinders
the emergence of high light waves,» describes Dieter Meschede.
It turned out that this experimental arrangement suppressed
the emergence of high light waves.
He said BlackRock is not overly concerned about liquidity in the treasuries market, but is nonetheless keeping on top of everything that's going on — things like
the emergence of high - frequency trading in the interdealer market.
The extremely rich (experiential) data provided by the human brain, accordingly, can be thought to allow
the emergence of a higher - level actuality, which we call the mind.
The conclusion that they must be analogous follows not from their evident similarity, but as a deduction from the metaphysics of materialist physicalism, with its «Democritean doctrine of mereological supervenience, or microdeterminism» (SM 96), according to which all the features of all wholes are ontologically reducible to the most elementary constituents of nature, This metaphysics, according to which these elementary constituents are devoid of experience and thereby of internal relations, does not allow for the evolutionary
emergence of higher - level actualities with genuine causal powers of their own.
Given the impossibility of conceiving of
the emergence of higher - level physical individuals, the materialist version of physicalism interprets this principle to mean that all causal efficacy must be exerted by the level of physical entities studied by physics.
To reformers it seemed that colleges had to be freed from clerical control, and hence usually from traditional Christianity, in order to achieve something that we take for granted —
the emergence of higher education as a separate profession, distinct from the role of clergy.
Hierarchical structuring provides the universe with a stability without which
emergence of higher levels would be impossible.
But for Whitehead, nature's «problem» can be solved only if two mutually - dependent kinds of emergences are occurring: (a) more complex societies of occasions must emerge if there is to be (b)
the emergence of higher - grade individual occasions which then are the final loci of actuality and value.
Second, creation (in process philosophy) occurs in terms of
the emergence of the higher from the lower.
Soon after the infant Earth cooled down, he says, primeval microbes began processing essential elements — carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen, among others — that allowed for the eventual
emergence of higher life - forms, including us.
With the growing
emergence of higher quality JRPGs, games like Vagrant Story and Thousand Arms also basked in the same style of having weapons that were huge and bombastic to say the least.
This study demonstrated a gradual
emergence of a higher prevalence of boys in profiles characterized by externalizing problems and a higher stability of externalizing problems in boys, which is in line with existing literature (Hay 2007; Rutter et al. 2003).
Not exact matches
The
emergence of application download stores, meanwhile, is helping small - business owners better understand the extent to which they can use their mobile phones for a variety
of business processes, creating
high - profile venues for obtaining specialized business applications.
The
emergence of experts qualified to find and vet
high - impact projects with good financial returns is the trend to watch in the coming months and years.
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OF DEATH: Rapid emergence of competitors offering lower - priced or better alternative services; high cost of building a wireless netwo
OF DEATH: Rapid
emergence of competitors offering lower - priced or better alternative services; high cost of building a wireless netwo
of competitors offering lower - priced or better alternative services;
high cost
of building a wireless netwo
of building a wireless network
The HRC has reaffirmed the policy
of deferring a portion
of annual incentive compensation for the Company's
highest earners in the form
of long - term awards whose vesting terms take into account longer risk -
emergence periods, and has overseen the implementation
of standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff to further prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.
China played a major role in the years - long bull market for bitcoin, and the
emergence of South Korea offered reassurance that the
high - tech Asia region was embracing the alternative asset class.
The second occasion
of rearticulation
of the Christian purpose
of Missionary institutions
of higher learning took place in the first few decades
of this century in relation to the movements
of religious renaissance and the
emergence of political nationalism.
Evolution therefore means the
emergence of newer and
higher entities.
As we move up this ladder
of emergence each
higher level includes considerably more
of what may be called «mentality» or «feeling.»
It is also entirely consistent with the patterns we notice in cosmic
emergence for us to maintain that the human sphere
of mentality is now being invited by the «forces
of evolution» to leave itself open to an informing and patterning by a yet
higher and more «conscious» level.
Emergence is the appearance
of new, often unforeseen properties generated by the co-activation
of entities at one level
of complexity to form a larger, unified whole at the next
higher level.
Because there is an internal relatedness
of the
higher - level order and the constituent orders, there can be an
emergence of new properties.
''... All novelty and
emergence is really due to the constitutive relationships at lower levels which enable and effect the
emergence of novel systems and organisms at
higher levels.
A
higher state
of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers
of the human mass, but without the
emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system
of a universal, defined and autonomous Center
of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual
highest end
of hominization.
Creation in the sense
of the
emergence of levels
of intensification in concert with divine persuasion is universal, and the salvation
of each (intelligent) level depends upon its participation in the creation
of the next
higher level.
More importantly, it awaits the
emergence of a dynamic, responsive agency capable
of coordinating the activities
of a human society as a whole, within which human individuals might find themselves to be the willing, freely responsive instrumentalities
of a
higher will.
In the Church's teachings and
highest traditions we find a meaningful contribution to the
emergence and foundation
of a global community, namely, the dignity
of the human, the unity and universality
of the human family, and the common human responsibility for all
of creation.
It differs, however, in distinguishing between mereological
emergence in aggregational wholes, in which the emergent properties and causal powers are fully a function
of the properties and powers
of the parts» and the
emergence of regnant occasions
of experience in compound individuals, in which the
higher - level emergent exerts causality — both final and efficient —
of its own.
Morality and ethics existed prior to religion, and the
emergence of «
Higher Religions» which fused a moral sense with supernatural intuitions was a process which occurred in the light
of history [DH's bold].
If nations continue to assert their independence
of all
higher authority, the end will be either war to the death (for all) or the
emergence of a single dominant world power which will maintain by force the minimal order necessary to insure the survival
of civilization.
It explains the
emergence of successively
higher species over long billions
of years.
The vulnerability
of higher levels to malfunctions at the lower seems to intensify as we move up the ladder
of emergence.
The academic suspicion
of cosmic teleology that this book has addressed and challenged has given little or no consideration to the possibility that the human level
of emergence may itself become a new subsidiary in which a yet
higher level (or levels) may take up residence.
It is for this reason that in the Church's teachings and
highest traditions we find that I consider to be our meaningful contribution to the
emergence and foundation
of a global community: the dignity
of the human, the unity and universality
of the human family, and the common human responsibility for all
of creation.
If, as I maintain, the movement
of the cosmos towards the
highest degree
of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence
of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his
emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...
This dependency or vulnerability
of higher emergent activity with respect to lower seems to intensify as we move up the scale
of emergence.
Faith, in the context
of an emergent universe, is simply the stance that we at the human level
of emergence would take when we surrender ourselves to being influenced by whatever
higher field there may be encompassing the cosmic hierarchy.
However, there is a mode
of consciousness by which we at the human level
of emergence might become aware, in a non - controlling, non-comprehensive sort
of way,
of possible
higher purposive principles and patterns
of influence operative in the cosmos.
His thinking seems to be consistent with the logic
of emergence; and if there is present in the universe any deeper or
higher ordering principle, it is through the kind
of visionary consciousness Teilhard exemplifies that we would be given a sense
of it.