Psychological Scaling of Data Obtained on Questionnaires about Career Choices at A Teacher's College

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Desmond Broomes
Keyword(s):  
Career Choices ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Definition Of

Measurement problems pervade most data obtained on questionnaires. One important class of problems seems to reside in the nature of measurement, and may be identified through a study of a definition of measure­ment.

scholarly journals -algebras of labelled graphs III—-theory computations

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERESA BATES ◽  
TOKE MEIER CARLSEN ◽  
DAVID PASK
Keyword(s):  
Uniqueness Theorem ◽  
Inductive Limit ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Graph Algebras ◽  
Gauge Invariant ◽  
Shift Spaces ◽  
Graph Algebra ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Labelled Graphs

In this paper we give a formula for the$K$-theory of the$C^{\ast }$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space. This is done by realizing the$C^{\ast }$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space as the Cuntz–Pimsner algebra of a$C^{\ast }$-correspondence. As a corollary, we obtain a gauge-invariant uniqueness theorem for the$C^{\ast }$-algebra of any weakly left-resolving labelled space. In order to achieve this, we must modify the definition of the$C^{\ast }$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space. We also establish strong connections between the various classes of$C^{\ast }$-algebras that are associated with shift spaces and labelled graph algebras. Hence, by computing the$K$-theory of a labelled graph algebra, we are providing a common framework for computing the$K$-theory of graph algebras, ultragraph algebras, Exel–Laca algebras, Matsumoto algebras and the$C^{\ast }$-algebras of Carlsen. We provide an inductive limit approach for computing the$K$-groups of an important class of labelled graph algebras, and give examples.

The Indian-Derived Law Texts of Southeast Asia

1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Social Condition ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Law Texts

The aim of this paper is to outline the characteristics of one very important class of Southeast Asian law texts—the “Indian-derived.” In the process, it may be possible to throw light on some basic questions such as the nature of State, and the definition of sovereignty in medieval Southeast Asia. The texts are important examples of the adaptation of Indian legal culture in new environments. I hope to show that the idea of law exhibited in the texts, while dependent upon such basic Indian ideas as “duty” (dharma), is not only differently defined in the various cultures of “Indianized” Southeast Asia but transcends such limited legal definitions as “rules” or “coercion.” Law instead rests upon native concepts, giving rise to rules of conduct that ought, to be observed by reason of social condition. It is among these rules that law is to be found; law is an aspect of dharma, the definition of which varies from one law text to another. It is ultimately concerned with a definition of obligation that is simultaneously suitable in local terms and consonant with absolute principles derived from the Indian texts.

scholarly journals The Improvement of Self-assessment and Unsureness of Career Choice with Adolescentswith Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Emőke Tankó
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Group Counseling ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Future ◽  
One Step ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tools And Methods

The global definition of social work is activating people and systems, providing an answer to the challenges of life, and giving a route towards a better one1. This is achieved by tools and methods, which can be used during group counseling, making the goal of a better, different life one step closer. This study which is also used to provide guidance, introduces ways to help in self-assessment and career choices. „Mural painting” is a method of Nicaraguan origin, mainly used as a communitybuilding tool, the use of which began years ago in Transylvania. In 2019 we tried this method with adolescents in their sophomore, with the goal of getting rid of their doubts, and clearing their head for the future. Keywords: counseling, Mural painting, career choices, self-assessment, adolescents

scholarly journals Imagistic Imagining Part I

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Peter Langland-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Imagery ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Direction Of Fit ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of attitude imagining to imagistic imagining is explored in depth. Formal characterizations are given of each. A nuanced definition of ‘mental imagery’ is developed as a means to better-defining I-imagining. Competing attempts to define A-imagining in terms of a certain “direction of fit” are criticized, as are attempts to distinguish “mere supposition” from A-imagining. It is then argued that A-imagining and I-imagining pick out overlapping but distinct sets of mental phenomena. Some A-imginings are I-imaginings, and some I-imaginings are A-imaginings. But neither is a sub-set of the other. Several strains of resistance to that conclusion are considered and rejected. Currie & Ravenscroft’s (2002) notion of “recreative imagining” is closely analyzed with the conclusion that it does not pick out a third theoretically important class of imaginings.

Diagonals and -maximal sets

1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Herrmann ◽  
Martin Kummer
Keyword(s):  
Important Class ◽  
Computable Numbering ◽  
Halting Problem ◽  
Recursive Functions ◽  
Elementary Lattice ◽  
Partial Recursive Functions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Simple Sets

In analogy to the definition of the halting problem K, an r.e. set A is called a diagonal iff there is a computable numbering ψ of the class of all partial recursive functions such that A = {i ∈ ω: ψi(i)↓} (in that case we say that A is the diagonal of ψ). This notion has been introduced in [10]. It captures all r.e. sets that can be constructed by diagonalization.It was shown that any nonrecursive r.e. T-degree contains a diagonal, that for any diagonal A there is an r.e. nonrecursive nondiagonal B ≤TA, and that there are r.e. degrees a such that any r.e. set from a is a diagonal.In §2 of the present paper we show that the property “A is a diagonal” is elementary lattice theoretic (e.l.t.). This result complements and generalizes previous results of Harrington and Lachlan, respectively. Harrington (see [16, XV. 1]) proved that the property of being the diagonal of some Gödelnumbering (i.e., of being creative) is e.l.t., and Lachlan [12] proved that the property of being a simple diagonal (i.e., of being simple and not hh-simple [10]) is e.l.t.In §§3 and 4 we study the position of diagonals and nondiagonals inside the lattice of r.e. sets. We concentrate on an important class of nondiagonals, generalizing the maximal and hemimaximal sets: the -maximal sets. Using the results from [6] we are able to classify the -maximal sets that can be obtained as halfs of splittings of hh-simple sets.

Introductory paper

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
W. W. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Line Intensity ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Dimensional Array ◽  
Rr Lyrae ◽  
Metallic Line ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Parameter Varying ◽  
Definition Of

1. The definition of “normal” stars in spectral classification changes with time; at the time of the publication of theYerkes Spectral Atlasthe term “normal” was applied to stars whose spectra could be fitted smoothly into a two-dimensional array. Thus, at that time, weak-lined spectra (RR Lyrae and HD 140283) would have been considered peculiar. At the present time we would tend to classify such spectra as “normal”—in a more complicated classification scheme which would have a parameter varying with metallic-line intensity within a specific spectral subdivision.

2.2. Working Group 2: Conceptual Definitions of Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Character ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Reference Coordinate System ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Earth Dynamics

An ideal definition of a reference coordinate system should meet the following general requirements:1. It should be as conceptually simple as possible, so its philosophy is well understood by the users.2. It should imply as few physical assumptions as possible. Wherever they are necessary, such assumptions should be of a very general character and, in particular, they should not be dependent upon astronomical and geophysical detailed theories.3. It should suggest a materialization that is dynamically stable and is accessible to observations with the required accuracy.

Symbiotic Stars at Optical, Infrared and Radio Wavelengths

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Type Star ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Symbiotic Stars ◽  
Lower Excitation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Original Type

No paper of this nature should begin without a definition of symbiotic stars. It was Paul Merrill who, borrowing on his botanical background, coined the termsymbioticto describe apparently single stellar systems which combine the TiO absorption of M giants (temperature regime ≲ 3500 K) with He II emission (temperature regime ≳ 100,000 K). He and Milton Humason had in 1932 first drawn attention to three such stars: AX Per, CI Cyg and RW Hya. At the conclusion of the Mount Wilson Ha emission survey nearly a dozen had been identified, and Z And had become their type star. The numbers slowly grew, as much because the definition widened to include lower-excitation specimens as because new examples of the original type were found. In 1970 Wackerling listed 30; this was the last compendium of symbiotic stars published.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Initial Polymerization Sites Indicated During Mitochondrial Oxidation of Diaminobenzidine after Toluene Treatment

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
W. A. Shannon ◽  
M. A. Matlib
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Permeability ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Cytochemical Localization ◽  
Oxidative Reaction ◽  
Mitochondrial Oxidation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Exogenous Substrates

Numerous studies have dealt with the cytochemical localization of cytochrome oxidase via cytochrome c. More recent studies have dealt with indicating initial foci of this reaction by altering incubation pH (1) or postosmication procedure (2,3). The following study is an attempt to locate such foci by altering membrane permeability. It is thought that such alterations within the limits of maintaining morphological integrity of the membranes will ease the entry of exogenous substrates resulting in a much quicker oxidation and subsequently a more precise definition of the oxidative reaction.The diaminobenzidine (DAB) method of Seligman et al. (4) was used. Minced pieces of rat liver were incubated for 1 hr following toluene treatment (5,6). Experimental variations consisted of incubating fixed or unfixed tissues treated with toluene and unfixed tissues treated with toluene and subsequently fixed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document