Year to year, new fields emerge and the semantic meaning of terms change over time and at different rates across different communities of practice, which means MAG provides a defensible snapshot of scientific topics, but not necessarily an immutable one. In this way, our work contributes to ...
Researchers used adhesive bonding and surface bonding methods to bond PDMS and LiNbO3wafer in acoustofluidic devices. However, a layer that enhances the bonding properties of the material has been used in place of the adhesive layer. Ma et al.18have used a very thin PDMS layer to enhance th...
"rounded d" or "curved d". The sign corresponds to the cursive "dey" of the Cyrillic alphabet and is sometimes also known as Jacobi's delta, because Carl Gustav Jacobi(1804-1851) is credited with the popularization of the modern mathematical meaning of this special character (starting in 18...
In contrast, a synthetic proposition is one whose truth depends on the relationship between its meaning and the real world; these are associated with inductive statements, their truth or falsehood dependent on empirical observations [6]. While deductive statements are certain consequences of the ...
Language is never just about what is said,but also,sometimes even more importantly,about how it is said.The meaning of a text resides partly in the message it conveys,and partly in the way the message is delivered.For example,a research paper published in a peer-reviewed journal would strik...
Evolution, however, particularly in regards to human origins, threatens the belief of many Christians that it is only in and through God that human beings find true purpose and meaning in life. The filmExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed, written by and starring Ben Stein, provides a recent examp...
1)Meaning: clear or deep perception of a situation Context and clue: To be able to see things clearly requires a power of mind, such as imagination or creation.Word: insight 2)Meaning: record by writing Context and clue: Like those writers, scientists do not just record what they see.Wor...
The relevance between 10 indices and 5 factors was calculated with a rotation matrix method to explain the clinical meaning of the factors. The scores of five factors were then calculated to be the new dependent variables F1-F5. The processes above were implemented in SPSS 18.0 (Factor Analysis...
Both sentences are understood as meaning the same thing, even though only the first includes the pronoun "you” explicitly. Whether the act of dropping the pronoun cues a more (or less) general interpretation is an open question. Moreover, it is unknown whether pro-drop is more (or less)...
In its established usage, a paradigm is an accepted model or pattern, and that aspect of its meaning has enabled me, lacking a better word, to appropriate paradigm here. But it will shortly be clear that the sense of model and pattern that permits the appropriation is not quite the ...