The breakfast imperative： The changing context of global food security

The debate on global food security has regained vigor since the food crisis of 2008, when a sudden spike in the prices of staple food commodities dramatically demonstrated that securing the supply and accessibility of food for a world of nine billion people in 2050 cannot be taken for grant- ed （Godfray etal. 2010; Swinnen and Squicciarini 2012;

Digital Transformation Strategic Business Imperatives to Embrace Now

Recently, IDC China held its annual Future Scape event under the theme ＂Embrace .the Digital Transformation （DX）＂, and revealed 10 predictions for the information and communications technology （ICT） market in 2018.

Imperatives for Academia-Industry Collaboration in Building Construction Research in Ghana

Academia and industry research enables researchers to conduct research projects that are more relevant to current business practices and context. Although, several construction research works have been done by the academics in the tertiary institutions in Ghana, it is sad to know that, a large number of these research works have not moved from the pure stage to the applied stage. This study seeks to establish the imperative of academia and industry collaboration in building research in Ghana. A total of 116 construction practising professionals consisting of Ghana Institute of Construction (GIOC) corporate members (QS, Architects, Engineers and so on) from the industry, and academics from tertiary academic institutions (That’s, Lecturers from KNUST and UEW) that run postgraduate construction programmes in Ghana as at February 2016 constituted the respondents for this study. Census and systematic sampling techniques were used for the sampled population. Descriptive statistics was employed in the data analysis for the mean and standard deviation (SD) score values of variables. The most imperatives for academia and industry collaboration were found to be: ensuring research findings solve socio-economic and development problems, the intermittent collapse of buildings, support for the local industries to produce quality materials locally to feed the construction industry, proper contract documentations and administration. This research would bring to light the urgent issues in the construction industry that calls for greater collaboration between the academia and industry in Ghana. It reveals a deeper understanding on the need for collaborative research in the Ghanaian construction industry, by providing the most imperatives to academia-industry collaborative research in Ghana.

China's logistics reform imperative

China’s logistics market is still fledg-ling and muddy,said Ding Junfa,vice-presi-dent of the China Federation of Logisticsand Purchasing. "We are expected to come up witha set of new rules and policies to cleanup industrial monopolies,excessive ad-ministrative intervention and regionalprotectionism,"said Ma Liqiang,direc-tor of the Economic Operations Bureauunder the National Develonment

Rural Imperatives

The No.1 Document outlines plan for agricultural efforts Many economists predicted the No.1 Document,issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of

Imperative to Fulfill Full Priority Development of Public Transport

In the bluebook regarding public transport policies of our country,various documents and specialized papers ontraffic management,great emphasis has been laid on giving priority to the development of public transport.However,the problem of difficult bus-riding has become increasingly serious.What efforts have we made to facilitate the prior-ity development of public traffic in our urban planning,urban construction,and traffic management? What preferen-tial policies have been adopted for that purpose? The author attempts to discuss how,on the competitive market ofpassenger transport,public transport can make greater contribution to urban development.

基于FLASH探究Imperator Fla软件的反编译功能

网页制作者熟知*.Swf格式文件可导入到网页中。要使用共享网上的*.Swf格式文件并编辑成自己所需的风格,必须先将*.Swf格式文件还原为*.Fla源文件,因为只有*.Fla格式的源文件才能在Flash动画制作软件中编辑修改,而Imperator Fla软件就是一款优秀的Flash反编译软件。

Why Does Personalism Turn Towards Animal Ethics？

The intellectual heritage of modernity needs rethinking. It is marked by radical humanism and implied by the ideas of Descartes and Kant above all, which introduces an unbridgeable gap between animals and human persons （nonhuman and human animals）. Intuitive sensibility to the question of the welfare of nonhuman animals meets a theoretical ally in the rapidly growing knowledge on their subjectivity and makes us pose a questions about their ontological status. This context arouses a possibility of a turn to personalist ethics, yet not to its anthropocentric version implied by Kant, but to personalism conceived of as an instance of value ethics as exemplified by Antonio Rosmini and Karol Wojtyta （John Paul II）.

Dance if It Rains

Since the last two decades of 20th century,logic of imperatives has been given a commendable shape as an independent system of logic.The present paper attempts to focus on some areas concerning validity of imperative arguments with special reference to the writings of Peter B.M.Vranas.Peter B.M.Vranas has written extensively about the foundations of imperative logic.Validity of imperatives is arguably defined by him in terms of meriting endorsement.But it is hard to endorse the general definition of argument validity applied in the case of imperative arguments as suggested by Vranas,though I consider it good to start with its suggested interpretation.As I have some reservation regarding the interpretation,I intend to show that the process of arriving at it can be more direct.The different senses of the criterion of validity have been discussed in this present essay.A note of dissent is expressed regarding the necessary condition of the said validity.Another point to note is that,though there are different types of imperative arguments,viz.pure and mixed-premise arguments including cross-species ones,this present essay will focus only on the last variety which is a combination of imperatives and declaratives in an argument.In this venture,I have taken help from some counter-examples to suggest some amendments ultimately in his definition of validity for imperative arguments.

The False Promise of Kant＇s Humanity Formula

Kant＇s Humanity Formula of the Categorical Imperative is arguably its most widely preferred formulation, having been defended as a moral principle and employed in the evaluation of particular moral problems by a number of leading contemporary ethicists. For them and many other readers of Kant, the idea that we are not to treat persons as mere means to our own ends but are rather to respect their rational agency as intrinsically valuable holds great promise for qualifying as, in Kant＇s words, ＂the supreme principle of morality.＂ In the present paper I argue that the Humanity Formula cannot deliver on this promise. After setting forth three conditions of adequacy for any genuine supreme principle of morality, I argue that the Humanity Formula, on three textually grounded interpretations each of which has been advocated by a prominent Kantian ethicist, does not satisfy these conditions. Whichever of these textually grounded interpretations is taken, the Humanity Formula is open to compelling counterexamples.

Philosophy in an Era of Techno-science

In an era of great scientific strides and unprecedented technological progress,there is a gradual,yet consistent demystification of the once before mythological realities of the universe.Humanity’s ingenuity and ease to manipulate the forces and powers of nature to achieve desired practical ends is quite fascinating.This move has been fathered by some“philosophical”trends.The ultimate result is the arrogance of techno-science to explain all of reality,thus denying value of genuine philosophy.In this paper we argue that science and its technological progress are not equipped to provide answers to fundamental and real human problems.Therefore,far from being opposed to each other,genuine philosophy and techno-science should play area complementary role in ensuring humanity’s qualitative presence in the world.

Phenomenological Models of the Global Demographic Dynamics and Their Usage for Forecasting in 21st Century

A great discovery made by H. von Foerster, P. M. Mora and L. W. Amiot was published in a 1960 issue of “Science”. The authors showed that existing data for calculating the Earth’s population in the new era (from 1 to 1958) could be described with incredibly high proximity by a hyperbolic function with the point of singularity on 13 November 2026. Thus, empirical regularity of the rise of the human population was established, which was marked by explosive demographic growth in the 20th century when during only one century it almost quadrupled: from 1.656 billion in 1900 to 6.144 billion in 2000. Nowadays, the world population has already overcome 7.8 billion people. Immediately after 1960, an active search for phenomenological models began to explain the mechanism of the hyperbolic population growth and the following demographic transition designed to stabilize its population. A significant role in explaining the mechanism of the hyperbolic growth of the world population was played by S. Kuznets (1960) and E. Boserup (1965), who found out that the rates of technological progress historically increased in proportion to the Earth’s population. It meant that the growth of the population led to raising the level of life-supporting technologies, and the latter in its turn enlarged the carrying capacity of the Earth, making it possible for the world population to expand. Proceeding from the information imperative, we have developed the model of the demographic dynamics for the 21st century for the first time. The model shows that with the development and spread of Intelligent Machines (IM), the number of the world population reaching a certain maximum will then irreversibly decline. Human depopulation will largely touch upon the most developed countries, where IM is used intensively nowadays. Until a certain moment in time, this depopulation in developed countries will be compensated by the explosive growth of the population in African countries located south of the Sahara. Calculations in our model reveal that the peak of the human population of 8.52 billion people will be reached in 2050, then it will irreversibly go down to 7.9 billion people by 2100, if developed countries do not take timely effective measures to overcome the process of information depopulation.

Ethics and the Techno-Economic Future

The general theme-“ethics in the future”-intends to question a form of human knowledge,ethics,in relation to a dimension of time,the future.In broader terms,the title refers to a question about the relationship between knowledge and time,which in turn includes questions such as:“To what do different forms of knowledge-ethics,economics,physics-refer when they discuss the future?”;“What do they mean by a possible,probable,preferable future?”;“What future emerges through their key concepts?”;“What kind of future challenges present knowledge within an epochal context that is established in the form of an incessant reproduction of relative means and ends,one that is constantly outdated?”;“What form of knowledge is required first and foremost so that the establishment of this epoch can take place?”

Restructuring and the Proper Syntactic Analysis

This paper aims to make it clear that syntactic analysis should be based on the lexical information given in the lexicon.For this purpose,lexical information of the syntactic argument is to be taken the form like[VP NKP,_,DKP,AKP]for the ditransitive verb give in English.The argument structure projects to syntactic structure.The NKP in this structure becomes VP-subject,but there is another subject called S-subject(Sentence-Subject)below S node.This amounts to Two-Subject Hypothesis for English.Between these two subjects,there intervene Conjugation-Like Elements,enriched by close examination of English verbal conjugation.Two-Subject Hypothesis perfectly accounts for peculiarities of the Expletive There(ET)construction.Restructuring can also explain the so-called Long Distance Wh-interrogative without introducing Wh-movement,and it can also explain why the imperative verbs are taking the base forms.It can also explain the characteristics of adjective imperatives by the same principles as applied to verbal imperatives.We try to deal with the other subtle problems,to get fruitful results.Restructuring approach,we think,provides more convincing explanations than the movement one.

将Flash动画解剖到底

分析、借鉴他人作品对学习Flash创作而言是一种比较好的办法,如果得到的是未经打包的源文件(即扩展名为.FLA格式),要了解其创作思路无疑最容易(可以直接使用Flash软件打开),但是,更多时候我们只能得到SWF格式的作品,尽管它可以在Flash中导入,但导入后原始文件的诸多特性都会丢失(如交互控制失去作用等),给分析带来诸多不便.下面介绍三款工具,让你将Flash动画解剖到底.

＊．SWF格式文件转为＊．FLA格式文件的关键技术

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Triptolide suppresses pancreatic cancer cell proliferation by inhibiting hedgehog signaling pathway activity

Dear Editor,Pancreatic cancer (PCa) is a high-grade gastrointestinal malignancy more commonly occurring in elderly populations with lower than 5% overall 5-year survival rate (Hidalgo, 2010). PCa responds poorly to most chemotherapeutic agents, and therefore it is imperative to develop novel therapeutic agents that have anti-cancer activities against PCa.

Quantum programming languages: A tentative study

Starting with some simple representative quantum programming languages, this paper lays stress on quantum computation, language paradigm, program structure, input/output, exception facility, and especially the recent results of the quantum computation group at Nanjing University, namely the functional quantum programming language NDQFP. All primitive functions and combining forms in NDQFP are given in the appendix.