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History Of Light Infantry
1,807 wordsFor a long time peace was understood in negative fashion, Kendrick Pritchett in the introduction to the book The Greek State at War points out that in order to write history of Greek Warfare one would require a knowledge of many aspects of Greek life. The would-be investigator would have to be familiar with terrain in the case of any given battle, have an acquaintance with the archaeological artifacts of various types, close familiarity with the written sources, and most important, an understand...
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Urban Sprawl Cambridge Ma
1,306 words... ous legal devices including zoning, deed restrictions, and racially restrictive covenants to impose and increase racial residential segregation. Furthermore, real estate agents, appraisers, brokers and mortgage bankers ensured the concentration of poor minorities by refusing them access to property or loans. Many of these exclusionary practices persist today in the suburbs leading to a concentration of poor minorities in the inner city. Second, Suburbanites have an interest in decreasing the...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,339 words... n control? "i fear of denied access: Whether VR is a wonderful or a terrible place, everyone should have the right to be there; who gets in and how? "i fear of abandonment: what if VR is so compelling that people don " it want to come out, who will mind reality? If I don " it get virtual, will I be left all alone? Fear of the technology may be both the most subtle and the most important challenge to public acceptance of VR as a suitable medium for children. Once we acknowledge this fear, we ...
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Selfish Gene Cambridge Ma
1,710 words... duces for the powers of language-less thought is thus potentially misleading. These varieties of language-less thought, like barefoot waterskiing, may be possible only for brief periods, and only after a preparatory period that includes the very feature whose absence is later so striking. There are indirect ways of testing the hypotheses implied by these doubts. Consider episodic memory, for instance. When a dog retrieves a bone it has buried, it manifests an effect on its memory, but must t...
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Artificial Intelligence Natural Language
2,994 wordsCan Computer Think? Artificial Intllignc is based in th view that th only way to prov you know th mind's causal properties is to build it. In its post form, AI research sks to can an automaton possessing human intellectual capabilities and virtually, consciousness. Thr is no current they of human consciousness which is will accepted, yt AI phones lik Hans Moravec nthusiastically postulate that in th nxt century, machin's will it surpass human intllignc, or human bing's will become machines thems...
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R 038 D Advanced Research Projects Agency
3,944 wordsThe Costs and Benefits of Funding Military Research and Development Policy Public Sector Economics November 22, 2000 Introduction The central issues when evaluating the overall the United States research and development policy are the characteristics of a public good. A public good by definition is one that has a zero marginal cost of providing the good an additional person and from which individuals cannot be excluded. Research and development policy contributes to the level of knowledge and te...
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Ancient Greeks Ancient Greece
1,869 wordsFor a long time peace was understood in negative fashion, simply as the absence of war. -Yvon Garden Kendrick Pritchett in the introduction to the book? The Greek State at War? points out that in order to write history of Greek Warfare one? ? would require a knowledge of many aspects of Greek life. The would-be investigator would have to be familiar with terrain in the case of any given battle, have an acquaintance with the archaeological artifacts of various types, close familiarity with the wr...
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Angular Momentum Los Alamos
1,597 wordsTheories of The Origin of the Moon The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. The distance from Earth is about 384, 400 km with a diameter of 3476 km and a mass of 7. 35 1022 kg. Through history it has had many names: Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. And of course, has been known through prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. Due to its size and composition, the Moon is sometimes classified as a terrestrial planet along wi...
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