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"En stridsplan överlever sällan första stridskontakt" : Slaget om Darwin – Goose GreenNilsson, Nicklas January 2009 (has links)
Den 26 maj 1982 påbörjas anfallet mot samhällena Darwin och Goose Green. Anfallande styrka är brittiska, 2 Paras, på plats och försvarsgrupperade är Taskforce Mercedes. Britterna vinner slutligen över en numerärt överlägsen och försvarsgrupperad argentinsk styrka. Hur kommer det sig att detta kan ske? Jag kommer, för att kunna besvara mina frågeställningar, i det här självständiga arbetet att med utgång i de grundläggande förmågorna, ledning, verkan, skydd, rörlighet, uthållighet och und/info, analysera slaget. Dessa frågeställningar är: - Vilken av de grundläggande förmågorna var avgörande för 2 Paras seger? - Vilken av de grundläggande förmågorna var avgörande för Taskforce Mercedes förlust? Jag har kommit fram till följande; britterna kunde tack vare en kombination av förmågorna ledning och verkan avgöra striden till deras fördel. För argentinarna var det förmågan ledning som bäddade för deras förlust. Vill du veta hur jag kommit fram till detta och varför uppmanar jag dig att läsa detta arbete. / My name is Nicklas Nilsson. I’m a cadet studying at the Swedish Land warfare Centre. As a part of becoming a commissioned officer I’m obligated to write an essay at fundamental level. I have written about the Battle for Darwin – Goose Green. A battle between 2 Para and Taskforce Mercedes. I have used (de grundläggande förmågorna) six fundamental abilities as an analysis instrument. The questions I am going to answer with this essay are: -What ability was decisive for 2 Para’s victory? -What ability was decisive for Taskforce Mercedes defeat? Initially I will conduct a literature study, followed by a comparative case study. I have come to the following conclusions: The Argentines lost due to their lack of a good leadership and The British won due to the abilities, better trained, better motivated and with more experience. They also, contrary to the Argentines, had leaders that was present and tried to resolve the situations they’ve gotten in to. If you want to read more about this and how I’ve come to these conclusions, please read this essay.
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The Role of Metaphor in the Darwin Debates: Natural Theology, Natural Selection, and Christian Production of Counter-MetaphorNeumann, Juliet 2012 May 1900 (has links)
The presence of metaphorical language in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been the source of much debate, particularly in the interaction between Darwin's theory and the Christian faith. The metaphorical language used to describe "nature," "evolution," "natural theology," and "natural selection" is examined?within Christianity prior to Darwin, in Darwin's writing of the Origin, and in the responses of three Victorian Christian critics of science.
"Natural selection" and "evolution" had metaphorical meanings prior to Darwin's use of these terms. "Nature" was a highly metaphysical concept, described by the metaphor of natural theology. "Evolution" was associated with epic understandings of human progress. The metaphor of natural theology was particularly important to the faith of Western Christians by the time of Darwin. In order to better understand the role of natural theology, the theories of metaphor developed by Kenneth Burke in "Four Master Tropes" and by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By are compared. This comparison results in the development of an expansion of Lakoff and Johnson's metaphor theory, a model termed experienced metaphor. This model is used to explain Victorian Christians' emotional adherence to natural theology.
Many of the interpreters of Darwin's work, both secular and Christian, saw natural selection as a rival to natural theology. The works of three prominent Victorians who attempted to defend natural theology against the apparent onslaughts of science are evaluated for additional metaphorical language regarding nature and evolution. Philip Gosse, G. K. Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon each produced counter-metaphors to defend natural theology?metaphors of awe/wonder and of sin/destruction. The rhetorical effects of these counter-metaphors promote the rejection of Darwin's theory of evolution.
The counter-metaphors identified are still in circulation within the debate over Darwin and Christianity today. The presence of metaphor in this debate deserves greater attention, in order to understand how metaphor affects the thinking of both Christian and secular audiences regarding Darwinian evolution.
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Contribution au mode coronographique de la mission DarwinEscarrat, Laurent 20 November 2003 (has links) (PDF)
L'objectif de la mission spatiale Darwin de l'ESA est la détection directe, dans le domaine de l'infrarouge thermique, de planètes extra-solaires de type Terre autour d'étoiles proches et de rechercher des traces de vie dans l'atmosphère éventuelle via la spectroscopie.<br />L'un des points durs technologiques de réalisation de l'instrument est la maîtrise de l'interférométrie à frange noire, et en particulier la recombinaison de quatre ondes et l'introduction sur deux d'entre elles d'un déphasage de pi achromatique.<br />Ce manuscrit présente l'étude d'un système compact de recombinaison, répondant à ces deux exigences : la cascade de CIA.<br />Dans un premier temps, la contexte scientifique de la mission Darwin est décrit et l'état des lieux des avancées réalisées est dressé.<br />Dans un deuxième temps, le principe et l'étude de faisabilité de la cascade sont détaillés, comprenant l'analyse des contraintes que posent son application au mode coronographique de Darwin et l'établissement des spécifications instrumentales associées. L'apport d'un filtrage spatial des fronts d'onde est aussi étudié.<br />Dans un troisième temps, les technologies en développement, susceptibles d'apporter de nouvelles solutions aux obstacles technologiques rencontrés, et le projet GENIE, précurseur au sol de Darwin sont succinctement décrits.<br />Les spécifications instrumentales établies sont réalisables, à la vue des performances technologiques accessibles à ce jour. Au terme de l'étude, il apparaît donc que la cascade de CIA pourrait être une solution alternative au mode de recombinaison de la mission Darwin.
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Contribution à l'étude de l'interférométrie annulante, pour la recherche d'exoplanètesChazelas, Bruno 30 January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
L'interférométrie annulante est une technique d'observation qui devrait permettre aux missions spatiales DARWIN (Agence Spatiale Eurpéeenne) ou TPF-I (NASA), de détecter et de caractériser spectralement l'atmosphère de planètes extra-solaires de type tellurique et de trouver d'éventuelles bio-signatures.<br /><br />Ce travail de thèse est une étude théorique et expérimentale de cette technique. Après une présentation du contexte astrophysique justifiant l'utilisation de tels instruments, ce manuscrit se focalise sur le problème de l'obtention expérimentale des niveaux d'extinction interférométrique requis pour la détection de planètes (10-5) ainsi que leur stabilisation (elle aussi indispensable à la détection de planètes).<br /><br />Un banc banc interférométrique : NULLTIMATE a été conçu pour la caractérisation expérimentale de déphaseurs achromatiques, l'un des composants optiques essentiels d'un interféromètre annulant. Cet interféromètre de laboratoire doit fonctionner dans la bande spectrale du futur instrument : 618 µm. Il a été conçu pour fonctionner à basse température. Il devrait permettre de caractériser quatre types de déphaseurs achromatiques différents, à la fois en mesurant des niveaux d'extinction élevés (de l'ordre de 10-5) et en mesurant le déphasage introduits par ces déphaseurs en fonction de la longueur d'onde. Ce banc pourra enfin être un bon laboratoire pour tester des techniques de stabilisation de l'extinction.
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Darwinismus und literarischer Diskurs in England am Beispiel von George Eliot und Thomas Hardy /Michaelis, Heike. January 1900 (has links)
Dissertation--Marburg--Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 255-273.
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W. H. Hudson between art and science /Imhoff, Joshua L.. January 2009 (has links)
Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45).
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Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray's Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s)Hung, Kuang-Chi 18 October 2013 (has links)
It is well known that American botanist Asa Gray's 1859 paper on the floristic similarities between Japan and the United States was among the earliest applications of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory in plant geography. Commonly known as Gray's "disjunction thesis," Gray's diagnosis of that previously inexplicable pattern not only provoked his famous debate with Louis Agassiz but also secured his role as the foremost advocate of Darwin and Darwinism in the United States. Making use of previously unknown archival materials, this dissertation examines the making of Gray's disjunction thesis and its relation to his collecting networks. I first point out that, as far back as the 1840s, Gray had identified remarkable "analogies" between the flora of East Asia and that of North America. By analyzing Gray and his contemporaries' "free and liberal exchange of specimens," I argue that Gray at the time was convinced that "a particular plan" existed in nature, and he considered that the floristic similarities between Japan and eastern North America manifested this plan. In the 1850s, when Gray applied himself to enumerating collections brought back by professional collectors supported by the subscription system and appointed in governmental surveying expeditions, his view of nature was then replaced by one that regarded the flora as merely "a catalogue of species." I argue that it was by undertaking the manual labor of cataloging species and by charging subscription fees for catalogued species that Gray established his status as a metropolitan botanist and as the "mint" that produced species as a currency for transactions in botanical communities. Finally, I examine the Gray-Darwin correspondence in the 1850s and the expedition that brought Gray's collector to Japan. I argue that Gray's thesis cannot be considered Darwinian as historians of science have long understood the term, and that its conception was part of the United States' scientific imperialism in East Asia. In light of recent studies focusing on the history of field sciences, this dissertation urges that a close examination of a biogeographical discovery like Gray's thesis is impossible without considering the institutional, cultural, and material aspects that tie the closets of naturalists to the field destinations of collectors. / History of Science
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T. H. Huxley's defense of Charles Darwin's Origin of speciesHarvey, Mary Jolyne, 1934- January 1960 (has links)
No description available.
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Human social values : explorations from an evolutionary psychology perspective.Moomal, Zubair. January 1999 (has links)
The series of papers in this dissertation are aimed at testing evolutionary hypotheses
concerning the adaptive advantages of religious values or experiences, a gender
difference in purpose in life and the evolutionary relationship between deception and self-deception.
Explanations are argued for in terms of their consequences for evolutionary
fitness contributing to individual survival within the human species. Darwin's theory of
natural selection within the framework of evolutionary psychology provides the
theoretical background for the study. In psychology as well as in other social sciences,
Darwinian theories of natural and sexual selection have been undergoing a revival with a
significant upsurge of an interest in evolutionary psychology as a unifying paradigm for
the understanding of human functioning as a living organism, optimising its fitness to
survive the exigencies of environmental and social selection pressures. The broad or
covering hypothesis addressed is that religious values or experiences, purpose in life,
deception and self-deception each involve a kind of consciousness or strategic cognitive
process that has evolved through the operation of natural selection due to its importance
and worth for the survival of the individual. The study is empirical, conducted by using the technique of secondary analysis on the
data yielded by the World Values Survey collected in 43 countries in its second wave of
1990 to 1993 as well as on a South African dataset containing variables of interest to the
second and third papers of this dissertation. National aggregate data has been obtained
from the United Nations Development Reports for the corresponding years under study.
Findings showed a significantly positive relationship between religious values and
evolutionary fitness promoting factors derived by factor analysis; a significantly greater
purpose in life in females as compared to males; and a significantly positive relationship
between deception and self-deception. However, the relationship between deception and
evolutionary fitness promoting factors, derived by factor analysis, was inconclusive. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, 1999.
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Interpretaciones sobre la expresión mano invisible de Adam SmithIndavera Stieben, Leandro Gastón January 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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