«Bridging the Gap Wondering how similar animals are to us is not a recent question to philosophy or research science. Pet owners ...» Document abstract
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SummaryWondering how similar animals are to ourselves is not a recent question to philosophy or research science. Pet owners are all aware of the mystery behind how it seems like a beloved cat or dog just “knows” when the day has been horrible. More recent research has taken this philosophical question to a different level by examining the cognitive abilities of a number of animals, and what drives some of their more intelligent behaviors. How animals communicate with one another, or how they seem to communicate with us in domestic situations, has been a hot topic for several decades. At the heart of this is studying animal language acquisition. Researchers have been trying to determine if any animal, particularly the great apes, are capable of understanding and using a human language system. Many studies have been undertaken to assess the language skills of common chimpanzees, the bonobo chimps, and several different skills of the gorillas.
« The genius of his work in bridging the gap between the old and the new was repeated throughout the 20th century by various architects. . ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThroughout the latter half of the 18th and through the 19th century, architecture remained stagnant in design and innovation. There were many great buildings designed during the time, but they all were stuck in the past, usually echoing the Gothic and Greek structures of old. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution fully took hold, that architects were finally able to break out of the mold and began a new age of design: modern architecture. With the advent of new technologies such as poured concrete and exposed steel, architects now had new materials with which to work. One such architect, Peter Behrens, was one of the first to incorporate these new materials into his works, in an attempt to bridge the past and present. Behrens finest achievement was his AEG Factory in Berlin, an immense building designed to house the production of turbines for the company. This great work of architecture was the first in a long line of industrial buildings that gave, as Behrens said himself, “architectural dignity to the workplace.”
Table of Contents- Throughout the latter half of the 18th and through the 19th century, architecture remained stagnant in design and innovation.
- The modernist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was revolutionary in the art world, especially in the field of architecture.
- When looking at the building from the outside, the first thing that one notices is the gigantic steel beams that run along the side of the building.
- When one steps into the interior of the building it is truly a site to behold.
- Though Behrens's AEG Factory was not the first factory designed with steel and glass, it was truly the first 'modern industrial building?.
- The genius of his work in bridging the gap between the old and the new was repeated throughout the 20th century by various architects.
« alterations on behavior in the intact animal as well as on long-term potentiation in vitro has provided a means of bridging the gap between intraneuronal ...» Document abstract
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biology
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SummaryIn its simplest form, the postsynaptic response to neurotransmitter release can be mediated by a single protein complex. For example, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are self-contained stimulus-response modules that both detect a stimulus, acetylcholine, and generate a response, passage of ion currents. In a similar vein, other members of this superfamily of ionotropic receptors, including g-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate receptors, have the ability to function in a manner that is independent of the intracellular signaling pathways discussed. Thus, in contrast to growth factor or G-protein–coupled receptors, which often recruit elaborate cascades to elicit a response, the simplicity of self-sufficient ionotropic receptor complexes represents an optimal design for achieving reliability, precision, and speed. However, this view of ionotropic receptors as insulated from their social environment has had to be abandoned in the face of overwhelming evidence that this class of receptors is dynamically regulated by intraneuronal signaling pathways. Although these receptors do not rely on intraneuronal signaling pathways to operate ion channels, because these channels are an intrinsic feature of the receptor complex the linkage between ligand binding and ion channel gating is nevertheless subject to regulation by the network of intraneuronal signaling pathways just described. For example, phosphorylation of the GABA or glutamate receptors modulates their response to ligand exposure.
Table of Contents- Long-Term Depression The principle that ion channels are regulated by second messenger pathways is of central importance in considering how neuronal responses are altered by experience.
- Long-Term Potentiation The notion that coactivation of multiple second messenger pathways can have a qualitatively different impact than any one individually is also borne out in another well-known model of synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation.
- This unusual property of NMDA receptors provides a molecular mechanism for conferring associative properties on long-term potentiation.
- Role of Phosphorylation The associative property of this model of synaptic plasticity has focused attention on deciphering the intraneuronal signaling pathways that mediate the long-term change in synaptic transmission triggered by NMDA receptor stimulation.
- Actions of Psychotropic Drugs In addition to providing insight into the molecular mechanism underlying synaptic plasticity, studies of intraneuronal signaling pathways are also directly relevant to deciphering the mode of action of psychotropic drugs.
- Evidence supporting this theory has been provided by recent studies demonstrating that opiate withdrawal is attenuated in transgenic animals that are deficient in CREB.
« knowledge bestowed upon them by a supposed esteemed individual, but in visual media's ability to display events immediately while bridging the geo-spatial gap. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryWhile screening clips of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and analysis of the “insurgency” spews forth from the mouth of an “expert” on the conflict, Fox News’s scrolling news ticker reports Homeland Security’s terrorist alert level on loop, warning its viewers that “terrorism”, namely Islamic, continually threatens their daily lives. However, the term “terrorism” is ambiguous. Its sheer emptiness as an objective word is propagandized to cement the belief that the American nation is under siege. Of course, it was due to the belief in a persistent external threat, “terrorism” as in Saddam Hussein’s supposed potential ability to terrorize the United States with biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons, that the public backed President George W. Bush’s decision to declare war on Iraq in 2003. However, the looping of the 9/11 attacks on television screens for the weeks after the cataclysmic event solidified the siege mentality, which had been compounding upon itself for years, in the United States creating a populace that was ignorant of their complicit support for the spectacle and the neo-liberalism it espouses. However, equally terrifying as 9/11 is the terror of the maintenance of the status quo through the forceful expansion of the spectacle and its neo-liberal values. The expansion of the spectacle has severed neo-liberal populaces from reality via instantaneous telecommunication promoting instantaneous fear and the subsequent desire to be sheltered from external threats. And yet, the people mechanically promoting the spectacle are unaware that through their support they are, in fact, caught in a perpetual cyclical terrorization.
« trilogy to a status in and of its own, enabling it to communicate a message unlike any other movie, perhaps even bridging some of the inherent gap its medium ...» Document abstract
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SummaryMario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy of organized crime masterpieces, collectively known as The Godfather trilogy, have impacted America unlike any movie since. Rather than filling the movies with hours of bloodshed and unnecessary gore like so many mafia-oriented movies, Puzo and Coppola instead chose to write a great story, focusing on issues left out of most mob movies, and then supplement this story with tasteful, almost theatrical violence used to make a point about the style of life depicted in the movies. The story of the Corleone family, the New York City organized crime family The Godfather trilogy focuses on, is one of mixed emotions, of love for family, but at the same time of murder, ruthlessness, and cutthroat business tactics.
Table of Contents- Perhaps more than any other ethnicity, the Italian-American Corleone family depicted in Puzo's novels and books value family above all else.
- When it comes to the importance of family, The Godfather trilogy fails to live up to the incredible standard set by the novel.
- Along with the importance of family, Puzo's Godfather novel and movies also masterfully depicts the lure of greed, and the inherent destruction it causes.
- In my opinion, Puzo's novel just does not depict the downfall of Michael Corleone as graphically or as precisely as The Godfather trilogy.
- It would be impossible not to compare Vito Corleone to any great businessman of fame, like John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, both famous for using ruthless and unethical tactics to better their respective businesses
- Through both of the mediums Puzo chooses to use to tell his beautifully crafted story, we see the importance of family, the lure of greed, and a bitter satire of the American dream
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