The System of Mineralogy. Volume II by J. W. Dana, E. S. Dana, C. Palache, H. Berman and C. Frondel

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Interest in Japanese distribution as a field of academic study has waned in recent years, but there is a continuing concern with the activities of Japan’s general trading companies or Sogo Shosha. This research has concentrated largely on their function as international trade intermediaries but it has overlooked their role in the domestic economy. In recent years, the same Sogo Shosha have expa...

Dana Spiegel

A group, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is an assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together. In a social context, this usually implies a shared psychological goal or physical state, and in the real world, often both. The set of students in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is such a group, sharing the academic goal of studying social interactio...

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Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far away planet. Would their mathematics be setbased? What are the alternatives to the set-theoretic foundation of mathematics? Besides, set theory seems to play a significant role in computer science, in particular in database the...

First Is Best Dana

We experience the world serially rather than simultaneously. A century of research on human and nonhuman animals has suggested that the first experience in a series of two or more is cognitively privileged. We report three experiments designed to test the effect of first position on implicit preference and choice using targets that range from individual humans and social groups to consumer good...

Dana Mackenzie 2007