The reflectormirror is the most important component of an astronomical optical telescope. This chapter provides discussions on the requirements for astronomical optical mirrors; the ways to reduce mirror weight, mirror cost, and mirror materials; the methods of mirror figuring, polishing, and surface coating; the design of mirror support mechanism; the concept of mirror seeing; and the stray li...

The article is devoted to the consideration of qualities Napoleonic and Alexanderian empire as a “style empire” their manifestation in musical historical tradition France Russia first half XIX century. typology this style directly associated with essence concept “empire” universal state, pursuing goals world domination or leadership possessing kind cultural civilizational mission. For French ab...

The human mirror system has been the subject of much research over the past two decades, but little is known about the timecourse of mirror responses. In addition, it is unclear whether mirror and counter-mirror effects follow the same timecourse. We used single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate the timecourse of mirror and counter-mirror responses in the human brain. Exper...

In this chapter, a unifying framework of emergent artificiality grounded in a computationalist metaphysics is presented. First, an approach to unification based on Simon's concept of artificiality and briefly described in chapter 4 is re-examined. A problem with this approach is reviewed and an appropriate solution strategy outlined. The notion of unification is investigated and a brief survey ...

June 2003 and the eighth European Pattern Languages of Programming conference may yet prove to be the most historic. On the Friday there emerged the first activity of an extremely ambitious experiment which, it is hoped, will run over twelve months and more. If the experiment is successful it may reshape the thinking of the Patterns Movement. The aim of the experiment is to validate the feasibi...