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Published: 24 November 2013
...This chapter modifies the numerical code by adding the nonlinear terms to produce finite-amplitude simulations. The nonlinear terms are calculated using a Galerkin method in spectral space. After explaining the modifications to the linear model, the chapter shows how to add the nonlinear terms...
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Published: 20 October 2015
..., including professional designations, kinship terms, and social classes. Foucault Michel taxonomy Borges Jorge Luis Egypt Greece Latin Marcus Verrius Flaccus scholar Sanskrit Akkadian language al Khalīl ibn Ahmad author Amarasinha author China Erya scholarly text gloss Kitāb al ʿayn scholarly...
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Published: 07 April 2020
... that “the commander” should be added to everybody's list of technical terms. bamboo and silk manuscripts 簡帛‎ Griffith Samuel B Heaven 天‎ Sun Bin 孫臏‎ Sun Wu 孫武‎ Sunzi孫子‎ Way 道‎ Wu King Helu of 吳王闔廬‎ fa法‎ Clausewitz Carl von Laozi老子‎ Mozi墨子‎ sage 聖‎ Confucians 儒者‎ humanity 仁‎ qi氣‎ righteousness 義‎...
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Published: 30 March 2014
...This chapter approaches the ontological question, “What are natural kinds?” through another, partially linguistic, question. “What must natural kinds be like if the conventional wisdom about natural kind terms is correct?” Although answering this question will not tell us everything we want to know...
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Published: 26 October 2014
... and philosophy. Through the eighteenth century, tragedy had been considered primarily in rhetorical terms as a way of producing a certain emotional effect, but since 1800 it has more often been considered in speculative terms as a way of making sense of the human world. It is only since around 1800 that works...
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Published: 24 November 2020
... with a scientific psychology. It also organizes the use of virtue terms as evaluations of rightness and connect this use to a significant additional way in which exemplars of virtue are relevant. The chapter defines virtue as a species of character trait, which exposes a theory of virtue to what has come...
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Published: 24 November 2013
...This chapter focuses on time integration schemes, including fourth-order accurate Runge–Kutta and predictor-corrector schemes as well as schemes that allow larger time steps (and therefore fewer steps for a given amount of simulated time) by treating the linear diffusion terms implicitly...
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Published online: 19 October 2017
Published in print: 25 November 2012
...Boilerplate—the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click “I agree” online, rent an apartment, or enter an employment contract, for example—pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate provisions without realizing...
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Published: 30 June 2013
... behavior may involve not only price—the focus of this book—but also nonprice terms, such as product characteristics, territories, and other dimensions of competitive strategy. The logical structure of the analysis presented throughout is largely relevant to nonprice coordination, although, as this chapter...
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Published: 06 June 2017
...This chapter examines how criminal cant terms began to appear alongside a more quotidian if lowly set of terms associated with a common English vernacular during the eighteenth century. Here, the chapter primarily examines the print representations and the work they do, rather than attempting...
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Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 06 June 2017
... representing their language as “strange.” Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it. Odd cant languages, witty slang phrases, provincial terms newly valued...