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...waxing chart above is a demonstration of how snow conditions and temperature combine to determine the optimum...
...design by Harris and Architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee testifies to the perhaps inadvertent wisdom of earlier eras. Everything about the two 19th century concert halls that Harris reveres-Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal and Boston's Symphony Hall-has an optimum effect on the sound produced. Like them, the new Fisher Hall is a rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will...
...field is a miracle of modern Astroturf-cultivation. Nothing separates it from the carpeting in a Mather House room except for its color--it remains the traditional green. It also slopes down on both sides from midfield to allow for optimum drainage...
...administration, sees the issue of Brown-Beasley's working relationships far differently. For the best systems development, Champion says, there must be a cooperative effort between the various people involved. Not only does Brown-Beasley not fit into the cooperative method, Champion says, but he believes that "what is optimum in any given situation is his idea and that no one else's position is important unless they agree with...
...Science. Recent work by Harvard professors Lewontin, Gould, and Levins has scrutinized some important and inadequately worked-out areas of natural selection theory; i,e. the methodology underlying efforts to ascribe phenotypic characters to effects of "heredity" and "environment"; the degree of determinism in evolution; the degree to which optimum genotypes can be favored by selection under conditions of polygenetic determination of characters and complex selection pressures. These writers' arguments do not, however, reduce the significance of work by Hamilton, G.C. Williams, Orians, Selander, Trivers, and Wilson on the evolution of social behavior. I believe that most biologists familiar with...