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1 rigorous
['rɪgərəs]1) (strict) [ discipline] rigido, rigoroso, ferreo; [ regime] duro, oppressivo; [ adherence] stretto, rigido2) (careful) rigoroso, scrupoloso, preciso* * *1) (strict: a rigorous training.) rigoroso2) (harsh; unpleasant: a rigorous climate.) rigido* * *rigorous /ˈrɪgərəs/a.2 rigido; (fig.) inflessibile, severo: a rigorous climate, un clima rigido; rigorous discipline, disciplina severarigorously avv. rigorousness n. [u].* * *['rɪgərəs]1) (strict) [ discipline] rigido, rigoroso, ferreo; [ regime] duro, oppressivo; [ adherence] stretto, rigido2) (careful) rigoroso, scrupoloso, preciso -
2 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
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3 subject
1) предмет
2) объект съемки
3) подвергать
4) испытатель
5) тема
6) подлежащее
7) субъект
8) подчиненный
9) подчинять
10) тематический
– be subject to
– keep to the subject
– subject contrast
– subject copy
– subject index
– subject of inquiry
– subject to
– subject to adjustment
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4 examination
n1) осмотр2) исследование, изучение3) экзамен4) проверка; рассмотрение; экспертиза5) юр. следствие
- audit examination
- bank examination
- bank expert examination
- business examination
- careful examination
- close examination
- commercial examination
- control examination
- court examination
- cross examination
- customs examination
- expert examination
- fair examination
- final examination
- follow-up examination
- formal examination
- independent examination
- investment project examination
- judicial examination
- market examination
- medical examination
- monetary examination
- outer examination
- patent examination
- periodical examination
- preliminary examination
- prompt examination
- quality examination
- quarantine examination
- random examination
- repeated examination
- rigorous examination
- sanitary examination
- specialized examination
- state examination
- strict examination
- superficial examination
- technical examination
- thorough examination
- urgent examination
- visual examination
- examination as to feasibility
- examination as to patentability
- examination for novelty
- examination of accounts
- examination of an application
- examination of the books
- examination of cargo
- examination of a claim
- examination of credit applications
- examination of documents
- examination of equipment
- examination of financial instruments
- examination of an inquiry
- examination of luggage
- examination of materials
- examination of portfolio quality
- examination of samples
- examination of a ship
- examination of stocks
- examination of a tax return
- upon examination
- admit to an examination
- carry out an examination
- conduct an examination
- exempt from customs examination
- hold an examination
- make an examination
- pass an examination
- resume an examination
- schedule an examination
- stop an examination
- subject to an examination
- submit for examination
- waive an examination
- withhold an examinationEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > examination
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6 Nice
1. n геогр. Ницца2. a хороший, приятный, милый, славныйnice home — уютная квартира; хорошенький домик
3. a ирон. хорошенький4. a изящный, элегантный; сделанный со вкусом5. a вкусный, аппетитный6. a любезный, внимательный, тактичный7. a скромный, благовоспитанный8. a требующий большой точности, осторожности, щепетильности; трудный, сложныйnegotiations needing nice handling — переговоры, требующие осторожного и тонкого подхода
9. a щепетильный; безукоризненный, безупречный10. a уместный, тактичный11. a острый; тонкий; чуткийnice ear — тонкий слух, чуткое ухо
12. a точный; тщательный, подробный, скрупулёзный13. a разборчивый, взыскательный; придирчивый; изысканный14. a эмоц. -усил. уст. -застенчивый; жеманныйСинонимический ряд:1. choosy (adj.) choosy; clerkish; dainty; fastidious; finical; finicking; finicky; fussy; miminy-piminy; niminy-piminy; old-maidish; old-womanish; particular; pernickety; persnickety; picksome; picky; precious; squeamish; squeamy2. decorous (adj.) accurate; au fait; becoming; befitting; careful; chaste; Christian; civilized; comely; conforming; correct; de rigueur; decent; decorous; done; exact; meticulous; modest; precise; proper; pure; respectable; right; rigorous; seemly; virtuous; well-bred3. fine (adj.) delicate; fine; finespun; hairline; hairsplitting; refined; subtle4. pleasant (adj.) agreeable; amicable; congenial; excellent; favorable; favourable; friendly; good; grateful; gratifying; marvelous; pleasant; pleasing; pleasurable; pleasureful; welcome5. accurate (other) accurate; critical; demanding; distinguishing; exact; exacting; right6. careful (other) careful; considerate; delicate; discerning; discriminating; particular; tactful7. fastidious (other) choosy; dainty; fastidious; finical; finicky; fussy; minute; neat; trivial8. pleasant (other) admirable; agreeable; delightful; excellent; good; inviting; likable; pleasant; pleasing; superior9. refined (other) cultured; decorous; gracious; polite; proper; refined; seemly; well-mannered; well-spoken10. subtle (other) demure; fine; modest; subtleАнтонимический ряд:coarse; deformed; disagreeable; disfigured; displeasing; grim; haphazard; hideous; horrid; impolite; improper; inaccurate; mean; miserable; misshapen; nasty; naughty -
7 Kirkaldy, David
[br]b. 4 April 1820 Mayfield, Dundee, Scotlandd. 25 January 1897 London, England[br]Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing.[br]The son of a merchant of Dundee, Kirkaldy was educated there, then at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. For a while he worked in his father's office, but with a preference for engineering, in 1843 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Glasgow works of Robert Napier. After four years in the shops he was transferred to the drawing office and in a very few years rose to become Chief. Here Kirkaldy demonstrated a remarkable talent both for the meticulous recording of observations and data and for technical drawing. His work also had an aesthetic appeal and four of his drawings of Napier steamships were shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, earning both Napier and Kirkaldy a medal. His "as fitted" set of drawings of the Cunard Liner Persia, which had been built in 1855, is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London; it is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the world, and has even been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.With the impending order for the Royal Naval Ironclad Black Prince (sister ship to HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth) and for some high-pressure marine boilers and engines, there was need for a close scientific analysis of the physical properties of iron and steel. Kirkaldy, now designated Chief Draughtsman and Calculator, was placed in charge of this work, which included comparisons of puddled steel and wrought iron, using a simple lever-arm testing machine. The tests lasted some three years and resulted in Kirkaldy's most important publication, Experiments on Wrought Iron and Steel (1862, London), which gained him wide recognition for his careful and thorough work. Napier's did not encourage him to continue testing; but realizing the growing importance of materials testing, Kirkaldy resigned from the shipyard in 1861. For the next two and a half years Kirkaldy worked on the design of a massive testing machine that was manufactured in Leeds and installed in premises in London, at The Grove, Southwark.The works was open for trade in January 1866 and engineers soon began to bring him specimens for testing on the great machine: Joseph Cubitt (son of William Cubitt) brought him samples of the materials for the new Blackfriars Bridge, which was then under construction. Soon The Grove became too cramped and Kirkaldy moved to 99 Southwark Street, reopening in January 1874. In the years that followed, Kirkaldy gained a worldwide reputation for rigorous and meticulous testing and recording of results, coupled with the highest integrity. He numbered the most distinguished engineers of the time among his clients.After Kirkaldy's death, his son William George, whom he had taken into partnership, carried on the business. When the son died in 1914, his widow took charge until her death in 1938, when the grandson David became proprietor. He sold out to Treharne \& Davies, chemical consultants, in 1965, but the works finally closed in 1974. The future of the premises and the testing machine at first seemed threatened, but that has now been secured and the machine is once more in working order. Over almost one hundred years of trading in South London, the company was involved in many famous enquiries, including the analysis of the iron from the ill-fated Tay Bridge (see Bouch, Sir Thomas).[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsInstitution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Gold Medal 1864.Bibliography1862, Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Tensile Strength and Other Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel (originally presented as a paper to the 1860–1 session of the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association).Further ReadingD.P.Smith, 1981, "David Kirkaldy (1820–97) and engineering materials testing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52:49–65 (a clear and well-documented account).LRD / FMW
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