The present study investigates the application of a general purpose modeling and optimization approach, called "Tendency Modeling", to the catalyzed epoxidation of oleic acid.
After he came to the States in 1988 on a literary exchange program -- and decided to stay when China's burgeoning free speech and democracy movement was violently closed down by the government the following year -- in 1993 he founded, with a group of writer friends, like himself all Chinese exiles in their 30's, a magazine called "Tendency".
Yasuko Yokoshi offered an excerpt from a longer piece called "Tendencies and Strategies". In only a brief time, she managed to imitate an elevator, mimetically respond to statements in an English phrase book for foreign speakers and place a box over her head in despair.
They must be called tendencies precisely because they are both rooted in, hence inseparable from, the duration that informs all life, all change, all becoming.
Camus called the tendency to dehumanize those who stood in the way of history the problem of "abstraction".
Meanwhile, Abhijit Banerjee of MIT, while commenting generally favourably about the substance of the report was disappointed in what he called a tendency toward "knee-jerk macro-ism".
Timothy Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said he was more concerned about what he called the tendency of mainstream network news to "glamorize protests".
The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, has called that tendency "flood, rebuild, repeat," citing $5.5 billion spent between 1978 and 2015 to repair or rebuild more than 30,000 properties that had already flooded multiple times.
Set up by a bunch of design students from Bauhaus University in 2009, My Bauhaus, now called New Tendency, holds exhibitions of conceptual design and sells small editions of furniture and objects.
Integrity is undergoing what C.S. Lewis, in his "Studies in Words," called "the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative... and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for good and bad".
The remarks were made a day after Mr. Bush, addressing the Israeli Parliament, spoke of what he called a tendency toward "appeasement" in some quarters of the West, similar to that shown to the Nazis before the invasion of Poland.
