This early, semi-exclusive exposure to finance, coupled with a culture that valued literacy, abstract thinking, trade and specialization (the Babylonian Talmud amazingly presaged Adam Smith's paradigmatic pin factory), gave Jews the human capital necessary to succeed in modern capitalism.
In particular, as a universal and widely valued, yet abstract stimulus, music is ideally suited to probe interactions between reward, affective and cortical information processing circuitry (Omar et al., 2011; Salimpoor et al. 2013).
Not many people value abstract life perceived as a statistic as much as the actual child being fed, hugged, nurtured and played with.
The children of that first successful wave of Asian-Americans really did have I.Q.s that were higher than everyone else's — coming in somewhere around 103. Having worked their way into the upper reaches of the occupational scale, and taken note of how much the professions value abstract thinking, Asian-American parents have evidently made sure that their own children wore scientific spectacles.
Most are populated by a yes/no field (i.e. those starting with 'Has' in Table 3); however, some contain values abstracted from study data.
Identified events are classified as definite, probable, suspect, no MI or unclassifiable using information on presenting symptoms, medical history, and pertinent laboratory values abstracted from medical records[ 33].
Experience might be valued in the abstract, but it's a sharp dagger to aim at anyone who's spent more than a long weekend in the nation's capitol.
That's what the Abstract Expressionists valued about him.
His 18-room duplex contained one of the largest private collections of Mark Rothko's large abstract paintings, valued at over $150 million.
