He argues past or present is very similar: that we have participated with a tragic common civilizational process of environmental degradation, economic consolidation, and lack of political representation for many millennia which has predictable outcomes.

The signage remains, although weather degradation and graffiti have degraded its appearance.

Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech are incomprehensible to others.

"</ li >< li > from thesis 17: " The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having " and now " of having into appearing "</ li >< li > from thesis 10: The Spectacle is " affirmation of all human life, namely social life, as mere appearance "</ li >< li > from thesis 6: " The spectacle ... occupies the main part of the time lived outside of modern production.

These retail changes have been accompanied by a degradation of the mall's physical appearance, which has deteriorated to the point that its owner, Glimcher Realty Trust, labeled the mall a " fixer-upper ".

These include changes to the environment in which the software operates, degradation of compatibility between parts of the software itself, and the appearance of bugs in unused or rarely used code.

Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

This punishment and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian were originally the same ; but when in the course of time a distinction was made between the rural or rustic tribes and the urban tribes, the motio e tribu transferred a person from the rustic tribes to the less respectable city tribes, and if the further degradation to the rank of an aerarian was combined with the motio e tribu, it was always expressly stated.

This degradation, properly speaking, included all the other punishments, for an equestrian could not be made an aerarius unless he was previously deprived of his horse, nor could a member of a rustic tribe be made an aerarius unless he was previously excluded from it.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

This was an important advantage at a time when lubricants and their degradation were little understood.

On December 7 the gas supply in the attitude control system was exhausted, and on December 10 and 11 a total of 83 micrometeoroid hits were recorded which caused perturbation of the attitude and degradation of the signal strength.

This was the start of the degradation of the Magar empire.

The drunkenness and lawlessness created by gin was seen to lead to ruination and degradation of the working classes.

The importance of proteolytic degradation inside cells and the role of ubiquitin in proteolytic pathways was acknowledged in the award of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose.

Before the discovery of the ubiquitin proteasome system, protein degradation in cells was thought to rely mainly on lysosomes, membrane-bound organelles with acidic and protease-filled interiors that can degrade and then recycle exogenous proteins and aged or damaged organelles.

It was then discovered that a previously identified protein associated with proteolytic degradation, known as ATP-dependent proteolysis factor 1 ( APF-1 ), was the same protein as ubiquitin.

Later, the ATP-dependent proteolytic complex that was responsible for ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation was discovered and was called the 26S proteasome.

However, the enzyme discovered by Ochoa ( polynucleotide phosphorylase ) was later shown to be responsible for RNA degradation, not RNA synthesis.

Historian David Carter remarks in his book about the Stonewall riots that the bar itself was a complex business that represented a community center, an opportunity for the Mafia to blackmail its own customers, a home, and a place of " exploitation and degradation ".

American psychiatrist Loren Mosher noticed that the psychiatric institution itself gave him master classes in the art of the " total institution ": labeling, unnecessary dependency, the induction and perpetuation of powerlessness, the degradation ceremony, authoritarianism, and the primacy of institutional needs over those of the persons it was ostensibly there to serve-the patients.

Branding ( perhaps the equivalent of degradation to slavery ) was the penalty for slander of a married woman or vestal.

Destruction, alteration, and degradation of wetland habitats constitute the most significant threats to the Wattled Crane, perhaps one of the most habitat sensitive of all cranes.

However, if protein misfolding cannot be avoided, perhaps the cell ’ s natural mechanisms for degradation can be bolstered to better deal with the proteins before they begin to aggregate.

The compulsive act, which normally ends in orgasm, is perhaps the starkest reminder of the degradation involved in the addiction as the person realizes they are a slave to the addiction.

Thermal methods are the most commonly used and consists in increasing temperature to accelerate destabilisation ( below critical temperatures of phase inversion or chemical degradation ).

Although the additives used have made cyanine more stable, it is still the most sensitive of the dyes in UV rays ( showing signs of degradation within a week of direct sunlight exposure ).

Water and wind erosion are now the two primary causes of land degradation ; combined, they are responsible for 84 % of degraded acreage, making excessive erosion one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.

Thermal methods are the most commonly used-these consist of increasing the emulsion temperature to accelerate destabilization ( if below critical temperatures for phase inversion or chemical degradation ).

Rock wool is made from molten rock, basalt or ' slag ' that is spun into bundles of single filament fibres, and bonded into a medium capable of capillary action, and is, in effect, protected from most common microbiological degradation.

Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

This is the lifecycle that the phage follows following most infections, where the cII protein does not reach a high enough concentration due to degradation, so does not activate its promoters.

Of the many examples where the sea bed provides an extremely hostile environment for submerged evidence of history, one of the most notable, the RMS Titanic, though a relatively young wreck and in deep water so calcium-starved that concretion does not occur, appears strong and relatively intact, though indications are that it has already incurred irreversible degradation of her steel and iron hull.

The most degradation is found in areas where there is water, such as aquifer oases or along the desert margins where some rain usually falls most years.

Despite the inevitability of soil retrogression and degradation, most soil cycles are long.

In most cases the important instabilities are long wavelength, global modes, because of their ability to cause severe degradation of energy confinement or termination of the plasma.

Unfortunately, the pressure also subtly degrades the image in the plate, smoothing the roughened areas and closing the lines ; a copper plate is good for, at most, a few hundred printings of a strongly etched imaged before the degradation is considered too great by the artist.

* Lubricants: Neem oil is non drying and it resists degradation better than most vegetable oils.

The greater processing power of most systems that run Mac OS X ( compared to systems intended to run Mac OS 8 or 9 ) helps to mitigate the performance degradation of Classic's emulation.

Marine mammals that live in coastal environments are most likely to be affected by habitat degradation and loss.

As revealed in the 2003 DVD release, the reissue of The Gold Rush also served to preserve most of the footage from the original film, as even the DVD-restored print of the 1925 original shows noticeable degradation of image and missing frames, artifacts not in evidence in the 1942 version.

Melting points and glass transition temperatures for most polymers are available from standard compilations, and the method can show polymer degradation by the lowering of the expected melting point, T < sub > m </ sub >, for example.

ODC is the most well-characterized cellular protein subject to ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation.

Although most proteins must first be tagged with multiple ubiquitin molecules before they are bound and degraded by the proteasome, ODC degradation is instead mediated by several recognition sites on the protein and its accessory factor antizyme.

Pathetic and very terrible is the long history of cruelty and torture, of degradation and human sacrifice, endured in the hope of placating the jealous gods: surely, the trembling believer thinks, when what is most precious has been freely given, their lust for blood must be appeased, and more will not be required.

Possibly the most closely studied of the variable Sun's biological effects has been the degradation of homing pigeons ' navigational abilities during geomagnetic storms.

The most common form of degradation, however, is a decrease in polymer chain length.

One of the most limiting aspects of analog technology is the sensitivity of analog media to minor physical degradation ; however, when the degradation is more pronounced, analog systems usually perform better, often still producing recognizable sound, while digital systems will usually fail completely, unable to play back anything from the medium.