... world of inde-pendent political communities bound together by the rule oflaw ratherthan by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can thereforebe said to have been the pioneers ofthe ... (such as the booby-trapping of temples), the use of poison, the destroying of wells andthe sowing of dissension in the enemy’s ranks.46Thestruggleformoderationinwarhasbeenalongone – and one ... thelawof war. It tells the story, in narrative form, of the interplay through the centuriesbetween,ontheonehand,legalideasaboutwarand,ontheotherhand,statepracticeinwarfare.Neffcovers the emergence,...
... "one ofthe chief pleasures of God and his angels, and the saved souls, will be the witnessing ofthe tortures ofthe damned in[Pg 92] Hell, from the walls of Heaven." Andthe ceremonies of ... Does There—Rebirth and Its Laws—What is the Final State ofthe Soul? The Message ofthe Illumined. CHAPTER VIII. THE JUSTICE OF REINCARNATION 134 The Contrasting Theories ofthe Soul and ... 101] the experiences ofthe past life, and prepares for the next step. The period of rest varies with the degree of attainment gained by the soul, the higher the degree the longer the rest. The...
... 5.1. The era of the League of Nations 116Đ 5.2. The era of the United Nations 122Đ 5.2.1. Violation of the prohibition ofthe use of force,in particular the prohibition of ... possess the right to uphold their borders ifthese are threatened either from the outside or from the inside. On the otherhand, the right of self-determination was, in the ... the creation of their ownState on the basis of an alleged right of self-determination, and the attempts of the parent States to preserve their territorial status quo, is the ...
... with the identification theorythan with the competition theory.III THE "COMPETITION" THEORY OF FUNcTIONALriY AND ITs TESTSA. The "Competition" Theory The "competition" ... this is the role of the competition theory. Because the identification theory preventsmonopolization of even more features than the competition theory, the identification theory ... ordained purview of the copyright and design-patent laws.259 Thus, the competition theorypermits the overbroad extension of trademark law. The competitiontheory's inadequacy...
... increasehasbeennotable,72Thisisnottodenysuccessfuleffortsbyanumber of countries,includingChina,toexpandmarketsinotherEME’s. Of coursethisstillleaves the broaderquestion ofthe robustness ofthe totality of thosemarketsin the event of aseriousdownturnin the AME’s.73ThisproblemisanalogoustothatfacedbyJapanesecorporationsin the 1990’s,aftermanyyears of debtfinancedinvestmentwhichprovedunprofitable.Koo(2003)stronglycontendsthat the weakness of investmentspendinginJapanin the 1990’swasduetothis“balancesheeteffect”, and wasnotduetoashortage of loanscausedbyaweakenedbankingsystem.74SeeBIS(2012)p29forafullerdocumentation.AlsoseeMcKinsey(2010)whoidentify the householdsectorinfive ofthe fourteencountriestheyconsiderashavingahighprobability of futuredeleveraging.TheyidentifySpain, the US, the UK,Canada and Korea.While the householdsectorsinBrazil,Russia,China and Indiawerenotjudgedtobeoverleveraged,notethat the dataconsideredextendedonlyto2009.Thus the reportmissed the recentsharpincreasesinhouseholddebtlevelsinthosecountries. ... screen.Byway of example only, futures brokersdemand margin, and customersoften over margin. The broker can invest the excess, and often a substantial portion of their profits ... isimportanttonotethatKeyneshimselfwasnotconvinced ofthe effectiveness of easymoneyinrestoring real growth in the face of a Deep Slump. This is one ofthe principal insights ofthe GeneralTheory.21Incurrentcircumstances,twoquestions...
... location of wetland, the economic and ecological value ofthe wetland, andthe type and incidence of human threat [2]. They are used as basis for the formulation of conservation priorities, the ... livelihood ofthe people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development andconservationofthe wetland. The multi-level action plan for theconservationof forest wetlands in the MD ... Fig.1: The Mekong River Basin and Land forms ofthe MD in Vietnam The main objective of this article is the presentation ofthe forest wetland inventory process, applied to both the inland and...
... responsible for the focus on the health of children under five years of age, and he was the leader in the definition ofthe health status and determinants indicators that framed the literature ... sanitation, and air pollution) 3. “Overview of Urbanization in Asia andthe Near East”: trends and projections of urban growth and population density in three cities and assessment of urban poverty and ... design of effective program interventions to improve the health of these children. The report tries to deal with the questions of what is different about the living situations and life chances of...
... cyclization between the anomericC1 of this ribose moiety (commonly termed ‘northernribose’ while the ribose linked to N9 of adenine iscalled the ‘southern’ ribose; Fig. 1) andthe N1 of the adenine ... northern and southern riboses are pri-marily necessary as linkers between the base adenine(or hypoxanthine) andthe diphospho-bridge, as theycan be replaced by much simpler ether strands. Theseether ... ether strands. Theseether strands mimic the distance between the nucleo-base andthe diphospho-bridge, but on the other handlikely are involved in polar interactions with the cADPR receptor protein....
... collection and analysis of epi-demiologic and other dataã Development of policies and procedures andof a planfor controlling TB, on the basis ofthe assessment of the problemã Assurance of diagnostic, ... health, their skills and capacities, the places where they work, the way they are organized, the equipment and systems available to them, andthe fiscalresources they command) represents the public ... between the jurisdictional healthdepartment andthe affected community. The communityshould gain an understanding ofthe TB problem as it relatesto them and should participate in the design of the...
... existence', and therefore makes use ofthe content ofthe AGENTIVE qualia role (i.e., the qualia role indicating how a type is brought into existence) of its internal argument to determine the corresponding ... questioned the coherence ofthe class of achievement verbs, arguing that not all of them are non-durative. As noted above, Vendler identifies punctual events through the conjunction ofthe (positive) ... unified way, and therefore might surpass all the existing accounts of event structure. References Asher, N. and J. Pustejovsky (1999) The Metaphysics of Words in Context. Ms., Brandeis University....
... three-fourths ofthe leaders ofthe Convention, four ofthe five members ofthe Committee of Detail which drafted the Constitution, and four ofthe five members ofthe Committee of Style which gave the ... the standing law, of which the Constitution would be part and parcel, belongs to the Judiciary. The final disposition ofthe question of insuring the conformity of ordinary legislation to the ... preference in the presence ofthe candidates, the election officials, andthe assembled multitude. In the intensity ofthe struggle no voter, halt, lame, or blind, was overlooked; and a barrel of whisky...
... out whether the risks of important asymmetries in the income effects exist in these early stages of EMU. The approach taken starts with the financial balance sheet of firms and households and weights ... interest rate. The lower the level of long-term interest rates, the higher the impact of a change in the long-term rate on the underlying value of stocks. At the current level of long-term rates ... computation on the basis of Table 2, Table 4 and Tables 5a and 5b. The "size" column reports thethe item as percentage of GDP for 1998 (1997 for France) as in Table 4 andthe share of variable...
... revolution in the industry (Lado, Boyd and Wright 1992). Developing a match between the firm’s resources andthe suc-cess factors in the industry is a demanding task andthe success ofthe match ... source of sustainable competitive advantage (Castanias and Helfat 1991). In summary, the essential elements ofthe resource-based view ofthe firm are the firm’s key resources andthe role of management ... Fahy, Smithee / Strategic Marketing andthe Resource Based View ofthe Firm Strategic Marketing andthe Resource Based View ofthe Firm John Fahy University of Limerick Alan Smithee Alloa...
... rn is the rate of growth of total population, ru is the rate of growth of utilization per capita, rp is the rate of growth ofthe general price level, rr is the rate of growth ofthe ratio ... ratio ofthe medical price level to the general price level, and rφ is the rate of growth of the “residual” term. In sum, the rate of growth of health care spending is the addition of the individual ... where the ratio of long term care expenditures to GDP at any time ‘t’ depends on the rates of growth ofthe disabled andthe working age-groups andthe base-year level ofthe ratio of long-term...