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... answered the child, ‘for father and mother to eat out of when I am big.’ The manand his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently began to cry. Then they took theold grandfather to the ... is my husband!’ she quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove, the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, andthe parson in the closet on the porch. Then she ... calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow.’ the woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the...
... grateful to the Curator of Manuscripts there,William Noel, to the conservator of manuscripts, Abigail Quandt, to the imagers of the manuscript, especially Bill Christens-Barry, RogerEaston, and Keith ... triangle having the same base as the segment and an equal height.3Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and wetook the trouble of preparing their proofs. They are these: first, ... equal to the line drawn from the vertex of the segment to the circumference of the circle which is the base of the segment.5Next to these, that, in every sphere, the cylinder having a1 The later...
... point, however, the potato entered a turbulent sea of slander and semantics. The slander came at the hands of the Swiss botanist Caspar Bauhin, who wrote in the last years of the sixteenth century ... 135CHAPTER14 THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE ANDTHE OLD WORLDS And the trees are as different from ours as day from night; and also the fruits, and grasses and stones and everything. Christopher ... Columbian Exchange andtheOld Worlds 137ones? And, for that matter, why should they eat foods to which they were unaccustomed and that demanded new preparation methods? Weaning the peasantry...
... assessments • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders andthe wider public• Refine the CCA strategy• Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments• Mainstream reduction ... strategies and plans for 2011 and beyond; in public investment decisions; and policy instruments such as SEA • Articulate VN policies, strategies and plans on vulnerability reduction in the context ... vulnerabilities, with national and international resources, public and private• Stress capacity building at all levels, and focus on the most vulnerable social groups, localities, andthe most sensitive...
... in their approach. Some introduce the curriculum as a stand-alone course and others integrate it into another course with similar goals and objectives. Some make it an “examinable” and others ... school-based sexuality education in the 1980s. The emergence of HIV/AIDS gave many governments the impetus to strengthen and expand sexuality education efforts and, currently, more than 100 countries ... preventing HIV among students who might otherwise adopt risky behavior, these programs have many other benefits. They prevent STDs and associated infertility, and they prevent unwanted pregnancy, which...
... at the conference andthe WorldBank andthe IMF were created along U.S. lines.Unlike the U.N. also founded at the time, the World Bank andthe IMF were controlled by one-dollar one-vote rather ... decisions about the mandates and structure of the organizations.This is because the U.S.’ voting share is 17.16%in the IMF and 16.41% in the World Bank and inboth organizations changes to the Articles ... should attach themselves to the expand-ing markets of the U.S. and other wealthy coun-tries. McNamara wanted the World Bank to sup-port “special efforts in many countries to turntheir manufacturing...
... affinity by 100-fold andthe lifespan of the complex by 10-fold, as judged by koff. The physiologicalchaperone cycle probably consists of the rapid bindingof the N-terminus of the partner, regardless ... 100 mM NaCl. The upper panels show the raw data for the heat effect during the titrations; the lowerpanels are the binding isotherms.Table 2. Thermodynamic parameters of NarG(1–15) and NarG(1–28) ... injecting the ligand into the protein-free buffer solution or by addi-tional injections of peptide after saturation. The obtainedvalue was then subtracted from the heat of the reaction toobtain the...
... if the many textual notices about him being the younger brother of the great grammarian Panini are right) and its subsequent exposition by other mathematicians. The term “golden section” (goldene ... universal standard for ‘beauty,’ either in the human face or in the arts.” (Livio, 2002b) In this note I first present the background to the golden mean and its relationship to the Mount Meru ... propose the romantic idea that in the golden ratio “is contained the fundamental principle of all formation striving to beauty and totality in the realm of nature and in the field of the pictorial...
... The Majors of GolfComplete Results of The Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860–2008MORGAN G. BRENNERVolume 1(Introduction; Abbreviations; The Open; ... The Open; U.S. Open)McFarland & Company, Inc., PublishersJefferson, North Carolina, and London31T Smith, Leslie A 95 97 19232T Anderson, David, Sr. 97 98 195Anderson, James, Sr. 96 99 ... TOURNAMENTS The Open Championship / 1889–1890 19Pos Player A R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot P/M WKidd, ThomasManzie, Tom AMiller, J. AMorris, James Ogilvie FairlieSimpson, D.Smith, Andrew W. (Scotland) A1877...
... Davos and parts of the Wash-ington Beltway (especially in the vicinity of the International Mone-tary Fund andthe World Bank Headquarters), there is and should bea growing recognition that the ... toinfluence it, remain timely questions now as they were then. The ad-mission of China and Taiwan to the World Trade Organization(WTO), andthe economic and other consequences of this change instatus, ... descending order to the economies of the U.S. andthe EU,with Japan, Korea, and China well below them, but grouped fairlyclosely to one another, for the time periods covered by the measure-ments.4....
... concerned with England and Wales on the one hand and continental Europe – notably, although not exclusively, the Netherlands – on the other. The major differences between the common law and civil law ... and this applies not only to children and sex, but to many areas with which the criminal law, increasingly, is con-cerned.Unlike the Netherlands, the history of criminalisation in England and ... concerning privacy in the sense of autonomy.LIMITING THE POWER OF THE STATE? The first and foremost harmonising influence emanating from the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms...
... thatwas the case; FRET was observed only when the receptor was co-expressed with the appropriate a sub-unit of the G protein and not in the other case.Although there is discussion in the literature ... GavÞ2rð4Þwhere Ri and Gi are the red and green intensities of voxelI, respectively, and Rav and Gav the average values of Ri and Gi, respectively.It is used for describing the correlation of the intensitydistributions ... attached to the D1MUT receptor. The black dotted curve shows the intensity decayof the donor alone (D), andthe dark gray dotted curve shows the intensity decay of the donor in the presence...
... outcomes (mortality and hospi-talizations), except for Chagas’ disease(20, 21). This is true both for the entirepopulation of Bambuí and for just the older persons in the community. The results of ... (two ormore) in the preceding 12 months, and using the public system as their sourceof health care (Table 3). The use of pre-scribed medications in the preceding 3 months andthe number of visits ... consumption, suchas the costs of having a refrigerator and lighting, which are somewhat the same regardless of the number of per-sons in the household. In addition,studies have shown that the relation-ship...
... invertebrates and is flanked by a RING-1 zinc finger and a CCCHzinc finger. Here we show that human, Drosophila and Caenorhabditiselegans Roquin and human MNAB localize to the cytoplasm and uponstress ... indi-cated by a wedge above the relevant lanes, andthe absence ofany added protein is indicated by ()). The position of the free RNA and of the loading slots is indicated to the right of each gel.Roquin ... in tandem,whereas the 1–484 proteins may initially bind as mono-mers and then dimerize, thus contributing to the high and low molecular mass complexes seen in the REMSAgels (Fig. 6). The minimal...