The Gentlemen and the Roughs: The Collision of Two Honor Codes in the American North

... cowardice. Conclusion At the end of the War Between the Stat es, the North had bested the South, while in the battle between two competing codes of honor and manliness, the gentlemen had triumphed over the roughs. ... work of the expanding middle class, roughs earned honor and status through the giving and receiving of pain, as they were either...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:31

... retain traces of the ancestral properties of cyanobacteria [4]. The formation of b-carotene is one of the most com- mon steps in the synthesis of carotenoids. It requires the cyclization of lycopene ... desat- urase, which was duplicated, resulting in crtP and crtQ. These two genes would be the ancestors of pds and zds from algae and plants [1]. The lac...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... plains in the North. The Po river runs through a fertile plain where world famous food and wines are produced. Green is undoubtedly one of the dominant colours in the territory of Parma and ... activities include the raising of farm animals and the transformation of raw products into food (cheese, meat, cured meats, etc). Indeed, the province of Parma...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... analysis and Discussion of the Findings 23 2.3.1. Data Analysis 23 2.3.2. Discussion of the Findings 24 2.3.2.1. The students’ assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their ... difficulties in the classroom setting, the research was aimed at finding out: (1) the students’ assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... to nuclear issues in general, the feeling grew in the environmental movement that Yeltsin was increasinglyyielding to the demands of the Ministryof Atomic Power and the nuclear-industrial lobby. 99 Western ... radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan to irre- sponsibility on the part of the Navy and the nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment i...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... formula, in which P stands for the main point; R stands for the reason for the speech; E stands for the example to illustrate the main point and P stands for restating the main point. Secondly, the ... responsible for presenting the introduction; developing the main body of the presentation; reinforcing the ideas outlined in the main body and presenting the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:43

... discovery of a brain-specific MT isoform, GIF, in 1991, sparked considerable interest in understanding the role of all MTs in the brain, and particularly within the injured or diseased brain. In the ... examining the role of GIF in AD, linked to its initial discovery as a factor deficient in the AD brain. There remains no clear con- sensus on the role of GIF...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... recently a machine of the kind has been introduced into the Bristol Post Office. The machine, which is of modern invention, goes by the name of the "Columbia" Cancelling Machine, and is manufactured ... Returned Letter Office therein. Another new feature in Post Office development is the use of Stamping Machines for the rapid obliteration of the post...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... setters and users in understanding the factors influencing firms’ current and future accounting choices, and that allowing flexibility in these financial reporting decisions may result in systematically ... implementation of these standards. Whether the latter occurs can be re-examined as IFRS and IAS 40 continue to be applied within this industry over the coming year...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... suggesting the importance of PKA in protein trafficking [47,48]. In this study, we used PKA knockout mutants to determine the role of PKA in mitochondrial targeting of CYP2E1. In mutants lacking ... were initiated by the addition of 3 mm NADPH, and incubation was continued for 30 min at 37 °C in a shaking water bath. The reactions were terminated by adding 2 mL of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20