a history of modern britain book

... information-handling machines, played. Information or ‘‘intelligence’’ has been a crucial part of all warfare, but as a means to an end. In the Cold War it became an end in itself. This was a war of code-breaking, ... Eckert and Mauchly designed and built the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The ENIAC was an electronic calculator that inaugurated the era of digital ... programmers, and soft- ware specialists that had to be hired into the company to manage a machine that was supposed to eliminate clerical workers. It was not until 1990 that commercial software came to...

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... Comes of Age, 1956–1964 71 quality of ‘‘random access’’: that any piece of data was as accessible as any other, in contrast to the sequential retrieval of a datum from a deck of punched cards or a ... penetration of computing two decades later, in the form of automatic teller machines, bar-coded products scanned at supermarket and retail check-out stations, and massive financial and personal databases ... editorial hand of Santo (Sandi) Lanzarotta, and especially Robert Forest after 1963, Datamation developed a perfect balance: relentless criticism of IBM for its alleged heavy hand, tempered by a passion...

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... k 1 ,k 2 Lumped parameters k l a Mass transfer parameter, s –1 L Length of hypha, m L e Length of main hypha in hyphal element, m L emax Maximum length of main hypha capable of withstanding fragmenta- tion, ... fitting easier and easier. Unfortunately, this is often at the expense of observations, because the performance/price ratio of modern analytical apparatus remains much more constant. An often neglected ... remains empirical (the “flora” is a typical example of a non-mechanistic structured approach: it shows all the different organisms in a habitat – and often their parts as well – in a systematic...

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... other than human and animal chemotherapy, such as the promotion of growth of farm animals and plants and the protection of plants against pathogenic micro- organisms. Cooperation on the development of ... enzymes (amylases, proteases,pectinases),amino acids (glutamate,lysine,threonine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid, tryptophan), flavor nucleotides (inosinate, guanylate), and poly- saccharides (xanthan ... the major discovery of the potent activity of the avermectins against helminths causing disease in animals and humans. Avermectin’s antihelmintic activity was an order of magnitude greater than...

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... k 1 ,k 2 Lumped parameters k l a Mass transfer parameter, s –1 L Length of hypha, m L e Length of main hypha in hyphal element, m L emax Maximum length of main hypha capable of withstanding fragmenta- tion, ... University of Pennsylvania USA M. Moo-Young, University of Waterloo Canada C.W. Robinson University of Waterloo Canada J. Carreau Ecol. Poy.Techn. Montreal Canada A. W. Nienow University of Birmingham ... University of Waterloo Canada C.W. Robinson University of Waterloo Canada M. A. Bergougnou University of Western Ontario Canada H. Kölbel TU Berlin Germany H. Hammer TH Aachen Germany H. Langemann,...

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... Samples of submersion cultures are made available with the aid of a tapping and preparation unit. Complete R & D programmes can be run automatically nowadays and automa- tion will foreseeably ... played an important role.Alkanes and various fractions of crude oil,later also methane and methanol served as substrates for bacterial SCP. The first research was undertaken in France (Champagnat ... demand, there is 5.5% of uncultivated land avail- able. The harvests by hectare will have to reach the usual average of 4 tons. This Biotechnology in Switzerland and a Glance at Germany 197 offer...

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... empirical support (Farley and Ring, 1970), and a partial formalization of constructs was made by Hunt (1976). A metatheoretical analysis of all three models along 16 subjective criteria was made ... boundaries of a given trading area: A trading center and a town in . . . its trade area divide the trade of the town approximately in direct proportion to the population of the two areas and ... (1978) ‘Marketing as Exchange: A Theory of Transactions in the Marketplace’, American Behavioral Scientist 21 (March/April): 535–56. Bagozzi, R.P. (1979) ‘Toward a Formal Theory of Market Exchanges’,...

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... Turiyâtîta, 68 Sa@mnyâsa, 69 Paramaha@msaparivrâjaka, 70 Ak@samâlâ, 71 Avyakta, 72 Ekâk@sara, 73 Annapûrnâ, 74 Sûrya, 75 Aksi, 76 Adhyâtma, 77 Ku@n@dika, 78 Sâvitrî, 79 Âtman, 80 Pâ'supatabrahma, ... Nârâya@na, 21 Nârâya@na, 22 Paramaha@msa, 23 Brahma, 24 Am@rtanâda, 25 Atharvas'iras, 26 Atharvas'ikhâ, 27 Maitrâya@nî, 28 B@rhajjâbâla, 29 N@rsi@mhapûrvatâpinî, 30 N@rsi@mhottaratâpinî, ... Taittirîya, 7 Aitareya, 9 Chândogya, 10 B@rhadâra@nyaka, 11 S'vetâs'vatara, 12 Kau@sitaki, 13 Maitreyî, 14 Kaivalya, 15 Jâbâla, 16 Brahmabindu, 17 Ha@msa, 18 Âru@nika, 19 Garbha, 20 Nârâya@na,...

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... equal." Then Arthur was sad no longer. He did as Merlin advised, and had a great round table made, at which there was a seat for each one of his knights. After that there was no more quarreling ... the armor, weapons, jewels, and other riches he had taken from the conquered people. After the war with Britain was over Claudius had a Triumph. The fame of Caractacus had already reached Rome, and when ... that many of the women of Britain were as brave and as wise as the men, and quite as difficult to conquer. After Boadicea had been so cruelly and unjustly treated, she burned with anger against...

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... remembrance of past injuries melted away before the sunshine of Christian love; and, before the ship reached Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, and now almost a Christian. This meeting was ... more favourable—Preliminary voyage of Active—"Noah's Ark"—Arrival of mission in New Zealand—Interview with Whangaroans—"Rangihoo"—Landing of Marsden, &c.—Preparation ... motives—Dismissal of Henry Williams by C.M.S.—Removal to Pakaraka— Subsequent history of Bay of Islands. CHAPTER XI. SACRIFICE AND HEALING (1850-1856). Selwyn visits Chatham Islands—Melanesia—Progress at...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... observed, of the modern practice of advertising), has played a great part in establishing authoritative opinions and propagating religious creeds. Reason fortunately is able to avail herself of the ... authority has had great advantages. At any time the people who really care about reason have been a small minority, and probably will be so for a long time to come. Reason’s only weapon has ... scientific arguments as if they were the radiant revelation of a new world; and the rapture of his enthusiasm is a strange accompaniment of a doctrine which aimed at perfect calm. Although the...

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... Slaves apparently carried a 30-day warranty against certain disorders. For example, if a slave was attack ed by epilepsy within one m onth of purchase, the seller had to reclaim that slave an d ... remaining tissue is sewn shut. Female circumcision is seen as a way of ensuring chastity and was often practiced as a coming of age ritual and a prerequisite to marriage. HEALING RITUALS, TRADITIONS, ... scope and quality. Part of the problem was undoubtedly lack of systematic knowledge of anatomy, asepsis, anesthesia, and the failure of a small tribal unit to provide enough ‘‘clinical material’’...

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... Biot and Savart; Faraday's Rotating Con- ductor and Magnet and Barlow's Wheel; Sturgeon's Electromagnet, Galvanometers; Ampère's and Ohm's Laws. 4 FARADAY AND HENRY ... 1729, Gray and Wheeler electrified larger surfaces such as a map and a tablecloth. In August of the same year, Gray found that he could produce charges at the end of an insulated packthread line merely ... in 1778 by Sebald Justin Brugmans of Holland. A diamagnetic substance is one that has a permeability in air or in a vac- uum of less than one. A bar or needle of such a substance when free...

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... Chinese Baseball Association cbl China Baseball League cpbl Chinese Professional Baseball League ctba Chinese Taipei Baseball Association iba International Baseball Association ioc International ... match, against Aichi Icchu, attracted over twenty thousand people. When the team returned to Taiwan, four of Nenggao’s players, Axian (Teruo Inada), Jisa (Dazo Nishimura), Luoshaweili (Masao ... than a year and a half after Taiwan was returned to China. It erupted when antitobacco-smug- gling kmt agents attempted to confi scate black market cigarettes from an elderly Taiwanese woman....

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