... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, andthe strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is forthe president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...
... in the Solar System The road was open before us, ours forthe taking And then the will faded Forthe next 30 years, the trail-blazing was taken up by others, as Americans chose to less risky and ... during their lifetimes, the tide of change inexorably rolls forward, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse The story of the first space stations andthe men and women who built and flew them ... self-centeredness In the early 1970s, the United States had the tools, the abilities, the vision, the freedom, andthe will to go to the stars We had already explored the moon Our rockets were the most powerful...
... refreshed The glade was their pleasure-ground; they wandered hither and thither hearkening each other's speech, and waking the song of the birds by their footsteps Then they turned them to where the ... with the woman, andthe woman with the man; they had the fellowship they most desired, and were where they fain would be In the dewy morning they gat them forth to the meadow where grass and flowers ... darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth 'The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God 'The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and...
... Tables 2, and show the mean and standard deviation for all 40 participants forthe Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking scores andthe Overall scores for Test and Test They also show the improvement ... studying for one more semester before they completed their degree and would, therefore, have another opportunity to take the Test (at their own expense), before they submitted their application for ... disappointing The mean forthe Listening improvement was, however, greater than the improvement for Speaking and Writing The mean forthe Speaking improvement for this group was just 0.16 of a band, and the...
... restaurant or a forest For scenes, the context is the atomic unit forthe description Above these basic levels, multiple hierarchies can be constructed, based on the needs and desires of the users, ... dB), and peak (in dB) Most users would want to know such details of the recording as the location, the time, the distance of the microphone from the source, andthe recording level This information ... size, stereo/mono, and file size Some of them provide schematics of the waveform and previews before downloading The engines that simply search the Internet and provide links to other sites usually...
... paradise, they are at the same time portraying it as harmony with nature: The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat The calf andthe lion andthe yearling together; and ... child will lead them The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, andthe lion will eat straw like the ox The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, andthe young child ... similar to the biblical flood For six days and seven nights, there blew the wind, the downpour, the gale, the Deluge, it flattened the land But the seventh day when it came, The gale relented, the Deluge...
... translator and I then went to the county the day before the festival We privately visited the village and we had opportunities to talk to villagers and observe their way of life I also took photos and ... religion The Zhuang Religiosity under the Chinese Socialist State Traditionally, the Zhuang are polytheists, worshipping ancestors, deities, the sun, the moon, the stars, thunder and light and other ... language, and Liu Sanjie the goddess of They also worshipped many other deities of Taoism and Buddhism such as the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Guandi, andthe Maitreya Buddha, etc However, the ritual...
... inevitably be forced to give up their colonies, the US to recognise the equal rights of their black population, andthe Soviet Union would draw flak for their gulags, forced labour and other forms of ... against the state such as Thailand, Indonesia andthe Philippines, andthe milder forms of public discontent witnessed in Singapore and Malaysia Whatever the case may be and no matter how strong these ... a “privilege” by the ruler), the limitation of the rights of the state and monarch, andthe non-deprivation and non-interference of these “freedoms” by the state Above all, the rule of law was...
... ABSTRACT The thesis focuses on the returnee filmmaker’s identityand postwar shanghai cinema during 1945 to 1949 Through reexamining their films and biographies, the thesis aims to seek the actual ... finally draws the conclusion that the returnee filmmakers imagined themselves as marginalize heroes, andthe style of their films stands in the middle of left-wing and melodrama ambiguously The study ... horizontal reading, and film studies The films and biographies of the returnee filmmakers were not only to redefine and relocate themselves, but also to represent and project the nation This paper...
... way toward solving the problem of pollution Forest protection: Forest protection is not easy for a country where there are so many poor people They need the trees andthe land for survival Government ... policy in the conversion of arable lands into roads and subdivisions, andfor industrial development Maintaining soil fertility though intercropping andthe trees andthe use of nontoxic fertilizers ... realizing thedevelopmentand environmental protection are inequality; such as: - Successful economic developmentand environmental protection go hand in You cannot have one without the other (Former...
... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... diagram shows another way to think of the Defense In Depth concept At the center of the diagram is your information However, the center can be anything you value, or the answer to the question, “What ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their...
... (UNDP and others) What is needed, now and later? International support, cooperation and coordination Current international support to Viet Nam on CC • Support to the mitigation of effects of CC and ... • 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...
... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however, ... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks andthe interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk forthe bank and thus the...
... lay out the framework for sustainable neighborhood development Such development involves six systems and goals, and how they reinforce each other to achieve the goals of each system:— affordability, ... before the highway is built, changing the assumptions used by the traffic planners and their models Traffic increases as home buyers go further out to optimize the value of the house versus the ... ideologues who command the attention of a benighted mass media The media covers the zealots and not the poets, sectarianism and not spirituality, the conflicts that divide us and not poetry than...
... costs andthe expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... receiving some help, the sources of the help was asked The list covered both informal and formal care-givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure ... in five tables The first table reports the probabilities for not using the service andthe rest of the tables give the probabilities for using the services with certain intensity The EVERGREEN...
... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications forthe health sector and other sectors, andthe ... National Institute for Public Health andthe Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Rudolf Hoogenveen National Institute for Public Health andthe Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Alan A Jackson ... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north andthe Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the...
... standardization with the WHO standard population Standard deviations between countries in parentheses The data treat countries that belong to the former Soviet Union as less developed forthe ... London and England and Wales excluding London As the table shows, mortality rates in London were more than double the mortality rates in England and Wales Szreter and Mooney (1998) further demonstrate ... Age-specific death rates for England and Wales, and London from Wrigley et al (1997, Table 6.14) and Landers (1992, Table 3), respectively To compute the rates of England and Wales (without London),...
... remaining, they want the ball in their hands Others end up heroes by accident The ball finds them with time running out They simply what comes naturally—focus on the rim and shoot forthe victory ... explores the most popular shots in basketball andthe players who made them their own SET SHOT The set shot is basketball’s oldest shot The shooter sets both feet on the floor and then launches the ... the energy of the leap into the wrists and fingertips At the top of the jump, the player releases the ball—making sure to line up the eyes and shooting arm with the target One of the first great...
... with old cities andthe social conflicts and miseries they embodied Mumford saw the need for change in the way development was taking place in the twentieth century He sought thedevelopment of ... structuring of the spaces and places of labor, life and leisure, there is the potential for new social and spatial forms and relations to develop (1997) He points to the possibilities of transforming ... around the world and are not exclusive to the Western experience The questions they raise are still broad and their applicability free from the confinements that certain other Western theories...
... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, andthe moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, andthe crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... of the ancestors in the voices of fire and water We are then told that those who have died "have never left" and that they are "not under the earth." Rather, they are in the rustling trees, the...