japan through the looking glass
... JAPAN THROUGH THE LOKING GLAS ALAN MACFARLANE Japan.indb iiiJapan.indb iii 13/5/08 16:34:3013/5/08 16:34:30 46 japan through the looking glass … In the crowded city, among the poorest ... art is still rather indistinct in Japan. The Japanese elevate their artist-craftsmen to the highest prestige rank in Japan by designating them ‘National Living Treasures’. These include potters, ... take place. The ‘group’ may only meet once, and for an hour, yet in a sense it then lasts for ever in the memory. The individual has become complete in the eyes of the other. In metaphors...
Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:24
... ten men with clubs in their hands came into the garden. Next came the King's men. There were ten of them, and they had red diamonds on their clothes. The children of the King and Queen came ... large room. The King and Queen were there. They sat on big chairs above all the animals and birds. All the cards were there too. Near the King was the White Rabbit. He had a paper in his hand ... no,' said the Rabbit. 'We have to call people into the room, and ask them questions.' 'All right then. Call the Mad Hatter!' said the King. The Mad Hatter came into the room....
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu Truyện ngắn tiếng Anh: Alice in wonderland ppt
... see the Queen.' ♦ First, ten men with clubs in their hands came into the garden. Next came the King's men. There were ten of them, and they had red diamonds on their clothes. The children ... not your size! The cook sang the song too. When they finished, they sang it again. The Duchess started to throw the baby up and down. At the end of the song, she threw the baby to Alice. 'Here, ... everything and everybody back!' said the King loudly. Alice put them all back in their places. Then the King asked, ' What do you know about these tarts ?' ' Nothing,'...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21
Tài liệu Free Cash Flow: Seeing Through the Accounting Fog Machine to Find Great Stocks doc
... in either the capital expenditures line in the Investing section or in the Financing section. The amount must be disclosed in a footnote. The last example: So many public companies had been incorrectly ... described in the proxy. Chapter 9 pro- vides guidance for the investor’s initial foray into Free Cash Flow investing. Some of the topics addressed include finding stock candidates, screening, using the ... provide the informed investor with the tools necessary to navigate a changing investment landscape. In George Christy’s new book, Free Cash Flow: Seeing Through the Accounting Fog Machine to Find...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Enhancement by a-tocopheryl hemisuccinate of nitric oxide production induced by lypopolysaccharide and interferon-c through the upregulation of protein kinase C in rat vascular smooth muscle cells docx
... for 5min. The amount of protein of the solubilized cells was determined with a bicinchoninic acid protein assay kit (PIERCE, Rockford, IL, USA) using bovine serum albumin as a standard. The solubilized ... pathway leading to NO production. Protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors, but not protein kinase A inhibitors, inhibited the enhancing effect of TS on LPS/IFN-induced NO produc- tion. Furthermore, TS ... [8–15,29], the inhibitory effect of TS on the cell growth at higher concentrations might prevent the increase in the enhancing effect of TS on LPS/IFN-induced NO production in VSMC. Therefore,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Arabidopsis thaliana CYP77A4 is the first cytochrome P450 able to catalyze the epoxidation of free fatty acids in plants potx
... forma- tion by introducing the oxygen between carbon 9 and 10 of oleic acid before incorporation of the monomer into the cutin. In this context, it is interesting to note that inhibition studies ... encoding a fatty acid x-hydroxylase, a putative epoxide hydrolase, several genes encoding enzymes involved in the synthesis of fatty acids in plastids, including the stearoyl acyl carrier protein ... experiments. In the first experiment, we incubated radiolabeled linoleic acid with micro- somes in the presence of an increasing concentration of unlabeled linolelaidic acid, and did not detect any inhibition...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Insulin induces heme oxygenase-1 through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway and the Nrf2 transcription factor in renal cells pptx
... administered to establish the role of protein synthesis in insulin-induced HO-1 expression (Fig. 2B,C). CHX abrogated HO-1 protein induction following insulin treatment but, in agreement with other ... differentiation. On ligand binding, the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase initiates multiple signaling cascades, including activation of the phos- phatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway and its downstream ... required for insulin-induced HO-1 accumulation. Nrf2 translocates to the nucleus following insulin treatment In ACHN cells treated with increasing concentrations of insulin for 1.5 h, the nuclear...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion potx
... dogmatism; if in the Greek by explaining it away through scepticism; in the Hebrew it is hushed by the holier logic of the feelings. The two former illustrate steps in the intellectual progress of free ... satire are, their credulity in giving way to Peregrinus; their unintelligent belief in Christ and in immortality; their factiousness in aiding Peregrinus when in prison; their pompous vanity in martyrdom, ... create caution in measuring the degree of sinfulness involved in individual cases of doubt. Yet the inclination to condemn in such instances contains the fundamental truth that the moral causes...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: cAMP increases mitochondrial cholesterol transport through the induction of arachidonic acid release inside this organelle in Leydig cells pdf
... in serum -free media containing 0.5% fatty acid -free bovine serum albumin. Then, cells were incubated in either the presence or absence of 1 m M 8Br-cAMP for 30 min. After washing the cells, they ... the notion that Acot2 is the thioesterase involved in the release of AA inside the mitochondria. Our model explaining how AA is released into the mitochondria also supports the concept that the ... steroidogenesis using 300 lm AA in the pres- ence of albumin. These different results can be explained by the fact that protein binding can increase the overall concentration of fatty acids present in an aqueous...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20
Alice's adventures in wonderland activity book
... chains wig witness teacup jurors 1. The King and Queen were sitting on their when Alice arrived. 2. The Knave was standing in front of them, in . 3. The Rabbit had a in one hand. 4. The ... change into a and then into a butterfly. 2. Alice thinks it feels to change sizes. 3. The Caterpillar told Alice to keep her 4. Alice looked over the of the mushroom. 5. Alice couldn’t find the ... sentence. 1. The Rabbit was looking around as if it had lost . a) everything b) something c) someone d) nothing 2. Alice ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:52
Alice's adventures in wonderland
... the King asked Alice. “Nothing,” said Alice. “Nothing at all?” asked the King. “Nothing at all,” said Alice. “That’s very important,” the King said, turning to the jury. They were just beginning ... standing in front of them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard him; and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a piece of paper in the other. In the ... asked, looking at Alice. “Yes!” shouted Alice. “Come on, then!” shouted the Queen, and Alice joined the procession, wondering what would happen next. When they reached the croquet-ground, the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:52
Báo cáo " Reconstructing sedimentary environments of MR1 core and investigating facies’ geotechnical properties through the piezocone penetration test in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene periods in the Mekong River Delta " docx
... yr BP [9]. The fall in sea level led to the lowering of the base level of the river, resulting in an incised valley. The MR1 core was within this incised valley system. Following the last glacial ... clayey silt, together with faint laminae in the lower part and discontinuous parallel laminae, flaser and lenticular bedding in the upper part. These features indicate that the sediments were ... showing that the marine area occupied the delta except for some upland in the northern part of the island in the MRD [9]. A marine transgression succession, incised-valley fill sediments including...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
Report of the Independent Audit into the State of Free Speech in Australia potx
... 2005, the overriding principle governing the provision of information from the government at the request of the Senate was a genuine claim of public interest immunity. According to Evans, in ... Review 429, 451. The ‘public interest’ is an elusive concept: in one instance it might be attached to the maintenance of free speech and the free flow of information, while in another it can mean ... in the Act: Media and the Law in 2006" in Official Spin: Censorship and Control of the Australian Press 2007 The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance report into the state of press freedom...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20
Improving Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing Countries: A Practical Orientation Guide pptx
... participate together in collaborative improvement, the results achieved in any of them are spread to the remainder in the same learning community. The participating sites re-organize their delivery ... other and plan changes. Then they would return to their home organizations for an “Action Period” where they would test those changes in clinical settings. Since the Breakthrough Series’ inception, ... spreading (scaling up) the improvement to other sites. Developing a work plan for spreading the changes demonstrated by the collaborative to other sites, or throughout the system. 4 · Improving...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20