anderson s theory of vitality and the biodemography of survival

... economic issues such as competitiveness and debt dynamics These issues, and the implications of the ECB s interest rate decisions, were explained with regards to the multiple crises affecting the Eurozone ... data as the data available at the time of this investigation, March 2012, are late enough to represent the revised versions of many of the numbers used The issue of the “timings” of the data is addressed ... economic crisis has intensified this debate and the questioning of the long-term viability of the Eurozone as the prospect of a breakup of the euro is increasingly viewed as possible.” While the potential...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... bladder, and sanjiao ) are Yang The symptoms of sickness also can be classified: chill and a slow pulse are symptoms of Yin, while fever and a fast pulse are symptoms of Yang The Five Elements The theory ... conditions The paper consists of two parts The first part (Sections II and III) investigates the origins of East Asian cultural characteristics Philosophical backgrounds such as Confucianism and Taoism ... ancient East Asians combined the trigrams with a variety of images such as animals, members of the family, numbers, parts of the body, compass directions, seasons of the years, etc (see Table 4) The...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 08:16

... introduction of subsidies and incentives to boost the production of biofuels SNEP fell short of proposing any form of subsidies and or incentives after setting the targets In order to meet the set target ... between the cost of producing biofuels and the cost of producing petroleum derived products some authors have suggested the removal of all subsidies on petroleum derived fuels whiles others have ... [11] Also, it was assumed that the hydrolysis of starch to glucose goes to completion whiles the conversion of glucose to ethanol also goes to completion (The theoretical conversion of glucose to...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... the mix, to bring the heterogeneous whole under firmer pressure and control: so long as this mixed constitution of our nature possesses us, we pay it tribute and serve it; so soon as we possess ... Irish, he suggests, ‘ the guilty authors of Fenianism’’ owed themselves no less Reviewing the whole corpus of Arnold s Irish writing into the  s, Seamus Deane aptly remarks that it ‘‘establishe [s] ... the viability of this view and, at the same time, argue that something other than this is just as important here For as Dewey suggests, the uses to which the essentializing historicist representation...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... ideas This of course strikes us as absurd, because we always think of the existence of the object as the presupposition of the existence of the knowledge of it; we not think the existence of the ... of mathematics and those which form the presuppositions of physics And it is Kant 's aim to relate these classes to the sensibility and the understanding respectively His view is that mathematical ... is physical rather than metaphysical, and is based upon our possession of physical organs It assumes that the reality to be apprehended is the world of space and time, and it asserts that by the...

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... rebelliousness against feudal rulers of China is similar to the rebelliousness of Chinese immigrants against the unjust and racist policies of the United States Many immigrants defied the rules that they ... independent of one another Symbols of women merge the images of mother and wife, while those of men merge the images of father and son Sun Versus Moon Myths: Battle of the Sexes The popular sun myth ... had its own set of stories and legends that sustain its people and nurture its children As groups immigrate to other lands, they cherish these stories and legends while creating new ones of their...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20

... a symbol as s1 s2 , where s1 and s2 are the symbols of two given substitutions We shall always understand by the symbol s1 s2 the result of carrying out first the substitution s1 and then the substitution ... an Then ss−1 = s0 and s 1 s = s0 , [8] CHAPTER I so that s is the substitution inverse to s 1 Now if ts = t s, then tss−1 = t ss−1 , or ts0 = t s0 But ts0 is the same substitution as t, since ... given, is the substitution , S1 , S2 , , SN −1 , Si Sj , S1 Si Sj , S2 Si Sj , , SN −1 Si Sj or the product of any two of the N substitutions is again one of the substitutions of the set Moreover...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... -graphs must be treated separately There is a basic species relationship which permits the expression of the unrooted species in terms of the rooted ones It plays the role of the classical Dissimilarity ... -structures according to their stabilizers, within the language of species It is interesting and useful to have at hand the first few terms of the molecular expansion of CB -graphs This is possible ... unlabelled CB -structures Three examples are given in this section Finally, in Section 4, we present the molecular expansion of some of these species It consists of a descriptive classification of the unlabelled...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20

... Options Action Change the settings for Turn off hard disks as well as System standby and System hibernates (Fig 3) Set these to several hours or Never to ensure the computer doesn’t switch itself off ... The Beginner s Guide to Broadband and Wireless Internet Section 9: Switching Broadband Providers Essential Information The speed of broadband services continues to rise and the cost continues ... trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries Napster screenshots copyright © Napster PhotoBox screenshots copyright © PhotoBox Ltd Singingfish screenshots copyright...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2014, 21:29

... bond shop would never survive the Mexican peso crisis of 1994; and they did the same again through the Russian crisis of 1998 They had weathered rumor, had survived scandal, and had even ousted their ... Adam; Steve was Hoss, and Joe, for obvious reasons was Little Joe " She said Chris, "the leader always the first in, was Pa " Neporent came up with the idea because Lessing, the chubbiest of the ... hardscrabble resourcefulness exemplified by the credo "The Trader Knows Best" and a selfless embrace of the "one firm" mantra In 1980, as they looked around Wall Street and saw the excesses of the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 13:49

... lessons have they learned from their previous successful (and not-so-successful) cross-border transactions? What pitfalls should be avoided in various stages of the deal and post-merger process? ... succeeds, the owner claims all the benefits If it fails, the owner sustains all the losses Lack of control, and the negative consequences this entails, is perhaps the most frightening scenario for the ... industries are alike, of course The need to seize opportunities as soon as they arise explains why some Japanese firms buy first and consider the details later “In certain industries and types of...

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... definition fails to bring out the specific features that make artworks what they are He insists that his theory stresses the importance of the institutional framework against which works of art are ... distinguishing between art and non-art in controversial cases (due to its excessive inclusiveness) Precisely because of its commitment to accommodating the “openness” of the concept of art and ... that, for the reasons Weitz has given, the issue of what art is cannot be completely separated from the question of what the artworld calls art But I hope to have shown that these two issues should...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... them) and the number of responses per practice Although both host studies were randomised controlled trials, we analysed them as two cross-sectional studies on the basis that any effect of the ... and theoretically [15] In studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... them) and the number of responses per practice Although both host studies were randomised controlled trials, we analysed them as two cross-sectional studies on the basis that any effect of the ... and theoretically [15] In studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... funds; they screen and select potential fund-users on the basis of creditworthiness, assess the quality, risk, and profitability of investment projects, allocate funds, monitor their use, and seek ... producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure of the circuit As discussed, the ... unnecessary to further improve the bank’ risk position s and counterparties, on their side, might consider for them unnecessary to further assess the riskiness of the bank Finally, the inadequacy of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of ... Nowadays, finding covered songs are so easy, they appear in most CDs of most singers “Music cover” is not a new concept Most singers choose to cover a song of other musicians or singers to make their ... studies and shows what the achieved points and the weakness in each study are After that, it states personal opinion of reporter about previous studies and the purpose to this research Data analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53

... Parkinson s Disease Parkinson s disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer s motor skills and speech ... to aspects of study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, and the handling of dropouts and ... in the clinical status of the patient Confidence intervals measure the robustness and stability of the estimate of the odds ratio, and if the confidence interval excludes 1.0, then there is a statistically...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications – to the objects of our possible intuition ... is recognized also as the principle of the figurative synthesis, i.e., of the forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic ... the transcendental synthesis of imagination Imagination is the faculty of representing in intuition an object that is not itself present But inasmuch as its synthesis is an expression of spontaneity,...

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