... ANIMATE ANDINANIMATE WORLD SIR CHARLESLYELLJOURNEYS INDIVERSE PLACES BY AMBROISE PARETRANSLATED BY STEPHEN PAGETAmbroise Pare was born in the villageof Bourg-Hersent, near Laval, in Maine,France, ... andcharm. Pare's own achievements are recorded with modest satisfaction: "Idressed him, and God healed him," is therefrain. Pare died in Paris in December,1590. by M. Nicole ... C.The works attributed to Hippocrates are the earliest extant Greek medicalwritings, but very many of them are certainly not his. Some five or six,however, are generally granted to begenuine,...
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... antioxidant agent NAC does notTo compare the oxidative effects induced by httEx1-polyQ expression, we used monkey kidney COS-7 cells,which are characterized by a very high yield of trans-fection ... The Authors Journal compilation ª 2006 FEBS by Hsp overexpression. The protective effect provided by Hsp expression was then compared to that media-ted by NAC. It is of interest that even in cells ... stress induced by lactacystin suggests that the rather weak alterationsin proteasome activities induced by httEx1-polyQexpression are not responsible for the oxidative stressgenerated by these polypeptides.Hence,...
... subunit. There are severaltypes of the latter: SUR1 in b-cells and neurons, SUR2Ain cardiac and skeletal muscle, and SUR2B in smoothmuscle and some neurons [1]. SUR2A and SUR2B are encoded by splice ... Kir6.2.SUR2Achannels is attributable to greater ATP hydrolysis by SUR2B than by SUR2A [6]. In this study, we tested thishypothesis explicitly, by measuring the ATPase activityof full-length SUR2A and ... journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors. Such materials are peer-reviewed andmay be re-organized for online delivery, but are notcopy-edited or typeset. Technical support...
... stated that whereas civil and political rights are neg-ative, economic, social and cultural rights are positive rights. Civil andpolitical rights are said to be negative because they require ... educa-tion by international law, the latter a systematic analysis of article 13 ofthe International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.Part A will thus outline how international law ... describe the protection of the right to education by instruments of international law. Chapter 4 will discuss the provisions onintroduction 7rights. They are an important method of clarifying the normative...
... non-declining welfare (Pezzey 1989) while taking environmental restrictions and welfare losses into account. For reasons of measurability, social welfare is usually replaced by per capita consumption ... not all) Pareto conditions are met cannot be considered superior to others, which satisfy a lower number of Pareto conditions.2.3 Economic Sustainability: Maintaining Capital and Welfare 3328 ... (http://www.foe.co.uk/pdf/sustainable_development/tworld/summary.pdf), and the Fair Share Initiative (http://www.fairshareinterna-tional.org/) advocate a fair share of this space for countries and their populations. The...
... institutional sustainability dimensions are quite undeveloped in the FSDI. This may have contributed to the later abandonment of the FSDI by data users. Typically, data users are less concerned or familiar ... particular areas they represent. They do not show the relative significance of any specific area or target. The reason is incomparability of the indicators used for dif-ferent areas. Indicators ... quality, vulnerable areas and protection, fisheries and aquaculture8 Land use and agricultureLand use, biochemicals9 Forests10 BiodiversityThreatened species, protected areas11 Minerals,...
... national welfare. Similar to the above-described welfare indi-ces (Section 7.1.1), extended income and product accounts and derived measures of economic welfare deducted ‘defensive’ (welfare maintaining) ... well-being. There are at least two attempts at countering this criticism.One is to modify the MFA indicators by weighting them with environmental impact factors. A report commissioned by the EU (van ... still do not cap-ture health and welfare effects – neither in terms of physical damage to humans and non-humans, nor by some kind of valuation or evaluation by those suffering the damage. Finally,...
... (Box 8.3). Nor can income be considered as a measure of welfare as suggested by the SEEA, due to the incompatibilityof damage/welfare valuations with market prices (Section 8.1.3). The revised ... disaggregated by economic sectors. The case studies of Mexico and Thailand show that the depletion costs incurred by forestry and mining reduce the conventional value added of these industries by over ... aggregates of EDP and ECF by focusing on the modification of a little-known and Fig. 8.1 SEEA structure and indicatorsSource: Bartelmus (2004), fig.3, p.50; with permission by the copyright holder,...
... in this regard over their corporate counterparts: they are less confined by accountancy laws and rules, they are not directly affected by their own calculations, and their macroeconomic vantage ... Welfare (MEW), the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) or the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) supposedly indicate past and, by extrapolation, future trends of economic welfare generated ... Sweden 1991Source: Hellsten et al. (1999), table 9, p. 63; with permission by the copyright holder, Elsevier.10.2 What Are the Causes? Structural Analysis of Environmental Impact 191Calculating...
... this book, are how close are these environmental constraints and when are we running out of environ-mental support functions? The urgency of immediate and radical action, evoked by environmentalists, ... achieved, e.g. by prohibiting the use of specific inputs, prescribing particular tech-nologies, or protecting the use of land from economic development. A popular way of creating protected areas in ... development is constrained by environmental Fig. 12.3 Sustainability constraints in a linear programming modelSource: Based on Bartelmus (1979), fig. 1, p. 260; with permission by the copyright holder,...
... of awareness. This wider context would, by itsvery nature, be a more attractive context simply because ofthe larger awareness that it allows. First, let’s look at an example. Some people are ... the waythe universe functions, the path taken by natural events. It ischaracterized by spontaneous creativity and by the regularPart II. The Law of Attractionwww.guideforliving.com 27 changes ... Nothing could be fur-ther from the truth. Our careers are an intricate element ofour spiritual lives and an area that needs considerable atten-tion if we are going to attract positive energy into...