... included in this volume, which I’ve called I Never Knew There Was a Word For It , because I didn’t My vocabulary is now ten times richer than it was six years ago, as I hope yours will soon be too ... , The Meaning of Tingo and hit follow-up Toujours Tingo In memory of my father I Never Knew There Was a Word For It ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD With illustrations by Sandra Howgate PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN ... PENGUIN BOOKS I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS A WORD FOR IT Adam Jacot de Boinod, hunter of perfect and obscure bon mots, is a true linguistic...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:35
... minutes before he had rejected So then the watchman was again watchman ‘That was an unpleasant dream,’ said he; ‘but ‘twas droll enough altogether I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: ... besides, it was as dark as pitch All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince’s father, went out himself to open it It was a Princess who was standing ... in the procession was a priest Astonished at what he saw, the Councillor asked what was the meaning of all this mummery, and who that man was ‘That’s the Bishop of Zealand,’ was the answer ‘Good...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20
initially scientists believed there was a special
... fm = 10-15 m), atom size is ~1 Å (1 Å = 10-10 m) For an uncharged 12C atom, there are protons, neutrons and electrons Therefore the nucleus, which is responsible for ~3600/1 parts of the mass, ... accept electrons an ion is formed Consider lithium (3 total electrons) There is only one valence electron Lithium will therefore easily lose an electron to create a lithium ion (which has a ... solution the concentration of [H3O+] and [HO-] are equal Therefore [H3O+] = [HO-] = x 10-7 M Acidic solutions have an excess of [H3O+] Therefore [H3O+] > x 10-7 and [HO-] < x 10-7 Due to the...
Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:45
Báo cáo y học: "Successful renal re-transplantation in the presence of pre-existing anti-DQ5 antibodies when there was zero mismatch at class I human leukocyte antigen A, B, & C: a case report" doc
... positive cutoff for our assay was 2254 for the T cell and 2169 for the B cell pronase crossmatch Figure shows the large amounts of serum anti-donor DQ5 antibodies immediately before transplantation ... prednisolone, mycophenolic acid and tacrolimus He was not treated with plasmapheresis or intravenous immunoglobulin He had excellent initial function and was discharged with a serum creatinine of 1.3 ... panel of reactive antibodies was 44% Class I and 80% Class II HLA by screening flow beads (One Lambda, Canoga Park, USA) In addition, analysis of his serum months before his second transplant...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21
there was an old woman
... 10 11 12 13 14 15/0 There was an old woman Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic Teaching Resources who lived in a shoe Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic ... Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic Teaching Resources and plenty of bread Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic Teaching Resources Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an ... so many children, Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic Teaching Resources she didn’t know what to Nursery Rhyme Readers: There Was an Old Woman © Scholastic Teaching Resources...
Ngày tải lên: 28/01/2015, 15:47
scientific american - 1994 06 - was there a race to the moon
... which was correct, I think, was that as a soldier I would be entirely useless, and as a mathematician I could be of some use,ể he says ềOf course, that was in the days of Hitler, and I was entirely ... mathematics One problem, he says, may be that there are too many mathematicians, especially good ones ềWhen I was much younger, I thought there was a danger that mathematics would be stiòed by ... turbulence, was easily visible before correction, but its companion was just a fuzzy, dim patch Both stars exhibited a shimmering motion over several arc seconds When the compensation loop was switched...
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 14:56
22. There is only a chair ............... leg was broken. a. whose b. which c. when d. that a 23. potx
... c assemble d put down c 38 She the clothes when suddenly it began to rain a washes b washed c has washed d was washing d 39 We’ve gone up by 15% in this factory a activity b liability c ... The purchased of Louisiana was one of the biggest events in the history of the United States a purchased b was c events d history a Grammar and Vocabulary 11 There was so much about the proposal ... notice b 21 When she went into the bathroom, he had nothing on a was wearing nothing b was cracking a book c was doing nothing d was covering nothing a 22 Nowadays, many people yoga to relax...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
THERE ONCE WAS A CLASSICAL THEORY: Introductory Classical Mechanics, with Problems and Solutions pdf
... a total force there equal to F F1 d/6N = d 6N n(n − 1) = nF (1.65) We therefore see that a force F applied at a distance is equivalent to a force nF applied at a distance /n, as was to be shown ... and how to apply F = ma There s a bit of math here needed for solving some simple differential equations Chapter deals with oscillations and coupled oscillators Again, there s a fair amount of ... solving linear differential equations, but there s no way to avoid it Chapter deals with conservation of energy and momentum You’ve probably seen much of this before, but again, it has lots of neat...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20
THERE ONCE WAS A CLASSICAL THEORY Introductory Classical Mechanics ppt
... a total force there equal to F F1 d/6N = d 6N n(n − 1) = nF (1.65) We therefore see that a force F applied at a distance is equivalent to a force nF applied at a distance /n, as was to be shown ... and how to apply F = ma There s a bit of math here needed for solving some simple differential equations Chapter deals with oscillations and coupled oscillators Again, there s a fair amount of ... solving linear differential equations, but there s no way to avoid it Chapter deals with conservation of energy and momentum You’ve probably seen much of this before, but again, it has lots of neat...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo y học: "Can Occult Cystobiliary Fistulas in Hepatic Hydatid Disease Be Predicted Before Surgery"
... in group A External drainage was performed to patients (40%) and external drainage+omentopexy was performed to patients (60%) in group B There was no patient who was performed cystectomy in group ... underwent surgical treatment for HHD The diagnosis of HHD was confirmed by US and/or CT in all of the patients and it was confirmed that there was no other cyst in the other solid organs by the same ... communication was determined in 14 patients (26.4%) and intracystic suture ligation was performed on the site of biliary leakage Intracystic suture ligation was performed on patients (33.3%) in group B There...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00
Báo cáo y học: "Grb2-associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy"
... protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Aichi Cancer Center, with which the chief investigation (N.H.) was affiliated at the enrollment of study subjects The case group was 202 patients ... the control group the former was used and in the case group both were used.) An ELISA value of 2.3 or over was regarded as positive for both tests The infection was confirmed in all gastric cancer ... Nagoya University between January 1998 and June 2000 Informed consent was obtained from all the subjects This study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nagoya University Graduate...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37
Báo cáo y học: "Prion propagation in vitro: are we there yet"
... and 150 mM NaCl, pH5.0-6.8 was used 37-39 ‡ NaOAc: sodium acetate Cell-Free Conversion Assay A milestone was reached by Caughey and colleagues when the first PrP-res was formed in an in vitro ... amyloid fibril formation was monitored by thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence, which demonstrated that conversion rate was dependent on many parameters Amyloid fibril formation was more rapid in neutral ... of the reaction under these conditions was reduced 25-50% in comparison to reactions containing GdnHCl.16 The second major Int J Med Sci 2008, modification was the establishment of the solid-phase...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:52
87 Things You Need to know Before You File Before You File
... involved in an accident where someone was hurt, for example, a car accident? Yes No Date accident occurred Who was at fault? Who was involved in the accident? Was any insurance money received? Yes ... of debt so the problem did not occur again — thereby causing the society as a whole to grow and prosper Our United States government knows that if there is no way to forgive heavy, burdensome ... house payments like you normally now, outside the bankruptcy (Note: There is pending legislation currently being debated in Washington D.C to change this law, making it harder for people to file...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:40
Trade and Poverty Is There a Connection
... markets have largely disappeared The status quo ante was one of a sole parastatal buyer; the status quo is that often there is no buyer at all or, if there is, the terms of trade are so poor that transactions ... altogether in remote areas Even if the latter was justified economically in the aggregate, it still left remote farmers with a huge problem This was exacerbated by the difficulties of their re-entering ... policies in Zimbabwe, there appeared to be a substantial improvement in market outcomes over the period 1991-97, including an increase in competition in the cotton market (Table 1) Before the reforms,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:51
A vietnamese – english cross – cultural study of the use of hedging before giving bad news
... It seems to me ………I want to be as accurate as I can be Seems to me the last time she was there to see Barry before Christmas we were joking (… ) and so I said would qualify or something like that ... like “I just say” - I just say getting there is not easy as it looks - A: Have you ever been there? B: Well somewhere in the Middle East _ Relevance hedges (i) There are hedges English Vietnamese ... face or any aspect of an FTA, and then there appear positive and negative politeness strategies when the speaker goes on-record with redressive action Therefore, it is worthy of note that politeness...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
Cấu trúc there is, there are
... béo sữa không béo + THERE ISN'T ANY MONEY IN MY WALLET = Trong bóp tiền tôi, lấy xu THERE ARE NOT + Danh từ số nhiều + (nếu có) THERE ARE NOT viết tắt: THERE AREN'T - VD: + THERE AREN'T MANY XICH ... THERE IS NOT + ANY + Danh từ số + (nếu có) THERE IS NOT viết tắt: THERE ISN'T - Lưu ý: + Ở thể phủ định, dùng dạng viết tắt nhiều - VD: + THERE IS NOT ANY FAT IN SKIM ... thức thể nghi vấn: IS THERE ANY + Danh từ số + Trạng ngữ (nếu có) ? - Có thể thay ANY SOME (một ít) - VD: + IS THERE ANY MILK IN THE FRIDGE? Trong tủ lạnh có sữa không? + IS THERE ANYONE HOME? =...
Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:42