beyond the black river

... overtook the waggons, and with the truncheon of a sword, began to cut the drivers down. Some leaped from their places and plunged into the wood; the others he sabred as they sat, cursing them the ... with the horse trotting hard, and Dick running easily alongside, they crossed the remainder of the fen, and came out upon the banks of the river by the ferryman's hut. CHAPTER III - THE FEN ... canter, the drivers flailing at the horses as if for life. These must have run early in the day; but their cowardice was not to save them. For just before they came abreast of where the lads...

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... combine them element-wise. Specifically, if A and B are the same size, then A.*B is the element-by-element product of A and B, that is, the matrix whose i, j element is the product of the i, j ... returns the square of x. z = x.ˆ2; Typing sq(3) produces the answer 9, whether or not x or z is already defined in your Workspace, and neither defines them, nor changes their definitions, if they have ... Eigenvectors The eigenvalues of a square matrix A are calculated with eig(A). The com- mand [U, R] = eig(A) calculates boththe eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The eigenvalues are the diagonal elements of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 19:20

... but I answered their questions easily. Then, on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, ... still until the great deep voice of the clock died away. Then there was that same strange silence. Then there were those little light and quiet laughs. Then the music began again. The dreams ... watched as the house burned down to the ground. There was nothing left of the building the next morning. All the walls fell down during the night, except one-a wall in the middle of the house....

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2013, 17:11

... but I answered their questions easily. Then, on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, ... decided to hide the body in one of the walls of the cellar. It was quite an old building, near the river, so the walls of the cellar were quite wet and the plaster was soft. There was new plaster ... watched as the house burned down to the ground. There was nothing left of the building the next morning. All the walls fell down during the night, except one-a wall in the middle of the house....

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2013, 17:11

... child deaths in the total the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority of the drowning deaths in recent years in the region was ... FLOODS IN THE MEKONG DELTA The Mekong River Delta, the most downstream section of the Mekong River, is known as the "rice bowl" of Vietnam (Figure 1). Due to its location, the delta ... living in the urban areas, children in the rural area are familiar with the water in rivers and canals. Their daily lives are linked with the rice fields and flood plains. Some of them learn...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... the low parts of the basin. • Estimate the role of floods in the people’s lives; notice the effects to the women and children in the flooded areas. • Assess the environmental impacts of the ... find out the general rules of the seasonal flows, forecast the relation between the warm atmosphere and the storms in the tropical monsoon Asia. • Survey and forecast the effects of the dams ... been built in the Mekong Delta. Almost these water works were investigated by the national budget or the contribution of the local people and government according to the motto: “Both the Government...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... also know the elements of the matrix B; this will be designated by the vector s 0 . The second column in the grid can therefore be obtained by using the equation Ap 1 = s 0 . And so the process ... start with the initial values at t = 0 and work across the grid towards the point (N, M). But because of the simple way in which the u n+1 m only depend on the adjacent values to the immediate ... method seriously. The last two methods tried to overcome the biases which are inherent in the discretization of the time variable. However, there is another approach: when using the approximation...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20

... σ In general, the volatility of the forward price equals the volatility of the spot price; the volatility of the futures price equals the volatility of the underlying stock if the interest rate ... sec- tion tries to ease the reader’s burden of adapting the material to his own specific area of interest. In much of the forgoing, the market used to develop the theory was the equity market. This was ... GREEKS FOR THE BLACK SCHOLES MODEL so that  = n(d 1 ) Sσ √ T e −qT Note that this is independent of φ so that  is the same for a put or a call option. (iv) Theta: The differential of the Black Scholes...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20

... environment. The result has generated two ways for orga- nising the field: the first focusing on the conceptual structure or ‘bones’ of the subject, and the second drawing out the law’s role as a thematic ... institutions, they rarely (with the pos- sible exception of the EU) provide an institutional framework that clearly defines the scope of the community to which they are accountable above and beyond the state. 6.2 ... illustrated in the on-going ‘hormone dispute’ between the EU, on the one hand, and US, Canada and Argentina, on the other hand. This dispute concerns the EU’s ban on hormone-treated meat which the US,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... The Mekong Delta (MD) in Vietnam, located in the tropical monsoon zone, is formed by the alluvium deposition of the Mekong River stretching from the border between Cambodia and Vietnam to the ... tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the LongXuyen quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds. Along the 600 ... Wetland Bureau, the World Conservation Union, among others on the classification of forest wetlands, the inventory and mapping of wetlands, the mapping, and detailed description of the wetland ’s...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 22:15

... runoff, the amplitude of tides in the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the slope of the river bed, the wind velocity and direction and the depth of the estuary. Salt water intrudes the inland ... in Vietnam. The Delta in Vietnam is bordered to the North by Cambodia, to the west by the Vam Co river, to the south by the Eastern Sea and to the west by the Gulf of Thailand. The whole Delta ... 3,3 to 3.5 l/s.ha. They are hydraulically operated by mixing flows from upstream rivers branches in the MD and tides from the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. In the fields, the farmers control...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 22:15

... In the 5 months of the wet season, from May to October, the river discharges 2/3 the total annual flow. The rest amount of river flow is distributed in 7 months, from November to May, of the ... cultivation but they are one of the drinking water treatment problems also. The sediment load of the river isnot so high if compared with Red river in the North of Vietnam. It is highest during the rise ... are river discharges, local rainfall and runoff, the tides and the depth of bars in the sea in front of the estuaries. Otherwise, in early rainy season, nearly 1,6 million hectares of the delta...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... command on the Quick Access toolbar, select the command from the list on the right and use the up and down arrows to the right of the list to reorder the commands. 6. To remove a command from the Quick ... you turn on the access keys, the H key will access the Home tab. Once on the Home tab, press- ing the H key will access the Fill Color command, but if you had selected the Insert tab, the H key ... activate a tab and then all the arrows to move through the groups and commands. • From the tabs, use the up arrow to move to the Quick Access toolbar. • From the Quick Access toolbar, use the left arrow...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 22:15

... can also minimize or dis- play the To-Do Bar using the chevrons at the top of the window. These chevrons also appear on the Navigation Pane on the left side of the screen and do a similar job, ... 6. Next, click the Publish button on the Ribbon at the top of the message window, and then select Publish Form As. 7. In the Publish Form As dialog box, ensure the Look In drop-down list ... right-click RSS Feeds in the Nav- igation Pane, and then select Add a New RSS Feed. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, paste the link to the RSS URL into the text entry box, and then click Add. You will see...

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