... providers of maternal health services THE EMERGENCE OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE State involvement in the organization of maternity care in the United Kingdom gradually increased from the turn of the ... comparative Birth tends to bring out the best in people The intensity of the mother’s effort, the magic of the baby’s emergence, the thrill generated by the appearance of a tiny new life, and the creation ... (Van Teijlingen 1990) These structural features of Dutch health care are just the beginning of our explanation of the continued use of home birth in the Netherlands We must also look at the political...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
Faces and Places Group Portraits and Topographical Photographs in the Photo Albums of the Sugar Industry in Colonial Java in the Early Twentieth Century
... consistency in size and in terms of the placement of the photographs in the center of the page On the album cover there is a trace of a lost medallion that used to be attached there The photographs in the ... the history of the medium was based on technique and Western practice in the Western world, overlooking the practices in other parts of the world.40 The use of the camera within the context of ... his ‘discovery’ of the world’s wonder, the Buddhist temple Borobudur, had provoked the interest in the art of drawing and painting in the Dutch scientific expedition in the Indies In consequence...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 10:07
PEOPLE AND PLENTY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
... has sent international cuisines into a dizzying state of flux The French style has declined in prominence in the face of international competition from Italian and (on the other side of the globe) ... member of the lily family Always a seasoning, it has been employed at least since the beginnings of agriculture in amulets to ward off disease Other uses have been to ease toothache and painful urination, ... but in the short run, the only way for their food consumption to increase is through the exercise of still more of the new and better technologies that humans have been coming up with since the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20
Tài liệu MARRIAGE LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ppt
... was in the eyes of the law; in examining how far the 1753 Act was an innovation we need to be able to situate each of its nineteen provisions in the legal context of the time; and in assessing ... designed to serve the interests of the ruling classes whose aim was to increase their control over the marriages of their children rather than to benefit the majority of the population.7 Others have ... related to the theory of the general canon law of Europe prior to the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century,6 which he assumed to be the law of Scotland, where the events at the heart of the case...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20
Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America pptx
... part of the modernist architects' task of redefining their field would deal with the machine (representing the whole of technology and industry) and with the rival figure of the engineer, the ... Page the histories of architecture locate the origins of change within the discursive field itself, in the theories and ideas of architects The first and most radical shift in the discourse of ... Because they could rely on the established competence of workers in the building crafts, the designers of buildings were able to appropriate for themselves the intellectual task of conceiving the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works
... another The grandmother held the floor most of the time from the beginning of the story in her decision where to go, in her introduction of the scenery along the journey While the father, the mother ... setting Technique has to with the structuring of the story into the plot so that the writer can convey the theme and the manipulating of the language in order to express the ideas of the writer in ... be killed The injustice and barbarian of the society of the time is shown in the death of the three black innocent boys and the exhausting flee of Big Boy paid for the nonsensical fear of a white...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
Tài liệu Noblewoman aristocracy and power in the twelfth century anglo norman realm pptx
... tenacity in holding the castle in 1217 Indeed, Nichola’s defence of 22 power and portrayal Lincoln in 1217 was a significant factor in turning the tide of events in favour of King John According to ... out the eyes of the boy that he received As a result Henry I handed over his two granddaughters to the father of the blinded boy, who then had them blinded and the tips of their noses cut off.37 ... study of maritagium, dower and inheritance, heritability of title, and the development of the custom of introduction parceny in the 1130s and 1140s set women’s roles into the context of the interactions...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20
Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th – 21st Century docx
... making their way to the southern shore of Spain during the 1990s On the other hand, the stories told about these people also depend on the social and political context of the present for their ... that in the second half of the 1960s, during the comparatively liberal interlude which started in 1966—with the promulgation of the new “Ley de Prensa”—and finished in 1971 the year in which the ... multiplicity, and decentering the “dark fluxion” of Coleridge’s poem—certainly diminish the thickness of the past as the center of identity in the present However, the astute insight of Coleridge’s pronouncement,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20
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
... 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 ... measured behind the cone tip, u2, are shown in Fig together with the 25 columnar section of MR1 core All of these values show an increasing trend with depth The sudden increases in qt and fs ... the BT2 core [1, 8] in the incised valley and with data from the VL1 core [2] in the interfluvial zone (Fig 1) Estuarine channel sediment was found in the MR1 core at a depth of -41.5 m and in...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
From certainty to uncertainty the story of science and ideas in the 20th century
... yet the underlying laws they deduce about the universe will be identical in each of the three cases For Einstein, these laws are totally independent of the state of the observer This is the deeper ... because of changes in the rate of the clock, the more accurately we attempt to measure energy (via a change in the mass of the box) the greater will be the uncertainty in the time interval when the ... as the death of God,” which has its roots in the writings of Nietzsche Rather than denying the existence of God, it argued that the human construct, the “idea” of God, the human concept of the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38
empires of belief - why we need more scepticism and doubt in the 21th century
... position in the history of scepticism to 17 Empires of Belief being the author of the only surviving texts from the Pyrrhonian tradition, Outlines of Scepticism and Against the Mathematicians, rather ... central in the intellectual battles of the late sixteenth century’.16 Popkin speaks of a crise pyrrhoniene in the period, with scepticism being brought to bear on theology in the wake of the Reformation ... faith, and freely accusing each other of scepticism with regard to the fundamentals of belief This was a damning indictment in that culture: in the ringing words of Martin Luther (1483–1546), ‘[t]he...
Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:25
state university of new york press the philosophers voice philosophy politics and language in the nineteenth century oct 2002
... aware of the issue of voice He is quite aware of whom he is addressing in his political philosophy In The Prince, Machiavelli addresses himself explicitly to the prince The opening line of The Prince ... clarification of language The results of philosophy are the uncovering of one or another piece of plain nonsense and of bumps that the understanding has got by running its head up against the limits of ... each aware of the importance of the question Situating the Dilemma The reform of consciousness consists only in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of its dream...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45
shadows of war violence power and international profiteering in the twenty-first century
... nothing is straightforward Some say they are flying in food and Bibles and they are flying in arms, and some say they are flying in arms and they’re bringing in food and Bibles But a whole lot of them ... civilians The list of offenses went on It did not matter that I had witnessed these events personally, talked to the people involved The offense was speaking of these things MAKING THINGS INVISIBLE ... and in so doing allow the acts behind the telling to continue? What is it that we are not supposed to know? Several considerations come to mind: MAKING THINGS INVISIBLE 33 In the wars of the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:28
The problems of confucianism in the late warring states period and xunzis reconstruction of confucianism
... incorporation of other schools’ teachings In fact, Xunzi’s incoroporation of these other schools’ teachings was for the purpose of improving Confucianism I shall examine in detail these other schools’ influences ... step further in maximizing the possibilities of the prevailing conditions 46 In this case, si is the adaptation of one’s learning according to the present situation In the view of Confucius, the ... when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them The good points of the one I copy; the bad points of the other I 38 Xunzi, vol 3, 30.1 Translation mine Xunzi,...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:16
The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System
... Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module of the new virtual to physical mapping With the exception of the hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a machine-independent ... efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system designer, the Accent style of message/memory integration lacked ... once, possibly in different tasks The memory region specified by address in the vm_allocate_with_pager call will be mapped to the specified offset in the memory object The offset into the memory...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
Organizing pairwork and groupwork in the context of high school classrooms at pham van nghi upper secondary school, nam dinh province: A case study
... found the work of the students in group of three was ineffective In the time of five minutes they only discuss some information about that place.They must collect information from the other groups ... effect The language proficiency of the the success of a pair teacher work and group The teacher’s ability of organizing The hardship of the students work ? The cooperation of the students The language ... each other rather than learn the mistakes One of the main points of having learners speak to each other is to help them increase their confidence and reduce the anxiety that is often found in a...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
Tiểu luận tiếng anh : Robinson Crusoe – A Representative of the English Bourgeoisie in the early 18th century
... Obviously, the bourgeoisie was the driving force of the English society at that time They thought they had rights to be proud of their status in society and in the superiority of their race They wanted ... wood-making industries They had to join the force of cheap labor and working in such factories England became a typical example of initial accumulation of capitalism Holding power in economics, the ... the period of Enlightenment In England the period of Enlightenment followed the bourgeois revolution.” Enlightenment” indicates the historical role of the bourgeoisie in the age of the Bourgeois...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2012, 12:02