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... Americans are expressing doubts about the morality of abortion, stem-cell research, the creation of chimeric animals, and many of the anticipated fruits of the genomics revolution Evangelical Christians ... John Danforth, a former Senator and a moderate Republican - now there’s a phrase that may be rapidly becoming an oxymoron - argued just that in an opinion piece in The New York Times If so (and ... still a dictatorship On one point, however, social conservatives and I agree: life is a thing of great value In fact, it’s far too valuable to allow it to be controlled by a bunch of sanctimonious...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... trainees and members of a Christian congregation Finally, Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet and Friedemann Pf äfflin report comparative attachment data from samples of women who have killed and ... ultimately an act of humanity (Abrahamsen 1973) We wish to avoid that which is potentially a part of all of us Both the glamorization and the demonization of violence, strategies which are familiar ... Attachment Representations and Attachment Styles in Traumatized Women Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet, psychotherapist in private practice, and Friedemann Pfäfflin 250 Conclusion: A Matter of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... suggestion Akbar assigned the task of reconquering and governing the province of Mâlwâ Adham Chân was a passionate and violent man, as ambitious and avaricious as his mother, and behaved himself ... of India, and they appear as sharply outlined, even though generally unpleasing, personalities Islam has justly been characterized as the caricature of a religion Fanaticism and fatalism are two ... OF ILLUSTRATIONS Akbar Directing the Tying-up of a Wild Elephant (Frontispiece) Akbar, Emperor of India Mausoleum of Akbar's Father, Humâyun View of Fathpur Akbar's Grave Mausoleum of Akbar at...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... Ultraviolet absorbance can also be used to check the purity of a DNA preparation With a pure sample of DNA, the ratio of the absorbances at 260 and 280 nm (A 260 /A 280) is 1.8 Ratios of less than ... interactions between the DNA molecules and the silica 3.2 Preparation of plasmid DNA Purification of plasmids from a culture of bacteria involves the same general strategy as preparation of total ... presence of the smallest amount of contaminating bacterial DNA in a gene cloning experiment can easily lead to undesirable results Fortunately several methods are available for removal of bacterial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:20

... caregiver age was 61.5 years and mean patient age was 80.2 years (See Tables and 2) Seventy-nine percent of caregivers and 57% of patients were female The caregiver was a spouse of the patient 45% of ... Associations between caregiver and patient characteristics and caregiver quality of life scores Associations between caregiver and patient characteristics and caregiver quality of life scores Click ... (Santa Monica), and SCAN HealthPlan (Long Beach) References Additional material Additional file CGQOL 80-item Measure Final version of the 80-item Caregiver-Targeted Measure of Quality of Life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... The early advantage of relative haemodynamic stability at intubation, which itself is not an important patient-centred outcome and can be managed in a critical care environment, seems trivial in ... duration of need for steroid replacement may be variable and is as yet undefined It would therefore seem reasonable for ICU physicians to follow the advice of Annane and avoid the use of etomidate ... meningococcal sepsis: bioavailable cortisol levels and impact of interleukin-6 levels and intubation with etomidate on adrenal function and mortality J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005, 90:5110-5117 Annane...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... Critical Care Vol 13 No Bantel and Schulze-Osthoff to a caspase activation cascade [6] Another important distinguishing feature of apoptotic versus necrotic cell death relates to inflammation ... treatment The finding by Hofer and colleagues [1] that necrosis but not apoptosis is the primary mode of hepatocyte death further argues against a therapeutic efficacy of caspase inhibitors, at ... hyperacute tumor necrosis factorinduced shock via oxidative stress and phospholipase A2 Nat Immunol 2003, 4:387-393 Scott AM, Saleh M: The inflammatory caspases: guardians against infections and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... pathway, the PKB pathway and the Janus kinase ⁄ signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway, to promote proliferation, survival and transformation [56,57] The importance ... discovery because of its role in promoting cell proliferation and survival [10] and as a result of the high frequency of rat sarcoma virus concogene (RAS) [33] and v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene ... loss of survival signals) and promote cell death in a manner dependent on the presence of BAX and BAK The precise mechanism by which this is achieved remains controversial, but a wealth of data...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... five -and- ten and bought white paint and red paint and brought his purchases back to the restaurant 20 I put the cans of paint on an old chair, and the painter began to mix the paint He put a little ... the way they are? And societies, and raindrops, and galaxies, and stem cells? Inquiring minds want to know—or at least mine does Curiosity is a major asset, both professionally and personally ... serve as practice The way you speak, listen, watch, and read will have much to with how well you write A Matter of Attitude Ideas into Words 10 Speak precisely Make it a habit to say what you mean,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 07:20

... is clear, write the words used in paragraph B to replace the words in paragraph A The first replacement has been filled in to get you started PARAGRAPH A PARAGRAPH B usually always on time carefully ... note A is more effective than the point of view of note B because a note A feels less formal b note A speaks personally to the reader c note A addresses the reader as an individual d all of the above ... convinced by paragraph B Why? Paragraph B seems more convincing because a you puts the readers into the action of the paragraph b you makes readers pay more attention c you makes readers imagine themselves...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... disappearance was found The Alcazar left to fill engagements farther down the coast On the way back the steamer stopped at Macuto and the manager made anxious inquiry Not a trace of the lady had ... the stage in the red and black of the ardent Carmen, Mlle Nina Giraud dis- appeared from the sight and ken of 6,000 pairs of eyes and as many minds in Macuto There was the usual turmoil and hurrying ... as weak a word as any to express the unnameable kinship of man to nature, that queer fraternity that causes stones and trees and salt water and clouds to play upon our emotions Why are we made...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... understanding and engaging what nonviolence is all about.” Nonviolence as a way to pursue justice and reconciliation is, for Sami, a source of transformation and healing Sami Awad has dedicated his life ... “Eat the bread, you are hungry Eat the bread.” And she said, “I’m afraid that when the bread is finished, I will be hungry again.” So small, she was afraid of being hungry again She has already ... that space and have the opportunity to make a choice about who you are being called to be.” As a result of his regular meditation, Sami believes he has a deeper understanding of Jesus and of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... invective CHAPTER III 11 Katherine was always afraid of him, and of what he might to her father if he had the chance; for his nature was small and mean, so small and so mean that, though he ... with a bang against the floating ice island, and at the same moment Katherine sprang lightly from the boat But, despite her care, she landed on all-fours, and, as the ice CHAPTER IX 39 was awash, ... heard him thumping away all the time I was there, and he was sitting and banging when I came back." "Was it Jean Doulais who made all that noise?" said Katherine "I was demonstrating on the blackboard,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:21

... whatever you want," Shirley said After a few days, Mike came home and told the girls that that he wasgoing to leave for awhile to go and some shows They asked when hewould be back and he said ... Shirleywas happy and sad She was happy that Gwen was getting married, but shewas sad because she would have no one to live with."Oh, Shirley, I am so sorry but I really want to get married and get awayfrom ... Shirley A month later Gwen and Tony were married and moved to OrangeCounty, California Shirley still resided in Berkeley, and seemed happyliving alone, she had gotten a smaller apartment that wasn't...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:55

... people and organizations in: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Information about Project Gutenberg Louisiana, Maine, ... immense amount of unnecessary nervous strain A spirit of rivalry has so taken hold of us and become such a large stone in the way, that it takes wellnigh a reversal of all our ideas to realize that ... imagine a disease of the retina which caused a like curious change in the landscape itself wherein a mountain appeared to be a mole-hill, and a mole-hill a mountain It seems absurd to think of And, ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... underestimate the duration of time intervals Marijuana also lowers dopamine availability and slows time Recreational stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine increase the availability of dopamine ... RUN, RABBIT, RUN — “During the past two years a great rabbit plague has run like a scared rodent across the length and breadth of Australia The epidemic was man-made, and Australia thinks that it ... scientists against Quist and Chapela It indicated that “Mary Murphy” and “Andura Smetacek”— two of the first and most persistent message posters— are not real people and claims to have traced their e-mails...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:14

... wrong as a book on juggling which claims that the balls 'naturally' want to be in a neat arc and that your task as a juggler is to 'get in touch' with this natural state and 'release' the balls ... we are far more than a collection of physical needs We also have a whole range of intellectual and emotional needs We also have 'spiritual' needs in the sense of wanting answers to "what's it all ... Began In mankind's distant past, our physical needs were mostly all we took care of Food, water, shelter, sex, warmth - that was what it was all about Fast forward one million years and many of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:20

... in so complex a system as a developing embryo, then facts - and indeed understanding - at many levels must be fed into the mathematics Nor should the value of facts and understanding on their ... played a crucial part, and who are alleged to have referred to their nearby colleagues at Woods Hole as biologists 'who don't count' In any event, if mathematics must be applied to make sense of ... biological facts, which are almost always beyond the reach of most people's intuition, seem to indicate that an even more complex system operates in mammals (or at least mice, from which it is probably...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... perfect separation of archaea and bacteria was seen in only 13% This value is the low bound of the fraction of trees that are free of interdomain HGT because, even when archaea and bacteria are perfectly ... used to analyze possible cases of HGT between bacteria and archaea in those trees that include at least five archaeal species and at least five bacterial species The value of the B /A score ranges ... Random_COG0136 Random_COG0112 >60% Random_COG0102 Random_COG0098 Random_COG0094 Random_COG0091 Random_COG0088 Random_COG0085 Random_COG0071 Random_COG0049 Random_COG0057 Random_COG0030 Random_COG0018 Random_COG0012...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20