... and philosopher extraordinaire. A special word of gratitude to Jeevan Sivasubramanian, Berrett- Koehler's managing editor, and to Ken Lupoff, Rick Wilson, Maria xiv Confessions of an Economic ... with our spreadsheets and financial projections, and we lecture at the Harvard Business School about the miracles of macroeconomics. xx Confessions of an Economic Hit Man room, shagged balls ... experiences and the lessons. Beyond them, I thank the people who encouraged me to go out on a limb and tell my story: Stephan Rechtschaffen, Bill and Lynne Twist, Ann Kemp, Art Roffey, so many of the...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man doc
... his free hand to wave an Ameri- can flag over Nixon's head in the manner of a slave fanning a master . A map of the Middle and Far East appeared behind the two, th e various countries hanging ... war and the mass pro - duction of weapons, from the damming of rivers and the destructio n of indigenous environments and cultures . I began to look at wh o benefits when hundreds of thousands of ... development plan . This plan would create a jus- tification for World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, an d USAID investment of billions of dollars in the energy, transporta- tion, and agricultural...
Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Confessions of an Opera Singer docx
... my sister and I hardly left the piano to eat and sleep. The dialect part of the libretto was in an ancient manuscript copy, torn, marked and dog's-eared, and written in an almost illegible German ... posters and drawings of famous artists and caricatures of Parisians. The performers are called on in turn by the master of ceremonies, and take their stand on a little platform in front of the piano ... her of her splendour, so we arranged something out of the pointed pink bodice of one of my other gowns, and the long white skirt of a summer dress, with a ladder arrangement of pink velvet bands...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Exploring the role of a glycine cluster in cold adaptation of an alkaline phosphatase pdf
... significant decrease of DH # with an unavoidable concurrent decrease of TDS # .The slope of the Arrhenius plot, in the temperature range 5–15 °C, corresponds to an approximately threefold increase of ... studies of wild-type and mutant alkaline phosphatases. (A) Temperature dependence of k cat of TAB5 (d), mutants G261A (r), G261A/Y269A (j)andE.coli (·) alkaline phosphatases at temperature range ... higher than the native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1). The mutant G261A/Y269A exhibits an E a almost the same as in the case ofthenativeenzyme(Table1). Thermal inactivation of mutant and wild-type...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Calcium, mitochondria and oxidative stress in neuronal pathology Novel aspects of an enduring theme pdf
... [211–215], Na + channels [216,217], K + channels [218], other unidentified chan- nels [203–207] and many members of the TRP family of channels (see below). In extreme cases, channel selectivity ... & Luckhoff A (2002) Activation of the Cation Channel Long Transient Receptor Potential Channel 2 (LTRPC2) by Hydrogen Peroxide. A splice variant reveals a mode of activation independent of ADP- ribose. ... phylogeny, and functions of the TRP superfamily of cation channels. Sci STKE 2001, RE1. 255 Chandrasekaran K, Mehrabian Z, Li XL & Hassel B (2004) RNase-L regulates the stability of mitochondrial DNA-encoded...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Đề tài " Well-posedness for the motion of an incompressible liquid with free surface boundary " docx
... Section 5 we show that any derivative of a vector field can be estimated by derivatives of the curl and of the divergence, and tangential derivatives or tangential deriva- tives of the normal operator. ... Sobolev’s lemma. The proof of Theorem 2.4 takes up most of the manuscript. The proof of (2.36) uses the symmetry and positivity of the normal operator (2.17) within the divergence -free class. This leads ... derivatives of a vector field in terms of the curl, the divergence and tangential derivatives or the normal operator The first part of the lemma below says that one can get a pointwise esti- mate of any...
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Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: An Economic Analysis pdf
... majority share of the total. Another 17% is in the banking and finance sectors, and 16% is in the retail and wholesale trade sectors, reflecting purchases of department stores and other investments ... finance sector. Canada’s $86 billion investment in the U.S. banking and finance sectors surpasses the more than $53 billion invested in the finance sector alone by British firms (data for banking ... Switzerland ($97 billion), the Netherlands ($82 billion), France ($81 billion), Germany ($79 billion), and Japan ($76 billion) account for nearly three-fourths of the total amount of foreign...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: " Survivors of the war in the Northern Kosovo: violence exposure, risk factors and public health effects of an ethnic conflic" pdf
... screening of selected victims of OPV and human rights violations at mobile clinics. Statistical data were collected from the Ministry of Health of Kos- ovo and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in ... and trans- lated into Albanian and Serbian. The questionnaire was modified on the basis of the knowledge generated from the interviews with key informants. The interviewer team was composed of ... outcomes and explanatory variables. Ethics evaluation This study abides by the Declaration of Helsinki and Dan- ish law. Ethical clearance was granted by the Ethics Com- mittee of the Academy of Medical...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Transferrin polymorphism of red deer in France: evidence for spatial genetic microstructure of an autochthonous herd" pdf
... effects of social and age structure on genetic drift but not of isolation by distance which depends on the one-way variance of geographic dispersal distances (Chepko-Sade and ... Chambord; and antler length, antler diameter, point number of trophy, length of eye beam or length of middle beam in stags (> 7 yr) from Chambord. Calves of less than 3 ... of France, and on the analysis of a long-term study of the social structure of Vosgian red deer (F Klein, unpublished data), this article shows that social organization...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22
Tài liệu An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties pdf
... indebted to Anne van Aaken, Peter Behrens, Stephania Bonilla, Eberhard Feess, Henning Frọòdorf, Andrew Guzman, Jonathan Klick, Frank Mỹller- Langer, Jan Matauschek, Susan Russell, Stephan Wittig, ... Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Peter Behrens Professor Dr. Thomas Eger Professor Dr. Manfred Holler Professor Dr. Claus Ott Professor Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer Professor Dr. Stefan Voigt (schriftführend) Universität ... additional ones: insurance as a mechanism to enhance transactional security, the devaluation of assets as a strategy to avoid expropriation and lobbying. At the core of each of these mechanisms is the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Optimization of an Escherichia coli system for cell-free synthesis of selectively 15N-labelled proteins for rapid analysis by NMR spectroscopy pdf
... concentration of 10 l M (lanes 1 and 2), 30 l M (lanes 3 a nd 4), 300 l M (lanes 5 and 6) or 1 m M (lanes 7 and 8). Mobilities of molecular mass markers (kDa) were as indicated. Fig. 2. Cell -free synthesis ... are 15 N-labelled by transamination. In this situation, the main effect of transamination is a reduction of the degre e of 15 N-labelling in the amino a cid of interest. In thecaseof[ 15 N]Gly, much of the label ... system (Fig. 1 , l ane 8 and Fig. 2, lane 1 ). With transcription under the control of the k promoters, however, cell -free synthesis of hCypA was below the detection limit of SDS/PAGE with Coomassie...
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