death s compass the society and ecology of the churchyard

... pre-Christian times to the present day It is also a summary of the distinctive landscaping and architectural features of these places, and the relation of these to the belief systems and social structures ... from the point of view of those professionals practising in these forms, not those experiencing them The gap between the intentions of the designers and the received understandings of the users ... stories often start or finish underground Landscapes of the dead are always, simultaneously, landscapes of the living It is this coterminousness of life and death that gives the burial site its salience...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2015, 08:48

... continues to lead other countries in both number of MIVs and total assets The United States follows in number of MIVs domiciled and the Netherlands in total assets Domicile Concentration by # of MIVs ... countries www.luxflag.org 16 THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT 2012 th MicroRate s Annual Survey and Analysis of MIVs The Next Step In response to investor interest in assessing the financial and ... networks and investors as clients and partners in over 40 countries with products and services spanning the financial spectrum – from financing, access to capital markets, transaction services and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... health questionnaire: the ASSESS survey (Assessment of Symptoms and Experiences of Sjögren 's syndrome) for this study based on recommendations of a panel of Sjogren 's investigators The survey included ... classified as "possible" PSS if they reported a diagnosis of Sjogren 's syndrome and history of a positive minor salivary gland biopsy and/ or a positive anti-SSA/Ro or anti-SSB/La test result Questionnaires ... also used to assess sicca severity Description of the instruments used The PROFAD-SSI is comprised of eight domain scores that reflect different manifestations of fatigue and sicca The domain scores,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... under the auspices of the Assessment of Mekong Fisheries Component (AMCF) of the Mekong River Fisheries Programme, and other sources as acknowledged The AMCF is based in national research centres, ... beginning of the next flood season, they are mature and ready to spawn These fishes are probably also the most important species in the annual dry season migrations in the lower part of the basin These ... indication of the seriousness of impacts on fish stocks and the need for more effective conservation and environmental management Eight of the species we discuss are endemic to the Mekong, so are of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 22:20

... coincides with the presence of pine scale larvae at the first stage The third generation, from the end of August onwards, occurs at the same time as the passage of Matsucoccus from the 1st to the ... the action of the xylophagous, and there is a link between the size of the E nigricornis populations on the trees and the possibilities of tree survival After the invasion of M feytaudi, in stands ... the hinterland Thus, the transfer of E nipponensis in China, from Nanking to Soochow, over a short distance and in similar surroundings [6] was a success The transfer of several other species...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... about the biology of these fishes The few exceptions to this are several species of the families Sebastidae and Scorpaenidae which were harvested in the Mediterranean and USA in the early 198 0s, and ... was positively identified in Singapore waters, with >65 vertical scale counts and the absence of spots on the caudal fin and soft parts of dorsal and anal fins (Poss, 1999) Both the specimens ... This species is easily misidentified as P russelli as the primary difference between these two species is based on only five vertical row scale counts (Poss, 1999) In addition, this species also...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:55

... of young and these disperse when they reach near-adult size The small-scale opportunists, like the Neanderthals, are at the K-end of the selective strategy whilst the large-scale opportunists, ... Carpathians These were edge areas between heterogeneous landscapes and the plains During the cold and arid events of OIS (Chapter 6) the steppic environments expanded westwards Neanderthals in these ... process of accretion and was stimulated by a plains existence Inventive behaviour was maximised in these situations of uncertainty These stress-induced behavioural innovations resolved stresses...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... file 1: Sensitive analysis of the association of GSTs with the risk of urothelial carcinoma according to various cutoff points of arsenic exposure level List of abbreviations As: arsenic; GST: glutathione ... Although these studies show inconsistent results for the association between GSTs and urinary arsenic metabolite pattern, the findings indicate that the GSTT1is possibly responsible for a part of interindividual ... this study was able to estimate the genetic effects of GSTT1 and GSTOs on the risk of UC, and, furthermore, the interactions between polymorphisms of such genes and high-level arsenic exposure...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... separate forests showed that the species richness of the forests of BDNB NP nearly reaches the limit Slopes of the species accumulation curves for the forests of SLSM Figure (A) Species accumulation ... of this study is to investigate the community of amphibians in Langbian Plateau, the southernmost highlands of Vietnam Specific objectives of this study are: (1) to inventory species richness ... within the call This note is composed of 15 pulses The spectrograms show a fundamental frequency of 0.3 kHz plus other harmonics, and the dominant frequency of 0.6 kHz is associated with the second...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 16:48

... China s economy, resulting in massive foreign exchange reserves l This figure shows us the relationship between China s foreign exchange reserves and holdings of U .S Securities of China These two ... Purchase and sale of currencies in the foreign exchange market • Slow the yuan s appreciation by using the USD to purchase dollar-denominated assets • Accumulated massive amount of U .S securities ... inside and outside participants Process CNY cross-border payment and settlement business The first phase: Operate on October 8, 2015 ² China s gold acquisition and the rising roll of Shanghai...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2015, 15:36

... Parkinson s Disease Parkinson s disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer s motor skills and speech ... to aspects of study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, and the handling of dropouts and ... in the clinical status of the patient Confidence intervals measure the robustness and stability of the estimate of the odds ratio, and if the confidence interval excludes 1.0, then there is a statistically...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... Inspection standards were issued in 1971 to satisfy this mandate of Congress Most states completed their inventory of bridges on the Federal-aid system by the end of 1973 In 1978, Congress passed ... ensure the safety of the traveling public The states are responsible for assuring that owners of all bridges on public roads perform the required inspections Each state then collects the inspection ... programs The NBI is also used as the basis for a biennial report on the condition of the nation s bridges The Secretary of Transportation is required by law to submit this report to Congress2 The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... more robust and sustainable series of efforts The new focus areas should result from a careful assessment of Marine Corps needs A suggested reorganization of focus areas and sample topics is provided ... of products to the user community Responses to Issues from the 2000 NSB Assessment Some of this committee s comments and recommendations correspond substantively to those made in 2000.13 At the ... Corps needs because of weak connections between ONR and MCCDC (p 13) By and large the current program is in the process of addressing these issues—some vigorously and effectively, others less so,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... habitats The success of the management efforts at SRS is attested to by the 103 species of reptiles and amphibians, 87 fish species, 69 species of dragonflies and damselflies, Foreword xix 99 species of ... This section describes the land that became the SRS and the historical uses of that land, focusing on agricultural and natural resource uses of the area The SRS is located on the Upper Coastal ... al then describe the streams, waterbodies, and groundwater resources of the SRS in the third section, “Water Resources.” Wetlands and aquatic systems occupy more than 20 percent of the SRS, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... links from the Internet Like [5], the Internet s robustness against failures can be measured from a snapshot of the Internet We call this kind of analysis Static Analysis However, the Internet is ... [5] Based on these results, we address the problems of existing metrics, the average diameter and the S metric, and propose new network connectivity metrics, K and DIK Second, we put that result ... others is one and the diameter between any two nodes except the most popular node is two, therefore the average diameter is less than two, and the network has the smallest diameter of all possible...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... items covered by federal WEQ standards or establish local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The EPA sets treatment ... governments may create local standards for items not covered by the WEQ standards and must report their standards to the State Council.80 Using the WEQ standards and the country s economic and technological ... Discharge Standard, http:// english.mep.gov.cn/standards_reports/standards/water_environment/Discharge_standard/ (last visited May 5, 2009) Only abstracts of the standards are available on the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... inequities The main challenge for countries and societies is to disseminate these success stories, adopt best practices, and generate and sustain the political will to put equity at the top of the ... involves addressing and reversing the neglect of women s rights and the structural discrimination and maltreatment often suffered by girls and women Discrimination on the basis of gender – often passed ... survival, these are the results of sustained investment in all three areas The key to Sri Lanka s outstanding improvements in maternal health was the expansion of a synergistic package of health and social...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... microfilm The Augusta National Golf Club, Media Relations Department The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews The United States Golf Association Library The United States Professional Golfers Association, ... particular source, there are inaccuracies in the finish position—some miscalculations, some typos and round scores that not calculate to the listed total score Newspapers sometimes show a player in the ... total score at the end of rounds two and three, position at the end of rounds one through three, shots behind the winner (for the winner, shots ahead of the second place finisher), and winnings (prize...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20