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... shipwreck, the islands of Happiness, and Fortunate islands Then there was the "Island of the Hand of Satan," mentioned by Formaleoni and also by Humboldt, and there was Antillia and Satanaxio with ... Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands By J W BUEL Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions ... ocean and discovered Cape Verde and the Island of St Thomas; and Gonsalvo Hernandes, a chronicler of antiquities, affirms that in his time the Islands of the West Indies were discovered, and called...

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... senses and use to shelter the activities of our lives; the other with the inner beauty of the mind and the beginnings of understanding how the mind comprehends and why the body experiences pain and ... included: • the Patent Of ce; • the Weather Bureau and Coast and Geodetic Service and other units of the Commerce Department were merged to form NOAA; and • the National Bureau of Standards along with ... BRAIN LANDSCAPE This page intentionally left blank BRAIN LANDSCAPE The Coexistance of Neuroscience and Architecture JOHN PAUL EBERHARD Founding President The Academy of Neuroscience...

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... needles of fir was found; in the samples from Slovakia and Poland, the values ranged from 10,400 to 15,500 mg·kg–1 The regulation of water regime is one of the most important functions of potassium, ... Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution ... Sampling and Analysis of Needles and Leaves Vacek S., Vančura K., Zingari P.C., Jeník J., Simon J., Smejkal J (2002): Mountain Forests of the Czech Republic Prague, Ministry of Agriculture of the...

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... landscapes in Sweden – methods and data of landscape change In: Jongman R.H.G (ed.): Proceedings of the First ECNC Seminar on Land Use Change and its Ecological Consequences, Ecological and Landscape ... the existence of diverse landscapes? Fenina, 178: 55–80 Wrbka T (1998): Landscape structure as indicators for sustainable land use? A case study in alpine and lowland landscapes of Austria In: ... devastation of specific areas, changes in the landscape structure, grain size, mosaic structure, changes in the landscape matrix, dynamics in the development of enclaves and other parameters of the landscape...

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... values and significance) of the analysis of variance (two-way ANOVA) of main effects (Stocklot and Site) and interactions on survival and growth performance of Aleppo pine during the first (Jul-04 and ... forestland ranges of the Valencia province (eastern Spain), which has an extension of 10 813 km2 (Tab III) All of them are located in lands that lacked a tree cover as a consequence of wildland ... explained 80% of the total variance (53.5 and 26.5% for components A1 and A2, respectively) and the communality (proportion of variance site and stock quality in Aleppo pine 727 Table IV Summary of the...

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... interpretation of at least one of the fundamental aspects of quantum theory, the appearance of complex numbers, in terms of information 3.1 Preamble Before we approach the actual proof of Theorem ... rate of 450 and interact ing with 100dimensional environment 4.6 , 35 Effect of the dimension N of t he environment on t he decay: the ubit is rotating at a rate of 450 and ... 4.7 Decay of t he length of t he separate components of the Bloch vector: N = 100, w = 00 ,5 = 4.8 The Wobbling Effect : the size of the 'E y and z-component 38 - of the Bloch...

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... 048 Identification of problems and solutions associated with teaching spoken English to first year students of English major at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of HCMC How the Vietnamese ... Vietnam: Historical overview and assessment of current policies and practices Making apologies in American English and Vietnamese The effects of reading on L2 writing proficiency Teaching reading ... problems and solutions The application of technology in teaching technical English The influence of the semantic properties and syntactic structures of Vietnamese on Vietnamese learner's use of English...

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... MEMORIES OF MARTYRDOM AND LANDSCAPES OF TERROR:  FEAR AND RESISTANCE AMONG THE MALAYS OF SOUTHERN  THAILAND            MUHAMMAD ARAFAT BIN MOHAMAD  (B.A. (Hons.), NUS)  ... Change in Atmosphere for Research in southern Thailand   16  Climate of Fear: Life in southern Thailand’s Violence‐Wrecked Landscape   18  Sources of Fear   20  Rumors   22  The Puzzle over the Identities of Perpetrators of Violence  ... concerns of the Malay residents of the three provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat in its violence-wrecked socio-political landscape It suggests that many people in southern Thailand are...

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... discontinuities and are usually seen to be cracked and crushed Depending on the steep topography in the region, there are many old and new landslides The direction of motion of these landslides usually ... subsidence in the initial 1-km part of the section (top of the landslide), uplift in between and km (city centre), and subsidence in the last 1-km part (toe of the landslide) As a conclusion, movement ... Integration of GNSS with InSAR to monitoring of the Jiaju landslide in Sichuan, China Landslides 7:359À365 Zhu W, Zhang Q, Ding X, Zhao C, Yang C, Qu F, Qu W 2014 Landslide monitoring by combining of...

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... bodies with strong and cross-cutting development mandates are arguably best placed to advance this kind of global sandbox initiative Mapping the Global Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed ... Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money (New York: Harper Collins, 2015) Mapping the Global Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed ... Legal Landscape of Blockchain and Other Distributed Ledger Technologies Julie Maupin CIGI Masthead Executive President Rohinton P Medhora Director of Finance Shelley Boettger Director of the...

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... as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small program ... introduction of new hardware architectures and was never able to efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system ... network copy-on-reference of process data The interaction of message and memory primitives can also be an important tool in the design and implementation of transaction and database management...

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... for attempting to understand historical patterns of law and authority, by reference to interior moral and exterior political impulses, and versions of history and visions of the future, in chapter ... ‘globalise’ and ‘universalise’, suggesting the attempt or purport of the act of globalising and universalising, falling short of the achievement of the actual end of this action Such a use of the ... Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, north-east Spain and northern and papal Italy – are clearly within the Western and European purview.7 Ancient Greek philosophy, Jewish spirituality and Roman...

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... Ecosystems and Environment, 27, 493-503 Qiao, L., Hofstede, H and Ho, G E (1993) The mobility of heavy metals in clay amended sewage sludge and municipal solid waste compost In: Proceeding of 9th ... fixing of the free metal ions through metal precipitation as hydroxides and carbonates, adsorption onto oxides and mineral surfaces and chemisorption or complexation with inorganic ligands The ... 1993) In order to determine the long-term fate and potential hazard of land application of MSW compost, it is necessary to investigate the speciation of heavy metals Difficulties in studying this...

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... later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about ... decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women ... finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Financial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one's funds in the form of life annuity Deficit An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one's funds in the form of life annuity Deficit An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure...

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