... space and time and then creating hypotheses they can test We’ll explore how lineages of species grow, and then how they become extinct We may, biologists fear, be in the early stages of a catastrophic ... together in a single supercontinent When Boyer mapped the locations of the mite harvestmen on a map of ancient Earth, she found that they were all close to each other in the Southern Hemisphere The ... paleontologists was the fact that the end of the Cretaceous also saw one of the biggest pulses of extinctions ever recorded Through the Cretaceous, the Earth was home to giants Tyrannosaurus rex and other carnivorous...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
... down to the bottom of the bore and marked the pick to show the depth Next he took the pick to the muzzle, stood it up in the bore, and marked the height of the muzzle The difference between the two ... on to expose the ring of powder to the powder blast of the gun The ring burned until it reached the zero end and set off the fine powder in the center of the case; the powder flash then blew out ... the top of the fuze until the shell struck the target When the gun was fired, the shock of discharge dropped a lead plug (B) from the base of the fuze into the projectile cavity, permitting the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20
art through the ages
... against the standards of the salon Suitably, they called themselves impressionists These artists wanted to portray the immediacy of a moment and in doing so, capture the truth of the times and the ... in the other European countries, partly because of the fact that both Henry the eighth and Thomas Cromwell destroyed the works of art in English churches and cathedrals They believed that there ... During the middle ages, extending from 500, to 1500, the church was the source of main stability in western Europe and the monasteries alone kept the artistic culture alive Beginning in the twelfth...
Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 16:34
BRITISH COSTUME FASHION THROUGH THE AGES
... Typical of the middle of the 1890's is the great 'leg-of-mutton' sleeve, the tight bodice, the small back frill (all that remains of the bustle) and the smooth flared skirt The gentleman wears the top ... gathered back at the hips to show the embroidered petticoat Lace frills on the shift show at the neck and sleeves The most characteristic feature is the hair, beginning to be dressed high in the ... were difficult to find The turban and the siren suit became very The end of clothes rationing finally came on 15th March 1949 Photographs Above: The turban Day Clothes 1941 The lady's suit was designed...
Ngày tải lên: 15/11/2015, 15:17
Tài liệu Higher economic growth through macroeconomic policy coordination? The combination of wage policy and monetary policy docx
... bodies on the one hand and the ECB on the other” (ECB 2000b: 52) As far as the interaction in the field of economic policies is concerned, the ECB interprets the Treaty in such a way that the ECB’s ... macroeconomic policy coordination 3.2 The Netherlands: Success by Consensus In the eighties and nineties, the macroeconomic performance of the Netherlands was significantly better than the performance ... subject of the present paper We explore the possibilities against the background of the new economic setup in the euro area: While there is a single monetary policy, other areas of economic policy...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Light through the Cracks
... strained to hear the noises in the floor to determine where exactly her father was going in the middle of the night It was not uncommon for him to wander the house at all hours, or to raid the pantry, ... Raymer, and the rest of my wonderful family and friends for their fine editing skills and amazing support I love you! i THE BRIDGE Lucy froze as a low, drawn-out moan rose from the floor in the hallway ... He would then often fall asleep wherever he was sitting, usually on the couch in front of the television downstairs Lucy did not like it when he slept on the couch, exposed and out in the open...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 09:08
learn English through the lyrics
... ra: Trong trường hợp hai anh công an có vi phạm quyền bất khả xâm phạm chỗ ông Tá không? Tại sao? Theo em, hai anh công an nên hành động nào? Đáp án 1) Việc hai anh công an vào khám nhà ông Tá chưa ... nhà + Che dấu tội phạm phạm tội - Phân công: + Người thứ nhất: lại phối hợp nhân dân, công an sở theo dõi giám sát bên khu nhà tình nghi để xử lí kịp thời tên tội phạm xuất + Người thứ hai: khẩn ... .Việc bóc mở, kiểm soát, thu giữ thư tín, điện tín công dân phải người có thẩm quyền tiến hành theo quy định pháp luật * Điều 73- Hiến pháp 1992 Hoạt động nhóm Những hành vi vi phạm pháp luật...
Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2013, 00:21
Tài liệu Dynamic Reconfiguration of Indoor Combination Networks Through the Use of Patch Panels pdf
... CMTS, resulting in the following advantages: • As the ratio changes, there is no effect on the fixed cabling as all the fixed cabling is on the rear side of the patch panels • Changes can be made ... jacks The use of this jack allows instantaneous signal rerouting Patch panels act as the mechanical support for the jacks The two rear connectors are bridged as the jack acts as a loop with the ... a jack is inserted into any of the front inputs, the corresponding rear connection is rerouted to the front and goes through the inserted jack Simultaneously, the unconnected connections are...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:15
Breaking through the BIOS barrier the definitive BIOS optimization guide for PCs
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 18:55
Tài liệu To improve the health of women through the establishment of Offices of Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services pdf
... COMPOSITION. The Coordinating Com- 18 mittee shall be composed of the directors of the cen- 19 ters of the Administration 20 ‘‘(3) CHAIRPERSON. The Director of the Of- 21 fice shall serve as the Chairperson ... COMPOSITION. The Coordinating Com- 13 mittee shall be composed of the official designated 14 under subsection (a) and the directors of the centers 15 and offices of the Agency 16 ‘‘(3) CHAIRPERSON. The ... CHAIRPERSON. The Director of the Of- fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the Coordi- nating Committee ‘‘(4) DUTIES.—With respect to women’s health, the Coordinating Committee shall assist the Director...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and mechanistic aspects of flavoproteins: electron transfer through the nitric oxide synthase flavoprotein domain pdf
... in NOS, the second electron is provided to the hemedioxy species by a bound H4B cofactor rather than by the flavoprotein domain [16] The H4B radical is then reduced within the enzyme by the flavoprotein ... for maximum electron flux through the enzyme On either side of this optimum, the electron flux drops off because either the formation rate (k2) or dissociation rate (k1) of the FNR–FMN subdomain complex ... cytochrome c reduction measurements c The effect of the element is inferred from deletion mutants, therefore the effects reported in the table are the opposite of the observed effects d All but one...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Socio-Economic Rights in the South African Constitution pptx
... to expect that there would be an effort to reconcile the data gathered through the protocols method with the data gathered through the CASE survey and the poverty hearings Further, CASE itself ... Further, the SAHRC analysed the data that it gathered 22 on the basis that the data were research data Although, therefore, the legal aspect of the inquiry does not lend itself too easily to the ... the response rate was high and the data gathered through the protocols process are therefore representative in the sense that it would be possible to generalise from them On the local level the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Free Cash Flow: Seeing Through the Accounting Fog Machine to Find Great Stocks doc
... returns for the S&P 500 The black line in these exhibits displays the rolling 10-year compound annual growth rate for the S&P 500 since 1936 If we disaggregate these returns into their three ... investment return from the outdoor furniture company equals the sum of: The difference between the price we pay for the company and the price we receive when we sell it, divided by the price we paid; ... determined by two things: The amount of future cash flow the buyer expects the company to generate after the sale closes and The general level of interest rates at the time of the transaction P1: TEMP...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Self-Affirmation through the Choice of Highly Aesthetic Products Author(s): Claudia Townsend and Sanjay Sood doc
... respondents made the hypothetical product choice and then read and judged the argument, they were asked to rate the importance of the issue and the carefulness with which they read the argument There are ... good they feel about themselves, how rational they felt they were, how satisfied they are with their decision, how confident they are in their decision, if they might regret the decision, if they ... information shown, they ought to be able to make a choice They were then asked to draft a letter to the board explaining why they had allocated the funds to the division they had selected Then, regardless...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945 docx
... taxes but also by the quantity and quality of the labor force The indicators of the quantity and quality of the labor force include the change in the proportion of the population in their prime-age ... are currently at their lowest levels since the end of the second World War The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital ... the analysis (i.e., the one year change in the variable is used in the analysis) The other explanatory variables included in the analyses have been used by other researchers The right-hand side...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Education and Economic Growth: From the 19th to the 21st Century ppt
... marginal Right now there is no way to tell if there will be either the changes in the composition of the economy or in the role of schooling What we know from the past is that when the how, what, ... areas in turn The micro -economic literature has, for the most part, studied the relationship between two specific variables: the number of years of schooling and wages Picking these two indicators ... that analyzing these two variables can provide insights into the basic economic hypothesis that people who go to school (number of years) are more productive (earn higher wages) The other justification...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Economic Freedom of the World 2012 ppt
... Economic Freedom of the World The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom The ... www.freetheworld.com Chapter Economic Freedom of the World in 2010 This year is the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth Milton Friedman was the godfather of the Economic Freedom of the ... Importantly, the value judgments of the authors or others in the Economic Freedom Network are never used to alter the raw data or the rating of any country Third, transparency is present throughout The...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation pptx
... rapid growth in the size of the labor force In the coming years, labor force growth will slow sharply as the baby boom generation retires Furthermore, improving the quality of the labor force ... achievement, although the effects were rather small.* Furthermore, one-half of the states that reported on achievement continued to show an advantage through the third or fourth grade Most of the states ... young children and in education the their families choose to enroll them nexus being preschool—offer the most promising The economic benefits of preschool will be economic benefits greatest when...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu THROUGH THE LOOK ING GLAS S pot
... First, there’s the room you can see through the glass-that’s just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way I can see all of it when I get upon a chair all but the bit behind the ... fire Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I’ve held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room ... breath left to say so The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20