from reform to revivalism in the nineteenth century

... Growing from Crises The Portuguese Saving Bank Montepio Geral in the nineteenth- century Introduction We started in the last fall a doctoral thesis dedicated to savings banks in Portugal ... dilemma was whether to increase incentives to large depositors in the CEMG and invest in the booming market, running the risk of illiquidity, or to persist in the policy of favoring small deposits ... short stories At the end of 1890 Savings deposits in 8252 were limited to stories, or had a negative balance against the beginning of 1072 stories To solve the problem the Board has used the capital...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... into major warfare in 1817 The eventual victor was Shaka, the son of a minor chief among the Mthethwa, who incorporated the whole region into his new Zulu kingdom before he was assassinated in ... Persian Gulf to convert into real authority the nominal overlordship of the coast that they had claimed since leading opposition to the Portuguese there in 1698 They took control of Kilwa in 1785, ... the Luba kingdom in the Katanga region, which disintegrated in the 1870s when coastal traders introduced firearms into a succession conflict The other was the Shambaa kingdom in the northeast of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... catching glimpses of the sea towards Bristol or Linton, and now and then of the skeleton masts and gossamer sails of a ship against the declining sun, like those of the phantom bark in "The Ancient ... interest to the ship but the ship to the water "What was it attracted the thousands to the launch? They might have seen the poetical 'calm water' at Wapping or in the London lock or in the Paddington ... and the grounds for it were given in the preface Blake was not discovered until rather late in the nineteenth century He was not a link in the chain of influence which I was tracing I am glad to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... had been sent off to the Trianon; but the king remained behind He referred everything to the dauphin (the Duc d'Angoulờme); the dauphin referred everything to the king The dauphin's temper was ... the prince, who were in the secret, had therefore invited Colonel Piguellier to a shooting-party on the 4th, the invitation including one to pass the night at a house in the country; but by the ... o'clock in the morning they were awakened by screams; but they lay still, imagining that the noise came from the Champs Elysộes Then they heard the loud ringing of a bell, and starting from their...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... Medici.” The meaning of the text is found in this address: Machiavelli wants to explain princely power to the prince in order to inspire the prince to act Moreover, Machiavelli is acutely aware of the ... of them and their writings), but in respectful tones to the state, which is thereby implored to take the rightful needs of the people to heart —Kant, The Contest of the Faculties32 According to ... is addressing in his political philosophy In The Prince, Machiavelli addresses himself explicitly to the prince The opening line of The Prince states “Niccolo Machiavelli to Lorenzo the Magnificent...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45

... accreted into the Earth If so, the growing Moon had (somehow) to maintain a steady retreat to avoid falling into the Earth Once again, this fails to account for the Earth's tilted axis, the Moon's ... cutting the cake of geoscience inappropriately They are, nonetheless, suggestive, and show the way the wind has begun to blow at the beginning of the twenty-first century A register at the beginning ... summation of the geological endeavours of the nineteenth century, is at present premature The story is infinitely more complex than that for the nineteenth century The chapter of the twentieth century...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... money into sprucing up the goods and hawking the products to a global marketplace To an increasing degree, the story is similar in the banking industry For instance, the greatest advances of the ... in the financial sector had caused the fiasco to begin with, and were now dying of their self-inflicted wounds Instead of clearing out the rot, the politicos rushed in to prop up the blight The ... feature of the monetary system lies in the transfer of funds from the savers in the economy to the borrowers in the fields of business and commerce; that is, the banking function To an increasing degree,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... manage stock levels in vending machines, for example Telecoms operators need to continually develop their own business models and customer offerings Machine -to- machine and the Internet of things in ... installing sensors in hundreds of icecream vending machines to monitor stock levels Three years later a special report in The Economist tracked the ongoing development of the sector, noting the ... Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2012 Rise of the machines Preface Rise of the machines: Moving from hype to reality in the burgeoning market for machine -to- machine communication is an Economist Intelligence...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:11

... corporation’s intent is the pursuit of private interests and profits for owners of the company, they increasingly are bearing the marks of an undertaking and, to an increasing degree, have been serving the ... Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both ... other tools and policies to achieve greater impact beyond regulatory compliance Using Management Systems to Improve Performance in the Chemical Industry Today the chemical industry is increasingly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... the quantum theory The only uncertainty, according to Einstein, lay in our inability or lack of ingenuity in measuring the objective properties of such systems When Bohr and Einstein met at the ... uncertainty was restored and Einstein’s thought experiment was refuted 20 From Certainty to Uncertainty Increasingly Einstein’s objections were being frustrated by Bohr Then, in 1931, Einstein and ... great minds such as Newton’s and Einstein’s appear to straddle an age, in part gazing forward into the future, in part looking back to an earlier tradition of thought When Einstein spoke of “the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38

... savings.57 Yet even in Ireland the business of the savings banks was sensitive to the interest paid by the joint stock banks and improvements in their facilities In the United States, where the ... reducing the rate of interest and the maximum deposit per account In 1824 the maximum deposit in the first year was reduced to £50 and that in further years to £30 In 1828 the ceiling on savings ... SAVED: SAVINGS BANKS IN MID -NINETEENTH CENTURY IRELAND AND AMERICA The savings bank was one of several schemes conjured by social reformers in industrializing Britain to encourage the poor to greater...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... numbered Air Force commander and was tossed out of the office to find writing tools—definitely not the way you want to begin your tour! The bottom line: Do not leave the interview until you understand ... Sharing Success—Owning Failure: Preparing to Command in the Twenty-First Century was originally written as a research report for the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Arlington, Virginia ... aircraft Talking on the phone to the artist, we worked together to ensure he had the exact details in order to recreate the F-16 to his impeccable standards Shortly after the painting was completed,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... Concomitant use of these inhibitors enhanced the inhibitory effect on the Cys increase in blood This suggests that both pathways contribute to the large cysteine efflux from organs into the hematic compartment ... Cys from the liver and other organs to maintain the cysteine pool GSH is known to be a critical source for maintaining a steady Cys availability as it is continuously exported out of cells into ... treatment should eliminate the fraction of Cys that derives from GSH [27] Propargylglycine is an inhibitor of cystathionase, the enzyme that forms cysteine from cystathionine in the TSP; in this case,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... ‘learning organizations’ and their continual evolution of practice throughout the workplace The importance of learning with others to ensure competition and innovation in a global world From training ... Concepts underpinning situated learning     Learning involves the whole person in a complex system of social interaction with others We learn from others in a process of guidance, scaffolding and ... learning in the workplace Focus is on instruction, teaching and supervision Roles are supervisor, instructor, practice teacher and student A one -to- one learning relationship with the instructor...

Ngày tải lên: 27/05/2014, 13:25

... favoring China developed, leading to the flow of silver out of the West and into the Qing Empire To counteract this (and to take advantage of easy access to the high-quality poppies grown in India, ... about the PRC The following chapters seek to contribute to this effort and to show, in passing, some of the ways in which the West is misunderstood by China It is important to note two things, ... favoring the West developed Western traders were always finding new ways to get the drug into China (thanks to help from Chinese smugglers, in many cases), and demand for the narcotic in China...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:36

... market to supplying China was a simple step; once the Chinese had fallen into the habit of buying Indian opium, there was very little to induce them to stop In the end they came to prefer the Indian ... filtered into the interior, and so reached the pipes of the Chinese Just why the Chinese chose to obtain their supplies from India is no clearer than why, having obtained it, they smoked instead ... other nostrums containing the drug But working mothers paid no attention to such warnings They had to leave their infants in the care of old women or very young children when they went off to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:18

... each ring from the pith to bark Ring density (RD) and ring width (RW) of each ring were determined based on the intra-ring microdensitometric profiles [11] Incomplete rings false rings and rings ... density profiles The E/L transition point was defined as the maximum of the derivative of the spline function Theoretically, the maximum represents an inflexion point in the intra-ring wood density ... were used to describe the intra-ring wood density profile, 4th to 6th order polynomial were tested The E/L transition was defined as the inflexion point The latter is obtained by equalling the second...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... In AGET this paper we report the complete progress of the pollen tube from the stigma surface to the ovule micropyle for the first time for the genus Populus The route of the pollen tube in the ... penetrate the stigma, grow through the stigmatic lobes and join together within the funnel-shaped stylar neck (stylodium, fig 5) Somes tubes enter the ovary cavity, and grow on the inner surface ... 6) They reach the ovules by the funiculus (fig 6), or directly if the ovule makes contact with the inner ovary wall After 25 hours (20 &dquo;C) the pollen tubes pass through the micropyle of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... Skills How to Get from Bed to Work in 27 Easy Steps! – Fill in the Blanks 15) I _ on a tape and _ up the volume 16) I _ in my mirrors; then _ up the drive and onto the road ... up all the neighbours I switched on the light and the heater, because it was cold in my room I used the bathroom; then looked for a clean shirt to wear I went into the kitchen and put the kettle ... locked the front door and walked a few metres to my car 14 I got into the car and turned the key in the ignition 15 I put on a tape and turned up the volume 16 I looked in my mirrors; then reversed...

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