... Christmas flower, the poinsettia, was named in compliment to Mr.Poinsett. These interesting women for many years were inthe habit of leaving what they called their"Carolina" home for ... giving money andtobacco to the crew, of his being extremely intimate with them, that he had a strange flashing of the eye, andfinally that he was inthe habit of amusing the sailors by making ... hearing my three maiden aunts, my father's sisters, playing in turn the inspiringScotch airs upon the Astor piano that stood in their drawing-room. One of their songs was especially inimicalto...
... Gini index of inequality as well as growth model, the findings pointed that generally the income inequality in Vietnam during the 1998-2008 period (irrespective of the source of income) is in increasing ... of heavy industry based on ______ (2) There are two poverty lines used in Vietnam namely the national poverty line and the international poverty line. The international poverty line is derived ... Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. Inthe 1990s this line was the income equivalent of buying 15kg, 20kg and 25kg of rice per month as poverty line for food items. In 2001 the line was increased...
... coun-tryeach year duringthe late nineteenth century. The main export was ivory,whose continuously rising price drove the traders ever deeper inland. Slaveexports rose to rival it duringthe mid -century, ... himself’.11 The western savanna also experienced two jihads duringthe nineteenth century, but they created less stability. The first, in 1818, was inthe internaldelta of the Niger, hitherto controlled ... 16:0Regional diversity inthe nineteenth century 179southern africa During the early nineteenth centurythe African peoples of southern Africaused two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation...
... Carlyle, as a result of the contagion passed from one to another through the air they both breatheor the water they both drink, then in Engels, as in Gaskell, it is the interpenetration of English ... from the millowners themselves, who at one point had the Representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid -century [the working-man] can protest with most violent passion against the ... English bodies, linking the imperialand industrial feats of the nineteenth century to an aboriginal ethnicprinciple.Inspired by Alton’s viewing of a boat race at Cambridge – in which‘‘some...
... at the time. The vegetation of the Eurasian Plain during OIS 3, in the west at least, seems to have oscillated between conifer woodland, with shrubtundra inthe north, during warm parts of the ... the Russian Plain duringthe Briansk Interstadial with the southern limit of the range of a number of Arctic plants being 1200 km furthersouth than today (and a further 600 km during OIS 2). Steppe ... forest intrusions during warm and wet climate; <S, steppe intrusions during cold and arid climate; T V, tundra intrusions during cold and arid climate. The significance of these changes was in the...
... institutions attended the discussion. The theme for the roundtablediscussion was “Human resource challenges facing the hotel and travel industry inChina . The discussion was led by Dr Hanqin ... toexplore these issues by interviewing industry executives andacademics and via the authors’ own experiences of teaching andresearch in China. It is hoped that these issues will be noted by the Chinese ... 300vacant posts, there are likely be around 200applications. This is due to the rapid increase in the number of hotel properties inChina and the related rise in demand for employees. Inthe 1990s,many...
... observa-tions of intersex in fish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia (Blazer and others, 2007). The fish kills and observations of intersex ... rate-limiting barriers allow-ing the use of the same models to determine ambient water concentrations. Previous data indicate that many chemicals of interest remain inthe linear phase of sampling ... greater inthe second deployment and likely were related to increased pesticide application duringthe spring crop planting inthe largely agri-cultural reaches of the watershed. Desethylatrazine,...
... in holding the castle in 1217. Indeed, Nichola’s defence of power and portrayal 23 Lincoln in 1217 was a significant factor in turning the tide of events in favour of King John. According ... appliesto other twelfth -century saints.44 Women’s testimony and role as sourcesof information on the saint are therefore one way in which they could in uence the shape and content of the text. ... research into the history of women and gender since the 1970s has changed the face of history. Using the insights of feminist theoryand of historians of women, gender historians have explored the...
... minimum drink-ing law, which severely increases the cost of drinking if the youth is caught.† Gross-man et al.10 simulate the hypothetical effect of having all states changing their age ... be justified depend-ing on the willingness of policy makers to intervene into family life. In addition, there is an argument to be made to intervene on the well-being of the individual. Although ... through the interjection of a reverse economic model originally intended to give the middle tier the monopoly of economic control. As authors in the original text point out, in an ever-expanding...
... 2004:54). The influence of Yin & Yang can also be seen inthe naming accounting technique of both Longmen Zhang bookkeeping, which emerged at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing ... perspective more dominant or more effective on Chinese accounting environment. Influenced by the increasing interest in cultural influence on accounting in international accounting research, some ... used inChina until the nineteenth century (Chen, 1998). The development of dragon-gate bookkeeping which was derived from three-feet bookkeeping was promoted duringthe late Ming and early Qing...
... Cooperation in Business: Managing Dilemmas inthe 21st Century, we take the first steps in exploring thisemerging field of knowledge and practice, lookingfor ways to think about two key business ... result of the largely unconscious evolution ofinstitutions of collective action. Ostrom has taken the lead in making the management principles forthese institutions explicit, combining theory ... exam-ple, in Ostrom’s study of water-use arrangements in the Los Angeles basin, an outside institution (the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]) was charged withmonitoring, among other things, the salinity...