... bravest and best knights in the kingdom and Merlin makes a roundtablefor them to sit at in the perfect city of Camelot Thus begin the adventures oftheKnightsoftheRound Table, tales of bravery ... than another chair Nobody sat at the top of a roundtable and nobody sat at the bottom The names oftheKnightsoftheRoundTable will be famous!’ cried Merlin Some knights died and other brave ... looked roundtheRoundTable at his knights Then he spoke to them ‘We were brothers, but this will be the end of our RoundTable You are leaving and I will not see you again.’ The four knights...
... secrets ofthe palace Months passed Knights returned to Camelot with news and then set out again in searchoftheHolyGrail They searched the Kingdom of Logres for news or for signs oftheholy ... 69 The guardians oftheGrail Chapel The Breaking oftheRoundTable 12 The Breaking oftheRoundTable Mordred's knights at Camelot any knights did not return to Camelot They were lost in the ... was unworthy A voice spoke softly and clearly 'Seek theGrail Only the purest knights can find the Grail. ' 64 65 The Quest fortheHolyGrail 11 The Quest fortheHolyGrail Bedivere and Mordred...
... in the debates during theroundtable conference The drafts ofthe manuscript were written by DDB and all authors contributed to writing ofthe manuscript, which was circulated among each of them ... manipulation ofthe image is performed (software that provides image stabilization may resize the image so that the final image may have a magnification different from that ofthe original) The second ... http://ccforum.com/content/11/5/R101 perfusion heterogeneity, which is a crucial determinant of extraction capabilities ofthe tissue [16-18] The usefulness of determining the speed of blood in the...
... into the shape ofthe Child that he had seen tofore VII When the mass was sung, the voice of a holy angel said "Ite, missa est" The Son took the Mother by the hand, and they evanished forth ofthe ... another, for each told me that the court of King Arthur is the vilest in the world, and that all theknightsoftheTableRound have renounced it forthe badness thereof." "Damsel," saith the ... toward the castle of Camelot, and sendeth by a squire the horse ofthe Lord ofthe Moors to the daughter ofthe Widow Lady, that made great joy thereof And the five knights drive before them the...
... delays joint breakdown in OA appears Utopian, like the quest fortheHoly Grail, it is worthwhile The dramatic ageing ofthe population and the increase in obesity in developed countries will ... terms of quality of life We should keep in mind that behind all ofthe revolutionary drugs presently on the market is a long history of failure If we continue to develop and test hypotheses, then ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Berenbaum target, making the drug ineffective or producing unexpected side effects The infliximab trial forthe treatment of heart failure is a bizarre...
... signals suggests that the septal signals are apparently more sensitive to preload alterations The reader, however, should bear in mind that the stability ofthe signals obtained at the septal side ... colleagues show no changes ofthe E′ wave in a rather small subset of intensive care unit patients, and again several issues have to be kept in mind First, several ofthe study patients were supported ... small to conclude in a proper manner From all these studies, it is unclear whether the discussed concepts apply to all haemodynamic states The fact that the E wave/E′ wave relates to pulmonary capillary...
... well as when they are most counterproductive The synthesis of economic theories so obtained may well be theHolyGrailof macroeconomics we have been searching for since the 1930s The balance ... would not solve the economic problems faced by the two countries in the late 1970s At the time, Britain and the U.S were veritable hotbeds of structural malaise: workers TheHolyGrailof Macroeconomics; ... will be neither borrowed nor spent Instead, it will pile up in the form of bank deposits, for which-in spite ofthe banks' best efforts-there are no borrowers As a result, only ¥900 ofthe original...
... with the intention of producing a work of art The experiment reported in this article is clearly in line with the latter trend Second, despite the fact that much ofthe effort put into the research ... with the strength ofthe memory trace left by the stimuli presented during the learning phase Thus, we defined the strength ofthe memory trace produced by each target stimulus as the sum of hits ... dimension) in aesthetic judgment favoring strong-trace stimuli For these two dimensions, results seem to support the hypothesis forthe group of participants with art OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF AESTHETIC JUDGMENT...
... preliminary analysis of secreted proteins indicated in the genomic sequence data of S aureus The criteria for selection ofthe substrate were a good prediction ofthe presence and location ofthe signal ... in the Fig SPase recognition sequence and cleavage sites ofthe SpsB substrates used in the present study: Showing part ofthe sequence ofthe IsaA precursor (upper row) and the sequence ofthe ... amount of preprotein processed at varying pH did not yield sufcient quantitative data, and therefore the FRET assay was used to study the effect of pH on the enzyme The stability ofthe synthetic...
... greater the pressure, the more the gas expands, preventing the collapse ofthe balloon The speed of a particle is related to its energy of motion So the problem of finding a source forthe pressure ... superclusters of galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole From this part ofthe book the reader should derive a sense not only ofthe size ofthe universe and our knowledge of its inhabitants but also ofthe ... the Laboratories ofthe Universe, the stars forming these extraordinary nebulae, by some decay or waste of nature, being no longer fit for their former purposes, and having their projectile forces,...
... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales ofthe Old Ones, the elders ofthe community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... consolation and comfort When someone we love dies, the pain of separation is often excruciating One ofthe worst aspects of any experience of pain is the fear of what we not know The unknown compounds ... blot out memories ofthe tragedy that killed his beloved son Others feared the power of his rages whenever the numbing effects ofthe alcohol began to wear off So they backed off and allowed his...
... the edges of space and the beginning of time, but on the nearest stars and the uncharted, potentially habitable worlds they likely harbored Near the end of our conversation, he guessed that the ... also affect their spin In such a system the pull of each star upon the other, it was thought, might disrupt the process of planet formation Struve speculated that only the other half, the singleton ... than 2,000, one for each year ofthe tree’s life, which apparently began around the time ofthe birth of Jesus Christ “This tree saw the first light from the supernova that made the Crab Nebula,...
... ruled The burden of culpability does not fall only on the United States Nevertheless, given the lack of proportionality in terms ofthe sacrifices made by the citizens of Afghanistan and those ofthe ... shambles; and the exodus ofthe middle class Iraq has become the most dangerous place on earth—not merely forthe soldiers ofthe occupying power but also forthe citizens forced to endure the descent ... enter the fray and gradually substitute their forces for those ofthe United States—even while other members ofthe “coalition ofthe willing” were frantically pulling out—was utopian The United...
... sense, forthe first time, of looking at the solar system and beyond, to scale What you can see here is the Sun, and to scale to the size ofthe Sun is the distance to the orbit of Mercury Then the ... invited to give the Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology of 1985 at the University of Glasgow He would be following in the footsteps of some ofthe greatest scientists and philosophers ofthe last hundred ... boundary to the Oort Cloud All ofthe planets, and the comets that we know, are lost in the glare of light from the Sun And here, forthe first time, we have a scale sufficient to see some ofthe neighboring...
... measure of how representative the topology ofthe given tree is ofthe entire forest of life (the IS is the fraction ofthe times the splits from a given tree are found in all trees ofthe forest) The ... Percentage of trees >80% Random ‘NUTs’ Figure Similarity ofthe trees in the forest of life to the NUTs (a) For each ofthe 102 NUTs, the breakdown ofthe rest ofthe trees in the forest by percent ... trees in the forest was beyond the capacity ofthe R software package used for this analysis; however, the set of COG trees included most ofthe trees with a large number of species for which the...
... is the binding of an exogenous guanosine (exoG) cofactor to a pocket in the catalytic core ofthe intron, referred to as G binding site During the first step of splicing, the cofactor attacks the ... are the typical features forthe formation of anti-parallel G-quadruplex from random conformations of oligodeoxyribonucleotides in the presence of K+ The results shown in Figure 2-6 could be the ... and is at the top ofthe putative list of recurrent DNA structural motifs The primary role forthe guaninequartet in folded DNAs might be to serve as a stable center around which other structural...
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... proportion of forward contracts on the asset As the price ofthe asset falls, the replicating portfolio contains a decreasing proportion of forward contracts on the asset Like the forward, futures ... expanded role forthe bond market IV TABLEOF CONTENTS Preface Abstract Tableof Contents iii iv v Introduction Overview ofthe Financial Sector and Flow of Funds Analysis 3 The Role of Financial ... effectiveness ofthe judiciary system since, in principle, strong enforcement by the courts could compensate for weak laws These measures (shown in Table 8B) include proxies forthe efficiency ofthe judicial...
... to intact skin [22] The dose of drug delivered depends on the surface area ofthe patch and the length of time that the patch is worn, which allows for tailoring the duration of medication effect ... increasing the subject's MTS dose to the next available strength if side effects permitted "Acceptable" responses permitted the subject to be maintained on the current dose forthe remainder ofthe ... in the investigator's opinion there was potential for further symptom reduction, try the next higher dose No further titration was permitted after the final dose-adjustment visit at the end of...