... with Piggy ,and the two of them refuse to adopt the new, less structured way of life thatmost the boyson the island experience. Both of them are very firm intheir belief of organization andcivilization, ... Ralph,Simon, and Jack climb, and from which theyare able to see the terrain.Finally, there is the castle at the other end ofthe island, whichrises ahundred feet above the sea and becomes Jack's ... to the pig's head.In Simon's hallucination the head becomes the "Lordof the Flies& quot;. ThenSimon, terrified and sickened, starts back to where the other boys aretotell them...
... Ralph,Simon, and Jack climb, and from which theyare able to see the terrain.Finally, there is the castle at the other end ofthe island, whichrises ahundred feet above the sea and becomes Jack's ... strong sense of place, andthe setting shapes the story'sdirection. At the outset theboys view the island as a paradise because it islush and abundant with food. As the fear ofthe beast grows, ... down ,and they crash on a tropicalisland. Ralph and Piggy are the first characters introduced ,and they find awhite conch shell. Ralph blows on the conch, andthe other boysappear.Among them...
... Lordof theFlies, and is of extreme importance to help reconstruct the current wave ofrevolutionary ideas that swept the twentieth-centurygeneration. Lordofthe Fliesportrays the belief ofthe ... TheLordoftheFliesThe world had witnessed the atrocities of World War II and began toexamine the defects of their social ethics. Man's purity and innocence was gone. ... throughout Lordofthe Flies. The mostobvious is the struggle between Ralph and Jack. The charactersthemselves have been heavily influenced by the war. Ralph is the representative ofDemocracy....
... RPAP. The size o f the interaction surface between the peptide andthe non binding bottom ofthe Fab is 173 A˚2which c orresponds to about 36% ofthe interaction of the full peptide with the ... simulation and minimiza tionover 200 steps. Both the ligand andthe binding site were kept flexibleduring the simulation . (C) Sup erposition of PDTRP (red) with the ligand ofthe X-ray structure analysis ... ecrystalcellthathaveadistanceof4A˚or less to the ligand. The C-terminal part ofthe pe ptide (RPAP) has clo se contacts to the n ext protein in the crystal cell and is therefore stabilized on the surface o...
... Section4containssupplementalevaluation of aseparatesecondaryozoneNAAQSin the range of 7to15ppm‐hr,aswellasalessstringent of 21ppm‐hr.Thissupplementalprovidesanexplanation ofthe extremedifficulty of quantifying the costs and benefits of asecondarystandardatthistime.S1.1Results of Benefit‐Cost Analysis ThisupdatedRIAconsists of multipleanalyses,includinganassessment ofthe nature and sources of ambientozone;estimates of current and futureemissions of relevantozoneprecursors;airqualityanalyses of baseline and alternativecontrolstrategies;illustrativecontrolstrategiestoattain the standardalternativesinfutureyears;estimates ofthe incrementalcosts and benefits of attaining the alternativestandards, S1‐1 Summary ofthe updatedRegulatoryImpact Analysis (RIA)for the Reconsideration ofthe 2008OzoneNationalAmbientAirQualityStandard(NAAQS)OnSeptember16,2009,EPAcommittedtoreconsidering the ozoneNAAQSstandardpromulgatedinMarch2008. The ozoneNAAQSwillbeselectedfrom the proposedrange of 0.060to0.070ppm,basedonthisreconsideration ofthe evidenceavailableat the time the laststandardwasset.Today’sproposedrulealsoincludesaseparatesecondaryNAAQS,forwhichthisRIAprovidesonlyqualitative analysis dueto the limitednature of availableEPAguidanceforattainingthisstandardThissupplementto the RIAcontainsanupdatedillustrative analysisofthe potentialcosts and humanhealth and welfarebenefits of nationallyattaininganewprimaryozonestandard. The basisforthisupdatedeconomic analysis is the RIApublishedinMarch2008withafewsignificantchanges.Thesechangesreflect the morestringentrange of optionsbeingproposedby the Administrator.Italsoreflectssomesignificantmethodologicalimprovementstoairpollutionbenefitsestimation,whichEPAhasadoptedsince the ozonestandardwaslastpromulgated.Thesesignificantchangesinclude the following: ... $47,000aEstimatesareroundedtotwosignificantfigures.Assuch,totalswillnotsumdowncolumns.S.2.4.4 Summaryof TotalCosts TableS2.9presentsa summaryofthe totalnationalcosts of attaining the 0.055ppm and the 0.060ppmalternativestandardsin2020.This summary includes the engineeringcosts of the modeledcontrolstrategy(presentedin the 2008OzoneNAAQSRIA Chapter 54), the additionalsupplementalcontrols,aswellas the extrapolatedcosts.ConsistentwithOMBCircularA‐4,costsarepresentedata7%discountrate.7 The midrangeestimateconsists of usinganMvalue of 0.24for the estimation ofthe averagecostperton of controlbygeographicarea.Foracompletelisting of averagecostpertonbygeographicareaseeAppendixS2a. ... togetherwithanexamination of keyuncertainties and limitations; and aseries of conclusions and insightsgainedfrom the analysis. ItisimportanttorecallthatthisRIArestson theanalysis donein2008;nonewairqualitymodelingorotherassessmentswerecompletedexceptthoseoutlinedabove. The supplementincludesapresentation ofthe benefits and costs of attainingvariousalternativeozoneNationalAmbientAirQualityStandardsin the year2020.Theseestimatesonlyincludeareasassumedtomeet the currentstandardby2020.Theydonotinclude the costsorbenefits of attaining the alternatestandardsin the SanJoaquinValley and SouthCoastairbasinsinCalifornia,becauseweexpectthatnonattainmentdesignationsunder the CleanAirActfortheseareaswouldplacethemincategoriesaffordedextratimebeyond2020toattain the ozoneNAAQS.InTableS1.1below, the individualrowestimatesreflect the differentstudiesavailabletodescribe the relationship of ozoneexposuretoprematuremortality.Thesemonetizedbenefitsincludereducedhealtheffectsfromreducedexposuretoozone,reducedhealtheffectsfromreducedexposuretoPM2.5, and improvementsinvisibility. The rangeswithineachrowreflecttwoPMmortalitystudies(i.e.Pope and Laden).Rangesin the totalcostscolumnreflectdifferentassumptionsabout the extrapolation of costsasdiscussedin Chapter 5 ofthe 2008OzoneNAAQSRIA. The lowend ofthe range of netbenefitsisconstructedbysubtracting the highestcostfrom the lowestbenefit,while the highend ofthe rangeisconstructedbysubtracting the lowestcostfrom the highestbenefit. The presentation ofthe netbenefitestimatesrepresents the widestpossiblerangefromthis analysis. TableS1.2presents the estimate of totalozone and PM2.5‐relatedprematuremortalities and morbiditiesavoidednationwidein2020asaresult of thisregulation....
... adhered to the cerebrum, pons and cervical spinal cord. The com-partments were then separated andthe posterior wall of the cyst was excised to break down the cystic structure. The tissue ... extended across the foramen magnum into the spinal canal at the level of the atlas. Thus, the lesion in our case was extremely rare, and it is also possible one ofthe reasons that the syrinx ... magnum and posterior arch ofthe atlas were then fully decompressed, followed by opening the dura mater. A blister-like cyst was seen to be located in the pons and posterior part ofthe cervical...
... out for the rural areas ofthe Mekong Delta. The goal of the survey was the appraisal ofthe water resources in terms of quality and availability in or-der to develop a concept for the rural ... approx. 1.5 m. The study site Hoa An is located in an area where an inter-action ofthe tidal regimes ofthe South Chinese Sea andofthe Gulf of Thailand eliminate each other. Here, the tidal amplitude ... Regarding the ground water andthe surface water quality the two study sites Hoa An and An Binh are typical for the conditions ofthe rural area ofthe Mekong Delta. At present, there are substantial...
... Regional Intergration Process and Challenges, Hanoi. 14. Damien J. Neven (2000), Evaluating the effects of non-tariff barriers, University of Lausanne. 15. The Australian APEC Study Centre-Monash ... kiện chấp nhận các tiêu chuẩn môi trường; các hạn chế thương mại đặt ra theo quy tắc MEAs [15]. 1.1.2.2. Phân loại Theo nghiên cứu của Lê Hoàng Lan [10], có 2 loại rào cản môi trường thường ... APEC Study Centre-Monash University (2003), European Unilateralism-Environmental Trade Barriers andthe Rising Threat to Prosperity through Trade. Website 16. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/index.html...