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Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works

Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works

... escalating personal anxiety in the United States. Such anxiety is depicted vividly in the continuous reminiscence of the narrator of the death of his friends in the essay The Bone Garden of Desire ... children the sightseeing along the road. She wanted them to broad their mind and, most of all, she wanted them to gain experience of what she had experienced. Nonetheless, out of her expectation, the ... bomb Exposition Rising actions Falling action Climax 38 their own aims and occupation in life, according to their own inclinations. We are raising them to be rugged individuals…) (Spock, as cited in Althen,...

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Tài liệu STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT on shrimp farms in the southeast of Thailand docx

Tài liệu STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT on shrimp farms in the southeast of Thailand docx

... the salinity and turbulence of the Gulf. Monsoons also control the surface currents of the Gulf, being clockwise during the southwest monsoon and anti-clockwise during the northeast monsoon. ... solution. There are plans to reuse the sludge in the shrimp pond. The idea is to build bricks of the sludge and place them on the pond wall to prevent the sides from erosion. In the meantime, the ... farming further increases the amount of sludge and thereby the amount of organic material on the bottom of the pond through erosion. The shrimp ponds in Thailand today have a maximum life of...

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Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

... significant increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase in river flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence of the decline of rainfall and increase ... expenditure for construction and protection of infrastructure in low-lying areas; and (5) Increased pollution of the aquatic environment in the coastal zone and salinity intrusion of the Huong River ... Impacts on the coastal zone The coastal zone accounts for 30% of the area and more than 30% of the human population of Thua Thien - Hue Province. Climate change impacts on the coastal zone in the...

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Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx

Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx

... prevalence of chronic diseases among the elderly population and found that the degree of impact on HRQOL depends on the type of disease. The results highlight the importance of preventing and controlling ... as the active participation of the el- derly in the community so as to maintain or improve quality of life (39). The present findings stress the need for better organization of and quality in ... diseases, as well the impact of the number of chronic conditions, on the eight areas as- sessed by SF-36 ® . The results were simi- lar to those obtained in other countries, and there is general...

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24,185 OUTLETS - The number of JApAN pOST BANk outlets in Japan docx

24,185 OUTLETS - The number of JApAN pOST BANk outlets in Japan docx

... time after six months from the inception of the deposit. The interest rate on TEIGAKU deposits is higher than the rate on ordinary deposits, and the interest rate at the point the deposit is ... Balance of Deposits in the World The Bank has the largest amount of deposits in the world, even in comparison with overseas banks, and is one of the world’s largest nancial institutions. A Massive ... and an aging population is making it increasingly dif- cult to maintain the current public pension system; there is a steadily growing recognition that individuals need to secure their own...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Protective effects of endomorphins, endogenous opioid peptides in the brain, on human low density lipoprotein oxidation pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Protective effects of endomorphins, endogenous opioid peptides in the brain, on human low density lipoprotein oxidation pdf

... In addition, the present study also showed that endomor- phins inhibited not only the lipid peroxidation of LDL but also the fragmentation of apoB of LDL and increase in REM in a concentration-dependent ... Cu 2+ - induced LDL peroxidation is generally monitored by UV spectroscopy since the primary peroxidation Fig. 8. Inhibition of the increase in REM of LDL during the Cu 2+ -induced (A) or AAPH-initiated ... EM2 in protecting against Cu 2+ -induced apoB modification in LDL. As shown in Fig. 8B, exposure of LDL to 20 mm AAPH in the presence of an increasing concentration of EM1 (50–200 lm) resulted in...

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Film, Politics, and Ideology: Reflections on Hollywood Film in the Age of Reagan* ppt

Film, Politics, and Ideology: Reflections on Hollywood Film in the Age of Reagan* ppt

... found in the scenes of everyday and prison life in the film. And the transformation of life in the musical numbers of Pennies From Heaven provide critical perspectives on the degradation of everyday ... valorization of non- conformity and individualistic heroism in the new age of entrepreneurial glory. A more multi-dimensional reading of the film, however, would have to bring in the dimensions of race ... Staiger. @+{1 }In Studies in the Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and therefore rob...

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\ Interim Guidance on Hurricane  Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico

\ Interim Guidance on Hurricane Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico

... differing hurricane climatology, as shown in Figure 3-1. The regions have been selected based on consideration of trends in (1) INTERIM GUIDELINES ON HURRICANE CONDITIONS IN THE GULF OF ... observations. Of the four regions, changes relative to previous API RP 2A-WSD values are most pronounced in the Central region. Conditions in other regions are similar to those contained in ... follows: Section I: Introduction. Section 2: Definitions of terms used. Section 3: A description of the four regions, and notes of areas and water depths where the conditions do not...

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state university of new york press aristotle on false reasoning language and the world in the sophistical refutations mar 2003

state university of new york press aristotle on false reasoning language and the world in the sophistical refutations mar 2003

... others the conclusion is that which is said in many ways. 19 In example (2) the two significations of t¿ d on are exhibited, one in the first premise and the other in the second. The conclusion, ... 98 Begging the Question in the Prior Analytics 98 Begging the Question in Dialectical Reasoning 100 Begging the Question and Immediate Inferences 104 Resolutions 106 The Fallacy of Treating a Non-Cause ... reasoning. Double meaning is either in the premises or in the conclusion. Of refutations due to homonymy and amphiboly, some have more than one particular signification of the questions, while in...

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báo cáo hóa học: " A comparative study on approximate entropy measure and poincaré plot indexes of minimum foot clearance variability in the elderly during walking" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " A comparative study on approximate entropy measure and poincaré plot indexes of minimum foot clearance variability in the elderly during walking" pptx

... is considered as the mean of the frac- tion of patterns of length m that resemble the pattern of the same length that begins at index i. ApEn is computed by using the following equation: In our ... useful inherent information. Since the underlying mechanism involved in the human locomotor control has been reported to be mainly complex and nonlinear [5-7], the application of nonlinear technique ... purposes) pendicular to the line -of- identity reflects the level of short-term variability [12]. The dispersion of points along the line -of- identity is thought to indicate the level of long- term variability. Data...

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báo cáo hóa học: " The effect of consequent exposure of stress and dermal application of low doses of chlorpyrifos on the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein in the hippocampus of adult mice" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " The effect of consequent exposure of stress and dermal application of low doses of chlorpyrifos on the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein in the hippocampus of adult mice" pptx

... in rats on the effects of gestational exposure to cholinotoxicants nicotine and CPF, alone and in combination, showed increased GFAP expression in offspring in the CA1 sub-field of the hippo- campus, ... expression [17,18]. The effect of dermal application of CPF on GFAP expression in the hippocampus has not been reported. The aim of this study was to determine the expression of GFAP in the hippocampal ... reduction in neuronal density in all areas of the hippocampus. Neuronal density in the CA3 area of the hippocampus was also shown to be significantly reduced in rats after prolonged pain stress in the...

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Báo cáo toán học: " Influence of different flow conditions on the occurrence and behavior of potentially hazardous organic xenobiotics in the influent and effluent of a municipal sewage treatment plant in Germany: an effect-directed approach" pot

Báo cáo toán học: " Influence of different flow conditions on the occurrence and behavior of potentially hazardous organic xenobiotics in the influent and effluent of a municipal sewage treatment plant in Germany: an effect-directed approach" pot

... bac- teria in the absence of any toxicant during incubation. The inhibition of the p osit ive controls should be in th e range of 40% to 60% after an incubation time of 30 min. In addi- tion, method ... study (Figure 4). In summary, the polar fraction 3 exhibited, in comparison with the other remaining wastewater fractions, the highest inhibiti on values in the influent of the STP, whereas the more lipophilic ... estimating the elimination efficiency for the differ- ent analytes, we used the concentration values of the corresponding influent and effluent samples. In case of a concentration below the LOQ,...

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