... in the pecking order However, the gulf between the elite, often behind the lines giving orders, and the largely disenfranchised multitude, doing the dying up at the front, became glaring during ... quarter of the globe In the second half of the 20th century the Empire ebbed away, cutting the apron strings from Britain whilst the motherland recovered from world war Among the last to fly the nest ... quadrupled in size in the first 50 years of the 19th century In Glasgow and Belfast, where the shipyards began to boom, the growth was even greater By the 1840s the railways were being laid, upping the...
Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:02
... Norsemen invaded and settled in the north-west establishing the duchy of Normandy The great lords presiding over the provinces elected Hugh Capet as their king in 987, deposing the Carolingians ... and the land rises through the long strip of the Jura Mountains before the Alps rear up, marching all the way down to the Mediterranean The southern heart of the country is dominated by the Massif ... would anchor his easel using pegs in the ground in an effort to defy the wind The crystalline skies also associated with the Mistral are evident in van Goghs paintings Setting the boundaries French...
Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:03
speak the culture italy be fluent in italian life and culture
... the top The Ghibelline faction adopted black as their colour; the Guelphs chose white For further clarity, the Guelphs shaped the battlements on their castles to be square, while the Ghibellines ... stone (at their best in the nuraghe buildings of Sardinia): the Ligures (Liguria), Veneti (Veneto), Latins (Lazio), Sards (Sardinia), Umbrii (Umbria) and their like also began shaping the Italian ... for the arts while serving in the army in Greece, and when the same army proclaimed him emperor he put up some fine buildings (including a rebuilt Pantheon in Rome and the villa at Tivoli) He reined...
Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:03
speak the culture spain be fluent in spanish life and culture
... drink Living culture: the details of modern spain 1.1.2 Local colour: the autonomías of Spain Northern Spain The stripe of northern Spain running from the border with Portugal to the edge of the ... Chopin in the mid 1830s, hoping to find inspiration British writer Robert Graves went one step further, moving to the island in 1929 and remaining there for much of his Balearic beats Ibiza first began ... Roman Spain In hindsight, the Carthaginians’ attack on Rome in the Second Punic War was a mistake – the Romans landed in southern Iberia behind Hannibal and his elephants as they crossed the Alps...
Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:03
Báo cáo y học: " And the second shall be first" ppsx
... years, other labs have been interpreting their biophysical and biochemical data in terms of the wrong structures A number of scientists have been unable to publish their results because they seemed ... sub-field has been held back for years due to the inordinately persuasive power of the pretty pictures that structural biology produces In retrospect, there were a number of serious red flags in the work ... possible I think that feeling is often self-defeating, as it clearly was here The high-profile journals don’t ipso facto the best job of reviewing manuscripts - in fact, in my experience, they are...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22
Tài liệu A Sense of Wonder, aris rising from Aesthetic Experiences, should be the hould be the Starting Point for Inquiry in Primary Science ppt
... one of the causes for the decline in science teaching and learning in primary schools Findings from the 2006 TIMSS showed that there had been a significant decline in the hours spent teaching science ... towards science The well documented decline of secondary school students’ interest in being involved in further studies in science is becoming increasingly evident in students in primary school ... are involved in a science activity, they will be doing science, rather than learning science They will be testing their explanations against the evidence they have identified whilst planning...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
''''The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman or Girl'''' – Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, Where Are You? docx
... nonAfrican investor in the mining industry in the DRC; its corporations own over $5.7 billion in cumulative mining assets9 and formally employ over 13,000 Congolese.10 Much of this investment ... deploying more than twelve personnel at a time.42 Mining and investments To prove his independence from the international forces that supported him in overthrowing Mobutu in 1997, the newly inaugurated ... international donor countries, including Canada, stopped pressing for accountability and rule of law reforms in the DRC when the investment climate began to improve in 2004.55 In 2006, the GoC supported a...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Cell death-inducing DFF45-like effector, a lipid droplet-associated protein, might be involved in the differentiation of human adipocytes pdf
... analyses of the relative levels of the indicated proteins after western blotting (as in D) were carried out Similar experiments were performed five times and the intensity of the individual bands in each ... droplets in adipocytes In addition, the roles of proteins that associate with lipid droplets during adipogenesis, such as PAT proteins (named after the founding members of the family: perilipin, adipophilin ... by inserting the DsRed1 and CIDEC DNA fragments into the vector pShuttle-CMV The plasmid pGFP-adipophilin was also a kind gift from Dr Peng Li The plasmids were transfected into COS-7 cells using...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
2009 Investment Company Fact Book 49th edition - A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry pptx
... attracted $525 billion in new cash during 2008 Increased economic uncertainty during the year and ongoing turmoil in the money markets encouraged these investors to increase their holdings of money market ... 2007 2008 The decline in the number of fund sponsors has been concentrated primarily among those advising mutual funds, and their exit from the industry has caused the growth in the number of mutual ... remained in this top group in 2008 Another measure is the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, which weighs both the number and relative size of firms in the industry to measure competition Index numbers below...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21
2011 Investment Company Fact Book - A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry doc
... funds dominated fund investing following the passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940 But successive bear markets in stocks in the 1970s along with rising interest rates drew investors into ... 16,090 Investment company data include only investment companies that report statistical information to the Investment Company Institute The data include mutual funds that invest primarily in other ... 2009 2010 The decline in the number of fund sponsors has been concentrated primarily among those advising mutual funds, and their exit from the industry has caused the growth in the number of mutual...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY PART-II, SECTION-3, SUB-SECTION (i)] - MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS potx
... parts into semi-finished or finished products; or (ii) making, altering, repairing, fabricating, generating, composing, ornamenting, furnishing, finishing, packing, re-packing, oiling, washing, ... reconditioning, repairing, servicing, refitting, finishing or demolishing of buildings or structures; or (x) farming, feeding, rearing, treating, nursing, caring, and stocking of living organisms; ... issued by the Institute; to the extent these are found to be relevant and applicable The variations, if any, shall be clearly indicated and explained (4) The cost records shall be maintained in such...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20
báo cáo sinh học:" "I won''''t be staying here for long": a qualitative study on the retention of migrant nurses in Ireland" ppt
... underlying problems until the pool of international nursing recruits begins to dry up Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions In the ... and their families, thereby ensuring the long-term integrity of the family unit: "The kids are not happy that we're going to move in Canada, they're very settled here, they like the place, they ... in terms of migration, which is far from being the case Secondly, the findings disprove the assumption that migrant nurses tend to be young, single and motivated primarily by financial gain The...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Summary of phd thesis in economics foreign direct investment towards sustainable development in the northern key economic region
... mentioned in the thesis is understood as the investment activities, investment to gain profits; (ii) the thesis doesn’t include researches on sustainable development within the area of FDI businesses, ... important meanings in innovating technologies, enhancing the level of management, promoting marketing activities, increasing the export manufacture ability of the host countries… Besides, there are ... foreign direct investment towards the sustainable development in the Northern key economic region 3.2.1 The generalization of the reality of foreign direct investment attraction in the Northern key...
Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2014, 13:33
Báo cáo y học: "Inhibition of antithrombin by hyaluronic acid may be involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis" potx
... ability of antithrombin to inhibit thrombin This finding helps to explain why RA occurs and develops in joint tissue, because the inflamed RA synovium is uniquely rich in free HA and other GAGs, along ... to the heparin-binding region of antithrombin However, such binding did not stimulate the activity of antithrombin as did heparin and heparan; in fact, it blocked the ability of antithrombin ... on the interleukin-1 induced synthesis of both nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 in chondrocytes How Ca2+ and Fe3+ are involved in inhibiting antithrombin by HA is also poorly understood Some investigators...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo y học: "Frozen Elephant Trunk: A technique which can be offered in complex pathology to fix the whole aorta in one setting" pps
... prosthesis attached proximally to the sinotubular junction and distally to the arch prosthesis The proximal anastomoses of the saphenous vein grafts were created in the ascending aorta graft The ... participated in the coordination and drafting of this text All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received: ... re-entry is present in the distal aorta This is a rare possibility because there is always re-entry in the descending, abdominal aorta through the iliac arteries However we believe that the FET procedure...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo y học: "Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report" potx
... insign',right a the abdomen showing thebowel 'double Plain radiograph offew dilated loops ofpresence of ain the left Plain radiograph of the abdomen showing the metallic foreign body in the right lower ... duodenum In addition, there was a membrane with a small aperture in the duodenum Surprisingly, the metallic pendant was found lodged in the duodenum along with lot of debris including berry seeds The ... [10,11]; an intramural width of small intestine of cm or less is considered abnormal An abdominal CT scan is of great help in diagnosing and detecting the etiology of intestinal obstruction in 73–95%...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22
Báo cáo y học: "The International Sepsis Forum’s controversies in sepsis: how will sepsis be treated in 2051" ppsx
... database of proteins by taking them out of the cells, running them in a two-dimensional gel, visualizing the gel using an informatics system, and deducing which spots are upregulated proteins As and ... patient upregulates the intracellular kinase Akt and has increased levels of this kinase, then we will be able to give them an anti-Akt therapy and thus improve their outcome Long before 2051 we will ... and we will be better able to inform the family about the prognosis and to better tailor and choose therapies at that time Competing interests PST received an honorarium from the International...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "The International Sepsis Forum’s controversies in sepsis: how will sepsis be treated in 2051" doc
... the surgery In the future these skills will be combined Surgery will become less invasive as imaging techniques become more revealing Genetic predisposition plays a significant role in defining ... migrated into the lung, lessening the acute lung injury and significantly enhancing survival of the animals If infection is a potent stimulus to limit inflammation, then in the future we may well believe ... signalling, kinases, transcription factors, and the spectrum of mechanisms that maintain normal intracellular homeostasis Furthermore, rather than using expensive recombinant proteins, we will be...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21
Báo cáo y học: " The International Sepsis Forum’s frontiers in sepsis: high cardiac output should be maintained in severe sepsis" ppt
... and improved target organ perfusion, then these interventions may be continued Each patient must be assessed according to their clinical (urine output, skin perfusion, mental status), hemodynamic ... does cardiac output; in fact, it may be interesting to combine SvO2 and cardiac output (Fig 2) Indeed, this is one of the problems with the less invasive methods of measuring cardiac output; we ... Moreover, the relationship between VO2 and DO2 is subject to mathematical coupling of data In complex cases, the relation between cardiac index and oxygen extraction ratio may be helpful, especially in...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22