... while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area ofthe great East African lakes There they ... linked to the regenerating annual flood, also predated unification; it grew more reflective with time The formation of a countrywide cult was aided by the adoption of literacy atthe end ofthe predynastic ... from the strong man; I deflected the fury ofthe evil man and subdued the greedy man in his hour I succoured the widow who has no husband; I established the son and heir on the seat of his father...
... reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good ofthe whole There is no doubt that this coordination itself transcends the explanatory resources of biochemistry, because it operates according ... purposes There is no doubt that this body of theory provides a great deal of insight into the internal operation of biological systems as well But there remains a glaring problem In the case ofthe ... minimization of energy due to tight thermodynamic coupling, then it would make no sense to speak of their occurring on the basis of information Since that is not the case, it does make sense to...
... establish the League of Nations, agreed to the terms ofthe treaty despite his reservations about the goals and the ultimate outcomes ofthe provisions The treaty did establish the League of Nations, ... the subject of Executive Wisdom through the exploration of five historical case studies and to provide the central thesis that has guided the creation ofthe extensive material that follows The ... of that year, they ordered the approximately 170,000 Jewish inhabitants of Spain to leave the country, thereby eliminating what they viewed as the last major threat to their rule over all of Spain...
... between these two were stratifications of other theatres with different prices.5 The above indicates that a time lag existed ofat least twelve years between the availability ofthe stable innovation ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... groups: the middle classes that had never attended theatre or other amusements because of religious beliefs; the middle and upper working class patrons ofthe live theatre, especially fans of popular...
... currency and the related issue of their merits and limitations TheEmergenceof Risk-based Regulation: setting the scene Central to our understanding ofthe popularity of risk based regulation is ... they put on regulators in terms of how they conducted their own operations, and second for the pressures they put on the regulators in their dealings with business In terms of their own operations ... regulatory organisations An important part of this is understanding the limitations of risk based approaches to regulation The Limitations of Risk-based Approaches Discussion ofthelimitsof risk...
... stereotypes than to embrace the physicality and violence that football offered? No matter that the violence ofthe game was precisely what the parents of these boys found most offensive Shooting a few ... or association The games evolved from a desire on the part ofthe best from given areas ofthe country to test themselves against the best from other areas The teams themselves arranged the games ... they didn’t play that way Oak Park had won several of these championship games, but this day they weren’t going to add Glenville to their list ofthe vanquished The scoreboard atthe end of the...
... English league Patterns of international migration for professional footballers The earnings of professional footballers Determinants of players’ compensation: empirical evidence Thefootball transfer ... during the decade prior to the publication of Sloane’s article ‘A major drawback to the general introduction ofthe utility maximisation assumption in the theory ofthe firm is that it may be rationalised ... to reject the null hypothesis that the true value ofthe coefficient 2 is zero, in favour ofthe alternative hypothesis that 2 is non-zero In this case the null and alternative hypotheses would...
... role in the design and implementation ofthe PBTC system The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitative ... procedural approach to the preparation of accounting information was not independent of their prior educational training The professional conception ofthe legitimate role of Siemens’ accountants ... a discussion ofthe results ofthe investigation, the paper’s concluding section addresses some ofthe implications ofthe study and future research possibilities in the area Literature review...
... TheEmergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis ofthe Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis ofthe humanities in the face ofthe problem of social technology, I want to so first of ... representation, by the contestation ofthe margins for cultural power, by the pluralization of ethnicity itself in English society Within the context of these "threats," what we are seeing is not the ... careers; they destroy people's reading lists; they cut through the canon; they fire cannons at one another rather than establishing them They are a series of interruptions in the peaceful life of the...
... for us the fact that the Koran (and Islam) originated in the context ofthe idolatry ofthe jahiliyya, but atthe same time has to take account ofthe nature ofthe charge of shirk that the opponents ... identication ofthe sunna with the exemplary practice ofthe Prophet, the theory that the sunna (along with the Koran) was the source ofthe law, and the role ofthe scholars in elaborating the law ... out-and-out idolatry and polytheism.10 That account is atthe centre ofthe traditional understanding ofthe religious situation ofthe Arabs atthe time the Prophet was sent to them, but because...
... understanding ofthe point ofthe natural-philosophical exercise One ofthe spurs to reworking was the attempt to draw out the natural-philosophical significance of developments in the practical-mathematical ... atthe attempts by English natural philosophers and theologians to accommodate the account in Genesis to natural-philosophical accounts ofthe formation ofthe earth What emerges from these attempts, ... demanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing ofthe falsifiable and the...
... the knowledge that the heart is not the seat of emotions, that it is a muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system Yet the idea that the human mind and spirituality originate ... together his own personal and intellectual biography alongside a masterfully narrated history ofthe evolution ofthe science ofthe mind Kandels explanations of even the most elaborate of biological ... anxiety states carry with them the added burden of defective memory function The new science of mind holds out the hope that greater understanding ofthe biology of memory will lead to better treatments...
... were representative ofthe population ofthe high prevalence neighborhoods, records of 20 patients from two medical centers within the higher prevalence region were reviewed Ofthe 20 patients, three ... single patient isolates of S aureus were gathered from 15 ofthe 16 hospitals in Brooklyn, NY; the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which serves select patients from throughout the ... hospitals in the western (low prevalence) part ofthe city None of clindamycin-resistant MRSA were related to either USA300 or USA400 strains (Fig 3) The six hospitals with the greater prevalence of USA300...
... regardless of whether these autoantibodies are pathogenic [25] Despite intensive work on the characterization of autoantigens, the cellular basis of their production and the strong association of certain ... rather polyclonal pattern of IgV gene usage, comparable to that of circulating B cells from normals Thus, the lack of direct comparison between the B cell repertoire in the blood and that in the ... in the parotid gland These results suggest an important role for VL chain gene usage in the immune activation of B cells within the parotid gland ofthe pSS patient studied A restriction of the...
... manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript and PA participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript Acknowledgements We ... declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SHH participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript; HSB collected Page of (page ... and private stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning ofthe year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling ofthe drug...
... manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript and PA participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript Acknowledgements We ... declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SHH participated in the initiation ofthe data collection, analysis and drafting ofthe manuscript; HSB collected Page of (page ... and private stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning ofthe year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling ofthe drug...
... could play a role in the reduction of antibiotic resistance The duration of time that the serum drug concentration remains above the minimum inhibitory concentration ofthe 461 Critical Care ... antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria Indeed, it appeared that part ofthe explanation for these findings was the greater administration of effective antibiotic regimens during the cycling periods, ... resistant organism, the rate of acquisition of enteric colonization with a bacteria resistant to any ofthe target drugs remained stable during the cycling period — P aeruginosa: relative rate, 0.96;...
... similar, the maximum likelihood estimates of ancestral sequences of clades A and G should reflect better the ancestral state ofthe clade, incorporating phylogenetic information from the full ... is the case of South American BF in which URFs outnumber CRFs) To examine further whether the risk factors contribute to the spread of BF URFs in South America, the associated risk factor ofthe ... current subtype nomenclature does not rest on the assumption that currently defined “pure” subtypes are not consequences of earlier recombination events, but rather indicates that these subtypes can...
... analysis ofthe events that may have led to theemergenceof Francisella human pathogenic strains Theemergence could have been initiated by the gain or loss of function (pathoadaptivity) that took ... data suggest that more than half ofthe pseudogenes in the human pathogenic strains appeared relatively late in their evolution, after the subspeciation If pathoadaptive mutations occurred, then ... set is the duplicated pathogenicity island, of which there is only one copy in U112 [26] The duplication ofthe Francisella pathogenicity island may provide a higher level of expression ofthe virulence...
... his abdication ofthe throne with the creation ofthe Sangkum Reastr Niyum (People’s Socialist Community).3 Sihanouk, the self-proclaimed leader ofthe Sangkum, advocated the elimination of all ... services), the Democrats were able to win a large majority ofthe assembly seats (Chandler 1991) The Democrat majority envisioned the assembly as a legislative body representing the will ofthe people ... advocated the ideologies of their respective parties (Chandler 2000) The national election of 1946, establishing the Consultative Assembly, drew more than 60 percent ofthe registered voters The...