... pro-development monetary policy has become more urgent because the country is entering a new developmental phase that will be shaped by the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and ... treaties with its trading partners Mindful of both the opportunities and risks that come with this phase, the Vietnamese government has been looking into macroeconomic and monetary policy guidelines ... and industrial policies are necessarily the subject of another paper Frenkel and Taylor (2005) emphasize that the real exchange rate must be kept at a stable and competitive level for a relatively...
Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2014, 17:18
... imaging of molecular processes at the transcriptional level Therefore rapid and selective ligation of pharmacologically active molecules or modern diagnostics increasingly comes to the fore of the scientific ... the synthesis of functionalized dienes and dienophiles, for use as reactant for the ligation of pharmacological active substances like temozolomide (TMZ) by the DARinv recently documented in our ... modified with the dicarboxylic acid are not qualified for ligation under conditions of the solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) as well as under physiological conditions as proven in our experiments...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... life of some 2.5 billion people – doesn’t get mentioned at all), nor with the subjects that are emphasized in leading economics journals (Nature rarely appears there as an active player) It also ... approach to the study of the past The new approach stays close to economic theory, by laying emphasis on the generality of the processes that shape events It adopts the view that a theory should...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21
Game theory: A very short introduction
... Tuck HUMAN EVOLUTION MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A J Ayer IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Timothy Gowers John Gillingham and ... outcomes are the players’ payoffs in the game The thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons have been used to emphasize that payoffs needn’t be measured in money Figure shows how all the information in Figure ... decide independently where to go in the evening The story that accompanies the Battle of the Sexes emphasizes the cooperative features of their problem, but there is also a conflictual element absent...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... and comet impacts is still very much with us, and over 718 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (or PHAs) have already been identified that may come too close for comfort These include the recently ... which we can still only guess at Unfortunately for us the experiment has now entered a runaway phase, which, due to its inherent inertia, we cannot immediately stop but only slow down Even if...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43
Photography: a very short introduction
... conditions that give rise to the values we typically associate with photographs This approach means emphasizing the division between art and documentary I have also adopted a thematic, rather than chronological, ... ‘documents’ and ‘pictures’ Chapters and go over some of the same ground, but with a more theoretical emphasis The final chapter returns to the uses of photography, advancing some thoughts on commodity ... too narrow a sphere for its resources, it travels into space, seeking and taking records of the phases of other worlds, and of that great body, the sun ’ When he claimed that photography ventured...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:44
Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside HOBBES Richard Tuck HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A J Ayer IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton INTELLIGENCE Ian J Deary ... brilliant light punctured the darkness of the New Mexico desert, vaporizing the tower and turning asphalt around the base of the tower to green sand The bomb released the explosive force of nearly ... were felt well beyond the Japanese home islands Western newspapers struggled to explain to a triumphant but mystified public how thousands of American, British, and Canadian scientists had managed...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:44
The meaning of life: A very short introduction
... HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside HOBBES Richard Tuck HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A J Ayer IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton INTELLIGENCE Ian J Deary...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:45
Quantum theory: A very short introduction
... theoretical physicist known to me personally, his purity of spirit and modesty of demeanour (he never emphasized in the slightest degree his own immense contributions to the fundamentals of the subject) ... waves combine depends upon how their oscillations relate to each other If they are in step (in phase, the physicists say), then crest coincides constructively with crest, giving maximum mutual ... one gets bands of brightness If, however, the two sets of waves are exactly out of step (out of phase), then crest coincides with trough in mutually destructive cancellation, and one gets a band...
Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2014, 12:44
Existentialism: A very short introduction
... markers along the way to a destination As he notes elsewhere, for truth as subjectivity, the emphasis is on the ‘how’ and not on the ‘what’ of our belief This has led some to misunderstand him ... occasion The story is a parody of Plato’s famous banquet of love, the Symposium In both works, the emphasis is on drink and speeches in praise of love by the inebriated banqueters But whereas Plato’s ... self-constituting and liberating Recall that, whereas Hegelian philosophy, in Kierkegaard’s view, emphasizes ‘mediation’ between alternatives, which it raises to a higher, more comprehensive stage...
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2014, 10:52
Chaos: A very short introduction
... DEVELOPMENT Richard Griffin CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson RACISM Ali Rattansi For more information visit our web ... definitions of these words can be found in the Glossary at the end of the book Italics is used both for emphasis and to signal jargon needed for the next page or so, but which is unlikely to recur often ... linear) This kind of definition invites confusion: how would one go about defining a biology of non-elephants? The basic idea to hold in mind now is that a nonlinear system will show a disproportionate...
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2014, 10:54
Documentary film: A very short introduction
... Knott HISTORY John H Arnold HOBBES Richard Tuck HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A J Ayer IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton INTELLIGENCE Ian J Deary ... Bagwell) deepened my knowledge of the field I am grateful as well to Gordon Quinn, Nina Seavey, Stephan Schwartzman, George Stoney, and anonymous reviewers for comments in production Introduction ... siege, where daily-life problems become insuperable; the third, ‘‘Remembering,’’ takes place in an orphanage just over the border, where Chechnyan young people learn bitterness Little is said; in contemplative...
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2014, 10:56
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction
... organic remains to which we now restrict the term Classical Greek authors such as Empedocles and Xenophanes had a pretty good idea of what fossils were, as had Leonardo da Vinci, but fossils became ... Perhaps the extreme version of a ‘Creation theory’ was expounded by Philip Henry Gosse in his Omphalos (1856) For Gosse, a God who could make the earth and all its living creatures could easily ... members, among the most dramatic of which were the mammoths and mastodons, unmistakably species of elephants but no longer living Fossils simplest was that we just have not looked everywhere in the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2014, 21:04
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
... that the event had apparently been boycotted by much of the black community, repulsed by the sycophantic courting of the international art world In 1998, the second Biennale – curated by Okwui...
Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2014, 21:21
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
... the base of this primate Human Evolution A diagram of the vertebrate part of the Tree of Life emphasizing the branches that led to modern humans branch we are still at least 50–60 million years ... molecules found on the surface of red blood cells and in plasma Both these lines of evidence emphasized the closeness of the relationship between modern humans and chimpanzees Human Evolution...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 09:56
Newton: A Very Short Introduction
... DEVELOPMENT Richard Griffin CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Chapham RACISM Ali Rattansi For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Rob ... virtues, and was careful to point out that she was ‘an indulgent parent’ to all the children, he emphasized that young Isaac was her favourite Whatever the truth of this, Newton’s own evidence indicates ... stepfather and mother along with their house Newton also compiled a list of common words arranged alphabetically in Francis Gregory’s Nomenclatura brevis reformata of 1651 To terms like ‘Father’,...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 09:58
HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction
... Epidemic curves orphans peaked 14 years later in 2003 In countries such as South Africa, where HIV prevalence may not have peaked, the number of orphans could still be rising in 2020 Orphaned children ... doing to assist the worst affected countries and communities, such as supporting orphanages and adopting orphans; the impoverishment and misery AIDS causes; the continued spread among certain ... Douglas Whiteside; and friends, colleagues, and readers, specifically Tony Barnett, May Chazan, Stephanie Nixon, Nana Poku, Judith Shier, Tim Quinlan, Obed Qulo, Jon Simon, and Alex de Waal, and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:16
Relativity: A Very Short Introduction
... HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside HOBBES Richard Tuck HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A J Ayer IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton INTELLIGENCE Ian J Deary ... time they retire Hardly worth bothering about So much for the theory But is it true in practice? Emphatically, yes In 1977, for instance, an experiment was carried out at the CERN laboratory in Geneva...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:48