... governments of the United Kingdom and Canada have challenged traditional understandings of birth and maternity care with legislation that lends strong support for an autonomous profession of midwifery ... the support of Professor Elianne Riska; Lea Henriksson and Lena Marander-Eklund offered kind and enormous assistance in the organization of that meeting This book is dedicated to the health and ... “determine the extent to which resources and professional expertise were used to achieve the most appropriate and cost effective care of pregnant women and delivery and care of newborn babies.”...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
Faces and Places Group Portraits and Topographical Photographs in the Photo Albums of the Sugar Industry in Colonial Java in the Early Twentieth Century
... five photographs of factory buildings; a photograph of activities in front of the factory, and a photograph of the sugar plantation This particular collection is one of the earliest sugar photo albums79 ... and more people from the Netherlands and Europe came to visit and some of them decided to stay, owing no less to the wide distribution of photographic images, which presented ‘the pictures’ of ... Netherlands, namely KITLV (The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, The Wereldmuseum and The Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam and the Rijksmuseum...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 10:07
PEOPLE AND PLENTY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
... beginnings of agriculture in amulets to ward off disease Other uses have been to ease toothache and painful urination, subdue coughs, colds, and hemorrhoids, treat wounds, control epidemics, and, most ... beta-carotene because researchers at a Swiss laboratory spliced three genes into the rice to provide it The idea is that “golden rice” could put an end to vitamin A deficiency and consequently to the blindness ... expanded production of ancient foods previously garnered mostly from the wild Sea vegetables in the form of seaweeds are farmed to the tune of more than million tons annually and are put to many...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20
Tài liệu MARRIAGE LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ppt
... marriage and the contract per verba de praesenti is essential to an understanding of law and practice prior to 1754, since too often the evidence of one form of non-compliance has been mistaken for evidence ... thus an attempt to fuse two forms of legal history that are often divided: what have been termed ‘internal’ and ‘external’ legal history.44 Of course, none of these forms of evidence are without ... law of Scotland and that of England and Wales existed both before and after the 1753 Act,69 and the complexities of Scottish marriage law will need to be unravelled at a later date The scheme of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20
Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America pptx
... halls and museums, libraries and city halls and post offices, and also elegant apartment buildings and department stores, in which the new civilization displayed and marketed an undreamed -of profusion ... versions of chapters and Evelyn Tribble listened and offered invaluable editorial help, as did Peter Salomon Roland Schevsky took for me the photographs of the Berlin housing projects Diana Crane and ... "research tool," a catalog of solutions and ideas.14 The rapid inclusion and widespread circulation of design innovations in the repertory of the architectural profession generalize elements of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works
... because she often got crazy when her mother told her to 30 this and not to that and especially, when she told her to go to Shiloh, an Civil War battleground in Tennessee where her parents used to ... experiences and views of life for the reader to expose to, to compare with and to sharpen his owns 8 II.1.2.2 Short stories, memoirs, essays and other genres of literature The classification of literary ... outsider of the events and describes from the points of view of one character in the story.) - Theme is the message of the story that the author wants to send to readers The message is often about...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
Tài liệu Noblewoman aristocracy and power in the twelfth century anglo norman realm pptx
... of Hexham, from A.D 1130 to A.D 1154’ and ‘The acts of King Stephen, and the battle of the Standard, by Richard, prior of Hexham, from A.D 1135 to A.D 1139’, in The Church Historians of England, ... history of sexuality and family relations, and analysed ideas and ideals of masculinity and femininity Yet gender history has not abandoned the original, inspirational project of women’s history: ... Bibliothèque Nationale Book of Seals Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals: To which is appended a Select List of the Works of Frank Merry Stenton, ed L C Loyd and D M Stenton (Northamptonshire Record Society,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20
Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th – 21st Century docx
... alignment of space and time is here dislodged, while the break of the traditional links of cause and affect leads to a new breed of signs wherein the “power of the false” and the principle of “indiscernibility” ... in totality, either from the point of view of the grand “organic” narratives or as it relates to the subject as (the myth of) a coherent and autonomous agency, leads to the disintegration of ... war seek to call attention to the stories of the forgotten victims as well as to historical information in general about the war and its aftermath A helpful starting point to learn of these associations...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo " Reconstructing sedimentary environments of MR1 core and investigating facies’ geotechnical properties through the piezocone penetration test in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene periods in the Mekong River Delta " docx
... 3) Unit (-27.8 to -25 m) This unit is divided into two parts The lower part, from -27.8 to -26.4 m, consists of intercalated darkish gray silty sand to medium sand and clayey silt to silty clay, ... Estuarine marine sand and sandy silt facies This facies corresponds to lithostratigraphic Unit The textural characteristics and the presence of mollusca indicate that sand and sandy silt were deposited ... front-mouth bar sand and silty sand facies of MR1, 13 m thick, is slightly thicker than that of the delta front in the VL1 core On the other hand, the sub- to inter-tidal flat sandy silt facies of MR1...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
From certainty to uncertainty the story of science and ideas in the 20th century
... they need to is measure its speed and position at one instance Given the force of gravity and Newton’s laws of motion, it is a simple matter to plug speed and position into the equations and plot ... temperature of a beaker of water Put a thermometer in the water and register how high the mercury rises For this to happen some of the heat of the water must have been used to heat up and expand the ... When his tormentor holds up two fingers on one hand and two on the other, for a moment at least Winston is both able to know and to see that they add up to five Orwell chose this corruption of the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38
empires of belief - why we need more scepticism and doubt in the 21th century
... place and contest the reliability of all confirmatory evidence, which is often presented as part of a large-scale Jewish conspiracy to make the West feel guilty for its history of persecution of ... they can for these exponents of empire; to worry away at their authority, to question their ideas, to call attention to their totalitarian leanings, and to refuse to give up when they strike back ... drawn into the web of Christian theology and made to serve its more specialised interests (enquiries into the nature of God and his properties, proofs for the existence of God, concerns of that...
Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:25
state university of new york press the philosophers voice philosophy politics and language in the nineteenth century oct 2002
... origin of their own process of thinking— leads them to be acutely aware of the use and abuse of rhetoric in philosophy Moreover, their recognition of the historical and political situatedness of ... DobbsWeinstein, and Victor Anderson Further thanks goes to John Lachs who offered suggestions on early drafts of my outline of the present project and who provided moral support and inspiration ... to heart —Kant, The Contest of the Faculties32 According to Kant, a proper understanding of the scope of our thought and the audiences to whom it is addressed ought to result in an increase of...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45
shadows of war violence power and international profiteering in the twenty-first century
... lights and shadows to collect these stories; to illuminate strange bedfellows, and, if one were to put it bluntly, to care This book is dedicated to collecting stories of war, peace, and illicit ... banners of progress and the weight of violence, each citizen tells or paints or dances or bleeds his or her story of survival The sum total of these stories tells us the nature of war and the ... how to respond nor whom to turn to, and no way of finding out I walked for hours I grew painfully tired, and the things I was carrying seemed to weigh more and more At some point, I stopped and...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:28
The problems of confucianism in the late warring states period and xunzis reconstruction of confucianism
... first to create a scholar and in the end to create a sage….The reverence and refinement of the Rituals, the concord and harmony of the Music, the breadth of the Odes and Documents, the subtlety of ... core lesson of learning and it is necessary for the gentleman to be proficient in them Its proper method is to start with the recitation of the Classics and conclude with the reading of the Rituals ... emulate the way of ancient sage kings and exalt the rituals and moral principles Although Zisi and Mencius professed to follow the teachings of Confucius, they did not seem to understand or practice...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:16
The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System
... normally 10% of physical memory in a Berkeley UNIX system, is accessed by user programs through read and write kernel -to- user and user -to- kernel copy operations In contrast, Mach uses the bulk of its ... introduction of new hardware architectures and was never able to efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system ... been expressed in terms of kernel activity, namely paging As a result, the term paging object is often used to refer to a memory object, and the term pager is frequently used to describe the data...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
Organizing pairwork and groupwork in the context of high school classrooms at pham van nghi upper secondary school, nam dinh province: A case study
... refers to a diverse set of principles that reflect a communicative view of language and language learning and that can be used to support a wide variety of classroom procedures 1.2 Definition of ... According to Jack C Richards and Theodore S Rodgers (1986:170), because communicative principles can be applied to the teaching of any skill, at any level, and because of the wide variety of classroom ... strict, then ease up, than to allow students too much leeway to use their mother tongue in the first few lessons and then try to stop them overusing it One method is to explain briefly in English,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
Tiểu luận tiếng anh : Robinson Crusoe – A Representative of the English Bourgeoisie in the early 18th century
... objectives to attain and to better his actual life: a fine place to live in, good and delicious food to eat and to drink, etc Most notable, he made a candle by saving the tallow of goats and making ... longing to the sea It is understandable because at that time, going to the sea was considered the only way to discover and visit new land as well as the world outside Therfore, his dream of going to ... months more to make something for containing food and five other months to launch the boat into the seawater He did a great deal of toils to accomplish his plan for “ [he] learnt not to despair...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2012, 12:02