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... and ranked the 44 series of draft designs in 1996. Shortlisted coin designs for the European side.Luc Luycx of the Royal Belgian Mint, designer of the European side of the euro coins, at work ... account of the risks arising in each country as a result of the introduction of a common currency. To put it simply, criminals, like the euro, do not recognise national borders.A systemof inspections ... introduction of eurobanknotes and coins. They are now an everyday fact of life for more than 300 million people in Europe.The introduction of the new cash in 12 Europeancountries – like the launch of...
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... Minor (192–188BC). Rome was able to break the power of this king and obtaincontrol of the eastern part of the Mediterranean by means of a system of alliances.– After the third Macedonian war (171–168 ... basis of thefragments that have survived and which still underlies the moderneditions of the sources of archaic Roman law can be little morethan a hypothesis.4The fragments of the Law of the ... century some fragments of this commentary have beenincluded in the Digest of Justinian.3.3. CIVIL PROCEDUREIn the course of its history Roman law has known three forms of civil procedure: the...
... deeplyA Short History of FinancialEuphoriasuspect. In the winter of 1929, Paul M.Warburg, the most respected banker of histime and one of the founding parents of theFederal Reserve System, spoke critically of thethen-current ... superb economic designsA Short History of FinancialEuphoria of Ronald Reagan eaptures the financialmindorperhaps, more accurately,whatsopasses. The price of the object of speculationgoes up. ... financialdevastation.A Short History of FinancialEuphoriaBut thereismore. The recession that beganin the summer of 1990 and continued so ob-durately in face of the weekly predictions of recovery was...
... last 20 years operating systems and their environments haveundergone dramatic expansion in size, scope and complexity. The Alto operatingsystem [22], a workstation operating systemof the early ... Proceedings of the 11th Operating Systems Principles,November, 1987AbstractMach is a multiprocessor operatingsystem being implemented at Carnegie-Mellon University. An importantcomponent of the ... Schwans, K., and Vegdahl, S.StarOS, a Multiprocessor OperatingSystem for the Support of Task Forces.In Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on OperatingSystem Principles, pages 117-129. ACM, December,...
... 2006;95(Suppl 1):S193.20 9History of the FIGO cancer staging system In 1953 Volume 8 of the Annual Report presented, for thefirst time, the results of treatment on the carcinoma of thecorpus uteri. ... [9].2. Historyof the staging system 2.1. The early yearsThe rules for classification and staging of malignant tumors of the female genital tract adopted by the InternationalFederation of Gynecology ... Sub-Commission of the Cancer Commission of the Health Organization of theLeague of Nations. In 1928, the Radiological Sub-Commissionassigned the task of exploring the possibility of producinguniform...
... towards a new andprofounder conception of the life of societies or of humanity. By Turgot for the first time the idea of progresswas accepted as the ruling principle of history. It cannot be ... the author of two historical works, of which one is exquisite a memorial of her friendthe Duchess of Orleans, and of two perhaps three romances, the latest of which, in the order of chronology,is ... the moreardent mind of the time was occupied with science, the study of nature, the study of society, philosophicalspeculation, the criticism of religion, of government, and of social arrangements....
... ratio of the mortality rate to the cure rate isindependent of disease duration, then one can simply look at theratio of the number of deaths to number of patients cured over afixed period of ... others in their estimates of the burden of tuberculosis (Table 4) seems a reasonable figure.Analysis of Duration of DiseaseThe duration of disease is the time from onset of disease till cureor ... cases, with a cured-to-death ratio of 44/24.The study reports a total of 428 (often overlapping) individualsalive with tuberculosis at the beginning of any of the 1.5-yearintervals. During...