... to the boisterous. Expert slavehunters, they mostly clothe themselves by the sale of their victims on the coast, though they do business by the sale of goats and grain as well. Nowhere in the ... speaking, they live upon the coast, and call themselves Diwans, headsmen, and subjects ofthe Sultan Majid; but they no sooner hear ofthe march of a caravan than they transpose their position, ... miles. On the north it is bounded by the Mukondokua, or upper course ofthe Wami river and on the south by the Ruaha, or northern great branch ofthe Lufiji river. It forms a link ofthe great...
... XIXChapter XX The oftheSourceofthe Nile, by SpekeProject Gutenberg's Etext TheoftheSourceofthe Nile, by Speke Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the laws ... pronunciation of native words refers to the u, which represents asound corresponding to that ofthe oo in woo.Journal ofthe Discovery ofTheSourceoftheNile Chapter 1London to Zanzibar, 1859 The ... half the tusks of which, as well as some portion ofthe flesh, they gave to Magomba for the privilege of residing there. There were many antelopes there, some of which both Grant and I shot for the Chapter...
... most ofthe poor countries of the world are in the tropics, where there is plenty of sunlight. The photovoltaic cell has another very important advantage. It is a clean sourceof energy. The ... at the top. Below this is a layer of silicon. A metal base is at the bottom. The sunlight falls on the boundary between the two different types of semiconductors in the photovoltaic cell, the ... the cost of a units of solar energy to fall even more. Today, there are large factories using solar- cell systems in a number of countries.About 18% ofthe sunlight that reaches the photovoltaic...
... to include the aspects of a programme and it should be carried out at the end ofthe courses. The aspect of the programme which is chosen to evaluate depends on the purpose ofthe evaluation. ... learners’ evaluation ofthe ESP programme at Vinh University such as: the time allocation, the topics ofthe ESP reading texts, the length ofthe ESP reading texts, the amount of technical vocabulary ... Learners’ evaluation on the usefulness ofthe topics ofthe ESP reading texts in the coursesAs shown in chart 2, no one thinks that the topics ofthe ESP reading texts in the courses 1, 3 and...
... networking live in their own source trees. The kernel directory ofthesource tree includes all other basic facilities. The most important such facility is scheduling. Thus, sched.c, together with <linux/sched.h>, ... how to link the kernel image (the vmlinux file) by means of an ldscript file; the file is called vmlinux.lds in thesource tree of each platform. Use of ld scripts is described in the standard ... thread to perform all other initialization. The thread is part ofthe same init/main.c file, and the bulk ofthe initialization (init) calls are performed by do_basic_setup. The function initializes...
... least the allowed amount of such claim, of a value, as ofthe effective date ofthe plan, of at least the value of such holder’s interest in the estate’s interest in such property; “(ii) for the ... this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part ofthe opinion ofthe Court but has beenprepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience ofthe reader. ... application ofthe general/specific canon is not the nature ofthe provisions’ prescriptions but their scope.Finally, the debtors contend that the Court of Appealsconflated approval of bid procedures...
... are the cartesian coordinates of the position ofthe receiver on the ground and (0, 0) the position ofthe emitter, also on the ground, of the probe signal. The present study is restricted to the ... the MNI ofthe RM is chosento be the same as the MNI ofthe SM. In this case, when the values of all the parameters ofthe setP are strictly equal to their counterparts in the set p and the values ... (D) from the point of itsemission to the point of its reception in the liquid. The solution of Colladon’s problem isobviously C=D/T, and that ofthe related problem ofthe retrieval ofthe position...
... with the exception of northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army operates [17]. The average age of students, more than 30 years, would date them to hav-ing been reared during the ... questionnaires, the majority (60%)from Aga Khan. Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the nursing students participating in this study. The majority were female (82%), with an average age of 32. Of these, ... Traditionally, the trajectory formost migrants has been to the U.K. rather than the U.S. Inour study, students reported they perceived entrance into the U.S. to be easier than the U.K. because there...
... [8]. The correlations between the items andPCS and MCS components were then compared with the hypothesised correlations. The variance explained (the percent ofthe total measured variance in the ... age were collected. The sample sizewas determined with the aim of measuring the reliabilitycoefficients for the PCS and MCS scores ofthe SF-8. Thisused the assumption that the reliability coefficients ... reliability coefficient of ≥0.70 [14]. Another pub-lished study which used the HSCL-25 in the IDP camps of northern Uganda provides a Cronbach α score of 0.90[33]. The HTQ and HSCL-25 have...
... pathogenesis[5].Strains of WNV isolated in the United States were foundto be highly neuroinvasive in adult mice following intra-peritoneal (i.p.) inoculation[6]. In contrast ofthe investi-gations ofthe North-American ... CentralPage 1 of 5(page number not for citation purposes)Virology JournalOpen AccessShort report The Israeli strain IS-98-ST1 of West Nile virus as viral model for West Nile encephalitis in the Old ... AbstractWest Nile virus (WNV) recently became a major public health concern in North America, the Middle East, and Europe. In contrast with the investigations ofthe North-American isolates, the neurovirulence...
... effects on the processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) [12-14]. These datasupport the potential utility of anti-inflammatory drugtherapies in the treatment of AD.Microglia are the principle ... fAβ; how-ever, it is believed that the primary sourceof ROS and the source of widespread oxidative damage found in both ADbrains and mouse models of AD is the microglial NADPHoxidase [26-30].Despite ... can damage tissue adjacent to the sites of inflammatory action; therefore, the activation of the NADPH oxidase is tightly controlled though regulatedassembly ofthe individual oxidase subunits...
... done in RR, the calculation of the maximum attainable rates in the case of BestChannel strategy leads to the computation ofthe variance of the blocks (the evaluation ofthe mean ofthe blocks ... the propagationgeometry, the velocity ofthe mobile, and the antennacharacteristics [18]. The autocorrelation function of the envelopeofthechannelresponseisdenotedbyRz(m). InSection 3, the ... down to the computation of the expectation E[cu[n]cu[n + m]]. The joint pdf and CDF of two correlated Rayleigh variatesare needed. We have the expressions in terms ofthe envelope of the channel...
... discuss the available techniquesfor identifying the DOA of sources. The main body of the work concentrates on the application ofthe TSI finders foridentifying the physical location ofthesourceof ... vertically below the platform. The distanceform source to array is D, the distance form ground reflec-tion point (of the TSI path) to thesource is d1, the distanceform thesource to the ground ... processing to extract all of the information of interest. The rest ofthe paper assumes the re-ceiver processing has clearly identified the direction of arrival of the offending source. Under this assumption,...
... difference exceeds π, c the sound velocity, rj the posi-tion ofthe jth sensor, and qi the position ofthe ith source asshown in the general near-field model in Figure 3. The appropriate sensor ... denotes the sound velocity, qi the ith source loca-tion, and rj the jth sensor location. The far-field assumptionmeans that the attenuation from the ith source to a sensor isindependent ofthe ... with the first principal com-ponent by the subsequent ICA stage. Therefore, the closer asensor is to the virtual sensor position r ofthe first principalcomponent, the less it contr ibutes to the...