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the nothing that is, a natural history of zero - robert kaplan

the nothing that is, a natural history of zero - robert kaplan

Ngày tải lên : 05/06/2014, 11:23
... — of India? Of course evidence of the sort that the dog didn't bark can never be admitted into the courts of history There the standards of proof hold us to reading the lines, not between them ... monuments, and a history of zero mark it as complete But zero stands not for the closing of a ring: it is rather a gateway One of the most visionary mathematicians of our time, Alexander Grothendieck, ... [the number of grains of sand in every region of the earth] But I will try to show you that, of the numbers named by me some exceed the number [of grains of sand that would fill up the...
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talbott - contagion; the financial epidemic that is sweeping the global economy.. and how to protect yourself from it (2009)

talbott - contagion; the financial epidemic that is sweeping the global economy.. and how to protect yourself from it (2009)

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2014, 12:21
... given him, that he even does miracles! Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense ... surprised they are about the current crisis Nothing could be further from the truth They have been warned time and time again about this impending crisis, not only in home prices and in the mortgage ... understanding of the administration’s plans to solve this crisis and a critique of their approach Even after you stop the immediate bleeding of the financial institutions, you have to ask the question:...
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all that is solid The Great  Housing  Disaster  danny dorling

all that is solid The Great Housing Disaster danny dorling

Ngày tải lên : 04/11/2014, 12:25
... built at the end of the First World War; the last new state-funded homes were built for their grandchildren at the end of the 1970s It is for their great-grandchildren that the crisis is worse ... not overwhelmingly profit from the rising value of their bricks and mortar rather than from their labour DISASTER CAPITALISM There is the risk of a property-driven boom in the UK … – Antony Jenkins, ... measured, the more that is spent, and the more frequently it is spent, and the quicker we throw possessions away and replace them, the better off we are all said to be Looking at the financial crisis...
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Báo cáo khoa học: A designed curved DNA segment that is a remarkable activator of eukaryotic transcription potx

Báo cáo khoa học: A designed curved DNA segment that is a remarkable activator of eukaryotic transcription potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 10:20
... left-handed curved and right-handed curved, respectively, and the numerals following these indicate the number of (T ⁄ A)5 tracts in the construct ‘TL’ in ‘TLN’ refers to the tk promoter and the luciferase ... activator of transcription Fig Demonstration of the absence of the T20 segment in control cell lines The target region for PCR amplification is illustrated at the bottom of the figure ‘M’ indicates the ... alternatively the local chromatin structure formed in the promoter region may have differed between the plasmids and the genome Whichever is the case, an important finding in this study is that T20 (and...
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Báo cáo Y học: Nuclear proteins that bind to metal response element a (MREa) in the Wilson disease gene promoter are Ku autoantigens and the Ku-80 subunit is necessary for basal transcription of the WD gene ppt

Báo cáo Y học: Nuclear proteins that bind to metal response element a (MREa) in the Wilson disease gene promoter are Ku autoantigens and the Ku-80 subunit is necessary for basal transcription of the WD gene ppt

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 23:20
... proposed that the WD protein acts as a copperspecific pump that mediates the export of copper from the cytosol, similar to the P-type ATPase [14] On the basis of the fact that MREs mediate the transcriptional ... in the transcriptional regulation of WD gene Previous studies report that MREa is also the most crucial MRE for transcription of the MT gene and that there is a relationship between the distance ... observed another band of 82 kDa when the MREa-protein band from the EMSA was excised from the native gel and resolved by SDS/PAGE (unpublished data) We purified the MREa-binding proteins using the avidin–biotin...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Total chemical synthesis and NMR characterization of the glycopeptide tx5a, a heavily post-translationally modified conotoxin, reveals that the glycan structure is a-D-Gal-(1fi3)-a-D-GalNAc pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Total chemical synthesis and NMR characterization of the glycopeptide tx5a, a heavily post-translationally modified conotoxin, reveals that the glycan structure is a-D-Gal-(1fi3)-a-D-GalNAc pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 13:20
... however, that even in the synthesis of nondisulfide bridge-containing glycopeptides the yield is dramatically affected by the scale of the reaction, the excess of amino acids used, and the level of ... validate the activity of the endo-O-glycosidase enzyme, which was unable to hydrolyze native tx5a Together these data suggest that the glycan configuration of native tx5a is distinct from the synthetic ... but this may have partially contributed to the very low yields We note also that determination of the stereochemistry of the 6-bromotryptophan residue as either L or D, and utilization of the appropriate...
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The 7 Deadly Myths of Gold Investing And the 7 Empowering Signs That Now Is the Right pptx

The 7 Deadly Myths of Gold Investing And the 7 Empowering Signs That Now Is the Right pptx

Ngày tải lên : 27/06/2014, 23:20
... All Gold Can Be Confiscated During Crises Gold Is for Collectors, Not Investors The 7 Empowering Signs That Now Is the Right Time to Invest in Gold The Dollar is Falling The Debt is Rising The Fed Keeps Printing Money ... Damon Geller serves as CEO of Wholesale Direct Metals and is one of the most  respected   gold   and   hard   asset   managers   in   the   industry     His   trend   analysis   is widely read and quoted, and he is often invited to appear on financial radio and ...  proportionate increase in  the price  of gold.  What   must   be   emphasized   is   that   the   actions   of   our   federal   reserve   and   policy  makers is not something in the past; the fact is, the Fed continues to print money as ...
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Genealogies and the State of Nature

Genealogies and the State of Nature

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 07:20
... vindicatory: the story they tell is in one way or another a recommendation of whatever it is they tell us the history of Again, we can apply the distinction between the intrinsic and the accidental The ... altogether and reach for deontological or absolutist answers The first group miss the intrinsic value of the practice, the second miss the instrumental; and both miss the connection between them The ... example from Hume, the posited state of nature isn’t imaginary, it can’t be the problem But there surely is one Whether or not it is definitive of the state -of -nature method, as distinguished from genealogy...
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Tài liệu Learn that economics is about the allocation of scarce pdf

Tài liệu Learn that economics is about the allocation of scarce pdf

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 05:20
... their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to for him what he requires of them It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that ... objectivity They approach the study of the economy in much the same way as a physicist approaches the study of matter and a biologist approaches the study of life: They devise theories, collect data, and ... computers but at the expense of producing fewer cars Another of the Ten Principles of Economics is that the cost of something is what you give up to get it This is called the opportunity cost The production...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The Arabidopsis protein kinase Pto-interacting 1-4 is a common target of the oxidative signal-inducible 1 and mitogen-activated protein kinases docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The Arabidopsis protein kinase Pto-interacting 1-4 is a common target of the oxidative signal-inducible 1 and mitogen-activated protein kinases docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 19:20
... and were therefore named PTI1-1, -1-2 and -1-3 [7] In this study we showed that in vitro OXI1 can interact and phosphorylate another member of the PTI1 family, PTI1-4 Although other members of ... induces the hypersensitive response (HR), which is local and rapid cell death at the site of pathogen infection and limits growth of the micro-organism [22–24] Mutants with enhanced disease resistance ... [17] On the other hand, expression of the tomato SlPti1 cDNA in the rice Ospti1a mutant suppressed the mutant phenotype These results indicate that PTI1 acts as a negative regulator of the HR...
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Tài liệu Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature docx

Tài liệu Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 17:20
... curve of the wave and the white foam which coincides with the spectacular crashing sound of the The Journalof Aesthetics and Art Criticism waves hitting the sand I delight in the contrast of the ... heightened by the knowledge that this is a favorite suicide spot Imagining the feeling of jumping off the cliff and the fear of someone standing at the top of it accentuates the sublimity of the place ... wildflowers, and an elegant pair of swans in one of the ponds My delight in these aspects of the place may have been heightened by my backgroundknowledge of the debateand the history of the place, butthe...
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Tài liệu The Proof is in the Pudding - A Look at the Changing Nature of Mathematical Proof doc

Tài liệu The Proof is in the Pudding - A Look at the Changing Nature of Mathematical Proof doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 09:20
... is safe to say that most mathematical scientists not1 spend the bulk of their time proving theorems, it is nevertheless the case that proof is the lingua franca of mathematics It is the web that ... bullet-proof fashion that will stand the test of time The second, and for the working mathematician the most important, aspect of proof is that the proof of a new theorem explains why the result is ... formulation and proof of his/her new idea, then it is time to engage the axiomatic method The point is that the methodology of Definitions ⇒ Axioms ⇒ Theorem and Proof is the way that we record mathematics...
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Tài liệu NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUALITY OF WINES IN BORDEAUX. IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE WINE ON PAVED ROADS? pot

Tài liệu NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUALITY OF WINES IN BORDEAUX. IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE WINE ON PAVED ROADS? pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 09:20
... ratio statistic The asymptotic distribution of likelihood ratio statistic under the null hypothesis is not known a priori Therefore, one has to simulate this distribution for each hypothesis that ... to the character that they inherit from the place where the wine is produced Consumers who visit producers are particularly sensitive to the beauty of the landscape, to the architecture of the ... ecosystem, there is an additional dimension the spiritual aspect that recognizes the joys, the heartbreaks, the pride, the sweat, and the frustrations of its history." In this paper, we restrict the...
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Open Cultures and The Nature of Networks doc

Open Cultures and The Nature of Networks doc

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 22:20
... paid is but one of them However, there is (and this is the difference to the open source process) a single dominant collective agenda: the agenda of the company that owns the software and hires the ... all the giving, that is selling, and the other does all the taking, that is, buying Instead of the creation of culture, we have the culture of consumption This situation, per se, is not new and ... or the other, this was an issue of relevance only to specialists The lack of education restricted the number of producers and consumers of cultural objects and hence the size and influence of the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Muramyl-dipeptide-induced mitochondrial proton leak in macrophages is associated with upregulation of uncoupling protein 2 and the production of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species docx

Báo cáo khoa học: Muramyl-dipeptide-induced mitochondrial proton leak in macrophages is associated with upregulation of uncoupling protein 2 and the production of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species docx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 23:20
... El-Khoury et al thermogenesis, protection against obesity, regulation of the ATP ⁄ ADP ratio, export of fatty acids, and mediation of insulin secretion (reviewed in [9]) The hypothesis that has good ... central nervous system, and the lack of induction of inflammatory responses [22] Despite a long-standing interest in the field of muramyl peptides, the impact of these molecules at the mitochondrial ... pharmacological, inflammatory and toxic effects with those of the parent molecule MDP The results reported establish the safety of MB, the absence of undesirable effects on the UCP2 modulates MDP-induced...
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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 09:20
... challenges of fulfilling the vision of EBM are great In spite of these challenges, the promise of EBM has put it at the forefront of policy making The Food and Drug Administration is working ... by the authors to document the proceedings of the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting   EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE of the national domestic agenda, the choice of EBM by the IOM Council as the theme of the ... To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) In the face of the growing awareness generated about the nature and implications of the gap between healthcare practice and the evidence...
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Théorie des Fonctions Elliptiques, by Charles Briot and Jean Claude Bouquet This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever docx

Théorie des Fonctions Elliptiques, by Charles Briot and Jean Claude Bouquet This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 16:20
... Produced by Laura Wisewell, Andrew D Hwang, Amy Cunningham, Colin Bell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (The original copy of this book was generously ... generously made available for scanning by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow.) Ce livre ộlectronique est dộdiộ la mộmoire de Laura Wisewell, notes sur la transcription Ce ... point z1 voisin 30 livre i chapitre ii Fig 16 v O C de z0 lộquation admet une racine simple u1 voisine de u0 , et une seule ; en un point voisin de z1 elle admet une racine simple u2 voisine de...
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