... brilliant rich blue of the senior cadets like the Polaris unit; the scarlet red of the enlisted Solar Guard; and here and there, the black and gold of the officers of the Solar Guard The three cadets ... the hatch behind them, they waited until the pressure was built up again to equal that of the ship, and then they removed their helmets and space suits Leaving the air lock and walking down the ... front of the window and stared out over the exposition grounds, watching the thousands of holiday visitors streaming in and out of the buildings, all unaware of the strange mystery in the sky...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
... Biological Therapy of Cancer, iSBTc), aims to improve cancer patient outcomes by advancing the science, development and application of biological therapy and immunotherapy The society and its educational ... between CD28 on the T cell and CD80/86 (B7) on the APC Engagement of the TCR in the absence of this co-stimulatory signal drives the T cells to anergy and apoptosis When CD80/86 binds the T cell molecule ... that there are two main types of Treg cells The natural Tregs represent about 2% to 5% of cells in the peripheral blood; they differentiate in the thymus and express TCRs and CD4, as well as the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Cutting Tool Materials What is the use of a book docx
... against hardness to indicate the range of influence of each tool material and the comparative relative merits of one material against another, with some of their physical and mechanical properties ... hours for coating and hours for cooling The thickness of the CVD coating is a function of the reaction concentration, this being the subject of: various gaseous constituents and their respective ... substituting some of the silicon and nitrogen with aluminium and oxygen, the new material ‘Sialon’ it had the added benefits of: ease of pressing and sintering, with equally as good thermal shock...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20
Comparing the Auditability of Optical Scan, Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and Video (VVVAT) Ballot Systems potx
... of the counted races In the close condition, the margin of victory was roughly 5% of the total vote, while in the lopsided condition, the margin of victory was roughly 30% of the total vote There ... election, the ballot roll-off rate, or the rate of abstention as a function of ballot position, was made higher for those races further down the ballot based on the findings of Nichols and Strizek ... reliable effects of the rate of rejected ballots or the closeness of the race that was counted Taking the absolute values of the error measures above, that is, treating an undercount the same as...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20
wright - one nation under debt; hamilton, jefferson, and the history of what we owe (2008)
... in the story line of this book (the evolution of the U.S economy), but the development of a modern national debt will remain the main focus The first national debt of the United States is of primary ... slavery), but they often By the 1820s, the blessings of the U.S national debt were clear America’s financial system rivaled, and in some ways bested, those of Britain, Holland, and the rest of the developed ... financial and fiscal systems of the Netherlands, particularly the county of Holland, slowly strengthened By the latter part of the 1550s, Holland was able to sell significant quantities of tradable...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:38
The wealth of nation
... of rent, labor, and profit In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price of the corn, the profits of the miller, and the wages of his servants ; in the price of bread, the profits of ... branch of the linen and woollen manufactures, from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth ! The nature of agriculture, ... time parts ; the rent of the land upon which he is reared, the labor of tending and rearing him, and the profits of the farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, and the wages of this labor...
Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2012, 12:29
The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System
... access to the array and, if other clients had already referenced the data of the array, the physical memory cache of the array would be directly accessible to the client with no further message ... 5.5 Fault Handling The Mach page fault handler is the hub of the Mach virtual memory system The kernel fault handler is called when the hardware tries to reference a page for which there no valid ... vm_allocate_with_pager) or receipt of data in an IPC message In the first case, the source of the data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use of the data received...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf
... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54
Cambridge.University.Press.The.Crisis.of.Literature.in.the.1790s.Print.Culture.and.the.Public.Sphere.Nov.1999.pdf
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations and the consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... by enlightening the understanding, and uniting the sentiments and views of men and of nations, forms a concert of wills, and a concurrence of action too powerful for the armies of tyrants’ (2 ... from the superstitions of the weak, and the imposing craft of the subtle’ (323) Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’ in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
Cambridge.University.Press.The.Works.of.Archimedes.Volume.1.The.Two.Books.On.the.Sphere.and.the.Cylinder.Translation.and.Commentary.May.2004.pdf
... Translation and Commentary On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book I On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book II Eutocius’ Commentary to On the Sphere and the Cylinder I Eutocius’ Commentary to On the Sphere and ... the same base as the segment and an equal height.3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs They are these: first, that the ... the center of the sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface of the cone, and by the surface of the sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... WAR AND THE LAW OF NATIONS This book is a history of war, from the standpoint of international law, from the beginning of history to the present day Its primary focus is on legal conceptions of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02
The effects of clay a m e n d m e n t and composting on metal speciation in digested sludge liang qiao
... speciation of Zn than that of Cu and Pb The addition of red mud buffered the changes of Zn speciation during the composting, and the buffer was more effective for the more mature compost than the raw ... affected by the addition of red mud Since the heavy metals have different properties and different concentrations in the red mud and compost mixtures, the speciation of metals and the effect of red ... with the finding for red mud MSW compost (Hofstede, 1994) The leachable Cu increased during the composting process following the thermophilic stage and was likely due to the release of the organically...
Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 14:47
The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02
The graphs below show the numbers of male and female workers in 1975 and 1995 in several employment sectors of the republic of Freedonia
... worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail ... 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose ... answer: The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33
The Case of the Missing Market: The Bond Market and Why It Matters for Financial Development
... Rule of law: Assessment of the law and order tradition in the country produced by the country-risk rating agency International Country Risk (ICR) Average of the months of April and October of the ... Risk of expropriation: ICR’s assessment of the risk of “outright confiscation” or “forced nationalization.” Average of the months of April and October of the monthly index between 1982 and 1995 ... whatsoever for any consequences of its use The term "country", as used in the context of the ADB, refers to a member of the ADB and does not imply any view on the part of the Institute as to sovereignty...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40