... brilliant rich blue ofthe senior cadets like the Polaris unit; the scarlet red ofthe enlisted Solar Guard; and here and there, the black and gold ofthe officers ofthe Solar Guard The three cadets ... the hatch behind them, they waited until the pressure was built up again to equal that ofthe ship, and then they removed their helmets and space suits Leaving the air lock and walking down the ... front ofthe window and stared out over the exposition grounds, watching the thousands of holiday visitors streaming in and out ofthe buildings, all unaware ofthe strange mystery in the sky...
... against hardness to indicate the range of influence of each tool material andthe 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 ofthe CVD coating is a function ofthe reaction concentration, this being the subject of: various gaseous constituents and their respective ... substituting some ofthe 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...
... ofthe counted races In the close condition, the margin of victory was roughly 5% ofthe total vote, while in the lopsided condition, the margin of victory was roughly 30% ofthe 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 ofthe rate of rejected ballots or the closeness ofthe race that was counted Taking the absolute values ofthe error measures above, that is, treating an undercount the same as...
... in the story line of this book (the evolution ofthe U.S economy), but the development of a modern national debt will remain the main focus The first national debt ofthe United States is of primary ... slavery), but they often By the 1820s, the blessings ofthe U.S national debt were clear America’s financial system rivaled, and in some ways bested, those of Britain, Holland, andthe rest ofthe developed ... financial and fiscal systems ofthe Netherlands, particularly the county of Holland, slowly strengthened By the latter part ofthe 1550s, Holland was able to sell significant quantities of tradable...
... of rent, labor, and profit In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price ofthe corn, the profits ofthe miller, andthe wages of his servants ; in the price of bread, the profits of ... branch ofthe linen and woollen manufactures, from the growers ofthe flax andthe wool, to the bleachers and smoothers ofthe linen, or to the dyers and dressers ofthe cloth ! The nature of agriculture, ... time parts ; the rent ofthe land upon which he is reared, the labor of tending and rearing him, andthe profits ofthe farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, andthe wages of this labor...
... access to the array and, if other clients had already referenced the data ofthe array, the physical memory cache ofthe array would be directly accessible to the client with no further message ... 5.5 Fault Handling The Mach page fault handler is the hub ofthe 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 ofthe data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use ofthe data received...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up ofthe radical associations andthe consequent erosion ofthe links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... by enlightening the understanding, and uniting the sentiments and views of men andof nations, forms a concert of wills, and a concurrence of action too powerful for the armies of tyrants’ (2 ... from the superstitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323) Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’ in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
... Translation and Commentary On the Sphere andthe Cylinder, Book I On the Sphere andthe Cylinder, Book II Eutocius’ Commentary to On the Sphere andthe 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 ofthe sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface ofthe cone, and by the surface ofthe sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the...
... 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 ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... WAR ANDTHE 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...
... speciation of Zn than that of Cu and Pb The addition of red mud buffered the changes of Zn speciation during the composting, andthe 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 andthe 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 ofthe organically...
... 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...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe 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 ofthe theory, however,...
... Rule of law: Assessment ofthe law and order tradition in the country produced by the country-risk rating agency International Country Risk (ICR) Average ofthe months of April and October ofthe ... Risk of expropriation: ICR’s assessment ofthe risk of “outright confiscation” or “forced nationalization.” Average ofthe months of April and October ofthe monthly index between 1982 and 1995 ... whatsoever for any consequences of its use The term "country", as used in the context ofthe ADB, refers to a member ofthe ADB and does not imply any view on the part ofthe Institute as to sovereignty...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects ofthe collapse ofthe bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
... is the cut-off value in the Recommendations ofthe American Heart Association [35] andthe trigger for initiation of insulin treatment for ICU patients recommended by the American College of ... results and wrote the manuscript AVB and VG participated in patients' inclusion and follow-up IPR was involved in the analysis of results and writing the manuscript All the authors read and approved ... approved the final version Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to Edita Lukić, Goran Madžarac and Alen Švigir for their help in the acquisition and arrangement ofthe data Page of Author...
... in the wrist due to gout [6,8,9] The prevalence of gout in the USA ranges between 0.5–2.8% in men and 0.1–0.6% in women [2] The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of ... at the carpal-metacarpal joint at the base ofthe thumb The report stated that the radiographs were otherwise normal The patient's symptoms worsened with increased pain and swelling over the ... incidence of gout has been reported in the USA and New Zealand over the past 30 years, while the prevalence of gout has been reported to have risen three-fold in the UK over 20 years of follow-up...