the city without us

... love from a world without you CONTENTS Prelude: A Monkey Koan PART I A Lingering Scent of Eden Unbuilding Our Home The City Without Us The World Just Before Us The Lost Menagerie The African Paradox ... example—will wither with the civilization that introduced them, because they are sterile hybrids that must propagate through cuttings When the gardeners that clone them go, so they Other pampered ... bipedal, they scan for lions and hyenas among the scattered fig trees on the savanna They select a tree they calculate they can reach without becoming food themselves Then, as we also once did, they...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:43

... urbanization in Ho Chi Minh City.   2. The study area  Ho  Chi  Minh  City has  a  very  favorable  geographical location in the centre of the rich  Southern  region  with  many  resources.  The city has  the common  ... the whole  city,   the land  transformation  was  realized  mainly  in  the northern  part  of  the city as  shown  by  the results  from  remote  sensing  data.  Fig.  3  shows  that  the ... 1985 to 95.2% in 2002. The population growth  causing  population  overload  in  the city has  been  shown  not  only  by  the natural  increase  on  the spot,  but  also  by  the mechanical  movement from other provinces.  ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... started to use the service; key access barriers and the effects of these problems on their ability to use the service effectively when they needed it They were also invited to comment on the positive ... not used to tackle these structural and systemic drivers of the HIV epidemic, the scale of the epidemic will outstrip these countries’ capacity to control it Another limitation of previous access ... commented on these problems: ‘We are sick and tired of police they pick people, [take them] to detention centres without a hearing, they beat, accuse murder ’; ‘ they “plant” heroin, accuse you of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... cần phải thêm ràng buộc Trong trường hợp quan hệ CSDL cập nhật cách độc lập Xin cám ơn cô bạn theo dõi ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2015, 16:15

... slogan is, the more it is remembered by the customers The impression can come from the sounds of the slogans when customers read them aloud If the combination of the words can make rhythms as they ... advertisements use the verb “buy” directly On one hand, the advertisers try their best to promote their product; on the other hand, they don’t want to give the consumers a feeling of spending their money Therefore, ... hiding in the newspapers and magazines, clamoring on the radio, or dazzling on the TV On the other hand, they still need the information to guide their purchasing Therefore, to attract the consumers’...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... fast, etc or the compatibility with other softwares or browsers • The cost of the software: the cheaper software is better • Graphic interface: the graphic interface decides the easy-to-use aspect ... hard for them Moreover, at these age, people could not learn as fast as younger ones Therefore, they think it is better if they use traditional method again instead of using computers As usual, ... automatically executed The advantage of this idea is the users not have to care about what is happening under these steps, they simply the steps which familiar to them Therefore, it bring two...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04

... ) The C ( ILC ) abscissa presents the measured values from the consolidation tests, the ordinate shows the predict values using the ANN model The results show the high correlation between the ... verify the applicability of MANN model, a total of 46 data of the consolidation test results are used 43 learning data are used for training the ANN model, and the others are used for the comparison ... between the predicted value and the measured value The properties of the soil used for training of the MANN models are shown in Table Class Relative Importance (%) Table Properties of the soil used...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... help make the air we breathe These plants get energy when the Sun shines on their leaves This gives them the food they need to make more air apes and sizes But m sh ost p l ants are gree n Without ... enhance the activities on the previous page Nature’s Paintbrushes Small branches and twigs can be dipped in paint to be used almost like pencils But by flattening the end of the branch, the fibrous ... sunny for much of the year The other part of the year is colder Others live in places where it is hot all the time Some people live in parts of the world that never get warm! is the What like world...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 08:52

... aimed to give the background of the study It mentions the rationale, aims of the study, the research methods, scope of the study and the process of research The development part of the thesis consists ... advertising, the encoder is the copywriter, and the decoder is the reader, the meaning transmitted is about the product or more specifically, an attempt to make the reader buy the product, the code (in the ... in the clause The adverbial follows the subject and verb It may also follow the direct object and other predication adjuncts normally appear at the end of the clause E.g.: He got through the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 14:03

... kick start the programming and enhances the confidence level It also clarifies the basic infinite loop theory of the embedded systems by using while{1} construct The concept of passing the delay ... address on the PC’s system bus to an peripheral or I/O bus Selecting IRQs in PCs The DIP switches can be interfaced to the microcontroller either by using a pull-up resistor (i.e by connecting the switches ... through the port line causes these devices to produce mechanical distortion to the diaphragm Even by applying an AC voltage/variable pulses using the timer counter of the microcontroller will move the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2013, 01:20

... to the chase" has its origin in the film industry "Cut" or edit the film to the chase sequence It means get to the most exciting part of the movie right away the chase This is the part of the ... subconscious mind The good news is that you can train your conscious mind to habitually focus and accept only what you want Subconscious Mind Also known as the subjective or unconscious mind This is the ... you consciously practice the skill through repetition, the subconscious mind is picking up the new skills, building memory, thoughts, etc and handing these habits over to the subconscious mind When...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 06:20

... and the solid lines are the polished ferrule geometry Apex offset is the difference between the center of dimension z (the center of the polished surface) and the center of dimension x1 (the ... angle), there will be a minimum apex offset that can be achieved regardless of the quality of the fixtures or methods used In addition, as equation shows, the more the ferrule is polished, the greater ... eccentricities with the top of the ferrule The average insertion loss for a 6-position tuned connector is 0.08dB versus 0.25dB for untuned (depending on ferrule I.D tolerances) Because the increased...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 02:15

... allow a user to retrieve the lock issued to another user rendering the technique useless The solution returns a Boolean IsLocked value indicating whether the field is locked by another user The LockDateTime ... allow other users to retrieve locks other than their own Finally, the default view of the table is bound to the data grid on the form Lock Button.Click Used to acquire locks on all rows in the DataTable ... whether another user has changed the data since it was last read If the data has been modified, a violation is considered to have occurred Often, the user is notified of the changes made by other...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 18:16

... or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner Applications for such permission, with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction, should be addressed to the ... years through the development and use of a succession of live food organisms as feed for the developing larvae The aim of the present manual was therefore to review and summarise the latest developments ... generally meet all these requirements and usually result in poor growth and survival in small fish larvae such as the Gilthead seabream On the otherhand live food organisms seem to meet all the necessary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... is usually performed using a cream separator; the flow rate being adjusted according to the algal species and the centrifugation rate of the separator Cells are deposited on the walls of the ... between the culture medium and the air The latter is of primary importance as the air contains the carbon source for photosynthesis in the form of carbon dioxide For very dense cultures, the CO2 ... Fluorescent tubes emitting either in the blue or the red light spectrum should be preferred as these are the most active portions of the light spectrum for photosynthesis The duration of artificial...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... and detritus) The trunk contains the digestive tract, the excretory system and the genital organs A characteristic organ for the rotifers is the mastax (i.e a calcified apparatus in the mouth ... Brachionus calyciflorus and Brachionus rubens have been successfully reared on the microalgae Scenedesmus costato-granulatus, Kirchneriella contorta, Phacus pyrum, Ankistrodesmus convoluus and ... Only a few rotifer species belonging to the genus Brachionus are used in aquaculture As outlined in the introduction the most widely used species is Brachionus plicatilis, a cosmopolitan inhabitant...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... reproduction to the other The cysts usually float in the high salinity waters and are blown ashore where they accumulate and dry As a result of this dehydration process the diapause mechanism is ... shell (secreted by the brown shell glands located in the uterus), enter a state of metabolic standstill or dormancy (diapause) and are then released by the female (= oviparous reproduction) (Fig ... 4.1.11.) The male (Fig 4.1.10.) has a paired penis in the posterior part of the trunk region (Fig 4.1.9.) Female Artemia can easily be recognized by the brood pouch or uterus situated just behind the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... underneath the empty shell (the hatching membrane may still be attached to the shell) Through the transparent hatching membrane one can follow the differentiation of the pre-nauplius into the instar ... salinities, and the embryo differentiates into a moving nauplius larva A hatching enzyme, secreted in the head region of the nauplius, weakens the hatching membrane and enables the nauplius to liberate ... results in the breaking of the cyst envelope, at which moment all the glycerol produced is released in the hatching medium In other words the metabolism in Artemia cysts prior to the breaking...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15