The emergence of food-producing communities
... components of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge of the equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes There they ... fatal to cattle By the first half of the second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top of the Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
The Emergence of Biological Value
... jostling of matter What makes the living cell profoundly different from ordinary inorganic matter is the way in which each reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good of the whole There ... precisely in the intrinsic functional correlations among the parts of the organism But if they this, then they must also admit that they have merely assumed the very functional organization that they ... between events in the cell were the direct result of the minimization of energy due to tight thermodynamic coupling, then it would make no sense to speak of their occurring on the basis of information...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
... created the army, they began the reconquest of the Moorish parts of Spain in 1482 About the same time, they petitioned Pope Sixtus IV of Rome to start the Inquisition as a way of protecting themselves ... understood as in the realm of God, of religion and metaphysics On the other hand, there is the knowledge of the universe, of what humans can discover and comprehend through their own efforts The dialectic ... chronically complain of the lack of time and energy they have to actually think about the long-term consequences of their actions and the real futures of their organizations However, if an organization's...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
... benefited from the comments and suggestions of the participants of the workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape of the growth pattern of the quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time of the take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... innovations, the idea of cinema preceded the invention itself It is difficult to give an exact date to the emergence of the idea, or concept of cinema, but the first projection of moving images...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
THE ATTRACTIONS OF RISK-BASED REGULATION: ACCOUNTING FOR THE EMERGENCE OF RISK IDEAS IN REGULATION docx
... regulatory role All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in government However, the emergence of ideas about risk in the regulatory ... the emergence of risk based approaches, the 1990s and beyond have witnessed an environment favourable to the development of them The UK in the 1990s and onwards has witnessed a reframing of the ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s These techniques are part of the changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
a study of the emergence of management accounting system ethos and its influence on perceived system success
... on the well-being and development of people within the organisation to stressing the well-being and development of the organisation itself at the other extreme Another value dimension which they ... how the alignment between the organisational culture elements which were embedded within the MAS and the organisational outlook of two MAS user groups influenced their perception of the success of ... a role in the design and implementation of the PBTC system The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light of the qualitative...
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:07
hall stewart 22 the emergence of cultural studies and the crisis of the humanities
... The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis of the humanities in the face of the problem of social technology, I want to so first of ... existence there Nevertheless, Leavis saw himself committed to the project of tending the health of the language and the national culture, of nurturing the refined sensibilities of that small company of ... to culture - was one side of the The Emergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities 15 coin; the depth of his engagement with cultural questions was the other As his neophytes, albeit...
Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 22:57
the idea of idolatry and the emergence of islam from polemic to history
... in the vicinity of Mecca Frequently, too, they stem from the scholars desire to assert the primacy of either Judaism or Christianity as the form of monotheism that inuenced the emergence of Islam ... stereotypical monotheist theme and conrms that the Koran reects the condition of the Hijaz at the time of the Prophet.9 The traã dition interprets the Koran, the Koran documents the tradition We ... also in other genres of Muslim liter ature: lives of the Prophet, collections of material on the life and religion of the jahiliyya, collections of the sayings of the Prophet (hadths), and other...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:54
the emergence of a scientific culture science and the shaping of modernity 1210-1685 feb 2007
... demanded the specification of the probability of any hypothesis in the light of the available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing of the falsifiable and the ... in the fortunes of religion and the increase in the fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the abandonment of religion in favour of science was the inevitable outcome of the ... memoirs of the Family of the Wrens; viz Of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, &c but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General of the Royal Buildings, President of the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:28
in search of memory the emergence of a new eric r kandel
... for the most part during the first half of the twentieth century and that form to this day the core of our understanding of the brains functional organization The neuron doctrine (the cell theory ... part of the so-called Aryanization (Arisierung) of property, a purportedly legal form of theft From the time of my fathers release from prison in the middle of November 1938 until he and my mother ... professor of English literature at the University of California, San Diego He served as the first head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in the Nixon administration At the urging of...
Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:53
Báo cáo sinh học: "A population-based study examining the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in New York City" pot
... hospitals in the western (low prevalence) part of the city None of clindamycin-resistant MRSA were related to either USA300 or USA400 strains (Fig 3) The six hospitals with the greater prevalence of USA300 ... located in the eastern section of the city, while the nine remaining hospitals serve neighborhoods in the western half of the city (Fig 2) To determine if patients with cultures positive for the USA300 ... were representative of the population of the high prevalence neighborhoods, records of 20 patients from two medical centers within the higher prevalence region were reviewed Of the 20 patients,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: "Abnormalities of B cell phenotype, immunoglobulin gene expression and the emergence of autoimmunity in Sjögren’s syndrome" pdf
... regardless of whether these autoantibodies are pathogenic [25] Despite intensive work on the characterization of autoantigens, the cellular basis of their production and the strong association of certain ... in the parotid gland These results suggest an important role for VL chain gene usage in the immune activation of B cells within the parotid gland of the pSS patient studied A restriction of the ... CD5, further supporting the hypothesis of homing and activation of specific B cells in the glands B cell malignancies and Sjögren’s syndrome In contrast to the focal sialadenitis of the minor...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Behavioral changes of patients after orthognathic surgery develop on the basis of the loss of vomeronasal organ: a hypothesis" pptx
... sticking their tongue out to gather scents and touching it to the opening of the organ when the tongue is retracted [15] Elephants transfer chemosensory stimuli to the vomeronasal opening in the roof ... for the exclusion of inappropriate mates for the conceiving of descendants and their additional care The preand post-delivery care of the mother, which is important for females, but also the ... including personal criteria for the choice of a mate Evaluation of the hypothesis Why the VNO exists in adult humans Although some authors dismiss the existence of a true VNO, there are many observations...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Sales of oseltamivir in Norway prior to the emergence of oseltamivir resistant influenza A(H1N1) viruses in 2007–08" pps
... in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the data collection, analysis and drafting of the manuscript ... pharmacies, because of the mass of total demand in this period The consequence was that the complete sales of oseltamivir were registered in the Wholesales Statistics and not in the NorPD Privately ... stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning of the year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling of the drug outside the influenza-season[10]...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo khoa học: " Sales of oseltamivir in Norway prior to the emergence of oseltamivir resistant influenza A(H1N1) viruses in 2007–08" pot
... in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the data collection, analysis and drafting of the manuscript ... pharmacies, because of the mass of total demand in this period The consequence was that the complete sales of oseltamivir were registered in the Wholesales Statistics and not in the NorPD Privately ... stockpiling of oseltamivir was causing empty pharmacies in the beginning of the year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling of the drug outside the influenza-season[10]...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Antimicrobial utilization strategies aimed at preventing the emergence of bacterial resistance in the intensive care unit" pps
... and the rotation of antibiotics Gruson and colleagues performed one of the first cycling studies in an ICU setting [71] Their program consisted of restricting the use of ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin ... can promote the emergence of resistant pathogens Optimization of antibiotic regimens on the basis of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic principles could play a role in the reduction of antibiotic ... heterogeneity The concept of antibiotic heterogeneity has been suggested as a potential strategy for reducing the emergence of antimicrobial resistance [70] In theory, a class of antibiotics...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo y học: " The role of recombination in the emergence of a complex and dynamic HIV epidemic" pptx
... is the case of South American BF in which URFs outnumber CRFs) To examine further whether the risk factors contribute to the spread of BF URFs in South America, the associated risk factor of the ... to, but outside of, the clade based on more current sequences (Fig Sibling of A in Regions I, III and sibling of G in Region II) The topologies of the trees also suggested that the current CRF02 ... developed and evaluated the jpHMM software MZ, TL and BK wrote the manuscript All authors approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Báo cáo khoa học: "The role of body mass index and diabetes in the development of acute organ failure and subsequent mortality in an observational cohor" doc
... variables The primary outcomes of interest were the risk of the development of acute organ failure within three years of the baseline examination, in-hospital mortality related to any acute organ ... with investigators of the ARIC study and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the ARIC study or the NHLBI The coauthors had full access to all of the data in the study and take ... for BMI ≥ 30 Of the 1,830 subjects classified as having DM, 636 (43%) were classified solely on the basis of a fasting blood sugar of more than 126 mg/dl The development of acute organ failure...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: "Hypoxia-inducible factors and the prevention of acute organ injur" ppsx
... control of HIF synthesis, HIF controlling PHD synthesis, putative competing/intervening impacts of HIF-3α and PHD-3, cross-talk of HIF and other key regulators of gene expression (STAT, p-300 and others), ... scheme of the canonical HIF regulation and action Recent discoveries underscore a host of additional compound biological pathways, associated with the regulation of the HIF signal, including the ... or in the inner stripe and inner medulla following the induction of distal tubular hypoxic injury by radiocontrast agent, or after the inhibition of prostaglandin or NO synthesis or with their...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
Báo cáo y học: "Comparison of Francisella tularensis genomes reveals evolutionary events associated with the emergence of human pathogenic strains" potx
... place in the leu operon of the ancestor of the two strains and disrupted leuA and the upstream region of leuB All sequences of the leu operon are still present in the genome of LVS, but they are ... cluster length of 650 bp The software show-coords of the same package was then used to infer the degree of similarity and to map the genomic fragments of the query genome onto the reference genome ... categories based on the annotation of their functional counterpart in the genome of U112 For example, 41.2% of the genes predicted to be involved in amino acid biosynthesis in the genome of novicida...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21