... bc, while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... eight million years ago with the separation of the hominins (ancestral to human beings) from their closest animal relatives, the ancestors ofthe chimpanzees. The skull ofthe first known hominin,...
... blockageA View ofTheHistoryof Biochemical Engineering81 Because ofthe mild reaction conditions, the hemicellulose hydrolysate con-taining xylose was not contaminated by furfural and other degradation ... per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the pro-cess (Harris 1946). This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately50% ofthe theoretical yield. The indicated loss of sugars ... polyesters. The list of such chemicals is growing and the rate may accelerate before long.Meanwhile, extensive discussion among experts in the field has identified the high cost of cellulases in the...
... drugs or devices, or cosmetics because oftheuseofthe additive, (ii) the cumulativeeffect. . .of such additive in the diet of man or animals, taking into account the same or anychemically or pharmacologically ... part ofthe war effort; theyturned lipstick into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger, a symbol that would boost the morale of both the women wearing the lipstick and the male ... bill to the Chairmen ofthe House and Senate Committees on Agriculture, only turningto Copeland, ofthe Senate Committee on Commerce, after these others had both refused to consider the bill....
... was the readiest way of converting them to the principles ofthe Christian religion. These, then, were the first forerunners in the great cause ofthe abolition ofthe Slave Trade: nor have their ... held the reigns ofthe government of Spain till Charles the Fifth came to the throne, for the establishment of a regular system of commerce in the persons ofthe native Africans. The object of ... nature of it; and ofthe extent of it; and ofthe difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also ofthe contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which...
... turns of the DNA double helix yields binding ofthe two orthree NF-Y complexes on the same side ofthe DNA.Conservation of spacing is required for optimal pro-moter activity because changing the ... for cell cycle-dependent expression ofthe gene. Surprisingly,deregulation ofthe promoter does not lead to loss of its activity but causes activation in resting cells andin G1cells. Therefore, ... promoters, mutation ofthe CHRleads to a more pronounced deregulation than the alteration ofthe CDE [40].Another gene tested for its cell cycle regulation is the cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein...
... time formed the northern boundary ofthe kingdom ofthe West Goths. Clovis then enlarged his empire on the east by the conquest ofthe Alemanni, a German people living in the region ofthe Black ... Previous to the year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some ofthe advantages of their civilized ... in either Emerton or Oman. [Pg 1] INTRODUCTION TO THEHISTORYOF WESTERN EUROPE CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW The scope of history. 1. History, in the broadest sense of the...
... agreeable to the majority ofthe house of commons, and suited their religious principles. But as the impatience ofthe people, the danger of delay, the general disgust towards faction, and the authority ... expressed by the parliament, there prevails a story, that Popham, having sounded the disposition ofthe members, undertook to the earl of Southampton to procure, during the king’s TheHistoryof England, ... we not know, that men ofthe greatest genius, where they relinquish by principle theuseof their reason, are only enabled, by their vigor of mind, to work themselves the deeper into error...
... thanked the petitioners for their attachment to the cause of the country. The consideration ofthe resolutions was then resumed; terror had driven the more pusillanimousfrom the house; and on the ... to the maintenance ofthe true Protestant religion, with due consideration to the just ease of tender consciences, to the settling ofthe rights ofthe crown and of parliament, the laws ofthe ... Charles refuses the offers ofthe army. Which marches to London.Enters the city. And gives the law to the parliament. The king listens to the counsels ofthe officers. Andintrigues against them....
... his father, and sat for another seven years at the tail of the Table by right of proprietorship, the business was reinforced by the inclusion ofthe house of Agnew. Itthen became Bradbury, Agnew ... were the Lord knows who," not because there should be any doubt upon the subject, but because nonesuspected at the time the latent importance ofthe bantling and the circumstances of his ... byhis son of how, on the visit of à Beckett, Charles Dickens, and the rest, he would throw off his clothes andswim with them in the sea, or challenge them to a game of leap-frog on the sands...
... between the promoters ofthe varioussorts ofhistoryof science. Then and only then, will thehistoryof knowledge retain the central role it should have in thehistory and philosophy of science.CNRS: ... study the reception of scien-tific theories are best able to answer this question because they have the evidenceright in front of them; but unless they recognize the importance ofthe question theymay ... Descartes’ vortex theory in dealing with problemssuch as the return of Halley’s comet, the orbit ofthe Moon, and the shape ofthe Earth,that the Continentals shrugged off their antipathy to...
... architecture. In the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing institutions ofthe papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the ... to harmonize in a building the requirements of utility and of beauty. It is the most useful ofthe fine arts and the noblest ofthe useful arts. It touches the life of man at every point. It ... resisted either by the massiveness ofthe abutments or by the opposition to it of counter-thrusts from other arches or vaults. Roman builders used the first, Gothic builders the second of these...
... room as they grew older, the place they spent much of their time, the more formal rst oor being the domain of their mother. Eloise still felt like that part ofthe house didn’t quite belong ... AM TheHistoryof Us17you could look at the fabric, at the room, at the house and for that matter the city, and see reminder upon reminder of all that had been lost.Eloise had lived in the ... to be water—”“Where there used to be water?”“Yeah, like in Northside—one ofthe streets has newer houses than the others, because that area was water. Or, Over -the- Rhine used to be separated...
... MACQUARIE. In the early days ofthe colonies their destinies were, to a great extent, moulded by the Governors who had charge of them. Whether for good or for evil, the influence ofthe Governor ... possession ofthe country on behalf of His Britannic Majesty, giving it the name, “New South Wales,” on account ofthe resemblance of its coasts to the southern shores of Wales. was no hope of defending ... defending themselves till the powder was ready. Flinders, knowing the fondness ofthe natives for the luxury of a shave, persuaded them to sit down one after another on a rock, and amused them by...
... the advantage of erecting the standard ofthe cross, the emulation of his successor assumed the merit of subduing the Arian heresy, and of abolishing the worship of idols in the Roman world. Theodosius ... the resolution of a single man, the charms ofthe princessGalla most powerfully pleaded the cause of her brother Valentinian. ^75 The heart of Theodosius wa softenedby the tears of beauty; his ... Egypt; and the Part II. 45 visions, which attested the presence, or at least the protection, ofthe Mother of God. ^32 The pulpit of the Anastasia was the scene ofthe labors and triumphs of Gregory...
... heads ofthe emperor and empress ofthe East. But the usual honors which the severity of Roman manners had allowed to the wives of princes, could not satisfy either the ambition of Theodora or the fondness ... deprived of his powers and his honors. He lost the superintendence ofthe supply and manufacture of arms; the uncontrolled charge ofthe public posts; the levying ofthe troops; the command ofthe ... as the last male offspring ofthe line of Amali, by the short-lived marriage of his mother Amalasuntha with a royal fugitive ofthe same blood. ^105 In the presence ofthe dying monarch, the...