trade and diplomacy in the era of shogun

... dominated the tin-cattle trade between the two trade zones incorporating Siam and Malaya These were the Hokkien Chinese who played a prominent role in the tin trade and the Chulia Indian traders ... in the tin trade there They established trade ties with fellow Hokkien traders operating in Penang and other parts of the north of Malaya A vertically-integrated industry incorporating smelting, ... from the river beds of the main rivers in the Pattani region and shifted to the interior, mainly to the hills and limestone ranges, the people involved in the mining activity were mostly from the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... experiment of a new form of image production freed from both literature and the theater stage The link between design and technology to commodity fetishism again brings in the seeming magic of unexplainable ... Deleuze’s distinction between “determining determination” (the logic of becoming) and “determined determination” (the logic of being) in differential logics as a distribution of singularities ... libido,” thereby liberating the “instincts” by supplanting the pleasure principle over the reality principle Stiegler’s entire point is that there is no pure state of desire that can avoid the question...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:10

... serine, leucine, and valine, the nonprotein amino acids citrulline and ornithine (Orn)), together with the imino acid Pro, and the amides such as glutamine and asparagine are accumulated in higher ... many mRNAs is suppressed and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms of UPR in yeasts and mammals have been well ... abundant in the glyoxysomes of lipid-storing tissues in germinating barley, where it decomposes H2O2 formed during the b-oxidation of fatty acids (Jiang and Zhang 2002) and in the peroxisomes of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing INTRODUCTION The context of engineering and manufacturing has witnessed a striking expansion: from the product at the workshop during the workday of the ... Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing A platform independent model of an UMI includes a model of the persons and communities interacting in society Because quite a few of these interactions ... Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing Figure The View and the Scope Model of Cooling Service On the other hands, a scope model of a service represents the viewpoints of the service...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... archaeologists, severely restricting the terms under which they could excavate in the kingdom Many of them fled across the border into the French mandate of Syria In each of these the trend toward greater ... work in Greater Syria, allowing them to repatriate many of their finds, at a time when such liberality had become a thing of the past in Egypt and Iraq and, of course, in Turkey as well In each of ... visited the region, with the exception of the Holy Land and Egypt, and there were few commercial or other relations By the end of the nineteenth century, with the expansion of missionary activity and, ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:38

... tolerate statins Its high tolerability and the lack of interactions with the CYP 3A4 indicate that ezetimibe will not increase the risk of toxicity or pharmacokinetic interactions with the use of antiretroviral ... accumulation of fat in the visceral area and the back of the neck PIs may also induce the lipoatrophy by inhibiting sterol regulatory enhancer-binding protein (SREBP-1) (30,31) and peroxisome proliferator-activated ... exceeding the recommended levels of intake None of the subjects met the recommended level of intake for fiber and 90.8% did not meet the recommended levels of intake for vitamin E These findings...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... Background The incidence of cancer of the anal canal is rising due to the increasing prevalence of HIV-infection and HPV-infection [1-4] Standard therapy for invasive anal cancer is radiotherapy (RT) ... Role of mitomycin in combination with fluorouracil and radiotherapy, and of salvage chemoradiation in the definitive nonsurgical treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal: results of ... from the beginning of RT to the day of death or the date of last follow-up and time-to- recurrence from beginning of RT to the day of recurrence or date of last follow-up Survival curves for the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... occupied the islands and soon became the "administering authority" of the U.N Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands (i.e Micronesia) The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) did not become an independent ... Thus, the combination of a poor diet and less exercise resulted in a rise in obesity rates The first complete study of overweight and obesity in FSM was the National Nutritional Survey of the Federated ... Overweight and obesity prevalence in Kosrae, FSM in 1988 Overweight and obesity prevalence in Kosrae, FSM in 1988 and 2000 and the other states in the FSM became more Westernized during the U.S...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... structures to be built, maintained and accessed using these techniques 8.1 Emulating Operating System Environments During the 1960’s the notion of a virtual machine base for operating systems development ... Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module of the new virtual to physical mapping With the exception of the hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a machine-independent ... solution to the unconstrained growth of UNIX During the last 20 years operating systems and their environments have undergone dramatic expansion in size, scope and complexity The Alto operating system...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... effect The language proficiency of the the success of a pair teacher work and group The teacher’s ability of organizing The hardship of the students work ? The cooperation of the students The language ... found the work of the students in group of three was ineffective In the time of five minutes they only discuss some information about that place.They must collect information from the other groups ... control the kinds of communicative activities and the ways to carry out these activities, the ways to group the students, the appropriate amount of time for them and the purposes of the activities They...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... Garcia-Amador, ‘Latin America and the Law of the Sea’, in L M Alexander (ed.), The Law of the Sea: A New Geneva Conference Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the Law of the Sea Institute, Kingston, ... protection of the marine environment in either the Arctic or the Antarctic Secondly, there is nothing in the 1982 LOS Convention or in general international law to inhibit the making of such regional ... Regionalism in the pre-UNCLOS III law of the sea The law of the sea is inherently global The International Law Commission assumed as much in its codification of the subject in the 1950s; and the words...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... structure of predicative propositions that express the meaning of being and that at the same time retain the inscription of the trace In analysing the said, Levinas brings to the fore the intrinsic binarism ... is the mark of everything that is present’.27 The ‘moving force’ of the showing of saying that brings beings into their own is owning or appropriation that yields the opening of a clearing in ... human others – the ethical is the universal – whereas God is the altogether other But in the hope of rescuing human singularity by seeing every human other as other than every other other, Levinas...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... to the extremely important invention of the printing machine, the number of ancient writers' readers increased greatly and the reading and studying of the Greek and Roman culture became an interest ... only " the revival of interest in the ancient culture of Greece and Rome "but also "the discovery of the world and humanbeings" More than that, it implies "the awakening of man's mind and capacity, ... dispossessed them of their right to a proper life on earth and their right to creation .The progressive thinkers of Renaissance placed their interest in humanbeings They agreed with the ancient thinkers in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... tissue and gastrointestinal tract, as well as other sites, are known to reach the CNS to effect changes in feeding behavior and energy expenditure Thus, insulin, leptin and ghrelin, as well as other ... closely and rapidly with reciprocal changes in the levels of the orexigenic and anorectic Signaling mediators in the treatment of obesity neuropeptide expression in the hypothalamus [22] Thus an increase ... explored further Other areas of the brain have also been shown to regulate feeding via AMPK [35,36] Of interest is the extensive use of fructose as a sweetener in the human diet [37] Glucose and fructose...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... Thus, integrin-dependent cell volume sensing and signaling integrates into the overall context of insulin signaling Similarly, sensing of glutamine-induced hepatocyte swelling by integrins feeds into ... Osmosensing and signaling in mammalian cell function F Schliess et al [7] On the other hand, hyperosmotic shrinkage prevents insulin-induced hepatocyte swelling and proteolysis inhibition, indicating ... swelling [12,13], insulin-induced hepatocyte swelling is registrated by the integrin system, leading to a Src-dependent activation of the p38-type MAPK and thereby inhibition of 5800 autophagic...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... "Tell of the Tablets," and the "Great Tell," and, rising as they in the centre of the site, they mark the position of the temples and the other principal buildings of the city CHAPTER IV 51 An indication ... Memphite kings These facts, of the situation of Itht-taui, of their burial in the southern an ex of the old necropolis of Memphis, and of the fori of their tombs (the true Upper Egyptian and Thebian ... tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom, and the originals of the legendary Mena In their time the kingdom's centre of gravity was still in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... calorie intake induces expression of RMI1 and E2Fs in adipocytes, and these changes in expression are expected to increase a positive interaction between the molecules The increased expression of ... at each phase of the cell cycle by various complexes of cell-cycle-related molecules, including cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases, their inhibitors and the retinoblastoma protein (RB), as well ... in the adipocyte is tightly regulated by interaction between the cell-cycle regulators and the differentiating factors, and creates a cascade of events leading to the commitment of cells into the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... hybridizes to the center of the input target RNA The asterisk indicates the input target RNA; the arrow indicates the digested product bands The amount of digested product obtained is indicated at the ... punctate perinuclear and cytoplasmic staining of other structures than appear following liposomal transfection The corresponding PO-ODN shows a similar pattern and intensity as the PS-ODN in the ¯uorescent ... levels of either RNase H1 or H2 The discrepancy between the in vivo and in vitro measurements could be due to a compartmentalization of a component in the in vivo system On the other hand, we...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... appearing, with the topography of these coin finds being indicative of the city expanding eastwards This recovery seems to begin both here and in Thebes with the coinage of Theophilus (829 42), and it ... coinage and the freeing up of the silk trade Chapter 18 Chapter Urban Change and Continuity in Roman and Byzantine Corinth Corinth was one of the great cities of Greece, the capital of the Roman ... Roman province and later Byzantine theme of Achia, and the see of an archbishop The American School at Athens undertook the excavations of the central area of Corinth in the first half of the last...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20