... that arose betweenhonoring traditional honor, and honoring one’s individual psyche, can be conveyed in a storyfrom World War II. In 1943, coming off his dazzling victories in the Sicily campaign, ... society the upper classes were trying to build. Gentlemen no longer felt thatmaintaining an increasingly anemic concept of honor was worth dying or even fighting over;they considered themselves ... psychoanalysis, and Jung’s interpretation of dreams, people began to be moreinterested in the individual workings of their mind and the variations of their unique psyche.Whereas in a traditional honor...
... beensuccessful in reaching their objec tives in one forum and not in another,thus creating various treaties with apparently conflicting provisions. In turn, the applicable international obligations stemming ... (1983) 60 (1) Annuaire de l’institut de droit international 332–33. C. Chinkin,“The Challenge of Soft Law: Development and Change in International Law” (1989) 38(4) International and Comparative ... “Toward RelativeNormativity in International Law” (1983) 77 American Journal of International Law 436;R. Baxter, “International Law in ‘Her In nite Variety’”, (1980) 29 International andComparative...
... suspiciously before letting me in. It was very dark inside: I could see nothing except a aring gas-jet that illuminated a patch of plaster wall, throwing ev-erything else into deeper shadow. ... kill them in hecatombs. Some- F B P B.ere were only two sinks, and no washing basin, and it was nothing unusual for a waiter to wash his face in the wa-ter in which ... crockery was rinsing. But the customers saw nothing of this. ere were a coco-nut mat and a mir-ror outside the dining-room door, and the waiters used to preen themselves up and go in looking the...
... people behind him andborne on by the current. He went down theBoulevard de Strasbourg, seeing nothing,bumping awkwardly into the passers-by.He had eaten nothing since morning. The turning to ... seatagain in the train for Paris. Night was overthe fields that were soaked with the rain.The hard lights of the stations accentuatedthe sadness of the interminable plainburied in darkness. ... showing his oldschoolfellow his importance and his newduties, and the elegance of his Parisianmanners. He was not lying in expressinghis surprise: a visit from Christophe wasthe last thing in...
... model (Eq. (8)) areshown in Table III. The slope γijdecreased with increasingstand density and increasing admixture of beech. The slopeincreased with increasing site index. Stand age had no ... example, in the “Tillaie” natural forest reserve in Fontainebleau /France, beech dominates oak as on many othersites in northern France, but in the drier site conditions of cen-tral France (e.g., ... thinning, while for beechγ increases after thinning with no change in σ. Thus thinning favourslarge beech trees more than large oak trees.3. METHODSThe methods are structured to analyse in uencing...
... Common as wellas marginal site conditions must be sampled with the sameintensity and, since marginal site conditions are sparse, sam-pling efforts must be largely devoted to finding those sites.4.2. ... Liming in moderate doses on sites showingnutrient deficiencies can stimulate the absorption capacity ofthe sessile oak root system by enlarging fine roots and therebyimproving uptake of mineral ... predictingsite index in various ecological conditions and forest species[22, 25]. In France, most of these studies are being criticised becausethey have not provided enough precise results in...
... environmental factors in Pinus sylvestrisL. stands in southern Finland, Vegetatio 93 (1991) 57–72.[42] Nieppola J., Long-term vegetation changes in stands of Pinus syl-vestris in southern Finland, J. ... supporting a dominant relationship betweenunderstory vegetation and site productivity in mature stands ofPinus sylvestris in southern Finland. Using a comparablemethod, the first ordination ... species in the East, 123 in the West,and 101 present in both regions. The CA was applied to presence-absence data with tree species split into 3 layers. Principal coordinateswere interpreted...
... 10.1051/forest:2003013Original articleWind-firmness in Pinus pinaster Aït. stands in Southwest France: influence of stand density, fertilisation and breeding in two experimental stands damaged during the 1999 stormVéronique ... dominant pinesrather than on mean pines. This observation has also beenmade in several studies conducted previously, showing aconsiderable increase in forest vulnerability when thedominant individuals ... of leaning pines has been mainly correlated withcrown length in the dominant storey. When it increases, thelevel of leaning pines decreases. This relation may be thetranslation of the interaction...
... 17 m (top of the scaffoldings)and for a period extending from DOY 118 to 250: wind speed, usinga switching anemometer (Vector Instruments, UK); rainfall, using arain gauge (ARG 100, Campbell ... their volumes in 1998 (V98) andannual volume increments in 1995 (dV95) were obtained (in the sameway as for branch increment samples).As the relative volume increments of the increment samples ... 577588â INRA, EDP Sciences, 2004DOI: 10.1051/forest:2004053Original article Biomass increment and carbon balance of ash (Fraxinus excelsior) trees in an experimental stand in northeastern France Noël...
... region in- cluded in this study, the final total volume was 118 Mm3for SII and 124 Mm3for SI (figure 9). Despite the in- creasing intensity of final cuts and thinnings, the simula-tions indicated ... finally slightly more wood was thinned in SI. The accumulation of wood observed during1978–1988 in the age classes under 50 years, was themain reason for which the thinnings increased during1988–1998 ... scenarios the number ofthinnings and the final cuts are determined as a functioncgor c0[5, 25, 29]. Since Maugé [28] had indicated thatthinnings and final harvests in the region tended to...
... subplots. In each subplot, height of the highest seedling in each square meter (’dominant’ population ) wasmeasured at the beginning of the experiment.For comparing seedling ... is interesting to consider theeffects of the PKCa fertilization in the light ofthe initial N/P ratio in the leaves and of theavailable P2O5 content in the soil. In ... beginning of theexperiment, the height increment betweenautumn 1980 and autumn 1982, and thediameter in autumn 1990. The PKCa treat-ment did not result in any gain...
... regional scale (Lor-raine Plain), including Q pubescens. Westudied inter- and intraspecific variations,and their link with ecological constraints. In this preliminary paper, only ... introgres-sion. A huge body of literature has beenpublished with this thinking in mind, (seeeg, Kissling, 1983; Minihan and Rushton,1984, for the most recent papers). Only afew ... forestières,INRA Nancy, 54280 Champenoux, France Summary — Morphological variability of oaks in Lorraine (northeastern France) , was studied. Eighthundred oaks were sampled in...
... was nosignificant increasing trend in the averageradial growth rate found in a preliminaryanalysis using the same methodology in northeastern France using oak at low alti-tudes ... retreat ofpedunculate oak, including severe episodic declines, in favour of sessile oak in many regions of France. A model was created using a combination of meteorological ... a varying admixture of beech during years y and y+ 1. In contrast, theseconditions would stimulate root growth dur-ing year y which, in turn, would result in increased...
... between-stands (including age,site, silvicultural and genetic effects), with- in- stands (including genetic and tree-to-tree competition effects) and within-treevariability (including age, ... variousdensities. Original articleBranchiness of Norway spruce in northeastern France: predicting the main crown characteristicsfrom usual tree measurementsF ColinF Houllier1 INRA, Centre ... out in or-der to investigate more precisely the influ-ence of genetics and of tree social status in a modelling context. Also, information con-cerning small internodal...
... a cer-tain use, are "inefficient" or "toxic" when introduced toclinical trials.Our research indicates that a large number of plantsused intraditional healing in Northern ... Program in Comple-mentary Medicine and the Pan American Health Organi-zation recently compared Complementary Medicine toallopathic medicine in clinics and hospitals operatingwithin the Peruvian ... and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being." [1] is used globally and has rapidly growing eco-nomic importance. In developing countries, Traditional Medicine is often the only accessible...