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How to translate some of the metaphors in Harry potter Books (book 3 and book 7) into Vietnamese

How to translate some of the metaphors in Harry potter Books (book 3 and book 7) into Vietnamese

... Run into debt Foot of the stairs The head of state Foot of the class  Live metaphors are not often easily understood at one and readers should base themselves on the context to find out the ... figurative ã Image is the figurative topic of the second proposition, what is compared with the topic of the first proposition ã Point of similarity is found in the common of both proposition ã ... ( the way the author intended the text”), the explanation by Newmark is supposed to be one of the most satisfactory definitions of translation. Needless to say, it is impossible to come to...

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HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA, UNDERTAKEN pdf

HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA, UNDERTAKEN pdf

... he stood, therefore, single, front to front with what he feared; he alone remained the champion of the civilization, the riches, and the enjoyments of the nations of the south, against the ... confederation, of which he declared himself protector; to change the republic of Holland into a kingdom, and to give it to his brother Louis. These were the reasons which induced him, on the 15th of December, ... Frederick, or by the wish of blotting out the disgrace of the campaign of 1792, entered heartily into the views of the allied powers; but the pacific policy of the king, and of his minister...

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue* ppt

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue* ppt

... nature of the Internet not only to enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also a range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society ... all States of their positive obligation to promote or to facilitate the enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression and the means necessary to exercise this right, including the Internet. ... facilitating the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. At the same time, given the pressure exerted upon them by States, coupled with the fact that their primary motive is to generate...

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Mobil 1 is original equipment in some of the world’s finest vehicles, including potx

Mobil 1 is original equipment in some of the world’s finest vehicles, including potx

... choose Mobil 1 synthetic motorcycle oil versus a conventional motorcycle oil? There are a number of reasons. Mobil Motorcycle Oils offer the following benefits: ã Mobils synthetic technology ... decades of synthetic research experience so we know how to combine the ingredients in exactly the right quantities. ã We test our formulations to the extreme to ensure they’ll provide the performance ... weather, can be particularly severe. The engine may not get a chance to warm up sufficiently to boil off moisture and unburnt fuel in the oil, leading to the developments of acids in the...

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Báo cáo Y học: Purification and biochemical characterization of some of the properties of recombinant human kynureninase pptx

Báo cáo Y học: Purification and biochemical characterization of some of the properties of recombinant human kynureninase pptx

... K i of 100 n M .Thelatter two compounds were also found to be mixed inhibitors of the enzyme (data not shown). The pH optimum was determined as 8.25 and the activity of the enzyme was found to ... between the two bands which was probably due to the continuous association and disassociation of the respective subunits. Owing to the asynchronized viral infection cycle, lysis of a proportion of the ... The depicted kynureninase inhibition is expressed as the percentage of the inhibition with reference to the activity observed in the absence of inhibitor. Scheme 2. Fig. 3. Mixed inhibition of...

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Memories Are Made Of This: Introduction to Memorized Deck Magictricks

Memories Are Made Of This: Introduction to Memorized Deck Magictricks

... because the spectator can be asked to “cut off about half.” If you then glimpse or otherwise learn a key card at the point where he cut (either the face card of the upper half, or the top card of the ... I define a few of the basic terms, and answer some of the more frequently asked questions about how to approach the topic. In Section II, I try to give you a sense of the power and scope of the memorized ... number means, of course, that if a packet of cards is cut off the top of the deck and you know the card that’s been cut to, you’ll automatically also know the precise number of cards that are contained...

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The Protection of the Right to Education by International Law doc

The Protection of the Right to Education by International Law doc

... 1924, the League of Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, also known as the “Declaration of Geneva”. 29 The Declara- tion was in the nature of a Charter of Child Welfare. The ... an awareness of the danger of too much state involvement in the sphere of education. Even so, it relied on state intervention to reduce the dominance of the church and to protect the rights of ... definition of the term “education”, the historical development of the right to education, the philosophical basis of the right, the right to education as an empowerment right, the compulsory nature of...

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An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. pptx

An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. pptx

... propose, therefore, to give, with other incidents, an abstract of some of the attempts of the oppressed to throw off the yoke which held them, or threatened to hold them, in bondage. The first ... but to the prejudices of their former masters prejudices common to almost all slaveholders. Accustomed to the use of arbitrary power, they could not brook the loss of their whips. Accustomed to ... portions of our colored population. For the evidence of these facts, then new to me, I was referred to the Clerk of the Senate; and in the private records I found them verified." On the 21st of...

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time to heal american medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care

time to heal american medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care

... from the professor . . . of law, of economics, of all subjects whatsoever.”35 For this reason, many preferred the use of the term “university system” to “full-time system.” To the joy of medical ... decision to carry the story through the present and to write a book that spoke to many of the large anxieties of today’s health care world. Had the narrative ended with Chapter 16, the book would ... threatened—that is the central concern of the story told in the following pages. ã ã This book is intended to provide a synthetic history of American medical education from the turn of the twentieth...

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the economics of large scale infrastructure project finance an empirical examination of the propensity to project finance

the economics of large scale infrastructure project finance an empirical examination of the propensity to project finance

... fairly. Therefore, the diversion of payoff from the existing creditors makes stockholders better off. The use of secured debt therefore increases the incentives for stockholders to undertake ... the new asset as collateral and thereby divert from the existing creditors some payoffs of the new project that would accrue to the existing creditors, if unsecured debt was used. The use of ... that there are states of the world wherein the assets in their intended use may not be of any value. In the instance that this bad state of the world occurs, the assets are redeployed to alternative...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging classical psychometric theory and the Rasch measurement model" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging classical psychometric theory and the Rasch measurement model" pptx

... the question of whether these sim- ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead to the possibility of ... indicate the presence of multidimensionality in the model [20]. No significant dif- ferences were found for the three factors of the scale (Fac- tor 1, p = 0.051, Factor 2 p = 0.654, Factor 3 p ... both. EFA findings were compared to the international ones. There is a great similarity of the item loadings when com- paring to the EFA run in the international dataset. Out of 38 items, only five...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging classical psychometric theory and the Rasch measurement model" docx

báo cáo hóa học:" Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging classical psychometric theory and the Rasch measurement model" docx

... the question of whether these sim- ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead to the possibility of ... contribu- tors to it [5,6]. Quantifying the raise of proportion of old adults in the world population is relevant but insufficient. It is also important to study the quality of this increase. The experi- ence ... in any of the 44 items in the Brazilian sample. The analysis of the pooled international data indicated the need of item refinement, which resulted in a 38-item version to be tested in the field...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Multiuser MIMO Transmit Beamformer Based on the Statistics of the Signal-to-Leakage Ratio" doc

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Multiuser MIMO Transmit Beamformer Based on the Statistics of the Signal-to-Leakage Ratio" doc

... represents the probability of the transmit beamformer failing to perform its beamforming task properly. Hence, the concept of the SLR outage is analogous to the probability of receiver failing to work ... Angle of Arrival (AoA). In this example, the spatial correlation among ele- ments of the BS antenna array is modeled according to the distribution of the AoA of the incoming plane waves at the ... is that the knowledge of instantaneous channel information can be available at the BS only through the feedback from users. The drawbacks of the feedback approach are the reduction of the system...

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