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hawking, stephen - a brief history of time

Ngày tải lên : 18/04/2014, 15:22

... Newton’s law of gravity says that the gravitational attraction of a star is exactly one quarter that of a similar star at half the distance This law predicts the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the ... something that happens at a particular point in space and at a particular time So one can specify it by four numbers or coordinates Again, the choice of coordinates is arbitrary; one can use any ... on the development of radar during the war The idea was that as the galaxies moved away from each other, new galaxies were continually forming in the gaps in between, from new matter that was...

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PANICS AND THEIR PERIODICAL OCCURRENCE IN THE UNITED STATES pdf

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 12:20

... Juglar himself states that a commercial panic is always a financial panic, as a falling away of the metallic reserve indicates its breaking out; and I have only translated that portion dealing ... apt to precipitate a panic, on account of the unsettling of business, and that the consequent shaking of credit adds its quota to the forces finally culminating in a panic cannot be doubted As ... of the new tariff The vast majority of the nation reaped enormous benefits from the changes inaugurated The panic of 1857 was caused by over-activity in trade speculation, and over-banking, and...

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Tài liệu A Brief History Of The English Language Eckersley 1960 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 25/12/2013, 13:15

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A Brief History of the United States pot

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 00:20

... discovered the Azores and the Madeira Islands He died in 1460 His great work was training seamen Many men afterward famous as discoverers and navigators, as Dias (dee'ahss), Da Gama (dah gah'ma), Cabral ... Mas'sasoit, chief of the Wam-pano'ags, and of Canon'icus, chief of the Narragansetts, and learned their language In 1633 he returned to Salem, and was again made pastor of a church [8] The fate ... herds of wild horses roamed the southwestern plains, and in later times gave the plains Indians a means of travel the Eastern Indians did not have INDIAN TRAILS. The Eastern Indians nevertheless often...

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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 02:20

... Anglo-Saxon race in England, in most parts of Scotland, in the larger part of Ireland, in the United States, in Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, in South Africa, and in many other parts of the world ... alteration in the meanings of words, the changes in the application of them, the variation in the use of phrases, the falling away of the inflexions all these things become plain to the eye and to the ... introduction of the Danes and the Danish language into England had the result, in the east, of unsettling the inflexions of our language, and thus of preparing the way for their complete disappearance The...

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 22:20

... from the Falls of St Anthony to the Gulf They had traversed a region including what is now known as Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, the Canadas and Acadia [Footnote: ... such a desperate undertaking At last, three small vessels were manned; the Pinta (peen'tah), Santa Maria (ma-re-ah), and Ninah (ne-nah) They sailed from Palos, Spain, Aug 3, 1492 INCIDENTS OF THE ... Virginia [Footnote: The English ships were at that time accustomed to steer southward along the coast of Spain, Portugal, and Africa, as far as the Canary Islands, then they followed the track of...

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A Brief History of the Internet docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 22:20

... interested in Etext, a "Mass Marketing Approach," and such it was, was finally appropriate, and the release of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan signalled beginnings of a widespread production and consumption ... them, are against this kind of easily available information they either want to control it-or they want to maintain their "leadership" in fields of endeavor by making sure we "have to it the hard ... copying of the library of information a whole planet of human beings would generate These ideas were remarkably ahead of their time, as attested to by an Independent Plans of Study Degree in the...

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a brief history of the paradox philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind dec 2003

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 01:31

... through animals that dwell on land and in the sea and in the air, the soul once again enters the body of a human being Eating meat is therefore cannibalism The purpose of life is to live in accordance ... to the amount of land remaining for farming Commentators on the history of mathematics characterize the Egyptian interest in mathematics as unrelentingly practical However, any culture that develops ... an alternate solution to the problem of the origin of man Instead of following Anaximander’s postulation of an infinite thing, assume an infinite relationship between finite things In particular,...

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university of calgary press how skeptics do ethics a brief history of the late modern linguistic turn apr 2007

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 12:49

... of an intelligible world is unexceptional It sees every part of the world in the same way The same laws apply to all parts of the world in all places at all times There are no acausal holes in ... matters of apparent fact Add all the facts up in as great a detail as you like and you still will not reach a qualitative total that adds up to interpersonal regard and moral concern The sum of the ... of history the same signiﬁcance in public life as the language of numbers in nature He gave literacy the same relevance in history that mathematics had in physics He believed the application of...

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A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science pptx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 09:20

... vessels and guaranteeing insufficient circulation of blood to the brain The purchase of an Adam Smith necktie is at once a rational commercial act and a revelation of dogma overwhelming reason Adam ... KarI Marx Alfred Marshall: The Great Victorian Thorstein Veblen Takes on the American Captains of Industry The Jazz Age: Aftermath of War and Prelude to Depression 10 John Maynard Keynes and the ... Flaws in Marx’s Vision 105 106 109 110 Alfred Marshall: The Great Victorian 121 122 124 127 Pleasure and Pain at the Margin The Marginalists’ Bridge Marginalism and the Theory of Distribution Marshall...

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a brief history of the olympic games

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2015, 14:04

... games think that it is accurate Pausanias claims that in the beginning and for about a half-century, the only event at the Olympic festival was the race of one length of the stadium, the stade ... in these earliest years a few victors came from Corinth and Athens, and from as far away as Sicily and Asia Minor The ﬁrst chariot victor in 680 bc was Pagondas of Thebes Many of the rather few ... strange and unknown island inhabited by very hospitable people called Phaeacians They are a peaceful, seafaring people who a good deal of feasting, singing, and dancing They treat the marooned...

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A discourse analysis of presuppositions in the declaration of independence made by president ho chi minh = phân tích diễn ngôn các tiền giả định trong tuyên ngôn độc lập của chủ tịch hồ chí minh

Ngày tải lên : 14/12/2013, 00:41

... fighting situations were and they knew that the Japanese built many military bases, particularly in Asia-Pacific countries, such as China, the Philippines, Myanmar, to fight against the Allies Therefore, ... that Indochina is situated in the Southeast of Asia and that it is composed of the three countries Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Or when talking about three provinces Quang Tri, Yen Bai and Cao Bang, ... was the war between two factions: the Allies including Britain, France, America and Russia, and the Fascism including Japan, Germany and Italy The Fascists were very reactionary, combative and...

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Tài liệu A Brief History of Language Teaching docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/01/2014, 23:20

... version of audio-lingualism; the key difference from the audiolingual approach was that the language presentation and practice was situationalised and so was always given social meaning; speaking and ... of rapid PPP?; since it appears to have gained ideological popularity especially in the UK, there may be a danger that the task-based approach dominates teaching to the detriment of the other ... so-called ‘affective’ factors in language teaching, and UK language teaching was famous for its engaging and ‘fun’ qualities; however, the philosophy of the humanistic approaches was valuable, and since...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A possible role of mitochondria in the apoptotic-like programmed nuclear death of Tetrahymena thermophila Takashi Kobayashi and Hiroshi Endoh docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 03:20

... higher in fractions and than in fraction (Table 1) These results indicate that fraction contains a signiﬁcant number of mitochondria, and that fraction is the main lysosomal fraction The DNAcleavage ... mitochondria in this process [19] In mammalian apoptosis, caspase-8 and caspase-9 are known to be associated with the mitochondrial pathway Active caspase-8 induces the release of mitochondrial apoptosis ... resulting in the release of the putative DNase as well as divalent cations Prolonged incubation enhanced DNA cleavage, thereby generating fragments of approximately 150–400 bp (Fig lanes 3–5) Although...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Xenopus Rbm9 is a novel interactor of XGld2 in the cytoplasmic polyadenylation complex pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 05:20

... S1) In addition, the ORF contains two arginine ⁄ glycine-rich (RGG) motifs that are characteristic of RNA-binding proteins, and an alanine-rich carboxy-terminal sequence that could be involved in ... translation On the one hand, CPEB represses the translation of CPE-containing mRNAs via its interaction with other partners, including Maskin, the RNA helicase Xp54 and Pumilio [3–5] Maskin interacts ... for the Gld2–Rbm9 interaction (Fig 2B) However, the RRM-containing central domain of hRbm9 (amino acids 48–269) and amino acids 269–350 of hRbm9 are not able to mediate the binding These data suggest...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Assessment of porcine and human 16-ene-synthase, a third activity of P450c17, in the formation of an androstenol precursor doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 08:20

... porcine and human assays using preg as a substrate, an additional peak of elution appeared at 15 (panels C and D, respectively) This additional peak coincides with the elution time of nonlabeled ... partner, the RXR, and are subject to cross-talk interactions with other nuclear receptors and with a broad range of other intracellular signaling pathways, including those activated by certain cytokines ... that further transformation of androstadienol into androstenol involves the classic enzymes of the steroidogenic pathway, namely 3b-HSD, 5a- reductase and 3a- HSD Interestingly, because of the lack...

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A SMALLER HISTORY OF GREECE from the earliest times to the Roman conquest doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 07:20

... several of the islands; and he aspired to nothing less than the dominion of Ionia, as well as of the islands in the AEgean The Lacedaemonians, who had invaded the island at the invitation of the ... inhabitants of the plains; of the DIACRII, or poor inhabitants of the hilly districts in the north and east of Attica; and of the PARALI, or mercantile inhabitants of the coasts, who held an intermediate ... greater part of them afterwards emigrated to Asia Minor The Heraclidae and the Dorians now divided between them the dominions of Tisamenus and of the other Achaean princes The kingdom of Elis was...

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The History of Sound in the Cinema pot

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 15:20

... head of Fox at the time, had all production stopped on their latest films 'An American in Paris' and 'The Robe' to have them remade in the new system The film 'An American In Paris' was in fact ... Strictly speaking this is not quite true, as at the time cinemas had to show a certain 'quota' of British films a year unless they were a 'special venue cinema' That was a After the heyday of development ... track on the sound film acted as a gain control for the three stage channels The Fantasound equipment was installed in only 14 theatres, causing quite a stir, before RCA had to concentrate all...

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a brief history of led zeppeln and its musical impact

Ngày tải lên : 21/03/2014, 21:54

... Zeppelin, relative of the designer of the airship, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, threatened to sue the band if they used the name in the country Led Zeppelin played under the alias The Nobs The first album ... their official debut, Led Zeppelin were at the top of the bill at the Playhouse Theater in London, and the Pop Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London On October 17, '69, a year and two days from ... from the bands conception, Led Zeppelin played in Carnegie Hall, ending a ban on rock groups at the concert hall, originally caused by the Rolling Stones in 1965 While playing in Denmark, Eva von...

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A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY pot

Ngày tải lên : 28/03/2014, 15:20

... original position at the end of a year Bradley's second great discovery was finally ascertained in 1748 Nutation is a real "nodding" of the terrestrial axis produced by the dragging of the moon at ... human endeavour The advance of knowledge may be called a vital process The lives of men are absorbed into and assimilated by it Inquiries into the kind and mode of the surrender in each separate ... may be the beginnings of discovery Thus, theory and observation mutually act and react, each alternately taking the lead in the endless race of improvement Now, while in France Lagrange and Laplace...

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