... utilized They gathered plants for food and medicines and later they cultivated them; they constructed their buildings, boats, and many tools and utensils from plant materials; and they wove cotton, ... to Athens to study atthe Academy led by Plato (428 or 427–348 or 347 b.c.e.) Aristotle left Athens after the death of Plato, settling first in Anatolia in what is now Turkey and later on the ... Botany the Father Aristotle and His Natural History Theophrastus, the Father of Botany Medicine and Plants Pedanius Dioscorides and His Catalog of Medicinal Plants What Is a Pharmacopoeia? Alexander...
... collect seabird feathers and guano Japanese nationalists traveled to the islands in 1990 and 1996 to build a lighthouse and further the economic claim for sovereignty The islands are considered ... sovereignty of the islands are nothing new Japanese nationalists held demonstrations on the island back in 1990 But what is most worrisome to long-time watchers of the dispute is the assertiveness ... threatens planned talks on a 2008 agreement to jointly develop gas fields located near the disputed islands and in other parts of the East China Sea Run-ins between China and Japan over the sovereignty...
... price, the authorities began to negotiate with the cooperatives about both the quotas andthe prices instead of setting them bureaucratically without consultation These concessions on the part of the ... account, and on the other hand attempted to implement the lessons from what had happened in other countries (China, fast-developing nations, and in a negative sense from the former Soviet Union and ... farmers and their relatives were counted amongst the lowest strata Nowadays one may increasingly observe a stratification that is derived rather from economic premises The entrepreneurial strata...
... differentiation Data was collected and ascertained atthe macro-, meso- and micro-levels during which the main focus was on the micro-level Atthe macro- (central) andthe meso-level (provinces), the ... to that in Ho Chi Minh City at least in its approaches For a long time the collective rather than the private sector was favored Even atthe end of the 1990s andthe de facto collapse of the former ... the statistical yearbook communicated the impression that the development of the private sector had stagnated since the mid- 1990s, the authorities painted a rather positive picture of the development...
... than the proportion of administrative cadres (14.8%) The high percentage of peasants indicates on the one hand close relations with the urban area, shows on the other hand, that despite their ... of the planning department, the environmental authorities andthe city’s police all appeared, and demanded the termination of the construction work They argued that from the viewpoint of the ... of them were closed in the course of the reduction of the state companies they decreased in number from about 12, 000 to about 7,.000 atthe beginning of the 1990s 34 DIFFERENTIATION AND STRATEGIC...
... THREE: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS and that as a consequence the growth of each sector has to take place atthe cost of the other.21 Through the privatization process the role of the state is not ... goals atthe local and national levels One may list among these demands such as that made by the Association for Private Enterprises (which is subordinate to the Bureau for the Administration ... the direction and administration of organizations representing their interests; andthe regulation of relations to the state and collective sector Such a department would – unlike the Association...
... local by crossing the Atlantic to view England andthe Continent, while our fathers and mothers exploring distant Russia andthe Nile were accorded marked consideration The wandering habit is ... witness the beaching of the boats and to watch the unloading An hour probably elapses between the coming of the leader of the fleet andthe arrival of the slowest boat During this period the important ... during the calm period of the northeast monsoon, February, March and April, when the sea is flat andthe sky is bright and unflecked, that the fishery is carried on The line of banks they are...
... targeting members of the scientists and influential professors of universities who were accused of putting technical expertise ahead of correct political thinking Unlike the film, the Cultural Revolution ... political thinking Unlike the film, the Cultural Revolution had a disastrous effect on the educational system andthe scientific community within China ...
... participate in the study All information was collected through face-to-face interviews using the questionnaires in Korean and Japanese by the investigators Measures Loneliness was measured by the ... Cronbach’s alphas were 91 and 86 in the Korean and Japanese samples, respectively Depression of the subjects was assessed by the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 The Geriatric Depression Scale-15 ... educational level, the majority of the Korean elderly (90.0%) graduated from elementary school or lower, while the Japanese elderly who graduated from high school or higher constituted the greatest...
... are the laws and regulations in China and Taiwan providing for wildlife conservation and environmental protection generally, and what is the nature of the revision process? The chapter treats ... percent of the water to the inner river, and 40 percent into the outer river during the dry season During the flood season, 40 percent of the water entered the inner river, andthe rest the outer ... Taiwan, andthe East Asian region, but also the planet as a whole We introduce the topic of the governance of biodiversity conservation through a brief examination of the nature of the problem and then...
... price, the authorities began to negotiate with the cooperatives about both the quotas andthe prices instead of setting them bureaucratically without consultation These concessions on the part of the ... account, and on the other hand attempted to implement the lessons from what had happened in other countries (China, fast-developing nations, and in a negative sense from the former Soviet Union and ... farmers and their relatives were counted amongst the lowest strata Nowadays one may increasingly observe a stratification that is derived rather from economic premises The entrepreneurial strata...
... price, the authorities began to negotiate with the cooperatives about both the quotas andthe prices instead of setting them bureaucratically without consultation These concessions on the part of the ... account, and on the other hand attempted to implement the lessons from what had happened in other countries (China, fast-developing nations, and in a negative sense from the former Soviet Union and ... farmers and their relatives were counted amongst the lowest strata Nowadays one may increasingly observe a stratification that is derived rather from economic premises The entrepreneurial strata...
... dominated by representatives of the leading states of the world (Agnew 2001: 145) This is a much more accurate assessment than the premature dismissal of the nation-state First, the nation-state ... globalisation, globalisation andthe nation state, the commercial logic of global football andthe specific experiences of football fans, players and followers in the three nations Sport, globalisation ... example of the globalization of culture, with the development of the mens game growing out of the relative autonomy of nation states regulation and control and of their football associations Yet,...
... land These statements for China represent strictly rural populations The rural population of the United States in 1900 was placed atthe rate of 61 per square mile of improved farm land and there ... the wheat crop of the United States, but produced on less than one-eighth the area of our wheat fields The cultivation of tea in China and Japan is another of the great industries of these nations, ... from the three crops atthe rate of $163, gold, per acre; and with another who planted Irish potatoes atthe earliest opportunity in the spring, marketing them when small, and following these...
... incongruent with their choice of low-ownership entry modes 1.2 The dissertation offers a quantitative and qualitative investigation Contribution and structure of the dissertation The dissertation provides ... about the nationality, corporate identity, and international reputation of the foreign company (e.g Roehrig, 1993) My discussions with managers revealed that there was a strong inclination by the ... points of view The second important contribution of the dissertation is the linkage of the quantitative framework and results to their applicability and potential for implementation in subsidiaries...
... raw waters even at very low concentration It is notable that PCP was still detected in several raw waters, despite that; its registration had been eliminated since 1990 It demonstrates the potential ... Dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diethyl adipate (DEHA), phenol and 2-sec-butyl phenol were quantitatively detected in treated water, in 5, 2, and of the samples, respectively The maximum concentration of ... July 27 and October 1, 1999 for raw waters and treated waters The second samplings were between October 19 and December 1999 for raw water, so called winter Samplings were prolonged when their...
... parameters The soil permeability properties that characterize water retention and infiltration, the transport rates of chemicals, andthe transport and chemical parameters that influence the distribution ... the point of the current supply electrode and 12 mm of the point of the voltage measurement electrode while insulating the other parts, and measures the electric conductivity of the soil in the ... of any of the other salts investigated (Ca2+, Mg2+ and K+) and occurred during the first stage of the alkali soil reclamation This was confirmed by the EC results for the leachate The Ca2+ behavior...
... the measurement of water velocity was separated from the others by to m Wave heights atthe outside of the bay were to m over the course of the study Water velocity was estimated to average the ... urchins and U pinnatifida Field surveys of the water velocities at randomly selected ten U pinnatifida habitats and twenty unvegetated areas in Line and Line were conducted in September 2004 and ... reported that U pinnatifida survived between ˚C and 20 ˚C This result suggested that the condition of water temperature atthe restoration area was enough for the survival of transplanted U pinnatifida...
... consistent than those of Sweden andthe United States Overall, then, these results for the three countries suggest that the patterns of variation across the locations of the class structure in class ... assumption that all that changes is the unionization rate in the United States; the second question assumes that all that changes is ideology On the basis of these two questions we can decompose the total ... after the defeat and repression of these movements that the current pattern of quasi-company unions was consolidated and integrated with the current forms of ``cooperative'' labor±management relations...
... taxation of R&D and capital expenditure The effect was reduced downward pressure on the economy and stronger stimulation of the private sector On the other hand, rapidly retrenched employment and ... Japan, deflation also has nearly been eliminated Foreign countries also had a hand in the elimination of the three excesses In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, China and other ... stabilization in late 2006), a stronger yen if the U.S were to cut interest rates or the Bank of Japan were to raise them, andthe future course of the U.S economy The U.S economy’s estimated real...