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... know from the evidence of the text, about the author and the situation at the time, and the social context Readers must exert the same caution when discussing the audience of a text as they when ... about the meaning of the picture, but also about how it was crafted What is the significance of the dream landscape in the background? Why, when we focus on the left side of the picture, does the ... based on their own knowledge or views, evaluate the writing style, or attack the honesty of the author These too are legitimate forms of response, but they require a critical reading of the text...
... s reading similar to Rembrandt’s narratives The puzzling 1626 History Painting, too, is a work I leave for another project Chapter reviews the status of reading and literary theory in the Netherlands ... illuminates the head and hand of Six, the sword hilt upon the table, and the pile of books, the top one opened, on a bench in the left corner Here, as in many other works by Rembrandt, the books ... pleasure The methodical reading of these men developed from the educational process, established at Latin schools from the Renaissance onward These schools fostered systematic reading and the organization...
... individuals are not like that They are people from all walks of life, the manual workers and the merchants, the mothers and the fathers, the teachers, the old people, and the young people too, who ... together they surrendered the problem into the Lord's hands, promising to follow His guidance as it would be revealed to them They broke with their self-pity, worry and tension They let the problem ... how the same principles can help you And, after reading these results, perhaps you will want to put these powerful techniques to work in your life Then won't you write me about your own results, ...
... explanation, the researchers posit, is that the evolutionary effects of the angiosperms might have been invisible to their study : the diversity they promoted might have been at the species rather than the ... star is the less massive of the two, as is the case in low-mass xray binaries When the size of the orbit increases, so does the size of the Roche lobe Once the lobe grows bigger than the companion ... demonstrated before the policy can be changed One unanswered question is whether the particles themselves cause damage or whether blame belongs to the chemicals they carry deep into the lungs Many...
... both PCS and MCS the other variables that entered into the regression models did not show significant results, although higher risks were observed in the expected directions Theresults are shown ... all the study participants in the current investigation were male, we used information for males only, that is the comparison was made between the patients' scores on the SF-36 with those of the ... each of the subscales range from to 100, with representing the worst health-related quality of life and 100 representing the best [22] The psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the SF-36...
... as the theoretical underpinning for the laissez-faire policies of the nineteenth century, and it is also the basis of the current belief in the "magic of the marketplace." Let us examine the ... because they failed to recognize that the so-called debt ratios they used to measure the creditworthiness of the borrowing countries were reflexive in the sense that they were affected by their ... defensethat the complexity of my thinking mirrors the complexity of the financial markets rather well, as demonstrated by the financial outcome of the real-time experiment There is, therefore,...
... system The amounts of water and other components (fibres and additives) in the final product correspond exactly to the formulation fed to the mixer previously The water that evaporates to cool the ... peak-temperature, as well as the duration of the heat effect Consequently, the amount of burned lead is also reduced 3.2 Control of phase composition Another interesting aspect is the control of the paste properties ... cooling -i 271 during the course of the process Determination and adjustment of the water content by weighing the pastefilled mixer, or by measuring the penetration, cannot reach the accuracy that...
... never the result of just one person I had a lot of help I get the credit, the chicks, the fame, and the fortune (well, at least the credit), and these folks remain anonymous The first edition of the ... started using the service TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com) to shorten them just a bit You can enter the URLs in your browser exactly as they appear in the book Most of the scenarios and the instructions ... components and the executable files associated with them The table is designed to provide you with a brief introduction to the components The sections that follow fill in the details for each of the components...
... that the eco- loss If the purchase price is lower than the fair value of nomic benefits associated with the transaction will flow the acquired net assets, the non-monetary assets are re- to the ... operates again highlights the progress in CHF 12,194 million (1998: 11,268) The internal growth in further strengthening and more evenly balancing the net sales, excluding the impact of changes in ... companies The higher of the Real, recovered by the end of the year Group region cost level was primarily due to the cost of distributing Latin America accounts for 34.2% (1998: 35.6%) of these imports...
... improving the proposed models as well as in the application of the models in other PWM applications The developed models neglected the dynamics of the Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) and assumed that the inverter ... extensions of the models include the effect of the harmonic current propagation through the ac network and the deterioration of the terminal voltage at the interface level and its effect on the reference ... at the fundamental frequency The THD depends on the amount of DC sources or divisions available in the DC link On the other hand, the PWM technique uses fast commutations to reach a low THD The...
... as the theoretical underpinning for the laissez-faire policies of the nineteenth century, and it is also the basis of the current belief in the "magic of the marketplace." Let us examine the ... because they failed to recognize that the so-called debt ratios they used to measure the creditworthiness of the borrowing countries were reflexive in the sense that they were affected by their ... defensethat the complexity of my thinking mirrors the complexity of the financial markets rather well, as demonstrated by the financial outcome of the real-time experiment There is, therefore,...
... nor the fundamentals, nor the participants' views the same as they were before The second generalization is that there is bound to be a flaw in the participants' perception of the fundamentals The ... severe losses in the collapse of the conglomerates Since they were entitled to share in the profits but did not have to share in the losses of the funds they managed, 64 I Theory they were inclined ... of the companies is left out of account There is a clear parallel with the theory of price where the indifference curve determines the relative amounts consumed, and the possibility that the...
... the trade deficit; the factor most endangered is the level 'of economic activity The main threats to the stability o the Imperial Circle come from the trade deficit and f the budget deficit The ... had linked the strength of the dollar to the strength of the economy and to the interest rate differential When the dollar refused to weaken, the last of the trend fighters gave up and the exchange ... strengthened because the stimulus of the budget deficit outweighed the drag of the trade deficit Economic activity is, of course, influenced by many other factors To bring them all into the picture...
... made even more money on the move By the time all the participants have adjusted, the rules of theigame will change again If the authorities handle the situation well, the rewards for speculating ... where the direction of economic policy and the direction of the financial markets mutually reinforce each other It is the response of the financial markets that has given me the 176 t The Real-Time ... ways: one is to identify the "thesis" that the current market rally incorporates and evaluate its chances of success; the other is to locate the present moment within the theoretical framework of...
... over the market The dollai -was moving faster and lower than the authorities desired Both the Japanese and the Germans were getting worried The American authorities were divided: Volcker shared their ... and the behind-thescenes struggle over interest rates came out into the open The 206 The Real-Time Experiment market responded with a sharp rally in the dollar Sterling also rallied against the ... the discount rate, but it has no reason to allow the federal funds rate to trade up from the present level either Equally, I consider the constitutional challenge to Gramm-Rudman immaterial-the...
... only the decision to short the yen has saved the day I can apply the profit on the yen either to offset the losses on the other moves or to protect my profits on the DM, but not both Either way, ... that lies at the heart of the "going-to -the- brink" phenomenon The collective system of lending provides the paradigm, but the other instances I have cited -the exchange rate system, the budget deficit, ... arrested by the t intervention of the authorities Thus we must look at their behavior for a clue When disaster threatens, they pull together; when the danger recedes, they pull apart This is the mechanism...
... corresponds to the way that financial markets operate That means that the markets themselves can be viewed as formulating hypotheses about the future and then submitting them to the test of the actual ... is the worst form of government except for all the others The same can be said about the market mechanism: it is the worst system of allocating resources except for all the others Indeed, there ... economic theory Moreover, the practic;~ science differs significantly from its theory and a study of these differences has given rise to further refinements in the theory of science since the D-N...
... on the subject have taken either the whole or the part as their starting point The choice of the starting point tends to infuse the rest of the discussion with a bias The famous speech of Agrippa ... Hegel's concept was the thesis and Marxism the antithesis, reflexivity is the synthesis But there is a fundamental difference between Marxism and the new dialectic Marx lpbored under the misapprehension ... on them by the Bundesbank because they were already in a recession when they went into the ERM Being pushed out of the ERM brought them much-needed relief They ought to have welcomed it, but they...
... whether the letters are a part of the oeuvre or whether they are the source of some of the themes of the work … we must think of the letters in general as belonging to the writing, outside the ... extended reading, while drawing on other shorter pieces as and when they serve to further the discussion The list of stories chosen for a sustained reading is as follows: The Judgement,” “In the ... that the idea of the body, for the purposes of this discussion, covers the physical entity (the body in general, both of the human and In a letter to Hermann Bauer, the father of Felice Bauer, the...