... me - at the tower. So there was another person out there, on the roof of the tower. But the person in the garden was not the ghost of the woman. It was little Miles. ... stood on the roof of the towetThere were two towers, one at each end of the roof. Each tower had a room inside, and you could climb out onto the roof from them; Flora ... strange or dangerous places - the roof of the tower, the other side of the lake. It's dangerous but exciting, for Flora and Miles. They'll try to get to those...
... was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely. She found that the medicine did really diminish, but it did not occur to her that the boy was mending the health of a crack in the sitting-room floor ... pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer. Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, ... school ahead of time. It was noticed that this strange thing had been occurring every day latterly. And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate ofthe schoolyard instead of playing with...
... in the upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge ofthe berth, and talked. I couldn't see them, but I could tell where they was by the ... them. Pretty soon we struck the forward end ofthe skylight, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched us in front ofthe over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the ... blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry. Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level ofthe raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach...
... reason for the failure ofthe socialistexperiment; even Hayek had not recognized the full extent ofthe problem. The mar-ket socialists and the proponents ofthe standard neoclassical model of capitalismhad ... but with the planning of investment, and the supply of credit, in the hands ofthe political authorities. Both the market and the inequalities that it engendered would eventually wither away, ... institutions were to blame for the continuing misery ofthe mass ofthe population, not divine displeasure or the niggardliness of nature.Among the most important ofthe early British socialists...
... in using this theory to shed light on its failures.In another work of 1989, the theory of rational choice was used togetherwith the theory of social norms to tackle the problem of social cement, ... Marxism under the pressure of the economic events ofthe great crisis; then he studied with Harrod at Oxford,where he read the proofs ofthe General Theory, which fascinated him. Hereturned to ... 1937,‘Economics and Knowledge’. The thesis put forward by the theorists of the microfoundations of macroeconomics—one of whom was Robert Lucas,who pretended that the first inspiration ofthe rational expectations...
... Utrecht, The Netherlands Published by the Association for Computational Linguistics Preface This volume contains the papers prepared for the Sixth Conference ofthe European Chapter of the Association ... find the selected student papers and the poster/demo abstracts at the end ofthe Proceedings. The programme further includes an information session on infrastructural initiatives in the area of ... Utrecht. The Programme Committee received a large number of submissions (5 page extended abstracts) from all over the world. The general quality ofthe submissions was high. Out of a total of 229...
... of landscape, the number anddesignofturbines,thepattern of their arrangement, their color, and the number of blades.Visual or aesthetic resources refer to the natural and cultural features of ... proposalforthe exploitationofthe world’soffshorewindresourcewas designed for the eastern coast ofthe United States in the early 1970s (72).This use of a very large resource has not been pursued in the ... turbines use hinges on the hub thatallow the blades to move into and out ofthe plane of rotation independently of each other. Because the blade weights may not balance each other, other provi-sions...
... had to send one copy of their report to the member ofthe programme committee responsible for that sub-field and another to the programme chair. On this basis the members ofthe programme committee, ... The preparation ofthe Fifth Conference ofthe European Chapterofthe Association for Computational Linguistics was done, without doubt, under extraordinary circumstances. To characterize the ... Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings ofthe Conference 9-11 April 1991 Congress Hall, Alexanderplatz Berlin, Germany Published by the...
... country. For instance, the conquest of hookworm was important to the economic development of the South and the attraction of Northern capital to that region.52 The completion ofthe Panama Canal was ... from the professor . . . of law, of economics, of allsubjects whatsoever.”35 For this reason, many preferred the use of the term “university system” to “full-time system.”To the joy of medical ... further in the 1870s and early 1880s,with the articulation ofthe germ theory of disease, the isolation and iden-tification ofthe specific microorganisms that cause tuberculosis andmany other dreaded...
... time ofthe year. For the Eastern and WesternLake Surveys, the index sample was a single sample collected from the center of each lake at a depth of 1.5 m during the fall turnoverperiod. For the ... near-shore region of a body of water;often defined as the band from the shoreline to the outer edge of the occurrence of rooted vegetation.Long-term acidification The decrease of acid neutralizing capacityin ... watershed.Hydrology The science that treats the waters ofthe earth—theiroccurrence, circulation, and distribution; their chemical and phys-ical properties; and their reaction with their environment,...
... reagent, links the amineterminus ofthe PLC to the amine terminus ofthe surface silane group completing the immobilization of PLC on CPG as shown in Figure 12. 3. The efficiency of this reaction ... one ofthe binding functionalities has been established, the rate of attachment of the second functionality ofthe same chelator to the target metal is considerably faster thanwould be the attachment ... effec-tively preconcentrate the target metal. Recovery, in the case ofthe latter, then involves elu-tion ofthe column with the appropriate reagent to strip the metal into a solution of considerably lower...
... intake of a radionuclide. The sum ofthe products ofthe weighting factors applicable to each of the body organs or tissues that are irradiated and the committed doseequivalent to each of these ... the sum ofthe fractions rule because ofthe wide disparity in theirindividual DILs. The original selection of radionuclides in Table 12.12 was based on Chernobylexperience. Using the same ... member ofthe public of 0.5 rem (5 mSv). The licensee or license applicant shall include the following information in this application:(1) Demonstration ofthe need for and the expected duration of...
... excess of one nutrient can aggravate a deficiency of another, and so symptoms of man-ganese toxicity bear some features of deficiency of another nutrient. Additionally, toxicity of man-ganese is often ... 354 12. 5.3 Symptoms 354 12. 5.4 Tolerance 355 12. 6 Toxicity 356 12. 6.1 Prevalence 356 12. 6.2 Indicator Plants 356 12. 6.3 Symptoms 356 12. 6.4 Tolerance 357 12. 7 Manganese and Diseases 357 12. 8 ... from the stem during the outset ofthe reproductivestages of plant development. 12. 5 MANGANESE DEFICIENCY 12. 5.1 PREVALENCEManganese deficiency is most prevalent in calcareous soils, the pH of...