... included in this volume, which I’ve called I Never Knew ThereWas a Word For It , because I didn’t My vocabulary is now ten times richer than it was six years ago, as I hope yours will soon be too ... , The Meaning of Tingo and hit follow-up Toujours Tingo In memory of my father I Never Knew ThereWas a Word For It ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD With illustrations by Sandra Howgate PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN ... PENGUIN BOOKS I NEVER KNEW THEREWAS A WORD FOR IT Adam Jacot de Boinod, hunter of perfect and obscure bon mots, is a true linguistic...
... then the watchman was again watchman ‘That was an unpleasant dream,’ said he; ‘but ‘twas droll enough altogether I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: and yet the thing was not very much ... besides, it was as dark as pitch All at once therewas heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince’s father, went out himself to open it It was a Princess who was standing ... to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes—when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures,...
... electron with a dot (called Lewis dot structures) (only show valence electrons for a Lewis dot structure) Both atoms now have electrons in the outer shell (therefore octet rule is obeyed) Differences ... charge on the oxygen could be placed on either oxygen using Lewis structures Which structure is correct? It turns out neither structure is correct, but the charge is delocalized onto both oxygens ... resonance “Rules” of Resonance 1. All resonance structures must be valid Lewis structures (e.g cannot have 10 electrons on one carbon in one structure) 2. Only electrons move (cannot move...
... have appeared because he was responding to the DQ6 on the retained first transplant These antibodies may cross-react with DQ5 because DQ5 and are splits of DQ1 and are structurally similar The ... latest serum creatinine years after his second transplant was 1.0 mg/dl Table shows the HLA typing for the recipient, as well as for the first and second donor kidneys The second donor and the ... and DQ Note that the first and second transplants shared the Class II HLA DQ antigens Case presentation In 1991, our patient, a 34-year-old Caucasian male, received his first renal transplant...
... a vaquero wore and carried was useful to him in his work Before 1821, Mexico was a colony of Spain called New Spain In 1821, Mexico became independent When Mexico was a Spanish colony, the kings ... Texas, means “big river.” There s a good reason so many places in the West and Southwest of the United States have Spanish names About 150 years ago, all that land was part of Mexico, where Spanish ... 1830s, there were perhaps millions of wild horses and cows running free on the land People who caught those animals could keep them Everything on the frontier—the open land, the animals was ideal...
... three structures in a discourse structure: 1) the structure of the sequence of utterances, 2) the structure of the intentions conveyed, and 3) the attentional state Distinguishing these three structures ... paper will cover mainly the second structure and will attempt to find evidence linking the dialogue structure to the task structure The main point is that the structure of the intentions conveyed ... conveyed in the discourse should mirror to some extent the task structure (but see the next section) The first structure of the dialogue, the structure of the sequence of utterances, will actually be...
... which was correct, I think, was that as a soldier I would be entirely useless, and as a mathematician I could be of some use,ể he says ềOf course, that was in the days of Hitler, and I was entirely ... mathematics One problem, he says, may be that there are too many mathematicians, especially good ones ềWhen I was much younger, I thought therewas a danger that mathematics would be stiòed by ... pole was ịrmly embedded in rubble, so we cleared along the wall top and discovered that it was housed in a well-constructed stone chamber more than two meters long Freed of debris, the pole was...
... c assemble d put down c 38 She the clothes when suddenly it began to rain a washes b washed c has washed d was washing d 39 We’ve gone up by 15% in this factory a activity b liability c ... The purchased of Louisiana was one of the biggest events in the history of the United States a purchased b was c events d history a Grammar and Vocabulary 11 Therewas so much about the proposal ... notice b 21 When she went into the bathroom, he had nothing on a was wearing nothing b was cracking a book c was doing nothing d was covering nothing a 22 Nowadays, many people yoga to relax...
... art critics …………… greatest portrait painter in the North American colonies a that he was b as he was c who was the d the d 64 As a safety measure, the detonator for a nuclear device may be made ... due to a 57 …………… that the English settled in Jamestown a In 1607 that it was b That in 1607 c Because in 1607 d It was in 1607 d 58 Staying in a hotel costs …………… renting a room in a dormitory ... including firemen and policemen who had been laid off from their jobs a was b were c is d are a 41 The result of the experiment was …………… a satisfied b satisfaction c satisfactory d satisfactorily...
... and analyze the change of the electronic structures without external electric field and under external electric field It can be found that the electronic structures of S-doped C-SWNT depend strongly ... geometrical structure of capped (5, 5) C-SWNT The numbers denote the different doping position of the substitutional atom and the atomic layer implemented in D mol3 package [9, 10] All the structures ... shown in Fig We can see that there is bonding charge accumulation on the S atom resulting in the formation of unsaturated dangling bond in every S-doped case In addition, there are not obvious changes...
... cut-off energy of 340 eV was assumed in the plane-wave basis set, the SCF convergence tolerance of the electronic energy per atom was 10-6 eV and the k-point separation was 0.4 nm-1 123 After the ... was selected for the calculations These pseudopotentials require a quite low energy cut-off and guarantee good transferability and robustness A geometry optimization of the silicon nanonets was ... the different interactions between the passivation atoms Figure shows the band structures of Si and some nanonets constructed with 9 supercell Si exhibits a typical indirect band gap However, when...
... a total force there equal to F F1 d/6N = d 6N n(n − 1) = nF (1.65) We therefore see that a force F applied at a distance is equivalent to a force nF applied at a distance /n, as was to be shown ... and how to apply F = ma There s a bit of math here needed for solving some simple differential equations Chapter deals with oscillations and coupled oscillators Again, there s a fair amount of ... rough There are difficult concepts at the heart of the subject, but the nice thing is that the technique is easy to apply The situation here analogous to taking a derivative in calculus; there...
... a total force there equal to F F1 d/6N = d 6N n(n − 1) = nF (1.65) We therefore see that a force F applied at a distance is equivalent to a force nF applied at a distance /n, as was to be shown ... and how to apply F = ma There s a bit of math here needed for solving some simple differential equations Chapter deals with oscillations and coupled oscillators Again, there s a fair amount of ... rough There are difficult concepts at the heart of the subject, but the nice thing is that the technique is easy to apply The situation here analogous to taking a derivative in calculus; there...
... the first year, CBY was always positive The evolution of CBY with age looked the same from one branch to another, although there could be some important differences Maximal value of CBY was not ... some objects of newly-created classes: for each type of organ that was identified on a plant, an object class was implemented There are the Shoot class, the Bud class and the Cone class The code ... and tree structure data, is included in this class The running procedure of the model is basic and managed through a Simulator At first, the model is initialised with a tree or branch structure,...
... at the first distance class (Sokal and Menozzi, In the present work, the Moran’s index (Moran, 1950) was used To carry spatial analysis different distance classes (DCs) were used In the first ... values of heterozygosity among all compared pairs of colonies, the Student’s ttest was used To determine if there are significant differences among all expected heterozygosity means as a single ... principal coordinates analysis (PCA) (Gower, 1966) was carried out with the Prevosti genetic distance matrix A minimum length spanning tree (MST) was superimposed to detect local distortions between...
... ProStar performed better than most of the other methods and was similar to two algorithms that use gene structure for prediction (fpom and firstef), and only nscan, which is based also on multi-species ... the first dataset The final extreme challenge for ProStar was to find promoters that are not detectable by methods based on sequence conservation along orthologs or on the maintenance of gene structure ... we selected a few representative procedures mainly based on the conservation of gene structure (fprom [1], firstef [13], dpf [12] and nscan [29]), the identification of CpG islands (eponine [22],...