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... give two sets of little cue tones. Onthe firstone, I’d hit the Pause button onthe timer, to stop it countingdown. Onthe second one, I’d hit Pause again to restart the timer. The cards Alex ... to go along with it, a control buttonthat fit in the shoe, plus a silent vibrator like the ones common in many of today’s cell phones. They referred to the system as their “computer-in -the- pocket ... seat.”Developing the HackMike, Alex, and Marco lugged the machine upstairs to the second floor of a house where they had been offered the use of a spare bedroom. The thrill ofthe experience would long be...
... to tie the two images together. Otherwise it is my version of Haiku. It was the expres-sion of how the cycle of life and the death of my father came together in my understanding. Another feature ... It often takes two people to set up the supplies and clean up the room after the group.One ofthe cofacilitators can talk to one individual while the other is continuing with the group art ... include the nature ofthe death, the relationship with the deceased, or the psychological characteristics ofthe grieving person. Social issues may also increase the risk of a complicated course of...
... sensational what direction can do. The beauty ofthe human condition is the magic people are capable of when there's direction. When there's no direction, you're not capable of much." ... THE ART OF SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES f all recent U.S. presidents, probably none immersed himself so deeply in the issues facing the nation than Jimmy Carter. Yet, President Carter ... were the dynamics of growth and underinvestment, the systems archetype that explains one ofthe most common ways that organizations inadvertently limit their own growth. Below is how the...
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... airsurrounding the person (related to ventilation and size of habitation space), the number of people present, and the duration of contact with the personwith disease (Enarson and Rouillon 1998: 45). ... contractingtuberculosis? Was it their poor levels of hygiene, theliving conditions intheir houses, what they ate (or did not), the animals they kept, or theiroccupations that they were involved in for ... disman-tling) ofthe health services, and loss of diagnostic awareness and skill on the part of clinicians because of their lack of experience with TB (oftenleading to delay in recognition). In addition,...
... practices. The conclusion is simple: the conflict between preventing starvation in the face of a continuing expansion ofthe size of human groups livingon aninsufficient land area, and safeguarding the ... understanding ofthe economic consequences of the utilization ofthe technology. There is still much to be done in the areasofpolicyandpoliticalcommitment,researchscientist/clientcontact,populationcontrol, ... ResearchTheglobalizationofagricultural(includinglivestock)researchfirstconcentrated on the creation of “centers of excellence.” These centers later formed the foundation ofthe Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR).Bythe1970s,theCGIARcentershadmovedfromjustbeing“centers...
... operation. ln(assets) and the equity ratioare available monthly. In the regressions, for each operation we use the values of these twovariables at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe ... cross-sectional regressionsare not the appropriate way to examine the effect of liquidity positions, because thesechange from auction to auction.With the exception ofthe equity ratio, the financial ... 28.83 billion. On auction days, the swap spread has an average of 5.91 bps, with a standard deviation of 8.66 bps. The volatility ofthe swap rate has an average of 5.32 bps on auction days, with...
... civilisation, the common possession ofthe whole world. Rome made the common life of Europe possible. The imperial expansion ofthe European nations has alone made possible the vision—nay, the certainty of ... forth, upon the path which was to lead to dominion over the vast continent of India, and upon the tremendous task of grafting the ideas ofthe West upon the East. Such was the outcome ofthe first ... What ofthe Night? I THE MEANING AND THE MOTIVES OF IMPERIALISM One ofthe most remarkable features ofthe modern age has been the extension of the influence of European civilisation over...
... evaluation ofthe effect of singlepoint mutations onthe solution structure of monomericderivatives, we analysed the 2D NMR spectra of the different variants of mBS. Figure 3 shows the expandedregions ... those ofthe parent protein, andinvestigated the exchange kinetics ofthe correspondingdimers. The P19A mutation slightly increases the thermalstability ofthe monomer, but it does not alter the ... swappingtendency ofthe dimer. In contrast, the L28Q mutation sig-nificantly affects both the dimerization and swapping pro-cesses but not the thermal stability ofthe monomer. Overall,these results...
... continuation of century-oldstrife and the injusticeandmiseryinci-dent thereto.Itis the opinion of the Governmentand of the peopleIhave the honortorepresent,that the above-men-tioneddecision of the SupremeCouncil ... concededbefore therecanbepeace."II. The settlement of everyquestion,whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economicarrange-ment,or of political relationship, upon the basis of the ... thosewhoknow the history of the Polish-Ukrainianrelationsin the pastcenturies the unscrupuloussuppression of Ukrainiannationality during the presentoccupationisonlyonechapterin the history of PolishattemptstosubjugateUkraine,showingwhatis...