a history of modern britain episode 2

... afterrecognition of the disease Itai-Itai (painful-painful) in certain areas of Japan.The disease is a combination of severe kidney damage and painful bone andjoint disease and occurs in areas ... OCCUPATIONAL TOXICANTS Assessment of hazards in the workplace is a concern of occupational/industrial cology and has a history that dates back to ancient civilizations The Greek historianStrabo, ... δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) or appearance in the urine of aminolevulinic acid (ALA)and coproporphorin (UCP) The metabolism of inorganic lead is closely related tothat of calcium, and excess lead

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:21

... drives, as well as a library where reels of magnetic tape were archived. Although disks and drums allowed random access to data, most access conformed to the sequential nature of data storage on tapes ... the Navy ordered Grace Murray Hopper to the Computation Lab to assist Howard Aiken with programming it. Hopper had been a professor of mathematics at Vassar College and had taken leave to attend ... sequentially on reels of tape Although tape offered... programming always seemed to be in a state of crisis and always seemed to play catch-up to the advances in hardware This crisis came to a

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... had a change of heart andauthorized money to develop a new data-handling architecture.NASA’s Manned Space Program Both NASA-Ames and the IRS made attempts to move away from batchprocessing and ... mission.39 At launch, aspecial-purpose Atlas Guidance computer handled data at rates of1,000 bits per second After engine cut-off the data flowed into theGoddard computers at a rate of six characters a ... NASA’s MannedSpace Program was such an installation where this kind of access wasdeveloped, using the same kind of hardware as the IRS, NASA-Ames, andBlue Cross.36In the late 1950s a project was

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... fly Trang 12passengers across the Atlantic with an armada of biplanes instead of asingle jumbo jet Eventually both barriers would fall, with the advent ofsemiconductor memory and new network architectures ... takes after coming out of the Rockies.His father was an engineer for a local electrical utility.24 He recallslearning from his father that the cost of something was as important avariable in an ... military market with domestic products, and along with Sperrybecame a leading supplier of specialized aerospace computers, militaryand civilian—a growing field as new-generation aircraft adopted

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... used a smallcathode-ray tube, as might be expected from a company that madeoscilloscopes By 1970 the first of a line of dramatically cheaper and smallercalculators appeared that used integrated ... projects hadthe impact of the Altair’s announcement Why? One reason was that itwas designed and promoted as a capable minicomputer, as powerful asthose offered by DEC or Data General The magazine article, ... disparaged BASIC as a toylanguage that fostered poor programming habits, and they refused toteach it Serious programming was done in FORTRAN—an old andvenerable but still capable language Trang 22If,

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... Engelbart recalled that he wasinspired by a device called a planimeter, which an engineer slid over agraph to calculate the area under a curve Among many engineers thiscompact device was a common as ... imaginative software for it.Like the Altair, the Apple II had a bus architecture with slots forexpansion—a feature Wozniak argued strenuously for, probably becausehe had seen its advantages on a Data ... came across the calculations that generations of B-school students had to master: performing arithmetic on rows andcolumns of data, typically of a company’s performance for a set ofmonths, quarters,

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... Windows-based machines and Macintoshes as well as workstations. As a product of a government-funded laboratory, Mosaic was made available free or for a nominal charge. As with the UNIX, history was ... PC and was working on one for the Mac called Jazz. At Ashton-Tate, the leading supplier of database software for the PC, a Xerox-PARC alumnus named Robert Carr was developing a similar program ... in later trials This was a suit filed in 1 987 by Lotus against a company called Paperback Software, established by Adam Osborne of portable computer fame Paperback was selling a spreadsheet

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... 1992 Notes to Pages 212–215 391 22 Wesley A Clark, ‘‘The LINC was Early and Small,’’ in Goldberg, History of Personal Workstations, 347–391 23 Pearson, Digital at Work, 52 24 Another place was ... Broadway play ‘‘Same Time Next Year,’’ which was about an accountant’s once-a-year affair with a woman The accountant (played by Alan Alda in the movie version) used the Bowmar to keep track of ... the EDVAC see Michael Williams, ‘‘The Origins, Uses, and Fate of the EDVAC,’’ Annals of the History of Computing 15 (1993): 22–38 26 A copy of the First Draft is in the National Air and Space Museum

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... American History, Altair Curatorial File.) 91 Manes and Andrews, Gates, chapters 2 and 3; for a discussion of John Norton,see Billy Goodman, ‘‘Practicing Safe Software,’’ Air & Space=Smithsonian ... with Donald Davies of theNational Physical Laboratory in the U.K See Martin Campbell-Kelly, ‘‘DataCommunications at the National Physical Laboratory (1965–1975),’’ Annals ofthe History of Computing ... (1988): 221–247 It may have been independentlydiscovered by Paul Baran of the RAND Corporation at the same time The RANDwork was initially classified 34 Janet Abbate, ‘‘From ARPANET to Internet: a History

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... Currently, psychology a has reached the paradigmatic stage b.has been described as a sequence of failed paradigms c may be more fragmented than at any time in its history Cengage Learning Testing, ... philosophical issues of historical research a True b Fals e ANSWER: False REFERENCES: The Data of History: Reconstructing Psychology's Past QUESTION TYPE: True / False The data of history are much ... Cognero Page 54 d has been described as a sequence of failed paradigms and may be more fragmented than at any time in its history e None of the choices are correct ANSWER: d REFERENCES: Schools of

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2019, 10:49

... hospitals were not organised like ours Not only did Larrey have great organisational and teaching skills he was also a brave soldier and a skillful and rapid surgeon At the battle of Alexandria in ... to adopt anaesthesia and devised a conservative amputation of the foot, which still bears his name He insisted that surgeons required a high standard of anatomical knowledge and published a able ... version of Uskudar) was a suburb on the Asian side of Constantinople Major (later Lieutenant General) Edward Wray (1823–1892), a British artillery officer, was attached to the Turkish Army during

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2020, 12:36

... Trang 27More than 2,000 years of times past are brought to life in this lively and interesting account of Britain’s history It reveals the main events, characters and movements that have made Britain ... He was King of Norway In 1066 his army invaded England (c) He was a Norman He became King of England (d) He was a great Roman leader (e) He defeated the Vikings and sent them away from Britain ... of its history are those of the history of mankind Religion – particularly the conflict between the Catholic and Protestant divisions of Christianity – has played a vital part in making Britain

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 03:17

... importation from Chaldea of a dialectical approach to irrationals that became a mathematical image for judicial, legislative, and bargaining processes, to be discussed under analyses The pseudo-Platonic ... second as leader of the hunt, the third as a participant, and, finally, he places a paw on the fourth pile and, after hesitating, he dares anyone to try and take it away from him This and a similar ... mutual advantage from exchange The Cyropaedia (III 2 17–33) contains an account of Cyrus administratively structur-ing an exchange of lands, surplus farmland from a herdstructur-ing people and

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:20

... intended as the standard French royal coin only for the west Trang 5of France, actually became more popular than the rather earlier ‘denier parisis’,of Paris The latter was 25 per cent more valuable, ... official weight of thepenny was reduced slightly from 22.5 to 22.2 grains: this was certainly morethan the actual weight of the old coins in circulation but was a tentative move’ to the perhaps ... settled by barter.There were a few travelling merchants, and a small part of the population lived in towns, but the real growth revival of international trade had hardly begun.Money had a relatively

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... stated it in a form that gave it great force. Von Neumann’s international reputation as a mathematician also gave the idea more clout than it might have had coming solely from Eckert and Mauchly, neither ... that information, and by implication, information-handling machines, played. Information or ‘‘intelligence’’ has been a crucial part of all warfare, but as a means to an end. In the Cold War ... Eckert and Mauchly designed and built the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The ENIAC was an electronic calculator that inaugurated the era of digital...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... of Age, 1956–1964 71 quality of ‘‘random access’’: that any piece of data was as accessible as any other, in contrast to the sequential retrieval of a datum from a deck of punched cards or a ... two decades later, in the form of automatic teller machines, bar-coded products scanned at supermarket and retail check-out stations, and massive financial and personal databases maintained by ... von Neumann, emphasized the advantages of a pure binary design, with a parallel memory that could read and write all the bits of a word at once, using a storage device designed at RCA called the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... product-formation rate 42 K. Schügerl 34. Kamada Y, Qadota H, Python CP, Anraku Y, Ohya Y, Levin DE (1996) J Biol Chem 27 1: 9193 35. Yamochi W,Tanaka K, Nonaka H, Maeda A, Musha T, Takai Y (1994) ... k 1 ,k 2 Lumped parameters k l a Mass transfer parameter, s –1 L Length of hypha, m L e Length of main hypha in hyphal element, m L emax Maximum length of main hypha capable of withstanding fragmenta- tion, ... fitting easier and easier. Unfortunately, this is often at the expense of observations, because the performance/price ratio of modern analytical apparatus remains much more constant. An often neglected...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2012, 09:49

... other than human and animal chemotherapy, such as the promotion of growth of farm animals and plants and the protection of plants against pathogenic micro- organisms. Cooperation on the development of ... enzymes (amylases, proteases,pectinases),amino acids (glutamate,lysine,threonine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid, tryptophan), flavor nucleotides (inosinate, guanylate), and poly- saccharides (xanthan ... organism against killing by singlet oxygen [25 1] and provides a selective advantage against albino mutants.The natural habitat of the yeast is sap flux of the birch tree, Betula. The tree contains...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2012, 09:52

... played an important role.Alkanes and various fractions of crude oil,later also methane and methanol served as substrates for bacterial SCP. The first research was undertaken in France (Champagnat ... [15]. Today, scientists have an extensive array of analytical methods at their dis- posal: photometry, HPLC, GC analysis and MS online. Samples of submersion cultures are made available with the aid of ... non-human microbiological research. In the wake of manifold political activities and initiatives, a constitutional clause against improper use of biotechnology in non-human research areas was passed.It...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 02:20