... between the amount of social capital in an area and the distance that separates the places wherepeople live, work, and shop Other things being held equal, the smaller thetriangle, the stronger the ... vibrant communities owe their good fortune not onlyvil-to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and other local ers, but also to the noneconomic activities of the rest of the villagers So-cial ... ilm It makes me wonder why econo- mists don’t show The Godfather in the f irst week of classes, rather than the circular f low diagram Soaked in the blood-drenched tones of Maf iahistory, rational
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HOW-THE-EB-GOT-ITS-FORESTS-3-23-2016
... to the Bay Area, but the ease of propagation, the ease of cultivation, and the extremely rapid growth made the blue gum the tree of choice by early tree planters The following quotes document the ... Tunnel Canyon Crews soaked the perimeter lines along the sides and the top of the fire until darkness prevented further mop-up Then the next day, crews returned for further mop-up until Diablo ... took place in the Bay Area over a forty-year period between 1870 and 1910 The Bay Area native landscape was too barren for the early settlers from the East Coast They praised the weather and location
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How The Internet Works doc
... How The Internet Works The past decade The last decade has been the most transformative... of the web that have to do with domains and their connection to IP addresses IGF The ... call the Internet, so by paying a fee they can give you access to their infrastructure and connect you to other computers. What you are really paying for is for the usage of their hardware: their ... to connect users to the Internet http://simplytatydesigns.com | Taty Sena MakeUseOf.com P a g e 21 How The Internet Works 6 How the Web Changed the World The changes in communications
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How The Internet Works
... what is the URL for the site and they are given the simplest URL form, where the home of the site is (beholders.org), which also happens to be the Domain Address of the site The URL ... usage of their hardware: their cables, computers, routers, modems, the workers who maintain them and the real estate that is required to hold that hardware The Internet itself and the information ... under the United Nations It is a venue for discussions about the direction of the Internet. .. 2000 is known as the year the dot-com bubble burst, with the majority of the high
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... to address their needs using the tools they and their peers have adopted, including mobile devices, video, and social networking—and they are willing to switch to banks that embrace these technologies ... Consumers in the early stages of their careers and financial lives need the most help in managing their finances, and are seeking opportunities to educate themselves about money matters The Cisco ... adopted these, and other technologies, to a far greater degree than their elders This demonstrates their readiness for innovation in how banking services—including financial advice—are delivered The
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Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba potx
... of Political Systems _ Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba Bert Hoffmann Trang 2ȱ ǰȱ ȱ ȱ ... Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt, December 2010 No 154 Sandra Destradi: India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict ... Challenges and Ways For-ward for Pan-Asian Regionalism, November 2010 No 151 Philip Kitzberger: The Media Activism of Latin America’s Le"ist Governments: Does Ideo-logy Ma#er?, November 2010
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20
Complex today: How the Internet has change
... time is worth more than the service the companies are providing Trang 16Why aren’t companies investing in the opportunity to the end users them help themselves every day of the year? Trang 17From ... does not understand how complex the web has become Trang 9From 360 to 365Trang 10The web used to be nothing more than a digital dead end Trang 11However, think of how much the web has changed ... our pizzas online.Trang 12The largest library and encyclopedia in the history of mankind is in the web Trang 13We use the web every day Still, we design the majority of the web like it’s a digital
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 16:07
niall shanks - god, the devil and darwin
... other alternatives, neither better nor worse than that of the design theorist.) The point is not to settle this issue one way or the other but to ask how, in the nature of the case, it could be ... even though they have no knowledge The fact that they nearly always operate in the same way, and so as to achieve the maximum good, makes this obvious, and shows that they attain their end by ... found in the context of work on the motions of the heart— published in 1628 as Of the Motions of the Heart and Blood The problem confronting Harvey was understanding the complex motions of the heart
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how the economy works confidence crashes and self-fulfilling prophecies apr 2010
... together Contemporary British economists had workedout the theory of demand and supply one market at a time.Walras put all the markets together and showed how pricesare determined and how they ... not be the best remedy Although the fundamental ideas of The General Theory are correct, the details of the theory that led Keynesians topropose additional government expenditure are wrong.Keynes ... relevanttoday? What is the role of the Federal Reserve System,the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank, andhow do they affect your life? Does it really make sensefor governments around the world
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Báo cáo sinh học: " Possible active origin of replication in the double stranded extended form of the left terminus of LuIII and its implication on the replication model of the parvovirus" pptx
... for the replication of the (+) and the (-) strand of LuIII is shown The NS1 nick site and its complementary sequence (*) are indicated The unpaired sequences present at the left hair-pin are shown ... from the right and left hairpins respectively (step 1) The NS1 nick sites present at the left and right termini in LuIII differ from each other; there is an insertion of an Adenine residue in the ... with the sizes of the products predicted by the model (figure 2 and 3) for the replication of LuIII Lt-Lt Parvovirus DNA replication starts when the 3' hydroxyl group at the left end of the viral
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Báo cáo hóa học: "HOW THE CONSTANTS IN HILLE-NEHARI THEOREMS DEPEND ON TIME SCALES" docx
... then the equation ( r(t)x Δ ) Δ + p(t)x σ = 0 is oscillatory. In the above theorem, the comparison of the coefficients is pointwise. In the following Hille-Wintner-type theorem, we compare the ... established also in the case when ∞ a 1/r(s)Δs<∞. Then they involve the ex- pression Ꮽ(t). For the proof we use Theorem 3.3 and the counterpart—in the sense of ∞ a 1/r(s)Δs<∞—to Theorem 2.5 ... ≥ γ( ¯ M),andsoneitherdoesthelastequationwithγ 0 instead of ¯ γ 0 have a real solution. The rest of the proof is the same as in the case M ∗ = M ∗ .Notethat M ∗ in (3.4) is the best value which
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20
Water is for life:How the Water Framework Directive helps safeguard Europe’s resources doc
... countries and the EU got together to sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) The ICPDR published a river basin management plan for all of the Danube in ... 3) These are the boundaries of the river catchments extending beyond the EU27 border They have been derived from the Catchment Characterisation and Modelling (CCM) database, developed by the ... Some of the international RBDs shown on this map were not identified as being international by the Member States, i.e the Adour-Garonne, Rhone and Seine in France; the Vistula in Poland; the Kemijoki
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How the Stock Market Works potx
... more by the prevailing interest rates than by the state of the business issuing them.The further off the maturity date the greater the volatility in response to interest rate changes because they ... their necks out and take their own maverick course different from the other funds They will get praise if they are right and the sack if not Stick with the same sort of policies as all the others ... changing hands If the price has risen by the end of the stated period the seller pays the buyer the difference in price, and if the price has fallen the buyer pays the seller the difference CFDs
Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 07:20
the business of belief how the
... about the real lives of the people they serve Then I conjured up another story, with me as the protagonist who exposes the Emperor’s nakedness And then another, with me writing a book ... [...]... under their own power with arms extended The people who flew like “Superman” were later more likely to provide help to others in the real world The theory is that their inner experiences ... all become the stories we tell ourselves Life is Our Story The British psychologist Richard Gregory wrote, The senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide
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Tài liệu Chinese mercantilism - Currency wars and How The east was lost pptx
... rejecting the China devaluation hypothesis, the IMF offered the hypothesis that the devaluation of the yen, from mid-1995 onwards, may have been responsible for the East Asian crisis The Economist ... these countries increased their export share in the “nineties” Both these objections to the “China devaluation is important” thesis are examined in detail below There is a curious aspect to the ... part of the analysis centers around the proposition that the regime of managed exchange rates was at the core of the problem In addition, the paper offers an additional contributory cause of the...
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Tài liệu NOWHERE TO TURN: HOW THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET FAILS WOMEN docx
... calculated the gender gap, or the difference in the premiums charged to a woman versus a similarly-aged man as a percentage of the premium charged to the woman The Appendix indicates the minimum ... pregnancy); and The number of available plans that offered an optional maternity rider, as well as the cost of each rider NWLC then examined the details of the riders themselves to establish the number ... proposals at the state and national level envision very different roles for the individual market Some plans would reduce the need for the individual market, others would reform the individual...
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Tài liệu How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America doc
... figure options as income, either, until you cash them in Then there’s the other side of the ledger: spending and saving The distinction is usually clear, although the line blurs at your mortgage ... shouldn’t Exxon and General Motors? They should, and they Every quarter they add up their sales and costs, and figure out where they stand Then they tell the world, in press releases and conference ... Wall Street in the twentieth century, beginning with the boom and bust of the 1920s and the creation of the S.E.C in 1934 For the seeds of the system’s failure were present from the very start...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu How the poor (and not-so-poor) saved : savings banks in mid- Nineteenth Century Ireland and America pdf
... and deposits in the bank Table shows that the image of account holders building up nest eggs, which they then withdrew as they made an investment in situ or as they moved to another place, was ... of the savings of persons in humble life’56 was rather limited To the limited extent that they served the poor, the new institutions put their savings to more productive use than before For the ... Wexford in the southeast of Ireland shows that there too the better off were over-represented The strong farming presence and the very weak representation of labourers are perhaps the most significant...
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