the confessions of a diner

... look into the tragic reality of how a good idea was derailed by the same mindless pursuit of financial gain that caused the global financial crash of 2008 It is essential reading for anyone involved ... qualified academics and practitioners on the actual impact of microfinance on the poor is the only Index A Accion, investment in Compartamos, 75, 158, 192 ACODEP, 197–98 Africa Microfinance Trasparency ... sight of the bigger picture Tara Thiagarajan, chairperson of Madura Micro Finance, a for-profit microcredit program in India, is an all-too-rare exception—as revealed in her insightful May 2,

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:33

... body and memoirs The objective, rational narrative of the Editor and the extraordinary, su-pernatural narrative of the Sinner coexist in a state of tension.2 The reader feels the pull of each ... the Confessions and which reinforce the fundamentally ambivalent dichotomy between rational and supernatural interpretations of the narratives Hogg's use of literary dreams is particularly appropriate ... supernatural, fantastic one This ambiguity occurs because literary dreams are modeled on both ac-cepted theories about actual dreams and conventional representations of liter-50akleaf argues that the

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2022, 00:02

... top of the tank It is originated from the fact that, after gaining heat from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part of this heat is then ... initial and mass-weighted average temperatures of water; with all the values, apart from the mass-mass-weighted average temperature, are the same in both studies Accordingly, a parameter equals to the ... actual performance of a large capacity integrated collector storage solar water heater in the shape of a right angle prism-shaped tank covered with glass during several months of the year The heat

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... support to MFIs amongst lower income populations The data was tabulated and analyzed through qualitative analysis of the gathered data, which reveal the behaviors and decision making patterns in lower ... including educational, communal, cultural, political and economic facets The questionnaire also evaluated the level of awareness about MFIs, availability and accessibility to MFIs, and impact of Government ... Bangladesh, Zambia and Bolivia, it can be inferred that such initiatives can also encourage small and medium sized profitable business establishments in the rural and remote areas of Pakistan

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... manner.) Hardly any of the plaintiffs can refuse the sums of money offered to them by the pharmaceutical giants The corporation doesn’t have to show weakness and can maintain its clean image of ... during the early hours of the morning They bang their head against the walls and cut their arms and throats with razor blades I wake up drenched in sweat I indirectly contributed to the death of the ... Others function as I did and do what I did Trang 17 Side Effects: Death vii As a patient, you are always a pawn in the game You are the most important pawn The game is tailor-made for you and

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 20:14

... several other extensions to PageRank, again see [Page 98] Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages ... with the docID that the anchor points to It also generates a database of links which are pairs of docIDs The links database is used to compute PageRanks for all the documents The sorter takes the ... these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s "PageRank", an Trang 4objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 20:20

... pairs of Ca atoms < 2.5 A˚ apart Because of the different length of a helix A, the Caatoms N-terminal to or inside helix A are separated by large distances The corresponding region in AppA ... substrate recognition For the superposi-tion of the substrate-free PhyK with substrate-free AppA the Caatoms are 2.41 A˚ apart, whereas for the substrate-free PhyK and the substrate-loaded AppA the ... human PAP does not con-tain the b-hairpin motif present in PhyK as well as in AppA and G1P The a⁄ b domain of HAPs is evolutionarily more conserved than the a domain For example, the phytase of

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... on the same terms as the other clerks, the fatherhad barred that form of address in bankinghours "Mr Bagsbury," John began again, and now the words came easily, "I was offered another ... wouldpause and wait for the wind to blow the refractory lock out of the way again Then she would laugh, for it wasall part of the lark to Dick, and start on In one of these pauses she saw a little ... pinch.That was the trouble over at the other place They got scared and let go of me once in a rather tight place, afterthey'd told me that they'd see me through The collateral I offered them was all

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... on data for the last 50 years would be only a starting point The nature of modern warfare and modern casualty treatment options have changed the ratio and cost of deaths and disabilities drastically ... and are not considered costs of current military person-nel Instead, DoD pays an annual accrual charge into the trust funds These accrual charges are carefully calculated actuarial payments that ... by the Department of the Treasury From the standpoint of the FG, accrual is therefore not a cost at all but rather an intragovern-mental transfer payment—the movement of money from one budget account

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... cinema-show). There are no royal palaces taken from the Moors by Spanish kings. There is no Seville Cathedral, no Giralda. There is no Alhambra as there is in Granada. There are only parts of the ancient ... person of Adam Lindsay Gordon, the beloved laureate of Australia. The vineyard and Australia bring us to the fourth, and rarest, category, represented by the writer of this book, namely, the family ... General Alexander Gordon (1669-1751) of the Russian army, the biographer of Peter the Great, came home to succeed his father as laird of Auchintoul, Banffshire, and managed by a legal mistake

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... mitochon-drial respiratory chain, the assistance of specific chaperone proteins is also required The available data indicate that the accessory factor Bcs1p is involved in the binding of ISP to an immature ... the midst of this quickly evolving con-text of macromolecular organization of the mitochon-drial proteome, comparatively little is known about the assembly pathway leading to the maturation of ... supercom-plex and the TIM23 machinery [22] and the second reporting the influence of the ATP synthase complex on the assembly state of the bc1-oxidase supercomplex and its association with the TIM23 machinery

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... Vaaje-Kolstad et al containing 100 lm of (GlcNAc)1–4 was analysed at the start, in the middle and at the end of each series of samples The resulting average values of the standards (displaying standard ... instructions, containing ends compatible with the expression vector (forward primer, 5¢-GGTATTGAGGGTCGCCATGGTTATGTTC AATCACCA-3¢; reverse primer, 5¢-AGAGGAGAGTTAG AGCCTTACAAGAAGGGTCCAAAGA-3¢) The PCR product ... hydrolases) was recorded at regular time intervals The degradation of a-chitin by LlChi18A started with a rapid phase, regardless of the presence of LlCBP33A In the presence of LlCBP33A, the fast

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... dextran-a-CT conjugates at pH 7.1, 25 C. (kcalÆmol)1) Lac-a-CT a Dex-a-CT a a Average moles of lactose and dextran per mole of a-CT b Aiare the fractions of amide protons in the i th population ... equal to k cat for the hydrolysis of Suc-AAPF-SBzl. Lac-a-CT Dex-a-CT Trang 8were independent of the size of the glycan (Tables 2and 5, [36]) The analysis revealed that the changes in these parameters ... order based on the calculated electrostatic pot-entials (EP) for the N e of the lysine residues of a-CT at pH 9 EP, EwaldEi EP is the Ewald energy of placing a charge of +1 at the location of the

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... in the topic Pastry and Scribe are fully decentralized, all decisions are based on local information, and each node has identical capabilities Each node can act as a publisher, a root of a multicast ... result, application-level multicast is gaining popularity Appropriate algorithms and systems for scalable subscription management and scalable, reliable propagation of events are still an active ... entries, where each entry maps a nodeId to the associated node’s IP ad-dress Moreover, after a node failure or the arrival of a new node, the invari-ants in all affected routing tables can be restored

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... determined numerical values of the ratio a/b, and is the theoretical numerical value of ratio a/b for a mixture of aromatic amino acids (Tyr and Trp), containing the same molar ratio as the protein ... not mark any as poor or inappropriate Another structural analysis, obtained by the VERIFY3D program [61], gave an average value of 0.21, which is greater than zero, the quality value indicated ... and therefore a positive value indicates better than average and their maximum values are around The values for all these parameters obtained for the PsbQ model were quite good and the programs

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... |  Annexes Family Schizaeaceae Schizaeaceae Lycopodiaceae Selaginellaceae Gnetaceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Araceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae ... Biodiversity and Local Perceptions  |  97 Family Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Arecaceae Commelinaceae ... Poaceae Poaceae Poaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... and make their devotions, seeking the protection of Trang 7the patron saint of the city The head alcalder of the city was a Castilian Spaniard, a venerable-lookinggentleman, white as any Northern ... inquired of the captain about the history ofthe vessel He said she had been built at Quavqiel, down the coast, and had belonged to a Mexican general,and was built partially of an American whaler that ... United States over California Thecaptain and crew were aboard The captain was an Englishman; the crew, cosmopolitan a Hindostan, aMexican named Edwin Jesus, an English sailor and an American I inquired

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... In the morning a large tub of water was carried in and each man was given a bit of black bread and a slice of raw fat bacon The latterwas salty and so thoroughly unappetizing that I cannot recall ... up and down the lane, watching for any relaxation or levity If so much as a face was pulled at a twinkling eye across the way, another day's strafingwas added to the penalty At the end of the ... yards away in Belle-waarde Wood and in front ofthe château and lake of that name, where my draft had lain on the fourth I made a dash for it What with themud and the many shell holes, the going was

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... registered, and occasioned no little surprise. In another Australian state, among the natural advantages of land offered for close settlement, was catalogued an annual rainfall of 18 inches; in another an ... not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree? Who has yet said or sung of the mystery of the half-lit ... keen appreciation of the crispness, the cleanliness of the air. We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... sérieux, and when I was a lecturer I felt any mishap of CHAPTER XI. 87 CHAPTER X. AUSTRALIA. Quarantined The Receiver-General of Australia An Australian Guide-book A Death Trap A Death Story The New ... the American House of Representatives, and the Serjeant-at-Arms has to take the spread-eagle on a toasting fork and walk up to the windy Member. I have made a sketch of a Member who made an aggressive ... of the most prominent Australians, a man of the world, a leading legal light and a Member of Parliament. It was in the Legislative Chamber I had a conversation with him on matters Australian....

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20