the stuff that never happened

... RE 1. The “Physics” of Improvement Note:Arrows indicate the direction of causality Signs (‘+’ or ‘–’) at arrowheads indicate the polarity of relationships:a ‘+’ means that an increase in the independent ... variable causes the dependent variable to increase, all else being equal (a decrease causes a decrease);similarly, a ‘–’ indicates that an increase in the independent variable causes the dependent ... here was supported by the MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development under NSF Cooperative Agreement Number EEC-9529140 For more information on the research program that generated this article,

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:21

... this will give the reader fresh insights into the subject It is these ideas that provide the intellectual lifeblood of the subject and it is these ideas that lead ulti-mately to the technological ... not change over theterm of the contract In contrast, the price of the underlying asset willchange as time passes If the price of the asset rises a lot over the term ofthe contract, the asset will ... example the tenor is two years The two parties to the contract are called the coun-terparties, following the example, the counterparties are the pension plan and the investment bank The sequence

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... and that was the thing that counted For the moment, the vua crop was safe. He tucked the bandanna back into his pocket, went down the slopeand started up the knoll He reached the place where the ... clamberingover the boulders and the tons of soil and rock that covered their camp-ing place Following the gash cut by the slide, they clambered up theslope and finally reached the point of the slide's ... said, "that these other things that are your taboos, the stilt-birds and the screamers and the like, also grew up withyou." "That is right, mister." "Some playground that must

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... except that they never did anything of them-selves They initiated nothing But each one acted like an old, favoritepossession They fitted their masters They seemed to tune themselves tothe habits ... instrument-boards, and they were very remarkable jeeps They never ran off thegraveled roads onto the grass, and they never collided with each other,and it was said that the nine-year-old son of a lieutenant-colonel ... statement in thebroadcast We saw the first transmission of this from the tape at thePentagon Then we saw it with the high-pitched parts slowed down andthe deep-bass stuff speeded up Then it was

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Thhear-ings the newsboy shouted on the streets, thhear-ings the men talked about on the drugstore corner when they didn't see him coming And so he knew that this was the year 1960 and that the wars ... disregarded them He pretended he had never heard of them Others might discuss and worry over them if they wished To him they simply did not matter But there were two things tonight that did matter ... bric-a-brac; the pendulum clock that told the time of day as well as the day of the week and month; the elephant ash tray on the tabaret and, most important of all, the marine print Mr Chambers loved that

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... for the whole household, including the farmer's men down to the littlelad who scared the crows, all ate together in the big kitchen Mrs Lavender sat at the head of the table, thefarmer at the other ... Featherstone sat at the lower table; for the two tables made the only distinction between the family andthe household, who all ate together in the hall The next discovery was that she must never ... that people mustamuse themselves, or they would spend their leisure time in plotting treason! and the rulers having been what we should call Ritualists, they considered that the holiness of the

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... considered and then focus on solution – If negative feeling is the cause, manager should fix that attitude first before trying to get employee caught up in work – Further discussion the case of ... etc to change circumstances – The ability to understand the emotions, needs, and concerns of other people, and share or let them know you understand and care how they are feeling – Develop and ... today. – Don’t forget to let them catch their breath – The emotional foundations of team effort – Watch out for negative emotions – Using observational tools – Attending to the nonverbal messages •

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 02:20

... shove the clothes down one of the building’s laundry chutes She’d then stood at the top of the stairs and watched as Molly climbed down into the dank, spider-infested basement to retrieve them The ... through the noise of the wind, the sound of the engine “Yes!” Two cried, knuckles white against the hand-hold molded into the door Theroen stepped on the clutch, shifted rapidly, stomped again on the ... her, the opening of some heavy door, and then Theroen was there He looked paler still than he had the night before, and there were heavy bags under his eyes, but otherwise he was the same: the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21

... (the first step on the pathway to polymerization) [32] to b-sheet A and stabilize the shutter domain against opening further, thereby preventing the incor-poration of the reactive loop of another ... dementia They also attenuate the polymerization of the Z variant of a1-antitrypsin The effect on polymerization was apparent even when these agents had been removed from the buffer None of these ... structure The most likely explanation is that neuroserpin is rapidly form-ing polymers and that the effect of the compounds is to increase the activation temperature required for polymerization The

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... window commanded the Alps We realized now that they were the Alps, the Alps of the Savoy, their high green slopes so near that we could hear the tinkle of the goat bells We did not take the long drive ... of them seemed to be regular customers, for they greeted the waiters and chatted with them during the serving Then wediscovered a peculiar proof that these were in fact steady patrons In the ... where theAbbe Faria was, and even the hole between, through which the Abbe counseled Dantes and confided thesecret of the treasure that would make Dantes the master of the world All of the cells

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... thethings that feed on them There are anawful lot of bird-watchers, and theylove the birds And after they watchthem, they go home and put up theirbug zappers These birds, even the seed eaters, are ... the reluctant females are inseminated, they still remain infertile, because they lack the nerves that ordinarily signal the uterus to expel the eggs Male bearers of dissatisfaction, on the other ... describ-ing the historic attractions in the city they are about to visit, he reviews why they have been traveling the interstate since the wee hours of the morn-ing and what they might say when they

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 15:26

... and he saw that the symbol of the emperor's predecessor, the Heavenly Master of the First Origin, was stamped upon the left arm of the throne, and on the right arm was the symbol of the emperor's ... drifted down to them from the Eye of the Dragon So strange were the words that every one of the children remembered them perfectly, even though they took to their heels as soon as their hearts resumed ... to the bare branches, and then we stumbled in exhaustion to the mulberry grove that belonged to Pawnbroker Fang That cost us more IOUs, but they were the finest trees in the village Gradually the

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:29

... không nên đi tìm ranh giới tuyệt đối giữa các loại thể Theo tác giả Trần Thanh Đạm sự phân chia loại thể văn học gồm có hai mức độ: loại và thể “Theo chúng tôi nên dùng thuật ngữ loại thể bao gồm ... có tác phẩm Cung oán ngâm của Thái Thuận làm theo thể thất ngôn bát cú bằng chữ Hán Đến khoảng đầu thế kỉ XVIII bên cạnh những tác phẩm Khúc làm theo nguyên mẫu chuẩn mực của Trung Hoa thì nước ... tiếp theo Có thể nói đây là trường hợp biệt lệ bởi lẽ thông thường thì tiếp vần lưng ở chữ thứ năm nhưng cũng có thể tiếp vần lưng ở từ thứ ba mà vẫn giữ vần bằng (từ thứ ba vốn là thanh trắc) Theo

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 13:20

... write their own copy Many also don’t hire someone to do graphs for the sales page Instead, they try to do their own The end result? The page looks hideous, the copy contains major errors, and the ... LEGAL NOTICES The information presented herein represents the views of the author as of the date of publication Because of the rate with which conditions change, the author reserves the right to ... will cost; and how much of a risk they’ll be They’ll glaze over all of these minor details and devote the majority of their time to daydreaming about the riches they will rake in Unfortunately,

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... threemain nerves: the radial, the median, and the ulnar The median nerve conveys sensation mostly from the middle of the hand, the other two from either side of the hand Merzenich cut the median nerve ... formed the same map The experiment showed that timing of the input to the neurons in the map was the key to forming it—neurons that fired together in time wired together to make one map Other scientists ... closely, Paul saw that his father's seven-year-old lesion was mainly in the brainstem—the part of the brain closest to the spinal cord—and that other major brain centers in the cortexthat control

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 01:52

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Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:39

... that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nodknowingly They assure me that theirs is too, and that he’s just a “typical father.” And they’re probably right, if the typical father ... “Oh, that never happened Of course we never actually tossed her out of a movingcar when she was eight That’s one of those crazy things that isn’t quite the truth.” (Andthey’re right, because the ... cistern, andthen warm the icy water on the stove to bathe in It’s even less glamorous than it sounds I once pointed out to my mother that the water from the cistern was slightly brown, andthat it

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 13:53

... Drosophila, the immediate stimulus for the cessation of growth is the secretion of ecdysone, so the mechanism that controls the secretion of ecdysone must be part of the mechanism that controls size. The ... for which the larva can measure the ratio between the current state and the state at the beginning of the instar. Stretch reception in which the length of the stretch receptor is set at the beginning ... likely that growth in these larvae finally stopped at the maximal size allowed by the stretch of the epicuticle. The critical weight The critical weight has an important role in controlling the

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... analysis The key to the calculation is the observation that if we assume that smoking more never cures a disease that was caused by previous smoking, then for anyone who dies from smoking, there ... it is plausible that lowering the health risks of consuming something could increase consumption to the point that the total social risk will increase It must be the case that there is an improvement ... that they have the option of lowering their own risk) should result in some people using nicotine who otherwise would not Simple economics tells us that when the pop-ulation learns that they

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... có tác phẩm Cung oán ngâm của Thái Thuận làm theo thể thất ngôn bát cú bằng chữ Hán. Đến khoảng đầu thế kỉ XVIII bên cạnh những tác phẩm Khúc làm theo nguyên mẫu chuẩn mực của Trung Hoa thì ... nên đi tìm ranh giới tuyệt đối giữa các loại thể. Theo tác giả Trần Thanh Đạm sự phân chia loại thể văn học gồm có hai mức độ: loại và thể “Theo chúng tôi nên dùng thuật ngữ loại thể bao gồm ... (Cung oán ngâm khúc – Nguyễn Gia Thiều) Có thể khái quát về cách phối thanh của thể thơ STLB theo mô hình sau: Chữ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ghi chú Câu thất trắc 0 0 Trắc 0 Bằng 0 Trắc...

Ngày tải lên: 09/11/2012, 13:50