Informal credit markets play a critical role in the social and economic life of people with limited access to financial services from formal financial institutions. In this chapter, we provide an extensive review of informal credit markets. What social and economic functions do they provide to ...
The Greeks and the Romans usedpennyroyalplant to induce menstruation and abortion. Native Americans use blue cohosh as traditional birth control. Soranus, a gynecologist from 2nd century had describedabortifacientactivity of common rue. Evaluation of herbs for their effect on the reproductive system has...
Still later, in the first century B.C., Romans introduced a number of refined masonry structures— including arches, massive walls, aqueducts, palaces, and churches—boasting both beauty and durability. Another step forward in masonry construction took place during the medieval period, when masonry...
Nudge theory is a flexible and modern change-management concept for the understanding how people think, make decisions, and behave; helping people improve their thinking and decisions; managing change of all sorts and; identifying and modifying existing unhelpful influences on people. Nudge theory was...
The purpose of this chapter is to identify remaining research interests in money in the age of digitalization and put my past research topics in perspective. I have no intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the history of money, nor to search for
1、英语国家概况(Overview of English speaking countries)Chapter 1 land and peopleDifferent names and territories of the United KingdomWhen people speak of Britain, they often use different names: Britain, Great Britain, England, the British Isles, the United Kingdom, and so on. Are these names...
Mutuality and equal status is the ideal in relationships within the body of Christ. Click To Tweet Footnote [1]Paul refers to actual heads (the part of the body on top of our necks) only a few times in his letters: once in Romans (Rom. 12:20) and a few times in1 Corinthians 11(...
Chapter 1. General description 3 The Power 740 server supports a maximum of 32 DDR3 DIMM slots, with eight DIMM slots included in the base configuration and 24 DIMM slots available with three optional memory riser cards. A system with three optional memory riser cards installed has a maximum ...
The Romans introduced fired bricks to England although, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the use of masonry effectively ceased. Stone masonry construction began again in Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries and thousands of churches and cathedrals were built in masonry during the Middle Age...
2) drilled 200 m of shales, siltstones, anhydrite, and interbedded sandstones attributed to the Keuper, before entering into the Carboniferous. Show moreView chapterExplore book The Southern Pyrenees P. Cámara, J.F. Flinch, in Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the ...