Britain's dominance was challenged by other countries, because they had also established their large manufacturing industries, and they were also in need of foreign markets and raw materials. A conflict of interests and colonial rivalry divided Europe into two camps: "the Central Powers" , ...
Despite success stories like van Oosten’ s, preservation of plastics will likely get harder. Old objects continue to deteriorate. Worse, biodegradable plastics designed to disintegrate, are increasingly common. And more is at stake here than individual objects. Joana Lia Ferreira, an assistant profes...
The week consisted of formal “teaching” sessions combined with field trips to local enterprises and presentations from and meetings with local experts in a wide variety of topics. For the excited EMBA candidates and the faculty it’s the highlight of the program. As one travels from the ...
the last Governor, presented a proposal for electoral reform which violated the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong (Sino-British Joint Declaration), viol...
In 1971 about one-third of the output of the machine-building industry consisted of electronic and electrical equipment, of which three-fourths was produced by enterprises of the Philips concern, chiefly in Eindhoven. General machine building, concentrated primarily at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, ...
In 1970 a new encyclopaedia, calledThe Young Children’s Encyclopedia, was issued byEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Prepared specifically for children just learning to read and not yet in elementary school, it consisted of 16 volumes, in which all the illustrations were in colour and the accompa...
The country is divided administratively into 50 states and the Federal District of Columbia. The states are divided into counties. Since 1959 the USA has consisted of three, noncontiguous physiographic divisions—the coterminous states, Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands—which vary in size, level of...
The crystalline humor was thought of as the seat of vision. Its important position with respect to vision depended not only upon its function, but also upon its physical location within the organ of sight. At the center of a sphere, the crystalline humor occupied not only a central position...
The molecular network consisted of 1841 nodes, 56.3% of which were organized into a total of 109 MFs comprising two or more nodes each. As shown in Fig. 5A and Table S7, a total of 63 nodes could be preliminarily identified by FBMN workflow, 98 nodes were dereplicated as known ...
The fallacy lay in the immense concession, that the bad are successful; that justice is not done now. The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; ...