Way Beyond Weight

impacted with such ferocity on peripheral economies, and why the EU has pursued relentless austerity to protect the euro. The world market lacks a corresponding world state to give it homogeneity of accounting and trading practices, law, norms, and even weights and measures. It also lacks an integrated credit system that could provide credit and liquidity facilities under the supervision of a world central bank. Consequently, its functioning relies heavily on an international currency…

cannot be described as easy to read - before the completion of its first decade is not to be explained by the interest of the professional circles to which I was addressing myself. My psychiatric colleagues have not, apparently, attempted to look beyond the astonishment which may at first have been aroused by my novel conception of the dream; and the professional philosophers, who are anyhow accustomed to disposing of the dream in a few sentences - mostly the same - as a supplement to the states

pity upon me, traveler," she said again. "I am dying of hunger, as you see, and three days have I been here and no one has given me anything." "Let me alone, old witch," cried the young man; "I can do nothing for you," and so saying he went on his way. That same evening the gardener's son rode up to the fountain upon his lame gray horse. "Good-day to you, young traveler," said the beggar- woman. "Good-day, good woman," answered he. "Young traveler, have pity upon me." Take my…

survival in this industry could inform us about other fast-paced industries as well. The conclusion that emerges most powerfully from this study is that variables related to managerial choice, rather than factors in the outside environment that are beyond the control of managers, were the primary factors driving firm survival in the disk drive industry. This overall finding is built on two insights, which we suggest could be applicable to other industries than the one studied here. The…

Player at the net | |11.1 Tocando sobre a rede | |11.1 Reaching beyond the net | |11.2 Penetração sob a rede | |11.2 Penetration under the net

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variety of styles, freely intermixing constructs from different paradigms. The design goal of such languages is to allow programmers to use the best tool for a job, admitting that no one paradigm solves all problems in the easiest or most efficient way [53]. With the continuing increase in the variety, functionality, and complexity of engineering software, with its more widespread use, and with its increasing importance, more attention must be paid to programming language…

significant. The first major update to Java was version 1.1. The features added by Java 1.1 were more substantial than the small increase in the version number would have you think. For example, Java 1.1 added many new library elements, redefined the way events are handled, and reconfigured many features of the original 1.0 library. The next major release of Java was Java 2, where the 2 indicates “second generation.” The creation of Java 2 was a watershed event, marking the beginning of…

nerves and is perceived as color in the brain (Eiseman & Herbert,1990). Briefly, light is the messenger and color is the message. Figure 2.2. Parts of the Eye, (Source: Ed. Varley, 1983) Color of objects influence the perception of apparent weight. This observation has been used by designers for many years. In general, it is accepted that warm colored objects appear more lighter and larger, whereas dark ones are 10 perceived dense and smaller (Eiseman & Herbert,1990).…

reduction in fleet petroleum consumption [7]. However, PHEV technology is not without its challenges. Energy storage system cost, volume, and life are major obstacles that must be overcome for these vehicles to succeed. Increasing the battery storage beyond that of HEVs increases vehicle cost and presents significant packaging challenges. Furthermore, the combined deep/shallow cycling in PHEV batteries is uniquely more demanding than that experienced by HEVs or BEVs. PHEV batteries may…