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Kinds of Road Terms modified by Road Selected AbstractsTHE ROAD TO SERFDOM, NOW MORE THAN EVERECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2009John Meadowcroft No abstract is available for this article. [source] ON THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY: THE CZECH REPUBLIC FROM COMMUNISM TO FREE SOCIETYECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2006Jackie Newbury [source] [Commentary] THE LONG ROAD TO PHARMACOTHERAPIES FOR STIMULANT DEPENDENCEADDICTION, Issue 2 2009JOHN MARSDEN No abstract is available for this article. [source] INTRODUCTION: THE LONG ROAD TO GLOBAL JUSTICE, PEACE, AND HUMANITYJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2007XUNWU CHEN [source] ON THE ROAD TO PARADIS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM AMS DATES AND STABLE ISOTOPES AT LE DÉHUS, GUERNSEY, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS MIDDLE NEOLITHICOXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010RICK J. SCHULTING Summary We here report the results of a programme of AMS dating and stable isotope analysis on human remains from the chambered tomb of Le Déhus, Guernsey. An early use-phase in the range 4100,3900 BC is indicated, confirming the monument's attribution to the Middle Neolithic II as defined in western France. Late Neolithic burial activity is also identified. Stable carbon isotope measurements provide little or no evidence for the consumption of marine foods, although stable nitrogen isotope values are unusually high. These results are situated in the wider context of Neolithic mortuary monuments of the Channel Islands and Normandy. [source] MAGNATE ESTATES ALONG THE ROADACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA, Issue 1 2008COMMUNICATION AND CONTACTS IN SOUTH-WEST SCANIA, SWEDEN, VIKING AGE SETTLEMENTS First page of article [source] VOLUNTARY ROADS AND STREETSECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2003Peter A. Watt This article examines the question of whether roads and streets could be financed by voluntary charges rather than by compulsory taxation as they are now. The question of private arrangements for long-distance roads is examined first, then local streets. Both questions are complicated, but there is more evidence available to look at the first question than the second. It is concluded that a move to greater use of private mechanisms for providing roads and streets would have considerable advantages and expansion of this mode of provision should be encouraged. [source] ROADS TO RECONCILIATION: AN EMERGING PARADIGM OF AFRICAN THEOLOGYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010J. J. CARNEY The heart of contemporary African Christian theology is the notion of "reconciliation." Contextualizing this movement, the article begins by surveying the three major theological paradigms,inculturation, liberation, and reconstruction,that shaped post-colonial African theology. Drawing on the writings of Desmond Tutu, John Rucyahana and Emmanuel Katongole and three grassroots reconciliation ministries, I delineate four principles of African reconciliation theology: interdependence, prophetic advocacy, holistic transformation, and alternative Christian community. The article concludes by addressing outstanding challenges of memory, justice, brokenness, and pluralism and considers how the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation could offer further theological resources for the emerging paradigm. [source] Forks in the Road: Choices in Procedures for Designing Wildland LinkagesCONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Issue 4 2008PAUL BEIER análisis de sensibilidad; conectividad; corredor de vida silvestre; enlace; diseño de reservas Abstract:,Models are commonly used to identify lands that will best maintain the ability of wildlife to move between wildland blocks through matrix lands after the remaining matrix has become incompatible with wildlife movement. We offer a roadmap of 16 choices and assumptions that arise in designing linkages to facilitate movement or gene flow of focal species between 2 or more predefined wildland blocks. We recommend designing linkages to serve multiple (rather than one) focal species likely to serve as a collective umbrella for all native species and ecological processes, explicitly acknowledging untested assumptions, and using uncertainty analysis to illustrate potential effects of model uncertainty. Such uncertainty is best displayed to stakeholders as maps of modeled linkages under different assumptions. We also recommend modeling corridor dwellers (species that require more than one generation to move their genes between wildland blocks) differently from passage species (for which an individual can move between wildland blocks within a few weeks). We identify a problem, which we call the subjective translation problem, that arises because the analyst must subjectively decide how to translate measurements of resource selection into resistance. This problem can be overcome by estimating resistance from observations of animal movement, genetic distances, or interpatch movements. There is room for substantial improvement in the procedures used to design linkages robust to climate change and in tools that allow stakeholders to compare an optimal linkage design to alternative designs that minimize costs or achieve other conservation goals. Resumen:,Los modelos son utilizados comúnmente para identificar tierras que mantengan la habilidad de la vida silvestre para moverse entre bloques de tierras silvestres a través de una matriz de tierras que habían sido incompatibles con el movimiento de vida silvestre. Ofrecemos 16 opciones y supuestos que se originan en el diseño de enlaces para facilitar el movimiento o el flujo de genes de especies focales entre 2 o más bloques de tierras silvestres predefinidos. Recomendamos el diseño de enlaces que sirvan a múltiples (y solo a una) especies focales que funjan como una sombrilla colectiva para todas las especies nativas y los procesos ecológicos, que explícitamente admitan supuestos no comprobados y que utilicen análisis de incertidumbre para ilustrar efectos potenciales de la incertidumbre del modelo. La mejor forma de mostrar tal incertidumbre a los interesados es mediante mapas de los enlaces modelados bajo diferentes suposiciones. También recomendamos modelar a habitantes de corredores (especies que requieren más de una generación para mover sus genes entre bloques de tierra silvestre) de manera diferente que las especies pasajeras (un individuo se puede mover entre bloques de tierras silvestres en unas cuantas semanas). Identificamos un problema, que denominamos el problema de traducción subjetiva, que surge porque un analista debe decidir subjetivamente cómo traducir medidas de selección de recursos a resistencia. Este problema puede ser sobrepuesto mediante la estimación de la resistencia a partir de observaciones de movimientos de animales, distancias genéticas o movimientos entre fragmentos. Hay espacio para la mejora sustancial de los procedimientos utilizados para diseñar enlaces robustos ante el cambio climático y en herramientas que permiten que los interesados comparen un diseño óptimo con diseños alternativos que minimicen costos o alcancen otras metas de conservación. [source] Fascism and the Italian Road to TotalitarianismCONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 3 2008Emilio Gentile First page of article [source] Acheulean artifact accumulation and early hominin land use, Garden Route Casino Road, Pinnacle Point, South AfricaGEOARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 4 2009Erin Thompson An Early Stone Age Acheulean lithic assemblage collected along a 1.5-km transect at the Garden Route Casino near Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, South Africa, was examined in order to assess the relative degree to which assemblage variability is impacted by post-occupational processes and/or terrain. It was found that post-occupational variables do vary across the study area, and they affect the positions of artifacts to different degrees. Terrain structure was determined to have minimal effect on artifact movement. Three analysis sections were identified as having artifacts that were likely close to their original positions and compositions. Future interpretations of differential land use can now be tempered with considerations of the post-occupational processes that formed the recovered assemblage. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] The Next Generation Road Weather Information System: A New Paradigm for Road and Rail Severe Weather Prediction in the UKGEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2008John Thornes The use of road weather information systems for the winter maintenance of roads is now widespread around the world. However, road weather forecasts are normally only made available for a limited number of road sensor sites in a region. For example, in Birmingham, UK, there is one forecast site for 26 salting routes. XRWIS is the next generation road weather information system that forecasts for every 20 m along each salting route (typically 50 km long) using a geographical information system, sky-view factor analysis and mesoscale weather forecasts. Treatment requirements for each salting route are then visualised in simple ,traffic-light' style colours. In a recent winter-long trial in Devon, UK, up to 78 salting runs on six salting routes could have been prevented saving up to £80,000 in labour and materials. Other potential applications of XRWIS include the prediction of low rail adhesion in winter, due to ice, frost and snow, and track buckling in summer. [source] On the Road with the Darcy LectureGROUND WATER, Issue 6 2008Michael Celia No abstract is available for this article. [source] Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road , By Gary Paul GreenGROWTH AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2009Chris Benner First page of article [source] Road not taken: lessons to be learned from Queen v. GillettINTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL, Issue 5 2007R. G. Beran Abstract Following the decision in the Gillet Case it may no longer be safe to rely on the Austroads guidelines when considering fitness to drive. This paper examines the case and its implications. Although the Guidelines claimed ,, the identification and application of world best-practice,', they were disregarded by the court in Gillet. Both expert witnesses testified that on disclosure of epilepsy the accused would have been endorsed as fit for a licence application to the Roads & Traffic Authority, on the basis of 10 years of only nocturnal seizures, in accordance with the guidelines. The Court rejected this evidence and interpreted failure to disclose epilepsy as recognition of perceived risk and the previously undiagnosed sleep apnoea as the basis for that risk, despite being diagnosed after the accident. There needs to be greater certainty in the application of the guidelines, with legislative intervention and licenses should display a bold statement advising drivers of their responsibility to notify authorities of illnesses that could potentially affect driving. [source] Green Energy Systems and Applications: A Road to SustainabilityINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH, Issue 12 2007Yunus Çengel Guest Editor No abstract is available for this article. [source] How to deal with Behcet's disease in daily practiceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES, Issue 2 2010Fereydoun DAVATCHI Abstract Introduction:, Behcet's Disease (BD) is classified as a vasculitis, and progresses via attacks and remissions. BD is mainly seen around the Silk Road. The picture varies in different reports. For clinical descriptions, the data from the international cohort of patients (27 countries), will be used. Clinical manifestations:, Mucous membrane manifestations were oral aphthosis seen in 98.1%, and genital aphthosis in 76.9% of patients. Skin manifestations were seen in 71.9% (pseudofolliculitis in 53.6% and erythema nodosum in 33.6%). Ocular manifestations were seen in 53.7% (anterior uveitis 38.8%, posterior uveitis 36.9%, retinal vasculitis 23.5%). Joint manifestations were seen in 50.5% (arthralgia, monoarthritis, oligo/polyarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis). Neurological manifestations were seen in 15.5% of patients (central 11.5%, peripheral 4.4%). Gastrointestinal manifestations were seen in 6.3% of patients. Vascular involvement was seen in 18.2% of patients and arterial involvement in 3% (thrombosis, aneurysm, pulse weakness). Deep vein thrombosis was seen in 8%, large vein thrombosis in 6.5%, and superficial phlebitis in 5.8%. Orchitis and epididymitis were seen in 7.2%. Pathergy test was positive in 49.3% and HLA-B51 in 49.1% of patients. Diagnosis:, Diagnosis is based on clinical manifestations. The International Criteria for Behcet's Disease (ICBD) may be helpful. Treatment:, The first line treatment is colchicine (1 mg daily) for mucocutaneous manifestations, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for joint manifestations, anticoagulation for vascular thrombosis, and cytotoxic drugs for ocular and brain manifestations. If incomplete response or resistance occurs, therapeutic escalation is worthwhile. Conclusion:, Behcet's disease is a systemic disease characterized by mucocutaneous, ocular, vascular and neurologic manifestations, progressing by attacks and remissions. [source] Another Road to Maastricht: The Christian Democrat Coalition and the Quest for European UnionJCMS: JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, Issue 5 2002Karl Magnus Johansson This article breaks new ground in our understanding of the Maastricht outcome by examining the role of the European People's Party (EPP) and its member parties. Special emphasis is placed on the meetings of Christian Democrat leaders. At the time of the 1991 parallel Intergovernmental Conferences, six out of 12 heads of government met in the EPP. The article argues that the Treaty on European Union was facilitated by the transnational coalition of the Christian Democrats and by the shared ideological identity of this federalist movement. This weakens the intergovernmental approach to European integration. [source] New Road and Rail ProjectsAFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 2 2010Article first published online: 1 APR 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] PALLADIUM, PLATINUM: Road to Recovery?AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 12 2010Article first published online: 9 FEB 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Che's Chevrolet and Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba.JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2010By Richard Schweid No abstract is available for this article. [source] Non-destructive Raman study of the glazing technique in lustre potteries and faience (9,14th centuries): silver ions, nanoclusters, microstructure and processingJOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, Issue 3 2004Philippe Colomban Abstract The oldest known nanotechnology dates back to the fabrication of the first lustre potteries. A lustre is a thin film formed just below the surface of medieval Islamic glazed potteries which contains silver and/or copper in the metallic and ionic form. Raman studies of the lustre films of different ceramics excavated from Fustât (near Cairo, Egypt, 11,12th century) or from the Silk Road (Termez, 13,14th centuries) showed that they associate many layers of different compositions (with or without cassiterite). Energy-dispersive spectroscopic analysis shows that all studied glazes are Ca- (and K)-rich, nearly free of Al silicates, with some addition of lead. Comparison is made with a copy of three-colour Tang ceramics made in Bassorah or Baghdad, in the 9th century, which is among the first known ,faiences', i.e. ceramics enamelled with an Sn-containing glaze. Surprisingly, Sn is not present in the form of a cassiterite (SnO2) precipitate but as a Ca,K-rich salt. Composition analysis and Raman spectra show that all glazes have been processed with similar technology. The distribution of elemental Ag and Cu is very heterogeneous in the lustre decor. The main Raman signature (50,100 cm,1 peaks) of the lustre film is assigned to Ag+ ions. The additional low-wavenumber features could be due to the Ag0 [or (Agn)m+] nanocluster modes. It is clear that the lustre colour arises from the combination of iridescence (diffraction) and absorption/diffusion. Raman criteria are proposed for a sample classification as a function of processing (cassiterite content, processing temperature). The glazing technique is discussed on the basis of experimental evidence and ancient potters' reports. Exothermic burning of acetate residus is proposed as the key step for the preparation of polychrome lustre. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Bushwhacking the Ethical High Road: Conflict of Interest in the Practice of Law and Real LifeLAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 1 2003Susan P. Shapiro A long-standing scholarly tradition regards professions, in general, and ethics rules, in particular, as "projects" of market control. It is no surprise, critics charge, that in the latest assault on the monopoly of the American legal profession,waged by multidisciplinary professional service firms,lawyers are hiding behind their ethics rules to protect their turf. In this article, I report on an extensive empirical study of conflict of interest in private legal practice and look comparatively at other fiduciaries, among them, accountants, psychotherapists, physicians, journalists, and academics. I investigate the role of ethics rules that seek to insure fiduciary loyalty in structuring the delivery of services. How does social and institutional change, roiling the fiduciary world, threaten disinterestedness and loyalty and how, if at all, do fiduciaries respond? How is the regulation of conflict of interest accomplished? Where are the conflicts rules most likely to be honored or ignored? What incentive structures encourage compliance? What are the costs and unexpected consequences of compliance? What is foregone? And is it all worth it? In what might come as a surprise to many, I find that the legal profession takes conflict of interest more seriously than many of the rest of us. As the title implies, legal practitioners largely travel alone, bushwhacking through the underbrush snarling the ethical high road. As critical scholarship predicted, lawyers do enjoy a monopoly at the end of the road. But this monopoly is achieved, not by restraint of trade or some other artifice or stratagem of market control, but by lack of competition. It seems that no one else is trudging alongside the lawyers. Lawyers are not necessarily more ethical than the others; they just behave more ethically,at least with respect to conflict of interest. The question is why. And what difference does it make? [source] U.S.-Saudi Relations: a Rocky RoadMIDDLE EAST POLICY, Issue 4 2004Article first published online: 2 DEC 200 The following report was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The meeting that generated it took place in Bellagio, Italy, July 19,23, 2004. The authors of the report are Clifford Chanin of the Legacy Project and F. Gregory Gause, III, professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. [source] VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Bill Porter Amongst White Clouds: Buddhist Hermit Masters of China's Zhongnan Mountains by Edward A. BurgerAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010Eric Reinders No abstract is available for this article. [source] "Stony the Road" to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social RelationsAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2006MELISSA CHECKER "Stony the Road" to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations. Marilyn Thomas-Houston. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 213 pp. [source] 5.,The Project of Reconciliation and the Road to Redemption: Hegel's Social Philosophy and Nietzsche's CritiqueAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2009Steven V. Hicks Arthur Schopenhauer once observed: "A Philosophy in between the pages of which one does not hear the tears, the weeping and gnashing of teeth and the terrible din of mutual universal murder is no [genuine] philosophy."1 Certainly, the unforgettable events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, which bear the names Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Darfur, pose a challenge for philosophical thinking to prove itself equal to what emerges from these horrific events. To that end, my paper looks back to the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche,in particular to their vision of a social reconciliation and cultural redemption,as a source of inspiration in our efforts to meet the challenges posed for a philosophy of the future by the global scale of violence, human suffering, and alienation. In what follows, I first offer a comparative analysis of Hegel's "project of reconciliation" with Nietzsche's "project of redemption." I then consider whether or not either philosopher can provide us with a coherent and attractive ethical/sociopolitical alternative for our postmodern world,a world still characterized by global violence, injustice, genocide, ecological degradation, and the prospect of nuclear annihilation. [source] Classic type of Kaposi's sarcoma and human herpesvirus 8 infection in Xinjiang, ChinaPATHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 11 2001Payzula Dilnur We report 17 cases of the classic type of Kaposi's sarcoma in Xinjiang, which is located in the north-western area of China surrounded by Mongolia in the east, Russia in the north and Kazakhstan in the west. Fifteen of the patients were of the Uygur people. All patients were male and did not have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Most of the lesions were found in the lower and/or upper extremities, with 16 patients showing multiple lesions. Immunohistochemical examination of the lesions revealed that human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)-encoded latency-associated nuclear antigen was expressed in the nuclei of spindle-shaped tumor cells. HHV-8 DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction in all seven cases examined. Phylogenetic tree analysis revealed that DNA sequences of the HHV-8-encoded K1 gene in the seven Kaposi's sarcoma cases were classified as subtype C that was common in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and East Asian countries. In addition, using immunofluorescence we investigated the seroprevalence of HHV-8 in 73 Uygur patients with diseases other than Kaposi's sarcoma. Surprisingly, the serological study revealed that 34 of the patients (46.6%) were positive for antibodies against HHV-8, suggesting that HHV-8 infection is widespread in Xinjiang area. The occurrence of the classic type of Kaposi's sarcoma with a high seropositivity rate implies that Xinjiang is the most endemic area for HHV-8 infection in the world known to date. Considering that Xinjiang is located at the middle point of the Silk Road that used to extend from Rome to China, these data imply that the virus may have been in circulation in this area due to the migration of the people via the Silk Road. [source] I'll Take the High Road: Two Pathways to Altruistic Political Mobilization Against Regime Repression in ArgentinaPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2001Kristina E. Thalhammer What led Argentine human rights activists to risk challenging state repression in the late 1970s? Chi-square analyses of 78 interviews with early activists and nonactivists suggested few commonalities among activists but revealed two distinct and inverse routes to high-risk other-centered political activism. Activists directly affected by regime violence tended to be relatively inexperienced politically, to have little experience with fear, and to see groups as comprising individuals rather than as monolithic wholes. An inverse pattern characterized activists not directly affected by regime violence: Their activism was preceded by experience in politics and survival of previous fear-evoking episodes. [source] The Long and Winding Road: Can Psychogeriatrics Point a Way to the Door of Psychiatric Services in Japan?PSYCHOGERIATRICS, Issue 4 2001Heii Arai No abstract is available for this article. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||