Abstract * Historians take national states as focus (since mid-19th century) * Realize importance of large-scale historical process * Sea/ocean basins as framework for analysis * Not well for absolute/definitive category * Contour/characteristics change dramatically over time * Useful to bring focus to exchange * For > century European/Euro-American treat history almost exclusively to national states * Leopold focus on institution‚ constitution
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The Spaniards‚ the Chinese‚ and the French In the 15th century‚ Spain became the originator of the age of exploration. To begin with‚ the Renaissance had recently started and there was an eager love for culture and exploration. Art was an extremely important part of culture in Spain. Gothic art was probably one of the largest styles of art in Spain‚ this was a result of the Cistercian Order. Examples of this style of art are the monasteries of Poblet and Santes Creus and the Cathedrals of Leon‚ Burgos
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Television – Friend or Foe Communications technology is expanding through the entire global community. Children everywhere are born into a world of images and messages. In society today storytellers are rarely parents‚ grandparents‚ and teachers‚ but instead there are a handful of tar-away forces with something to sell. The media has become part of our culture as well as our identity. There are many different kinds of media‚ which comes in many different forms. For example‚ television‚ radio
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Ever since cars were invented in the early 20th century‚ there have been road fatalities. Advances in car safety technology have seen a diminishing exponential curve in casualties suffered on the road. The first invention was the seatbelt‚ by George Cayley in the late 1900s. The next major advance was with the airbag‚ by John Hetrick in 1952. A patent for the design was marketed for automobiles in 1967. The combination of all safety devices located in cars contribute to the wellbeing of the driverThe
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to post-screening analysis. An integrated VS environment‚ which provides the friendly interface to seamlessly combine different-stage programs for VS and identifying the pharmacological interactions from screening compounds‚ is valuable for drug discovery. Here‚ we developed an easy-to-use graphic environment‚ iGEMDOCK‚ for the docking‚ virtual screening‚ and post-screening analysis. For post-screening analysis‚ iGEMDOCK can enrich the hit rate and provide biological insights by deriving the pharmacological
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incomes and a universal demand for better health care; however‚ most of the world markets for pharmaceuticals were concentrated in North America‚ Europe and Japan. Drug discovery was an expensive process‚ with leading firms spending more than 20 per cent of their sales on research and development (R&D). Developing a drug‚ from discovery to launch in a major market‚ took 10 to 12 years and typically cost US$500 million to US$800 million (in 1992). Bulk production of active
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The Early Modern World was an age of discovery for the continent in many aspects‚ from physical discovery of new continents to the discovery of novel ideas for the people and nations of Europe. One place that had always been a curiosity for the Europeans was the land of silk: China. Europeans had known about China since antiquity‚ and several European successfully traveled to the eastern wonder but did not return to write of their experiences in China for Europe to read. Two Italian and Catholic
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Europe and the spread of European culture and civilisation throughout the globe. Until 1500 the world had‚ on whole‚ pressed in on Europe. Beginning in the 1500s‚ Europe began to press out on the world. This period in history is known as the Age of Discovery or Exploration. During this time‚ driven by a variety of motives‚ European explorers mapped almost all of the world’s seas and outlines of the continents and completed incredible feats such as the rediscovery of America and the circumnavigation of
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Rocky Shore Ecosystems- Point Cartwright Nicolas Cuny 11B Mr. Nisbett Due Date: 03/09/2010 Introduction: On the 23rd of August‚ the three biology classes or grade 11 at Redlands College visited the rocky shore ecosystems at Point Cartwright in Queensland. Two different types of rocky shore ecosystem were examined‚ the rock pool area‚ and the boulder area. We first examined areas within the rock pool area. The rock pool area has several specific features
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