— The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting the malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the ‘‘globalization as it is’’ (the Halcyon days of the 1870–1913, and the record of the last two decades of development) are...

A firm understanding of fatherhood in the present requires a deep appreciation of fatherhood in the past. To demonstrate what this proposition means, and to illustrate how complex fatherhood can be, I provide an overview of the social reconstruction of fatherhood in America between 1800 and 1960. It was during these 160 years that we see significant transformations in U.S. society and in the so...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of male broiler chickens in the period from 21 to 42 days of age fed diets with increasing levels of sunflower meal (SM) supplemented with an enzyme complex (EC). A total of 1920 animals of the Cobb strain were distributed in a randomized block design in a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (four SM levels and three enzymes utilization types)...

introduction: transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (trpv1) and protein kinase cγ (pkcγ) are involved in sensitization/desensitization to noxious stimuli. we aimed to examine the gene expression levels of trpv1 and pkcγ in rat lumbosacral cord and midbrain on days 1, 4 and 8 of induction of morphine analgesic tolerance. methods: two groups of male wistar rats received twice daily saline...

Different types •Date: On May 22, 1995, Farkas was ... •Time: ... in Brownsville around 7:15 p.m. •Duration: He spent six days abroad ... •Set: ... for liver transplants each year ... Different occurrences in documents • explicit easy to normalize • implicit knowledge is needed • relative reference time is needed (& additional information) Annotation scheme •TimeML: ISO standard for temporal an...

Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks’ headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund’s St James’s office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-theworld trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against wha...