Approximately 90 percent of Miskitu boys and men in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve along the north coast of Honduras have worked as deepwater divers in the lobster industry and their participation has left an indelible imprint on their society. While lobster diving is lucrative, it is also a life-threatening occupation and many divers have been injured or killed from decompression sickness--locally referred to as liwa mairin siknis (Mermaid sickness). According to Miskitu folklore, the Mermaid is the main water spirit, owner of all fresh ...

It all started, weeks ago, when the vicar’s cheap sherry - liberally dispensed after the service - went to their heads. Their little group discovered they were angry and frustrated about so many aspects of their everyday lives as pensioners. What they needed was an outlet for all these frustrations before they boiled over. As they gazed at the Gosport Ferry, plying back and forth across the harbour, the idea came to them for a protest that would really make people sit up and take notice. Hardy was happy to take the lead: it was just what he needed ...

A divisão da empresa por actividades e segmentos estratégicos é diferente da sua divisão organizacional, não tendo, naturalmente, a mesma finalidade. A primeira serve para definir a estratégia da empresa e a segunda para concretizá-la. A missão identifica uma visão, cenário desejável do futuro para a organização, que possa constituir-se numa referência, ideal comum, orientando os comportamentos e decisões e motivando a acção. Os objectivos ...

Depuis la fameuse keynote de Steve Jobs en 2007, le "smartphone" est un terme désormais entré dans les mœurs et connu par tout un chacun. Cette appellation pourrait bien avoir un écho très prochainement dans le secteur des réalités alternatives. Ce terme, c'est la "Smart Reality". Appelée communément "réalité mixte" par les professionnels du secteur, la Smart Reality est la technologie qui permet de fusionner monde réel et monde virtuel sans que l'utilisateur soit coupé ...

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Dependency management often suffers from labor intensity and complexity in creating and maintaining the dependency relations in practice. This is even more critical in a distributed development, where developers are geographically distributed and wide range of tools is used. In this book, domain ontology is proposed to manage development objects and to automatically support dependency-link discovery. The proposed method based on usage of ontology throughout the whole system development life-cycle. Therefore, in the book, methodological aspects discussing ...

Os abcessos cerebrais atípicos, como os abcessos cerebrais tuberculosos, de toxoplasmose, de Nocardia, de Actinomyces e fúngicos, ocorrem sobretudo em doentes imunocomprometidos, especialmente em várias regiões endémicas do mundo. As características clínicas destes abcessos cerebrais são, na sua maioria, insidiosas e não específicas. A natureza atípica e inespecífica dos aspectos imagiológicos destes abcessos cerebrais, incluindo a tomografia computorizada cerebral ...

Witness to Injustice by David Frost, Jr. edited by Louise Westling with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson There were two events in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost, Jr. "Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a washpot," he says, "and listening to my parents tell the story of how the Peterson boy was lynched here in Eufaula. My parents would tell it like it had just happened." In this compelling account of his life as an African American in Eufaula, Alabama, Frost illuminates the strange world of the ...

Woraus ergibt und begründet sich für den Fremdsprachenunterricht die Notwendigkeit lernwirksamen Unterrichtsmaterials; welche Prinzipien sollten bei der Gestaltung berücksichtigt werden, wenn dieses lernwirksam sein soll? Da Unterrichtsmaterial im Fremdsprachenunterricht in hohem Maß Einfluss auf die Lerner ausübt, ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit Material, das den Lernprozessen der Lerner dienen soll notwendig - in Verbindung mit der heterogenen Diversität, die Lerngruppen eigen ist. Mit Blick auf das unterrichtliche Handeln ...