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BACK TO BASICS How to Read a Scientific Paper David W. Ramey, DVM Biomedical literature is expanding at a phenomenal pace. At the same time, the time that’s available to read that literature is becoming increasingly hard to find. Thus, if you want to try to stay current with medical developments and you don’t want to get overwhelmed, it is important to develop a system for reading and evaluating papers of interest. This paper will look at why you might read a scientific paper, suggest ways to

ENGLISH REPORT OF INTERNSHIP Internship in Travel Agency in Lima. Bienaimé Clémence European Business School This is a report of my internship in February 2010 in Peru. I have to explain why I did it there. I have a Peruvian friend in EBS in my group who asked me if I would like to share an experience with him: do my internship in Peru. Of course I accepted. We were not in the same family and we did not work in the same company but we shared this experience and came back so happy! I hope

of sunlight to electricity. Sunlight can be converted directly into electricity using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly with concentrating solar power (CSP), which normally focuses the sun's energy to boil water which is then used to provide power, and technologies such as the Stirling engine dishes which use a Stirling cycle engine to power a generator. Photovoltaics were initially used to power small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to off-grid homes

l’expression : « As the saying goes + Prov. » Expressions « parlées » Once in a blue moon Très rarement, une fois tous les 36 du mois Silence is golden La parole est d’argent mais le silence est d’or Time will tell – Time will show Qui vivra verra, Le temps nous le dira To have a frog in one’s throat Avoir un chat dans la gorge No beating around the bush Ne pas tourner autour du pot There are plenty of fish in the sea Une de perdu, dix de retrouvé Go fly a kite Va voir ailleurs

Swift's Waterland (London, 1983; New York, 1984) is a complex tale set in eastern England's low-lying fens region. It is narrated by Tom Crick, a middle-aged history teacher. Tom is facing a personal crisis, since he is about to be laid off from his job and his wife has been admitted to a mental hospital. He is a man who is keenly interested in ideas about the nature and purpose of history. Faced with a class of bored and rebellious students, he scraps the traditional history curriculum and tells them stories

happy one. When Auster was about 3, his mother gave birth to a daughter; sadly by the time she was five it was apparent that she was psychologically unstable, and later suffered mental breakdowns. Auster's passion for reading began when he was about 12 and his uncle, Allen Mandelbaum (a professor of Italian literature, a poet, and a prolific translator) left several boxes of books in storage in the Auster's house while he travelled to Europe. Paul read the books avidly and developed an interest

ideas on how, we think, things should be. A massive object is often something big (related to the weight). And when people talk of communication, they are pointing out a way of interaction use to review something. By definition, mass communication is a message created by a person or a group of people sent through a transmitting device (a medium) to a large audience or market. The term media refers to all the modern communications media: television, film, video, radio, photography, advertising

radiation does not respect administrative or national regions. All the nations must assume a position as responsible members of the world community level, cooperating in matters of environmental protection. It’s important that we all work together to share, to overcome ecological disasters. Both scientists and politicians agree that if some radical steps are not taken, life on our planet may be damaged if not destroyed altogether, because the number of air pollutants is constantly growing. Ecological

Psychological realism 1. General Introduction They belong to a specific trend in literature which is psychological realism. We’ve talked about a change in the definition of realism because of a change in the definitions of the reality that the novel have to decribe, a change based on the discovery of new realities linked to the focalizer, the one who does the description. What is important to keep in mind is the fact that an entire part of the novel becomes preocuppied essentially with

firstly, first of all, in the first place, first and foremost, to begin / start with My first impression is… POUR DEVELOPPER UN SUJET Secondly, thirdly, then, next at first sight (à première vue) as a matter of fact, in fact (en fait) at all events, in any case (en fait) on second thoughts (à la réflexion) actually (effectivement) anyway (de toutes façons) in most cases (dans la plupart des cas) in this respect (à cet égard) to some extent (dans une certaine mesure) as far as … is concerned