A Short History of Birth Defect Epidemiology

The attempts to reconstruct the instruments of interbudget relations take place in all federations. In Russia such attempts are especially popular due to the short history of intergovernmental relations. Thus the review of the ¬international experience of managing interbudget relations to provide economic and social welfare can be useful for present-day Russia. The author develops models of intergovernmental relations from the point of view of making decisions about budget authorities’ distribution. The models that can be better applied in the Russian case are demonstrated.

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FASSNIDGE, H. The Quakers of Melksham 1669–1950. Bradford on Avon Friends, Bradford on Avon: 1992. Pp 186, [6]; illustrated. Price: £ 4.50. ISBN: 0-9519433-0-8. WIGHAM, M. J. The Irish Quakers. A short history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. Historical Committee of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, Dublin: 1992. Pp 174; illustrated. Price: IR £ 8.95. ISBN: 0-9519870-1-1 (paperback).

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1994.21.1.140 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 140-140

Author(s):

E. C. NELSON

Keyword(s):

Short History ◽

Society Of Friends ◽

History Of ◽

Religious Society Of Friends

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From the Tower of London to the Thomas More Society of Buenos Aires: “Give me thy grace, good Lord, to set the world at nought”

Moreana ◽

10.3366/more.2005.42.4.13 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽

pp. 187-206

Author(s):

Clare M. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Buenos Aires ◽

Short History ◽

Thomas More ◽

Tower Of London ◽

Hebrew Poetry ◽

Prayer Book ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Book Of Hours ◽

Almost All

The Thomas More Society of Buenos Aires begins or ends almost all its events by reciting in both English and Spanish a prayer written by More in the margins of his Book of Hours probably while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. After a short history of what is called Thomas More’s Prayer Book, the author studies the prayer as a poem written in the form of a psalm according to the structure of Hebrew poetry, and looks at the poem’s content as a psalm of lament.

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Life as a Raw Material: Illusions of Control

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2012.0060 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 250-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Oron Catts ◽

Ionat Zurr

Keyword(s):

Synthetic Biology ◽

Cognitive Engineering ◽

Raw Material ◽

Future Scenarios ◽

Short History ◽

Know How ◽

Political Forces ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

The paper discusses and critiques the concept of the single engineering paradigm. This concepts allude to a future in which the control of matter and life, and life as matter, will be achieved by applying engineering principles; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, geo-engineering, cognitive engineering and neuro-engineering. We outline some issues in the short history of the field labelled as Synthetic Biology. Furthermore; we examine the way engineers, scientists, designers and artists are positioned and articulating the use of the tools of Synthetic Biology to expose some of the philosophical, ethical and political forces and considerations of today as well as some future scenarios. We suggest that one way to enable the possibilities of alternative frames of thought is to open up the know-how and the access to these technologies to other disciplines, including artistic.

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