“…Fertility rates in many sub-Saharan African countries are high: the total rate for the region is estimated to be 5.1 births per woman, and rates that had begun to decline in many countries in the region have stalled. …”

“…Perhaps it's your first time as a leader, or maybe you want to fine-tune your skills. Either way, you've begun one of the most rewarding chapters of your career. …”

“…The decoding of the genetic code was begun by Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei and was completed by Har Gobind Khorana. …”

“…Modern studies of many important biofilms have advanced well beyond the descriptive stage, and have begun to provide molecular details of the structural, biochemical, and genetic processes that drive biofilm formation and its dispersion. …”

“…In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors: document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives, and from a detailed analysis of current curricula and emerging trends in graduate business education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and, offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing faculty with new skills and experimenting with new pedagogies. …”

“…As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. …”

“…Sporns, a pioneer in the field who was the first to define and use the term "connectome," argues that the nascent field of connectomics has already begun to influence the way many neuroscientists collect, analyze, and think about their data. …”

“…She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks--the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century--to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City…”

“…Much of the blame for Russia's recent hostility towards the West has fallen on steely-eyed President Vladimir Putin, and Americans have begun to wonder if they are witnessing the rebirth of Cold War-style dictatorship. …”

“…Monografija s poudarkom na gibanju beguncev in begunk čez meje nacionalnih držav analizira tovrstne transformacije. …”

“…Las grandes compañías del momento se lanzaron a capturar las músicas vernáculas del mundo, contenerlas en formatos comercializables y venderlas a públicos tanto locales como globales que por primera vez tenían acceso directo a sonidos que hasta entonces nunca habían roto sus vínculos con un tiempo y un espacio determinados. Nacían así el beguine, la salsa, la samba, el son, el tango, el flamenco, el calipso y tantos otros ritmos naturalizados hoy por nuestros oídos.Este ensayo, reconocido como un estudio cultural modélico, recuperará el marco de aquellas grabaciones vernáculas y sus enormes reverberaciones. …”

“…Money is power--and power beguiles. Nothing we've invented as a species has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our planet's history so dramatically. …”

“…Après les traumatismes historiques du milieu du XXe siècle et la fin des grands récits de légitimation, des figures et des structures léguées par diverses mythologies aident les romanciers à retrouver le goût du genre, la voie de la fiction, le jeu de la question et de la réponse. à quelle fréquence, à quelle fin des récits aussi différents que ceux de Vialatte, Perec, Roubaud, Le Clézio, Tournier, Claude Louis-Combet, Henry Bauchau ou Sylvie Germain se ressaisissent-ils d’une matière collective archaïque, dans un exercice d’imagination oeuvrante ? …”

“…Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate approaches might be integrated, this work aims to plug the gap. …”

“…She is in a state of despair and has begun to self-medicate. Carolyn sits in front of a grief counselor in the "hopes" of figuring out what to do. …”

“…She is in a state of despair and has begun to self-medicate. Carolyn sits in front of a grief counselor in the "hopes" of figuring out what to do. …”

“…The bibliography itself had roots in research begun in the late 1970s and demonstrates a very wide arc. …”

“…Because this subject has only recently begun to emerge...…”

“…To manage these data lakes, companies have begun to leave the familiar confines of relational databases and data warehouses for Hadoop and various big data solutions. …”

“…However, in advanced economies, nuclear power has begun to fade, with plants closing and little new investment made, just when the world requires more low-carbon electricity. …”