not universally adopted): a. a specific disease, specific abnormal physiological state, specific and permanent disability or specific disfigurement; or b. field mortality of more than 25% or a hospital mortality of more than 5%; or c. Grade 3 wounds as measured by the Red Cross wound classification scale; or d. effects for which there is no well-recognized and proved treatment indiscriminate weapons not fully prohibited, but limited, cannot be used where in the areas there are civilians, because they cannot be targeted without unproportional damages Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions 1977 In any armed conflict, the right of the Parties to the conflict to choose methods or means of warfare is not unlimited. It is prohibited to employ weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare of a nature to
(A) A highly (B) An annoyingly (C) A fairly (D) An obviously 4. Once the English colonies became independent state, they faced the problem of giving themselves a fresh political organization. (A) eluded (B) solved (C) confronted (D) Anticipated 5. Pop art aimed to portray all facets of modern culture. (A) Heroes (B) Celebrities (C) Problems (D) Aspects LESSON 14 ample arid avoid defy enact even feign fertile freshly function fundamental indiscriminate selective spacious withstand ample adj. more than enough adv. amply Syn. sufficient There is ample evidence that the young man was speeding when the accident occurred. She was amply paid for the work she completed. arid adj. having little rain or water Syn. dry The area known as the Sahara Desert is one of the most arid place in the world.
the war against crime and drugs, there has been a dramatic increase in crime and drug-related offenses in the past twenty-five years. The prison population of the United States has gone up from just under 300,000 in 1980 to a staggering 2.1 million in 2004.4 The war against disease has given us, amongst other things, antibiotics. At first, they were spectacularly successful, seemingly enabling us to win the war against infectious diseases. Now many experts agree that the widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has created a time bomb and that antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, so-called super bugs, will in all likelihood bring about a reemergence of those diseases and possibly epidemics. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States. Homeopathy and Chinese medicine are two examples of possible alternative approaches to disease that do not
astatingly well. The thought of losing out to a rival frequently turns a buyer from hesitant to zealous. There is something almost physical about the desire to have a contested item. Shoppers at big close-out or bargain sales report being caught up emo- tionally in the event. Charged by the crush of competitors, they swarm and strug- gle to claim merchandise they would otherwise disdain. Such behavior brings to mind the "feeding frenzy" phenomenon of wild, indiscriminate eating among animal groups. Commercial fishermen exploit the phenomenon by throwing a quantity of loose bait to large schools of certain fish. Soon the water is a roil- ing expanse of thrashing fins and snapping mouths competing for the food. At OPTIMAL CONDITIONS ~ Contagious Competitiveness The struggle is intense in the china department of Harrod's as shoppers compete to grab the
(PGPH). The MCP proteasome enzymes have optimal pH activity at pH 7.0–8.0, and Proteasomes the proteasome is found in the sarcoplasm Evidence has been accumulating that cal- (Foucrier et al. 2001) of skeletal muscle. pains are necessary to initiate the degradation Control of indiscriminate proteolysis appears of myofibrillar proteins by releasing them to be regulated by two methods. The MCP from the surface of the myofibril and making preferentially degrades polypeptides that them available for subsequent degradation. have been ubiquitinated and secondly by Given that calpains cleave proteins at a physical size limitation; that is, only poly- limited number of sites and produce large peptides that can pass through the narrow