cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 'On the Shoulders of Giants': The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in Politics and Society in South Africa, 1924 to 1950.
Creators: name: Cobley, Alan Gregor
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1987

description: By the 1920's a mature black petty bourgeoisie was emerging in South Africa through the process of capitalist development, out of pre-existing black elites and out of new elites based mainly in the new industrial centres. These groups had relatively homogeneous social origins and cultural affiliations derived from the rural kholwa communities of the mid and late nineteenth centuries. Building on these origins, and in response to the increasing threats of economic marginalisation and state repression, by the 1930's the black petty bourgeoisie was deploying a wide range of class-specific social networks and cultural practices (using forms borrowed from the dominant classes) as a means of entrenching and reproducing its class position. The advantages held by the black petty bourgeoisie over the black working class were largely marginal throughout the period 1924 to 1950. This meant that there was always potential for cross-class alliances. However, even within the black bourgeoisie there was a significant degree of differentiation. A small upper stratum which was, for the most part, economically secure, contrasted with a much larger lower stratum which was always vulnerable to proletarianisation and subject to frequent inter-changes of members with the upper levels of various 'under classes'. Members of the black petty bourgeoisie virtually monopolised positions of social and political authority in black communities up to 1950. This had important consequences for the formulation and articulation of black political objectives at both local and national levels. Chapters One and Two investigate the economic background, social origins and cultural consciousness of the black petty bourgeoisie. Chapters Three, Four and Five consider the influence of special cultural factors, entrepreneurial ideologies and experiences, and radical ideologies and experiences. An overview is contained in a brief conclusion.
Supplementary_table_1_3 – Supplemental material for Observational cohort study of clinical outcome in Epstein–Barr virus associated gastric cancer patients
Creators: name: Qiu, Miao-Zhen
name: He, Cai-Yun
name: Yang, Da-Jun
name: Zhou, Da-Lei
name: Bai-Wei Zhao
name: Wang, Xiao-Jian
name: Yang, Li-Qiong
name: Shi-Xun Lu
name: Wang, Feng-Hua
name: Xu, Rui-Hua
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_table_1_3 for Observational cohort study of clinical outcome in Epstein–Barr virus associated gastric cancer patients by Miao-Zhen Qiu, Cai-Yun He, Da-Jun Yang, Da-Lei Zhou, Bai-Wei Zhao, Xiao-Jian Wang, Li-Qiong Yang, Shi-Xun Lu, Feng-Hua Wang and Rui-Hua Xu in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Supplemental Material, Ugliness_Supplemental_Materials - Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence
Creators: name: Klebl, Christoph
name: Greenaway, Katharine H.
name: Rhee, Joshua Ju-Suk
name: Bastian, Brock
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, Ugliness_Supplemental_Materials for Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence by Christoph Klebl, Katharine H. Greenaway, Joshua Ju-suk Rhee and Brock Bastian in Social Psychological and Personality Science
title: Marriage Laws of Malawi: The Evolution of African Marriage Laws Under Colonial Rule.
Creators: name: Chibambo, Tchupa N.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1987

description: This thesis examines the evolution of the law regulating African marriages and divorce in Malawi. It offers a review of the principal rules of customary law governing marriage and describes the introduction of relevant legislative provisions by the colonial administration, including the provisions for the registration of customary marriages enacted by African authorities. Special attention is given to the position of African Christians and to the policies and attitudes of Christian missions as determinants of colonial legislative policy. The analyses focus on the interaction of African custom, Christianity and secular statutory regulation of marriage and divorce. They highlight the impact on, and implications for, African society of the endeavours of the missions to Christianise African marriage and family life and of the reluctant efforts of the colonial administration to extend the application of the marriage laws imported from the English legal system to the indigenous population. This also involves a review of African responses to relevant aspects of the colonial experience. Largely through the study of case material, the wider consequences on African traditional marriage law and practice of African participation in the social, political and economic possibilities of Western European culture are also detailed. Much of the effort here is devoted to the examination of the contribution of the courts to the development of customary law and its adaptation to the changing environment and modern conceptions of social justice.
LEPA: A lightweight and efficient public auditing scheme for cloud-assisted wireless body sensor networks
Creators: name: Li, Song
name: Cui, Jie
name: Zhong, Hong
name: Zhang, Yiwen
name: He, Qiang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: From smart watch to remote healthcare system, wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) play an important role in modern healthcare system. However, the weak capacity of devices has limited WBSNs development. Considering the huge processing and storage capacity of the cloud, it can be merged with WBSNs to make up for the deficiencies of weak capacity. Based on this consideration, the concept of cloud-assisted WBSNs has been proposed recently. In contrast to generic data, the data in cloud-assisted WBSNs will be used for providing medical diagnosis, so the integrity of data is very important because any modification will result in severe consequences such as misdiagnosis. The public auditing scheme could provide an efficient solution to check the data integrity remotely without downloading them. However, the traditional public auditing scheme for cloud cannot be used directly due to the high data density and weak processing capacity in WBSNs. So, in this paper, we proposed a lightweight and efficient public auditing scheme, LEPA, for cloud-assisted WBSNs. Compared with similar schemes, the WBSNs’ client only needs to do one symmetrical encryption with low computational cost in LEPA. Security proof shows that LEPA can resist two types of adversaries in random oracle model. The efficiency evaluation also shows that LEPA outperforms previous proposals.
title: Vallabhbhai Patel: His Role and Style in Indian Politics 1928-1947.
Creators: name: Shankardass, Rani Dhavan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1985

description: This study of Vallabhbhai Patel's role and style in Indian politics attempts to show how mobilisation of men and materials was achieved by exclusively political means for the attainment of conservative goals and for the prevention of any radical changes. This was done primarily at Patel's instance in the face of much opposition from many forces, particularly the socialists who sought a more comprehensive programme for a wider section of society. Patel's qualifications for this job lay in his background, his personality and his affinity with certain regions (Chapter I). Several experiments in controlled mobilisation culminating in the Bardoli Satyagraha showed the political effectiveness of Patel's version of Gandhi's nationalist scheme (Chapter II). The plan of nourishing the roots rather than spreading the branches greatly strengthened the Congress organisation and helped Patel in steering Congress party policy in the direction of conservative goals (Chapter III). Patel and Gandhi's mutual reliance on each other, and Gandhi's granting Patel a free hand in political tactics, gave much political strength to the Gandhiites in Congress. The quest for political supremacy was accompanied by efforts to exclude other political groups, and particularly the left, from political limelight (Chapter IV). There were problems in running an intense political race. Threats posed by ambitious leaders, factional infighting and conflicting goals were put down with a heavy hand and political opposition was not tolerated (Chapter V). Negative steps in some areas were accompanied by positive steps in others, such as acceptance of office in the provinces and a gradual change of Congress's policy towards the States (Chapter VI). Factors beyond Patel's control such as British imperialist policy and the accompanying political readjustments in India brought some setbacks for Congress. But, Patel was quick to recover lost ground and rivals were soon outmanoeuvred (Chapter VII). The thesis argues that Patel typifies the Indian politician par excellence, capable of taking control over all the diverse and unevenly developed aspects of Indian society by giving them a political direction, thus circumventing certain social and economic requirements which leaders with either a Marxian or a traditionally reformist vision would consider essential for development.
title: The Politics of Union and Citizenship: The Evolution of British Constitutional Policy Towards Malaya and Singapore 1942-1948.
Creators: name: Hwa, Albert Lau Khoong
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1986

description: World War II, by unleashing new forces, had precipitated a reappraisal of British policy towards Malaya; it also afforded British planners an opportunity to rationalise the pre-war structures which had kept Malaya constitutionally disunited and racially divided. Isolated in their offices in Whitehall, Colonial Office officials devised the Malayan Union policy, embracing in a "union" all the Malay States and including, from the Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca but excluding Singapore, which developed as a separate constitutional entity although the possibility of a future "fusion" with the proposed Malayan Union was not discounted; the new arrangements envisaged also the creation of a form of "common citizenship" that would confer political rights to Malaya's non-Malay population. When the war ended, the British proceeded, as planned, to implement the Malayan Union scheme in April 1946 only to replace it with the Federation of Malaya in February 1948; the provisions for citizenship were also significantly "tightened" by 1948 to include only a smaller number of non-Malays. The decision to scrap the Malayan Union, however, was taken by early July 1946, barely three months after its inception. This study traces the origins of the Colonial Office's plans for "union" and "citizenship", examines the assumptions which had guided British planners and how these had been overturned by post-war developments, and discusses the interaction of historical forces which led eventually to the demise of the Malayan Union and the creation of the Federation in 1948. It analyses also the separate political development of Singapore and the attempts to unite the Island with the Mainland, a process which succeeded, in retrospect, only briefly in 1963 and only then to result in separation again in 1965.
title: Some Legal Aspects of Agrarian Reform in India.
Creators: name: Upadhyaya, Mangi Lal
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1970

description: A Constitution by itself cannot create or bring about conditions necessary for the creation of a welfare State; it merely indicates the path by following which the State can attain the said objective. It is the various schemes of social and economic planning that result in the attainment of this goal. The Indian programme of Agrarian Reform, was one of the schemes, adopted for the social and economic transformation of rural India. This programme had to face major setbacks - on more than one occassion and had to overcome several legal and constitutional difficulties. Since the programme had to tread through one of the most sensitive areas, namely the one relating to the question concerning landownership, it found constant difficulties in complying with the provisions of the Constitution. To remedy this, the Constitution was amended, but there were other forces at work hostile to the programme, endeavouring to ensure that the scheme should not go through in the form and at a speed it really merited. It is, therefore, not surprising that the question regarding the non-implementation of the programme is a burning issue of the day and the States are taking measures to give the subject top priority. The present thesis, as the title indicates, attempts at examining legal aspects of certain major schemes of agrarian reform. Chapter I is introductory in nature and merely states the problem and sets out the limit and scope of the study. Chapter II presents the problem in its historical setting while Chapter III highlights it in the proper constitutional perspective. In order that the legal study of a subject, which is primarily a social problem, should not suffer from the lack of its social context. Chapter IV attempts at analysing the social philosophy of the Indian Constitution as envisioned in the Constitution and expounded by the Courts. Chapter V examines the legislation relating to the Abolition of intermediaries, whereas Chapter VI analyses the legislation relating to tenancy reforms, ceilings on landholdings, consolidation of small holdings, the Bhoodan and Gramdan movements and co-operatives. Chapter VII brings out the salient features of the pattern of agrarian relations that has been emerging since the introduction of the reforms discussed in previous two chapters. Chapter VIII outlines the existing system of land revenue administration and points out its deficiencies. A very brief account of the present system of taxation of agricultural land is given in Chapter IX. The last Chapter, namely Chapter X, adds some concluding remarks and points out the issues that are still agitating the conscience of the planners and politicians.
title: Horatio Nelson Lay: His Role in British Relations With China 1849-1865.
Creators: name: Gerson, Jacob J.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: An attempt has been made in this study to trace the background, and China career, of Horatio Nelson Lay, an Englishman, who began his public service in the British consular establishment in China and who concluded it in the service of the Ch'ing Imperial government. He achieved notoriety, successively, as British Inspector in the Shanghai foreign customs administration inaugurated in 1854, as interpreter-negotiator in the treaty settlements of Tientsin and Shanghai of 1858, as first Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Custom Service and as one of the principals in the development of a European-Chinese naval force (the Lay-Osborn Flotilla), which was disbanded when rejected by the Ch'ing government in 1863. Lay's dismissal followed immediately after this event. The study discloses that the activities, while carrying out the functions related to these responsibilities, placed him in a key position to influence various aspects of British relations with China during the period. A thesis, based on evaluations of his influence has been formulated, which focusses on an analysis of the nature of his dual role as a servant both of British (occident-oriented) and Ch'ing (Confucian-oriented) interests. The re-examination of evidence previously available and of newly discovered evidence provides the basis for a re-evaluation of his career. The principal conclusions conveyed by the investigation, analysis and evaluation of the larger body of evidence fall into two categories. As for the direct effects of his influence, except for his contributions to the consolidation of the foreign Inspectorate customs administration, the influence he himself claimed, as well as that ascribed to him by his contemporaries, has been overstated. As for the indirect effects, his contribution to the process of "dialog", a pre-requisite for achieving effective intercourse, was appreciable.
THE IMPACT OF GREEN PRICE, SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING, AND GREEN ADVERTISING ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY IN MARKETING, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN JORDAN
Creators: name: AYAT MAZIN ALMAHMOUD
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Green Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Social Media Strategy; Sustainability; Managerial Perspectives; Structural Equation Modeling.

description: Abstract

Background: Essential to business practice, green marketing strategies are needed to bring about congruence between the demand by consumers for sustainable products and services and how business is done. Understanding the effect of Green Price, Sustainable Packaging and green advertisement on consumer behavior in Jordan’s marketing, technology, and software sectors is important for developing practical marketing strategies, specifically, the moderating role of social media strategy. Methods: The data was collected using a cross-sectional survey of 310. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data and perform Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to evaluate such direct and mediated relationships. Results: The Green Price and positive Green Advertising positively affected consumer behavior while Sustainable Packaging had an insignificant direct effect. The mediation of social media strategy on the positive effects of Green Price and Sustainable Packaging on consumer behavior was also significant, but social media strategy did not significantly interact with Green Advertising in a hypothesized manner and therefore requires further exploration. Conclusions: The study provides insight that will be very useful for businesses seeking to incorporate green marketing strategies and social media to encourage consumer involvement. The relevant importance of considering managerial perspectives to manufacture and set sustainability initiatives into action can be emphasized, as sustainability initiatives need to be aligned with consumer expectations and market dynamics.
Circadan_Potency_Supplementary_Material_March_11_2020 – Supplemental material for Circadian Potency Spectrum with Extended Exposure to Polychromatic White LED Light under Workplace Conditions
Creators: name: Moore-Ede, Martin
name: Heitmann, Anneke
name: Guttkuhn, Rainer
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Circadan_Potency_Supplementary_Material_March_11_2020 for Circadian Potency Spectrum with Extended Exposure to Polychromatic White LED Light under Workplace Conditions by Martin Moore-Ede, Anneke Heitmann and Rainer Guttkuhn in Journal of Biological Rhythms
Integration of blockchain in smart systems: problems and opportunities for real-time sensor data storage
Creators: name: Alsadi, Naseem
name: Zaidi, Syed
name: Rooprai, Mankaran
name: Gadsden, Stephen A.
name: Yawney, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The internet of things (IoT) and other emerging ubiquitous technologies are supporting the rapid spread of smart systems, which has underlined the need for safe, open, and decentralized data storage solutions. With its inherent decentralization and immutability, blockchain offers itself as a potential solution for these requirements. However, the practicality of incorporating blockchain into real-time sensor data storage systems is a topic that demands in-depth examination. While blockchain promises unmatched data security and auditability, some intrinsic qualities, namely scalability restrictions, transactional delays, and escalating storage demands, impede its seamless deployment in high-frequency, voluminous data contexts typical of real-time sensors. This essay launches a methodical investigation into these difficulties, illuminating their underlying causes, potential effects, and potential countermeasures. In addition, we present a novel pragmatic experimental setup and analysis of blockchain for smart system applications, with an extended discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of deploying blockchain based solutions for smart system ecosystems.
title: A Comparative Study of the Grounds for Divorce in Hindu Law and English Law.
Creators: name: Virdi, Parminder Kaur
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: Chapter I is an introduction of the subject. Chapter II deals with the nature of Hindu marriage and investigates the question whether divorce as such was recognised by the dharmasastra. Chapter III gives a brief outline of the history of divorce in England. Chapter IV interprets the terms 'adultery' and 'living in adultery' against the social background of Hindu and English society. It also considers the question of evidence and the standard of proof. Chapter V discusses the concept of desertion and its ingredients by reference to case law. It explains the defence of 'just cause' including what amounts to a 'grave and weighty' matter for the purpose of desertion and its relation to cruelty. Chapter VI defines 'cruelty'; how the concept of cruelty has changed from time to time; the effect of insanity in relation to cruelty and the protection of the aggrieved spouse. The effect of offences committed by the guilty spouse against third parties. Chapter VII deals with insanity as a ground for divorce and the test to be applied in such a case. The difference between the Hindu and English statutes regarding insanity. Chapter VIII investigates the circumstances leading to presumption of death and dissolution of marriage including the burden of proof in such a case. Chapter IX defines grounds for divorce available only to the wife. Chapter X deals with grounds for divorce peculiar to Hindu law. These include renunciation of the world, conversion to another religion, suffering from leprosy and venereal disease, second marriage of the husband (where the second marriage took place before the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955) as a ground for divorce available to a Hindu wife. Divorce on the grounds of failure to comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights and non-resumption of cohabitation for a period of two years or upwards after a decree of judicial separation has been passed, has also been considered.
Tsivoka peyrierasi Villiers 1982
Creators: name: Jeong, Soo-Hyun
name: Vives, Eduard
name: Mckenna, Duane D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Tsivoka
Tsivoka peyrierasi

description: Tsivoka peyrierasi Villiers, 1982 (Fig. 1b)
Tsivoka peyrierasi Villiers, 1982: 159, 161 (type locality: Madagascar Est, Sous-Prefecture de Sambava, Belalona, 30km; holotype, male, MNHN)
Tsivoka peyrierasi Villiers, Quentin & Vives, 2011
Redescription (translated from Villiers et al. 2011): Length 15–22 mm. Same proportions and structure as in T. simplicollis (Fig. 7) but differs in having less dense elytral pubescence and in coloring: head, pronotum, and scutellum orange, with short pubescence; yellow antennae, covered with fine golden pubescence; yellow ocher elytra, with golden pubescence, lateral slope and a medial suture with black band: yellow forelegs; midlegs and hindlegs with black femora and yellow base, yellow tibiae, and tarsi; ventral side dark yellow ocher.
Material examined: Madagascar Est Belalona, 30km S.O. Sambava, 11.1969, Vadon et Peyrieras, male (holotype, MNHN) (Fig. 1b)
Distribution: Northeastern Madagascar lowland forests (Fig. 8). Ten specimens from MNHN all have the same locality information.
description: Published as part of Jeong, Soo-Hyun, Vives, Eduard & Mckenna, Duane D., 2025, A taxonomic revision of the Madagascar-endemic longhorn beetle genus Tsivoka Villiers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with the description of a new species, pp. 159-170 in Zootaxa 5632 (1) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/15371637
title: Muhammad Reza Khan, Naib Nazim and Naib Diwan of Bengal, 1756-1775.
Creators: name: Khan, Abdul Majed
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: This is a study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan who held the office of Naib Nazim and Naib Diwan of Bengal from 1765 to 1772. It includes the early life of the Khan, but concentrates particularly upon the years from 1756, when the Khan first held public office, to 1775 when after a lengthy trial he was reinstated at Murshidabad as Naib Nazim. Chapter One takes note of previous work upon Reza Khan, appraises the sources used in this study, and considers the nature of Anglo-Mughal relations at the moment when Reza Khan entered politics. The study proper commences with the Second Chapter which traces Reza Khan's early life from his birth in Iran, his arrival in Bengal and marriage into the ruling family, down to 1756 when he achieved office. Chapter Three describes the Khan's appointment to and dismissal from the post of Faujdar Chittagong and his first contact with the English. Chapter Four deals with his elevation to the Naibat at Dacca in 1763, and Chapter Five discusses the circumstances leading to the Khan's promotion to the Naibat Subandari in 1765. Chapter Six is devoted to the Khan's rise, within the system inaugurated by Clive after the grant of the Diwani, to the zenith of his power. Chapter Seven deals with the rebuffs the Khan suffered after Clive's departure, while Sykes was Resident at Murshidabad, and Chapter Eight is concerned with the politics behind the decision to introduce English supervisors into the districts in 1769. Chapter Nine provides an account of the Khan's activities during the great famine, and of the curtailment of the Khan's power by the newly created Controlling Committee in 1770. While Chapter Ten reviews the Khan's uneasy co-operation with that Committee in 1771 and 1772, Chapter Eleven, the last, seeks to explain the circumstances leading to his arrest in 1772, and the motives of Warren Hastings who managed his trial. The study closes with a brief note upon the Khan's reinstatement in 1775 and his career until his death in 1791.
Zimmermann_supplementary – Supplemental material for Unravelling deservingness: Which criteria do people use to judge the relative deservingness of welfare target groups? A vignette-based focus group study
Creators: name: Jan-Ocko Heuer
name: Zimmermann, Katharina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160512 Social Policy

description: Supplemental material, Zimmermann_supplementary for Unravelling deservingness: Which criteria do people use to judge the relative deservingness of welfare target groups? A vignette-based focus group study by Jan-Ocko Heuer and Katharina Zimmermann in Journal of European Social Policy
Supplemental Material, Questionnaires_CFS_and_SOC - Head teachers’ change facilitation styles and teachers’ concerns about ICT integration
Creators: name: Jogezai, Nazir Ahmed
name: Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail
name: Fozia Ahmed Baloch
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, Questionnaires_CFS_and_SOC for Head teachers’ change facilitation styles and teachers’ concerns about ICT integration by Nazir Ahmed Jogezai, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail and Fozia Ahmed Baloch in Management in Education
title: The Social Condition of the British Community in Bengal, 1757-1800.
Creators: name: Ghosh, Suresh Chandra
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: This thesis sets out to examine the way in which the English East India Company recruited servants, civil and military, for service in Bengal, the type of person selected, and the links they forged among themselves and with elements the growth of in the home administration. It also studies an Anglo-Indian community in Bengal. In its second part, it examines the pattern of life created for themselves by the servants of the Company in Bengal from both English and Indian elements. The introduction discusses earlier work in this field and the aim of the thesis. The second chapter reviews the changing powers of patronage exercised by the Directors and the uses to which those powers were put. The third chapter notes the formation of families connected with the Company's service, shows their interconnections, and considers the effects which their formation had upon attitudes to India. The fourth chapter is devoted to a reconsideration of the causes leading to the creation of an Anglo-Indian community in Bengal, the numbers and classes of men involved, the development of institutions in Bengal to care for the offspring of mixed unions, and the attitude displayed towards Anglo-Indians by the home government of the Company. The second part of the thesis attempts to relate the foregoing enquiries to the creation of a British social life in Bengal, and to show how elements taken from English and Indian society were fixed in varying proportions in that social life. Chapter five concentrates attention on the physical environment which the British community created around them, noting their adaptations to the Indian climate, while chapter six is concerned with the social life led within that environment. The conclusion briefly reviews the main themes of the thesis and the findings which it is hoped have emerged.
Supplementary_materials - Relationship-oriented values and marital and life satisfaction among Chinese couples
Creators: name: Chi, Peilian
name: Wu, Qinglu
name: Cao, Hongjian
name: Zhou, Nan
name: Lin, Xiuyun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary_materials for Relationship-oriented values and marital and life satisfaction among Chinese couples by Peilian Chi, Qinglu Wu, Hongjian Cao, Nan Zhou and Xiuyun Lin in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
title: The Mitaksara Birthright: A Comparative Study in the Light of Anticipated Legislation in India.
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Aditya Prasad
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1978

description: This thesis is primarily about the relevancy of the Mitaksara birthright, the pivot of the juridical Hindu joint family, in the context of codification of a uniform Civil Code or Code of Family Law in India. It also represents an enquiry into the origination of the concept and a study of it in its historical and comparative perspective. The comparative framework of the thesis shows that a Hindu legal institution, which governs about one-sixth of the human race, may stand comparison with the institutions of any system with which it is likely to be compared. In compliance with the progress of social science, the study of law is heading towards an Interdisciplinary approach, and in the present study attention is also focussed on the operation and veritable social role of the juridical concept of joint family. Contemporary attempts at creating a uniform world law have come into the foreground, prompted basically by socio-economic changes throughout the world. In the context of this global unification movement, the present study indicates that any viable attempt to reform, modernise and unify the personal laws (e.g. Hindu law) In India deserves a comparative awareness of other legal systems of the world, past and present. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).
APR_revision_appendix_final_June_9_2020_edits – Supplemental material for Voter Sex, Party, and Gender-Salient Issues: Attitudes about Sexual Harassment and Brett Kavanaugh in the 2018 Elections
Creators: name: Hansen, Michael A.
name: Dolan, Kathleen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, APR_revision_appendix_final_June_9_2020_edits for Voter Sex, Party, and Gender-Salient Issues: Attitudes about Sexual Harassment and Brett Kavanaugh in the 2018 Elections by Michael A. Hansen and Kathleen Dolan in American Politics Research
title: The History and Archaeology of Taxila.
Creators: name: Ahmed, Nazimuddin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1958

description: This thesis aims at a critical examination of the information provided by several decades of archaeological research at Taxila in west Pakistan. The antiquity of Taxila and its fame as a centre of commerce and learning are widely attested by numerous literary sources. Chapter I assembles these sources and attempts to arrange them chronologically. Chapter II discusses the geographical position of Taxila and particularly its relationship to the important Trade-routes of Western Asia, Central Asia and Eastern India. The prespective thus provided is necessary for an appreciation of the various cultural contacts to be studied. Chapter III outlines the main topographical features of the valley and its monuments as they are known to day. It also briefly touches upon the history of exploration at the site. Finally there is a discussion of the vital problem of interpreting the various periods of construction and the stratigraphy revealed by Sir John Marshall's excavations. Chapter IV deals in outline with the early history of North Western Indea and its relationship with Taxila. The main body of the thesis is contained in Chapter V. Here is undertaken a careful comparative study of the main categories of antiquities revealed by excavations. In particular the whole topic of Western contacts and of importations from the Nediterranean is investigated. From this, certain very challenging facts emerge. In particular it is found that there are very few antiquities of either Hellenic or Hellenistic date, and that by fat the largest number are derived from Roman sources of the first and second centuries A.D. The principal classes of objects examined are: Pottery, Terracotta Figurines, Stone-objects, Metal objects, Gems and other minor antiquities. In Chapter VI is given a brief description of the Dharmarajika stupa and Monastery and Jandial Temple, with particular reference to dating them. From this, certain interesting new conclusions are reached, particularly regarding the dating of the Jandial Temple. Finally, in the light of the present study to modify, in several respects, the accepted dating for main structural phases of both the Bhir Mound and Sirkap. The thesis is illustrated with numerous photographs, maps and plan drawings.
title: Currencies and Prices in 3rd and 4th Century Palestine and Their Implications for Roman Economic History.
Creators: name: Sperber, Daniel
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1968

description: The following study is an attempt to throw further light on Roman economic history of the III and IV cents. by drawing upon the Palestinian source-material of the period. Clearly, it is no more than a beginning in this direction, and makes no claims to being exhaustive either in the collection of material or in the analysis thereof. In the first section lists of Palestinian prices of different commodities are set out in chronological order, and compared with their Egyptian parallels. Babylonian material (analysed in Appendix C) is likewise presented. There follows a discussion of the monetary terminology of the period, and there certain semantic changes are noted and inferences of economic significance drawn. With the clarification of these terms, some observations are made on the patterns of III cent. monetary developments, and the nature of its price-levels. A series of legal texts are next analysed and it is shown that they reflect the change from a silver to a gold standard, via a transitionary period of economic instability and confusion. Thereafter follows an analysis of IV cent. Palestinian price-levels, and these are compared with the Egyptian evidence. It is suggested that internal discrepancies and apparent differences are to be explained on terminological grounds. In the final section, certain questions are raised concerning the chronological pattern of the III cent. economic developments, and some painters to the answers hazarded. To end, a very brief and concentrated description of the social conditions of the times (viewed Partially As implications of the economic development) is given, primarily to indicate the possible range of the sources, their ability to illumine dark periods, and the embryonic-ness of these studies.
Is it a work or leisure travel? Applying text classification to identify work-related travel on social networks
Creators: name: Félix, Lucas
name: Cunha, Washington
name: Almeida, Jussara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In today's digital era, the use of Social Networks (SNs) and Location-Based SNs (LBSNs) has become integral for travelers seeking Points of Interest (POI) and sharing travel experiences. This trend is supported by the fact that a significant majority of American travelers utilize SNs during their trips. However, the abundance of information available on these platforms presents a challenge in identifying the best options. To address this issue, Recommender Systems (RS) are commonly employed to suggest POIs based on user history, with the integration of contextual information enhancing the quality of recommendations. Notably, incorporating user travel purpose, which is often overlooked but holds potential in characterizing travelers' behavior, can lead to more tailored recommendations. In this study, we propose a model to predict whether a trip is leisure or work-related, utilizing state-of-the-art Automatic Text Classification (ATC) models such as BERT, RoBERTa, and BART to enhance the understanding of user travel purposes and improve recommendation accuracy in specific travel scenarios.
description: 2 pages, 3 tables
title: The Role of Railway Transport in Ceylon: Present Problems and Future Prospects.
Creators: name: Sundaralingam, K.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1968

description: This Thesis is a study of the role of railway transport in Ceylon. It is divided into three parts. Part One is devoted to the discussion of the Ceylon (Government) Railway's early role in the absence of competition, and to the present problems facing it as a consequence to the development of road transport on the one hand, and to an unrealistic transport policy, on the other. Part Two of the Thesis examines the proper role of the railways. A discussion of the country's financial difficulties, undertaken in chapter 5, reveals the extent to which the national interest clashes with orthodox economics; its importance cannot be overlooked in any solution to the transport problem. Chapter 6 deals with transport costs whilst the pricing and investment policies for the railways are discussed at length in chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 9 examines the transport problem and the solutions. The study of public control of transport is restricted to chapter 10. The results of the analysis in Part Two provides the basis for stating the case of the Railway in Part Three. It is apparent that the future prospects for the Railway depend on the availability of traffic and Government policy on transport in general, and the Railway in particular, Chapter 11 is devoted to an examination of the opportunities that are for it to secure additional traffic; the common arguments in support of the wider use of the Railway are dealt with. Chapter 12 examines a lore realistic transport policy. The proposals for the Railway and the road industry, while accommodating the national interest, are deemed to assure both the economic objective of a transport policy and the proper role of the Railway.
title: British Relations with Tanjore (1748-1799).
Creators: name: Ramanujam, Chidambaram Srinivasachari
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1968

description: The thesis examines the policy followed by the British towards Tanjore from the beginning of the Carnatic Wars to the end of the century. They came into close contact with that state during the course of the first Carnatic War and found her alliance and co-operation invaluable in establishing their power in India. By the end of the century, when their power was supreme, they found it convenient to annex Tanjore into their dominions. Throughout this period, Tanjore had not engaged herself in any hostilities towards the British; on the contrary, she had remained a faithful ally and to a great extent a protected power. But the fact that she was considered a tributary of the Nawab of Arcot, who in turn was dependent upon the British for his existence, reduced her to the position of discharging the demands of both the British and the Nawab; and suffer the consequences of heavy payments, which she could ill-afford. With the increase in the Nawab's dependence and their superiority, the British came to control the affairs of tooth the Nawato and the Raja. Since Arcot was of greater importance and the Nawato considered a particular ally, the interests of Tanjore were sacrificed to the dictates of his avarice and Tanjore itself was left under his complete control for a few years. When restored eventually to the Raja, the British found it opportune to establish their authority in Tanjore, reducing the Raja to complete dependence upon them. Their primary concern was the subsidy Tanjore paid for the protection she received from them. The treaties concluded in 1787, 1792 and 1799 were all in theory voluntary agreements between two independent states; tout on each occasion, the British move was only to safeguard and secure the punctual payment of that subsidy. When Tanjore found herself incapable of shouldering this heavy responsibility, the British found it necessary to annex the territory, leaving the Raja with a pension.
title: Prehistory and Protohistory of Eastern India.
Creators: name: Dani, Ahmad Hasan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1955

description: The thesis outlines an account of Eastern India, as revealed by the study of stone tools left behind by ancient man. It is based on published materials as well as personal observations in the field and on study of the objects in various museums. The environmental background is first given in order to understand the natural factors which man had to face. The account properly begins with Pleistocene man whose material remains have been found in the plateau of Chota Nagpur, extending in Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. In this very region have been collected microliths in association with ground tools. Both Palaeolithic and microlithic industries are related to Peninsular complex. The sections revealing these industries have been carefully studied. The study of ground tools occupies greater portion of the thesis, as they have been found in large numbers in all the provinces of Eastern India, and there are, also, many problems that have been linked up with them. The terminology of these tools in first defined, and then follows a descriptive account from region to region. An attempt is made to clarify the various problems related to them, and on the basis of the available data the typically Indian types of tools have been separated from the foreign types. As there is much confusion over these foreign types, it was considered necessary to investigate thoroughly into the problem of their appearance in India. A complete study has, therefore, been made of the available materials form Yunnan, Indo-China, Siam, Malaya and Burma, the countries which immediately concern our problem. Our investigations show that these foreign types arrived late in India, possibly well within the historical period, and that the archasologieal context does not favour the view of their being brought by migration of any people. With these findings, which are based wholly on archaeological evidence, our study closes.
title: Italian Educational Policy Towards Moslems in Libya, 1911-1922.
Creators: name: Appleton, Leonard Alban
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1979

description: Libya has remained a relatively neglected field for academic historians since the collapse of Italy's African Empire in 1943.This is particularly the case with regard to the effect of colonial rule upon the indigenous population itself. In seeking to examine, through the use of the surviving secondary sources and the available archival material, the effect of colonial policies in education upon the Moslem population, it is hoped that a start has been made in opening up this important area to the mind of the historian. After a brief background chapter dealing with Italian colonial policy and its chief determinants, there follow two chapters which examine the initial policies of Italian rule in respect of the indigenous institutions and the government's own schools. The main policies of Italian rule, however, are examined in chapters four, five and six, for in the period 1919-1922 Italy was confronted with the need to formulate an educational policy for Libya, which made sense in terms of the overriding concern to avoid a further colonial war in the country. Nationalist determination to avoid conceding Italy's colonial future in Libya for the sake of a temporary truce with the Libyan Independence Movement causes the Colonial Ministry to take a long hard look at the existing policies and their possible political implication for the future. As a result the educational policies that characterise Italian educational activity under fascism emerge. Chapters seven, eight and nine deal with the government's attempt to implement the educational policies of the Fundamental Law of 1919 in both Tripolitania and Cirenaica. The concluding chapter deals briefly with the main strands of fascist policy, which are telescoped for the remaining years of colonial rule, to provide the necessary educational perspective upon the period as a whole.