cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An Enquiry in Comparative Jurisprudence: Similarity and Disparity Between Dharma, Li and Nomos.
Creators: name: May, Reinhard Albert
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: This enquiry deals with comparative jurisprudence in a cross-cultural perspective. Three most prominent indigenous conceptions, the topoi of dharma, li, and nomos, are subsequently investigated and accordingly juxtaposed. Their formative and post-formative periods, the last roughly until between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D., are taken into consideration. No doubt, all three topoi represent significant world conceptions, a deeper understanding of which is prerequisite for an appropriate treatment. The enquiry commences with the Hindu Indian tradition of dharma avoiding as far as possible a descriptive vocabulary that is largely borrowed from an Occidental terminology; the same applies for the topos of li. Due to a still widely-observable ignorance of Hindu Indian jurisprudence, dharma figures in the centre of interest, and is therefore treated comparatively comprehensively. Next, considerable care is taken to focus on the Chinese li; and thirdly an essentially philosophic description of the ancient Greek topos of nomos is juxtaposed to the preceeding. As this implicit comparison reveals to an attentive observer, vague correspondences among fundamental disparities outweigh the similarity between the three topoi. Though dharma and li can be described as regulative ways of life, dharma is for India (Hinduism) what li is for China, and both are counterparts of what nomos was and became, the externally imposed constitutional (legal) order of society. After terminating the formative period, where a slight similarity exists in an imagination of order between nomos and dharma, while in China the imagination of harmony prevails instead, the topos of dharma is seen to be promoted under the presupposition of its provision of an overarching order, fit to work as an obligatory signpost through man's life, whereas the initial ritual and ceremonial li-conducts became after their extension into all social spheres the consolidated, socially created and accepted way of life.
Supplement_V1.4 – Supplemental material for Indirect and Neuropsychological Indicators of Pedophilia
Creators: name: Rosburg, Timm
name: Pflueger, Marlon O.
name: Mokros, Andreas
name: Boillat, Coralie
name: Deuring, Gunnar
name: Spielmann, Thorsten
name: Graf, Marc
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_V1.4 for Indirect and Neuropsychological Indicators of Pedophilia by Timm Rosburg, Marlon O. Pflueger, Andreas Mokros, Coralie Boillat, Gunnar Deuring, Thorsten Spielmann and Marc Graf in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
Supplemental Material, Table_B1 - Challenges and Opportunities to Regional Renewal in the European Union
Creators: name: Pontarollo, Nicola
name: Serpieri, Carolina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental Material, Table_B1 for Challenges and Opportunities to Regional Renewal in the European Union by Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri in International Regional Science Review
title: Media Freedom in an African State: Nigerian Law in Its Historical and Constitutional Context.
Creators: name: Jeffery, Anthea Jean
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: Freedom of the media, a subject of wide-ranging current international debate, is of vital contemporary importance in developed and developing countries alike. International and national guarantees of media freedom illustrate the increasing recognition of its importance; but demonstrate also the difficulty of balancing media freedom against competing interests. Nigeria, arguably the most influential of the new African states, is a richly revealing subject for the study of media freedom, for it combines a legacy of English colonial law with the recent adoption (in 1979) of a constitution loosely patterned on that of the United States of America: and which accords continued recognition to guarantees of fundamental rights (including freedom of expression) which were originally introduced before Nigerian independence (in 1960) and which served thereafter as a model for similar guarantees adopted by many of the new states of the Commonwealth. The thesis provides a brief overview of the laws which govern the media in Nigeria, and then examines selected rules in their constitutional context, considers their defects and analyses the extent to which they impose unjustifiable restrictions on freedom of the media. Recommendations are made for the reform of the law: in some cases, but certainly not all, by following English developments and - more generally - by adopting the approach taken in the United States of America to analogous problems of media freedom. The laws examined are those governing media licensing and regulation; sedition; defamation (civil and criminal); and contempt of court (especially the sub judice rule, publications 'scandalising' the court, the reporting of judicial proceedings by the media and the obligation of journalists to disclose the identity of their sources). Within each topic, the relevant Nigerian rules are described (with reference to both legislation and case law), important developments in the United Kingdom are analysed, and the approach of the United States of America to these questions is contrasted. In conclusion, it is submitted that Nigeria should adopt the various reforms suggested: and the significance of such development for other Commonwealth countries (with similar laws governing media freedom) is considered.
title: Human Rights: The Sri Lankan Experience 1947-1981.
Creators: name: Jayawickrama, Nihal Mahendra Sudrikku
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: This is an analysis of the attempts made in Sri Lanka to provide constitutional protection for certain civil and political rights. The 1972 and 1978 Republican Constitutions, each of which contained a chapter on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, is examined against the background of the less idealistic Order in Council of 1946 which contained the first Constitution of Independent Ceylon. The latter, which served as the basis for government for nearly twenty-five years, was drafted in the mid 'Forties, at a time when Bills of Rights-consciousness was hardly evident in the British Empire and still less among the elitist leadership thrown up by colonial rule in Ceylon. The thesis is structured into eight chapters. After an introductory survey in Chapter I of the "foundations of freedom" which were evident at Independence, the attempts made thereafter at formulating a Bill of Rights and the measure of success that attended, or eluded, these attempts are examined in Chapter II. The actual content of the protected rights in the 1978 Constitution, having regard to the overriding effect of "existing law", is examined in Chapter III. Since the effective enforcement of fundamental rights is dependent upon the existence of an independent court, the practical effectiveness of the legal safeguards designed to secure judicial independence are assessed in Chapter IV. The Sri Lankan experience of ex post facto and pre-enactment review of legislation is the subject of Chapter V. In Chapter VI, the effectiveness of the traditional as well as of the special remedies available at different times for the review of executive action is examined. Chapter VII looks at the impact on human rights of states of emergency which have existed in Sri Lanka for nearly half its independent life. The final chapter applies the experience of Sri Lanka to the problems involved in drafting and enforcing a Bill of Rights.
title: Land and Labour in Nyasaland 1891-1914.
Creators: name: Krishnamurthy, Bangalore Seshachelam
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: The problem of revenue was the most dominant one in the history of Nyasaland, between 1891 and 1914. Soon after the Protectorate was established in 1891, Johnston levied a tax in the enforcement of which he found many practical difficulties. Meanwhile settlers had come and had obtained grants of land from Chiefs. They had also begun experiments in coffee as an export crop. Johnston made a land settlement which was designed to encourage the development of land by European enterprise without disturbing African rights. The Administration found that the settlers subserved the needs of the country also by enabling Africans to earn money in order to pay their taxes. The demands for labour which increased with economic development resulted in confusing the question of African land rights in the Shire Highlands and the clause under which African rights had been safeguarded by Johnston was so ambiguously worded that it was of no help to protect Africans. European agriculture which could subsist only by paying lower wages could not also compete with the mining centres of the South which offered higher wages and attracted labour from Nyasaland. The Administration did nothing to stop this by encouraging the emergence of the the peasant producer which was the only alternative and which was possible only by a change in land policy giving priority to African interests. Nevertheless, it pursued its policy of allocating land to Europeans which was becoming scarce with the growth of population. Thus by 1914, the two problems of land and labour had been built into the history of Nyasaland.
Supplemental Material, 200214_Online_Supplement_to_Understanding_Intentionality_Asymmetries - Understanding Side-Effect Intentionality Asymmetries: Meaning, Morality, or Attitudes and Defaults?
Creators: name: Laurent, Sean M.
name: Reich, Brandon J.
name: Skorinko, Jeanine L. M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, 200214_Online_Supplement_to_Understanding_Intentionality_Asymmetries for Understanding Side-Effect Intentionality Asymmetries: Meaning, Morality, or Attitudes and Defaults? by Sean M. Laurent, Brandon J. Reich and Jeanine L. M. Skorinko in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
title: Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast: 1640-1720.
Creators: name: Daaku, Kwame Yeboa
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: Between 1640 and 1720 the Gold Coast coastline witnessed attempts on an unprecedented scale by Europeans to establish their trading posts. Conditions governing the grants of land on which their forts were built, examined here, have so far remained unknown. The seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries saw great changes in the relations between the Africans and the Europeans. There were commercial, social and political repercussions which greatly affected the Gold Coast. Commercially, not only were the locally made goods such as cotton cloths and beads superseded by European manufactured goods but gold, which had formerly been the main produce, began to be scarce. The inordinate demand for slaves by the European traders made gold mining unsafe. The slave trade gradually ate into all aspects of life on the Gold Coast. Even attempts to introduce plantations could not succeed, for, ironically, there were not enough farm hands to work them. Politically, the theory of state formation which had been based on kindred groupings collapsed. The greatest single factor which hastened the disintegration of the old order was the gun-running, in which the newcomers, unlike the Portuguese, indulged. This gave a strong push to ambitious states to conquer and subjugate the weaker ones. After 1700 state diplomacy on the Gold Coast was dictated by a desire to ally with others to isolate unfriendly neighbours. Socially, the change in the direction of trade from the north to the south made the coastal towns which had hitherto been mere fishing and salt-making villages into important centres. In these towns there grew up a new class of middlemen traders, artisans and wage earners whose existence was the direct result of the Afro-European confrontation on the Gold Coast.
SHREC: a SRE Behaviour Knowledge Graph Model for Shell Command Recommendations
Creators: name: Tonon, Andrea
name: Caglayan, Bora
name: Wang, MingXue
name: Hu, Peng
name: Shen, Fei
name: Zhang, Puchao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In IT system operations, shell commands are common command line tools used by site reliability engineers (SREs) for daily tasks, such as system configuration, package deployment, and performance optimization. The efficiency in their execution has a crucial business impact since shell commands very often aim to execute critical operations, such as the resolution of system faults. However, many shell commands involve long parameters that make them hard to remember and type. Additionally, the experience and knowledge of SREs using these commands are almost always not preserved. In this work, we propose SHREC, a SRE behaviour knowledge graph model for shell command recommendations. We model the SRE shell behaviour knowledge as a knowledge graph and propose a strategy to directly extract such a knowledge from SRE historical shell operations. The knowledge graph is then used to provide shell command recommendations in real-time to improve the SRE operation efficiency. Our empirical study based on real shell commands executed in our company demonstrates that SHREC can improve the SRE operation efficiency, allowing to share and re-utilize the SRE knowledge.
description: Accepted at IEEE SANER 2024
Supplemental Material, Laurent_Online_Appendix - Understanding Side-Effect Intentionality Asymmetries: Meaning, Morality, or Attitudes and Defaults?
Creators: name: Laurent, Sean M.
name: Reich, Brandon J.
name: Skorinko, Jeanine L. M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, Laurent_Online_Appendix for Understanding Side-Effect Intentionality Asymmetries: Meaning, Morality, or Attitudes and Defaults? by Sean M. Laurent, Brandon J. Reich and Jeanine L. M. Skorinko in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Supplemental Material, web_appendix - Consumer Search and Filtering on Online Retail Platforms
Creators: name: Baojun Jiang
name: Tianxin Zou
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, web_appendix for Consumer Search and Filtering on Online Retail Platforms by Baojun Jiang and Tianxin Zou in Journal of Marketing Research
Reviewer_2_v.1 – Supplemental material for Acute exacerbation of unclassifiable idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Enomoto, Noriyuki
name: Hyogo Naoi
name: Aono, Yuya
name: Katsumata, Mineo
name: Yasuoki Horiike
name: Yasui, Hideki
name: Karayama, Masato
name: Hironao Hozumi
name: Suzuki, Yuzo
name: Furuhashi, Kazuki
name: Fujisawa, Tomoyuki
name: Inui, Naoki
name: Yutaro Nakamura
name: Suda, Takafumi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_2_v.1 for Acute exacerbation of unclassifiable idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Noriyuki Enomoto, Hyogo Naoi, Yuya Aono, Mineo Katsumata, Yasuoki Horiike, Hideki Yasui, Masato Karayama, Hironao Hozumi, Yuzo Suzuki, Kazuki Furuhashi, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Naoki Inui, Yutaro Nakamura and Takafumi Suda in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: The Evolution of Local Government in Uganda: A Legal and Historical Study, 1900-1962.
Creators: name: Katalikawe, J. W. R.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1985

description: This thesis is a study of the transformation of "Native Authorities" into local government bodies in a British Protectorate. The setting is "the Pearl of Africa", popularly known as Uganda. The study is concerned with British "Indirect Local Rule" and Administration from 1900-1962. Its prime interest is to detail Britain's colonial record and its legacy. It sets out the legal framework within which the indigenous political institutions were recognised and employed by the Protecting Power as "mouth organs" and agencies through which British Officers carried out their administrative, judicial and legislative powers; examines the transformation of some of the indigenous procedures and ideas about justice, taxation and local administration generally, and highlights the success or otherwise, as the case may be, of these reform efforts. To this end, attention is focussed on the evolution of local government units - the District Councils, the Chiefly system of justice, the local revenue system, and the central-local relations. The idea is, firstly, to present a lucid portrait of each of these institutions, and secondly, to appraise the Protectorate's Devolution policy and its ramifications vis-a-vis the development of "an efficient and democratic system of local government" before and after Independence. It is fund that the move towards democratic decentralisation was always, Government policy not withstanding, viewed with suspicion and occasionally impeded and blocked by officers whose main concern was the "a massing of revenue" and administrative efficiency. It is, indeed, arguable that the post-war emphasis on the Devolution of Power was, to some extent, incompatible with the general tenets of Imperialism and Colonial overrule. It is interesting to note, however, that, since 1962,. the Nationalists-led Administrations have, without exception, tended to view local autonomy in much the same way, and virtually, through similar spectacles as their British counterparts before them. They, too, have adopted a paternalistic attitude towards autonomous local institutions, and, as a corollary they have, so far, underdeveloped them. Yet, the absence of a viable system of local government has been, in the eyes of some discerning observers, the main stumbling block to many statecraft oriented programmes. It is argued that local government is the strongest link between the centre and the periphery and, that the failure to involve it in the processes of economic and political development is a flagrant waste of the nation's scarce resources. The belier that this is the case is rapidly gaining ground and, there are many positive signs, in the attitude of some government circles, that the era of the negative approach to local government is at an end. It is believed that the key to future policy is to be found in the development of "free and independent" local government institutions.
Werntz_CPSOpenPracticesDisclosure – Supplemental material for Improving the Reach of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Experimental Investigation of Message Framing on User Engagement
Creators: name: Werntz, Alexandra
name: Bufka, Lynn
name: Adams, Brian E.
name: Teachman, Bethany A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Werntz_CPSOpenPracticesDisclosure for Improving the Reach of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Experimental Investigation of Message Framing on User Engagement by Alexandra Werntz, Lynn Bufka, Brian E. Adams and Bethany A. Teachman in Clinical Psychological Science
Appendix – Supplemental material for How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It
Creators: name: Wang, Richard T.
name: Tucker, Patrick D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Appendix for How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It by Richard T. Wang and Patrick D. Tucker in American Politics Research
title: The Impact of Islamization on the Christian Community in Pakistan.
Creators: name: Sookhdeo, Patrick
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: Christianity arrived in the area which is now Pakistan well before the advent of Islam, but was extinguished for a while by Muslim persecution, before being re-introduced by Western missionaries. The Pakistani Christian community of today numbers about three million people, who are mainly the descendants of mass conversions of Chuhra people about a century ago. Consequently the community has a low socio-economic status on average. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, apparently intended equality for all citizens, but there has been a range of other opinions as to the place of Islam in Pakistan and the status of non-Muslim minorities. The passing of the Objectives Resolution in 1949 began a process of Islamization, which included changes to the legislation and constitution and an increasing level of discrimination against Christians at many levels of society, significantly by zamindars and the police. Some of the types of discrimination correspond to the traditional dhimmi status of Christians in a Muslim society; others do not, notably the "blasphemy law" which has interesting links with apostasy. The Shari'ah has gained increasing prominence in the legislation. As citizens of a state created to be a homeland for Muslims, many Christians have an identity crisis and some have emigrated. For historical reasons, mainly connected with the influence of missionaries, Christians were apathetic in their response to Islamization and tended to withdraw from the majority society and from politics. The Punjabi biradari culture created disunity which also weakened their response. In recent years, they have become more active in national protests, inter-faith dialogue and engaging the international arena. They are now as active in politics as they can be within the separate electorates system. Many would rather have their own state or autonomous Christian province within Pakistan but this is unrealistic.
Online_Appendix_Legislative_Effects_CPS – Supplemental material for The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An Analysis on the Legislative Behavior of Successful German Constituency Candidates
Creators: name: Zittel, Thomas
name: Nyhuis, Dominic
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Online_Appendix_Legislative_Effects_CPS for The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An Analysis on the Legislative Behavior of Successful German Constituency Candidates by Thomas Zittel and Dominic Nyhuis in Comparative Political Studies
title: Ecclesiastical Devolution and Union in China: The Emergence of the First Native Protestant Church in South Fujian, 1842-1863.
Creators: name: Cheung, David
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2002

description: This study of the history of earliest Protestantism in South Fujian covers the period from the arrival of the first missionaries to the ordination of the first Chinese pastors. The two missions concerned were the Reformed Church of America and the English Presbyterian Mission. Established by the RCA at Amoy in 1856, the first organised church also happened to be a 'self-governing' native church. This study demonstrates that the oldest RCA blueprint for church formation was consciously pro-devolution; that the RCA mission methods succeeded in producing a body of converts whose general Christian quality was found satisfactory by the missionaries; that the RCA methods were adopted wholeheartedly by the EPM; that various limitations on the part of the missionaries allowed the Chinese to further prove their Christian worth by way of both paid and voluntary involvement in the religious enterprise; that the Chinese inland initiatives of 1853 onwards which constituted virtual self-propagation brought about a major change in missionary thinking; and that all these factors interacted in an interesting fashion so as to result in the emergence of the first Chinese church in Fujian as well as in the whole of China during the spring of 1856. In 1862 the churches connected with the EPM joined with those associated with the RCA to form the Tionglo Taihoey. As the first union church in China, this body was regarded a devolutionary necessity for the pastoral ordinations of 1863. This progress of events was nothing but the continued pursuit of the native church ideal first expressed in the 1840s. For the Missions, the union was made possible and desirable by their historical cooperation, common vision of the native church, denominational compatibility and methodological similarity. Thus while devolution was part of the earliest church theory, union was triggered mainly by historical happenstances.
SJP929833_Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Health-related quality of life in young Syrian refugees recently resettled in Norway
Creators: name: Dangmann, Cecilie R.
name: Solberg, Øivind
name: Steffenak, Anne K.M.
name: Sevald Høye
name: Andersen, Per N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, SJP929833_Supplemental_material for Health-related quality of life in young Syrian refugees recently resettled in Norway by Cecilie R. Dangmann, Øivind Solberg, Anne K.M. Steffenak, Sevald Høye and Per N. Andersen in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Luttrell_Online_Appendix – Supplemental material for The Stability of Moralized Attitudes Over Time
Creators: name: Luttrell, Andrew
name: LaCount J. Togans
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Luttrell_Online_Appendix for The Stability of Moralized Attitudes Over Time by Andrew Luttrell and LaCount J. Togans in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Supporting_Information – Supplemental material for Thermo-catalytic pyrolysis of polystyrene in batch and semi-batch reactors: A comparative study
Creators: name: Inayat, Amer
name: Klemencova, Katerina
name: Grycova, Barbora
name: Sokolova, Barbora
name: Lestinsky, Pavel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, Supporting_Information for Thermo-catalytic pyrolysis of polystyrene in batch and semi-batch reactors: A comparative study by Amer Inayat, Katerina Klemencova, Barbora Grycova, Barbora Sokolova and Pavel Lestinsky in Waste Management & Research
title: Wutai Shan During the Ming Dynasty.
Creators: name: Guang, Kuan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2010

description: Historians of Ming period Chinese Buddhism have tended in the past to concentrate on the monastic Buddhism of the economically dominant Lower Yangzi, or on the Buddhism of the capital, Beijing. By contrast this thesis investigates the management of monastic establishments on Wutai Shan during the Ming dynasty. A review of Wutai Shan Buddhist history and the general characteristics of Ming Buddhism is provided as essential background for understanding the conclusions of the research. By the 15th-16th centuries Indian Buddhist influence on Wutai Shan had a long established history. There is little awareness, however, that Wutai Shan was still attracting Indian Buddhist visitors as late as this period. This thesis focuses on the activities of two great Indian Buddhist masters who came to Wutai Shan. Their visits reveal that although it had weakened as a result of the decline of Buddhism in India, the bond between Indian Buddhism and Wutai Shan continued to exist during this period. Following these two great masters other South Asian Buddhists came to this holy mountain throughout the Ming period. In contrast to these visitors from "the west", in this period we hardly see any Japanese and Korean Buddhist pilgrims on Wutai Shan. Many Wutai Shan monk officials are mentioned in inscriptions in regard to various events. Through a careful study of the monk official system on Wutai Shan we conclude that the power of Ming Wutai Shan monk officials was very limited. This was due to the unique character of Wutai Shan, where many celebrated monks were given honorific titles which co-existed with the Buddhist offices. This created overlaps in jurisdiction which frequently resulted in no one having the authority to take charge. Elsewhere, however, the Ming monk official system was not merely honorific. In most areas the system still functioned, and we use the Nanjing monk official system as example to prove this. Many Buddhologists believe that four eminent monks in late Ming China played important roles in revitalising Chinese Buddhism. Among these, three had been to Wutai Shan. In this research we compare the monastic reforms led by two of these monks with those on Wutai Shan in the late Ming. As one of the most important sacred Buddhist sites, Wutai Shan gained considerable support from the Ming imperial family. Some members had political motives but most acted out of genuine concern for the flourishing of Buddhism. As compared with both previous dynasties and with the later Qing dynasty, relatively more Ming imperial support came from the members of imperial family's personal purse than from state funds, reflecting the weakened condition of imperial power under the Ming. In contrast to the well-documented imperial patrons there are hardly any records relating to lay patrons of Wutai Shan, and we analyse reasons behind this. All these aspects of Wutai Shan Buddhism reveal a Ming Buddhist culture significantly different from that which has occupied scholarly attention so far.
title: Local Government in Ewedome, British Trust Territory of Togoland (Ghana), 1922-1974.
Creators: name: Yayoh, Wilson Kwame
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2010

description: This thesis investigates the development of local government in the Ewedome region of present-day Ghana and explores the transition from the Native Authority system to a 'modem' system of local government within the context of colonization and decolonization. The decolonization process and the transition to local councils in the region from the 1950s brought in its wake a change in power relations, as individuals and groups at the local level began a struggle over status and political space within the new local government structure. As the decolonization process necessitated a change in the trusteeship status of the region, the development of local government suffered a severe jolt, as local councils became battlegrounds for the fight for and against the integration of the trust territory into independent Ghana. The thesis argues that while the Native Authorities of the colonial period were inefficient and incapable of advancing the development of a modem society, the successor local councils proved to be far more inept and corrupt than the bodies they came to replace. Excessive politicisation of local government structures alienated many citizens to the extent that local councils failed to follow in the tradition of serving as a focal point for harnessing the enthusiasm and energy of rural folk in the region.
DS_10.1177_0022034520940288 – Supplemental material for Modeling of the Transmission of Coronaviruses, Measles Virus, Influenza Virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Legionella pneumophila in Dental Clinics
Creators: name: C. Zemouri
name: S.F. Awad
name: C.M.C. Volgenant
name: W. Crielaard
name: A.M.G.A. Laheij
name: J.J. De Soet
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034520940288 for Modeling of the Transmission of Coronaviruses, Measles Virus, Influenza Virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Legionella pneumophila in Dental Clinics by C. Zemouri, S.F. Awad, C.M.C. Volgenant, W. Crielaard, A.M.G.A. Laheij and J.J. de Soet in Journal of Dental Research
HP0-19-0091-R2_supplementary_file_23-03-20 – Supplemental material for Preparing care home staff to manage challenging behaviours among residents living with dementia: A mixed-methods evaluation
Creators: name: Niyah Campbell
name: Maidment, Ian D
name: Randle, Emma
name: Shaw, Rachel L
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, HP0-19-0091-R2_supplementary_file_23-03-20 for Preparing care home staff to manage challenging behaviours among residents living with dementia: A mixed-methods evaluation by Niyah Campbell, Ian D Maidment, Emma Randle and Rachel L Shaw in Health Psychology Open
Reviewer_1_v.1 – Supplemental material for Inhaled antibiotics therapy for stable non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Meng-Jiao Xu
name: Dai, Bing
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_1_v.1 for Inhaled antibiotics therapy for stable non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: a meta-analysis by Meng-Jiao Xu and Bing Dai in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: The Role of the Mujtahids of Tehran in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1905-9.
Creators: name: Martin, Vanessa Ann Morgan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1984

description: The thesis discusses the role of the mujtahids of Tehran in the Constitutional Revolution, considering their contribution both in ideas and organisation. The thesis is divided into eight chapters, the first of which deals with the relationship between the Lulama and the state, and the problem of accommodation with a ruler who was illegitimate according to Twelver Shi'ite law. The second chapter discusses the economic and social position of the 'ulama, concentrating on their financial resources, their legal duties, and their relationships with other groups, and attempting to show the ways in which they were subject to pressure. In the third chapter, the role of the Lulama, and particularly the mujtahids, in the coming of the Revolution is examined, especially their response to the centralisation of government, and the financial crisis at the turn of the century. The ideological contribution of the leading pro-constitutional mujtahid is discussed in the fourth chapter and an attempt made to identify the influences upon his ideas. Chapters five and seven deal with the role of the pro-constitutional mujtahids as the Revolution developed, considering their relationship with their following, the part they played in political organisation, and in the legitimising of the new Majlis, as well as their reactions to financial and legal reform. Chapters six and eight concentrate upon the arguments of the leading anti-constitutional mujtahid, and examine his relationship with the supporters of absolutism. The main themes of the conclusion are the contribution of both pro- and anti-constitutional mujtahids, ideologically and in organisation; their relations with their following; their attitude in general to reform; and the effect upon the Lulami of the long term trends, of which the Revolution may be said to form a part. The conclusion also draws in the work of other scholars on the subject, especially Hairi, Algar, Lambton and Arjomand.
CMOS-Compatible Ultrathin Superconducting NbN Thin Films Deposited by Reactive Ion Sputtering on 300 mm Si Wafer
Creators: name: Yang, Zihao
name: Wei, Xiucheng
name: Roy, Pinku
name: Zhang, Di
name: Lu, Ping
name: Dhole, Samyak
name: Wang, Haiyan
name: Cucciniello, Nicholas
name: Patibandla, Nag
name: Chen, Zhebo
name: Zeng, Hao
name: Jia, Quanxi
name: Zhu, Mingwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a milestone in achieving large-scale, ultrathin (~5 nm) superconducting NbN thin films on 300 mm Si wafers using a high-volume manufacturing (HVM) industrial physical vapor deposition (PVD) system. The NbN thin films possess remarkable structural uniformity and consistently high superconducting quality across the entire 300 mm Si wafer, by incorporating an AlN buffer layer. High-resolution X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analyses unveiled enhanced crystallinity of (111)-oriented δ-phase NbN with the AlN buffer layer. Notably, NbN films deposited on AlN-buffered Si substrates exhibited a significantly elevated superconducting critical temperature (~2 K higher for the 10 nm NbN) and a higher upper critical magnetic field or Hc2 (34.06 T boost in Hc2 for the 50 nm NbN) in comparison with those without AlN. These findings present a promising pathway for the integration of quantum-grade superconducting NbN films with the existing 300 mm CMOS Si platform for quantum information applications.
STRESS VARIATION AS UNIFYING FEATURES OF UPSTATE NEW YORK
Creators: name: Vail, Tracey
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applied Linguistics
subject: Language Description and Documentation
subject: Phonetics and Phonology

description: This study investigates sociophonetic stress variation in the Onondaga County area of Upstate New York. I argue that five variations of stress correlate to factors of age, education level, place of residence, frequency, and analogical change. Dinkin and Evanini (2010) have examined and discovered similar outcomes of stress variation in his work with dialectal features across the state of New York. Rather than analyze the state and its borders in their entirety, I focus on morpheme-specific analogical change of stress in specific social categories within the Syracuse, New York region. In terms of lexical items, I analyze stress placement within four-, five-, and six-syllable words containing the -mentary affix and explore how stress shifts in these words depending on those social and linguistic factors. Data were collected through formal and informal sociolinguistic interviews in which each instance of the target words were analyzed as belonging to one of five types of stress. Results indicate that Syracuse is one of the locations in the state that see all five stress patterns. To further investigate, I take the provided evidence of stress variation and filter for sociological relevance for factors of age, gender, and residence.
Online_appendix – Supplemental material for Assessing Quality in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Study of Novice Rater Training
Creators: name: Acosta, Sandra
name: Garza, Tiberio
name: Hsien-Yuan Hsu
name: Goodson, Patricia
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, Online_appendix for Assessing Quality in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Study of Novice Rater Training by Sandra Acosta, Tiberio Garza, Hsien-Yuan Hsu and Patricia Goodson in SAGE Open
Unitary control of partially coherent waves. I. Absorption
Creators: name: Guo, Cheng
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent control of wave absorption has important applications in areas such as energy harvesting, imaging, and sensing. However, most practical scenarios involve the absorption of partially coherent rather than fully coherent waves. Here we present a systematic theory of unitary control over the absorption of partially coherent waves by linear systems. Given an absorbing system and incident partially coherent wave, we provide analytical expressions for the range of attainable absorptivity under arbitrary unitary transformations of the incident field. We also present an explicit algorithm to construct the unitary control scheme that achieves any desired absorptivity within that attainable range. As applications of our theory, we derive the conditions required for achieving two new phenomena - partially coherent perfect absorption and partially coherent zero absorption. Furthermore, we prove a theorem relating the coherence properties of the incident field, as quantified by majorization, to the resulting absorption intervals. Our results provide both fundamental insights and practical prescriptions for exploiting unitary control to shape the absorption of partially coherent waves. The theory applies across the electromagnetic spectrum as well as to other classical wave systems such as acoustic waves.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures
title: British Administration in the Kandyan Provinces of Sri Lanka, 1815-1833, With Special Reference to Social Change.
Creators: name: Kulasekera, Kulasekera Mudiyanselage Padmasiri
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1984

description: The main theme of this study is an examination of the impact of political change on the Kandyan socio-economic and political system, with particular attention to the manner in which that system was subject to a gradual weakening under British rule from 1815 to 1833. For a better understanding of the main issues examined later, the first chapter analyses the nature of the traditional Kandyan socioeconomic and political system. Chapter two examines the cession of the Kandyan Kingdom to the British in 1815. The collaboration of the Kandyan nobility with the British ended in a rebellion in 1817-18, the suppression of which resulted in weakening the position of the nobles and established British power on firmer grounds. The corresponding administrative changes, which are examined in chapter three, created dual structures. However, the British administrative superstructure gradually penetrated the indigenous administrative system. Chapter four examines British economic policy. The regularization of the taxation system disturbed the traditional land tenure system and extensive utilization of raiakariya resulted in much oppression for the inhabitants. The opening of coffee plantations - a new phenomenon in the economic field - involved a dichotomous development in the Kandyan economy. The next chapter concentrates on British social policy. Although the British tended to protect many Kandyan social institutions on political grounds, the overall effect of their administration was to weaken them. The last chapter examines the manner in which the Colebrooke-Cameron reforms further promoted the developments and changes which were already taking place in the Kandyan society. In the conclusion, the changes that the Kandyan society underwent during this period are analysed in a more general context, particularly as one stage of a process of modernization under the impact of colonial rule.
title: The Development of the Malayan Chinese Association.
Creators: name: Koon, Heng Pek
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1984

description: The study focuses on the dynamics of intra-community Chinese political development and the emergence of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) as a major political force at the multiethnic political centre during Malaya's transition from colony to independent nation state. During the pre-independence years of the MCA's existence, 1949-1957, the party was a hybrid institution which combined ideological and organisational elements of both Westernised and traditional political elites, represented by the Straits Chinese British Association (SBCA), the Kuomintang Malaya (KMTM), and the Chinese Chambers of Commerce-huay kuan establishment . Embodying both modem and traditional elements, the MCA proved a dynamic organisation capable of meeting changing Chinese needs arising from the Emergency, the growth of an assertive Malay nationalist movement, and the accelerating momentum towards decolonisation. Following an internal reappraisal in the early 1950s of its initial character as a traditional mutual aid organisation involved mainly in Emergency-related welfare activities, the MCA became a catalyst for the development of a Malayan-centred Chinese political consciousness. Its leadership chose a communally-based political alliance with the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), rather than partnership with the multi-racial Independence of Malaya Party (IMP), as the best means of serving Chinese interests. The party's pivotal role in mainstream Malayan politics is most clearly demonstrated by its cooperation with the UMNO in jointly leading the independence campaign, including the Alliance negotiations with the British and the Malay Rulers which resulted in the promulgation of a constitution that defined the economic, cultural and political rules for independent Malaya. Although the constitution enshrined Malay "special rights" and upheld Malay cultural and political dominance, the MCA achieved its crucial objective of citizenship based on jus soli, thus laying the basis for legitimate Chinese participation in the political life of independent Malaya.