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title: British West Sumatra During the Presidency Period 1760 to 1785.
Creators: name: Kathirithamby, Jeyamalar
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1965

description: It was with the aim of collecting pepper that the English East India Company first established factories on the West Coast of Sumatra in the face of Dutch and Bantamese opposition. Lack of stable indigenous government in the pepper districts, however, hampered the supply of produce by the Indonesians and necessitated the introduction of a form of indirect administration over the Coast. This system was disrupted in 1760 by a French invasion, but revived British interest in Southeast Asia with development of the new trade link between India and China led the Company to re-establish its former control over the Sumatran settlements on the more elaborate lines of a Presidency, Wide divergence between administrative policy and practice, corruption, the arbitrary exercise of power by Company servants, and general ignorance of the botany of pepper cultivation nevertheless seriously hindered increased production. Reforms initiated by the Directors in 1778 to improve conditions on the Coast were ineffective. Efforts made during the Presidency period to diversify the economy by improvement of trade, agriculture and industry proved equally ineffective due to the strategic and geographical disadvantages of the British settlements and Dutch commercial rivalry. The profits from pepper alone did not cover heavy administrative expenditure and the Company eventually relinquished hopes of elevating the Coast to a major role in the new triangular trade pattern in Asia. In 1785 the settlements were reduced to Residency status and the Company transferred its main interests in Southeast Asia to the direct route between India and China, through the Straits of Malacca.
title: The Development of the Ceylon Civil Service 1802-1833.
Creators: name: Kannangara, Premasiri Dharmapriya
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: The development of the Civil Service of Ceylon is closely interconnected with that of the Headman system. This thesis is partly a study of the interrelation between the offices and institutions established by the British and the Headman system. Chapter One deals with the growth of the central and departmental administrative machinery. A chief feature in this growth was a conflict between liberal and authoritarian trends. Chapter Two deals with the provincial and local administrative machinery. Besides displaying the above conflict the European part of this structure as well as the policy of the Government brought about a partial transformation of the office of Headman. Chapter Three deals with administrative development in the Kandyan provinces. Here the disarrangement of the Sinhalese feudal organization was the chief result of the establishment of European offices. Chapters Four and Five examine the internal organization of the Civil Service. The chief factor in the growth of this organization was the need that was felt to satisfy the aspirations of those setting out from England as Civil Servants. Chapter Six examines the forces that were behind the movement for reform and states the problems of reform. The social and political problems associated with an exclusive Civil Service were the chief among them. Chapter Seven examines the nature of the Colebrooke-Cameron reform proposals. The liberalization of the administrative machinery that was recommended by them was the natural corollary to a desire to create a more individualistic and competitive economy and society.
title: The Rights and Liabilities of the Bengal Raiyats Under Tenancy Legislation From 1885 to 1947.
Creators: name: Kabir, Lutful
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1965

description: The British Administration promised at the time of the Permanent Settlement of 1793 in Bengal, to enact such laws as it might think necessary for the protection and welfare of the raiyats. But it was not until the enactment of the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1835, that fulfilment of that promise was achieved, and the law of landlord and tenant in agricultural land in Bengal was codified. The object of this thesis is to expound the rights and liabilities of the Bengal raiyats as defined in the Act and subsequent legislation up to 1947. Chapter 1 is introductory: it indicates what rights the raiyats had in land before the commencement of the British Administration in Bengal and explains hog the Code of Lord Cornwallis, and subsequent legislation up to 1859, failed to protect their interests against the zemindars. The failure of the Rent Acts of 1859 and 1869 to safeguard their interests is discussed as well as the circumstances leading up to the enactment of the famous Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885. Chapter 2 deals with the classes of raiyats and the incidents of their tenures. Particular attention is paid to the development of the concept of occupancy right. Chapter 3 relates to the rights of raiyats given by the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885 and a comparison is made between these rights and those occurring under the Rent Acts of 1859 and 1869. Chapter 4 explains the raivats' liability for rent and the failure of the attempt to introduce the theory of rent, as propounded by Ricardo and other Western Economists. Chatter 5 deals with the rules governing payment and suspension of rent and the attempts of the British Administration to prevent zemindars imposing illegal imposts on raiyats. Chapter 6 deals with the grounds of enhancement and reduction of rent and the procedure by which they were effected. Chapter 7 explains the various modes of recovery of arrears of rent, and the restrictions imposed on the zemindar seeking to realise arrears. Chapter 8 deals with the grounds on which a raiyat could have been ejected from his holding and the procedure that followed. In Chapter 9, the last chapter, the development of the law from the Permanent Settlement, which at first resulted in the enhancement of the zemindar's status and derogation of the status of the raiyat, to his rehabilitation by the Act of 1885 is briefly set out, together with the subsequent change of policy, resulting in the abolition of the zemindar and the vesting of title in the cultivator, holding directly under government, with an occupancy right but subject to a ceiling regarding the extent of his holding.
title: Syntactic and Semantic Underspecification in the Verb Phrase.
Creators: name: Marten, Lutz
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: This thesis is concerned with verbs and the relation between verbs and their complements. Syntactic evidence is presented which shows that the distinction between arguments and adjuncts reflects the optionality of adjuncts, but that adjuncts, once introduced, behave as arguments of the verb. An analysis is proposed which reflects this observation by assuming that verbal subcategorization is underspecified, so that optional constituents can be introduced into the verb phrase. The analysis is developed within a formal model of utterance interpretation. Labelled Deductive Systems for Natural Language (LDSNL), proposed in Kempson, Meyer-Viol & Gabbay (1999), which models the structural aspect of utterance interpretation as a dynamic process of tree growth during which lexical information is combined into more complex structures which provide vehicles for interpretation, propositional forms. The contribution of this thesis from the perspective of utterance interpretation is that it explores the notion of structural underspecification with respect to predicate-argument structure. After providing a formalization of underspecified verbal subcategorization, the thesis explores the consequences this analysis of verbs and verb phrases has for the process of tree growth, and how underspecified verbs are interpreted. The main argument developed is that verbs syntactically encode the possibilty for pragmatic enrichment; verbs address mental concepts only indirectly, so that the establishment of their eventual meaning, and, therefore, their eventual arity is mediated by the cognitive process of concept formation. Additional support for this view is provided by an analysis of applied verbs in Swahili which, from the perspective adopted here, can be seen to encode an explicit instruction for concept strengthening, an instruction to the hearer to derive additional inferential effects. The analysis presented in this thesis thus supports the view that natural language interpretation is a process in which structural properties and inferential activity are thoroughly intertwined.
Automatic Mass Estimation From Optical And Radar Observations
Creators: name: Limonta, L
name: Sugar, G
name: Close, S
name: Marshall, R
name: Hirsch, M
name: Nicolls, M
name: Semeter, J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: meteor, radar, estimation, ionosphere

description: Presents a new method to obtain meteoroid mass using data from a joint optical and radar experiment conducted at Poker Flat Research Range. From radar and optical data we can determine the radar cross section of a meteor and its luminosity power.
title: Dutch Disease and Venezuelan Industrialisation (1968-1994).
Creators: name: Lopez, Odalis
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: This thesis examines the impact of the 1970s oil booms on Venezuelan private manufacturing within the framework of the Dutch disease and 'resource curse' theses. However, as some of the assumptions implicit in the Dutch disease model do not hold for Venezuela, other factors and theories were brought into the picture. Attention was drawn to the implications of the existence of unemployment before the boom. Our major hypothesis is that, assuming the existence of unemployment, the role of government policies, especially industrial, export promotion and technology policies, are bound to play an important role in shaping the final outcome of a boom. In researching these issues, a Dutch disease index and an econometric model were estimated. A cointegration and error-correction methodology was chosen to test for the predictions of the standard Dutch disease model. We not only identified the existence of Dutch disease symptoms in Venezuela during 1973-82, but also established whether the transmission mechanisms predicted by the theoretical model operated during these years in Venezuela. The thesis has also involved the compilation of a 30-to-40 year data set of national accounts and trade figures, as well as detailed variables for 18 manufacturing lines.
Supporting Information.docx from Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) visual acuity allows silhouette detection but not fine detail discrimination over ecological distances
Creators: name: Bolin, Jacob
name: Moreno, Vanessa
name: Johnsen, Sonke
name: Schweikert, Lorian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310908
subject: Animal physiology - biophysics
classificationCode: 310909
subject: Animal physiology - cell
classificationCode: 310910
subject: Animal physiology - systems

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title: The Legal Status of Nigerian Women With Special Reference to Marriage.
Creators: name: Amechi, Euna Eileen Augusta
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1979

description: The main purpose of the research was to collect and collate the relevant evidence of the legal status of Nigerian women in marriage and family life. The research was motivated by the relative lack of information on all aspects of women's life. Although a voluminous literature on the Nigerian peoples exists, references to women are incidental - necessary but insignificant adjuncts to discussions of and about men. No substantial legal work on Nigerian women has so far been published. It is in the absence of any comprehensive previous study of the legal status of women in marriage that the present work finds its justification. Women's status in the three types of legally recognized marriages in Nigeria is examined in detail. The thesis is divided into five parts. Part one, consisting of two chapters, is introductory, and covers the historical and legal background necessary for the proper appreciation of the topics discussed later. In part two, the status of women in customary law marriage is examined. The types of marriage, dowry, and the incidents and dissolution of customary marriage are dealt with in six chapters. The impact made on women's status by foreign forms of marriage is discussed in part three. Chapter IX covers marriage according to Islamic law, while women's status in statutory marriage in relation to the formation, incidents and dissolution of marriage forms the subject matter of chapters X and XI. The property rights of married women are dealt with in part four. In chapter XII, women's property rights during marriage are discussed, while in chapter XIII, their rights of succession to property are examined. Part five is the concluding part. The research methods embraced intensive reading in the relevant libraries and archives in London and Nigeria, supplemented by six months of field-work in selected areas of Nigeria.
title: Land Administration and Land Titles Registration in Ghana.
Creators: name: Agbosu, Lennox Kwame
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1980

description: The various communities now comprised in the State of Ghana were, before their absorption into the Gold Coast under British colonial rule, separate independent polities. Boundaries between such traditional states were neither abolished, defined nor demarcated. For over three centuries, the basis of the relation between Britain and the Gold Coast was the import-export trade which did not require direct involvement of British subjects in land exploitation. Thus until the last two decades of the nineteenth century, land problems did not concern the colonial government. However, the long contact with Europeans led to the reception of English conceptions of tenure. The introduction of commercial agriculture based on permanent cultivation of cocoa and coffee plantations and the development of the mining and the timber industries during the 1880s had significant impacts on the traditional tenure systems. The concession boom which accompanied these developments caused problems. Land values appreciated and rights to them became keenly contested. Since boundaries remained undefined, there were conflicting and overlapping concession grants. English conveyancing forms and terminology which the grantors could not understand were employed in drafting concession agreements. It was difficult for strangers to identify the persons with legal capacity to deal with the lands which were group-held property. These problems caused insecurity of titles and costly litigation. The measures contained in the abortive Public Lands Bills, 1894 and 1897 were designed to solve these problems. When they were withdrawn on account of European and native opposition, the establishment of a deeds registration system and special courts established to administer concession grants were relied upon for their solution. The Study investigates the effectiveness of these measures and Land administration in the North where the principles of the abortive Land Bills were applied. The period between 1880 and 1977 is covered by the Study.
title: The Constitutional Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in Zambia: An Historical and Comparative Study.
Creators: name: Zimba, Lawrence Silas
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1979

description: This study examines the legal bases for the protection of human rights in the constitutional development of Zambia, and indicates how they have operated in practice. The approach adopted in discussing this subject is comparative in that the Zambian experiences and events are related to those that have taken place in other Commonwealth African countries, or indeed in any common law jurisdiction. The work is divided into four parts and consists of ten chapters. The idea that there must be some limits to the power of the state to interfere with man's rights is not new. Chapter One in Part I therefore traces the evolution of the idea of human rights as rooted in the theories of "natural law" and "natural rights". It also examines the influence and impact of international law on the development and spread of human rights throughout the world, not least in Africa. The doctrine of '"inalienable" human rights was borrowed by Africa from Europe and from America. Chapter Two discusses this theme and unfolds the avenues through which this doctrine found its way into the many independence constitutions of Africa. Chapter Three, on the other hand, examines the legal mechanisms through which human rights were protected and invaded during the colonial era before independence. The decision finally to incorporate a bill of rights in the self- government of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) was, as elsewhere in Africa, precipitated by certain active political, economic and social issues. Chapter Four discusses these. Part II opens with Chapter Five which examines the content and salient features of the Zambian Bill of Rights. Chapter Six examines the role played by the courts in the enforcement of the guaranteed rights. The nature of the conflict between the overriding needs of socio-economic development in an emergent state and the protection of property rights are analysed in Chapter Seven. In Part III, the question whether a one-party state constitutes a threat to human rights, and to democracy and to constitutionalism is discussed in Chapters Eight and Nine. Part IV concludes the work with Chapter Ten appraising the problems affecting the constitutional protection of human rights in Africa, and suggests some alternative modes for their protection.
McConnell_and_Troop-Gordon_supplemental_materials_LM – Supplemental material for Attentional Biases to Bullies and Bystanders and Youth’s Coping With Peer Victimization
Creators: name: McConnell, Leanna
name: Troop-Gordon, Wendy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160301 Family and Household Studies
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, McConnell_and_Troop-Gordon_supplemental_materials_LM for Attentional Biases to Bullies and Bystanders and Youth’s Coping With Peer Victimization by Leanna McConnell and Wendy Troop-Gordon in The Journal of Early Adolescence
Action_Learning_Set_meeting_-an_example – Supplemental material for Integrating Mindfulness Into Leadership Development
Creators: name: Sanyal, Chandana
name: Rigg, Clare
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, Action_Learning_Set_meeting_-an_example for Integrating Mindfulness Into Leadership Development by Chandana Sanyal and Clare Rigg in Journal of Management Education
title: The Female Suffering Body: Representations of Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature of the Levant and Egypt 1950-2005.
Creators: name: Hamdar, Abir
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2008

description: This thesis examines the representation of female physical illness and disability in selected literary works by Arab male and female writers of the Levant and Egypt from the period of 1950-2005. The analysis investigates the ways that sick and disabled female characters have been depicted in these works, the roles allotted to them within the narrative as well as the metaphoric connotations they took. Throughout a comparison in the representation of the female suffering body amongst both groups of writers is emphasized while the textual and narrative structure each employed is compared and contrasted. Chapter One establishes the theoretical framework of the study by drawing on theories in literary studies, social medicine, medical anthropology and sociology of the body but with an emphasis, above all, on a Foucauldian reading. Chapter Two deals with works of male writers who published between 1950-2000 and focuses on how the ill female body was absented. Chapter Three examines the works of female writers who published within the same time span as their male counterparts but who brought about more developed female illness narratives infused with complex structures and subversive ideologies. Chapter Four, on the other hand, focuses on works published in 2000 and beyond to show how the sick female body begins to be textually and physically constituted in some male and female narratives. Chapter Five concludes by highlighting the social and political forces that have shaped the representations of ill female bodies in the works discussed. Through all this, the study demonstrates that the representation of the female suffering body has been marked by a slow movement from domains of invisibility to spaces of literary visibility, from symbolic meaning to lived, corporeal experience and from a voiceless presence to one that charts a passage to its subjective and self-reflexive narrative. Furthermore, the longstanding stigma associated with imperfect female bodies in the wider Arab cultural surrounding is highlighted while the changing relationship to ill female bodies underway at the moment is transmitted.
title: Structural Estrangement: How Political and Legal Cultures Dictate Transatlantic Divergence and Convergence of Climate Change Policy.
Creators: name: Hall, Jennifer Crary Hall
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2009

description: The international issue of climate change is appearing on domestic agendas with increasing regularity. More than one hundred nations have now ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the Kyoto Protocol), which entered into force on the 16th of February 2005. The importance of the domestic climate change policy process of developed countries is therefore increasing. Reduction of emissions must take place at the national or sub-national level. International negotiations cannot make reductions; they can only direct that reductions take place. Therefore any international agreement must be enacted into national law for its objectives to be met. An understanding of the factors that influence policy selection will help us to identify what makes an international treaty successful on the national front. Governments, including the United States, are agreed that climate change is an important issue. While each has the same range of policy instruments at their disposal, each chooses to address the problem in different ways. This thesis focuses on the influence that differing political and legal cultures exert on the development and selection of climate change policies in the United Kingdom and California. It draws on qualitative data collected through interviews with key players in the policy process in the subject jurisdictions in conjunction with analysis of relevant documents, official and otherwise. The study suggests that the political and legal culture of a jurisdiction plays a major role in the determination of policy, providing new and valuable insights into the policy-making process in the subject jurisdictions. Its findings constitute an argument for giving greater consideration to political and legal cultural issues during international negotiations with the aim of framing international agreements with a greater potential for adoption into domestic law. This thesis covers the period up to December 2004. Any significant developments between December 2004 and August 2007 affecting the research or the conclusions reached herein have been noted in footnotes.
title: Translation Strategies in Anglo-American Novels Translated Into Chinese With Special Reference to Terms of Address.
Creators: name: Hsu, Chu-ching
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2008

description: Corpus studies in the area of translation constitute a new, exciting and rapidly expanding area of research. This study focuses on the design of a specific corpus for the analysis of specific linguistic features that relate to translator behaviour. Thus a parallel English-Chinese corpus is built with source texts in English, that is, classic Anglo-American novels, and two types of target texts: translations of those same novels from the areas of Mainland China and Taiwan. This Corpus is then used to study specific linguistic elements that may reveal translation strategies employed by the translators in these two areas. The linguistic features under consideration are terms of address. Terms of address play a prominent role in daily communication and are linked to cultural idiosyncrasies and politeness norms. In the universe of discourse of a novel, terms of address are used by characters according to their degree of familiarity with their interlocutors and their general social standing. Since the translation of novels involves the general transfer of cultural values, the use of terms of address is bound to be affected by the values with which the target text may comply. The corpus designed here indeed helps identify several types of translation strategies employed by Chinese translators who may not always render terms of address straightforward, especially when they are torn between issues of representing the original accurately and of increasing its readability. Furthermore, the findings in this study reveal that the group of translators from each area consistently show preferences for similar strategies when dealing with terms of address. Translators from China tend to retain elements of original, while Taiwanese translators tend to adapt those same elements to what could be considered more 'natural' language that does not disrupt the reading process.
title: Protecting the Rights and Welfare of the African Child: An Assessment of the Contribution of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
Creators: name: Kaime, Thoko
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2007

description: This thesis looks at the protection of children's rights in Africa through an examination of the provisions of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. It seeks to investigate the specific question whether the African Children's Charter provides a culturally appropriate framework for the protection and promotion of children's rights in Africa. In examining this question, the thesis argues that the effective protection of the rights of the child in Africa will not be achieved unless the substantive protections are perceived as culturally legitimate by local communities and unless the implementation procedures are aimed at enhancing such legitimacy as opposed to merely ensuring adherence to form. The thesis tackles the question by first locating children's rights, generally; and the African Children's Charter, in particular; within the general universalism-relativism debate whilst highlighting the importance of having regard to local values in the implementation of international children's rights standards. The thesis then proceeds to analytically engage the Charter's substantive provisions through a consideration of its central themes which include principles relating to childhood, children's rights, non-discrimination, best interests, survival and development, and participation. This analysis is achieved through a combination of legal interpretation of the text as well as through a consideration of field data drawn from Malawi. The thesis then analyses the implementation strategies envisaged under the Charter and considers how relevant the mechanisms provided are for ensuring the increased acceptance of children's rights within African communities. Whilst paying particular regard to the formal implementation requirements, the thesis also engages with less formal measures of implementation and amplifies the crucial role that non-state actors have in the realisation of children's rights in Africa. The thesis concludes that the African Children's Charter is an important step in the realisation of the rights of the child in Africa. It further observes that in devising their implementation strategies for children's rights, African governments must learn from and be guided by appropriate local values instead of merely cloning statements from international texts.
Online_Appendix_1 – Supplemental material for When Does Oil Harm Child Mortality?
Creators: name: Bellinger, Nisha
name: Fails, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Online_Appendix_1 for When Does Oil Harm Child Mortality? by Nisha Bellinger and Matthew D. Fails in Political Research Quarterly
title: Becoming a Bengali Woman: Exploring Identities in Bengali Women's Fiction 1930-1955.
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sutanuka
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2007

description: History seldom tells the story of ordinary men far less ordinary women. This thesis explores the tales of ordinary middle class Hindu Bengali women and their different experiences of the period 1930-1955 through fiction written by women. To undermine the logic of colonialism the Indian nationalist movement had sought to project an image of a modern, progressive, egalitarian society while also holding on to its distinctive cultural identity. The fulfilment of these twin objectives hinged on Indian women. Consequently Bengali women found themselves negotiating different objectives that required them to be 'modern' as well as patient, self-sacrificing, pure and faithful like Sita. They were engaging with varied powerful images as they tried to construct their identity since there was no general consensus as to what the Bengali woman ought to be. In the spheres of female education, nationalist politics, women's work and the family and community the dominant sections tried to fashion women according to their ideology. The novels convey the contradictory prescriptions women experienced. In many cases women had radically different aspirations and they manipulated these prescriptions to carve identities that were at odds with the prescriptive mould. They resisted attempts at feminising education, participated directly in revolutionary activities instead of merely sympathising and took to waged work instead of becoming dependants. Yet they continued to see themselves as familial entities even when it was possible for them to establish their identities as individuals with education, political and legal rights and economic independence. The perimeter of the Bengali woman's identity was extended but her emotional landscape continued to treasure her roles as daughter, wife and mother. The radical potential that middle class Bengali women exhibited in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, with their political activism, and in the wake of the Bengal famine and the freedom and partition of the country, thus became subsumed under the image of the 'complete' woman who packed into her life many things including the duties of a daughter, wife and mother. The novels demonstrate considerable change in the dynamics of gender relationships, yet for many women the 'brave new world' remained a distant dream.
Diffusion Model-based Contrastive Learning for Human Activity Recognition
Creators: name: Xiao, Chunjing
name: Han, Yanhui
name: Yang, Wei
name: Hou, Yane
name: Shi, Fangzhan
name: Chetty, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: WiFi Channel State Information (CSI)-based activity recognition has sparked numerous studies due to its widespread availability and privacy protection. However, when applied in practical applications, general CSI-based recognition models may face challenges related to the limited generalization capability, since individuals with different behavior habits will cause various fluctuations in CSI data and it is difficult to gather enough training data to cover all kinds of motion habits. To tackle this problem, we design a diffusion model-based Contrastive Learning framework for human Activity Recognition (CLAR) using WiFi CSI. On the basis of the contrastive learning framework, we primarily introduce two components for CLAR to enhance CSI-based activity recognition. To generate diverse augmented data and complement limited training data, we propose a diffusion model-based time series-specific augmentation model. In contrast to typical diffusion models that directly apply conditions to the generative process, potentially resulting in distorted CSI data, our tailored model dissects these condition into the high-frequency and low-frequency components, and then applies these conditions to the generative process with varying weights. This can alleviate data distortion and yield high-quality augmented data. To efficiently capture the difference of the sample importance, we present an adaptive weight algorithm. Different from typical contrastive learning methods which equally consider all the training samples, this algorithm adaptively adjusts the weights of positive sample pairs for learning better data representations. The experiments suggest that CLAR achieves significant gains compared to state-of-the-art methods.
description: The paper has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal
title: Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Writers' Movement in South Asia 1932-1956.
Creators: name: Ahmed, Talat
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2006

description: This thesis provides an account of the development of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) in South Asia. This body set itself the ambitious goal of mobilising South Asian writers and advancing the movement for independence by infusing it with social content. As such it was inspired by movements in Europe but was also inextricably linked to social and literary traditions that had already been developing in India. In this sense the PWA was embarking on a project for cultural hegemony that was as much a political and social movement as a literary one. Consequently, the movement was not solely concerned with questions of literature in a narrow sense but also with the public and political role of writers in society, with which language the nationalist movement should foster and the popularisation of its cultural and political aims through theatre and film. Previous studies of the movement have treated it far too narrowly as a simple front for communist aims. This was an important dimension of the movement that I account for but I see it as an attempt by some of the foremost intellectuals in the India of my period to shape the freedom movement and to project its vision for a wider society post-independence. This thesis argues that the PWA embarked upon a project for cultural and political hegemony whose aim was to transform the literary and wider cultural landscape of South Asia. It aims to demonstrate that the trajectory of this literary project can only be understood as part of a wider process of the global politics that were impacting on the intelligentsia. This thesis is an effort to understand the specific motivations and factors that influenced writers in one of the most turbulent periods of South Asian history. In investigating the interplay between literature and politics there is an assessment of the success and limitations of a cultural movement that aspired to hegemony.
title: International Regime for Fisheries on the High Seas. The 1995 UN Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks.
Creators: name: Lozano, Antonio Jose Rengifo
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2001

description: This thesis analyses the characteristics and legal implications of International Regime Theory with special focus on fisheries on the high seas on the basis of a critical examination of the 1995 UN Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (SSA). The theoretical framework adopted in this investigation suggests that the emerging international regime for fisheries on the high seas relies on four interconnected elements; first, a scientific and diplomatic consensus about the nature of specific issues regarding fisheries; secondly, a core of informal and formalized principles, norms and rules contained mainly in the 1995 SSA, as well as in other related international legal instruments; thirdly, a set of organizations and decision making procedures that constitute the operation of the international regime; and fourth, a set of compliance and enforcement mechanisms to help international society to manage the problem of fisheries as a global common. These four elements characterise the continuous process of development and refinement of International Environmental Law to protect the environment in particular in relation to conservation of the living resources of the sea. The thesis also considers the way in which the regime can operate as an institution able to influence the behaviour of States and their subjects to manage the international problem of fisheries on the high seas. The findings of this investigation yield both theoretical and pragmatic results. First, the application of the theoretical framework can enhance understanding of the problems and potentialities of the International Law for the protection and management of the global commons and, in particular, of fisheries on the high seas. Secondly, the theoretical framework offers explanations as to the manner in which the emerging new international regime for fisheries is limiting and reshaping the legal principle of freedom of fishing on the high seas. Further, as this thesis aims to demonstrate, state sovereignty is not incompatible with international progress in solving common problems.
Role of additional microwave voltage on phase locking in voltage-controlled parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A demonstration of parametric oscillation of magnetization in nanostructured ferromagnets via voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect provided an alternative approach to spintronic oscillator applications with low-energy consumption. However, the phase of this voltage-controlled parametric oscillator was unable to be locked uniquely by microwave VCMA effect. The oscillation phase is locked in one of two possible states, which originates from the fact that the frequency of the microwave voltage is twice that of the magnetization oscillation. In this work, we investigate the phase locking by additional microwave voltage through analytical and numerical studies of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. An analytical study suggests that the additional voltage makes one of two phases more stable than the other by having asymmetric potential for the phase. The simulation results indicate a trigonometric-function-like dependence of the locked rate on the phase of the additional voltage, which qualitatively agrees with the analytical theory and also suggests a possibility to manipulate the phase by the additional voltage.
title: Judicial Use of Customary Law in the Criminal Justice Process in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Creators: name: Griffiths, Anne Joyce
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2005

description: The Thesis sets out to examine judicial use of customary law in the criminal justice process in the Northern Territory of Australia. The broad context of the Thesis is the relationship between state law and customary law and the role of the judiciary in interpreting and developing that relationship. The Thesis concentrates on criminal law as it is the subject area where the conflicts are most acute and on the Northern Territory as it is the jurisdiction with the largest proportion of Aborigines living traditional lifestyles. The categorisation of the acquisition of Australia as by settlement has meant that customary law had been largely excluded from the state legal process. However, changes in the political climate have led to increasing demands for some recognition. The Thesis examines the legal difficulties inherent in such demands, considers the options and concludes that, on balance, the judiciary are the body best placed to resolve such difficulties. The Thesis begins with an overview of the nature of customary law and of the theoretical arguments for and against the recognition of such law. This is followed by a consideration of the various methods by which such recognition might be achieved. It is argued that the role of the judiciary in the evolution and regulation of the use of customary law in this context is crucial and that it is often the most appropriate body to decide such issues. This argument is elaborated in the following three Chapters which consider those areas of the criminal justice process where the judiciary have most frequently engaged with this dilemma. The Chapters consider procedural issues, substantive law and sentencing. The final Chapter summarises and evaluates the arguments presented and sets out the conclusion.
MSJ926955_appendix_2 – Supplemental material for Disability outcomes of early cerebellar and brainstem symptoms in multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Le, Minh
name: Malpas, Charles
name: Sharmin, Sifat
name: Horáková, Dana
name: Havrdova, Eva
name: Trojano, Maria
name: Izquierdo, Guillermo
name: Eichau, Sara
name: Ozakbas, Serkan
name: Lugaresi, Alessandra
name: Prat, Alexandre
name: Girard, Marc
name: Duquette, Pierre
name: Larochelle, Catherine
name: Alroughani, Raed
name: Bergamaschi, Roberto
name: Sola, Patrizia
name: Ferraro, Diana
name: Grammond, Pierre
name: Grand’ Maison, Francois
name: Terzi, Murat
name: Boz, Cavit
name: Hupperts, Raymond
name: Butzkueven, Helmut
name: Pucci, Eugenio
name: Granella, Franco
name: Van Pesch, Vincent
name: Soysal, Aysun
name: Yamout, Bassem I.
name: Lechner-Scott, Jeannette
name: Spitaleri, Daniele LA
name: Ampapa, Radek
name: Turkoglu, Recai
name: Iuliano, Gerardo
name: Ramo-Tello, Cristina
name: Sanchez-Menoyo, Jose Luis
name: Sidhom, Youssef
name: Gouider, Riadh
name: Shaygannejad, Vahid
name: Prevost, Julie
name: Altintas, Ayse
name: Fragoso, Yara Dadalti
name: McCombe, Pamela Ann
name: Petersen, Thor
name: Slee, Mark
name: Barnett, Michael H
name: Vucic, Steve
name: Van Der Walt, Anneke
name: Kalincik, Tomas
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ926955_appendix_2 for Disability outcomes of early cerebellar and brainstem symptoms in multiple sclerosis by Minh Le, Charles Malpas, Sifat Sharmin, Dana Horáková, Eva Havrdova, Maria Trojano, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Serkan Ozakbas, Alessandra Lugaresi, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Catherine Larochelle, Raed Alroughani, Roberto Bergamaschi, Patrizia Sola, Diana Ferraro, Pierre Grammond, Francois Grand’ Maison, Murat Terzi, Cavit Boz, Raymond Hupperts, Helmut Butzkueven, Eugenio Pucci, Franco Granella, Vincent Van Pesch, Aysun Soysal, Bassem I. Yamout, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Daniele LA Spitaleri, Radek Ampapa, Recai Turkoglu, Gerardo Iuliano, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Youssef Sidhom, Riadh Gouider, Vahid Shaygannejad, Julie Prevost, Ayse Altintas, Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Pamela Ann McCombe, Thor Petersen, Mark Slee, Michael H Barnett, Steve Vucic, Anneke Van Der Walt and Tomas Kalincik in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Thin-shell wormholes admitting conformal motions in spacetimes of embedding class one
Creators: name: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper discusses the feasibility of thin-shell wormholes in spacetimes of embedding class one admitting a one-parameter group of conformal motions. It is shown that the surface energy density $σ$ is positive, while the surface pressure $\mathcal{P}$ is negative, resulting in $σ+\mathcal{P}<0$, thereby signaling a violation of the null energy condition, a necessary condition for holding a wormhole open. For a Morris-Thorne wormhole, matter that violates the null energy condition is referred to as "exotic." For the thin-shell wormholes in this paper, however, the violation has a physical explanation since it is a direct consequence of the embedding theory in conjunction with the assumption of conformal symmetry. These properties avoid the need to hypothesize the existence of the highly problematical exotic matter.
description: 10 pages, no figures
title: Low Caste Protest and the Creation of a Political Identity: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and the Origins of Non-Brahman Ideology in Maharashtra 1855-1890.
Creators: name: O'Hanlon, Rosalind
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: This study examines the ideas of Mahatma Jotirao Phule, the first leader and most influential theoretician of the movement of political and religious protest that emerged amongst the peasant cultivators and urban lower castes of Maharashtra in the late nineteenth century. It looks first at the origins of his ideas and the intellectual and social milieu in which he worked. Phule's demand for a greater share of local political power and social leadership for the lower castes had antecedents in the ideological disputes between Brahmans and Maratha families in Southern Maharashtra immediately after the establishment of British rule. His opposition to contemporary religious institutions is situated within a general crisis in the public legitimacy of Hindu culture and religion in the mid-nineteenth century. Phule's detailed critique of Hindu religion also owed much to the traditions of rational criticism of religion that emerged in Europe in the late eighteenth century and which were reflected in the work of Orientalist scholars. His ideas about the individual in society, and about the nature of God, are argued to owe more to European and American traditions of natural rights thought, and to the arguments of protestant Christian missionaries, than to indigenous devotional and mono-theistic traditions. The study then describes how Phule traced the subjection of the lower castes to the Aryan invasions of ancient India, when the prosperous kingdoms of peasant cultivators and warriors had been subjected to Brahman rule and religion. He supported this idea of a mythic past through the reinterpretation of a wide variety of symbols, institutions and social processes that were already an integral part of popular culture. He hoped thus to take up traditional popular identities and loyalties centred on an identification with the land and the old warrior traditions of Maharashtra, and to use these in an overtly political way, as the ideological basis for a political movement of the lower castes. A detailed understanding of Phule's ideas provides materials for the development of our understanding of the ideological dimension of political and social conflict in nineteenth century Maharashtra, a dimension which has been neglected in favour of the analysis of political institutions and party rivalries.