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title: Environmental Justice in India: The Manifestation of Neo-Dharmic Jurisprudence in Postmodern Public Law.
Creators: name: Abraham, C. M.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: Within the last two decades, India has not only enacted specific legislation on environmental protection but has also virtually created a new fundamental right to a clean environment in the Constitution. The models and methods adopted in the Indian context appear, at first sight, similar to those in other common law systems. Yet, there are many subtle differences which have changed the structure and content of legal development in India. Indian environmental jurisprudence brings out the unique characteristics of a new legal order which has been gradually established in India. The distinguishing nature of this jurisprudence, as this thesis shows in detail, has three interconnected elements. First, the nature of the new Indian constitutional law regime accords greater importance to public concerns than protecting private interests. Current Indian jurisprudence shows an increased assertion of public accountability by enlarging the domain of public law. This has created new dimensions of justice based on a new public law rationale which reacts constructively to established common law models. Secondly, this jurisprudential development reflects certain aspects of Indian legal culture, through implicit and explicit reliance on autochthonous values and concepts of law, encapsulated in the Indian juristic postulate of dharma. The new developments reflect distinct elements of Indian dharmic legal culture, which are markedly different from common law postulates evolved out of an individualistic, property-based private law culture. Thirdly, the emerging Indian environmental jurisprudence bears testimony to the activist role of the Indian judiciary which has also had a significant impact in many areas other than environmental law. In short, the development of environmental jurisprudence in India manifests neo-dharmic jurisprudence in postmodern public law. It accommodates ideas currently voiced by experts around the world for protecting the environment, in forms modified by the legal culture of India.
title: The Struggle to Control Dispute Proceedings in Southern Rhodesia, 1930-1970, With Special Reference to the Lower Courts.
Creators: name: Smith, Randal Carson
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis examines the political role of the Native Commissioners' and Chiefs' courts in Southern Rhodesia on two levels: the macro-political level of state hegemony and the micro-political level of district relations. Thus two chapters are devoted to a focus on Sipolilo District, and the remainder of the thesis sets this in the wider national and historical context, examining the implications of the Sipolilo study for the larger setting. The reasons for the initial integration of the "traditional" authorities into the state through the recognition and regulation of existing courts is considered. The means by which this progressed first institutionally and later ideologically is traced through twenty-five years. A further move to integrate the Chiefs occurred in the early 1960s, and the changed circumstances are examined. In both these phases of integration the "traditional" authorities played an active role in staking their claim to control these proceedings. The thesis will examine why both the state and Chiefs were eager to control these proceedings and consider how each made use of the power gained from this control. The role of the lower courts in extending and consolidating the cash economy and producing other norms is considered. The local nature of these courts made them sensitive to local conditions but the appeal court also extended the normative nature of some of the decisions. The regional context of the policy to integrate the Chiefs through the recognition of judicial power is considered by contrasting the relevant pieces of legislation from East, Central, and South Africa. The time period for the dissertation is based on the drafting of the Native Law and Courts Act (1937), the first of its kind in Southern Rhodesia, and the implementation of the African Law and Tribal Courts Act (1969), the last of its kind in the colonial period.
SUPPLEMENTARY_MATERIALS – Supplemental material for The Career Advancement of Military Veterans in Recent Cohorts of the U.S. Executive Branch
Creators: name: Johnson, Tim
name: Walker, Robert W.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, SUPPLEMENTARY_MATERIALS for The Career Advancement of Military Veterans in Recent Cohorts of the U.S. Executive Branch by Tim Johnson and Robert W. Walker in Public Personnel Management
title: The Juvenile Justice System of Zambia.
Creators: name: Simaluwani, Enoch Mweetwa
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis examines juvenile justice in Zambia and shows that it is characterised by duality. The system has been critically examined in order to assess its historical development and to appreciate the traditional cultural aspects pertaining to child socialisation that may help to understand and improve juvenile justice, with regard to the operation of the police, courts, probation services and correctional institutions (Approved School and a Reformatory). It is shown that at certain stages of the criminal process there are instances of non-compliance with the provisions of the Juveniles Act, and that misconception of the Act leads to the ill-treatment of juvenile offenders. A review of literature on juvenile justice is conducted for the purpose of analyzing theoretical notions underlying the development of the juvenile justice systems in Western countries, because of the general influence of the West on the Zambian legal system and, in particular, the critical impact of English law. Completed case records of juvenile cases in the Lusaka magistrates' courts for the period from January 1991 to December 1992 are examined and analysed by: name, age, sex, offence charged, final disposition or reason for discontinuance, presentence report submitted or not, whether parent or guardian attended court and compliance with the Act. Views of correctional staff and inmates, judges and magistrates, senior police officers and government officials are presented. This study seeks to place the results in the context of the United Nations Guidelines For the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (Riyadh Guidelines 1990) and other international Instruments on the rights of child, taking into consideration the economic situation of the country. The thesis identifies weaknesses and defiaciencies in the structure and operations of the juvenile justice system and makes recommendations for reform (i.e. such as improved resources, better training, replacement of the correctional institutions and wider general recognition of the special problem faced by juveniles in contemporary Zambia).
title: Development of the Law of Evidence in Pakistan and Bangladesh With Special Reference to Witness Testimony.
Creators: name: Siddiqua, Begum Asma
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: The thesis aims to look into the law of witness testimony in Pakistan and Bangladesh. In the last decade Pakistan has launched an Islamisation programme affecting many areas of life including witness testimony. The changes brought about in Pakistan in the area of witness testimony through recent legislation from 1979 onwards are discussed, and compared with the status quo maintained in the same area by Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, for more than a century. The ease law of both countries are used as the primary source in understanding the development of the law of witness testimony. The finding of the thesis is that although in theory Pakistan has moved away from the century old law, it in fact still follows in practice the old law in a new framework of Islamic law. This is evident specially as there is very little difference between the practice in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The reason could be twofold: a) The society in Pakistan is yet not ready to accept the changes brought in the name of Islam or b) the age old law enunciated during the British period in the form of legislation, and thereafter practised throughout, was very much Islamic. This thesis is mostly built up on the latter rationale. Through the discussion and reference to case law, the law of witness testimony that has evolved so far is also given a comprehensive shape.
title: Aspects of Somali Phonology.
Creators: name: Orwin, Martin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: Somali is probably the best documented, in linguistic terms, of all of the Cushitic languages. Much work has been undertaken on the syntax and the morphology of the language. However, when it comes to the phonology of the language there is a distinct lack. The aim of this thesis is to help fill that gap. This will be done by taking the generative theory of lexical phonology as a basis of a model of Somali phonology; within that overall framework a model of melodic representation will be proposed as well as a model of prosodic representation. The proposals are made specifically with the Somali language in mind and explanations of certain aspects of Somali phonology will be set out both in the chapters discussing the models of representation as well as in the chapter specifically dealing with the explanation of a number of phonological phenomena manifested in the inflectional morphology of the language. The thesis does not cover the whole set of phonological phenomena manifested in Somali, nor does it set out to produce a universal model of phonology. As far as Somali is concerned, it is hoped the work will provide a convenient springboard for the future study of phonological phenomena in Somali. As far as universal phonological matters are concerned it is hoped that the model proposed here for Somali will be another step in the continuing search for universal explanatory aspects of phonology. Chapter one introduces the language and the main theoretical assumptions. Chapters 2 and 3 introduce the models of melodic representation and prosodic representation respectively. Chapter 4 provides explanations for certain phonological phenomena manifested in the inflectional morphology of Somali. Chapter 5 brings the whole together and looks forward to the future study of Somali phonology in light of this thesis.
title: Protection of Minority Interests Under the Indian Constitution.
Creators: name: Luis, George Thomas
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1970

description: This thesis deals with the provisions of the Indian Constitution which seek to protect minority interests and secure equality of political and civil rights. Chapter I outlines the Indian problem in the larger perspective of minorities generally. It explains the nature of the minorities' problems, defines minorities and indicates their characteristics. It discusses the role of law in the protection of minority interests, gives the historical background, and evaluates the principle of equality as a basis for the protection of minority interests. Chapter II considers the scheme of political equality envisaged in the Indian Constitution in three principal areas of citizenship, political representation, and the public services. Chapter III deals with the religious interests of minorities, in the context of Indian secularism. The chapter defines religious minorities and religious interests. Autonomy in religious affairs, the right to propagate religion, education, and the safeguarding of communal interests are discussed at length. Chapter IV discusses linguistic and cultural interests. The chapter begins with a general background of the language problem in India, followed by the definition of linguistic minorities. Specific minority issues dealt with include the conservation of their language and culture, education, employment, and the use of minority languages for official purposes. The need for a review of safeguards is indicated. Chapter V deals with socio-economic interests, a relatively new factor in the present context but of special significance in India. The chapter discusses the problem of defining 'backward classes' and considers the measures proposed and implemented for the removal of backwardness. Attention is focused on two issues of particular importance, the removal of social disabilities by law, and the use of protective discrimination to achieve equality. This is followed, in Chapter VI, by concluding remarks.
title: The Evolution of the Egyptian Political Elite, 1907-1921: A Case Study of the Role of the Large Landowners in Politics.
Creators: name: Kazziha, Walid
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1970

description: Following the British occupation of Egypt, the political influence and the economic position of the Egyptian large landowners was greatly enhanced. In 1907, a group of provincial notables and intellectuals encouraged by Lord Cromer, published the daily al- Jaridah and formed the 'Ummah Party. The policies and ideas of the new movement were largely governed by the financial and political interests of the wealthy families in the countryside, and by their efforts to check the growing influence of the Egyptian sovereign and the increasing popularity of the radical demand of the Patriotic Party for complete independence. In the years which elapsed before the outbreak of the First World War, the 'Ummah Party not only consolidated its relative control over the provincial representative institutions, but also acquired a greater measure of political influence throughout the country as the numerical strength and the functions of these institutions were increased, However, at the beginning of the War, the British authorities declared Egypt a Protectorate, placed the country under martial law, and eventually dissolved the newly-formed Assembly. Consequently, these measures greatly undermined the political position of the 'Ummah Party and impelled its leading members to co-operate first with Sultan Husain and later Fu'ad in an effort to induce the British government to restore the earlier system of self-government. A similar attempt was made at the end of the War, when a group of Egyptian notables and former members of the 'Ummah Party, under the leadership of Sacd Zagnlul formed the Wafd to advocate Egyptian autonomy. As the movement, however, rapidly gained the support of the middle and lower classes, its demand for self-government was superseded by that of complete independence. Consequently, the majority of its founding members, who were keenly interested in preserving their relationship with Britain, left the Wafd and formed the Liberal Constitutionalists Party.
Motion Planning for Minimally Actuated Serial Robots
Creators: name: Cohen, Avi
name: Sintov, Avishai
name: Zarrouk, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern manipulators are acclaimed for their precision but often struggle to operate in confined spaces. This limitation has driven the development of hyper-redundant and continuum robots. While these present unique advantages, they face challenges in, for instance, weight, mechanical complexity, modeling and costs. The Minimally Actuated Serial Robot (MASR) has been proposed as a light-weight, low-cost and simpler alternative where passive joints are actuated with a Mobile Actuator (MA) moving along the arm. Yet, Inverse Kinematics (IK) and a general motion planning algorithm for the MASR have not be addressed. In this letter, we propose the MASR-RRT* motion planning algorithm specifically developed for the unique kinematics of MASR. The main component of the algorithm is a data-based model for solving the IK problem while considering minimal traverse of the MA. The model is trained solely using the forward kinematics of the MASR and does not require real data. With the model as a local-connection mechanism, MASR-RRT* minimizes a cost function expressing the action time. In a comprehensive analysis, we show that MASR-RRT* is superior in performance to the straight-forward implementation of the standard RRT*. Experiments on a real robot in different environments with obstacles validate the proposed algorithm.
title: The Relations Between the Crimean Tartars and the Ottoman Empire, 1578-1608, With Special Reference to the Role of Gazi Giray Khan.
Creators: name: Kortepeter, Carl Max
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1962

description: Histories of the Ottoman Empire based on Oriental and Western sources have been written by outstanding scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These histories trace the development of the Empire as a whole without giving too much consideration to the separate contributions of political entities or significant figures within the Empire. In short, the lacunae of Ottoman history must now be filled in by studies of the component parts of that history. The Crimean Khanate is one such political entity which has attracted very little systematic study outside of Russia and Turkey, The Crimean Khanate maintained a significant position in the relations between the Ottoman and Russian Empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, during which time a chance took place in the balance of power in Eastern Europe and Western Asia - a change generally to the advantage of Russia and at the expense of the Ottoman State. The present study attempts to make a detailed survey of the relations of the Khanate with the Ottoman Empire and other foreign powers between 1578 and 1608 and, at the same time, to throw light on the institutions and political life of the Khanate by tracing the life of one of the most significant Khans of the Crimean Tatars, Gazi Giray Khar. II (1588-1608). The note on sources discusses systematically the widely scattered sources pertinent to the study of the Crimean Khanate in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In the introduction the writer seeks to place the study in a sixteenth century Eastern European and Western Asian context, giving special attention to the Black Sea and the steppe environments of the Khanate, The first three chapters then describe the relations of the Khanate within the three principal orbits of its political activity, the Caucasus, the Steppe and Eastern Europe respectively, between 1573 and l606; Chapter IV provides an evaluation of these far flung activities.
title: The Development of Nationalist Ideas and Tactics and the Policies of the Government of India: 1897-1905.
Creators: name: McLane, John R.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1961

description: This thesis contains a discussion of the organization, ideas and methods of the Indian nationalists from 1897 to 1905, the response of the Government to the nationalists, and the policies of the Government which were opposed by the nationalists. It covers the final two years of Lord Elgin's Viceroyalty and the whole of Lord Curzon's Viceroyalty. In 1897 India suffered severe famine and plague. The famine confirmed the nationalists in their view that India's population was growing poorer as the result of high revenue assessments and the drain of wealth to Europe. The persistency of claims to this effect led British officials to initiate inquiries into both the land revenue system and the expenditure of Indian revenue in England. The measures used to combat plague in Western India were deeply resented. In Poona members of a conspiratorial organization murdered a British plague official. The Government did not find the last of the murderers until 1899. In the meantime officials decided that without tighter control over education and the press, political disaffection was likely to spread. Accordingly, measures were adopted providing for stricter supervision of education and a summary procedure of action against seditious newspapers. The plague threatened the commerce of Bengal and the Indian Municipal Commissioners of Calcutta, who were U. held responsible for the insanitary condition of that city, were relieved of their control of the municipality in the hope of checking the plague. The Indian National Congress movement was suffering from internal divisions, inactivity, and falling popularity. But the Japanese victories over Russia and the partition of Bengal unexpectedly revived it. In the agitation against the partition, new sections of the population became involved in politics and new methods were used. This thesis is based on contemporary newspapers, periodicals, and tracts, and on Government records and the private papers of several officials, including those of Lord Elgin (Viceroy 1894-98), Lord Hamilton (Secretary of State I895-I903) and Lord Curzon (Viceroy 1899-1905).
title: The Vocalization, Accentuation and Masora of Codex Or. 4445 (Brit. Mus.) and Their Place in the Development of the Tiberian Masora.
Creators: name: Lyons, David Lloyd
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: Or. 4445 (Brit. Mus.) is a Tiberian Pentateuch copy, vocalized and annotated by a certain Nissi B. Daniel at the beginning of the 10th century C.E. The vocalization and accents are accurately marked, reflecting in the main the norms and tendencies of Aaron Ben-Aser in the model Aleppo Codex. Vowel-switches and omissions are of very sporadic occurrence. The specific character is in certain features of the metheg-marking - notably in the omission of metheg in certain normative closed-syllable instances - and in the economy in its use of the penultimate Pasta-sign. In one metheg-class, there is a more 'regular' employment of the sign in Or. 4445 than in the Aleppo Codex. The general overall picture is one of a slightly less-developed stage than that reflected in the Aleppo and Leningrad Codices. The masora is profuse: masora parva, enumerative masora magna and cumulative masora are recorded throughout. The style and form of some annotations resemble Babylonian Masora (but no direct influence can be assumed); the cumulative lists are specifically Tiberian. Despite the occasional technical errors, masora-switches and other obscurities, the apparatus proves to be relatively accurate - the numerative and descriptive masoras apparently surpass (somewhat) those of the Leningrad' Codex, but in their precision fall short of their counterparts in the Aleppo Codex. The cumulative masora-1ists, which contain several errors and problems, can in the main be collated with those in 'Okhla W'Okhla'. My detailed comparison of the materials - highlighting the thematic and textual differences between Or, 4445 and Okhla - led to the conclusion that the 1ist-corpuses in the two respective sources, as they stand, cannot be treated as variant recensions of a single compendium. The collation is presented in the form of a condensed-data table (Chapter 12), which, together with the appended commentary, sets a frame for further researches in the Cumulative Masora. Or. 4445 is a well-produced Massora-Codex, constituting an important document of Tiberian Vocalization and Masora.
title: Domestic Architecture in the Beijing Area, 1860-1930.
Creators: name: Wood, Elisabeth Frances
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: This thesis describes the appearance, construction and function of the small courtyard house in the Beijing area, 1860-1930. In the context of Chinese architecture as a whole, domestic architecture is distinguished by its non-regulated nature. It may thus be contrasted with palace and temple buildings which were constructed according to rules of proportion and sumptuary law. The literature, both Western and Chinese, is discussed in Chapter One. In Chapter Two, three houses, whose measurements were taken, are described in detail and the measured drawings included. Three further houses in central Beijing are described to provide further material, relating to the arrangement of the courtyard. Chapter Three lays out the full programme of construction from the purchase of land and hiring of labourers, the terms of contract between owner and foreman of the building workers to., the building process itself. In Chapter Four, various possible determinants of form are discussed, including the principle of enclosure, structural reliance on wood, climate and geomancy and orientation. In Chapter Five, the small house is set in its context for domestic architecture in China also comprises the grander 'mansions' of the rich. All houses, whether large or small, are linked in terms of function but economic position determines the size which, in turn, determines the possiblities of the house. The conclusions relate to the size of the construction, sizes being drawn from the measured houses and literary sources. Though the house is potentially unregulated, the buildings of a small house tend to vary very little in terms of size. This adherence to a 'traditional' norm is contrasted with the strict regulations determining the size and design of grand buildings and it is demonstrated that there is a relationship between grand and small buildings based on aspiration within a tradition.
title: The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan i Denig.
Creators: name: Williams, Alan Vincent
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan I Denig is a collection of sixty-five miscellaneous texts, of varying length, all connected with the Zoroastrian religion (legend, mythology, ritual, customs, ethics, wisdom, precept). In its present form it is attributed to the tenth century of the Christian era, "but this redaction comprises much material which is thought to be considerably older, derived from the older, written and oral, priestly tradition of the religion. The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan i Denig was edited by B.N, Dhabhar and published in Bombay in 1913. H.K. Mirza presented a transcription and translation, with notes, of the majority of the Pahlavi Rivayat Preceding the Dadestan i Denig (omitting four previously published chapters and the three chapters following the Dadestan i Denig). as a PhD. thesis to the University of London in 1942. Although my own work is quite independent of Dr. Mirza's work, I have paid attention to some of the valuable analysis and etymological explanation of the earlier thesis, in particular because Dr. Mirza was supervised in his work by Professor W.B. Henning. I acknowledge in my thesis any instances where I include textual emendations, translations or explanations which were the result of Dr. Mirza's work with Professor Henning. Like Dr. Mirza, in establishing the text of the Rivayat I have also used two manuscripts which were not accessible to B.N. Dhabhar: K35 and a ms, in the India Office Library, London. I have, however, as the title of the present thesis indicates, translated the whole of the text in Dhabhar's edition, including the concluding (three) chapters omitted by Dr. Mirza, but excluding chapter 58 The exclusion of chapter 58 - a- long and problematic text of extracts from the Nirangistan - is regrettable, in that it disrupts the otherwise continuous treatment of the text, but necessary because this chapter requires a separate study in its own right and in the context of a study of the Nirangistan (which is, fortunately, currently being undertaken by Dastur Dr. Firoze Kotwal in Bombay). Because the transliteration of Pahlavi script is problematic and open to widely different interpretation, I present a full transliteration of the text; this is accompanied by a parallel transcription, with footnotes of significant alterative readings in the mss. There follows a new translation of the text and a commentary. This latter comprises an attempt to understand the subject matter of the Rivayat in its religious (theological and ritual) and historical context.
title: Money and Monetary Policy in a High Surplus Low Population Economy (Kuwait 1962-82).
Creators: name: Kassem, Omar Ismail
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1984

description: This thesis examines money problems and policies in Kuwait, a capital plenty economy, during the period studied. Kuwait's balance of payments surplus has allowed it to continue to cover the domestic note issue by foreign reserve until today, whereas most developing economies have found this a constraining vestige of monetary arrangements in British colonial days and have legislated to give their central banks more flexibility. Due to the country's surplus, the commercial banks built up large holdings of foreign assets over the period 1962-1980, chiefly in the form of short-term money market deposits with banks abroad. Whereas the Central Bank of Kuwait started implementing monetary reforms from 1973, the independence of the commercial banks due principally to their liquidity, meant the central bank had little success in controlling the money supply until 1979, when it exploited the growing lack of liquidity among commercial banks to strengthen its control over their reserves. The analysis of the determination of the growth of the stock of money in Kuwait over the period 1962-80 needs to take account of the role of the commercial banks and their foreign assets in the rapid growth in lending, which began in 1972. Whereas we find high-powered money an important determinant of the growth of the money stock, the bank reserve ratio plays a significant role. The growth of the stock market in Kuwait was the main cause of the growth in lending after 1972. The Central Bank of Kuwait saw its main objectives as controlling the speculation and credit explosion connected with the stock market. The Kuwaiti Dinar was established by Britain at the time of Kuwait's political independence. The benefit to a country like Kuwait of having a separate currency would appear to be extremely limited. The Kuwait government have followed a policy of exploring possible monetary integration with neighbouring states, although we find this does not answer any specific economic problem in Kuwait. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Kuwait has pursued a policy of maximum stability of the currency throughout the period under study, in order to minimize the risks of currency loss by the financial community, including the commercial banking system, which had substantial foreign asset holdings. This is of considerable importance because the commercial banks do not appear to behave in such a way as to hedge their foreign currency exposure.
title: The Origins of the Tun-Huang Popular Narratives and Their Influences on Later Vernacular Literature.
Creators: name: Mair, Victor Henry
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: The purpose of this thesis is to understand as much as possible of the history of the popular Chinese literary genre called pien-wen. These texts date from the eighth through the tenth centuries and are important because they represent the earliest surviving examples of extended vernacular narrative known in China. The thesis begins with a brief discussion of the discovery of the pien-wen manuscripts at Tun-huang in the northwestern province of Kansu. The author then turns to an intensive philological study of the term pien-wen and thereby justifies his translation of it as "transformation text." Having completed this analysis, he is in a position to delineate the corpus of pien-wen. In the process, he distinguishes it from other types of popular literary texts discovered at Tun-huang such as sutra lectures (chiang- ching-wen). The author then moves on to the significant questions of who wrote the pien-wen and why. He marshals evidence that most of the copyists were lay students studying at Buddhist monasteries in Tun-huang. The author proceeds to show that pien-wen were the written descendants of a type of oral performance called chuan-pien ("turning transformation [scrolls]"). This was a folk entertainment in which a storyteller used a picture scroll to illustrate his or her tale. The sudden and mysterious disappearance of pien-wen during the first half of the eleventh century is then explained. The last major section of the thesis deals with the effects of pien-wen on later Chinese popular literature, chief among these being the adoption of the prosimetric form and the use of vernacular language. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the current state of research on pien-wen.
title: The Politics of Rice Farming in Dagbon, 1972-1979.
Creators: name: Antoine, Adrien
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1985

description: This dissertation examines the agricultural policies of the Acheampong military regime towards rice farmers in Dagbon, a traditional area in the Northern Region of Ghana, and the relationship that developed between the farmers and the regime as a result. Commercial rice production expanded rapidly when the regime's policy of self-sufficiency in food parcelled out the North as the main rice production zone. All farmers were expected to participate in the programme, but in consequence of the nature of the policies employed to encourage rice production it was the big and well-connected ones who gained at the expense of the smaller farmers. The relationship between these privileged rice farmers and the government was further enhanced by their membership of, or support for, the local ruling chieftaincy faction which was in turn supported by the regime. It was a reciprocal arrangement by which the regime in turn received the full support and co-operation of that faction, especially during the referendum on Union Government in 1978. However, it was the prominent rice farmers, working in collaboration with the ruling chiefs, and operating mainly through local institutions, who acted as local agents and ambassadors of the regime. Of course it was not all big rice farmers who supported the regime, but those who did not found it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain assistance from local farming agencies, and represented the main source of opposition to government policies. In return for their support for the regime the farmers were rewarded with import licences, huge bank loans, access to all available farming inputs, and even officials' co-operation in smuggling. On their part the farmers cultivated vast rice farms for commissioners and senior officials posted in the South. The fall of Acheampong in July 1978 rendered the position of his client farmers very vulnerable, but their initial fears were assuaged when the incoming regime failed to take effective action against those alleged to have 'abused' the system. When the ban on political parties was lifted in 1973 and elections were scheduled for later that year, the big rice farmers grouped themselves into well-defined alliances with parties which they considered would best represent their interest.
title: Idiosyncrasies in the Late Mughal Painting Tradition: The Artist Mihr Chand, Son of Ganga Ram (fl. 1759-86).
Creators: name: Roy, Malini
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the stylistic development of the artist 'Mihr Chand, son of Ganga Ram' (fl. 1759-86), who travelled across northern India in the hope of finding a beneficent patron. The initial hypothesis, which this thesis proposes, is that Mihr Chand's idiosyncratic approach to the established painting tradition earmarked him as the forerunner in the late eighteenth century art scene in Faizabad and Delhi. I suggest that it was Mihr Chand's thirst for new knowledge that prompted the artist to evaluate the visual resources available and assimilate these new techniques within his works rather than a consequence of the influence of his European patron, Antoine Polier. As Mihr Chand primarily flourished in Faizabad (1765-76), in the province of Awadh, I offer a review on the position of the provincial governors, the Nawabs of Awadh, on their role as the initiators of the late Mughal painting tradition during the second half of the eighteenth century in Chapter 1. To provide the context to analyse Mihr Chand's stylistic development, I suggest a revised and expanded art historical framework of the painting tradition that took place in Delhi and Awadh in Chapter 2. This chapter also addresses the issue of European officers, who cultivated and sponsored local artists to produce numerous illustrations and paintings in Faizabad and later in Lucknow. The following chapter outlines Mihr Chand's biographical details and his chronology of style. I develop Mihr Chand's approach to landscape, portraiture, and architectural drawings in Chapters 4-6. The last two chapters question the artist's originality and his direct impact on artists in Faizabad, Lucknow, Delhi, and Jaipur at the end of the eighteenth century.
Supplementary_Material_2 - Estimating the age and mechanism of boulder transport related with extreme waves using lichenometry
Creators: name: Oliveira, Maria A
name: Esteve Llop
name: Andrade, César
name: Branquinho, Cristina
name: Goble, Ronald
name: Queiroz, Sónia
name: Freitas, Maria C
name: Pinho, Pedro
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: Supplementary_Material_2 for Estimating the age and mechanism of boulder transport related with extreme waves using lichenometry by Maria A Oliveira, Esteve Llop, César Andrade, Cristina Branquinho, Ronald Goble, Sónia Queiroz, Maria C Freitas and Pedro Pinho in Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
title: Rhodesia's War of Numbers: Racial Populations, Political Power, and the Collapse of the Settler State, 1960-1979.
Creators: name: Brownell, Josiah
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2008

description: This thesis repositions racial population issues as central to an understanding of the final decades of settler rule in Rhodesia. At the time of the disintegration of the Central African Federation, the small and transient white population of Rhodesia rested precariously atop a massive and fast-growing African population; and with high rates of white emigration and the spectre of being handed over to African majority rule, the Rhodesian regime declared their illegal independence from Britain in 1965. As several factors ripened together in the 1970s, including white Rhodesians' heightened population anxieties, the economic strains of the white 'brain drain,' and the African population 'explosion,' the demographically fragile settler state was gradually stretched to the breaking point. It was in this context that the escalation of the guerrilla war added new pressures and exacerbated pre-existing demographic strains that forced Rhodesia's final collapse in 1979. Despite their important role in the collapse of the settler regime, population matters have not been sufficiently addressed, periodised, or properly contextualised in Rhodesian history. As little scholarship as there has been on the significance of population matters generally, there has been even less on the ubiquity of white population anxieties, how these pressures shaped white society, or on the efforts of both the settler state and African nationalists to engineer these demographics. These demographic strains have typically been cast as a by product of the military conflict, and efforts to re-configure population numbers as merely an adjunct to the shooting war. In contrast to the prevailing orthodoxies on the subject, this thesis argues that this demographic struggle long pre-dated the escalation of the war, and that it was the Rhodesian state's defeat in the demographic 'war of numbers,' and the consequences which flowed from this failure, that were directly responsible for the settler state's collapse.
Supplementary_Material_OSL_results - Estimating the age and mechanism of boulder transport related with extreme waves using lichenometry
Creators: name: Oliveira, Maria A
name: Esteve Llop
name: Andrade, César
name: Branquinho, Cristina
name: Goble, Ronald
name: Queiroz, Sónia
name: Freitas, Maria C
name: Pinho, Pedro
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: Supplementary_Material_OSL_results for Estimating the age and mechanism of boulder transport related with extreme waves using lichenometry by Maria A Oliveira, Esteve Llop, César Andrade, Cristina Branquinho, Ronald Goble, Sónia Queiroz, Maria C Freitas and Pedro Pinho in Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
title: Women Artists in Botswana in the Late Twentieth Century.
Creators: name: Lewis, Jo
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2008

description: Women have always played a large part in the visual arts throughout Africa. In Botswana at the present time this is illustrated most immediately by the woven baskets, seen everywhere, in galleries, shops and at roadside stalls, that have come to represent the country and its arts and crafts; and with the odd exception they are all made by women in the most rural areas. However, women in Botswana currently practice other arts, including house decoration and pottery, although, for a variety of reasons, these are less immediately obvious. In contrast to these practices, representing traditions inherited from the past, there are others of relatively recent inception. Since the 1980s Botswana has seen the emergence of a small number of women 'Fine' artists, some of whom are Botswana nationals while others are expatriates settled in the country. In contrast to arts made for immediate local use, or sold in roadside stalls, the work of these artists is exhibited in the few art galleries that now exist. During the same period, art education has also been gradually introduced into the school and university system in Botswana. Art galleries both private and public are another recent development, beginning with the National Museums and Monuments Art Gallery, which opened in 1978, and which began to facilitate local exhibitions of Botswana art, while also encouraging exhibitions of this material in other countries. In addition to local tradition and an emerging Fine Art practice, art education, museums and galleries, a series of workshops has also been developed. Some of these were set up by expatriates on a more-or-less permanent basis with the aim of training women in various art forms, while others are temporary and artist-led, giving selected groups of artists the chance to meet, work and exchange ideas. I begin this thesis, therefore, with a survey of all the arts inherited from the past, and currently practised by women in Botswana, and then, in a series of chapters I look at each of the developments, including art education, museums and galleries, and workshops; and their histories, their aims, and their achievements with particular regard to the overall development of the arts in Botswana. This thesis thereby provides a comprehensive study of all the arts practised by women in Botswana through the last thirty years.
title: Tokieda's Language Process Theory.
Creators: name: Naito, Masako
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2006

description: The Language Process Theory (Gengo Kateisetsu) was introduced in the 1930s by the Japanese linguist, Tokieda Motoki (1900-1967). The theory presents language as a human process, not as a structure that exists within the speaker or outside of a human community. Language, Tokieda tells us, is a process by which a culture's meanings are expressed and understood. Tokieda constructs this view of language on the basis of his study of the concepts of language that had been established by traditional Japanese linguists prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, the thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his critical reading of Ferdinand de Saussure, and the concepts of Buddhist philosophy. During the 1940s and 50s, Tokieda played a significant role in the advancement of theoretical linguistics and its treatment of the Japanese language, with his theory having an important influence on other Japanese linguists - more frequently indirectly than directly. His theory has not, however, always been clearly understood. Indeed, it has only been recently that the scholarly community has begun to appreciate more fully his view of language. To help bring a better understanding of his theory to the scholarly community of Japan and the world, this essay examines Tokieda's work, together with the writings of his precursors, contemporaries, students and critics, from new and varied points of view and assesses both its theoretical value and its usefulness in the classroom. After considering Tokieda's theory from the point of view of its philosophical foundations, this thesis proceeds, to examine in detail the following topics; textual analysis, his theory of the polite-honorific language (keigo), and the role of reading in the teaching of language and literature - all of which are discussed with their application to illustrative texts, many of which are passages from the Japanese classics. Through the examination of the theory behind these topics, we find that his major ideas such as the concept of "situation" (bamen) and the relation between "objective expressions" (shi) and "subjective expressions" (ji) are useful not only to those studying Japanese, but also to those whose interest in language is theoretical and to those whose concerns are pedagogical. Both can benefit substantially from Tokieda's insights and through them obtain a broader understanding not only of modem linguistic theory but also how the extra-structural aspects of language can better be taught.
Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for Systems modelling and simulation to inform strategic decision making for suicide prevention in rural New South Wales (Australia)
Creators: name: Jo-An Atkinson
name: Skinner, Adam
name: Hackney, Sue
name: Mason, Linda
name: Heffernan, Mark
name: Currier, Dianne
name: King, Kylie
name: Pirkis, Jane
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: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Material for Systems modelling and simulation to inform strategic decision making for suicide prevention in rural New South Wales (Australia) by Jo-An Atkinson, Adam Skinner, Sue Hackney, Linda Mason, Mark Heffernan, Dianne Currier, Kylie King and Jane Pirkis in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry