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title: Textual relations in the Qur'an.
Creators: name: El-Awa, Salwa Mohamed Selim
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2002

description: This is a study of textual relations in the Qur'an which explores the possibility of looking differently at the relations holding between the variety of topics that are usually encountered in the long Qur'anic suras. It adopts principles from linguistic and pragmatic theory, and attempts to explain textual relations in accordance with those principles. The main argument of the thesis is that the study of textual relations may be based on a search not necessarily for unity of theme, but rather for whatever types of relations do exist, how they work, and what linguistic tools can be used in directing the reader towards understanding them. The study is divided into an introduction and five chapters. In the first chapter I discuss the development of the view of textual relations in the field of Qur'anic studies and suggest the need for a new methodology that is more systematic and more theoretically guided. In the second chapter I explain the theoretical framework adopted and its implications for the study of the Qur'an, with particular focus on the role of context in understanding text and textual relations. The third and fourth chapters are devoted to analyzing two sample suras from the Qur'an and discussion of their problematic textual relations in the light of the linguistics and pragmatics of their texts. The discussion of the two sample suras covers many aspects of textual relations that are encountered elsewhere in the Qur'an, and the findings of the analysis are used to propose a generalized solution of the problem and a methodology and guiding mechanisms for further applications. The fifth and final chapter draws conclusions from the study and considers the implications of this research for tafsir in general and in understanding the structure of information and textual relations in the Qur'an in particular.
PutnamOpenPracticesDisclosure – Supplemental material for Collective Narcissism: Americans Exaggerate the Role of Their Home State in Appraising U.S. History
Creators: name: Putnam, Adam L.
name: Ross, Morgan Q.
name: Soter, Laura K.
name: Roediger, Henry L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, PutnamOpenPracticesDisclosure for Collective Narcissism: Americans Exaggerate the Role of Their Home State in Appraising U.S. History by Adam L. Putnam, Morgan Q. Ross, Laura K. Soter and Henry L. Roediger in Psychological Science
title: Conflict between workers and the party-state in China and the development of autonomous workers' organizations, 1949-1984.
Creators: name: Sheehan, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis is a study of the four main confrontations between workers and the Party-state in China which have occurred since 1949. These confrontations occurred in the years immediately after liberation (1949-1951); during the Hundred Flowers period (1956-7); during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), and during the April Fifth and Democracy Wall movements (1976-1981). Each of these periods is usually regarded as a time when intellectuals and students came into conflict with the Party and expressed dissenting views in protest movements of varying severity and extent. It is not well known that the same four periods were also times of crisis in the relationship between workers and the Party. This study aims to examine workers' activities in each of these four confrontations, analysing the issues about which workers were concerned, identifying the political content of campaigns and demands, and in particular, looking at the evidence of workers' attempts to form their own independent organizations. Having traced the development of workers' discontent and protest over a period of forty-five years, it becomes apparent that in fact the issues of greatest concern to workers, the issues which have been at the heart of every major confrontation since 1949, have remained essentially the same. However, workers' protests have developed over the years organizationally. The formation of ad hoc strike committees within a single enterprise in the 1950s developed into the organization of large-scale workers' groups which crossed industrial and geographical boundaries during the Cultural Revolution, and then in the early 1980s independent unions were formed modelled on Poland's Solidarity. This study thus provides the context in which workers' involvement in the Democracy Movement of 1989 can be properly understood, not as an entirely unprecedented event, but as the latest and most severe of a series of crises stemming from the nature of workers' position in China under the CCP.
title: Adverbial usage in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.
Creators: name: Shaady, Amal Abdel Ghany Abou
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1995

description: This study is concerned with the syntactic order of adverbials in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The thesis reviews previous treatments of the adverb both in Arabic and English and investigates a consistent body of data from a particular type of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and specifically from female usage which differs in some respects from that of men. Previous treatments were mainly structural of the Bloomfieldian type or Transformational-Generative following the work of Noam Chomsky. Treatment of the adverb within the latter framework has undergone various changes throughout the years mainly centering around the place of generation of the Adverb within the tree of any particular sentence and also around the actual identification of certain strings as adverbial. The position taken in this study is that the adverb is any element of the sentence other than the obligatory major constituents, namely the subject and the predicate. Adverbs are thus optional or structurally disposable constituents, which may be deleted without affecting grammaticality. It is hypothesized that the distinct problems that adverbials pose for the analyst lie in the relative distributional freedom they enjoy in the sentence. Semantic considerations as well as that of the usage of certain adverbials are examined in order to explain the syntactic behaviour of adverbials where necessary. After discussing different views held towards the adverbial category, a classification system is suggested. It was found that adverbials are best classified on the grounds of position and function. In chapter 4, a thorough examination of their modifying function is presented followed by an examination of their sentence position and the effect of this on sentence acceptability.
title: A study of Chinese reflexives.
Creators: name: Yu, Xian Fu
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis investigates the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and presents an analysis of these, attempting to integrate syntactic, morphological and discourse-related aspects of the phenomena. In Chinese, two distinct types of reflexive have been widely discussed in the literature: simplex reflexive ziji 'self', which is a long-distance reflexive, and complex reflexives pronoun + ziji, such as taziji 'himself', which must be locally bound (see Huang and Tang (1991) among others). In addition, Chinese has a kind of double reflexive construction, such as ziji-benshen, and reflexive clitics zi and ziwo. This thesis argues that reflexive clitics must be locally bound; and that under certain conditions, both simplex reflexive ziji and complex reflexives such as taziji and ziji- benshen can be locally bound, long-distance bound, or even free in an entire sentence. When the reflexive is locally bound, it must fall under the principles of the Binding Theory; when it is long-distance bound or free in an entire sentence, it is subject to logophoric interpretation. Whether a reflexive is subject to the Binding Theory or logophoric interpretation is determined by the interaction between the reflexive itself and the verb which governs it, which illustrates from whose point of view the report is made. I propose that every type of reflexive has two structures: one is an anaphoric structure, while the other is a logophoric structure. When a verb assigns an anaphoric theta role, the reflexive can have the anaphoric structure and the head of the reflexive NP is allowed to adjoin the head of the VP at LF. In this sense, the anaphoric reading is the result of movement of the head of the reflexive at LF. If a reflexive cannot receive an anaphoric theta role, it can have a logophoric structure. In the logophoric structure, the head of the reflexive DP must be a pro in order to receive the disjoint theta role from the verb. In this sense, the logophoric reading is a result of coindexing the pro with its antecedent. This thesis provides an explanation for local binding and long-distance binding within the Chomskyan paradigm and proposes a number of constraints for logophoric reflexives.
title: The devotional poetry of Svami Haridas: A study of early Braj Bhasa verse.
Creators: name: Rosenstein, Ludmila L.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: The 16th-century North Indian bhakta, poet and musician, Svami Haridas, composed lyrics in Braj Bhasa, devoted to the divine couple Radha and Krsna. 128 of them were later compiled in two anthologies: the didactic Astadas siddhanta and the rapturous Kelimal, and became the theological basis of the Haridasa sampradaya, a sect, which still flourishes in Vrindaban, U.P. Neither of these important works has hitherto been edited, properly translated or studied academically. For this reason the focus of this dissertation is the text of Haridas's poetry: its transmission, edition and interpretation. The chapter on textual criticism assesses sixteen 18th-19th century manuscripts which were collected during a field-trip in Vrindaban, and discusses the editorial procedure. The manuscript material is analysed with the help of computer programmes originally employed in taxonomy. The apparatus criticus is followed by an annotated English translation in which readings are assessed, points of linguistic interest discussed and commentarial glosses analysed. The language of Haridas's text is examined in detail in chapter III. Chapters I, VI and VII put Haridas's lyrics into a larger context. The introductory chapter discusses the theological views of the Haridasi sampradaya against the background of bhakti, analyses the sources of information about Haridas, and attempts to reconstruct his life. Chapter VI examines some musical characteristics of Haridas's lyrics: the raga distribution of his padas, the structure of the chapa and the association of Svami Haridas with the musical style of dhrupada. Chapter VII describes the main commentaries and analyses the sectarian concerns they reflect and metaphorical mechanisms they use. The general conclusions are followed by a comprehensive etymological glossary, a discussion and listing of extra verses attributed to Haridas, extracts from the main commentaries, and a list of chapa in Haridas's works.
Influence of collisions on trapped-electron modes in tokamaks and low-shear stellarators
Creators: name: Morren, M. C. L.
name: Proll, J. H. E.
name: van Dijk, J.
name: Pueschel, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of collisions on the growth rate of trapped-electron modes (TEMs) in core plasmas is assessed through both analytical linear gyrokinetics and linear gyrokinetic simulations. Both methods are applied to the magnetic geometry of the DIII-D tokamak, as well as the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX) and Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarators, in the absence of temperature gradients. Here we analytically investigate the influence of collisions on the TEM eigenmode frequency by a perturbative approach in the response of trapped particles to the mode, using an energy-dependent Krook operator to model collisions. Although the resulting growth rates exceed perturbative thresholds, they reveal important qualitative dependencies: a geometry-dependent stabilization rate occurs for all wavenumbers at high collisionality, while at low collisionality, a geometry-sensitive mixture of collisionless, resonantly driven, and collisionally destabilized modes is found. Additionally, linear gyrokinetic simulations have been performed with a rigorous pitch-angle scattering operator for the same geometries. In the case of DIII-D and large wavenumber modes in HSX, the trends predicted by analytical theory are reproduced. Dissimilarities are, however, obtained in W7-X geometry and for low wavenumber modes in HSX, which are shown to be due to a collision-induced transition to the Universal Instability as the dominant instability at marginal collisionality.
description: 24 pages, 46 figures
title: Legal aspects of constitutional breakdown in the Commonwealth, with particular reference to Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia.
Creators: name: Ong, D.S.K.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: This Thesis aspires to examine and review the recent authoritative analyses of the legal aspects of constitutional breakdown in the Commonwealth, with particular reference to Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia. This work, concerned as it is with legal issues, does not examine the political aspects of constitutional breakdowns. Adherence to the title of this Thesis has thus required the exclusion therein of important political events like the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) and the Pearce Report (1972), CMND. 4964, on opinion in Southern Rhodesia. The Thesis commences with an outline of Kelsen's Theory of Legal Norms because controversy has centred on his concept of the Grundnorm in relation to the change of government. This is followed in Chapter 2 by the background to the breakdown in Nigeria as well as the breakdown itself. The reaction of the Nigerian Judiciary is examined in Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 offers a Critique of this reaction. Southern Rhodesia is introduced in Chapter 5 with a background to the breakdown in 1965 Chapter 6 presents a conspectus of the breakdown with mention of the measures adopted by the United Kingdom and Southern Rhodesia Governments, respectively, to assert their attitudes towards U.D.I. The different responses of the Judiciaries in Southern Rhodesia and the United Kingdom are the subject- matter of Chapter 7. On this subject-matter Chapter 8 attempts a Critique. The Critiques in Chapters 4 and 8 are specifically directed to Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia, respectively. The Critique in Chapter 9 - the Concluding Critique - concentrates on the nature of legal orders in general; this Critique suggests a basis of legal analysis, which, it is hoped, avoids some of the confusion and complexity which have been precipitated by judicial and academic opinion.
title: Law, development and the Ethiopian revolution.
Creators: name: Brietzke, Paul H.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: This thesis explores a series of middle-range hypotheses concerning the interrelation of law and development. These hypotheses are made concrete enough to serve as policy prescriptions by applying them to the problems of Ethiopia, a country which displays most of the development constraints that have been identified in other Third World countries. Development is best understood as a dynamic process, as the broadening of subsistence and small-scale economic, political, legal and social 'markets' that effects a cumulative growth in a wide variety of resources. In Ethiopia, given her highly stratified and fragmented societies, this entails a socio-economic equalisation and integration, a wholesale structural transformation rather than the narrow policies of an economic growth advocated by many development theorists. The magnitude of this transformation, the manifest need for extensive and intensive development planning and the socialist predilections of Ethiopia's revolutionary military rulers (the Derg) suggest that massive state intervention in the economy is both inevitable and the only feasible path to an Ethiopian development which is, nevertheless, fraught with many hazards. It is therefore impossible to segregate economic activity from what is, in Ethiopia, an undifferentiated mass of law, politics and administration. The largest single bottleneck to Ethiopian development is the virtual absence of any political development registered under Haile Selassie or the Derg. The role of law in eliminating an Ethiopian "soft state" (Myrdal's term), which is far from soft on the poor and powerless, is surveyed and law's role in the aggregation, allocation and delegation of a variety of resources, in the formulation and implementation of interrelated policies, and in the amelioration of species of injustice is analysed in detail.
title: Mission - conversion - dialogue: The Christianisation process of the Rishi in South-West Bangladesh.
Creators: name: Zene, Cosimo
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis is a study of the changing relationship over time (1856-1990) between the Rishi, an ex-Untouchable jati of Bengal/South-West Bangladesh, and various groups of Catholic missionaries. The material consists of intensive ethnographic fieldwork among Hindu and Christian Rishi, as well as research into historical sources on missionary presence. The new approach to mission initiated by Vatican II (1962-65) is contrasted with the phenomenology of dialogue as this occurs in the field. A common ground is established between this stance and recent anthropological theory intent on solving authorial crisis by adopting 'dialogic' styles. It is argued that the mere adoption of a dialogic genre does not provide a solution for textual authority in anthropology, nor does it solve the missionary impasse. The radicality of dialogue as an ethical involvement rather than a means to an end (either 'conversion' or epistemological certainty) or as a methodological tool, is further analysed through the tensions inherent in the 'translation' of the Christian message. The misunderstandings this generates and the variety of missionary positions vis-a-vis the Rishi and the wider society constitute the 'topoi' of multiple dialogues. The Rishis' experience of 'Untouchability' and their struggle for humanity expose the shortcomings of a missionary self and the possible hidden intentionalities of anthropological enquiry. The field situation of the missionary and the ethnographer alike provide a testing ground for theories of dialogue in modern philosophy. It is argued that it is principally in the Levinasian 'proximity to alterity' and the Gramscian concept of 'counter-hegemony' that dialogue becomes ethically and politically demanding, and that social anthropology, as a discipline interested in human dialogue and its tensions, cannot fulfil its vocation without making an ethico-political commitment.
title: Mr Maybe: Fei Ming as a pastoral fiction writer.
Creators: name: Kudo, Akemi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis deals with Fei Ming (the pen-name of Feng Wenbing, 1901-1967), a writer who was active mainly in the 1920s and 1930s and who has been disregarded since 1949 until only recently. Fei Ming's works include stories, essays and poems, and this thesis concentrates on his pastoral stories written between 1923 and 1932. The aim of this thesis is threefold. First, it attempts to illuminate the individuality of Fei Ming's pastoral stories by analysing their thematic and stylistic characteristics. The second objective is to examine the influence of foreign modern pastoral stories and Chinese traditional pastoral works on Fei Ming. The third is to outline the changes in his pastoral fiction writing. In so doing, I hope this thesis will invite a fresh look at this writer who is barely mentioned in China, Japan and the West, and has never been made the subject of a systematic critical study. The thesis consists of seven chapters: Chapter One describes the literary life of Fei Ming. Chapter Two introduces an outline of Fei Ming's creative writings. Chapter Three discusses the thematic characteristics of his stories about the countryside in Southern China. Chapter Four investigates the pastoral elements in his stories. The term, 'pastoral' is defined, and the argument on influences on Fei Ming's work is developed. Chapter Five analyzes the stylistic characteristics of his pastoral stories. Chapter Six explores the novel. The Life of Mr Maybe, which I define as 'mock-pastoral'. Chapter Seven examines the serial published in 1947-1948, "After Mr Maybe Flew in an Aeroplane" to see how Fei Ming's views of country life changed after 1932. The conclusion discusses Fei Ming's influence on Chinese writers from the late 1920s onwards and sums up Fei Ming's achievements as a fiction writer.
Impact of school salad bars on fruit and vegetable selection, intake, and waste in Mid-Atlantic elementary schools
Creators: name: Moore, Bonnie
name: Raynor, Hollie
name: Bean, Melanie K.
name: Farthing, Sarah
name: Mendoza, Ashley
name: Thornton, Laura
name: Mazzeo, Suzanne E.
name: de Jonge, Lilian
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2025

description:
Background Few studies have empirically examined the impact of school salad bars on elementary students’ fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption within the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). This natural experiment evaluated the impact of salad bars on FV selection, intake, and waste within elementary schools. Methods Seven school pairs, matched on Title I status and percentage of students from ethnic or racial minority backgrounds, were randomly selected. All schools served pre-portioned FV at baseline. One school within each pair received a salad bar; the other continued to serve pre-portioned FV (Control). Digital imagery plate waste methods were applied at baseline and 4–6 weeks after schools installed salad bars (post). Images were rated in the laboratory (ICCs = .94-.99) to determine FV selection, intake, and waste (servings [1 NSLP serving = ½c]). Multilevel modeling evaluated group (Salad Bar vs Control) and time (baseline vs post) differences and group-by-time interactions. Differences in outcomes by Title I status were also examined. Results Across schools, mean NSLP participation was 54%. N = 6,623 trays were included (n = 3,273 Salad Bar; n = 3,350 Control). Students in Salad Bar schools selected (+ .44c) and consumed (+ .36c) more FV at post, compared to baseline. Control students decreased FV selection (-.05c) with no change in intake from baseline to post. Group, time, and group-by-time interactions were significant (ps < .0001). When examined separately, results suggest that these effects are driven by fruit. Salad Bar students increased fruit selection (+ .45c), intake (+ .36c), and waste (+ .09c) from baseline to post; no significant changes were observed in Controls. There was no significant change in vegetable selection, intake or waste for either group. Findings did not differ based on Title I status. Conclusions Salad bars were effective in increasing elementary school students’ fruit selection and intake, yet did not increase vegetable selection or intake. Additional efforts are needed to increase vegetable intake and minimize fruit waste from salad bars. Consistent findings across schools, regardless of Title I status, suggest potential for salad bars to yield increased fruit intake across socioeconomic groups. Findings can inform policies designed to increase FV intake within the NSLP.Trial registrationThis investigation reports results of a systematic evaluation of school salad bars and does not meet criteria for a clinical trial, yet was retrospectively registered (10/28/22) in clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05605483) as an observational study.
title: The political economy of the South African industrialisation: The role of the minerals-energy complex.
Creators: name: Rustomjee, Zavareh Zal Rustom
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis provides an original interpretation of the trajectory of South Africa's post-war industrialisation by emphasising the role played by the economy's Minerals-Energy Complex (MEC). The MEC is viewed as a system of accumulation, encompassing a number of core economic sectors and imparting a determining influence on the pattern of industrialisation and economic performance. The development of the MEC has been mediated by relationships between English and Afrikaner fractions of capital through the state, giving rise to a conglomerate form of private and public corporate structure, straddling the mining, manufacturing and financial sectors. By examining the MEC empirically, through primary and secondary material from the inter-war period to the present day, it is shown that past debates over the rhythm of industrialisation have been based, both on a false perception of the pattern of (import-substituting) industrialisation'and on a partial and even false recognition of how industrial policy has been adopted and implemented. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there was capability in capital goods and other industries in and around the MEC but their potential scope has not been exploited through coherent industrial policy. In the 1950s, efforts at diversification were hampered by the objective of creating large-scale Afrikaner capital. Foreign disinvestment after 1961 opened new opportunities for domestic investment, while the disjuncture between large-scale English and Afrikaner capital narrowed as the former assisted the latter to enter gold mining and as further interpenetration between the two occurred. Policies of strengthening the MEC followed the gold and energy price rise in the 1970s, while the crisis of the 1980s precluded policies of industrial diversification from being implemented. Consequently, the industrial structure and institutional impetus that represent the MEC continue to guide South Africa's industrial trajectory into the 1990s.
title: Luang Vichitr Vadakarn: The use of theatre for propaganda.
Creators: name: Prasertsud, Kusuma
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1998

description: This thesis focuses on the use of drama by Luang Vichitr Vadakam (1898-1962) for nationalist propaganda purposes in Thailand. Luang Vichitr is known to have been one of the most influential figures in recent Thai history and the mastermind behind the shaping and implementation of the nationalist policies of Phibun Songkhram and Sarit Thanarat. His plays and songs were loaded with patriotic themes, instilling nationalist feelings in the Thai people, successfially conveying ideas about the origin of the Thai race, and forming a social and moral code. His plays have been analysed in order to understand why they were so popular and how they have influenced the Thai people's concept of art, culture, history and national identity. Until the student-led revolution in 1973, Luang Vichitr's historiography dominated the field of history. Since then, he and his works have become the subject of extensive scrutiny by many Thai and foreign scholars. The purpose of this thesis is to further analyse his ideas, to highlight how central his role was in shaping the thinking of the military dictators that would subsequently hold power and to investigate how he exploited theatre and Thai history to influence the audience. The thesis begins with a detailed analysis of Luang Vichitr's early life and works. This is followed by a discussion of other important background information such as the changing role of theatre, the coup in 1932, Luang Vichitr's concept of "human revolution", the role of the Publicity Bureau and the establishment of the Drama and Music School under Luang Vichitr's directorship. The remaining four chapters analyse the 27 plays produced by Luang Vichitr between 1934 and 1957. The conclusions summarise the dissertation and assert that Luang Vichitr's ability to produce propaganda plays which were popular with their audience was of central importance for indoctrinating them with his ideas. Even one hundred years after his birth, the impact of Luang Vichitr's legacy on modem Thai society can still be observed, and this thesis aims to increase the understanding of Luang Vichitr's ideas, his manipulation of Thai history and the significance of his plays for disseminating his nationalist propaganda.
title: The crystallisation of the Iraqi state: Geopolitical function and form.
Creators: name: Preston, Zoe Elizabeth
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2000

description: In 1921 the State of Iraq was established in the Middle East, under a British-held mandate from the League of Nations. It took until 1926 for the final geographical extent of the new State to be decided. This thesis analyses the geographical and historical factors which shaped the new Iraqi State. Historically, the region that became the Iraqi State lay in the heart of an ethnically, religiously and geographically complex area, a fundamental shatterbelt zone between rival regional and colonial powers. Iraq's geostrategic location was the key to its political and cultural developments, lying as it did at the frontier of clashing geostrategic powers and political ideologies. Many resultant features were to filter into the State that was created in 1921, and seriously affect Iraq's geopolitical function and form. This thesis examines the fundamental factors that impacted upon the geopolitical crystallisation of the Iraqi State in the 1920s. The international political climate of the post-First World War era filtered into Iraq. The thesis argues that the complexities and clashes between the various communal identities, themselves a reflection of Iraq's geopolitical position, presented severe challenges to the new State's consolidation and geopolitical function. Also fundamental was Iraq's geostrategic location as this invited the attentions and ambitions of eompeting world powers. Immediately after the First World War, Wilsonian principles of ethnic self- determination and nationalism came to the forefront of international politics. Iraq was bom out of this international political climate, but its mandatory was Britain, an established imperial power. Whilst trying to retain the mandate for Iraq by an outward display of agreement with the idealism of nationalism, Britain was principally trying to secure its interests in the Middle East and, more importantly, India. Thus, the British backed a narrow strand of nationalism within Iraq, which was Sunni and Arab in essence. With such a limited support base, this Arab administration remained militarily, economically and politically dependent upon Britain. Ethnic and religious divisions were deep-rooted within the Iraqi region, as they had been tolerated for centuries under the Ottomans. After the First World War and the establishment of the State of Iraq, many of these social divides remained, or were even strengthened by resentments from many sides, in particular what was seen as the favouring of the Sunni Arab elite and the subsequent neglect of other main ethnoreligious groups. Such unequal access to power was reinforced by the geographic distribution of the major ethnic and religious groups, as they tended to be spatially clustered.
title: A journey of the repressed in Zhang Xianling's self-fictionalization.
Creators: name: Lau, Chi-Chuen
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: The dissertation studies the fictional journey of Zhang Xianliang from the viewpoint of political unconscious. Zhang has been under different kinds of labour reform and re-education in mainland China for twenty-two years. The experience is too painful to recall, yet too feared to be forgotten. The repressed trauma of Zhang is therefore displaced and disguised in the fictional language of reform, remembrance, love, sex and death. Each language fulfils one layer of Zhang's hidden wishes. Yet the desiring chain moves on with new forms of substitutions until death. The study investigates his unconscious psyche from the Historical subtexts of conflicting impulses between body and mind, self and Other, individual and socialist Ideological State Apparatuses, and the residual, dominant and emerging modes of production.
title: Policy-making in the PRC: A study of the variations in decision-making across three issue areas; 1969-1978.
Creators: name: Seckington, Ian Mark
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: This thesis examines the policy-making process in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between 1969 and 1978. By undertaking a study of three issue areas (agriculture, foreign policy and higher education), this thesis challenges many of the conclusions of earlier single-issue or broad band studies of the decision-making process in the PRC which failed to generate sufficiently detailed information to allow comparisons to be made regarding policy-making across issue areas. his thesis highlights variations in the decision-making process which suggest that the pattern of decision-making in each of the three issue areas under study appears to be independent of most of the developments in the other fields. Policy-making in each area appears to follow its own internal logic such that a radical upsurge in one field is not necessarily matched by a similar upsurge in either, or one of, the other areas. Furthermore, the influence of the various groups competing over policy also appears to vary, both across each area and with time. So, for example, the radical Left dominated higher education policy from 1969 to their purge in 1976, but had little influence over foreign policy during this period. his study suggest that the fundamental reason for these variations is that the senior Party leadership, and in particular Mao Zedong, made an assessment as to the possible consequences of failure for radical policies in each of the three issue areas, and that where the cost was seen as too great, the radical influence was restricted and a more pragmatic line adopted. So, for example, this research shows that throughout this period agriculture was characterised by a cyclical pattern whereby radical policies were curtailed during Spring and Autumn, periods of peak activity for agriculture. Similarly, radical activity in the foreign affairs system was stopped following the threat of a possible war with the Soviet Union in 1969.
title: On the role of the laity in the history of Zoroastrianism.
Creators: name: Stewart, Sarah Rosemary Anne
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1998

description: Although much has been written about both the ancient and the living traditions of Zoroastrianism, no detailed study exists on the role of the laity in the history of the faith. This is perhaps because the surviving religious literature, namely the extant portion of the Avesta, is mainly concerned with priestly matters. As a result, the role of the laity has tended to be overlooked, although, at the same time, certain assumptions have been made. This thesis will raise questions concerning these assumptions. It will begin by looking at accounts of the religion by scholars in the field of Iranian studies with reference to the earliest Zoroastrian texts, the Yasts, and the Gathas of the prophet Zarathustra, and show how various views of the laity have been formed. It will also suggest new ways of approaching the Zoroastrian texts from which these accounts have been constructed. The central text of this thesis belongs to relatively modern times; it is the atas nu Git, or Song of the Fire, which appeared in publication in India in 1879. I have used this text as a means by which to examine lay religious life during the period to which it belongs, and also as a window through which to view the past. This approach is made possible by the fact that the song contains references to past events and to ancient texts. It is quintessentially Zoroastrian in the way in which it is structured: on the one hand expressing certain theological ideas, and on the other, showing a structure which is reminiscent of a number of older Zoroastrian religious texts, including the ancient prayers, or Niyayis. The atas nu Git is unique for the reason that it was composed by laymen for use primarily within a lay context, yet over a period of some two hundred years, it has acquired a semi-official religious status. Today, a performance of the song may take place within an agiary, and is commissioned by priestly as well as lay families. The atas nu Git is, therefore, an ideal text through which to give an account of lay religious life. Through the evidence of oral testimony, it has been possible to substantiate certain religious customs and traditions which are alluded to in the song, but are not described in any detail. Oral testimony is a medium I have used in this thesis to demonstrate the extent to which lay people have been responsible for the development of the religion in recent times in India. It will be shown that the laity has played a more significant role than has previously been assumed by those studying the religion.
title: Early Indian moulded terracotta: The emergence of an iconography and variations in style, circa second century B.C. to first century A.D.
Creators: name: Ahuja, Naman Parmeshwar
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: This thesis is the first comprehensive study of Indian moulded terracotta sculpture made between the second century BC and first century AD. Over 3000 images dispersed in more than 50 international collections have been studied. They hail from archaeological sites that spread from the Northwest Frontier in Pakistan through the Indian Gangetic plain to Nepal and Bangladesh. While the stone imagery from sites like Bharhut, Sanchi and the Western Indian caves are reasonably well known, contemporary terracotta plaques have been marginalised by scholarship. Unlike their stone counterparts, the mass-produced terracotta plaques belong to a separate genre of cultic belief and patronage. Made of easily renewable and inexpensive clay, the use of these images was not precluded to the wealthier donors of contemporary stone sculpture, who were given mostly to patronising Buddhism or Jainism. Before any hypothesis could be made about the religious affiliation of the terracotta images, the first objective of this study was to collect the data, and categorise it empirically. In this process, a pattern of related similarities and differences emerged in the imagery. A stylistic study has also been conducted that compares the inter-regional relationships between the sculptures from five areas: the Northwest, the Indo-Gangetic Divide, Upper-Gangetic Valley, Middle-Gangetic Valley and Bengal. This study revealed a complex and shared iconography of images spread over the South Asian Subcontinent before the Common Era. However, identifying their iconography and nature of the cult(s) that used these images can only be speculated at this stage. A preliminary study has shown that the closest textual descriptions that mirror the iconography of these images lie embedded in the later myths of the major Indie divinities. It appears that the myths and magico-religious nature of pre-Kusan divinities were subsumed by the mythoiogies of the emerging 'great' gods like Shiva, Vishnu and Devi. These images form perhaps the first ciear iconographic programme of sculptures found in the Subcontinent. This leads us to assess what factors (religious, ritualistic, economic and artistic) might have influenced the sudden creation of this imagery in India. Finally, in so doing, this dissertation questions who would have used this imagery, and why. The thesis concludes that many Indian gods and goddesses, epic narratives and their heroes, often forgotten by the subsequent tradition, found their first visual reference in Early-Historic terracotta. It also highlights the important ritualistic and apotropaic function of early images. The vast majority of this material has never been published. Approximately 450 illustrations accompany the dissertation.
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_0300060520925353 - Supplemental material for Heroin-induced headache in female heroin addicts
Creators: name: Li, Li
name: Yu, Shengyuan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_0300060520925353 for Heroin-induced headache in female heroin addicts by Li Li and Shengyuan Yu in Journal of International Medical Research
Dataset de pel·lícules de Filmin enriquit amb informació de FilmAffinity
Creators: name: Ramírez Jávega, Joan Manel
name: Trullén Pla, Teresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Aquest dataset conté el catàleg complet de pel·lícules de Filmin en data: 10 de Novembre del 2024 i està complementat amb informació extreta de FilmAffinity en la mateixa data.

Aquest conjunt de dades proporciona un ampli panorama sobre el catàleg cinematogràfic disponible a Filmin amb valoracions externes tot afegint context i qualitat a les dades originals. En el cas que s’entrega s’ha realitzat la tasca de web scraping amb les 1000 primeres pel·lícules del catàleg de filmin.
Long-range translational order and hyperuniformity in two-dimensional chiral active crystal
Creators: name: Kuroda, Yuta
name: Kawasaki, Takeshi
name: Miyazaki, Kunimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study two-dimensional athermal chiral active particles at high densities. The particles in this system perform the circular motion with frequency $Ω$. We show that the system crystallizes at high densities even in two dimensions, accompanied by the true long-range translational order. This is due to the anomalous suppression of displacement fluctuations associated with hyperuniformity. These findings can be explained using an active elastic theory quantitatively. Surprisingly, the crystals become unstable and melt in the limit of $Ω=0$, for the spatial dimension of four or less. This result can be explained by a mechanism akin to quenched random systems for which the lower critical dimension is four.
description: 8+6 pages, 4+4 figures
title: "Exploring the Training Data Landscape for AI Based Threathunting For Protecting Intellectual Property"
Creators: name: Siibo, Manzi
name: Kreider, Christopher
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness that would result in the integration of AI into traditional threat hunting systems. To do so, 10-15 scholarly articles and data sets were evaluated to see the results of AI and machine learning threat hunting versus traditional systems. With so many proven benefits of this integration, this paper also explores how it impacts the protection of Intellectual property which is some of the most important forms of information that threat hunting systems aim to protect.
Tracer diffusion beyond Gaussian behavior: explicit results for general single-file systems
Creators: name: Grabsch, Aurélien
name: Bénichou, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-file systems, in which particles diffuse in narrow channels while not overtaking each other, is a fundamental model for the tracer subdiffusion observed in confined geometries, such as in zeolites or carbon nanotubes. Twenty years ago, the mean squared displacement of a tracer was determined at large times, for any diffusive single-file system. Since then, for a general single-file system, even the determination of the fourth cumulant, which probes the deviation from Gaussianity, has remained an open question. Here, we fill this gap and provide an explicit formula for the fourth cumulant of an arbitrary single-file system. Our approach also allows us to quantify the perturbation induced by the tracer on its environment, encoded in the correlation profiles. These explicit results constitute a first step towards obtaining a closed equation for the correlation profiles for arbitrary single-file systems.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure + 12 pages of supplementary material
2020-00010R1_Production_Supplemental_Data_online_supp – Supplemental material for Immunohistochemical Localization of Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumors 1 in Normal Human Tissues
Creators: name: Nexoe, Anders Bathum
name: Pedersen, Andreas Arnholdt
name: Huth, Sebastian Von
name: Detlefsen, Sönke
name: Hansen, Pernille Lund
name: Holmskov, Uffe
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, 2020-00010R1_Production_Supplemental_Data_online_supp for Immunohistochemical Localization of Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumors 1 in Normal Human Tissues by Anders Bathum Nexoe, Andreas Arnholdt Pedersen, Sebastian von Huth, Sönke Detlefsen, Pernille Lund Hansen and Uffe Holmskov in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
Dataset de pel·lícules de Filmin enriquit amb informació de FilmAffinity
Creators: name: Ramírez Jávega, Joan Manel
name: Trullen Plan, Teresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Aquest dataset conté el catàleg complet de pel·lícules de Filmin en data: 10 de Novembre del 2024 i està complementat amb informació extreta de FilmAffinity en la mateixa data.

Aquest conjunt de dades proporciona un ampli panorama sobre el catàleg cinematogràfic disponible a Filmin amb valoracions externes tot afegint context i qualitat a les dades originals. En el cas que s’entrega s’ha realitzat la tasca de web scraping amb les 1000 primeres pel·lícules del catàleg de filmin. Cada pel·lícula apareixerà duplicada, amb un fila amb les dades recol·lectades del lloc web de Filmin i l’altra amb les corresponents de FilmAffinity; l’origen corresponent està indicat en el camp corresponent de l’atribut ‘source’.