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title: Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990
Creators: name: Jia, Yan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines the multi-layered relationship between the literary spheres of the People’s Republic of China (1949-) and the Republic of India (1947-) from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawing on previously underexplored materials in Chinese, Hindi, and English, this thesis focuses on a range of writerly, textual, and readerly contacts — three aspects of what, following Karen Thornber (2009), I call “literary relations” — between the two newly established Asian nation-states. Considering literary relations as inextricable from political relations, I argue that China and India embarked on similar and related paths since 1950, but in order to understand these relations we need to keep multiple frames in mind: of each country’s national culture and foreign policy; of bilateral relations; and of broader leftist internationalism, the anti-imperialist Third World solidarity movement, and Cold War world politics. Specifically, I identify and analyse five different yet overlapping trajectories that tied modern Chinese and Indian literatures together: first, a bilateral mechanism of writerly contact intended to enhance the China-India friendship; second, a multinational forum of Afro-Asian writers designed to advance cultural self-determination and literary solidarity in the Third World; third, India’s enthusiastic import of modern Chinese fiction under the rubric of “revolutionary” with the Foreign Languages Press acting as the main text provider; fourth, China’s systematic reception of “progressive” Indian fiction as part of the PRC’s model of world literature; and fifth, a counter-intuitive yet strikingly productive and cross-media transplantation of Hindi popular fiction in 1980s China. Although post-1950 China and India shared considerable common grounds for developing literary contact, nevertheless the ways they engaged with each other’s modern literature differed significantly due to their different literary cultures, political systems, and Cold War ideologies. The result is a landscape of literary relations that is markedly horizontal but nonetheless asymmetrical.
title: The Upside-down Kingdom of God : A Disability Studies Perspective on Disabled People’s Experiences in Churches and Theologies of Disability
Creators: name: Jacobs, Naomi Lawson
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis argues that, in many churches, disabled people are conceptualised as objects of care. However, disabled Christians are capable of being active agents in churches, with service, ministry and theologies of their own to offer. In Part A, I explore the discourses that have historically functioned in churches to marginalise disabled Christians. Using a Foucauldian approach, I argue that the Christian pastoral model has a fundamental orientation towards individualism, addressing disability through frameworks of care and charity, rather than through a model of justice. I compare this approach with the liberatory theologies of critical disability theologians, whose socially located perspectives are often marginalised in mainstream theology in favour of universalist theological approaches. In Part B, using data from interviews with 30 Christians, I argue that their subjugated perspectives highlight a precarious normalcy in churches, where environments do not sustain the bodyminds of many disabled worshippers. Using theories of misfitting from disability studies, I argue the study’s participants were often prevented from fitting in churches: in buildings, in worship contexts, in social interactions, and in their attempts to offer their own service and ministry to others. I theorise the concept of discipl(in)ing, where bodyminds are shaped towards norms as they participate in church life. Drawing on the Gospel parable of the banquet, I argue that, through the theological and ecclesial focus on hospitality, disabled people are offered a conditional welcome into churches, resulting in a power imbalance between non-disabled hosts and disabled permanent guests. In Part C I discuss the theological perspectives of participants, whose own theologies call for the churches to be the “Upside-down Kingdom of God.” They explore an alternative: transformation of churches so that all may have access to worship and church culture. I argue that the fields of academic and ecclesial theology have a responsibility to enable disabled people’s own socially contingent theologies and sharing of experience, if access to “all” for churches is to include disabled people as part of the “all.”
sj-pdf-1-ome-10.1177_0030222820913717 - Supplemental material for Analysis of Population Representation Among Willed Whole-Body Donors to Facilitate the Construction of a Body Donation Program in China: From the Perspective of Medical Students and Anatomists
Creators: name: Zhang, Hanlin
name: Chen, Kang
name: Wang, Naili
name: Zhang, Di
name: Zhang, Qing
name: Tang, Keyun
name: Wan, Mengyao
name: Gong, Changlin
name: Hong, Xinyu
name: Qiu, Wenying
name: Rizzolo, Lawrence J.
name: Ma, Chao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ome-10.1177_0030222820913717 for Analysis of Population Representation Among Willed Whole-Body Donors to Facilitate the Construction of a Body Donation Program in China: From the Perspective of Medical Students and Anatomists by Hanlin Zhang, Kang Chen, Naili Wang, Di Zhang, Qing Zhang, Keyun Tang, Mengyao Wan, Changlin Gong, Xinyu Hong, Wenying Qiu, Lawrence J. Rizzolo and Chao Ma in OMEGA–Journal of Death and Dying
Revised_Supporting_Information_Yu_Fuchao – Supplemental material for Selectfluor-triggered fluorination/cyclization of o-hydroxyarylenaminones: A facile access to 3-fluoro-chromones
Creators: name: Yanqin Wang
name: Hu, Biao
name: Qiaohe Zhang
name: Siyun Zhao
name: Yuxuan Zhao
name: Zhang, Biao
name: Fuchao Yu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, Revised_Supporting_Information_Yu_Fuchao for Selectfluor-triggered fluorination/cyclization of o-hydroxyarylenaminones: A facile access to 3-fluoro-chromones by Yanqin Wang, Biao Hu, Qiaohe Zhang, Siyun Zhao, Yuxuan Zhao, Biao Zhang and Fuchao Yu in Journal of Chemical Research
MATEMATİK DÜNYASINDA KEŞİF BEKLEYEN HEYECAN VERİCİ KONULAR
Creators: name: Prof. Dr. Erdal Fırat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Matematik, soyut düşüncenin ve mantık yürütmenin zirve noktalarından birini temsil eder. Bu alan, sayılar, şekiller, yapılar ve değişimler üzerinde çeşitli teoriler geliştirerek insanlık tarihine önemli katkılarda bulunmuştur. Ancak, matematik dünyası yalnızca bilinenler ile sınırlı değildir; aynı zamanda keşfedilmeyi bekleyen birçok heyecan verici konu ile doludur. Bu konular, hem teorik derinliği hem de pratik uygulamaları ile matematiğin farklı alanlarını etkileyebilecek potansiyele sahiptir.
Supplemental Material, Supplemental_File_12-18-19 - Incidence of Injury, Maltreatment, and Developmental Disorders Among Substance Exposed Infants
Creators: name: Austin, Anna E.
name: Berkoff, Molly Curtin
name: Shanahan, Meghan E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material, Supplemental_File_12-18-19 for Incidence of Injury, Maltreatment, and Developmental Disorders Among Substance Exposed Infants by Anna E. Austin, Molly Curtin Berkoff and Meghan E. Shanahan in Child Maltreatment
title: Variation in Vatlongos Verbal Morphosyntax : speaker communities in Southeast Ambrym and Mele Maat
Creators: name: Ridge, Eleanor Claire
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines morphosyntactic variation in an unusual sociolinguistic context in Vanuatu. Vatlongos (Oceanic, Austronesian) is spoken by communities in the southeast of Ambrym island, and by a peri-urban community near the capital city, who relocated after a volcanic explosion in the early 1950s. Within Southeast Ambrym, the thesis further distinguishes Endu from other Vatlongos-speaking villages on the basis of observed dialectal, sociolinguistic and language-contact differences, especially contact with communities and languages of Northern Ambrym. The sociolinguistic setting of Vatlongos is explored via a survey of speakers from all three communities, looking at implications for language contact, language attitudes and the vitality of Vatlongos. The verbal morphosyntax of Vatlongos is described through qualitative and quantitative analysis of a >65,000-word corpus of spontaneous and elicited texts recorded during fieldwork, paying careful attention to variation within and between speaker communities. It first outlines the syntax of simple clauses, the tense, aspect and mood categories of the language and the verbal morphology, before moving onto a description of complex verbal constructions: serial verb constructions, complex predicates, subordination and auxiliary verb constructions. Finally, the thesis examines the frequency of occurrence of these verbal constructions in spontaneous texts across the speaker communities, using chi-square tests and negative-binomial regression modelling to investigate the effects of community and other speaker-level and text-level factors: age, gender, years of education and genre. There are community level differences in the token frequency of auxiliary and serial verb constructions: lower frequency of use of these two constructions is associated with higher level of education in the Anglophone education system. Both the formal variation and the community level frequency differences are consistent with effects of language shift in Mele Maat, under heavy exposure to Bislama and English.
3_Appendix_demogr_Tables – Supplemental material for Role Distancing and the Persistence of Long Work Hours in Professional Service Firms
Creators: name: Lupu, Ioana
name: Ruiz-Castro, Mayra
name: Leca, Bernard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, 3_Appendix_demogr_Tables for Role Distancing and the Persistence of Long Work Hours in Professional Service Firms by Ioana Lupu, Mayra Ruiz-Castro and Bernard Leca in Organization Studies
Supplementary_Figures - Distinct Expression of miR-378 in Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate: A Cogitation of Skewed Sex Ratio in Prevalence
Creators: name: Xu, Yuzi
name: Xie, Binbin
name: Shi, Jue
name: Li, Jia
name: Zhou, Chuan
name: Lu, Wei
name: Xu, Fengqin
name: He, Fuming
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Surgery

description: Supplementary_Figures for Distinct Expression of miR-378 in Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate: A Cogitation of Skewed Sex Ratio in Prevalence by Yuzi Xu, Binbin Xie, Jue Shi, Jia Li, Chuan Zhou, Wei Lu, Fengqin Xu and Fuming He in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
A Unified Framework for Automated Code Transformation and Pragma Insertion
Creators: name: Pouget, Stéphane
name: Pouchet, Louis-Noël
name: Cong, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-level synthesis, source-to-source compilers, and various Design Space Exploration techniques for pragma insertion have significantly improved the Quality of Results of generated designs. These tools offer benefits such as reduced development time and enhanced performance. However, achieving high-quality results often requires additional manual code transformations and tiling selections, which are typically performed separately or as pre-processing steps. Although DSE techniques enable code transformation upfront, the vastness of the search space often limits the exploration of all possible code transformations, making it challenging to determine which transformations are necessary. Additionally, ensuring correctness remains challenging, especially for complex transformations and optimizations.
 To tackle this obstacle, we first propose a comprehensive framework leveraging HLS compilers. Our system streamlines code transformation, pragma insertion, and tiles size selection for on-chip data caching through a unified optimization problem, aiming to enhance parallelization, particularly beneficial for computation-bound kernels. Them employing a novel Non-Linear Programming (NLP) approach, we simultaneously ascertain transformations, pragmas, and tile sizes, focusing on regular loop-based kernels. Our evaluation demonstrates that our framework adeptly identifies the appropriate transformations, including scenarios where no transformation is necessary, and inserts pragmas to achieve a favorable Quality of Results.
sj-pdf-3-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 - Supplemental material for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”?
Creators: name: Agar Marín-Morales
name: Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia
name: Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia
name: Pérez-García, Miguel
name: Catena-Martínez, Andrés
name: Verdejo-Román, Juan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”? by Agar Marín-Morales, Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Miguel Pérez-García, Andrés Catena-Martínez and Juan Verdejo-Román in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
sj-pdf-5-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 - Supplemental material for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”?
Creators: name: Agar Marín-Morales
name: Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia
name: Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia
name: Pérez-García, Miguel
name: Catena-Martínez, Andrés
name: Verdejo-Román, Juan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”? by Agar Marín-Morales, Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Miguel Pérez-García, Andrés Catena-Martínez and Juan Verdejo-Román in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
title: Law, Culture, and Community at the Borders of the state
Creators: name: O’Brien, Margaret
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis explores the conditions under which the immediate and local narratives of communities might produce a culture of resistance. Focussing primarily on research with the Chakma people of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), it recounts the complex role of legal pluralism in sustaining communities as political units in the postcolonial state, exploring how law’s framing narratives produce different iterations of communitarian legal practice ostensibly within the same postcolonial legal form. This exploration uses a conceptual frame of ‘critical communitarianism’, which draws specific attention to the parallels between political identity and legal culture, and community and legal mobilisation within a legally plural setting. Using legal culture and mobilisation as analytical tools, this thesis unpacks the relationship between law, power and resistance in a context where community and state are inherently unstable. In the post-conflict CHT, it appears that the processes of colonisation and de-colonisation have caused the boundaries and ideations of community to be highly mutable and contested, yet these very instabilities appear to diffuse power more equally across the community, and subvert the colonial legacy of feudal hierarchies. To further illustrate this hypothesis, the brief contrast drawn between the CHT and an Indian Chakma community demonstrates how a rigid system of constitutional recognition under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution has an ossifying effect on communitarian law; recognition reinforces an elderly and conservative customary elite and ultimately pushes communitarian legal practice to the margins of community. The thesis concludes that conditions of crisis appear to diffuse power across communities, causing dynamic and resistant interpretations of law and culture to emerge from within non-state communities.
title: Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India
Creators: name: Leese, Simon
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Arabic writing is an important but neglected aspect of Indian cultural history. Likewise, being on the Arabic “periphery”, India is almost always overlooked in histories of Arabic literature. As a two-pronged intervention to these fields, this thesis studies Arabic poetry and anthologies produced in North India in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the different ways in which these cultural productions responded to and reconstituted the Arabic canon as seen from the region. My research relies on a large archive of hitherto un-researched printed books and manuscripts in Indian and UK libraries, and incorporates figures such as Shāh Walī Allāh, Ghulām ʿAlī “Āzād” al-Bilgrāmī, and Nawāb Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān alongside lesser known poets, scholars, printers, and book sellers who participated in the vibrant field of Arabic textual production As well as drawing on this rich archive to reconstruct neglected aspects of Indian and Arabic cultural history and to excavate south-south connections, the thesis investigates the meanings Arabic poetry takes on in a multilingual literary culture. I ask how the poetics of nostalgia, love, and devotion are read multilingually, sometimes through overt translation into Persian and Urdu. The thesis also explores how poetic meaning is inflected by imaginations of space. Arabic scholars in India had a rich historical and geographical awareness, deploying Arabic poetics in a variety of textual and material forms to articulate their relationship both to their own geographies, to canonical Arabic writers of the past, and to contemporaries within transregional networks that linked India with Yemen, the Hejaz, Egypt, and Iraq. I argue that multilingual poetic meaning and articulations of selfhood were structured by the maintenance of multiple gazes to time-spaces of the past and present. In doing so, I suggest possible avenues for reading Arabic’s other multilingual pasts and multilingual poetics more generally.
sj-pdf-1-aan-10.1177_0218492320935251 - Supplemental material for Rheumatic mitral valve repair: the Score procedure
Creators: name: Tiange, Luo
name: Xu, Meng
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aan-10.1177_0218492320935251 for Rheumatic mitral valve repair: the Score procedure by Luo Tiange and Meng Xu in Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
title: Race and processes of racialisation in British international development discourse, 1997-2017
Creators: name: Goodfellow, Maya
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis analyses the role race and processes of racialisation play in British development discourse about India between 1997 and 2017. Using Stuart Hall’s conceptualisation of race, paired with critical race scholarship, decolonial theory, postcolonial theory and Gramscian notions of hegemony, it offers original empirical findings by examining and comparing three key areas: a) government discourse on development; b) development professionals’ views of their work and c) British newspaper reporting on development in India. The processes of racialisation present in each, and how they interact with colonial tropes, gender and class are evaluated qualitatively and comparatively. They are also compared with domestic discourses already established as racialised, that is discourses on race and asylum and immigration. I demonstrate continuities across these different realms, and identify significant similarities between the arguments of ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ development proponents in British politics. It is by looking at these multiple strands of discourse, articulated at times by different actors, that I suggest racialised development discourse is hegemonic. This thesis offers an original contribution in examining how shifting forms of racialisation operate in development discourse and by arguing that dominant development discourse is key to maintaining and is also maintained by representations of Britishness that are synonymous with whiteness. In addition, it not only demonstrates how race is central to ideas of development but also how this can be masked through competing forms of racialisation of the ‘to-be-developed’ and seemingly ‘positive’ forms of racialisation of people in India.
Pennycook_Supplemental_Material_rev – Supplemental material for Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention
Creators: name: Pennycook, Gordon
name: McPhetres, Jonathon
name: Zhang, Yunhao
name: Lu, Jackson G.
name: Rand, David G.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
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, Pennycook_Supplemental_Material_rev for Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention by Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang, Jackson G. Lu and David G. Rand in Psychological Science
title: Essays on Political Economy : Lessons from the Shekelisation of Palestine
Creators: name: Merrino, Serena
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis consists of four independent chapters, each of which takes a distinct approach to exploring the monetary and exchange rate arrangement bridging the Palestinian and the Israeli economies. In light of the distinctive attribute of ‘shekelisation’ - that the anchor currency is, above all, the national currency of one’s political rival – the first chapter aims at characterising shekelisation as both an economic phenomenon and a political process, and at providing a comprehensive assessment of its implications. To do so, the analysis accounts for the conceptual roots and analytical tools of the heterodox critique to the dominant theory of money. The second chapter combines monetary and political economics, for evaluating the convenience of shekelisation in a small open economy with sticky prices and subjected to economic sanctions in the output-inflation space. Noticeably, the cardinal contribution of this chapter is theoretical, in that it aims at extending the conventional New Keynesian analysis of exchange rate policy as to include the role of political contention between the currency area’s members. In spite of the paucity of the data, the subsequent chapter is dedicated to the empirical assessment of the theoretical model’s findings. The Vector Error Correction model and other empirical exercises confirm the hypotheses that shekelisation is not an optimal solution for the economy of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, in that it does not serve as an absorber of real fluctuations nor as a strong catalyst of inflation stability, while translating political crises into economic downturns. Finally, the last chapter makes use of Bayesian game theory modelling techniques to provide an alternative and plainly political perspective on the failure of the economic peace process, as well as to unveil conditions that will favour its compliance, even in presence of adverse political circumstances.
title: The 2018 Conceptual Framework for International Financial Reporting Standards : An Examination of Conservatism (Asymmetric Prudence)
Creators: name: Lakshminarayan, Srivatsan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has persistently rejected a role for asymmetric prudence (conservatism) in its Conceptual Framework (CF) while simultaneously acknowledging its selective relevance in standard setting, thus presenting something of a conundrum. This thesis aims to provide a new understanding of the IASB’s rejection of conservatism in its CF by undertaking an extensive empirical examination of constituent feedback and Board arguments presented during the development of the 2018 CF. Chapter two reviews the accounting literature on contracting between managers and capital providers that theorises the widespread private contracting demand for conditional conservatism in typical debt and equity settings. Conservatism is identified as an efficient control mechanism that enhances the credibility of financial statements against pervasive agency and incomplete contracting problems. Chapter three discusses the significance of a CF for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). It identifies the normative association of prudence with stewardship and reliability and highlights their declining significance within the CF. Chapters four and five discuss methodology used for analysis, and examine constituent feedback and Board arguments underlying the demand for stewardship, reliability and prudence. Key findings suggest inadequate representation of lender and shareholder interests, preponderance of conceptual over economic arguments, a strong Europe-IASB divide and Board pragmatism in seeking status quo. Despite the modest restoration of stewardship within decision-usefulness and an allowance for cautious prudence, the CF reveals a disjointed approach. It is inconsistent with the established presence of asymmetry in various standards and fails to address criticism from influential constituents on the persistent rejection of reliability and asymmetry. This study constitutes a timely examination of CF developments with implications for its completeness. It also makes several observations regarding the IASB’s due process and highlights the Board’s continued predisposition towards decision-usefulness that precludes a substantive acknowledgement of concepts important to primary users of financial statements
sj-pdf-1-tae-10.1177_2042018820930902 – Supplemental material for Adipose tissue gene expression of CXCL10 and CXCL11 modulates inflammatory markers in obesity: implications for metabolic inflammation and insulin resistance
Creators: name: Kochumon, Shihab
name: Madhoun, Ashraf Al
name: Al-Rashed, Fatema
name: Azim, Rafaat
name: Ebaa Al-Ozairi
name: Al-Mulla, Fahd
name: Ahmad, Rasheed
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tae-10.1177_2042018820930902 for Adipose tissue gene expression of CXCL10 and CXCL11 modulates inflammatory markers in obesity: implications for metabolic inflammation and insulin resistance by Shihab Kochumon, Ashraf Al Madhoun, Fatema Al-Rashed, Rafaat Azim, Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Fahd Al-Mulla and Rasheed Ahmad in Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Supplementary_table_1 – Supplemental material for The effects of intramuscular administration of scopolamine augmentation in moderate to severe major depressive disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Zhou, Jingjing
name: Yang, Jian
name: Zhu, Xuequan
name: Zghoul, Tarek
name: Feng, Lei
name: Chen, Runsen
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_table_1 for The effects of intramuscular administration of scopolamine augmentation in moderate to severe major depressive disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by Jingjing Zhou, Jian Yang, Xuequan Zhu, Tarek Zghoul, Lei Feng, Runsen Chen and Gang Wang in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
title: Capital Accumulation and Stagnation : a Veblenian-Kaleckian Approach to the Portuguese Lost Decade
Creators: name: Mortágua, Mariana Rodrigues
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The crisis of 2008 came at the end of a Lost Decade for the Portuguese economy, marked by low growth and investment rates, and rising indebtedness. The purpose of this dissertation is to find the structural causes behind this period of economic stagnation. Stagnation in mature capitalist economies has been the subject of a vivid academic debate within mainstream economics. In part one, I argue that, due to their neoclassical foundations, these approaches cannot understand stagnation as a systemic outcome of the evolution of capitalism. Heterodox approaches, on the other hand, present stagnation as the product of the historical and social process of accumulation and concentration of capital. This dissertation combines the core arguments of heterodox theories – namely Steindl’s and Kalecki’s – with insights from institutional economics – in particular Veblen –, to understand the strategies used by capitalists to promote the concentration and accumulation of capital in Portugal and their impact on economic stagnation. In part two, I make use of different methodologies and sources to examine the constitution and evolution of the Portuguese largest economic groups. I find that the historical process of accumulation and concentration of capital is not explained by the nature of individual entrepreneurs nor by the pure mechanics of production. It is an institutionally determined process, in which two elements play a crucial role: the banking sector and the State. In a broad perspective, policies, regulations and institutions create the structure of incentives – rents – that organises the functioning of capitalism in different historical moments. In the third part, I demonstrate that the Lost Decade is the result of the accumulation regime erected in the 1980/90s, which promoted the concentration of surplus in large companies — dominated by short-term pecuniary interests and inter-class conflicts, and unwilling to invest in the productive system.
title: Does Transitional Justice Build the Rule of Law? : The Role of Domestic Prosecutions
Creators: name: Broome, Julie Marie
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: In the aftermath of widespread human rights violations, states may engage in a process of transitional justice in an effort to diffuse conflict, prevent further violence, and promote reconciliation in society. Though transitional justice is a broad term that may encompass both judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, prosecution of perpetrators is frequently held to be of great importance, particularly by human rights organisations and victims’ associations. This thesis evaluates claims regarding the benefits of prosecutions, specifically their effects on building the rule of law, and identify the factors that play a role in how and under what conditions prosecutions are able to contribute to the development of the rule of law, where prosecutions are a central strategy of transitional justice. Although it has been suggested that prosecutions will contribute to the rule of law in an essentially linear fashion, it may be that prior conditions within the state determine the degree to which prosecutions are able to make a positive contribution to the development of the rule of law. Drawing on three case studies of countries that have undertaken domestic prosecutions as a primary transitional justice strategy – Argentina, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina – this thesis suggests that prosecutions will be more likely to contribute to the development of the rule of law where legal institutions already have capacity to enforce the norm of accountability by taking on politically sensitive and complex trials, there is a civil society that promotes legal accountability, and there is elite support for the prosecutions. Prosecutions may, therefore, contribute to the development of the rule of law under certain conditions but not in all circumstances.
Data supplement for Impaired anti-viral response in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease article AJP Lung 2024
Creators: name: Finney, Lydia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology

description: Data supplement for manuscript submitted to American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine investigating the role of interferon response to RV-infection in COPD in bronchial epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages
title: Music And The Politics Of Caste And Gender : Women’s Voices Of Liberation In Western India
Creators: name: Ajotikar, Rasika
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines how musicianship shapes and is shaped by caste and gender politics in Maharashtra state, India. Through a historical analysis of the relationship between caste, gender, sexuality and music, this thesis presents an alternate history of music in modern India through the lens of oppressed caste or Dalit communities who represent a generational trajectory of hereditary musicianship. This study highlights voices of Dalit women musicians as their embodied labour signifies a particular location in caste and gender hierarchy. Part of this study also presents responses of Dalit women musicians to the socio-economic hegemony and cultural apartheid of dominant castes, particularly brahmins in contemporary Maharashtra with a focus on contemporary Ambedkarite and caste-ending (jaatiantak) cultural movements, wherein liberatory politics are asserted through song, poetics, narrative and performance styles. Through ethnographic research, this thesis explores genres like bhimgeet (songs of Bhim), buddhageet (songs of Buddha) and vidrohi shahiri jalsa (rebellious music gathering) that demonstrate traces of a counter history marked by a critique of brahmanical constructions of musical knowledge. It marks the distinctive context of western India where the rise of brahmanical nationalism, Hindutva and communist mobilisations are challenged by anti-caste movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. This thesis then critically examines the dynamics of the brahmanical state and society in post-independence democratic India and how Dalit musicianship is appropriated, surveilled and incarcerated for different ends. Drawing on debates within the fields of ethnomusicology, history, feminist and gender studies, political theory, sociology, and scholarly works on caste, race, religion and literary criticism, my thesis problematises the overall construction of brahmanical epistemologies and highlights alternative spaces of knowledge creation in contemporary Maharashtra. The study ultimately examines the potentials, contradictions, and challenges presented in discursive and performative practices of music in India/South Asia.
title: Towards Democratic Citizenship for Temporary Migrant Workers : A Non-domination Approach
Creators: name: Yang, Ya-Wen
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis considers political exclusion of temporary migrant workers (TMWs) a challenge to the legitimacy of the liberal democratic constitutional state, asking whether, and on what basis, the right to political participation is necessary for protecting TMWs and for legitimising the state’s coercive power over TMWs. It compares TMW programmes in Taiwan and Canada to demonstrate the common legal techniques of temporariness and alienage, which generate a particularly precarious and exploitable labour force. The temporariness and alienage of TMWs also mean TMWs are deemed irrelevant to the democratic legitimacy of the host state. To challenge this conventional view, this thesis critically engages with the neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination to argue that the work relations of TMWs constitute private domination, which is conceptually connected with their exclusion from public participation. Moreover, the democratic boundary of the state should be drawn to include all who are present in the state’s territory and who are subject to the entire legal system, regardless of their legal citizenship. These arguments anticipate a conception of democratic citizenship applicable to TMWs. This thesis thus distinguishes itself from the two major camps for TMW protection: rights and citizenship approaches. It also suggests that TMW programmes, as they are now, weaken the democratic legitimacy of the liberal, democratic, constitutional order.
title: Spicing the China Dream : South Asians, Food And Belonging in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau
Creators: name: Das, Mukta
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis evaluates whether South Asians in the Pearl River Delta can belong to a multicultural China. As China ascends to the role of world's leading superpower in the 21st Century and comes to terms with its identity as an immigrant-receiving country, this thesis argues that South Asians in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau use food to belong to the ordinary community (Garner 2007) as a way to belong to the region. The strategies they pursue and the work that they do with food both marks and unmarks their racial identity. But strategies also highlight class, locality and religion, creating a South Asian culinary identity ambiguous enough to move them into a fragmented Cantonese mainstream. These strategies are viable in a delta region that is 96% Chinese, with enduring but also equivocal beliefs in racial hierarchies, and an oftentimes productive blind spot concerning South Asian identity. Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau also deploy a politicised ethnolinguistic cultural identity at different scales in order to secure better political outcomes from China's central government in Beijing. Whether ignored, embraced or rejected, South Asian cooks and food attend to these distinctions in highly networked spaces such as grocery stores and restaurants, to more civic spaces such as food festivals and heritage projects. I identify with my three-city field site in the same way that my South Asian interlocutors do, as a multi-sited reality (Hage 2005). In this reality resources, such as historical claims, money, ingredients, cooks, and ideas of good taste and a good life in one site are called upon to aid or to hinder strategies in another. The thesis is based on twelve months of fieldwork, following this circulation of resources in archives, grocery backrooms, queues at the border, professional and home kitchens, festival stalls and government offices.
FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF A 30MW IN NYABARONGO IISOLAR PLANT
Creators: name: Akeza K., Saudah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Solar Plant
Nyabarongo II
Project profitability
solar plant
Dividends

description: The financial viability of the Nyabarongo II 30MW solar Power Plant using FINPLAN was analyzed by exploring three scenarios to assess the impact on shareholder dividends and NPV and IRR in a solar power plant project. The first scenario involved access electricity prices, indicating that the base price of MW is 199 frw(0.14 USD) [c1] per kWh, which resulted in the highest dividends and the shortest waiting period for shareholders to access their dividends. The second scenario focused on changes in interest rate on which the project is being financed, revealing that all tested productivity increases led to higher shareholding dividends without resulting in a lager time before dividend payments. However, increasing in interest rate and 40%(7USD) above the base level resulted in early dividends and ensured better performance of the project. The third scenario is to assess changes in the operation and maintenance, demonstrating that a decrease in operation and maintenance activities was more profitable in the short term, while an additional level of operation and maintenance leads to low profitability.  The findings from study shows that at any operation and maintenance cost less that than the 3.9 million USD would be profitable and a 10% (4.29 million USD) increase in the operation and maintenance on operation and maintenance will negatively affects as NPV reduce by 40%. A reduction in the price of electricity from the base by 5% of 199 RWF(0.14 USD) [c2]  does not significantly impact on the project's profitability, as (NPV) and (IRR) as these indicator remain positive. On the contrary a decrease beyond this leads to negative profitability, with NPV turning negative and IRR dropping to zero. Finally, it was realized that the interest rate in the country does not have a significant impact on the profitability of the project upon changes in the interest rate. It was recommended to take The strategy in reduction of electricity prices to make it more affordable for consumers while ensuring project profitability , prioritize strategies to minimize O&M costs through the adoption of advanced maintenance technologies, such as predictive maintenance systems which extend the lifespan of equipment, regardless of interest rate changes as NPV and IRR remains strong,  while dividend payments are not significantly affected  which improves the financial viability and profitability of the solar power plant.

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title: Matrix headlight control loop for undistorted symbol projection
Creators: name: Waldner, Mirko
name: Müller, Nathalie
name: Bertram, Torsten
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Matrix headlights
subject: Symbol projection
subject: Control
subject: Stabilization
subject: 621.3

description: Projecting symbols onto road surfaces using matrix headlights enhances communication between automated vehicles and their environment. However, when such symbols are projected onto uneven road surfaces, the resulting distortions can significantly impair the legibility and interpretability of the projected information. This contribution presents an advanced feedback control methodology that mitigates these distortions by dynamically adjusting the projection parameters based on real-time analysis of the symbol's appearance on an imaginary plane. Unlike previous methods that rely on global optimization, which can introduce instability in abrupt symbol movements, the proposed approach uses a cascaded feedback control architecture. This architecture separates the control of the symbol's position and shape, allowing smoother transitions and improved robustness. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated using a virtual simulation environment modeled after the German city of Lippstadt.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 231
_online_supp_-_Lindholm_et_al._Supplementary_information_file – Supplemental material for See Me, Like Me! Exploring Viewers’ Visual Attention to and Trait Perceptions of Party Leaders on Instagram
Creators: name: Lindholm, Jenny
name: Carlson, Tom
name: Högväg, Joachim
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, _online_supp_-_Lindholm_et_al._Supplementary_information_file for See Me, Like Me! Exploring Viewers’ Visual Attention to and Trait Perceptions of Party Leaders on Instagram by Jenny Lindholm, Tom Carlson and Joachim Högväg in The International Journal of Press/Politics
title: Speaking from the Village : Hindi Literary Representations of the Village in the Post-1990 Era
Creators: name: Lai, Guanchen
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores the village and the rural imaginary in contemporary Hindi literary literature in the post-liberalisation era, when contemporary scholarly discourse and public attention have tended to focus on megacities created by the inflow of immigrants and the process of urbanisation. In contrast to the pessimistic view that the village has been marginalised in Hindi literature, the comparatively rich and variegated corpus of writing on the village suggests in fact a renaissance of Hindi village fictional writing after the city- and middle-class centred New Story of the 1950s and 1960s. I examine Hindi literary writing that engages not only with the present conditions and problems of the rural world, but also with the Hindi literary tradition of representing the village going back to Premchand in the early twentieth century and Renu in the 1950s. Through a close reading of novels and short stories published after 1990, the thesis focuses on questions of representation and on the narrativisation of themes like the agrarian crisis, gender, and caste politics. More specifically, instead of conforming to any single formal paradigm, this thesis shows that contemporary Hindi village writing employs multiple genres and forms, including extensive family sagas, detailed political dramas, idealistic tales, novels consisting of loosely-linked subplots and pithy short stories, for the representation of different worldviews towards rural subjects and the rural world. I also shed light on the fact that while resonating with social scientific discourses on the village, contemporary Hindi rural texts also register their own thematic traits, offering an alternative public commentary and reshaping the way in which the rural world is currently imagined. I argue that positionality of the writers and narrators plays an important role that informs the narrative strategies in portraying rural subjects. Drawing upon Bakhtin’s idea of “chronotope”, I identify a number of key spatial coordinates that move across different texts and inform their plot 5 development and characterisation. Instead of lamenting the harshness of contemporary rural life and asking for abandoning the village, contemporary Hindi village writing tends to celebrate the agency of the village in tackling its problems and continues to have faith in the rural world as a prolonged livable space.
title: Mainstream culture and the inculturation of Catholicism in late Chosŏn Korea
Creators: name: Kilkelly, Patrick
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis attempts to apply inculturation theory to early Catholicism in Korea, focusing specifically on applying it in a way which recognises Korean society’s influence on the incoming belief system. Previous studies of the subject have tended to deal with Western influence on Korea’s society – my hope is to recognise and discuss the flow of influence in the opposite direction: how did mainstream Korean worldviews, including Confucianism, shape the Korean understanding and expression of Catholicism? The study period dates from 1784, when the first Korean was baptised into the Catholic church, to 1886, when France and Korea signed a treaty which gave the first official recognition to Catholicism within Korea. This work analyses the poems, letter, catechisms and writings of those involved with early Korean Catholicism to provide examples of points when a unique, syncretic form of Catholicism emerged, fusing Catholic beliefs with classical Eastern aesthetic forms and thought-modes.