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title: India's Small Scale Industry Policy: An Evaluation and a Case Study.
Creators: name: Williams, Trevor Lewis
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1998

description: This study examines the Indian Government's policy of supporting and promoting small manufacturing industry, whose aims stressed the generation of employment, the productive use of capital and skills, and the contribution small manufacturing can make to promoting regional and rural/urban balance. A less well publicised aim of the policy has been to create a sector which is viable and self-sustaining. The study examines the growth of small manufacturing over the period 1961-1991, and finds that growth was conditioned more by the growth of the economy as a whole than by specific government policy for small manufacturing. Analysis at the All-India level reveals that the distribution of small industry was positively related to the level of urbanisation and industrialisation, while, at a smaller scale, within Tamil Nadu, the same results largely hold. Overall, there is no evidence that the growth of the small scale sector has reduced regional imbalances. Examination of the viability of the small scale sector draws on research into the re-emergence of industrial districts of flexibly specialised small firms which emphasises that viability is dependent on the geographical agglomeration of small manufacturers, and the emergence of systems of informal and formal inter-firm cooperation through which they can collectively resolve their individual weaknesses and promote collective efficiency. A case study of small engineering units in Coimbatore sought to determine whether the Government's support services had acted as a model of public-private cooperation, and a catalyst to encourage cooperation between small firms, and with other agencies. The main finding was that the Government's support services were unsatisfactory. Small engineering units are flexible, adaptable, capable of accumulation and growth, but this dynamism co-exists with obsolete technology and poor quality standards. The explanation for this lies partly in the macro-policy environment, which has encouraged the growth of small manufacturing units, but has not provided either the incentive, or the support to pursue a path of technological innovation, compounded by the evident lack of trust and limited cooperation among small entrepreneurs, which is a major obstacle to the development of collective solutions to their problems.
Wang_Luo_online_supp – Supplemental material for Retire in Peace: Officials’ Political Incentives and Corporate Diversification in China
Creators: name: Danqing Wang
name: Xiaowei Rose Luo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, Wang_Luo_online_supp for Retire in Peace: Officials’ Political Incentives and Corporate Diversification in China by Danqing Wang and Xiaowei Rose Luo in Administrative Science Quarterly
title: Representations of Change and Gender Identity: A Study of Women in Egyptian Cinema 1959-1998.
Creators: name: Mitchell, Jane
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis identifies the extent to which roles for women in film changed alongside socio-economic shifts and ideological transformations in the country and considers how cultural conditions contribute to the demarcation of gender roles and cultural identity. It analyses the representation of female protagonists in Egyptian films by looking at their position in the narrative structure and their treatment within the filmic discourse. It also examines to what extent this is a reflection of reality with particular emphasis on the position of women in society. It looks at the ancestry of female protagonists but its focus is films made after 1970. Many films made after 1970 present a society in conflict and transition. When President Sadat modified the personal status law in 1979 he was the first Egyptian Head of State to address this highly controversial area of family life since the 1920s. As the public examined the 'appropriate' place for women in society, conflicting trends competed for women's attentions. This thesis illustrates to what extent the films are a reflection of events: if they are a celebration of women's newly acquired freedom and a rejection of tradition, or if they reflect a move back to patriarchy with the growth of Islamism. In the 1980s women began to emerge as directors and gained access to the symbolic order. Each chapter analyses a pair of films with a similar theme. Where possible, one film is directed by a man and the other by a woman. This thesis, therefore, is also structured as a comparative study of the representation of women on screen by male and female directors.
title: Educational Development in Western Libya, 1942-1952: A Critical Assessment of the Aims, Methods and Policies of the British Military Administration.
Creators: name: Appleton, Leonard Alban
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1992

description: Unlike Cyrenaica, where educational development under the B.M.A. was modelled upon the system operating in Egypt, that adopted in Tripolitania at the start of the British Administration in 1943 had no such correlation. Instead the former Italo-Arab Schools merely continued with the Arabic Language replacing Italian without the support of modem textbooks, cuiriculum or examinations. Also unlike Cyrenaica, where the British Government assured the population that there would be no return of Italian rule, Tripolitania continued until the mid-forties under the expectation that Italian sovereignty might be returned to the territory. Consequently, the B.M.A. was unable to adopt a similar pattern of educational development for Tripolitania until the future of the territory was clear. The final adoption of the Egyptian Curriculum in 1948 came too late to effectively enable the educational system operating in Egypt to be put into practice in the territory before Independence in 1951. Nonetheless, despite political uncertainty, inadequate resources of money and teachers, the B.M.A., in Tripolitania was able to make significant progress between 1943 and 1951 in reversing the neglect of Arab education which it had inherited from the former Italian regime. In the latter respect, it more than fulfilled the requirements made of it by International Law, despite the severe budgetary restraints imposed by the policy of Care and Maintenance, which restricted its role in education as in other areas of activity.
Supplemental material for Development of the Broad Learning Adult Questionnaire
Creators: name: Leanos, Shirley
name: Coons, Jennifer
name: Rebok, George W.
name: Ozer, Daniel J.
name: Wu, Rachel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material for Development of the Broad Learning Adult Questionnaire by Shirley Leanos, Jennifer Coons, George W. Rebok, Daniel J. Ozer and Rachel Wu in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
Citrus industry calls on struggling grape growers as global orange concentrate shortage worsens
Creators: name: Walters, Amelia
name: Kennedy, Else
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics
classificationCode: 300801
subject: Field organic and low chemical input horticulture

description: Australia is poised to feel the effects of Brazil's orange production shortage, as Citrus Australia anticipates an additional 100,000 tonnes of oranges will be needed for juice to compensate for the deficit. This shortage, caused by drought and citrus greening disease in Brazil, has reduced global orange production by nearly 25%. Dr. Imran Ali from Central Queensland University predicts significant impacts on the Australian juice market, including price increases and reduced supply. Citrus Australia CEO Nathan Hancock suggests possible changes to juice products, such as blends incorporating mandarin varieties. The crisis presents an opportunity for Australian farmers, particularly grape growers, to switch to citrus production. Despite challenges, this shift could help meet domestic demand and open export opportunities. The long-term structural changes in the global juice industry signal a potentially profitable future for Australian Valencia orange growers.
title: The Christian Missionaries in Bengal 1793-1833.
Creators: name: Gupta, Kanti Prasanna Sen
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: The aim of the present study is to examine the missionary activities in Bengal during the period 1795-1835 and to assess the role of the missionaries in the social, educational and religious reforms that took place at that time. The first chapter attempts an analysis of the Eighteenth Century Socio-religious background of England and Bengal, against which it seeks to explain the growth of the missionary activities. It was the Methodist Revival Movement in England, the chapter shows, which gave rise to the outburst of missionary enthusiasm during the period. As far as Bengal is concerned the chapter brings into focus the contemporary socio-religious conditions in which the missionaries found themselves and analyses the policy of the East India Company towards the Indian religions, which, in its turn, determined its attitude towards the missionaries. Chapter two describes the various missionary organisations at work in Bengal during this period and their relationship towards each other, also the relationship between the missionaries and Europeans - government officials, merchants and professionals. Chapter three and four describe the missionaries at work - the methods they used to achieve their objects, namely Preaching, Translation and Education; and the reactions of the people. Chapter five, which is an elaborate discussion of the results of the missionary activities, offers an analysis hitherto unattempted, of the total number of converts, their social background, their behaviour after conversion, and people's reaction to the missionaries and their converts. Chapter six deals with the impact of the missionary activities on contemporary Society. The impact on the socio-religious reforms, growth of education and Bengali literature, is discussed fully. It is affirmed that the missionaries played a significant part in preparing the background for the Renaissance in Bengal. It is pointed out in conclusion, that the lasting contributions of the missionaries towards the social progress in Bengal came either directly or indirectly, from their non-evangelical and evangelical activities respectively.
Appendix -Supplemental material for Communicative Predictors of Older Adults’ Successful Aging, Mental Health, and Alcohol Use
Creators: name: Bernhold, Quinten S.
name: Gasiorek, Jessica
name: Giles, Howard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Appendix for Communicative Predictors of Older Adults’ Successful Aging, Mental Health, and Alcohol Use by Quinten S. Bernhold, Jessica Gasiorek and Howard Giles in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
title: The Anglo-Siamese Negotiations 1900-1909.
Creators: name: Numnonda, Thamsook
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: This is a study of a series of negotiations between the British and the Siamese Governments in the first nine years of the twentieth century. The prolonged dispute between the two countries was stirred up in 1902 by the wish of the Siamese Government, under the leadership of King Chulalongkorn, to achieve the abolition of the extraterritorial system which had been initiated in Siam by the Bowring Treaty of 1855. The talks, though simple at the start, became more complex as they progressed. By 1905, when the negotiations reached deadlock and were suspended, two other issues had already been brought into the discussions. These were the abrogation of the Anglo-Siamese Secret Convention of 1897, which required Siam to obtain British sanction for the grant of a prospecting licence over land in the Malay peninsula, and the question of the exact status of Siam in relation to the four Northern Malay States of Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu and Perlis. The strenuous efforts of Siam would have achieved little if the discussion regarding the construction of the Malay Peninsula Railway had not intervened in 1906. The likely benefits from the new Railway lines influenced the diplomatic talks and they entered a more promising phase. A year later negotiated settlements on the various issues were given a fresh impetus by the Franco- Siamese Treaty by which Prance agreed to submit all her Asian subjects to Siamese tribunal. Following closely France's example, the pending negotiations were continued without delay. After a twelve-month interval in 1908, following the death of Mr. E.H. Strobel, the General Adviser to the Siamese Government, who was the architect of the foreign policy of Siam from 1904 onwards, a compromise was reached on March 10, 1909. Under the stipulations of the Treaty Siam agreed to transfer all her rights and suzerainty over Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu and Perlis to England. In return England relinquished her extraterritorial rights over her subjects, European and Asian alike, in Siam. The Secret Convention of 1897 was abrogated. And Britain gave Siam a loan of £4 million at 4 per cent interest for the construction of the Malay Peninsula Railway.
title: A Study of Murshidabad District 1765-1793.
Creators: name: Mohsin, Khan Mohammad
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: This thesis is a study of Murshidabad District, in Western Bengal, during the years 1765 to 1793. Its purpose is to examine how Murshidabad was affected by the rise of the English East India Company to power in Bengal at the expense of the Nawabs who had made Murshidabad city their capital and centre of administration. The introductory chapter establishes the extent of the District during the eighteenth century and narrates the history of the city's growth as a great trading centre and administrative headquarters. Chapter II deals with the markets and trade of Murshidabad city and of the principal river ports around it, and examines the pattern of exports and imports of the District. Chapter III is devoted to the manufactures of Murshidabad, especially the silk industry, and discusses the causes of their decline. Chapter IV describes the pattern of inland customs, the growth in this period of zamindari chaukis and lakhiraj ganjes and the attempt to abolish them, and analyses the new customs regulations promulgated by the Company and the extent of their success. Chapter V discusses the nature of the banking and currency systems in Bengal, with special emphasis on the changing part played by the local business houses. Chapter VI studies the size, importance and organisation of the Nawab's household. The decline in the political and financial fortunes of the Nawabs is examined, and the consequences for the District of that decline. Chapter VII attempts a general survey of the economic life of Murshidabad. Attention is particularly directed to the effect of the famine of 1769-70, of the transfer of the provincial capital to Calcutta with its consequent loss of employment opportunities in Murshidabad, and to changes in the levels of incomes and prices. The Conclusion reviews the decline of Murshidabad as a centre of administration and industry and ends with a picture of its position at the turn of the century.
Supplemental Material, Online_appendix - Perceived Corruption, Trust, and Interviewer Behavior in 26 European Countries
Creators: name: Blasius, Jörg
name: Thiessen, Victor
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material, Online_appendix for Perceived Corruption, Trust, and Interviewer Behavior in 26 European Countries by Jörg Blasius, and Victor Thiessen in Sociological Methods & Research
title: The New Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, 1905-1911.
Creators: name: Molla, Mohammad Kasim Uddin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1965

description: This thesis is concerned with some aspects of the development of the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, which was created in 1905 during the Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon. It covers the period from 1905 to 1911. No research work has previously been done on the growth of the province, although most of the works on twentieth-century Indian nationalism refer to or devote some pages to its creation. Contemporary and recent studies --- Fraser's India Under Curzon and After, Ronaldshay's Life of Lord Curzon, Wasti's Lord Minto and the Indian Nationalist Movement 1905-1911, and various London University theses, such as Ahmed's Some Aspects of the History of the Muslim Community in Bengal (1884-1912), McLane's The Development of Nationalist Ideas and Tactics: 1897-1905 and Zaidi's The Partition of Bengal and its Annulment --- give accounts of the partition and the agitation that followed it or the politics involved in it. However, they have not analysed the social and economic development that took place in the new province after the partition. The present work is a humble attempt to construct the history of the province: it gives in brief the circumstances leading to the emergence of the province, and discusses the progress of the province in transport and trade, indigenous industry and education. An attempt is also made to study some Bengali historical writings of both Hindus and Muslims in order to see the reasons stimulating them to write; two Muslim journals are examined to discover the Muslim attitude to the changes taking place and to social problems. This thesis is mainly based on the proceedings of the government of Eastern Bengal and Assam, the private papers of relevant administrators and the records of the government of India. Government reports, various journals, newspapers and printed books have also been consulted.
title: The Internal Administration of Lord Elgin in India, 1894-1898.
Creators: name: Malhotra, Piarea Lal
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1966

description: This Thesis is a study of some aspects of the internal administration of Lord Elgin as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1898. The problems faced by the administration were mainly financial and economic. In 1893 the currency system of India was changed in order to give financial stability to the Indian exchequer and to introduce a gold standard in India. This however, did not immediately improve the financial situation. The Indian Government had to impose import duties, including those on cotton goods, to meet the financial deficit. In order to safeguard the Manchester cotton interests the Government of India imposed countervailing excise duties on Indian cotton goods. This gave rise to a serious controversy. The outbreak of famine and plague added to the difficulties of the administration. The plague measures excited the social and religious prejudices of the people and resulted in riots and murders. The Government was disposed to regard educated Indians and the press with suspicion and as being largely responsible for creating political troubles. In order to deal with them effectively the Government changed the sedition laws and armed itself with immense judicial powers. Though it was primarily a period of administrative difficulties, Elgin found time to introduce some reforms in the fields of railway administration and formulated a policy of planning and its rapid expansion.
Rigorous analysis of the interaction problem of sea ice with a rigid body
Creators: name: Binz, Tim
name: Brandt, Felix
name: Hieber, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q86, 35K59, 86A05, 86A10, 74F99

description: Consider the set of equations modeling the motion of a rigid body enclosed in sea ice. Using Hibler's viscous-plastic model for describing sea ice, it is shown by a certain decoupling approach that this system admits a unique, local strong solution within the $\mathrm{L}^p$-setting.
description: Accepted for publication in Mathematische Annalen
Lorentzian metric spaces and their Gromov-Hausdorff convergence
Creators: name: Minguzzi, E.
name: Suhr, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an abstract approach to Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff distance and convergence, and an alternative approach to Lorentzian length spaces that does not use auxiliary ``positive signature'' metrics or other unobserved fields. We begin by defining a notion of (abstract) bounded Lorentzian-metric space which is sufficiently general to comprise compact causally convex subsets of globally hyperbolic spacetimes and causets. We define the Gromov-Hausdorff distance and show that two bounded Lorentzian-metric spaces at zero GH distance are indeed both isometric and homeomorphic. Then we show how to define from the Lorentzian distance, beside topology, the causal relation and the causal curves for these spaces, obtaining useful limit curve theorems. Next, we define Lorentzian (length) prelength spaces via suitable (maximal) chronal connectedness properties. These definitions are proved to be stable under GH limits. Furthermore, we define bounds on sectional curvature for our Lorentzian length spaces and prove that they are also stable under GH limits. We conclude with a (pre)compactness theorem.
description: 64 pages, 2 figures, v2: updated version, new definitions and results, overall streamlined. v3: correction to some references, minimal changes, final version
E-JADE Mid-Term Review - ILC background studies at ATF & the University of Tokyo
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: ECFA2016, Santander, Spain, 30 May 2016 - 5 Jun 2016 ; (2016).
title: Wh-Movement, Licensing and the Locality of Feature-Checking.
Creators: name: Simpson, Andrew
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: This thesis is a cross-linguistic examination of the syntactic mechanisms which licence wh-phrases, and of the implications of wh-licencing for other dependency-types with similar licencing requirements. In chapter 1 a wide variety of evidence is presented that wh-phrases occurring in situ at Spell-Out do not undergo any raising at LF. In chapter 2, arguing that wh-movement essentially occurs to satisfy a purely formal licencing requirement on wh-phrases, identified as wh-feature-checking, data from Hindi, Iraqi Arabic(IA) and various East European languages then show that it is wh-features carried by all wh-phrases rather than any on a +Q Comp which require checking, and that (wh)feature-checking is not restricted to taking place solely within the strict locality of Spec-head/head-adjoined configurations but must in fact be possible 'long-distance' and within larger domains, this possibility ultimately allowing for a linguistic model in which Spell-Out is identical with LF. Movement is then suggested to occur for two essential reasons: i) to trigger an ambiguous potential licencing head as a licencor for features of a particular type, and ii) in order that an element occurs within the licencing domain of its checking-head. Chapter 3 extends these proposals to Partial (Wh-)Movement constructions in German and Hungarian and examines how purely functional wh-expletive elements may alter the licencing locality associated with Comp. Chapter 4 considers n-word licencing in French, Italian and West Flemish, and argues for non-local checking of neg-features. Other significant properties of n-word constructions then lead to further conclusions concerning the nature of movement and its relation to licencing.
Beam Backgrounds at the ILC
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
name: Stanitzki, Marcel
name: Strube, Jan
name: Schumm, Bruce
name: Milke, Christopher
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: ECFA2016, Santander, Spain, 30 May 2016 - 5 Jun 2016 ; (2016).
description: Several studies regarding the hit occupancy and the hit timing of hits from different background sources in the SiD detector are currently ongoing.First results of these studies are presented to be discussed and to be considered for the future SiD background note.
Chernoff's product formula: Semigroup approximations with non-uniform time intervals
Creators: name: Bernád, J. Z.
name: Frigyik, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47D06, 47N50, 47N30

description: Often, when we consider the time evolution of a system, we resort to approximation: Instead of calculating the exact orbit, we divide the time interval in question into uniform segments. Chernoff's results in this direction provide us with a general approximation scheme. There are situations when we need to break the interval into uneven pieces. In this paper, we explore alternative conditions to the one found by Smolyanov et al. such that Chernoff's original result can be extended to unevenly distributed time intervals. Two applications concerning the foundations of quantum mechanics and the central limit theorem are presented.
description: 10 pages
The International Linear Collider - Muons from the muon spoilers in the SiD detector - First Results
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: SiD Optimization Workshop, Los Angeles, USA, 21 Sep 2016 - 24 Sep 2016 ; (2016).
description: The muons coming from the BDS system are shielded by different spoilers, and are simulated with MUCARLO.The impact of the muons reaching the SiD detector is studied with respect to the detector performance and the buffer depth.The objective of the study is to rule out those options amongst the currently discussed shiedling options that do not meet the SiD criterion for the muon occupancy.
Pair Background Envelopes
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: LCWS16, Morioka, Japan, 5 Dec 2016 - 9 Dec 2016 ; (2016).
description: The pair background particles perform helix tracks in the beam pipe due to the solenoid field. The envelope of all the pair background helix tracks inside the beam pipe amongst effects from other background sources determines the possible radius of the beam pipe and the most inner layer of the SiD vertex detector.This analysis was done to revisit the study done by Takashi Maruyama (SLAC) in 2007.
title: Opening the Door, Crossing the Stream: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of 1990s Shanghai.
Creators: name: Gamble, Joceyln E.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis comprises a series of ethnographic perspectives on China's largest city, Shanghai. It is based primarily upon seventeen months anthropological research conducted in Shanghai between 1992-94. As befits an ethnography of a contemporary metropolis it draws upon a diverse array of research data from electronic media to magazines and local drama productions. Above all, I focus upon and privilege the voices of local residents as they engaged in reflexive encounters with the ethnographer and other inhabitants. This account, then, is my fabrication of their constructions of their lives and their city. In the 1990s far-reaching economic reforms have been implemented which are designed to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and commercial centre. Policy makers and citizens are engaged in the difficult and potentially hazardous task of "crossing the stream" from a "socialist state planned economy" to a "socialist market economy", a transition which often involves adopting policies dramatically opposed to those which went before. This thesis aims to furnish, in an ethnographically evocative manner, new perspectives and insights on the parameters of that transition, and especially upon how social boundaries and identities are becoming reconfigured. In 1990s Shanghai many former certainties such as the Communist Party's monologic meta-narrative and boundaries, both spatial and social, are being dismantled, fractured, undermined or crumbling. Increasing choice, mobility and fluidity are unpicking and fraying the once encloistered texture of everyday life. Increasing pluralism, diversity of lifestyles and modes of livelihood provide new opportunities and risks. In the midst of a great deal of flux, ambiguity, uncertainty and juxtapositioning there seems to be evidence of newly emergent social contours such as the shift from predominantly ascribed statuses to greater scope for "aspirational identities". My narrative reflects these processes, and is critical of discourses which are prone to homogenization or dichotomization, both products of a misplaced urge to oversystematize and essentialize. Inter alia, this thesis explores changing representations of "society" and personal relationships; consumption and consumerism; the (perceived) consequences of Shanghai's half-open "door" to intra-national and global cultural flows; the differential markings of spaces within the city; and the emergent discourse of share dealers. Where possible I draw broad brush strokes but always with attention to the craquelure - those cracks and fissures which comprise them but which may have their own, different, stories to tell.
Muon background from the BDS in SiD
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
name: Keller, Lewis
name: White, Glen
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: LCWS16, Morioka, Japan, 5 Dec 2016 - 9 Dec 2016 ; (2016).
description: The muons coming from the BDS system are shielded by different spoilers, and are simulated with MUCARLO.The impact of the muons reaching the SiD detector is studied with respect to the detector performance and the buffer depth.The objective of the study is to rule out shielding options that do not meet the SiD criterion for the muon occupancy.
The Path of Three Young Researchers
Creators: name: Schuetz, Anne
name: Bromwich, Talitha
name: Fuster-Martinez, Nuria
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: LCWS16, Morioka, Japan, 5 Dec 2016 - 9 Dec 2016 ; (2016).
title: Economic and Military Change in Nineteenth-Century Buganda.
Creators: name: Reid, Richard james
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis examines economic and military change in pre-colonial Buganda, with particular reference to the nineteenth century. It explores the material basis of Ganda power, including the domestic economy, the growth of commerce, the development of the canoe fleet, and the organisation of the army. It also considers how the state used its resources in terms of public labour, tribute and slavery to generate wealth and strengthen its position externally. The domestic economy was both more complex and more fragile than has previously been assumed. A wide variety of crops were cultivated by the late nineteenth century, and intensive agriculture was practised alongside the keeping of livestock. Food shortages and cattle disease, however, combined in the late nineteenth century to undermine the Ganda economy at a time of political upheaval and military weakness. In addition to domestic production, the Ganda derived considerable wealth from trade, which underwent dramatic changes in the nineteenth century. Long-distance commerce developed along regional trade routes and was extremely lucrative. The increasing demand for goods such as slaves and ivory from coastal traders was balanced by the demand in Buganda for cloth and guns. Simultaneously, Buganda, one of the most powerful military states in the region, was suffering a military decline after c. 1850. In order to offset this, as well as to control the trade routes to the coast, the Ganda developed a large fleet of canoes capable of crossing Lake Victoria. Although the size and capability of these vessels was unsurpassed in the region, their success was limited. By the 1880s, the army had been weakened by the over-emphasis on firearms, while the ability of the Ganda to procure ivory for export was severely impaired; slaves had become the main export.
title: Politics and Society in Inanda, Natal: The Qadi Under Chief Mqhawe, c. 1840-1906.
Creators: name: Hughes, Heather
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: This study of the Qadi chiefdom begins with an account of its experiences of the Zulu kingdom, first subordinated to its rule and then forced to flee from it in the late 1830s. Remnants regrouped near the small settlement of Port Natal in what was soon to become the Colony of Natal. The Qadi elite under their Chief Mqhawe, whose reign was almost coterminous with colonial rule and is the focus of this study, rebuilt the material as well as political coherence of the chiefdom, showing a single-minded determination to employ whatever resources were locally available, even elements of the colonial framework itself. Opportunities for 'chiefdom building' were generally favourable in the period up to the 1870s; thereafter, with shifts in policy towards Africans (to do with extracting labour power for the mines), more defensive strategies had to be adopted. Basic to the chiefdom's development was that its heartland was situated in a valley that became a mission reserve of the American Zulu Mission. The Inanda station was one of its most prestigious, and the Qadi chief established a close relationship with one section of converts. Certain converts (notably the Dube and Cele families) had originally come from within the Qadi elite and after conversion, maintained their positions of influence within it. Qadi settlement on reserve land also meant that the chiefdom attracted a large number of schools. Coupled to the respect accorded Mqhawe by local settlers and colonial authorities, this meant that when Qadi men went out onto the job market, they were considered 'reliable' and were able to find a specific niche for themselves, as watchmen. The origins of anti-Indian racism, strong among both African converts and the Qadi elite at Inanda, are also traced. In all, the strength of Qadi identity was due in large measure to the vigorous strategies pursued by the Qadi chief and the elite throughout the colonial period.
title: Some Aspects of Nigerian Private International Law of Family Relations: A Comparative Study.
Creators: name: Akanle, Lawrence Olayeni
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1970

description: Nigeria is a federation of twelve States each of which is competent, according to the Constitutional allocation of legislative powers, to make laws practically on all matters , of family relations. The municipal law of each State comprises one system of territorial (Western-type) law and another system of non-territorial (Customary or Moslem) law,. There is not only multiplicity in the bodies of the latter system in each of most of the States, but the system itself contains institutions more unusual than those the legal systems of Western civilization are accustomed to dealing with. Yet the world's modern technological developments, and recent upward trends in the economic development in Nigeria, are bringing peoples and diverse legal institutions far closer together. The mobility of population, and hence the possibility of complex legal relations, is greatly facilitated at the interstate level by the consitutional guarantee of the right of movement within the federation to all persons who are legally within one part of it. These factors of federalism, dualism of system of law, diversity of legal institution and the mobility of our time, have jointly made Nigeria a special problem area for the study of conflicts of laws. In this pioneering work, an attempt is made not merely to state the existing rules of Nigerian private international law of family relations in the context of the above phenomena. An analytical approach is linked with a discussion on the prospective development of the law in the fields covered by the work. In these circumstances, the work cannot be anything but comparative. Chapter One deals with the sources and development of the Nigerian private international law of family relations. Chapter two considers Domicile as a Jurisdictional and choice of law concept. In Chapter Three, the problem of the choice of the applicable laws in the formation of both monogamous and polygamous marriages is considered. Chapter Four is devoted to an examination of the Choice of the system of Court, Basis of Jurisdiction, Choice of the applicable Law and Recognition of sister-state and foreign decrees, as regards the dissolution of both types of marriage. Chapter Five is a discussion on the concept of Legitimacy under the domestic laws in Nigeria as a prelude to an appreciation of Legitimacy in its, conflicts of laws, a subject which is discussed iii Chapter Six, Chapter Seven is on Adoption, Chapters Eight and Nine concern Administration of Estates and Succession respectively; while the Postscript considers the effect of a recent Nigerian Decree on few of the matters discussed in Chapters Two and Four.
title: Lord William Bentinck in Madras, 1803-7.
Creators: name: Gupta, Maya
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1969

description: The Governorship of Lord William Bentinck from 1803-7 is a crucial phase in the evolution of the Madras administration. Between 1799 and 1803 the Madras Government had acquired vast territories which presented new problems in the administration of both land revenue and justice. The avowed policy of the Government of India for the extension of the Bengal Zamindary system to Madras was challenged. The alternative was the Rayatwari system which Bentinck ultimately chose after a thorough enquiry into the matter. The administration of justice in both the old and newly acquired areas of the Presidency and the creation of a police force were the next important issues that Bentinck had to face. He examined the anomalies resulting from the existence of a dual judicial system and aimed at establishing a regular and uniform system of justice. In the creation of a modern police force his task was made difficult by the hostility of some of the judges of the Supreme Court, The French menace and the Anglo-Maratha wars threatened the security of British possessions in South India, As the Governor of Madras, Bentinck played a significant role in these matters of all-India importance. The question of security also influenced his relations with the dependent Indian chiefs. The costly wars and military preparations aggravated the depressed treasury of Madras. Here Bentinck was confronted with the task of economising without impairing the efficiency of the administration. Among his various financial measures, the creation of a Government Bank was a remarkable innovation. The sudden outbreak of the mutiny at Vellore in July 1806 led to his recall. The mutiny had since then figured prominently not only in Bentinck's career but also in the history of the British in South India. This thesis examines the Vellore mutiny in the last two chapters. The first four chapters deal respectively with foreign policy, land administration, administration of justice and finances.
title: Implicit Coordination in Sellers' Inflation: How Cost Shocks Facilitate Price Hikes
Creators: name: Weber, Isabella Maria
name: Wasner, Evan
name: Lang, Markus
name: Braun, Benjamin
name: van 't Klooster, Jens
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0072zz521
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Supply shocks are now widely recognized as a driver of the recent inflation bout, but the role of firms’ pricing strategies in propagating input cost shocks remains contested. In this paper, we review the state of the academic debate over sellers’ inflation and assess whether, in line with this theory, economy-wide cost shocks have functioned as an implicit coordination mechanism for firms to hike prices. We use a dataset containing 138,962 corporate earnings call transcripts of 4,823 stock-market listed U.S. corporations from the period 2007-Q1 to 2022-Q2 to conduct sentiment analysis via both dictionary-based natural language processing and a large language model approach. We find that large input price shocks (as well as their co-occurrence with supply constraints) correlate with positive sentiments expressed in executives’ statements about cost increases. Qualitative analysis provides further insights into the reasoning behind executives’ optimism regarding their ability to turn an economy-wide cost shock into an opportunity to raise prices and
protect or even increase profits.
title: A Grammar of Buem: The Lelemi Language.
Creators: name: Allan, Edward Jay
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1973

description: This grammar of the Lalami dialect of Buam is the first attempt to describe the morphology and syntax of any of the 14 Togo-Remnant languages in detail; in it, I have tried to describe the major structures and many of the minor structures of the languageswhich occur in informal or semi-formal speech. The phonetics and most of the phonology are described in taxonomic terms; the vowel harmony system and the syntax and morphology, however, are described in a slightly modified "Aspects" model of transformational-generative grammar. Of special interest to the non-specialist are my discussions of vowel harmony, of the noun class system, and of the verbal aspect system and serial verb constructions.
Towards Photon-Number-Encoded High-dimensional Entanglement from a Sequentially Excited Quantum Three-Level System
Creators: name: Vajner, Daniel A.
name: Kewitz, Nils D.
name: von Helversen, Martin
name: Wein, Stephen C.
name: Karli, Yusuf
name: Kappe, Florian
name: Remesh, Vikas
name: da Silva, Saimon F. Covre
name: Rastelli, Armando
name: Weihs, Gregor
name: Anton-Solanas, Carlos
name: Heindel, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sequential resonant excitation of a 2-level quantum system results in the emission of a state of light showing time-entanglement encoded in the photon-number-basis - notions that can be extended to 3-level quantum systems as discussed in a recent proposal. Here, we report the experimental implementation of a sequential two-photon resonant excitation process of a solid-state 3-level system, constituted by the biexciton-, exciton-, and ground-state of a semiconductor quantum dot. The resulting light state exhibits entanglement in time and energy, encoded in the photon-number basis, which could be used in quantum information applications, e.g., dense information encoding or quantum communication protocols. Performing energy- and time-resolved correlation experiments in combination with extensive theoretical modelling, we are able to partially retrieve the entanglement structure of the generated state.
description: 14 pages (including 5 figures, 56 citations)
title: The Beginnings of British Rule in Upper Burma: A Study of British Policy and Burmese Reaction 1885-1890.
Creators: name: Ali, Muhammad Shamsher
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1976

description: This Thesis attempts to study the painstaking efforts made by the British to 'pacify' Upper Burma during the first five years of conquest (November 1885-December 1890) as well as the nature of Burmese unrest engendered by those efforts. While Chapter One is a brief account of the historical back-ground to the conquest of Upper Burma, Chapter Two deals with the course of events from 28 November 1885 to 15 December 1885, when the country was under a purely military rule, with special reference to the root causes of Burmese unrest which grew following King Thibaw's deportation. Chapter Three is devoted to British policy from 15 December 1885 to November 1886, when efforts, essentially conciliatory in nature, were made to build up a civil administration. These efforts having failed, military operations were undertaken from November 1886 to April 1887. Chapter Four is devoted to these operations. But these operations failed to produce the desired effects. So a new policy was formulated - that of dealing with the people by villages through a punitive village regulation. Chapter Five deals with the framing of this regulation from about the middle to the end of 1887, and Chapter Six with its operation from 1888 to 1890.
title: On Pitch Accent Phenomena in Standard Japanese.
Creators: name: Yoshida, Yuko
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: The central goal of this thesis is to provide a principled account of various pitch accent phenomena in Standard Japanese, and to demonstrate that the formalism of pitch accent assignment is identical to that of stress assignment in languages such as English. I have followed the framework of government phonology, which attempts to replace the rule component of a phonology by a set of universal principles shared by all languages, plus a group of parameters which impose a limit on the ways in which language sound system may differ from one another. Some of the accentual processes which I have chosen to account for have already been treated in the literature. However, the analyses which these previous works offered are generally arbitrary and therefore lacking in explanatory value. With respect to the claim that the formalism of pitch accent assignment and stress assignment is identical, I offer a non-arbitrary account of pitch accent phenomena in nouns (with and without Case-marking particles), compounds, and also in sentences, all based on one set of principles and parameters. In other words, various accentual processes which have been treated as separate events, are now explained in a unified manner. Among the issues addressed is an explanatory account of the accent assignment of various noun-noun compounds. From the morphological and lexical accentual properties of the morphemes involved, the location of compound accent is found to be predictable. The topics of my thesis include a new approach to the assignment of pitch in a sentence. I show how high-pitch assignment reflects the syntactic structure of the sentence in question.