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Le, Chengrui. Design Techniques of Highly Integrated Hybrid-Switched-Capacitor-Resonant Power Converters for LED Lighting Applications. [New York, N.Y.?]: [publisher not identified], 2020.
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Saul, R. A. Analysis of Hybrid III lower leg instrumentation and an associated injury citerion. Washington, D.C.]: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1992.
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O'Keefe, Linda. Hybrid Soundscapes. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450306.
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Hybrid Soundscapes is a multi-component body of outputs investigating acoustic ecology. It is comprised of sound installation, an album, participatory community engagement activities and peer-reviewed publications.The output was the outcome of three years of practice-led research into the impact of renewable energy technology on rural and natural landscapes. O Keeffe investigated four sites where new types of renewable energies have had an impact on natural landscapes: the southern region of Iceland, the Northern Terra Alta region of Spain, Barrow-in-Furness in the UK and Beijing, China. The research also investigated graphic composition as a mode of mapping sensory, social and ecological sonic experiences over time. The research employed different methodologies including retreats in natural landscapes, participatory listening workshops with local communities and documentary research. Hybrid Soundscapes was commissioned by the curator Christine Eyene in 2016 (curator of the 2019 Moroccan Biennale) for a touring exhibition titled Sounds Like Her that would for the first time present established women artists who have expanded the field of sound art. For the exhibition, O Keeffe presented four large printed graphic scores/sound maps and an immersive audio composition for five speakers. The scores comprised photographic images and drawings of the sites in which O Keeffe conducted field research. The audio composition functioned both as a single immersive audio work and a spatialised site-specific performance. Hybrid Soundscapes I–IV was first presented in the exhibition Sounds Like Her at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 13 October 2017 – 3 January 2018. Subsequent exhibition presentations included: York Art Gallery, 12 July – 25 August 2019, and Gallery Oldham, 14 December 2019 – 7 March 2020.
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Elbasani, Arolda. International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Institutional Reforms in Post-Conflict Kosovo. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Elbasani, Arolda. International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Institutional Reforms in Post-Conflict Kosovo. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Elbasani, Arolda. International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Institutional Reforms in Post-Conflict Kosovo. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Elbasani, Arolda. International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Institutional Reforms in Post-Conflict Kosovo. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.27.
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This chapter tracks the byways that led to the emergence of a cross-disciplinary cadre of scholars identified with the hybrid field of political communication. Concentrating on the period between the Columbia election studies of the 1940s and 1993, it telegraphs the influence of the disciplines of sociology, political science, psychology and communication on the emerging field, indicates how scholars such as Elihu Katz, Kurt and Gladys Lang, Murray Edelman, and Doris Graber seeded the intellectual ground from which the field would grow, catalogues the emergence of a concept of effects that includes such phenomena as learning, the construction of political meaning, and agenda setting, and features a study that isolated the role of communication in activating the variables from which forecasting models predict presidential election outcomes.
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Buechel, Ronny R., and Aju P. Pazhenkottil. Basic principles and technological state of the art: hybrid imaging. Edited by Philipp Kaufmann. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0121.
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The core principle of hybrid imaging is based on the fact that it provides information beyond that achievable with either data set alone. This is attained through the combination and fusion of two datasets by which both modalities synergistically contribute to image information. Hybrid imaging is, thus, more powerful than the sum of its parts, yielding improved sensitivity and specificity. While datasets for integration may be obtained by a variety of imaging modalities, its merits are intuitively best exploited when combining anatomical and functional imaging, particularly in the setting of evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) as this combination allows a comprehensive assessment with regard to presence or absence of coronary atherosclerosis, the extent and severity of coronary plaques, and the haemodynamic relevance of stenosis. In clinical practice, the combination of CT coronary angiography (CCTA) with myocardial perfusion studies obtained by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and by positron emission tomography (PET) has been well established. Recent literature also reports on the feasibility of combining CCTA with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Finally, recent advances in CCTA and SPECT imaging have led to a substantial reduction of radiation exposure, now allowing for comprehensive morphological and functional diagnostic work-up by cardiac hybrid SPECT/CCTA imaging at low radiation dose exposures ranging below 5 mSv.
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Launay, Jean-Pierre, and Michel Verdaguer. The mastered electron: molecular electronics and spintronics, molecular machines. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814597.003.0005.
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After a historical account of the evolution which led to the concept of Molecular Electronics, the “Hybrid Molecular Electronics” approach (that is, molecules connected to nanosized metallic electrodes) is discussed. The different types of transport (one-step, two-step with different forms of tunnelling) are described, including the case where the molecule is paramagnetic (Kondo resonance). Several molecular achievements are presented: wires, diodes, memory cells, field-effect transistors, switches, using molecules, but also carbon nanotubes. A spin-off result is the possibility of imaging Molecular Orbitals. The emerging field of molecular spintronics is presented. Besides hybrid devices, examples are given of electronic functionalities using ensembles of molecules, either in solution (logical functions) or in the solid state (memory elements). The relation with the domain of Quantum Computing is presented, including the particular domain of Quantum Hamiltonian Computing. The chapter finishes by an introduction to molecular machines, with the problem of the directional control of their motion.
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The Last Hybrid Bloodline Of Angels Lee Wilson. William and Keats Publishing, 2013.
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Solomon, William. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040245.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter traces a process of cultural transformation that, beginning in the early decades of the twentieth century, led to the rise after World War II of the phenomenon called slapstick modernism. Manifesting itself in literature, (underground) film, and popular music, the rise of slapstick modernism signaled the coalescence in cultural practice of the artistic experimentation associated with high modernism, and the socially disruptive lunacy linked to the comic film genre. However, the concept of slapstick modernism has yet to receive adequate theorization; this is partly due to the insufficiency of the terms initially used to capture the specificity of this new, hybrid cultural entity. Slapstick modernism had no manifesto of the sort that mobilized the various avant-garde ventures of the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Teoh, Karen M. Barrier against Evil, Encouragement for Good. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495619.003.0003.
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The development of English-language girls’ schools in Malaya and Singapore began with their origins as providers of social welfare services and was tied to their role in overseas Chinese socioeconomic mobility. This chapter looks at the role of Catholic and Protestant missionaries, particularly the Order of the Infant Jesus, as well as the British administration in founding a large network of English girls’ schools. Although they introduced new possibilities for women, these schools also reinforced imperial hierarchies of gender, class, and race. While significant portions of the overseas Chinese community saw these schools as opportunities for improving their social status, other factions saw them as foreign institutions that undermined the integrity of Chinese identity. English-educated overseas Chinese women became committed to a path of linguistic and cultural transmission that led them closer to a new hybrid colonial identity and further from their Chinese-educated peers, causing the growth of intra-ethnic tension.
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Gheciu, Alexandra. Security Entrepreneurs. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813064.001.0001.
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Focusing on four East European polities—Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania—this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been central to post-communist liberalization, and have profoundly shaped those states and their integration into European institutional structures and global economic and political circuits. They have also affected—and been shaped by—the behavior and power of regional and global actors (e.g. European institutions, regional and global corporations) in Eastern Europe. By virtue of the fact that they combine in complex ways local, national, regional, and global dynamics and actors, processes of security commercialization in the former Eastern bloc can be seen as instances of “glocalization.” Several aspects of security commercialization are particularly important. To begin with, private actors—specifically private security companies (PSCs)—have been reconstituted as partial agents of public power. As such, they have come to be systematically involved in performing security practices traditionally associated with the state. In addition, a potent commercial logic has come to permeate public security institutions. This has led to redefinition of the relationship between the state and its population in ways that defy conventional wisdom about the role of the state, and pose difficult normative challenges. More broadly, processes of security commercialization in Eastern Europe, which involve important performative dimensions, have led to the emergence of complex, hybrid networks of security providers that transcend domestic/international, public/private boundaries and behave, in many ways, as entrepreneurs.
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Smart Leadership: How to Lead Teams Effectively in a World of Hybrid Working. Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2023.
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Stein, Scott. Hybrid Workplace Hacks: Strategies to Set up and Lead Successful in-Person and Remote Teams. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2022.
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Stein, Scott. Hybrid Workplace Hacks: Strategies to Set up and Lead Successful in-Person and Remote Teams. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2022.
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Bennett, Karen, and Rita Queiroz de Barros. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Taliaferro, Jeffrey W. Defending Frenemies. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190939304.001.0001.
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Defending Frenemies examines the nonproliferation strategies that the United States pursued toward vulnerable and often obstreperous allies in three volatile regions of the globe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. It presents a historical and comparative analysis of how successive US presidential administrations (those of John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush) employed inducements and coercive diplomacy toward Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan over nuclear proliferation. Building upon neoclassical realism, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro argues that regional power dynamics and US domestic politics shaped the types of nonproliferation strategies pursued. The overriding goals of successive administrations were to contain the growth of the Soviet Union’s influence in the Middle East and South Asia, as well as to enlist China as an ally of convenience against the Soviets in East Asia. Weaker allies’ nuclear proliferation could facilitate or complicate the realization of those goals. When policymakers perceived an unfavorable regional power distribution and short-time horizons for emerging threats to US interests, they were inclined to pursue accommodative strategies toward an ally. Conversely, when they perceived a favorable regional power distribution and longer time horizons for threats, they were inclined to pursue coercive nonproliferation strategies toward an ally. However, congressional opposition to certain arms transfers and to nonproliferation legislation sometimes led administrations to pursue hybrid strategies—combining coercive and accommodating elements—toward nuclear proliferating allies.
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Zulueta-Fülscher, Kimana, and Asanga Welikala. Les constitutions infra-étatiques dans les contextes fragiles et en situation de conflit : Document d'orientation no 15. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.108.
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Les constitutions infra-étatiques sont des instruments juridiques écrits qui limitent et structurent le pouvoir politique au niveau infra-étatique et qui possèdent une suprématie juridique par rapport aux autres normes légales infra-étatiques. Leurs objectifs premiers sont de définir le système de gouvernement de l’entité infra-étatique mais aussi, souvent, de codifier les droits des citoyens en son sein. Elles peuvent également oeuvrer à la délimitation de la communauté politique et de son identité au niveau infra-étatique. Les entités infra-étatiques se définissent, quant à elles, comme parties intégrantes d’un pays ou d’un État, avec un territoire clairement délimité. Ce document d’orientation analyse les constitutions infra-étatiques dans les contextes fragiles et en situation de conflit (que ce soit dans des États fédéraux, unitaires ou hybrides) qui ont été adoptées à l’issue de la guerre froide après 1991. L’échantillon utilisé pour cette étude comporte dix pays : l’Afrique du Sud, la Bosnie-Herzégovine, les Comores (Anjouan), l’Éthiopie, l’Indonésie (Aceh et Papouasie), la Papouasie‒Nouvelle-Guinée (PNG, Bougainville), la Russie (Tchétchénie et Daghestan), la Somalie, le Soudan et le Soudan du Sud.
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Kostine, Oleg V. Analysis of hybrid LEO(Low Earth Orbit)-MEO(medium Earth Orbit) constellation fro S-PCN(Satellite Personal Communications). 1996.
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Wohlbier, Thomas. Nanohybrids. Materials Research Forum LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781644901076.
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The book covers preparation, designing and utilization of nanohybrid materials for biomedical applications. These materials can improve the effectiveness of drugs, promote high cell growth in new scaffolds, and lead to biodegradable surgical sutures. The use of hybrid magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles may lead to non-invasive therapies. The most promising materials are based on silica nanostructures, polymers, bioresorbable metals, liposomes, biopolymeric electrospun nanofibers, graphene, and gelatin. Much research focuses on the development of biomaterials for cell regeneration and wound healing applications.
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Bennett, Karen, and Rita Queiroz de Barros. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Bennett, Karen, and Rita Queiroz de Barros. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Bennett, Karen, and Rita Queiroz de Barros. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Bennett, Karen, and Rita Queiroz de Barros. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Routledge, 2019.
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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk L6 C10 Challng How Does a Hybrid Car Work? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.
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Daguerre, Blandine. Passage et écriture de l’entre-deux dans El Pasajero de Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa. Presses Universitaires de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46608/primaluna3.9782353111220.
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Espagne, premier quart du XVIIe siècle : quatre hommes se rencontrent au cours d’un voyage entre Madrid et Barcelone où ils doivent partir pour l’Italie pour y tenter leur chance. Pour lutter contre la pénibilité de leur périple et éviter l’ennui, ils décident de converser. S’ensuit un échange de plus de 200 pages autour de leur destination, de leur parcours personnel respectif, de la société de l’époque au sein duquel viennent s’intercaler des récits à vocation plus ludique. Telle est l’intrigue de El Pasajero, advertencias utilísimas a la vida humana, œuvre citée par bon nombre de spécialistes du Siècle d’Or qui s’attachent tous à saluer ses qualités littéraires et à laquelle aucune étude littéraire de fond n’a été consacrée. Comment expliquer un tel paradoxe? El Pasajero propose un caléidoscope de la société de l’époque, d’où l’orientation sociologique de la plupart des études réalisées sur ce texte. La mauvaise presse de son auteur connu pour son tempérament peu amène et pour son opposition à Cervantès, a pu y contribuer également de manière plus tangentielle. Enfin et surtout, la richesse textuelle, littéraire et idéologique de El Pasajero peut avoir freiné certaines ambitions analytiques. Le texte de Figueroa est d’une nature profondément hybride, il se caractérise par un oscillement perpétuel entre inspiration italienne, accents décaméroniens, emprunts transtextuels et substrat folklorique hispanique. Il joue sur la porosité des frontières entre réalité et fiction pour élaborer un texte dont tous les éléments semblent dialoguer et entre lesquels le lecteur passe comme sur les pierres d’un gué. En fin de compte, El Pasajero est un véritable laboratoire d’expérimentation littéraire où affleurent traditions littéraires ancrées et propositions d’écriture plus innovantes. Ce dialogue perpétuel est décisif dans l’œuvre : au-delà d’un premier dialogue évident entre les personnages, le texte en propose d’autres en filigrane, entre les formes et les genres littéraires. Ils fonctionnent comme autant d’éléments structurants au sein de cette œuvre pensée comme un lieu de passage où se mêlent expérimentations littéraires et réflexions sociétales. El Pasajero peut parfois laisser le lecteur perplexe, c’est un fait. Il fait, néanmoins, partie de ces textes qui fascinent et qui n’ont pas encore révélé tous leurs secrets. Une chose est certaine : El Pasajero ne laisse pas indifférent et mérite qu’on lui consacre une étude de fond. C’est ce que se propose de faire cet ouvrage…
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Egreteau, Renaud. Military Guardianship and the Search for a Pacted Transition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190620967.003.0002.
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The chapter argues that the main policy actor at the core of the transitional process remains Myanmar’s secretive military institution. It was the armed forces and its uncontested leadership that let the “opening” outstretch soon after the 2010 elections, by officially disbanding the “junta” and morphing into a hybrid “transit regime”. In a sense, the Tatmadaw stood, as in 1960 and 1974, as a “caretaker” of the transition. Yet, even if the partial disengagement of the armed forces from politics observed after 2011 had carefully been planned by the military leadership, an institutional and political “elite pact” was needed regardless, and sought after by several key elite groups, to pursue the initial procedural transition.
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Roelsgaard Obling, Anne, and Lotta Victor Tillberg. Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia. Scandinavian Military Studies, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31374/book2.
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What characterises the development and social transformation of the military profession in Scandinavia? Has the broadening of tasks, function and scope of the military profession lead to changes in the values, outlook and behaviour of groups of the armed forces? And what kind of changes are the cultural and structural interpenetration of civilian and military spheres, including hybrid forms of professionalism, generating and what are the significance and implications of such changes? Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia brings together a number of expert scholars within Military Studies and related fields to provide timely and updated answers to these highly important questions – answers with potential implications far beyond the Scandinavian case.
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Barrett, James. The World of the Immigrant Worker. Edited by Ronald H. Bayor. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766031.013.016.
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Working-class formation in the United States was considerably complicated by waves of immigration from the mid nineteenth century down to the present. In some cases, the ethnic differences lead to conflict, in others to “ethnically hybrid” cultures based on class. Labor and radical organizations often played an important role in acculturating late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigrant workers. The kind of ethic “niches” in earlier industrial occupational structures can also be found in the employment available to immigrants today. By the late twentieth century, union organization was also complicated by shifts in the occupational structure from manufacturing to service jobs, yet much of the meager growth in union organization in recent decades has come in service industries with heavy concentrations of immigrant workers.
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Department of Defense. Learning to Mow Grass: Israel Defense Force Adaptations to Hybrid Threats - Case Studies of Second Lebanon War in 2006, Operation Cast Lead in 2008, and Operation Protective Edge In 2014. Independently Published, 2018.
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Retallack, James. Dance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199668786.003.0012.
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The long process leading to passage of Saxony’s plural suffrage in January 1909 was described as a “dance.” This chapter begins with a brief overview of how the new suffrage was debated in committee and on the floor of the Landtag. This section digs below the surface of parliamentary rhetoric to try to discover the principal actors’ motives for defending one suffrage proposal over another. The next section examines the Saxon government’s proposal (July 1907) for a hybrid voting system, and the majority parties’ opposition to it. Then Saxony’s final legislative “dance” is analyzed against the backdrop of Social Democratic street protests and last-minute disagreements between National Liberals and Conservatives. A last section examines the calculations of Saxon statisticians and others who wanted to let “just enough” Social Democrats into the Landtag. They attempted to calculate which socio-economic groups would be eligible to receive extra ballots under the plural suffrage.
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Department of Defense. Facing Uncertainty: The Role of the M1 Abrams Tank in U. S. Army of 2015-2025 - Hybrid Threats and Combined Arms Maneuver, Case Study of Israel Merkava Tank in Operations Cast Lead and Protective Edge. Independently Published, 2017.
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Flesher Fominaya, Cristina. Democracy Reloaded. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190099961.001.0001.
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Framed in debates about the crisis of democracy, the book analyzes one of the most influential social movements of recent times: Spain’s “Indignados” or “15-M” movement. In the wake of the global financial crisis and harsh austerity policies, 15-M movement activists occupied public squares across the country, mobilized millions of Spanish citizens, gave rise to new hybrid parties such as Podemos, and inspired pro-democracy movements around the world. Based on access to key participants in the 15-M movement and Podemos, and extensive participant observation, the book tells the story of this remarkable movement, its emergence, evolution, and impact. In so doing, it challenges some of the core arguments in social movement scholarship about the factors likely to lead to movement success. Instead, the book argues that movements organized around autonomous network logics can build and sustain strong movements in the absence of formal organizations, strong professionalized leadership, and the ability to attract external resources. The key to understanding its power lies in the shared political culture and collective identity that emerged following the occupation of Spain’s central squares. These protest camps sustained the movement by forging reciprocal ties of solidarity between diverse actors, and generating a shared set of critical master frames across a diverse set of actors and issues (e.g., housing, education, pensions, privatization of public services, corruption) that enabled the movement to effectively contest hegemonic narratives about the crisis, austerity, and democracy, influencing public debate and the political agenda.
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Dix, Alan, Steve Gill, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, and Jo Hare. TouchIT. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198718581.001.0001.
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Abstract The physical world is increasingly filled with digital products to the extent that the boundaries of digital and physical reality become blurred. From mundane devices such as mobile phones and washing machines, to esoteric research including tangible computation and body implants, we continually bridge two worlds, literally touching buttons and dials and metaphorically touching the bits beyond. The connection between pure thought and abstract information is through solid keyboard and mouse, but likewise the material world of buildings, cars, and running shoes is suffused with computation through sensors, displays, and flashing LEDs. How do people understand this world and how can designers create usable hybrid physical–digital products? This book brings together experience from human–computer interaction and industrial design, exploring these themes under four main headings: human body and mind; objects and things; space; and computation and information. In considering each it looks at the underlying physical processes, our human understanding of them, and then the way these inform and are informed by digital design. The final part of the book draws together the theoretical and practical implications of this for design. This includes practical advice, potential tools, and philosophical underpinnings. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology seriously.
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Hale-Dorrell, Aaron T. Corn Crusade. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644673.001.0001.
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Almost everyone has long misinterpreted Nikita Khrushchev’s ten-year crusade to propagate the cultivation of corn, a crop important across the globe but previously rare across the vast, environmentally diverse Soviet Union. Launched in 1953, this campaign comprised a large part of the new leadership’s efforts to remedy agrarian crises inherited from Iosif Stalin. Khrushchev pressured collective and state farms to increase plantings of corn from an insignificant proportion of their crops to a peak of nearly 20 percent. Expected to feed livestock that were to yield meat and dairy products, corn promised to enrich citizens’ meager, monotonous diets and thereby make good on Khrushchev’s infamous pledges that the Soviet Union was soon to “catch up to and surpass America” in the Cold War “peaceful competition” between communism and capitalism. Echoing Khrushchev’s former comrades, who denounced corn as “harebrained scheming” when ousting him in 1964, scholars have ridiculed it as “an irrational obsession.” Newly available archival documents reveal a more complex and interesting story of how Khrushchev borrowed industrial-farming methods from the United States. Following experts’ advice, he believed that hybrid seeds, machines, agronomy, and other technologies constituting the global trends in farming technology promised even greater increases in productivity under conditions found in the Soviet Union. Yet Khrushchev’s programs achieved only partial success because they could not overcome the entrenched interests, bureaucratic inertia, and competing priorities that encouraged government officials, local authorities, and farmworkers to disregard methods required to grow even modest harvests, let alone the bumper crops that Khrushchev envisioned.
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Belvadi, Anilkumar. Missionary Calculus. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190052423.001.0001.
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Missionary Calculus tells the story for the first time of the making of the Sunday school in Victorian India (1858–1901), focusing on American missionaries, its most active promoters. Unlike other mission histories, this book studies the means missionaries adopted in building this institution rather than on their evangelical ends. Based on extensive archival research, it addresses the question: How did the process of building institutions affect the Christian values to establish which they were built? The book provides a richly detailed account of Indian colonial educational history, discussing the Christian pedagogical encounter with a non-Christian learning environment. It tells of lavish missionary lifestyles in a land frequently stricken by famine, and of missionary solidarity with British colonial authorities, accompanied though by Christian caritative commitment for the plight of the colonized. Missionaries resolved these contradictions by telling their audiences that becoming Christian would lead them to prosperity, while telling themselves that they needed to work out a plan for civilizational correction. Sunday schools began to be seen as at once the instrument of evangelization as of reschooling India. American missionaries brought with them Sunday school curricula and organizational methods from back home, and tried to customize them to Indian conditions. But this meant having to compromise with hiring heathen teachers, allowing heathen students to wear their caste-marks, commissioning a heathen-style hymnody, and paying money to key people to fill the classrooms with heathens. Could such a hybrid institution be Christian? And whom could it serve? Here is an East Indian tale.
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Pullen, Jennifer, Sean Prentiss, Amorak Huey, H. K. Hummel, Chris Gavaler, Sean Prentiss, Xu Xi, et al. Fantasy Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350166967.
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The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical lens. These include: - Character and dialogue - Point of view - Plot and structure - Worldbuilding settings, ideologies and cultures - Style and revision The third section guides students through the spectrum of styles as they are classified in fantasy fiction from Epic and high fantasy, through Lovecraftian and Weird fiction, to magical realism and hybrid fantasy. An accompanying anthology will provide students with a greater awareness of the range of possibilities open to them as fantasy writers and will feature such writers as Ursula Le Guin, China Miéville, Theodora Goss, Emrys Donaldson, Ken Liu, C.S.E. Cooney, Vandana Singh, Sofia Samatar, Rebecca Roanhorse, Jessie Ulmer, Yxta Maya Murray, and Rachael K. Jones. With writing exercises, prompts, additional online resources and cues for further reading throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone wanting to write fantastical fiction.
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Herrington, Joan, ed. The Great North American Stage Directors. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350045347.
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Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their theatrical roles as directors, scholars, theorists and teachers has placed them among the most influential thinker/practitioners of their generation. This book reveals the ways in which their consistent inquiry enabled them to re-examine, re-frame, and re-invent their own practice. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Schechner, Breuer and Bogart have established powerful legacies of consistently innovative theatre most often created in the company of an ensemble of collaborative artists. Their influence is undeniable in the reformulation of theatre practices from the 1970s onward. The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.
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Parkinson, Michael, John P. Dalton, and Sandra M. O’Neill. Fasciolosis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0079.
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Liver fluke disease, or fasciolosis, of livestock and humans is caused by endoparasitic trematodes of the genus Fasciola. Fasciola hepatica is responsible for the disease in temperate climates whereas F. gigantica is found in tropical zones. Recently, hybrids between F. hepatica and F. gigantica have been described (Le et al. 2008, Periago et al. 2008). Fasciolosis is a true zoonoses as it is predominantly a disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans at a specific stage of the parasite’s complex life cycle. There are a number of definitive hosts which includes sheep, cattle, and humans but this parasite has evolved to infect many other mammalian hosts including pigs, dogs, alpacas, llamas, rats, and goats (Apt et al. 1993; Chen and Mott 1990; Esteban et al. 1998). While prevalence of infection in humans may be relatively low in relation to animals, in specific geographic locations, for example in Bolivia, the prevalence of fasciolosis is so high in the human populations (hyperendemic) that it contributes to the spread of disease in animals (Esteban et al. 1999; Mas-Coma et al. 1999).Archeological studies showing Fasciola eggs in ancient mummies in Egypt demonstrate that fasciolosis is an ancient human disease (David 1997). Sporadic cases of fasciolosis were reported in Egypt in 1958 (Kuntz et al. 1958). The first to carry out an extensive review on human fasciolosis were Chen and Mott (1990). They reported 2,595 cases in over 40 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the western Pacifi c from 1970 – 1990. This review raised awareness of fasciolosis in humans and triggered a growth in epidemiological studies and a consequential dramatic increase in reporting of cases in the literature. Now human fasciolosis is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an important disease in humans with an estimated 2.4 million people infected annually and 180 million at risk to infection in over 61 countries (Haseeb et al. 2002). There have been several cases of large scale epidemics in France (Dauchy et al. 2007), Egypt (Curtale et al. 2007) and Iran (Rokni et al. 2002).However, the only extensive epidemiological studies to determine the rate of infection have been carried out in Egypt and Bolivia (Curtale et al. 2003, 2007; Esteban et al. 2002; Parkinson et al. 2007). These studies have shown that co-infection with other diseases is a common occurrence and this may lead to under-reporting of the incidence of fasciolosis (Esteban et al. 2003; Maiga et al. 1991). In many countries, the overall rates of infection are extrapolated from sporadic reports of the disease and, consequently, worldwide disease prevalence is uncertain. In this chapter we will review the cause and effect of human fasciolosis, and particularly highlight important considerations in designing control strategies to reduce infection in at-risk communities.
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Greenberg, Jayne D., Nichole D. Calkins, and Lisa S. Spinosa. Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses. Human Kinetics, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718222755.
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Fitness education is often overlooked for various reasons: no equipment, no weight room, large class size, or lack of professional development. Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses provides real solutions for all these issues. This book offers secondary-level physical educators innovative ideas, practical answers, and guidance in implementing fitness education programming that will meet the needs of all students. Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses is packed with highly useful tools and resources: • 211 instructional photos showing exercises and stretches that require no equipment and are easily adapted for varying abilities • 18 pacing guides that form a week-by-week blueprint for implementing a semester-long fitness education course • A robust online resource with ◦ all 18 pacing guides, as well as a blank template for developing your own; ◦ 139 video demonstrations of all the book’s exercises and stretches; ◦ PowerPoint presentations to show in PE classes, including video demonstrations of the book’s exercises and stretches; and ◦ teacher aids and student handouts, including assignments, assessments, posters, and a 12-week personal fitness plan Teachers can use the pacing guides to develop a semester-long fitness education course that can be implemented in either a traditional or block schedule. These guides offer objectives, class discussion topics, activities, assessments, and teaching strategies for each week of an 18-week semester. All topics in the guides are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K–12 Physical Education. The authors guide teachers in addressing the following priorities within a fitness education course: social and emotional learning; behavior modification principles and adherence to fitness activities; social cognitive theory; classroom management; student safety; equity, diversity, and inclusion; and social justice. Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses also includes a detailed chapter on nutrition education written by internationally recognized sport nutritionist Lisa Dorfman, who provides teachers a wealth of information to integrate into fitness courses. Teachers will learn how to integrate a quality fitness education curriculum into any setting (rural, urban, or suburban) and any learning model (remote, hybrid, or in-person learning). Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses is organized into three sections: • Part I presents both theoretical and practical knowledge of fitness education; its importance in a standards-based curriculum; pedagogical and content knowledge considerations; nutrition, wellness, and consumer issues; and the general components of fitness education. • Part II focuses on various components of fitness education: flexibility, strength, and cardiorespiratory fitness. This part includes stretching and muscular strength and endurance workouts, illustrated with photos in the book and videos in the online resource. • Part III guides readers in enabling students to participate in community fitness and activity events to support the development of lifelong fitness habits. Through Designing and Teaching Fitness Education Courses, teachers will be able to provide appropriate fitness activities that will lead to the elevated health and wellness of students and a greater appreciation for participating in lifelong activities. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.