Books: 'Just-in-time systems Case studies'

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Sepehri, Mehran. Just-in-time, not just in Japan: Case studies of American pioneers in JIT implementation. Falls Church, VA: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1986.

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Crawford, Karlene M. Performance measurement systems and theJIT philosophy: Principles and cases. Falls Church, Va: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1988.

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Crawford, Karlene M. Performance measurement systems and the JIT philosophy: Principles and cases. Falls Church, VA: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1988.

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Lingnau, Hildegard. Lean management als Konzept zur Reform öffentlicher Verwaltungen in Afrika südlich der Sahara: Schlussfolgerungen aus den Verwaltungsreformen Benins und Ugandas. Köln: Weltforum, 1996.

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Burnham, John M. Just-in-time in a major process industry: Case studies of JIT implementation at ALCOA. Falls Church, Va: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1986.

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Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad., ed. Improving in-plant logistics by process reengineering: Case study. Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Management, 2003.

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Spencer, Michael S. Directions in American production: How repetitive manufacturing occurs. Falls Church, VA: APICS, the Educational Society for Resource Management, 1996.

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Agir ou périr: Survivre dans la jungle de la mondialisation. [Montréal]: Presses internationales Polytechnique, 2006.

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Burnham, John M. Just-in-time in a major process industry: Condensed version : a look at just-in-time at the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), published in condensed form for distribution at the 1986 APICS Zero Inventory/Just-in-Time Seminar, Hilton Head, SC, July 21-23. Falls Church, Va: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1986.

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Pheng, Low Sui. Managing productivity in construction: JIT operations and measurements. Aldershot, Hants., England: Brookfield, Vt., 1997.

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Shasha, Dennis Elliott. High performance discovery in time series: Techniques and case studies. New York: Springer, 2004.

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Meng, Chan Yue, ed. Managing productivity in construction: JIT operations and measurements. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

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Championship management: An action model for high performance. Cambridge, Mass: Productivity Press, 1990.

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Belohlav, James A. Championship management: An action model for high performance. Cambridge, Mass: Productivity Press, 1990.

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O'Shea, Donall. JIT: The implications for human resources in an Irish environment : a case study. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1993.

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Delbridge, Rick. Life on the line in contemporary manufacturing: The workplace experience of lean production and the "Japanese" model. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Delbridge, Rick. Life on the line in contemporary manufacturing: The workplace experience of lean production and the "Japanese" model. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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John, Price, ed. Heineken USA: Reengineering distribution with HOPS. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Pub., 2003.

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Flexible shift planning in the service industry: The case of physicians in hospitals. Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

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Mkomwa, Saidi, and Amir Kassam, eds. Conservation agriculture in Africa: climate smart agricultural development. Wallingford: CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789245745.0000.

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Abstract This book is about Conservation Agriculture (the use of no tillage systems) to preserve soil structure and integrity. It has become an increasingly important step towards sustainable farming. This publication brings together conservation agriculture and climate smart decision making processes for the first time, focusing on Africa. This book brings to the fore scientific and empirical evidence about Conservation Agriculture in Africa, articulated by the Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture (2ACCA) held in Johannesburg in 2018. It describes how farmers in Africa are successfully adopting Conservation Agriculture as an alternative to the unsustainable conventional farming practices and as a solution to loss of agricultural productivity, soil erosion and land degradation, climate change challenges and ever-increasing food insecurity. This work discusses how Conservation Agriculture can support the implementation of the African Union's Malabo Declaration and Agenda 2063 which calls for climate smart agricultural development. It provides development-oriented case studies and scientific evidence relevant to all stakeholders in the public, private and civil sectors who are engaged in building policy, institutional and human capacity to accelerate the mainstreaming of Conservation Agriculture across Africa.

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Jonathan, Morris. Transforming buyer-supplier relations: Japanese-style industrial practices in a western context. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1992.

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Schonberger, Richard J. Flow Manufacturing -- What Went Right, What Went Wrong: 101 Mini-Case Studies That Reveal Lean's Successes and Failures. Productivity Press, 2018.

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Schonberger, Richard J. Flow Manufacturing -- What Went Right, What Went Wrong: 101 Mini-Case Studies That Reveal Lean's Successes and Failures. Productivity Press, 2018.

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Flow Manufacturing -- What Went Right, What Went Wrong: 101 Mini-Case Studies That Reveal Lean's Successes and Failures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Spencer, Duin, ed. Case studies of just-in-time implementation at Westinghouse and IBM. Falls Church, VA: American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1986.

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Pheng, Low Sui, and Chan Yue Meng. Managing Productivity in Construction. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Managing Productivity in Construction: JIT Operations and Measurements. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Pheng, Low Sui, and Chan Yue Meng. Managing Productivity in Construction: JIT Operations and Measurements. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Pheng, Low Sui, and Chan Yue Meng. Managing Productivity in Construction: JIT Operations and Measurements. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Pheng, Low Sui, and Chan Yue Meng. Managing Productivity in Construction: JIT Operations and Measurements. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Elwood, Mark. Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682898.001.0001.

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This book presents a system of critical appraisal applicable to clinical, epidemiological and public health studies and to many other fields. It assumes no prior knowledge. The methods are relevant to students, practitioners and policymakers. The book shows how to assess if the results of one study or of many studies show a causal effect. The book discusses study designs: randomised and non-randomised trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and surveys, showing the presentation of results including person-time and survival analysis, and issues in the selection of subjects. The system shows how to describe a study, how to detect and assess selection biases, observation bias, confounding, and chance variation, and how to assess internal validity and external validity (generalisability). Statistical methods are presented assuming no previous knowledge, and showing applications to each study design. Positive features of causation including strength, dose-response, and consistency are discussed. The book shows how to do systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and discusses publication bias. Systems of assessing all evidence are shown, leading to a general method of critical appraisal based on 20 key questions in five groups, which can be applied to any type of study or any topic. Six chapters show the application of this method to randomised trials, prospective and retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies. An appendix summarises key statistical methods, each with a worked example. Each main chapter has self-test questions, with answers provided.

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Birken, Sarah A., Erin E. Hahn, Yan Yu, Emily Haines, Deborah K. Mayer, and Brian Mittman. The Challenge of Implementing Survivorship Care Plans. Edited by David A. Chambers, Wynne E. Norton, and Cynthia A. Vinson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190647421.003.0028.

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This case study examines the challenge of implementing survivorship care plans (SCPs), which are intended to document cancer treatment, make recommendations for future care, and facilitate cancer survivors’ care transitions. It describes SCPs’ policy context and offers as a case study the SCP implementation experiences of a university-based hospital and an integrated delivery system. It recommends implementation science as a next step in developing more definitive evidence of SCPs’ effectiveness, which is determined in part by implementation. It also describes promising SCP implementation studies that take into account stakeholders’ perspectives on SCP implementation and plan to leverage findings for future studies in which implementation is examined as a determinant of SCP effectiveness. It recommends future research that uses stakeholder perspectives to develop systems for SCP implementation, adapts SCPs to fit cancer programs’ unique contexts, and investigates the implementation of survivorship care programs of which SCPs are just one component.

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Ungar, Michael, ed. Multisystemic Resilience. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190095888.001.0001.

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Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience experts. By placing side-by-side the writing of psychologists, epigeneticists, ecologists, architects, disaster specialists, engineers, sociologists and public health researchers (to name just a few of the disciplines represented), this innovative volume provides insights into how to research resilience across systems and the many possible solutions to problems that threaten the physical and mental health of individuals, the wellbeing of our communities and the sustainability of our planet. Every chapter provides a detailed review of resilience from one disciplinary perspective, then uses examples drawn from research and case studies to show that thinking about the resilience of multiple systems is a better way to understand processes of change and sustainability.

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Banet, Catherine, Hanri Mostert, LeRoy Paddock, Milton Fernando Montoya, and Iñigo del Guayo, eds. Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864574.001.0001.

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Abstract The number of severe, sometimes catastrophic disruptive events has been rapidly increasing. Extreme weather events including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, and other natural disasters have become both more frequent and more severe. At the same time the COVID-19 pandemic has created a global threat to public health with huge economic effects that recovery packages tried to address. These disruptive events, alone and in combination, have dramatic consequences on nature, human life, and the economy, calling for urgent action to mitigate their causes and adapt to their impacts. In response to discourses of collapsology and end-of-growth theories, this book offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses that can help assure that needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in times of more frequent and intense disruption. ‘Resilience’ is therefore seen as a common framework for the interpretation and development of energy, infrastructure, and natural resources law. With a mix of thematic chapters and case studies from multiple jurisdictions, the book maps and assesses legal responses to disruptive nature-based events, and examines possible legal pathways for more sustainable outcomes, based on its engagement with the concept of ‘resilience’ and a social-ecological thinking.

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Transforming Buyer-Supplier Relations: Japanese-Style Industrial Practices in a Western Context. Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, 1991.

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Morris, Jonathan, and Rob Imrie. Transforming Buyer-Supplier Relations: Japanese-Style Industrial Practices in a Western Context. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.

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Davenport, Thomas H., and Steven M. Miller. Working with AI. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14453.001.0001.

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Two management and technology experts show that AI is not a job destroyer, exploring worker-AI collaboration in real-world work settings. This book breaks through both the hype and the doom-and-gloom surrounding automation and the deployment of artificial intelligence-enabled—“smart”—systems at work. Management and technology experts Thomas Davenport and Steven Miller show that, contrary to widespread predictions, prescriptions, and denunciations, AI is not primarily a job destroyer. Rather, AI changes the way we work—by taking over some tasks but not entire jobs, freeing people to do other, more important and more challenging work. By offering detailed, real-world case studies of AI-augmented jobs in settings that range from finance to the factory floor, Davenport and Miller also show that AI in the workplace is not the stuff of futuristic speculation. It is happening now to many companies and workers. These cases include a digital system for life insurance underwriting that analyzes applications and third-party data in real time, allowing human underwriters to focus on more complex cases; an intelligent telemedicine platform with a chat-based interface; a machine learning-system that identifies impending train maintenance issues by analyzing diesel fuel samples; and Flippy, a robotic assistant for fast food preparation. For each one, Davenport and Miller describe in detail the work context for the system, interviewing job incumbents, managers, and technology vendors. Short “insight” chapters draw out common themes and consider the implications of human collaboration with smart systems.

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Schedel, Margaret. Colour is the Keyboard. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.8.

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This chapter discusses the phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’, the phenomenon in which a visual perception gives rise to a musical sense-impression, or vice-versa. The chapter covers over one hundred years of artists, composers, and inventors developing sculptures, instruments, and systems to transcode visual data into sonic material. This time frame encompasses mechanical, analogue, digital, and hybrid systems. Most of the algorithmic procedures in these case studies are not reversible; in other words, the visuals cannot be generated from the sound. In many cases the visual aspect is not even meant to be seen as part of the experience, while in others the visual aspect is an equal partner in a synaethestic experience.

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Mathews, Jud. Extending Rights' Reach. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682910.001.0001.

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Constitutional rights protect individuals against government overreaching, but that is not all they do. In different ways and to different degrees, constitutional rights also regulate legal relations among private parties in most legal systems. In other words, rights can have not only a vertical effect, within the hierarchical relationship between citizen and state, but also a horizontal one, on the citizen-to-citizen relationships otherwise governed by private law. In every constitutional system with judicially enforceable constitutional rights, courts must make choices about whether, when, and how to give those rights horizontal effect. This book is about how different courts make those choices, and about the consequences that they have. The doctrines that courts build to manage the horizontal effect of rights speak to the most fundamental issues that constitutional systems address, about the nature of rights and of constitutionalism itself. These doctrines can also entrench or enhance judicial power, but in very different ways depending on the legal system. This book offers three case studies, of Germany, the United States, and Canada. For each, it offers a detailed account of the horizontal effect jurisprudence of its apex court—not in isolation, but as a central feature of a broader account of that country’s constitutional development. The case studies show how the choices courts make about horizontal rights reflect existing normative and political realities and, over time, help to shape new ones.

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Hart, Graeme K., and David Pilcher. Severity of illness scoring systems. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0029.

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Clinical outcome comparisons for research and quality assurance require risk adjustment measures validated in the population of interest. There are many scoring systems using intensive care unit (ICU)-specific or administrative data sets, or both. Risk-adjusted ICU and hospital mortality outcome measures may be not granular enough or may be censored before the absolute risk of the studied outcome reaches that of the population at large. Data linkage methods may be used to examine longer-term outcomes. Organ failure scores provide a method for assessing the intra-episode time course of illness and scores using treatment variables may be useful for assessing care requirements. Each adjustment system has specific merits and limitations, which must be understood for appropriate use. Graphical representations of the comparisons facilitate understanding and time-appropriate response to variations in outcome. There are, as yet, no universally-accepted measures for severity of illness and risk adjustment in deteriorating patients outside the ICU.

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Herzog, Lisa. Reclaiming the System. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830405.001.0001.

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The world of wage labour seems to have become a soulless machine, an engine of social and environmental destruction. Employees seem to be nothing but ‘cogs’ in this system—but is this true? Located at the intersection of political theory, moral philosophy, and business ethics, this book questions the picture of the world of work as a ‘system’. Hierarchical organizations, both in the public and in the private sphere, have specific features of their own. This does not mean, however, that they cannot leave room for moral responsibility, and maybe even human flourishing. Drawing on detailed empirical case studies, Lisa Herzog analyses the nature of organizations from a normative perspective: their rule-bound character, the ways in which they deal with divided knowledge, and organizational cultures and their relation to morality. She asks how individual agency and organizational structures would have to mesh to avoid common moral pitfalls. She develops the notion of ‘transformational agency’, which refers to a critical, creative way of engaging with one’s organizational role while remaining committed to basic moral norms. The last part zooms out to the political and institutional changes that would be required to re-embed organizations into a just society. Whether we submit to ‘the system’ or try to reclaim it, Herzog argues, is a question of eminent political importance in our globalized world.

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Seidel, Ilana, and Justin Sevier. Skin, Vision, and Hearing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190466268.003.0024.

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Over time, organs may lose their ability to adapt to the oxidative stressors from internal and external environments. Exercise and other lifestyle factors may slow the effects of aging. This chapter focuses on changes in three organ systems: skin, vision, and hearing. Alternative recommendations are given for preventing or delaying age-related skin conditions, eye diseases, and hearing loss. Topics covered are melanoma, skin cancer, sun exposure, xerosis, pressure ulcers, cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and presbycusis. Mock case studies are provided to further explain risk factors.

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Bennister, Mark, Ben Worthy, and Paul 't Hart, eds. The Leadership Capital Index. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783848.001.0001.

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This edited book will make an important, timely, and innovative contribution to the now flourishing academic discipline of political leadership studies. We have developed a conceptual framework of leadership capital and a diagnostic tool—the Leadership Capital Index (LCI)—to measure and evaluate the fluctuating nature of leadership capital. Differing amounts of leadership capital, a combination of skills, relations, and reputation, allow leaders to succeed or fail. This book brings together leading international scholars to engage with the concept of “leadership capital” and apply the LCI to a variety of comparative case studies. The LCI offers a comprehensive yet parsimonious and easily applicable ten-point matrix to examine leadership authority over time and in different political contexts. In each case, leaders “spend” and put their “stock” of authority and support at risk. United States president, Lyndon Johnson, arm-twisting Congress to put into effect civil rights legislation, Tony Blair taking the United Kingdom into the invasion of Iraq, Angela Merkel committing Germany to a generous reception of refugees: all ‘spent capital’ to forge public policy they believed in. We are interested in how office-holders acquire, consolidate, risk, and lose such capital. This volume concentrates predominantly on elected ‘chief executives’ at the national level, including majoritarian and consensus systems, multiple and singular cases. We also consider some presidential and sub-national cases. The purpose of the exercise is indeed exploratory: the chapters are a series of plausibility probes, to see how the LCI framework ‘performs’ as a descriptive and analytical tool.

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Kolge, Nishikant. Gandhi’s evolving strategy to abolish the caste system: Part I. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474295.003.0003.

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This chapter expounds the course of Gandhi’s evolving strategy against the caste system within its historical context. It presents a chronological account of Gandhi’s writings and life starting from 1915 (his arrival to India from South Africa) till 1932 (his epic fast unto death). It analyses Gandhi’s writings during three periods, viz., 1915 to 1920, 1920 to 1927, and 1927 to 1932 on the themes that emerge during those years on issues of untouchability, caste, varna, sanatani Hindu, inter-dining, and inter-caste marriage. Each section that studies the above-mentioned time periods is further divided into two sub-sections, the first on the historical background of the changing political context of each period, which in turn served to advance his movement against the caste system gradually, and second on how these themes themselves appear to shift in Gandhi’s writings.

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Kolge, Nishikant. Gandhi’s evolving strategy to abolish the caste system: Part II. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474295.003.0004.

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This chapter expounds the course of Gandhi’s evolving strategy against the caste system within its historical context. It presents a chronological account of Gandhi’s writings and life starting from 1932 (his epic fast unto death) to 1948 (his death). It analyses Gandhi’s writings during two periods, viz., 1932 to 1945, and 1945 to 1948, on the themes that emerge during those years on issues of untouchability, caste, varna, sanatani Hindu, inter-dining, and inter-caste marriage. Each section that studies the above-mentioned time periods is further divided into two sub-sections, the first on the historical background of the changing political context of each period, which in turn served to advance his movement against the caste system gradually, and second on how these themes themselves appear to shift in Gandhi’s writings. At the end the chapter also presents an overview of Gandhi’s strategy.

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Lattman, Eaton E., Thomas D. Grant, and Edward H. Snell. SAXS Instrumentation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199670871.003.0009.

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SAXS instrumentation is available for the laboratory, at the synchrotron, and at X-ray free electron laser sources. This chapter deals with SAXS instrumentation. It covers laboratory systems, synchrotron beamlines and newer sources. Multiple synchrotron facilities have SAXS beamlines and the ability to perform SAXS studies on free electron laser sources is growing. Sample handling has adopted automation and in some cases microfluidics to reduce sample volume requirements. Sensitive detectors efficient data collection software and rapid analysis allow real time decisions to be made during data collection. Specialized apparatus enables time resolved studies. Each component is described.

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Trotter, David. The Literature of Connection. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850472.001.0001.

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This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global ‘network society’. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications ‘revolution’ brought about by advances in electronic digital computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity which was to provide that revolution with its justification and rallying cry. Connectivity’s core principle is that what matters most in any act of telecommunication, and sometimes all that matters, is the fact of its having happened. During the nineteenth century, the principle gained steadily increasing traction by means not only of formal systems such as the telegraph, but of an array of improvised methods and signalling devices. These methods and devices fulfilled not just an ever more urgent need, but a fundamental recurring desire, for near-instantaneous real-time communication at a distance. Connectivity became an end in itself: a complex, vivid, unpredictable romance woven through the enduring human desire and need for remote intimacy. Its magical enhancements are the stuff of tragedy, comedy, satire, elegy, lyric, melodrama, and plain description; of literature, in short. The book develops the concepts of signal, medium, and interface to offer, in its first part, an alternative view of writing in Britain from the Victorian era to modernism; and, in its second, case studies of European and African-American fiction, and of interwar British cinema, designed to open the topic up for further enquiry.

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Gebeye, Berihun Adugna. A Theory of African Constitutionalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893925.001.0001.

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This book asks and seeks to answer why we need a theory for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms. By locating constitutional studies in Africa within the experiences, interactions, and contestations of power and governance beginning in precolonial times, the book presents the development and transformation of African constitutional systems across time and place, along with the attendant constitutional designs and practices ranging from the nature and operation of the African state to its vertical and horizontal government structures, to its constitutional rights regime. It offers both a theoretically and comparatively rich, historically and contextually informed, and temporally and spatially extensive account of the nature, travails, and incremental successes of African constitutionalism with detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa on important themes like federalism, executive power, and women’s rights. The book aims to bring a new global conversation with a richly African experience as a comparative resource in reimagining the purpose, substance, and scope of constitutions and constitutionalism.

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Potter, David. Disruption. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518823.001.0001.

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Disruption is about radical change—why it happens and how. Drawing on case studies ranging from the fourth century AD through the twentieth century, we look at how long-established systems of government and thought are challenged, how new institutions are created, and new ideas become powerful. While paying attention to the underlying political, intellectual, economic, and environmental sources of social disruption, we will see that no matter what similarities there might be between forces that shake different societies, these underlying factors do not dictate specific outcomes. The human actors are ultimately the most important; their decisions drive the conclusions that we see over time. Through our case studies, we can explore successful and unsuccessful decision making, and the emergence of the ideas that conditioned human actions. We’ll explore the development of Islam and of Christian doctrine, of constitutional thought, of socialism, and social Darwinism. We’ll look at how these ideas, all of them emerging on the fringes of society, became central. We’ll also have our eyes set on whether the sorts of disruptive forces we’ve seen in the past are present at this time. We’ll look at the issues confronting the liberal democracies that have been the dominant political/economic forces on our planet in the last half century and see how they have come under stress in the last few decades. And we will look at the possibility that we’re facing a new period of disruption and at what we can learn from the past about how change can be constructive rather than destructive.

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Cohan, Steven. Monstrous Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865788.003.0005.

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This chapter is the mirror image of the previous one. It looks at narratives about has-been female stars in the context of the studio system’s demise during the 1950s and 1960s. These somewhat later backstudios depict the agency and sexuality of an older female star, who no longer has the safe haven of the studio to control or at least cushion her excessive behavior, as a “monstrous” perversion of femininity. In these films the mature female star personifies the incoherence of the Hollywood brand as a result of the studio system’s implosion, just as her excessive figure is treated as its cause, not its symptom. The chapter closes with a glance at the millennial backstudio, S1m0ne (2002), which takes as its premise the possibility of a computer-generated star and which registers the same anxieties about powerful female actors that these midcentury backstudios enact.

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