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Victor, Haïm, and Latour Geneviève, eds. Jacques Noël: Décors et dessins de théâtre. Arles: Actes sud, 2007.
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Heidi, Stephens, ed. Setting: 15 creative projects that help kids become better readers and writers. New York, NY: Scholastic Professional Books, 1998.
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William, Noble. Three rules for writing a novel: A guide to story development. Forest Dale, Vt: P.S. Eriksson, 1997.
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Geheime Botschaften: Homoerotische Subkulturen im Schubert-Kreis, bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Thomas Bernhard. Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
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The French Noel (Publications of the Early Music Institute). Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Linda Lum DeBono; Leisure Arts. New Noel (Leisure Arts #4139). Leisure Arts, Inc, 2007.
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Davis, Frances A., and Louis-Claude Daquin. French Noels for Organ. Dover Publications, 1997.
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Noll, Hagen. Goal Setting Planner: Snowman Cover Goal Setting Planner, Daily Goal Setting Planner Gratitude Journal Notebook Diary Log Book Organizer 120 Pages, Size 6 X 9 by Hagen Noll. Independently Published, 2021.
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Ball, Jonathan. Antimicrobial stewardship in the intensive care setting. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198758792.003.0012.
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Intensive care units (ICUs) care for patients with life-threatening infections and thus harbour reservoirs of pathogenic microorganisms. Furthermore, as a direct consequence of their critical illness/injury, ICU patients commonly have a significant degree of acutely acquired, innate, and adaptive immune system dysfunction. Critically ill patients therefore present unique challenges for antibiotic stewardship. Antibiotic stewardship in ICUs should address both the timely delivery of effective empiric therapy and the minimization of the use of broad-spectrum agents. Solutions to these challenges are usually adaptations of general principles rather than novel interventions. In ICUs, as elsewhere, antibiotic stewardship should be viewed as a key component of the overall infection control strategy.
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Sharma, Manohar, Karen H. Simpson, Michael I. Bennett, and Sanjeeva Gupta, eds. Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198865667.001.0001.
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This new edition of the Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain has been fully updated and expanded, with five new chapters on novel interventional techniques in cancer pain amelioration. The book provides advice on advanced pain management, emphasising the suitability and selection of patients for different invasive and complex procedures based on patient history. Case histories are included throughout the text to give the reader insight into the complexities of holistic management, with pain being only one component in the distress that cancer causes for both patients and families. The book also covers cancer pain management for patients in a community setting, and the collaboration between pain and palliative medicine. Concise, practical, and evidence-based, this guide is essential reading for all pain and palliative care specialists in the community, hospital, and hospice settings.
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Rouillard, Josselin, Christina Babbitt, Edward Challies, and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, eds. Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture. IWA Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/9781789062786.
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Abstract The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the dominant water use. In Section 1, the collection canvasses five key cross-cutting issues shaping the challenge of sustainable water allocation policy, such as legal and economic perspectives, the role of politics, the setting of environmental flows, and the importance of indigenous rights. Section 2 presents 13 national, state and transboundary case studies of water allocation policy, covering cases from Europe, the Americas, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific region. These case studies highlight novel and innovative elements of water allocation regimes, which respond to the cross-cutting issues addressed in Section 1, as well as local challenges and social and environmental imperatives. The book provides a comprehensive account of water allocation in a range of international settings and provides a reference point for practitioners and scholars worldwide wishing to draw on the latest advances on how to design and implement sustainable water allocation systems. ISBN: 9781789062779 (print) ISBN: 9781789062786 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789062793 (ePUB)
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Urtāns, Ēvalds. Function shaping in deep learning. RTU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/9789934226854.
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This work describes the importance of loss functions and related methods for deep reinforcement learning and deep metric learning. A novel MDQN loss function outperformed DDQN loss function in PLE computer game environments, and a novel Exponential Triplet loss function outperformed the Triplet loss function in the face re-identification task with VGGFace2 dataset reaching 85,7 % accuracy using zero-shot setting. This work also presents a novel UNet-RNN-Skip model to improve the performance of the value function for path planning tasks.
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Hausenloy, Derek, and Derek Yellon, eds. Novel Cardioprotective Strategies. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199544769.003.0011.
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• Despite optimal therapy, the mortality and morbidity of coronary heart disease remains significant. Hence, novel treatment strategies of cardioprotection are required to improve clinical outcomes in these patients• Experimental studies have provided a plethora of therapeutic strategies for reducing myocardial injury, but the translation of these findings into the clinical setting has been largely disappointing. Many of these unsuccessful clinical studies have relied upon individually targeting established mediators of lethal reperfusion injury such as oxidative stress, inflammation, calcium overload and so forth• Clearly, novel targets for cardioprotection as well as a multi-targeted approach to cardioprotection directed against the multiple causes of lethal reperfusion injury are required to effect benefits in clinical outcomes• In this regard, the introduction of ischaemic postconditioning, a novel treatment strategy, in which following primary PCI the process of myocardial reperfusion is interrupted by several coronary re-occlusions, has been reported to reduce myocardial myocardial injury in AMI patients• Furthermore, experimental studies have identified the Reperfusion Injury Salvage Kinase (RISK) pathway and the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) as novel targets for cardioprotection, which are currently been examined in the clinical setting.
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Hans, Steiner, Daniels Whitney, Kelly Michael, and Stadler Christina. Forensic Implications in Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265458.003.0006.
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This chapter tackles the complex task of putting the knowledge base of disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) into a forensic context. The chapter first discusses the landmark legal cases that created a novel space for conceptualizing the psychopathology of crime. The implications of DBDs for culpability, rehabilitation, and institutional treatments. Real cases are used to prepare the clinician for the special challenges the psychiatric consultant to justice settings and the expert witness inevitably will face when involving themselves with DBD cases, the courts, justice settings, and follow-up care after incarceration. Special emphasis is put on the almost ubiquitous complexity of clinical syndromes in forensic cases that calls for considerable sophistication and breadth of clinical experience to do justice to this most difficult population.
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Russi, Mark. Biological Hazards. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0016.
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This chapter describes various biological hazards and their impact on workers and others. A major focus of the chapter is biological hazards in healthcare and laboratory settings, including exposure to bloodborne pathogens and prevention of diseases related to them. Sections deal with sharps injuries, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases that can be acquired in the work environment via direct contact, droplet or airborne spread, or fecal-oral transmission. In addition, infectious agents spread by animal contact or arthropod vectors in a broad range of settings will be addressed. Newly emerging infectious or re-emerging infections, such as those due to H5N1 and novel H1N1 influenza, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS), and Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as well as agents associated with bioterrorism are discussed.
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Stein, Dan J., and James Giordano. Neuroethics and global mental health: Establishing a dialogue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0030.
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At first glance, neuroethics and global mental health would seem to have relatively little in common; the former is often focused on the use or misuse of novel and specialized neurotechnologies in specialized or high-income settings, while the latter is often focused on the scaling up of existing treatments in primary care settings in low- and middle-income countries. On closer examination, however, they have significant overlapping concerns and approaches that may be mutually empowering. They both (1) take a naturalist and empirical approach to their questions of interest, (2) are concerned with both disease and with well-being, (3) embrace human rights and patient empowerment, and (4) hold a deep appreciation for human diversity. This chapter considers each of these areas and argues for the importance of conversation and collaboration between neuroethics and global mental health toward a truly international neuroethics.
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SI, Strong. Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198842842.001.0001.
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This book offers a novel, multi-pronged empirical analysis of legal reasoning in commercial disputes, comparing data across three different axes: the judicial–arbitral divide, the domestic–international divide, and the common law–civil law divide. In so doing, this text provides important insights into how judges and arbitrators resolve complex commercial disputes in both national and international settings and conducts important comparisons between different procedures. The study includes three different empirical methodologies: a large-scale international survey, a series of semi-structured interviews, and a detailed quantitative (coding) exercise. Results from the three research strands are cross-verified through various triangulation techniques and tested against conventional wisdom regarding legal reasoning. This work will help judges, arbitrators, practitioners, clients, and scholars understand how legal reasoning is conducted in different settings, thereby improving the practical and understanding of how commercial disputes are resolved.
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Dolan, Michelle, and Betsy Hirsch. Cytogenetic Technologies and Test Issues. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190604929.003.0004.
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Cytogenetic testing is ordered in a wide range of clinical settings. The primary purpose is to evaluate for constitutional abnormalities. This chapter describes cytogenetic testing methodologies, such as microarray analysis, chromosome analysis, prenatal genetic testing, and fluorescence in situ hybridization, identifying their strengths and limitations, and details specimen processing. It summarizes commonly used nomenclature according to the International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature. The chapter also discusses the criteria that laboratory genetic counselors use for reporting uncertain, novel, or ambiguous results.
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Jay, Gregory S. Speaking of Abjection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687229.003.0007.
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The genre of the white liberal race novel was revived in 2009 by Stockett’s bestseller and its high-profile Hollywood film version. Much controversy broke out over the novel’s depiction of black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, which was a center of Civil Rights activism and white backlash. Were these characters stereotypes or deconstructions of the “mammy” figure? The chapter demonstrates that the narrative sections told by the maids contain much subversion, and that even the white protagonist exhibits resistance to orthodox female gender norms. Understanding the novel also requires attention to its specific historical setting amidst the Civil Rights tumult in Mississippi and Alabama during the years in which the novel is set, including the attempt to integrate the universities in those two states and the assassination of Medgar Evers. These events belong to the theme of the necessity for change reiterated throughout the novel.
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Baines, Paul. Pornography and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0025.
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This chapter explains how the emerging novel has not only the problem of how to fend off the widespread accusation of lubricity, but also the corresponding problem of what to do with sex when desire drives the plot. There was no clear category of ‘pornographic’ writing during this period. Modern collections of early sex-writing contain medical treatises, smutty poems, law cases, and translations from Continental sex manuals. These clandestine classics overlap with some early types of novel, in period and often setting, in their anti-authoritarian slant, and their scepticism towards everything except the power of bodily desires. The corpus of proto-pornography, inchoate as it was, was not a sufficient matrix for the novel, still less a discursive origin for it, so much as an oblique presence at the margins of vision.
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Baker, Tabitha. Julie’s Garden and the Impartial Spectator: An Examination of Smithian Themes in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422857.003.0008.
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This chapter explores the similarities between Smith and Rousseau’s moral philosophy through a discussion of the Smithean aspects of Rousseau’s 1761 novel La Nouvelle Héloïse. Focussing the analysis on the motif of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden, this chapter reveals the extent to which Rousseau’s novel reflects Smith’s principles of arriving at moral behaviour and true virtue. The author argues that it is within the space of Julie’s garden that Rousseau and Smith’s theories are reconciled in order to produce a blended social model in which Smith provides responses to Rousseau’s failed utopia. An examination of La Nouvelle Héloïse alongside Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments demonstrates that the symbol of the landscape garden in Rousseau’s novel is an experimental setting in which Rousseau and Smith’s theories are merged, and it is through Rousseau’s fiction that the complicated relationship between the two thinkers’ thought can be most evidently sourced.
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Du Maurier, George. Trilby. Edited by Elaine Showalter. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538805.001.0001.
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‘You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!’ First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat. The setting of the story reflects the author's bohemian years as an art student in Paris; indeed James McNeill Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments. George Du Maurier was a celebrated caricaturist for Punch magazine and his drawings for the novel form part of its appeal - this edition includes his most significant illustrations.
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Domhoff, G. William. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Dreaming. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673420.003.0006.
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The fifth chapter presents the evidence for the novel idea that the neural substrate that enables dreaming is based in subsystems within the waking default network. The evidence for this hypothesis includes neuroimaging studies of representative samples of children and adults as well as studies of neurological patients who report they have experienced alterations in their dreaming, or even lost the ability to dream, due to their injury or illness. Based on these relatively new findings from many research settings, some as recent as 2015 and 2016, both the developmental trajectory of dreaming and the nature of dream content can be explained by the neurocognitive theory of dreams.
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Haslett, Moyra. The Rise of the Irish Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0029.
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This chapter turns to Irish fiction and the ambivalence of the term. ‘Irish fiction’ may be so called by virtue of various factors: an author's birth or place of domicile; the identification of an Irish edition only; or a specifically Irish theme or setting. But the difficulty of defining the ‘Irish novel’ is compounded by the way in which such apparent demarcations — of birth, domicile, setting — are themselves refused within fiction of this period, refused particularly as ‘demarcations’. For example, Jonathan Swift, whose Gulliver's Travels (1726) stands as one of the most famous Irish novels, is himself ambivalent about his Irish birth. Swift's ambivalence about his Irish birth is marked in the fictionalizing of his own life, in which he used the anecdote of his nurse's kidnap of him to Whitehaven, for example, to imply that he was born in England.
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Steinberg, Martin. Treatment of Depression. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199959549.003.0006.
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Most depression in the elderly can be effectively treated in the primary care setting. Psychiatric referral should be considered in the setting of severe depression, suicidal ideation, prior suicide attempts, multiple risk factors, psychotic symptoms, bipolar disorder, poor response to prior treatment, or high medical comorbidity. Combining pharmacological and psychosocial interventions is most likely to be effective. Available antidepressants include serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors, serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, novel mechanism agents, tricyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Antidepressant selection should take into account adverse effects, medical comorbidities, potential medication interactions, and patient preferences. Additional strategies (e.g. augmentation) are available for treatment resistant depression. Available psychotherapies include supportive, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and problem solving. Lifestyle interventions (e.g. exercise) may be helpful adjuncts. Given limited evidence for antidepressant treatment in cognitive impairment, for those with mild to moderate depression severity, non-pharmacological interventions should be attempted first.
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Morgan, J. R. Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.20.
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This chapter discusses the novels of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus. Both are engaged with central concerns of the Second Sophistic, in particular that of elite Greek identity. Chariton’s novel (composed in the second century and connected with the sophist Dionysius of Miletus) demonstrates the same empathetic recreation of the classical past as sophistic declamation, and defines the Greekness of his protagonists in antithesis to a Persia configured to enable the exploration of the contemporary accommodation of the Greek elite to Rome. In his vision, paideia is a central constituent of Hellenic identity, enacted through an important third character, who represents an older erotic paradigm in contrast to the romantic heroes. Xenophon’s novel (probably an epitome), on the other hand, uses a contemporary setting to explore the nightmare of the loss of social status and control over one’s own person.
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Warner, Matthew A., Carlos Marquez de la Plata, David S. Liebeskind, and Ramon Diaz-Arrastia. Imaging Assessment of Brain Injury. Edited by David L. Reich, Stephan Mayer, and Suzan Uysal. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190280253.003.0003.
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Imaging plays a pivotal role in discerning the extent and nature of brain injuries. Advances in neuroimaging techniques have improved sensitivity for detecting smaller lesions, improved the anatomical specificity of lesions in white matter, and improved the prognostic value of detected lesions. Novel quantitative methods allow measurements of hemorrhage and infarct volume in the acute phase of injury, and regional brain atrophy and functional disconnectedness months after injury. It is likely that the success of future clinical trials of neuroprotective therapies will be dependent on reliable and validated neuroimaging biomarkers of injury and recovery. This chapter describes neuroimaging modalities that are currently being utilized in clinical and experimental settings and their implications for the development and testing of neuroprotection strategies.
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Mukherjee, Joia S. Evolution in Drug Access. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662455.003.0009.
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Treatment and curative medical care often require medication. This chapter focuses on the provision of medications in impoverished settings and the challenges that inhibit access to life-saving drugs. It will review the failure of the for-profit market to increase drug access for the poor. The evolving concept of essential drugs will be explored by reviewing the history the WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) and the fight to expand the list to include new, and often patented medicines. The international treaties and policies that impact drug availability will be highlighted as will novel systems for drug development and distribution. Finally, the chapter will highlight the growing movement to decrease costs, increase supply, and advance development of drugs for neglected diseases affecting impoverished people.
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Taxman, Faye S., and Brandy Blasko. Policy and Program Innovations in Prisons. Edited by John Wooldredge and Paula Smith. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199948154.013.31.
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This chapter discusses current policy and program innovations in institutional corrections. Several jurisdictions have made considerable policy and program revisions in order to align correctional practices with evidence-based approaches. The authors present the advances in policies that emphasize the Risk-Need-Responsivity framework, reentry, and good-time credits in order to emphasize how these policies provide a foundation for the expansion of prison programming. Next, novel programming approaches, including efforts to build self-efficacy through strength-based approaches, build attachments and empathy to advance interpersonal skills, and address obstacles to reentry to the community, are reviewed. The link between prison programming and the legitimacy of a prison regime is discussed. Finally, a research agenda designed to advance policy and program innovations in prison settings is presented.
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Crane, Ralph. The Anglo-Indian Novel to 1947. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0013.
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This chapter explores the Anglo-Indian novel. The history of British writing on India stretches back almost as far as the Indo-British imperial encounter and includes travel writing, missionary letters, military memoirs, and scholarly accounts of Indian history and culture, all of which were published in great numbers in the eighteenth century. Literary texts followed, and included short prose narratives depicting Anglo-Indian life, missionary tales, descriptions of the landscape, and stories of native life. While all these forms were well received in their day, none was to prove as popular as the novel, which during the nineteenth century became the dominant form of Anglo-Indian literature. In the early nineteenth century, India was also used as an exotic setting for early fictions by a number of writers who would go on to rank amongst the best-known novelists of the Victorian period.
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Peacock, Thomas Love. Headlong Hall. Edited by Nicholas Joukovsky. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139344241.
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785‒1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock's innovative topical satire.
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Collins, Wilkie. Man and Wife. Edited by Norman Page. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538171.001.0001.
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This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society. Collins had already developed a reputation as the master of the 'sensation novel', and Man and Wife is as fast moving and unpredictable as The Moonstone and The Woman in White. During the novel the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister as the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder.
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Kanie, Norichika, and Frank Biermann, eds. Governing through Goals. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035620.001.0001.
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In September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals mark the most ambitious effort yet to place goal setting at the center of global governance and policy. This book is the first book addressing global governance through goals, asking three sets of questions. First, the book studies in detail the core characteristics of goal setting in global governance, asking when it is an appropriate strategy in global governance and what makes global governance through goals different from other approaches such as rule making or norm promotion. Second, the book analyze under what conditions a goal-oriented approach can ensure progress toward desired ends; what can be learned from other, earlier experiences of global goal setting, especially the Millennium Development Goals; and what governance arrangements are likely to facilitate progress in implementing the new Sustainable Development Goals. Third, the book studies the practical and operational challenges involved in global governance through goals in promoting sustainability and the prospects for achieving such a demanding new agenda. The book revealed that the approach of “global governance through goals”—and the Sustainable Development Goals as a prime example—is marked by a number of key characteristics, but none of those is specific to this type of governance. Yet all these characteristics together, in our view, amount to a unique and novel way of steering and distinct type of institutional arrangement in global governance.
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Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. The Eighteenth-Century Psalm. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.150.
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Integral to both Anglican liturgy and nonconformist devotional practice in the eighteenth century, the “Englished” Psalm supplied a common currency between competing but increasingly compatible confessional groups. The Psalms also turn up everywhere in emergent, nonreligious literary genres. In both settings, the Psalms calibrated signature speech acts of imprecation, petition, and praise with lexical praxes that a commercialized print culture made not only possible and common but visible and adjustable by individual writers and readers. A novel experimental culture of the English Psalms held unprecedented potential to turn class, credal, and historical division into unity but also posed uniquely “modern” perils. While the Psalms could now be experienced directly as sources of freedom and pleasure available to a wide range of Christian readers and writers, they also potentially transferred the experience of pleasure from a many-personed God to printed English words.
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Owenson, Sydney. The Wild Irish Girl. Edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199552498.001.0001.
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`I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman.' When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past a dilapidated castle, a Catholic priest, a deposed king and the king's lovely and learned daughter, Glorvina. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns the history, culture and language of a country he had once scorned, but he must do so in disguise for his own English ancestors are responsible for the ruin of the Gaelic family he comes to love. Written after the Act of Union, The Wild Irish Girl (1806) is a passionately nationalistic novel and a founding text in the discourse of Irish nationalism. The novel proved so controversial in Ireland that Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan, was put under surveillance by Dublin Castle.
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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Edited by Michael Cotsell. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199536252.001.0001.
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Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined within the wider setting of London life: in the 1860s the city was aflame with spiralling financial speculation while thousands of homeless scratched a living from the detritus of the more fortunate-indeed John Harmon's father has amassed his wealth by recycling waste. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes and significant manuscript variants.
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Rauhut, Heiko. Game Theory. Edited by Wim Bernasco, Jean-Louis van Gelder, and Henk Elffers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.013.7.
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Game theory analyzes strategic decision making of multiple interdependent actors and has become influential in economics, political science, and sociology. It provides novel insights in criminology because it is a universal language for the unification of the social and behavioral sciences and allows deriving new hypotheses from fundamental assumptions about decision making. This chapter first reviews foundations and assumptions of game theory, basic concepts, and definitions. This includes applications of game theory to offender decision making in different strategic interaction settings: simultaneous and sequential games and signaling games. Next, the chapter illustrates the benefits (and problems) of game theoretical models for the analysis of crime and punishment by providing an in-depth discussion of the “inspection game.” The formal analytics are described, point predictions are derived, and hypotheses are tested by laboratory experiments. The chapter concludes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications of results from the inspection game.
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Gaglio, Bridget, and Russell E. Glasgow. Evaluation Approaches for Dissemination and Implementation Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190683214.003.0019.
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Considerable progress has been made in evaluation of dissemination and implementation science and research; however, we are still lacking knowledge in several key areas. The complex, inherently multilevel and contextual nature of dissemination and implementation science, and the always (sometimes rapidly) changing environment, present ongoing challenges. Given these challenges, evaluation of dissemination and implementation efforts need more adapted, novel, refined and sophisticated approaches to evaluation and especially, more pragmatic measures. To advance our present state of science, the question that we need to ask (and be able to answer) is “What are the characteristics of interventions that can reach large numbers of people, especially those who can most benefit, be adopted broadly by different settings, be consistently implemented by different staff members with moderate levels of training and expertise, and produce replicable and long-lasting effects (and minimal negative impact) at a reasonable cost?”
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Ferlie, Ewan, Sue Dopson, Chris Bennett, Michael D. Fischer, Jean Ledger, and Gerry McGivern. A review of literature and perspectives on management knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777212.003.0002.
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This chapter presents the different theoretical texts that informed our study and interpretation of empirical data. We review selected health services and social science literature to provide insights on the mobilization of knowledge in the health care sector, with specific attention to practice-based examples. We include a critical reading of perspectives on evidence-based management (EBMgt) which takes its lead from evidence-based medicine (EBM). Drawing on insights from the strategic management literature, and the Resource-Based View (RBV), we discuss how knowledge is understood as a valuable asset, and explore some implications for public services and health care settings. We conclude by contributing a novel perspective on the political economy of public management knowledge production—a macro-level analysis that seeks to explore how interactions at the political, economic, and policy levels shape the institutional context for management knowledge use in the public sector.
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Searle, Robert D. Early discussions on a mechanistic approach to pain. Edited by Paul Farquhar-Smith, Pierre Beaulieu, and Sian Jagger. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198834359.003.0042.
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The landmark paper discussed in this chapter is ‘Towards a mechanism-based classification of pain?’, published by Woolf et al. in 1998. One of the great challenges of managing patients with pain problems has been the idiosyncratic response of patients to therapies designed to improve their symptoms. In part, this has been the consequence of imperfect methods of classifying pain. If it is not possible to robustly categorize patients into common pain groups, how can it be hoped that successful treatments that translate well from the research setting into clinical practice will be developed? In this landmark editorial, Clifford Woolf and his co-authors attempted to address imperfections in historical pain classification systems with a novel approach based on pain mechanisms.
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Edited by Sarah J. Young. Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198709718.001.0001.
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‘One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!’ A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of ‘vermin’ for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.
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Shaiber, Rebecca L., Laura L. Johnsen, and Glenn Geher. Intrasexual Competition Among Beauty Pageant Contestants. Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.36.
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We analyze beauty pageants from an evolutionary perspective, with the goal of providing a unique insight into a novel cultural practice. Through a detailed review of adult and children beauty pageants, we propose that pageants elicit intrasexually competitive behaviors that would typically be seen within a mating context. In real-world settings, women’s intrasexual competition is often focused on gaining and possessing resources, typically through mate attraction and retention. While there is no mate to “win” in pageants, there is a substantial amount of status and resources to be gained by the winner. Further, the context also highlights individual differences in such mating-relevant attributes as physical attractiveness, talent, and compassion. We propose that beauty competitions feature traits that heterosexual men find attractive in a mate (e.g., indicators of youth, fertility, long-term commitment, virginity, intelligence, and creativity). Finally, we discuss future avenues of evolutionary research in the context of beauty pageants.
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Selim, Magdy. Neuroprotection for General, Orthopedic, Peripheral Vascular, and ENT Surgery. Edited by David L. Reich, Stephan Mayer, and Suzan Uysal. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190280253.003.0022.
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Unlike stroke after cardiac and carotid surgery, stroke after general; orthopedic; peripheral vascular; and ear, nose, and throat surgery has not been investigated extensively. The incidence, predisposing factors, and etiological mechanisms of stroke in patients undergoing these procedures are reviewed. Recommendations to prevent, recognize, and treat stroke following these surgical procedures are provided to minimize postoperative stroke risk and its associated morbidity and disability. Although these recommendations can help to decrease the incidence of perioperative stroke, there is an unmet need to find novel and effective neuroprotective strategies that can be used pre- or intraoperatively to minimize the effects of stroke on brain tissue and resulting disability. Future studies should evaluate the potential usefulness of neuroprotective therapies or interventions, including various anesthetic agents that can be used prophylactically in the perioperative setting.
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Jobani, Yuval, and Nahshon Perez. Governing the Sacred. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190932381.001.0001.
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Contested sacred sites pose a difficult challenge in the field of toleration. Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many other aspects. As such, they are often the source of immense levels of violence, and intractable, long-standing conflicts. Governing the Sacred profiles five central contested sacred sites which exemplify the immense difficulties associated with such sites: Devils Tower National Monument (Wyoming, U.S.), Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi (Uttar-Pradesh, India), the Western Wall (Jerusalem), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem). The in-depth, contextual and casuistic study of these sites, which differ in spatial, cultural, and religious settings, enables the construction of a novel, critical typology of five corresponding models or ways of governing the sacred. By telling the fascinating stories of five high-profile contested sacred sites, Governing the Sacred develops and critically explores five different models of governing contested sacred sites: “non-interference,” “separation and division,” “preference,” “status quo,” and “closure.” Each model, in turn, relies on different sets of considerations, central among them trade-offs between religious liberty and social order. Beyond its scholarly contribution, the novel typology developed in Governing the Sacred aims to assist democratic governments in their attempt to secure public order and mutual toleration among opposed groups in contested sacred sites.
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Andrle, Michal, Andrew Berg, Enrico Berkes, R. Armando Morales, Rafael Portillo, and Jan Vlcek. Do Money Targets Matter for Monetary Policy in Kenya? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785811.003.0016.
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The framework in Chapter 15 is extended to incorporate an explicit role for money aggregates, with an application to Kenya. The chapter provides a general specification that can nest various types of money targeting (ranging from targets based on optimal money demand forecasts to those derived from simple money growth rules), interest-rate based frameworks, and intermediate cases. A novel interpretation of target misses in terms of structural shocks (aggregate demand, policy, shocks to money demand, etc.) is presented. In the case of Kenya, the authors find that: (i) the setting of money targets is consistent with money demand forecasting, (ii) targets have not played a systematic role in monetary policy, and (iii) target misses mainly reflect shocks to money demand. Simulations of the model under alternative policy specifications show that the stronger the ex post target adherence, the greater the macroeconomic volatility.
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Horatia Muir, Watt. Part III Regimes and Doctrines, Ch.42 Theorizing Private International Law. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198701958.003.0043.
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This chapter focuses on the social and economic consequences of private international law, both for the distribution of power in a transnational setting and for issues of identity and community in a world in which new polities are emerging. Furthermore, it highlights the potential insights provided by each of three explanatory models, which in some novel combination may help pave the way towards a renewed theoretical approach to private international law. The three models to be considered are based on conflict, cooperation, and competition. Each uses a distinct vocabulary: protection of sovereignty or state interests, conflicts of systems or, more recently, norm-collision; international harmony, comity, enlightened self-interest, or the mutual convenience of nations; and regulatory arbitrage and competition, a free market for legal products and judicial services, and the interests of the business community.
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Carver, Robert H. F. English Fiction and the Ancient Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0008.
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This chapter consider the emergence of novelistic texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries in light of the earlier efflorescence of prose fiction from classical antiquity. It argues that the links between the two are genetic as well as morphological. The ultimate point of origin for romance and novel is the Odyssey, a verse epic which amplifies the martial themes of the Iliad to include voyages, shipwrecks, fabulous and erotic encounters, and domestic strife and resolution. Setting aside beast fables of the Aesopic kind, this chapter identifies four distinct, if interfluent, streams within ancient prose fiction: the epical or sub-epical; the pseudo-historical; the Menippean. Finally there is the Milesian category: short stories, ultimately deriving from the lost Milesiaka of Aristides of Miletus, characterized by erotic or supernatural content, with a twist or sting in the tail.
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Surdam, David George. Player Rights 1951 and 1957. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039140.003.0004.
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This chapter examines one of the most contentious issues in professional sports leagues that were tackled at the Congressional hearings in 1951 and 1957: player rights. The reserve clause and the player draft allowed owners to minimize competition for players and therefore to have salary-setting power over their players, giving them discretion in how much they paid them. Owners and their commissioners employed novel arguments supporting the necessity of having the reserve clause. This chapter first provides an overview of the sorry state of player salaries in professional team sports before considering the owners' explicit use of the reserve clause and how players began challenging it. It concludes with a discussion of Congress's inquiry into player rights, the challenges to the player draft, the formation of players' associations, the outcome of the hearings, and the inquiry's impact on owner-player relations.
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Visconsi, Elliott. Pluralism, Religion, and Democratic Culture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456368.003.0017.
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This article locates Nadeem Aslam’s 2004 novel Maps for Lost Lovers within a European politico-legal argument about religious free expression under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, demonstrating the novel’s engagement with the norms and lived experience of democratic pluralism under pressure. Maps for Lost Lovers is an intervention into the public argument about pluralism and assimilation in the United Kingdom, a narrative that illuminates the prescriptive regimes and structuring epiphenomena of law in post-9/11 Britain. Maps is an agenda-setting narrativization of a legal regime, and specifically a richly textured and individuated account the failures of democratic pluralism and social relations within an incompletely secularized polity. Like Aslam’s other fiction, Maps for Lost Lovers seeks to cultivate those habits of thought that can lead to collective engagement and political change.
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Light, Ryan, and James Moody, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.001.0001.
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Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others.