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United, States Congress Senate Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Innovation Technology and Productivity. United States-Japan auto parts trade: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology, and Productivity of the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... June 20, 1991. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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Cong nong geng wen ming xiang gong ye wen ming shi dai de jun shi hou qin zhuan gui: Wan Qing jun shi hou qin jin dai hua yan jiu, 1840-1911. Hefei Shi: Hefei gong ye da xue chu ban she, 2011.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management. Oversight of U.S.-Japan auto parts framework negotiations: What's needed to get results : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, February 3, 1994. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1995.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. U.S. auto parts trade: Hearing before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, Washington, DC, November 14, 1991. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.

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Wu, P. Construction appraisal team inspection results on welding and nondestructive examination activities. Washington, DC: Division of Reactor Inspection and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1987.

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Wu, P. Construction appraisal team inspection results on welding and nondestructive examination activities. Washington, DC: Division of Reactor Inspection and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1987.

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Spencer, Barbara J. Keiretsu and relationship-specific investment: A barrier to trade? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.

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Qiu, Larry D. Keiretsu and relationship-specific investment: Implications for market-opening trade policy. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.

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International, Conference on NDE in the Nuclear and Pressure Vessel Industries (13th 1995 Kyoto Japan). NDE in the nuclear and pressure vessel industries: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on NDE in the Nuclear and Pressure Vessel Industries : 22-25 May 1995, Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan. Materials Park, Ohio: ASM International, 1995.

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Stoneman, Paul, Eleonora Bartoloni, and Maurizio Baussola. Capacity Creation, Pricing, and the Promotion of Product Innovations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816676.003.0006.

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This chapter analyses market suppliers’ decisions relating to the pricing, promotion, and creation of capacity to manufacture goods that embody product innovations. The discussion encompasses durable and non-durable products; monopoly and oligopoly; horizontal and vertical differentiation; and original, new-to-market, and new-to-firm products. Firms may have incentives to further innovate after the launch of the original product; this will lead to lower prices and to greater demand and output. This may also imply greater capacity creation (in some location). It is found, however, that the incentives of the originator and those of potential new entrants may differ and will tend to lead to lower prices when there are many suppliers as opposed to when there are fewer. This means that, if there are more innovators, the quantity supplied will be higher; creation of capacity may also be greater, but findings on promotional expenditures are not conclusive.

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Ray, Sumantra (Shumone), Sue Fitzpatrick, Rajna Golubic, Susan Fisher, and Sarah Gibbings, eds. Clinical trial supplies: investigational medicinal products (IMPs). Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199608478.003.0017.

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This chapter describes the procedures and records associated with accountability of investigational and non-investigational medicinal products (IMP and NIMP) used in clinical trials, to show that the drug has been labelled according to the regulations, stored in conditions to keep it stable, prepared and administered to the correct subjects in accordance with the protocol, has been fully accounted for and destroyed if unused. Manufacture of IMP is discussed together with methods of blinding. The role of the Qualified person (QP) is reviewed. The need for study drug accountability is discussed in context with the regulatory requirements (Clinical Trial Directive 2001/20/EC and in particular, GMP Directive 2003/94/EC Annex 13). The chapter explains what needs to be accounted for and describes the types of records including: labelling records, delivery and transportation, receipt, storage, preparation, dispensing and administration, unblinding records, reconciliation, returns and destruction. Discussions are included on protocol compliance, management of excursions resulting from incorrect storage conditions, management of dosing errors and documentation errors, expiry date re-labelling, drug recall and re-supply. Sections are included on considerations for non-commercial studies, GMP requirements for UK Phase I clinics and sites requiring a MIA (IMP) license.

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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Linguistic Signs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0013.

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The semantic meaning of a linguistic form is its intentional content. Parts of sentence meaning that have traditionally been thought to be determined by speaker intentions—the resolution of ambiguity and vagueness, the reference of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives, and anaphors—are actually settled by public semantics. True descriptive language carries natural information that matches semantic content, so it can be understood by an interpreter in the same way that ordinary non-intentional infosigns are understood; no recognition of speaker intentions is required. But true descriptive language also carries much additional information the understanding of which is supplied by speakers and hearers from their own prior knowledge.

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Peter, Huber. Ch.7 Non-performance, s.3: Termination, Art.7.3.6. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0147.

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This commentary analyses Article 7.3.6 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) concerning restitution with respect to contracts to be performed at one time. Under Art 7.3.6, when a contract to be performed at one time is terminated, either party may claim restitution of whatever it has supplied under the contract, provided that such party concurrently makes restitution of whatever it has received under the contract. This commentary discusses contracts to be performed at one time, concurrent restitution, reasonable allowance for restitution in kind that is not possible or appropriate, compensation for expenses reasonably required to preserve or maintain the performance received, rules on non-performance, rights of third parties with respect to performance, and burden of proof relating to restitution.

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GOVERNMENT, US. Oversight of U.S.-Japan auto parts framework negotiations: What's needed to get results : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management ... second session, February 3, 1994 (S. hrg). For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995.

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Saugera, Valérie. Dictionary-unsanctioned Anglicisms. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625542.003.0004.

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This core chapter reports on the findings from the investigation of the Libération corpus. Systematic tracking of dictionary-unattested Anglicisms occurring over a year of press language reveals that contact with global English has resulted in new patterns of borrowing and processes for extending the French lexicon, for the short and long term. A major finding is that the database includes many types of Anglicisms with very few tokens: global English is a robust supplier of transient words (nonce borrowings and very low-frequency items) which complement the more durable lexicon. Diachronic comparisons show that these Anglicisms typically have a short life cycle in the French lexicon, though some Anglicisms from the corpus entered subsequent editions of the dictionary. The data also reveal the less common borrowing of items from closed classes, including pronoun himself, stressed article the, and the preposition-like series starring/featuring/including.

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Menon, Rajan. India and Russia. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.37.

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Pragmatism defined the partnership between India and the Soviet Union. What sustained it was the overlap between India’s non-alignment strategy and the USSR’s objective of countering the American policy of containment. The Soviet leadership sold India substantial amounts of arms and helped build its state-run industrial sector; India’s leaders saw the Soviet connection as a counterbalance against Pakistan, China, and the United States. Pragmatism also defines the India–Russia relationship. Russia remains India’s largest arms supplier. Their views on sovereignty, the dangers of unilateral military intervention, and the threats posed by terrorism converge. But Russia’s salience for India’s trade and investment has been surpassed by the West, even China. India is diversifying its arms purchases; the West and Israel are eager to oblige. Russia’s relative power is declining as China’s is rising; in response, India has forged new security ties with East Asia and the United States.

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Roy, Goode, Kronke Herbert, and McKendrick Ewan, eds. Part II A View Through Illustrative Contracts and Harmonizing Instruments, 12 Financial Leasing: The 1988 UNIDROIT Convention and the UNIDROIT Model Law. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198735441.003.0013.

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This chapter examines two international instruments in the field of leasing: the 1988 UNIDROIT Convention on international financial leasing and the 2008 UNIDROIT Model Law on Leasing. The former is confined to financial leasing involving an international element while the latter covers all leases, international and domestic. A key problem with finance leasing is that while it is the intending lessee who chooses the supplier the remedies for non-delivery or for defective equipment are vested in the lessor under the sale contract, to which the lessee is not a party. The Convention addresses this problem by treating the lessee as a party to the supply contract. The Convention also secures the lessor's right to liquidated damages and safeguards the lessor against the lessee's insolvency. The Model Law tracks the provisions of the Convention as regards financial leases, and prescribes the principal rights and remedies of both parties.

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Olsen, Jan Abel. Primary care: paying general practitioners. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794837.003.0014.

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This chapter discusses the three most widely used remuneration systems for general practitioners (GPs): fee-for-service, capitation, and salary. Each system has its pros and cons, so in practice some sort of blended system would often be chosen. A concern with the fee-for-service system is that it might make doctors provide too many services, that is, supplier-induced demand. Capitation breaks the link between payment and amount of services provided by giving the GP a fixed fee for each patient registered on the list. This system may lead GPs to selectively attract healthy patients and make unnecessary referrals to specialists. A salary system does not include an incentive mechanism, and is therefore assumed to involve lower productivity. After a comparison of the three payment systems, the chapter suggests a typology of GPs’ motivations along two dimensions: financial versus non-financial rewards, and selfish versus altruistic.

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Somsen, Han. From Improvement Towards Enhancement. Edited by Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, and Karen Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.42.

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This chapter discusses a host of what mostly are still isolated ad hoc technology-driven initiatives, usually in support of human (rights) imperatives, which effectively endeavour to engineer and re-engineer living and non-living environments in ways that have no natural, legal, or historical precedent. The umbrella term I propose to capture such initiatives is ‘environmental enhancement’. Potential examples that fit this definition include genetic modification of disease-transmitting mosquitoes to protect human health, solar radiation-management initiatives and other forms of climate engineering to sustain human life on earth, the creation of new life forms to secure food supplies and absorb population growth, and de-extinction efforts that help restore the integrity of ecosystems. The question this paper asks, in the words of Brownsword, is whether conventional environmental law ‘connects’ with environmental enhancement, focusing on EU environmental law, and whether states may be duty-bound to enhance environments in pursuit of human rights imperatives.

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Peterson, Jeffrey M., and Nathan Hendricks. Economics of Water. Edited by Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.22.

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Water resources provide services of economic value to different sectors through consumptive uses, non-consumptive uses, nonuse, and as a waste receptor. The diverse array of goods and services provided by water create a challenge for efficiently allocating the resource. Furthermore, water resources are often subject to market failures because they lack the conditions of excludability and rivalry. These market failures result in depleted water supplies and degraded water quality. This chapter discusses various policy approaches that have attempted to address these market failures, many of which have created additional economic inefficiencies. It also discusses some of the scale and jurisdiction issues in water management—such as local self-governing institutions and transboundary policy formation—from an economics perspective. It primarily analyzes policies affecting agricultural water use and the impacts of agriculture on water quality because agriculture is the largest user of water and is a major contributor to water quality problems.

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Hugh, Beale, Bridge Michael, Gullifer Louise, and Lomnicka Eva. Part IV Priorities, 16 Priority Between Consensual and Non-Consensual Security Interests. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198795568.003.0016.

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This chapter demonstrates how, in the case of things in possession, non-consensual security interests may be treated as consisting, for present purposes, of liens, in favour of carriers, repairers, and the like; of maritime liens (and similar statutory rights), in favour of master and crew; claimants against the ship, suppliers, and repairers; rights of distress, in favour of local authorities; rights of commercial rent arrears recovery in favour of landlords; and of execution creditors. In these various instances, the rights of the lienholder, landlord, local authority, and execution creditor, as the case may be, against a competing chargee are part of the larger subject of how those rights might be exercised against the owner in those cases where the owner is not the person in possession of the thing.

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Pettit, Philip. Committing to Others. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190904913.003.0005.

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We in Erewhon will have the means, the motive and the confidence to avow many of our beliefs. A means of avowing the belief that p is to assert that p, since this forecloses the misleading-mind excuse. A motive for doing so is that the communication thereby becomes more expensive and more credible; I deny myself a way of getting off the hook in the event of a miscommunication: viz., by claiming I must have misread my own mind. And the confidence required is supplied by the fact that I can consciously make up my mind on various issues by consulting the data and seeing where they lead me; I do not have to resort to introspective self-scanning. By parallel arguments we in Erewhon will be led to avow not only beliefs but also desires and intentions, relying on desiderata to play a role analogous to that of data in the case of beliefs. And we will be led by the same token to pledge various intentions—and intentions only—foreclosing the possibility of changing our mind as well as the possibility of having been misled about our minds. Avowals and pledges of these kinds are commitments in the non-moral, game-theory sense: they represent wagers in which we stake our reputations on living up to our words.

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Darwish, Ahmed A., and Kim A. R. Hutton. Disorders of the prepuce. Edited by David F. M. Thomas. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199659579.003.0122.

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The foreskin is adherent to the glans and is non-retractile at birth. As the preputial adhesions separate the foreskin then gradually becomes retractile so that by three years of age the foreskin is at least partially retractile in 90% of boys. The term ‘physiological’ phimosis refers to a foreskin which is supple, unscarred, but persistently non-retractile. Less than 1% of boys with a physiological phimosis will have a persisting phimosis by the age of 17 years. ‘Pathological’ phimosis refers to scarring of the prepuce due to balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO), a cicatrizing inflammatory skin condition of unknown aetiology. Paraphimosis is a rare condition in which the retracted prepuce becomes trapped behind the glans, leading to venous stasis and oedematous swelling. ‘Congenital’ megaprepuce is characterized by a capacious preputial sac, phimosis, and a relative deficiency of penile shaft skin. Surgical intervention is advisable for both functional and cosmetic reasons.

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Adlung, Rudolf, and Marta Soprana. Trade Policy for SMEs from a GATS Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795650.003.0002.

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Unlike conventional trade agreements, the scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) extends beyond the treatment of products to cover that of suppliers (producers, distributors, etc) as well. Trade problems confronting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have thus been raised by WTO Members at different stages of the Doha Round negotiations and meetings of regular WTO bodies. However, such issues have rarely been explored in a systemic way. This chapter provides an overview of SME-related policies, whether reflected in schedules of services commitments or consisting of ‘non-schedulable’ measures, which are being pursued by WTO Members at multilateral (GATS) or regional level. It also seeks to identify the scope for further initiatives to promote SME-related interests, from fostering compliance with existing transparency disciplines under the GATS to advancing the Agreement’s liberalization and rule-making mandates with an SME focus.

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Stephen C, McCaffrey. The Law of International Watercourses. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198736929.001.0001.

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This book is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater. The continued growth of the world’s population places increasing demands on Earth’s finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more States share many of the world’s most important drainage basins, competition for increasingly scarce fresh water resources will only increase. Agreements between the States sharing international watercourses are negotiated, and disputes over shared water are resolved, against the backdrop of the rules of international law governing the use of this precious resource. The basic legal rules governing the use of shared freshwater for purposes other than navigation are reflected in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. This book devotes a chapter to the 1997 Convention but also examines the factual and legal context in which the Convention should be understood, considers the more important rules of the Convention in some depth, and discusses specific issues that could not be addressed in a framework instrument of that kind. It reviews the major cases and controversies concerning international watercourses as a background against which to consider the basic substantive and procedural rights and obligations of States in the field. This new edition covers the implications of the 1997 Convention coming into force in August 2014, and the compatibility of the 1997 and 1992 Conventions.

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Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Thomas Buhrmann, and Xabier Barandiaran. Sensorimotor Life. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198786849.001.0001.

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This book elaborates a series of contributions to a non–representational theory of action and perception. It is based on current theoretical developments in the enactive approach to life and mind. These enactive ideas are applied and extended to provide a theoretically rich, naturalistic account of sensorimotor meaning and agency. This account supplies non–representational extensions to the sensorimotor approach to perceptual experience based on the notion of the living body as a self–organizing dynamic system in coupling with the environment. The enactive perspective entails the use of world–involving explanations, in which processes external to an agent co–constitute mental phenomena in ways that cannot be reduced to the supply of information for internal processing. These contributions to sensorimotor theories are a dynamical–systems description of different types of sensorimotor regularities or sensorimotor contingencies, a dynamical interpretation of Piaget's theory of equilibration to ground the concept of sensorimotor mastery, and a theory of agency as organized networks of sensorimotor schemes, with its implications for sensorimotor subjectivity. New tools are provided for examining the organization, development, and operation of networks of sensorimotor schemes that compose regional activities and genres of action with their own situated norms. This permits the exploration of new explanations for the phenomenology of agency experience that are favorably contrasted with traditional computational approaches and lead to new empirical predictions. From these proposals, capabilities once beyond the reach of enactive explanations, such as the possibility of virtual actions and the adoption of socially mediated abstract perceptual attitudes, can be addressed.

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Robinson, Robb. Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941756.001.0001.

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Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focused on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and armed fishing craft were continually on the maritime front line throughout the conflict; they formed the backbone of the Auxiliary Patrol and were in constant action against U-boats or engaged on unrelenting minesweeping duties. Approximately 3000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and armed by the Admiralty and more than 39,000 fishermen joined the Trawler Section of the Royal Naval Reserve. The class and cultural gap between working fishermen and many RN officers was enormous. This book examines the multifaceted role that fishermen and the fish trade played throughout the conflict. It examines the reasons why, in an age of dreadnoughts and other high-tech military equipment, so many fishermen and fishing vessels were called upon to play such a crucial role in the littoral war against mines and U-boats, not only around the British Isles but also off the coasts of various other theatres of war. The book analyses the nature of the fishing industry's war-time involvement and also the contribution that non-belligerent fishing vessels continued to play in maintaining the beleaguered nation's food supplies.

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Ristuccia, Nathan J. Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810209.001.0001.

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This book re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity—the phenomena traditionally termed “Christianization”; it re-centers scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual—Rogationtide, a three-day penitential procession before Ascension Thursday—supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of “Christianization without religion.” Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. “Religion,” in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life, did not exist in the Middle Ages. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community. After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution—the Rogation procession—for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were flexible, except when they did not want those borders to be so. Rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast that combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday’s meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian.

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Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. The Wretched Atom. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197526903.001.0001.

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After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, and provide abundant energy for all. It was an atom destined for the formerly colonized, recently occupied, and mostly non-white parts of the world that were dubbed the “wretched of the earth” by Frantz Fanon. The “peaceful atom” had so much propaganda potential that President Dwight Eisenhower used it to distract the world from his plan to test even bigger thermonuclear weapons. His scientists said the peaceful atom would quicken the pulse of nature, speeding nations along the path of economic development and helping them to escape the clutches of disease, famine, and energy shortfalls. That promise became one of the most misunderstood political weapons of the twentieth century. It was adopted by every subsequent US president to exert leverage over other nations’ weapons programs, to corner world markets of uranium and thorium, and to secure petroleum supplies. Other countries embraced it, building reactors and training experts. Atomic promises were embedded in Japan’s postwar recovery, Ghana’s pan-Africanism, Israel’s quest for survival, Pakistan’s brinksmanship with India, and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear independence. As The Wretched Atom shows, promoting civilian atomic energy was an immense gamble, and it was never truly peaceful. American promises ended up exporting violence and peace in equal measure. While the United States promised peace and plenty, it planted the seeds of dependency and set in motion the creation of today’s expanded nuclear club.

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Cox, Mary Elisabeth. Hunger in War and Peace. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820116.001.0001.

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What is the impact of war on non-combatants, particularly women and children? In this innovative analysis of nutritional deprivation among ordinary German citizens during the First World War, Mary Elisabeth Cox finds that the effects of the war and the Allied interdiction of food supplies—which became known in Germany as the ‘Hungerblockade’—resulted in diminished heights and weights of children far from the battlefield. During the war, Germany defiantly proclaimed that their country could not be starved out. In a military sense, this was likely to be the case, and many modern historians argue persuasively that Germany lost on the battlefield. Yet modern analyses of height and weight records for hundreds of thousands of school children reveal a grim truth: even if Germany did not lose the war because of food insecurity, the war blockade resulted in hunger for millions of German infants. Desperately struggling to feed their families under the growing spectre of starvation, many mothers chose to sacrifice their own well-being for the benefit of their families. National and local policies within Germany often exasperated food insecurity. Modern analysis of anthropometric data now brings into question both long-held assumptions about the divide between rural and urban health, and legal and moral arguments in support of the blockade. Combined with contemporary letters, diaries, and news reports, these data provide an expanded picture of the levels of health and nutritional deprivation across society. This story of one of the most vicious wars in history is not devoid of compassion. Following the eventual lifting of the British blockade, the victorious powers and nations throughout the world sent millions of tons of food into Germany, relief which is mirrored in drawings and letters of gratitude from hundreds of German school children, and which can be seen as a surge of growth in height and weight measurements.

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National Conformity Assessment Schemes: Nontariff Trade Barriers in Information Technology (Csis Report). Center for Strategic & International Studies, 1999.

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The Armed Forces of World War II. Little, Brown, 2002.

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Lida, Kunihiro, Glenn M. Light, M. John Whittle, and Frank V. Ammirato. Nde in the Nuclear and Pressure Vessel Industries: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nde in the Nuclear and Pressure Vessel Industries 22-25 May 1995 Kyoto International Conference. Asm Intl, 1995.

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McGregor, Malcolm, Pierre Turner, and Andrew Mollo. The Armed Forces of World War II: Uniforms, Insignia and Organization. Crescent, 1987.

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