69 research outputs found
The Elections in Israel, 2019–2021
No full textThe 16th book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi." Analyzing Israel’s national elections from 2019 to 2021, this book argues the four elections became, to a large extent, a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent prime minister and head of the Likud party, facing investigations, a hearing, and indictment on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Thus, the first part of the book is dedicated to political personalization and to Netanyahu himself. The second part of the volume covers the traditional actors in parliamentary elections: voters, parties, and the mass media. The book relies on empirical analysis, including extensive use of the Israel National Election Studies data; on theoretical rigor; and on the contextualization of the elections from comparative and long-term perspectives. The book should interest students and researchers of Israeli politics and society, electoral studies, and the crisis of democracy more generally. Many chapters will be of interest to political science, communications and sociology students and scholars who study themes that are prominent on the academic and public agenda including political personalization and personalized politics, populism, party decline, and democratic backsliding
The Elections in Israel, 2019–2021
No full textThe 16th book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi." Analyzing Israel’s national elections from 2019 to 2021, this book argues the four elections became, to a large extent, a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent prime minister and head of the Likud party, facing investigations, a hearing, and indictment on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Thus, the first part of the book is dedicated to political personalization and to Netanyahu himself. The second part of the volume covers the traditional actors in parliamentary elections: voters, parties, and the mass media. The book relies on empirical analysis, including extensive use of the Israel National Election Studies data; on theoretical rigor; and on the contextualization of the elections from comparative and long-term perspectives. The book should interest students and researchers of Israeli politics and society, electoral studies, and the crisis of democracy more generally. Many chapters will be of interest to political science, communications and sociology students and scholars who study themes that are prominent on the academic and public agenda including political personalization and personalized politics, populism, party decline, and democratic backsliding
Organizational Barriers for adopting project alliancing: An investigation in the Dutch public infrastructure procurement organizations.
No full textConstruction Management and EngineeringStructural EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Rahat al-sudur wa ayat al-surur
No full textpage, diagrams showing the derivation of cursive Arabic latters from the module of the circle and its diameter subdivided by dot
Quotas, Citizens, and Norms of Representation
No full textThe author gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust, who funded this research via a Research Fellowship grant
فردوس حیدر باشعور افسانہ نگار
No full textFirdous Hyder was one of the prominent Urdu short story writer of our time. She has penned a large number of Urdu short stories. This paper first describes her brief biographical sketch and a family background that shaped her mind and gave her a peculiar bent of mind, which was later on reflected in her writings. The author of this paper has taken into account Firdous Hyder's short stories while analyzing them and has concluded that Firdous Hyder was ever so careful as to take into account different ingredients of the miliey against the backdrop of which she wrote. It shows how Firdous Hyder reflects her conscientiousness in her Urdu short stories with examples from her works.
Determining Magnesium Metal Affinity of Alpha L- Id in pH 5
No full textabstract: Integrin is a protein in cells that manage cell adhesion. They are crucial to the biochemical functions of cells. L 2 is one type of integrin. Its I domain is responsible for ligand binding. Scientists understand how Alpha L I domain binds Mg2+ at a pH of 7 but not in acidic environments. Knowing the specificity of integrin at a lower pH is important because when tissues become inflamed, they release acidic compounds. We have cloned, expressed, and purified L I-domain and using NMR analysis, we determined that wild type Alpha L I domain does not bind to Mg2+ at a pH of 5
Evolutionary Multi-Path Routing for Network Lifetime and Robustness in Wireless Sensor Networks
Full text linkThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record.Wireless sensor networks frequently use multi-path routing schemes between nodes and a base station. Multi-path routing confers additional robustness against link failure, but in battery-powered networks it is desirable to choose paths which maximise the overall network lifetime - the time at which a battery is first exhausted. We introduce multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to find the routings which approximate the optimal trade-off between network lifetime and robustness. A novel measure of network robustness, the fragility, is introduced. We show that the distribution of traffic between paths in a given multi-path scheme that optimises lifetime or fragility may be found by solving the appropriate linear program. A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is used to solve the combinatorial optimisation problem of choosing routings and traffic distributions that give the optimal trade-off between network lifetime and robustness. Efficiency is achieved by pruning the search space using k-shortest paths, braided and edge disjoint paths. The method is demonstrated on synthetic networks and a real network deployed at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. For these networks, using only two paths per node, we locate routings with lifetimes within 3% of those obtained with unlimited paths per node. In addition, routings which halve the network fragility are located. We also show that the evolutionary multi-path routing can achieve significant improvement in performance over a braided multi-path scheme.Part of this work was supported by a Knowledge Transfer Partnership awarded to the University of Exeter and the IMC Group Ltd (KTP008748). We would like to thank Martin Hancock (Technical Director, The IMC Group Ltd.), and Neil Lundy (Engineering Manager, The IMC Group Ltd.) for their support and contributions. We would also like to thank Boris Pretzel (Chief Scientist, Victoria & Albert Museum), and Bhavesh Shah (Scientist, Victoria & Albert Museum), for facilitating the real network test
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