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Book review: crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world by Adam Tooze (part 2)
No full textIn Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world, author Adam Tooze proposes a remarkably consistent narrative of the 2008 financial crisis and its political, geopolitical consequences - one that attempts a coherent interpretation of the global and European crises. In part two of his review of this seminal work, Shahin Vallée examines Tooze's take on the crisis of transatlantic finance and the existential crisis for Europe that ensued
Book review: crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world by Adam Tooze (part 1)
No full textIn Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world, author Adam Tooze proposes a remarkably consistent narrative of the 2008 financial crisis and its political, geopolitical consequences - one that attempts a coherent interpretation of the global and European crises. In part one of his review of this seminal work, Shahin Vallée examines Tooze's take on the collapse of the financial system, and saving the economy at the cost of our politics
Egypt's Moment of Reform: A Reality or Illusion? CEPS Policy Brief No. 78, July 2005
No full textIn this Policy Brief, Prof. Emad El-Din Shahin of the American University in Cairo assesses the prospects for the democratic reform movement in Egypt ahead of the parliamentary and presidential elections due to take place in the autumn. At stake are not only greater public freedoms demanded by the people, but also the prospect of a hereditary succession to the presidency if the regime governed by President Hosni Mubarak (and progressively his son Gamal) is successful in scuppering change. The author concludes that, to overcome the numerous challenges that the democratic movement faces and make reform a reality instead of yet another missed opportunity, certain structural changes and institutional safeguards should be introduced
A tale of two tragedies: culpability and innocence in American journalism
No full textPublished in: Journalism Practice, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 8, 931-935
Detecting and Localizing Differences in Functional Time Series Dynamics: A Case Study in Molecular Biophysics
No full text© 2016 The Author(s). Association of American Geographers © Shahin Tavakoli and Victor Panaretos. Motivated by the problem of inferring the molecular dynamics of DNA in solution, and linking them with its base-pair composition, we consider the problem of comparing the dynamics of functional time series (FTS), and of localizing any inferred differences in frequency and along curvelength. The approach we take is one of Fourier analysis, where the complete second-order structure of the FTS is encoded by its spectral density operator, indexed by frequency and curvelength. The comparison is broken down to a hierarchy of stages: at a global level, we compare the spectral density operators of the two FTS, across frequencies and curvelength, based on a Hilbert–Schmidt criterion; then, we localize any differences to specific frequencies; and, finally, we further localize any differences along the length of the random curves, that is, in physical space. A hierarchical multiple testing approach guarantees control of the averaged false discovery rate over the selected frequencies. In this sense, we are able to attribute any differences to distinct dynamic (frequency) and spatial (curvelength) contributions. Our approach is presented and illustrated by means of a case study in molecular biophysics: how can one use molecular dynamics simulations of short strands of DNA to infer their temporal dynamics at the scaling limit, and probe whether these depend on the sequence encoded in these strands? Supplementary materials for this article are available online
Nailəxanım muzeyi təqdim edir: “Tarixdə iz salan, Azərbaycan mədəniyyətinə töhfə verən qadınlar” seriyasının növbəti kitabları “Taclı xanım”
No full textThe 9th book of the series (edited by Hamlet Isakhanli) titled " Tajli Khanim " was published by Khazar University Publishing House. The author of the book is Shahin Fazil and Hamlet Isakhanli
RETRACTED: Fostering health advocacy: Unveiling educational impact on testicular cancer awareness in male university students – Health belief model and social support strategy in a groundbreaking Pre-Post Quasi-Experimental study
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).This article has been retracted at the request of at the request of Editors-in-Chief.In investigating concerns brought up regarding the article, the editor reached out to the corresponding author for an explanation. The corresponding author failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the points raised.Post-publication, the Editors-in-Chief discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. Below changes were made during revision and proof submission.New authors added: Amirat A Al-Sabeely, Ishraga A. Mohamed, Marwa A. Shahin, Ali D Abousoliman, Laila Zeidan Ghazy Mohammed.Author removed: donia elsaid fathi zaghamirTherefore, the Editors-in-Chief have lost confidence in the reliability of the article and determined that the paper should be retracted
Applied geomorphology along the North Shore slopes of Burrard Inlet in North and West Vancouver
No full textChapter: The natural landscape of the North Shore of Vancouver is a mountainous one extending from sea level to ~1400 m. Land below ~400 m has been undergoing increasing urbanization since the 1950s. Development has encroached on areas subject to natural hazards such as floods, debris flows, slope failures, and coastal inundation. We will visit examples of these urban hazards, discuss problems of hazard identification in a forested landscape, and review urban planning and engineering responses to hazard management.
Book: This volume, prepared for the 126th GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, offers guides to trips in the Cascadia subduction zone. The active tectonism of the region has had a profound effect on the bedrock and surficial geology of the area, and on human interactions with the geologic environment. These themes are reflected in the trips associated with the meeting. Trip topics relate to bedrock geology, volcanism and Cordilleran glaciation and deglaciation, as well as human interaction with the natural environment. The trips that discuss human interaction cover archaeology, natural hazards and the urban environment, as well as the role that local geology and tectonism have played in shaping colonization of the region since the last glaciation. The field guide volume has something for everyone!book chapterPublished
Volcanism and glacial interaction in the Wells Gray–Clearwater volcanic field, east-central British Columbia
No full textChapter: This field guide describes a three-day trip from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the Wells Gray–Clearwater volcanic field (WGCVF) in east-central British Columbia. The WGCVF is the site of transitional to alkali olivine basaltic volcanism erupted over the last three million years. The small volume magmas (<1 km3) erupted along preexisting normal faults related to the late stages of Cordilleran terrane amalgamation, along the boundary between the miogeoclinal and pericratonic rocks of the Kootenay terrane and the allochthonous Slide Mountain and Quesnellia terranes west of ancestral North America. The magmas are highly enriched in incompatible elements, especially large-ion lithophile elements, and are interpreted as the result of low degrees of partial melting of a heterogeneous, metasomatized mantle. Upon ascent through the crust, they carried up both crustal and mantle xenoliths. During the eruptive period of the WGCVF, at least four glacial periods have occurred. The interplay between volcanism and glaciation is captured in the wide range of volcanic features found in the region. Field trip participants will view numerous diverse volcanic landforms and deposits: from tuyas to ice-marginal valley-edge deposits, volcanoclastic-lacustrine deposits, and associated pillow lavas and hyaloclastites.
Book: This volume, prepared for the 126th GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, offers guides to trips in the Cascadia subduction zone. The active tectonism of the region has had a profound effect on the bedrock and surficial geology of the area, and on human interactions with the geologic environment. These themes are reflected in the trips associated with the meeting. Trip topics relate to bedrock geology, volcanism and Cordilleran glaciation and deglaciation, as well as human interaction with the natural environment. The trips that discuss human interaction cover archaeology, natural hazards and the urban environment, as well as the role that local geology and tectonism have played in shaping colonization of the region since the last glaciation. The field guide volume has something for everyone! --From publisher description.book chapterPublished
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