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Impact of Fiber Type on Regenerator Placement in Reconfigurable DWDM Transparent Optical Networks
No full textWe evaluate the impact of three different fiber types on number of regenerators required in fixed grid optical networks. The analysis on a 28-node PAN-European topology confirms that number of regenerators required greatly depends on the fiber type used
The Complete Muhammad Ali
No full textIncluding material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography-it is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book includes voices that have been omitted from other books. It charts Ali's evolution from Black Nationalism to a universalism, but does not discount the Nation of Islam and Black Nationalism's important influence on his intellectual development. Filipino American author Emil Guillermo speaks about how "The Thrilla' In Manila" brought the Philippines into the 20th century. Fans of Muhammad Ali, boxing fans, and those interested in modern African American history and the Nation of Islam will be fascinated by this biography by an accomplished American author.Intro -- DEDICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- The Curious History of an Icon -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Did the Secret Government Fear a U.S. Muslim/Overseas Muslim Alliance? -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- The Break Between the Prophet and his Disciple -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- The GOAT (Greatest Of All Time): Ali or Louis? -- CHAPTER 13 -- The Nation of Islam, the Mob, Showdowns in Canada and Sonny Liston -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- The Taunts: Marketing or Racism? -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- CHAPTER 18 -- CHAPTER 19 -- Boxing and the Brain -- CHAPTER 20 -- Ali's Feet -- CHAPTER 21 -- Mr. Dick -- CHAPTER 22 -- CHAPTER 23 -- The Opening Ceremonies, November 2005 -- CHAPTER 24 -- December 2005, Las Vegas -- CHAPTER 25 -- CHAPTER 26 -- June 16, 2004 -- CHAPTER 27 -- CHAPTER 28 -- CHAPTER 29 -- Aix-en-Provence -- CHAPTER 30 -- Ali as a Black Nationalist -- San Francisco, January 2004 Black Liberation Book Fair -- CHAPTER 31 -- January 31, 2004 -- CHAPTER 32 -- October 2005, Chicago -- CHAPTER 33 -- Why Ali remained with Elijah instead of following Malcolm -- CHAPTER 34 -- CHAPTER 35 -- February 4, 2006, Oakland, California -- CHAPTER 36 -- Like Zeus Descending from Mount Olympus -- CHAPTER 37 -- CHAPTER 38 -- Tuesday, February 28, 2006, New York -- CHAPTER 39 -- Bigger Than Boxing -- CHAPTER 40 -- Tribes Gallery, New York, April 2006 -- CHAPTER 41 -- June 2006, Louisville, Kentucky -- CHAPTER 42 -- CHAPTER 43 -- CHAPTER 45 -- Bad Company -- CHAPTER 46 -- Coxson, A Very Charming Rogue -- CHAPTER 47 -- Ali and the largest embezzlement scheme in Wells Fargo history -- CHAPTER 48 -- CHAPTER 49 -- "Lonnie is a stabilizing force."-Harry Belafonte -- October 29, 2006 -- CHAPTER 50 -- Abdul Rahman -- CHAPTER 51 -- CHAPTER 52 -- CHAPTER 53How Will Ali Be Remembered? New York, January 8, 2005 -- CHAPTER 54 -- CONCLUSION -- AFTERWORD -- Boxers' Rights? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MUHAMMAD ALI -- ISLAM AND NATION OF ISLAM -- BOXING -- RELATED SUBJECTS -- ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BARAKA BOOKSIncluding material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography-it is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book includes voices that have been omitted from other books. It charts Ali's evolution from Black Nationalism to a universalism, but does not discount the Nation of Islam and Black Nationalism's important influence on his intellectual development. Filipino American author Emil Guillermo speaks about how "The Thrilla' In Manila" brought the Philippines into the 20th century. Fans of Muhammad Ali, boxing fans, and those interested in modern African American history and the Nation of Islam will be fascinated by this biography by an accomplished American author.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Maktabat Al Muthanna Baghdad Feb-May 1962
No full textOn the same date, Ali Al-Mansouri issued an official financial statement confirming that the Al-Khanji Foundation owed a total of 11.375.أصدر علي المنصوري بيانًا ماليًا رسميًا بتاريخ 25 نيسان 1962 يُفيد بأن مؤسسة الخانجي مدينة بمبلغ إجمالي قدره 11,375
Syriac-Arabic Glosses of Isho bar Ali. Volume 2
No full textThese two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho bar Ali (the first half of the dictionary had been published in 1874 by G. Hoffmann). Each Syriac word is defined in Arabic, often with more than one Arabic equivalent; in addition, the author deals not just with individual Syriac words, but in some cases with phrases. Gottheil used 21 manuscripts (from Oxford, London, Paris, Berlin, Leiden, and Rome) for this edition, and he has supplied a thorough critical apparatus; the manuscripts are described in the introduction. While some manuscripts give the Arabic glosses in Syriac characters (i.e. Garshuni), Gottheil has presented them here in Arabic script. These two volumes will be of great interest to Syriac lexicographers and those who study interactions between Syriac and Arabic.Contains an English introduction by Richard J.H. Gotthei
Syriac-Arabic Glosses of Isho bar Ali. Volume 1
No full textThese two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho bar Ali (the first half of the dictionary had been published in 1874 by G. Hoffmann). Each Syriac word is defined in Arabic, often with more than one Arabic equivalent; in addition, the author deals not just with individual Syriac words, but in some cases with phrases. Gottheil used 21 manuscripts (from Oxford, London, Paris, Berlin, Leiden, and Rome) for this edition, and he has supplied a thorough critical apparatus; the manuscripts are described in the introduction. While some manuscripts give the Arabic glosses in Syriac characters (i.e. Garshuni), Gottheil has presented them here in Arabic script. These two volumes will be of great interest to Syriac lexicographers and those who study interactions between Syriac and Arabic.Contains an English introduction by Richard J.H. Gotthei
Agricultural credit constraints and borrowing behavior of farmers in rural Punjab
Get PDFThe government of Pakistan introduced several agricultural credit programmes through institutional sources. The impact of these programmes was less than optimal due to rambling credit policies. The farmers were facing many constraints to avail agricultural credit in a timely fashion. The collateral inter alia was one of the major constraints. The objective of the paper is to identify constraints and suggest remedial measures to make efficient use of agricultural credit schemes. Majority of the farmers revealed that they could not avail credit because of needed collateral. The hard hits were tenants and share croppers who do not own land, and thus were unavailable to avail credit. The high mark up both from formal and informal sources was another constraint. The borrowing behavior of the respondents was estimated through the logit model and identified the determinants of credit constraints. The results showed that the coefficients of transitory income, education level, and predicted interest rate have important bearing on borrowing behavior. The household consumption expenditure was positively and significantly determined by operational holding and value of implementsAgricultural credit, Borrowing Behavior, Interest Rate, Collateral. Introduction
Hina and Večernji list- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Get PDFSjećajući se početka rada Hine moram iskreno reći da smo je mi, već i tada iskusni
novinari, doživjeli trojako: najprije nam je laknulo jer smo dobili agenciju
nakon rastanka s Tanjugom, zatim smo je kritizirali jer nam se činilo da
dobivamo premalo informacija, a onda smo postali zahvalni zato što su nam
Hinini materijali bili jasan pokazatelj smjera u doba manipulacija javnošću.
Hina nam je postala nezaobilazna. Znatno je veći izbor informacija i zbog i
Hinine suradnje s drugim svjetskim agencijama, povećao se broj servisa, širi
se izbor kanala distribucije informacija, veza je vrlo dobra, suradnja također.
No, danas se javlja i novo pitanje: postaje li agencija konkurencija medijskim
kućama? Svakako da, ali moramo biti mudri i stvoriti svima prostor za preživljavanje.
Kako nema ništa starije od jučerašnje vijesti pročitane danas u novinama, pisani
mediji će morati znatno mijenjati pristup svojem sadržaju i upakirati ga,
dakako, u privlačan omot.
Agencije će uvijek pokrivati najvažnije događaje na nacionalnoj i internacionalnoj
razini, jer imaju ljude i opremu, pa mogu odgovoriti takvim zadacima.
Novine će se morati, žele li dobiti nove mlade čitatelje ili zadržati stare, sa
svojim profesionalnim resursima okrenuti lokalnom sadržaju. Agencije, prema
tome i Hina, imat će i dalje važnu ulogu u medijima. Prilagodbe trebaju početi
već danas. Medijske kuće postaju multimedijalne (novine, online, tv, radi o ...),
a agencije također (tekst, fotografija, audio i videozapis ...), dakle, šire svoje
distribucijske kanale. Hina i hrvatski izdavači novina, moraju učiniti isto.When Hina was founded, the reactions of us, journalists, were triple. First we
were relieved because we got our own news agency, than we were not satisfied
because we thought we are getting not enough information, and then we became
grateful because Hina’s materials were a guide to us in the age of media and public
manipulation.
Hina became unavoidable. The choice of information keeps growing because
of Hina’s cooperation with other agencies, there are more services to use, more
channels of distribution, better links and cooperation.
But, the question today is: is the agency becoming a threat to the media? Certainly,
yes, but we have to be wise and create enough space for everyone. Since
there is nothing older than the news we red yesterday, the printed media will have
to modify their approach and find a new way and attractive design to promote it.
Agencies will always cover important event on the national and international
level, because they have the people and the equipment to respond to the tasks. The
newspapers will have to, in order to keep their readers, turn to the local contents.
Agencies, Hina also, will keep their role in the media. The adjustments have to
start today. Media houses are becoming multimedia (newspapers, online, TV, radio
...), and agencies as well (text, photographs, audio i video ...) are spreading
their distribution channels. Hina and the Croatian publishers must do the same
Croatian News Agency (Hina)- What Follows after 15 Years?
Get PDFNovim je Zakonom iz godine 2001. Hini, kao javnoj ustanovi posebne vrste, zajamčena financijska i poslovna samostalnost što je temelj i njezine uredničke neovisnosti. U sladu s europskim standardima, novim zakonodavnim rješenjem učinjen je i važan pomak u financiranju Hine. Umjesto financiranja iz državnih potpora, financijski odnosi Hine i države sada se temelje na ugovorima o skupnoj pretplati na informativne usluge. No, i u takvom poslovnom i tržišnom pozicioniranju Hine ostale su bez potpunog odgovora neke dvojbe. One postoje i u nekim drugim srednjim i malim europskim novinskim agencijama, osobito u zemljama s manjim potencijalima
medijskog tržišta. S jedne strane Hinina je prva zadaća što potpunije udovoljiti temeljnim informativnim
potrebama hrvatske javnosti, dakle ispunjavati zadaće od javnog
interesa kroz Opći servis vijesti. Te zadaće se ne mogu reducirati niti financirati polazeći samo od komercijalnih kriterija. Naprotiv. U uvjetima dramatične komercijalizacije medija troškovi ozbiljne agencijske informacije ostaju vrlo visoki, a komercijalna im vrijednost pada. Postoje još i zakonske obveze poticanja pluralizma medija, što zapravo znači da Hina svoje proizvode i usluge ne može jednakomjerno naplaćivati na svim dijelovima tržišta.
Drugi dio dvojbe sadržan je u pitanju – što ubuduće činiti sa specijaliziranim informativnim servisima i uslugama koje medijski i ostali korisnici danas trebaju i traže? Hina ih je pokrenula desetak, ali s obzirom na imperativ podizanja profesionalne razine Općeg servisa vijesti, u Hini nije bilo dovoljno ni kadrovskih ni financijskih potencijala da se oni razviju do doista isplative razine. Nabrojit ću samo nekoliko takvih “mrtvih kapitala”: baza podataka Eva sada
obuhvaća samo Hinine vijesti, a bilo bi je moguće razviti do cjelovitijeg medija – monitoringa; Hina-web sa svim svojim komparativnim prednostima može prerasti u profitni news-web, foto-servis, OTS, multimedijske usluge. Te djelatnosti,
izrasle na novim potrebama tržišta, novim tehnologijama i s komercijalnim potencijalima, trebalo bi tom tržištu u cijelosti i izložiti.
Na tom tragu može se zamisliti buduće poslovno-pravno organiziranje Hine u dva dijela: neprofitni, u postojećem pravno-organizacijskom okviru neprofitne javne ustanove i drugi, profitni, otvoren prema poslovnim partnerima koji bi u takve projekte bili spremni uložiti svoja znanja ili novac.The new legislative on Hina from the year 2001, guaranties to the institution its financial and business sovereignty, which is the basis of the editorial independence. The new legislative, coordinated with European standards, is an important step forward in financing Hina. Instead of financing through government support, the financial relations between Hina and the government are now based on contracts for the group subscription on informative services.
However, uncertainties continue to exist even with such market positioning of Hina. They also exist in other news agencies of smaller European countries, especially in countries with a small media market. The primary task of Hina is to fulfil basic informative needs of the Croatian public functioning as a Public news service. This task can not be reduced or financed by the commercial criteria. The dramatic media commercialisation keeps the expenses of serious agency information high, while their commercial value lowers.
Hina has a legal obligation to promote media pluralism, which means that Hina can not charge its product and services equally in all market segments. Another uncertainty is in the question what to do with other specialized informative services that other media and users need and demand? Hina started a dozen of those services, but the imperative of rising the professionalism of the Public news service, made it impossible for Hina, with its staff and financial potentials,
to develop to a profitable level. Some of those “dead capitals” are: data basis EVA which now contains only Hina news, and could have developed to a complete medium – monitoring; Hinaweb with all its comparative advantages can grow into a news-web, photo-service, OTS, multimedia services. These activities based on the new market needs, new technologies and commercial potentials should be a part of the market. Future legal and business Hina organization can, therefore, be organized in two parts: non-profitable, with the existing legal and organisational frame, and profitable, open to new business partners which would be willing to invest their knowledge or finances into the project
The Transcultural Critic: Sabahattin Ali and Beyond
Get PDFThe central theme of this volume is the work of Sabahattin Ali, the Turkish author and translator from German into Turkish who achieved posthumous success with his novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat). Our contributors analyze this novel, which takes place largely in Germany, and several other texts by Ali in the context of world literature, (cultural) translation, and intertextuality. Their articles go far beyond the intercultural love affair that has typically dominated the discussion of Madonna. Other articles consider Zafer Şenocak’s essay collection Deutschsein and transcultural learning through picture books. An interview with Selim Özdoğan rounds out the issue.Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht das Werk des türkischen Autors und Übersetzers aus dem Deutschen Sabahattin Ali, der mit seinem Roman Kürk Mantolu Madonna (Die Madonna im Pelzmantel) zu posthumem Ruhm gelangte. Der Roman, der zum Großteil in Deutschland spielt, und andere seiner Werke werden unter Aspekten der Weltliteratur, (kultureller) Übersetzung und Intertextualität diskutiert. Damit reicht der Fokus weit über die bislang im Vordergrund stehende interkulturelle Liebesgeschichte in der Madonna hinaus. Weitere Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit Zafer Şenocaks Essaysammlung Deutschsein und dem transkulturellen Lernen mit Bilderbüchern. Ein Interview mit Selim Özdoğan rundet diese Ausgabe ab
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