121 research outputs found
Degenerations of democracy/ Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Charles Taylor.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of the public good"--Degenerations of democracy -- Contradictions and double movements -- Neoliberalism and the social foundations of democracy -- Authenticity and meritocracy -- Making the demos safe for democracy? -- The structure of democratic degenerations and the imperative of direct action -- What is to be done?1 online resource (353 pages)
The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
No full textIn the early nineteenth century, the term “avant-garde” began to capture greater semantic territory. Once purely a military phrase used to distinguish crack troops, it then assumed a high-ranking position within cultural expression, marking out art work that forged ahead and broke new ground. What can it mean to conjoin this French phrase with the word “Arab”? French forces, along with other imperial intruders, are no strangers to Arab terrain. The colonisation of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Greater Syria followed in the wake of the brief Napoleonic “mission” to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was during this military foray that some of modern Europe’s most expansive data on Egyptian music was collected, information that comprised two whole volumes of Guillaume André Villoteau’s Description de l’Egypte. The Napoleonic campaign gathered not only military, but also cultural intelligence, if the two can be so easily separated
EFFECT OF EVEROLIMUS AND DONOR/RECIPIENT SEROLOGY ON CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: A SUBANALYSIS OF THE RANOMIZED TRIAL A2310
No full textIMPACT OF CHANGE ORDERS ON THE COST PERFORMANCE OF MASS TIMBER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Construction Management - Master of Science, 2024One of the major barriers to the widespread adoption of mass timber as a material is lack of knowledge. This lack of knowledge further promotes issues like high production and construction costs. The construction industry in the United States has been reluctant to accept mass timber as a new technology owing to these higher initial costs. Consequently, the most critical factor affecting the selection of a construction material is its cost performance. A successful construction project is governed by its cost performance. Although, the cost performance of a project can be affected by cost overruns and change orders. These project costs can be optimized by reducing the time. Owing to its prefabricated nature, mass timber construction can cut down time. While change orders negatively affect the time of a project, there is a need to understand their impact on mass timber construction. This study analyzes the impact of change orders on the cost performance of mass timber construction projects. The expected deliverables are to quantify and understand the most common causes of change orders in mass timber projects. The researcher believes that this study is a steppingstone toward the widespread adoption of mass timber as a construction material. Project data was collected for 34 projects from General Contractors around the country. Pearson\u2019s correlation, descriptive statistics, and ANOVAs were used to analyze the data collected. This study observed the relationship between the mass timber scope and the mass timber change orders. Along with that the project delivery methods and their impact on the construction costs was studied. The author believes a more widespread adoption of mass timber is beneficial through project team integration and reduction of change order costs.Description based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
Synthesis of 3-(1, 3-Diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) Propanoic Acids Using Diimide Reduction
No full textPyrazole-1H-4-yl-acrylic acids (3a-j) were prepared from pyrazole-1H-4-carbaldehydes which in turn were prepared by the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction of phenyl hydrazone derivatives (1a-j). The reaction of pyrazole-1H-4-yl-acrylic acids to 3-(1, 3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) propanoic acids (4a-j) was carried out using Pd-charcoal and diimide methods and % yields were compared. Though the yields may be slightly less in diimide method, the method was found to be economical, highly effective with simple operating procedure
Review of Research on Public Libraries: A Scopus Based Bibliometric Analysis
No full textPublic libraries are considered as peoples universities and can play a vital role in overall development of community they serve with the help of the resources and services. We have collected to data from the Scopus database for the period of 1971-2019. We have identified the trends in public libraries research, prominent authors who are involved in the research on public libraries issues and Y applied to evaluate the author’s contribution. Core journals and productive countries also determined and taken up the author supplied keyword analysis over decades. This work would be useful to the researchers who are working on the public libraries
Boundary phenomena and phase transitions in strongly correlated one dimensional systems
No full textOne dimensional quantum systems exhibit many interesting physical phenomena as a result of strong correlations. The gapped systems with symmetries exhibit exotic phases and are categorized as spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) or symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases. The systems with SSB such as the spin ½ XXZ chain have non vanishing local order parameter and a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken leading to degenerate pairing in the spectrum. In contrast the systems with SPT such as charge conserving spin-triplet superconductors exhibit non-local order parameter and robust ground state degeneracy associated with protected fractionalized gapless excitations at the edges. In this work we consider one dimensional charge conserving superconductors and show that the SPT phases that arise not only depend on the bulk but rather it depends on the interplay of the bulk and the boundary conditions. We also show that the edge modes that arise in the system are robust to a certain extent against the boundary fields that break the symmetries protecting the SPT phase. We show that when the edges of a superconductor corresponding to a trivial phase are coupled to spin ½ quantum impurities, the system exhibits a very interesting phase structure, which arises due to the interplay between the Kondo effect and the bulk superconductivity. We consider the spin ½ antiferromagnetic XXZ chain in the gapped regime which exhibits SSB, and apply boundary fields which explicitly break the discrete symmetry which is spontaneously broken in the bulk. We find that the system exhibits a rich phase diagram and show that certain phases exhibit spin fractionalization associated with strong Majorana zero modes at the edges similar to the SPT phases. We then consider the isotropic XXX limit which corresponds to the Heisenberg spin chain, where the system becomes gapless and does not fall into either the SPT or SSB phases. We show that it exhibits a rich phase diagram and contains Majorana zero modes which arise at high energies. We show that in all the systems described above the Hilbert space is comprised of a certain number of towers of excited states, and they exhibit a new type of phase transition named Hilbert space or eigenstate phase transition where the number of towers of the Hilbert space changes.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
Mediating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between spiritual leadership and performance
No full texthe challenging work environment of the 21st century has resulted in a great deal of global, societal and organizational change (Fry, 2003). We are experiencing a global crisis of confidence that has spread among many people and organizations (Parameshwar, 2005). Corporate fraud (Schroth & Elliot, 2002), negativity stemming from the downsizing of companies, anxieties resulting from emerging technologies (Giacalone & Jurkiewicz, 2003), and the financial crisis have affected the way employers see their organizations and leaders. Congruent with that reality, organizations have started to give more importance to positivity and developing strong characteristics of employees, rather than focusing on negativity and weaknesses (Avey, Luthans, & Jensen, 2009). Similarly, academics and organizational behaviour experts started to focus on positivity and positive sides of organizational life. This change in mentality brought about the need for a more holistic leadership style that can integrate minds and souls of people: namely, spiritual leadership
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Some Quinoxaline-Incorporated Schiff Bases and Their Biological Evaluation
No full textQuinoxaline-incorporated Schiff bases (4a–j) were synthesized by the condensation of 2-[(3-methylquinoxalin-2-yl)oxy]acetohydrazide (3) with indole-3-carbaldehyde, furfuraldehyde, 5-(4-nitrophenyl)-2-furfuraldehyde, and substituted benzaldehydes under conventional and microwave irradiation methods. The microwave method was found to be remarkably successful with higher yields, less reaction time, and environmentally friendly compared to conventional heating method. The chemical structures of the synthesized compounds have been confirmed by analytical and spectral data. All the compounds have been evaluated for antitubercular and anti-inflammatory activities
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