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‘Decolonisation’ in China, 1949-1959
No full textIn this chapter Jonathan Howlett adopts perspectives and models from wider literatures on decolonisation to explore the Chinese Communist Party’s elimination of the British semi-colonial presence from China after the revolution of 1949 and to place it within its global context. He focuses in particular on the CCP’s attempts to address the economic, cultural and human legacies of semi-colonialism within a comparative context. In so doing, the author seeks to complicate our understanding of the Sino-British relationship by exploring one of its most dramatic phases and to further illuminate this neglected period in Chinese history
INTRODUCTION. Policy Advisory Systems: Research Agendas and Comparative Approaches
No full textMany challenges are associated with developing, delivering, and using policy advice. This is equally true for researching it. These challenges have intensified as modern governance and has become more complex and as new advisory supplies and practices join an already dizzying array of considerations. Recognizing this, policy scholars have turned to studying policy advice in more systematic terms. That is, as policy advisory systems (PAS), or the assemblage of formal and informal advisory units and practices, inside and outside of government, that exist at a given time and with which governments and other actors engage for policymaking purposes (Craft and Halligan 2020). This has facilitated moving from a traditional focus on discreet sets of advisers, especially civil services, to a more synergistic focus that recognizes the pluralism and interactive character of advisory activit
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No full textSupplementary_Figure_1,2_and_3_(1) – Supplemental material for Kidney Function, ACE-Inhibitor/Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Use, and Survival Following Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Cohort Study
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Figure_1,2_and_3_(1) for Kidney Function, ACE-Inhibitor/Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Use, and Survival Following Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Cohort Study by Michael H. Chiu, Robert J. H. Miller, Rebecca Barry, Bing Li, Bryan J. Har, Stephen B. Wilton, Merril Knudtson, Jonathan G. Howlett and Matthew T. James in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease</p
Perspectives on Policy Analysis: A Framework for Understanding and Design
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy Analysi
Fixing the volatile : studio vocal performance techniques
No full textThe process of compiling a studio vocal performance from many takes can often result in the performer producing a new complete performance once this new "best of" assemblage is heard back. This paper investigates the ways that the physical process of recording can alter vocal performance techniques, and in particular, the establishing of a definitive melodic and rhythmic structure.\ud
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Drawing on his many years of experience as a commercially successful producer, including the attainment of a Grammy award, the author will analyse the process of producing a “credible” vocal performance in depth, with specific case studies and examples. The question of authenticity in rock and pop will also be discussed and, in this context, the uniqueness of the producer’s role as critical arbiter – what gives the producer the authority to make such performance evaluations?\ud
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Techniques for creating conditions in the studio that are conducive to vocal performances, in many ways a very unnatural performance environment, will be discussed, touching on areas such as the psycho-acoustic properties of headphone mixes, the avoidance of intimidatory practices, and a methodology for inducing the perception of a “familiar” acoustic environment
Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1940s
No full textBritish China was in origin an off-shoot of British India, most notoriously it was the prime market for India opium, and through the tea trade a key factor in British Indian revenues. This essay explores the history of this triangular relationship, and the ways in which the British story in China between the 1830s and 1947 was shaped by its Indian roots and connections. Opium was supplanted after the 1910s by imperial security considerations as the key factor in the relationship. Throughout the period the agency of individual migrants from the subcontinent remained important in how the relationship functioned. By examining Sino-British relations through this prism, the chapter demonstrates the complexity and multifaceted nature of what was always much more than a ‘bilateral’ relationship
Estimating the robustness of long-haul train plans
No full textIn Australia, and elsewhere, the movement of trains on long-haul rail networks is usually planned in advance. Typically, a train plan is developed to confirm that the required train movements and track maintenance activities can occur. The plan specifies when track segments will be occupied by particular trains and maintenance activities. On the day of operation, a train controller monitors and controls the movement of trains and maintenance crews, and updates the train plan in response to unplanned disruptions.\ud
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It can be difficult to predict how good a plan will be in practice. The main performance indicator for a train service should be reliability - the proportion of trains running the service that complete at or before the scheduled time.\ud
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We define the robustness of a planned train service to be the expected reliability. The robustness of individual train services and for a train plan as a whole can be estimated by simulating the train plan many times with random, but realistic, perturbations to train departure times and segment durations, and then analysing the distributions of arrival times. This process can also be used to set arrival times that will achieve a desired level of robustness for each train service
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