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    Informetrics on M. N. Srinivas

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    M. N. Srinivas, the well known sociologist is widely recognised as architect of modern Indian sociology and social anthropology. His publications have been analysed by year, domain, authorship pattern, channels of communication used. Keywords, etc. The results indicate that the papers published by him are of a nature that qualify him to be a 'role model' for the younger generations to emulate. By the end of 1995, Srinivas had to his credit 144 papers which, included 33 broad papers in sociology and anthropology; 18 papers in social change; 28 papers in village studies; 12 papers on religion; 17 papers on caste and 36 papers of general popular interest. The periods 1958-61 and 1974-77, when Srinivas was 38-41 and 58-61 years old. were his most productive periods with highest publication activity

    Illuminaçao Apologetica do retrato de Morteçor en que aparecem com mais vivas côres os erros do author do novo Methodo, e seu Apologista ...

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    From the correspondence of M. P. Drahomanov: two unknown letters to M. V. Vodovozov of 1894

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    This publication introduces into scientific discourse little-known letters of prominent Ukrainian scholar, politician and publicist M. P. Drahomanov (1841-1895), discovered in the fond of V. I. Vernadsky in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Two letters written in the latest period of the life of M. P. Drahomanov, which are addressed to young economist and publicist Mykola Vasyliovych Vodovozov (1870-1896), expand the source base not only for M. P. Drahomanov’s biographers. They show his ties with Russian liberals, who later formed the core of the party of constitutional democrats. A preface to the publication contains a biography of M. V. Vodovozov, and the author makes a hypothesis on the history of an acquaintance of the correspondent and the addressee, which could be connected with M. V. Vodovozov’s brother, V. V. Vodovozov, and members of the “Shelter Fraternity”, and through them with M. P. Drahomanov. The analysis of the published letters proves that M. P. Drahomanov endeavored to widen through the “Shelter Fraternity” members his contacts with democratic circles in Russia, and also to find financial support for publishing letters of Bakunin and Struve

    Coloring and covering problems on graphs

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    The \emph{separation dimension} of a graph GG, written π(G)\pi(G), is the minimum number of linear orderings of V(G)V(G) such that every two nonincident edges are ``separated'' in some ordering, meaning that both endpoints of one edge appear before both endpoints of the other. We introduce the \emph{fractional separation dimension} πf(G)\pi_f(G), which is the minimum of a/ba/b such that some aa linear orderings (repetition allowed) separate every two nonincident edges at least bb times. In contrast to separation dimension, we show fractional separation dimension is bounded: always πf(G)3\pi_f(G)\le 3, with equality if and only if GG contains K4K_4. There is no stronger bound even for bipartite graphs, since πf(Km,m)=πf(Km+1,m)=3mm+1\pi_f(K_{m,m})=\pi_f(K_{m+1,m})=\frac{3m}{m+1}. We also compute πf(G)\pi_f(G) for cycles and some complete tripartite graphs. We show that πf(G)<2\pi_f(G)<\sqrt{2} when GG is a tree and present a sequence of trees on which the value tends to 4/34/3. We conjecture that when n=3mn=3m the K4K_4-free nn-vertex graph maximizing πf(G)\pi_f(G) is Km,m,mK_{m,m,m}. We also consider analogous problems for circular orderings, where pairs of nonincident edges are separated unless their endpoints alternate. Let π(G)\pi^\circ(G) be the number of circular orderings needed to separate all pairs, and let πf(G)\pi_f^\circ(G) be the fractional version. Among our results: (1) π(G)=1\pi^\circ(G)=1 if and only GG is outerplanar. (2) π(G)2\pi^\circ(G)\le2 when GG is bipartite. (3) π(Kn)log2log3(n1)\pi^\circ(K_n)\ge\log_2\log_3(n-1). (4) πf(G)32\pi_f^\circ(G)\le\frac{3}{2}, with equality if and only if K4GK_4\subseteq G. (5) πf(Km,m)=3m32m1\pi_f^\circ(K_{m,m})=\frac{3m-3}{2m-1}. A \emph{star kk-coloring} is a proper kk-coloring where the union of any two color classes induces a star forest. While every planar graph is 4-colorable, not every planar graph is star 4-colorable. One method to produce a star 4-coloring is to partition the vertex set into a 2-independent set and a forest; such a partition is called an \emph{\Ifp}. We use discharging to prove that every graph with maximum average degree less than 52\frac{5}{2} has an \Ifp, which is sharp and improves the result of Bu, Cranston, Montassier, Raspaud, and Wang (2009). As a corollary, we gain that every planar graph with girth at least 10 has a star 4-coloring. A proper vertex coloring of a graph GG is \emph{rr-dynamic} if for each vV(G)v\in V(G), at least min{r,d(v)}\min\{r,d(v)\} colors appear in NG(v)N_G(v). We investigate 33-dynamic versions of coloring and list coloring. We prove that planar and toroidal graphs are 3-dynamically 10-choosable, and this bound is sharp for toroidal graphs. Given a proper total kk-coloring cc of a graph GG, we define the \emph{sum value} of a vertex vv to be c(v)+uvE(G)c(uv)c(v) + \sum_{uv \in E(G)} c(uv). The smallest integer kk such that GG has a proper total kk-coloring whose sum values form a proper coloring is the \emph{neighbor sum distinguishing total chromatic number} χΣ(G)\chi''_{\Sigma}(G). Pil{\'s}niak and Wo{\'z}niak~(2013) conjectured that χΣ(G)Δ(G)+3\chi''_{\Sigma}(G)\leq \Delta(G)+3 for any simple graph with maximum degree Δ(G)\Delta(G). We prove this bound to be asymptotically correct by showing that χΣ(G)Δ(G)(1+o(1))\chi''_{\Sigma}(G)\leq \Delta(G)(1+o(1)). The main idea of our argument relies on Przyby{\l}o's proof (2014) for neighbor sum distinguishing edge-coloring.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-09-29 without embargo termsThe student, Sarah Loeb, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-10 at 12:01.The student, Sarah Loeb, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-07-10 at 12:06.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-07-10 at 17:35.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11363 on 2017-09-29 at 11:29:29Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:56:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 LOEB-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 647913 bytes, checksum: 538fdcc54f2ac36f68879bdd350811ac (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4207 bytes, checksum: 2b53faa7d740fec129f209a4cc526060 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4553 bytes, checksum: 39df65dab1de182e4f961ba584f1e8ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-1

    Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

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    The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school’s effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development and retention of its teachers. We ask whether effective schools systematically recruit more effective teachers; whether they assign teachers to students more effectively; whether they do a better job of helping their teachers improve; whether they retain more effective teachers; or whether they do a combination of these processes. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective schools are able to attract and hire more effective teachers from other schools when vacancies arise. Second, we find that more effective schools assign novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, we find that teachers who work in schools that were more effective at raising achievement in a prior period improve more rapidly in a subsequent period than do those in less effective schools. Finally, we find that more effective schools are better able to retain higher-quality teachers, though they are not differentially able to remove ineffective teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel, and perhaps, school personnel practices, for improving student outcomes.

    V. BRUSOV’S ARTICLE ON M. LOMONOSOV. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY IRINA ATAJANYAN (YEREVAN)

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    The author publishes V. Brusov’s paper «On Lomonosov». According to V. Brusov, M. Lomonosov is «the father of the Russian literature». Significantly, V. Brusov overlooked M. Lomonosov’s poetry, with a view towards his works on prosody. The publication’s author concludes that V. Brusov intended to write a research paper on M. Lomonosov’s life and creativity

    The long-wavelength view of GG Tau A: rocks in the ring world

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    We present the first detection of GG Tau A at centimetre wavelengths, made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array at a frequency of 16 GHz (λ = 1.8 cm). The source is detected at &gt;6 σrms with an integrated flux density of S16GHz = 249 ± 45 µJy. We use these new centimetre-wave data, in conjunction with additional measurements compiled from the literature, to investigate the long-wavelength tail of the dust emission from this unusual protoplanetary system. We use an MCMC-based method to determine maximum likelihood parameters for a simple parametric spectral model and consider the opacity and mass of the dust contributing to the microwave emission. We derive a dust mass of Md ~ 0.1 Msun, constrain the dimensions of the emitting region and find that the opacity index at λ &gt; 7 mm is less than unity, implying a contribution to the dust population from grains exceeding ~4 cm in size. We suggest that this indicates coagulation within the GG Tau A system has proceeded to the point where dust grains have grown to the size of small rocks with dimensions of a few centimetres. Considering the relatively young age of the GG Tau association in combination with the low derived disc mass, we suggest that this system may provide a useful test case for rapid core accretion planet formation models

    Why the inflation in legislation on women’s bodies

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    This dissertation argues that historical patriarchal theories have crept into the world’s legal systems to date, and as a result this has led to inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies. The author seeks to prove that patriarchal theories have become part of our social and legal institutions to date, resulting in unnecessary controls placed upon women’s bodies to the point that, women’s attempt to assert autonomy over their own bodies have been criminalised or placed under heavy civil penalties. The author suggests that this has been particularly so because, women have been relegated to the private sphere and as such, are underrepresented within the legislature, political arenas, the process passing legislation and the legal profession in general. As well as analysing the structure of the various social, legal and political institutions as they relate to the causes of inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies, the author investigates the medicalisation of women’s bodies which has led to over legislation with regards to: legislation and women’s attire, Indecent exposure and the breast, the treatment of military women with regards to their bodily autonomy and pregnancy

    Perfect Competition

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    In his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-called Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie model. That entry is now updated for the second edition to include work done on the subject during the last twenty years. A fresh assessment of this literature is offered, one that emphasises the independence assumption whereby individual agents are not related except through the price system. And it highlights a ‘linguistic turn’ whereby Hayek’s two fundamental papers on ‘division of knowledge’ are seen to have devastating consequences for this research programme.Allocation of Resources; Perfect Competition; Exchange Economy

    Perfect Competition

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    In his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-called Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie model. That entry is now updated for the second edition to include work done on the subject during the last twenty years. A fresh assessment of this literature is offered, one that emphasises the independence assumption whereby individual agents are not related except through the price system. And it highlights a ‘linguistic turn’ whereby Hayek’s two fundamental papers on ‘division of knowledge’ are seen to have devastating consequences for this research programmeAllocation of Resources, Perfect Competition, Exchange Economy
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