170 research outputs found
“Ordinary” italians: The genocide of the jews of Italy, 1943-45
No full textThis essay is based on the author’s recent book dedicated to the role of Italians in deporting their Jewish compatriots to the Nazi death camps: Simon Levis Sullam, The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy, trans. Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane (Princeton, 2018). Members of the Republican Fascist Party, police, the military, and ordinary citizens were responsible for the arrest of about 20 percent of Italian Jews in 1943-1945. The author argues that their participation in the Holocaust was driven not so much by anti-Semitism as by a combination of several profound crises that stirred up severe moral panic: Italy’s having lost in the world war, the escalation of the civil war with antifascists, the country’s split into two, and the German occupation of the northern part of Italy.This essay is based on the author’s recent book dedicated to the role of Italians in deporting their Jewish compatriots to the Nazi death camps: Simon Levis Sullam, The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy, trans. Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane (Princeton, 2018). Members of the Republican Fascist Party, police, the military, and ordinary citizens were responsible for the arrest of about 20 percent of Italian Jews in 1943-1945. The author argues that their participation in the Holocaust was driven not so much by anti-Semitism as by a combination of several profound crises that stirred up severe moral panic: Italy’s having lost in the world war, the escalation of the civil war with antifascists, the country’s split into two, and the German occupation of the northern part of Italy
Osman Bey’s The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): A Liberal Antisemitism?
No full textThe chapter traces the profile of Osman Bey (aka Frederick Millingen, 1836-1905?) an Englishmen who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism to Islam, and finally to Christian Orthodoxy. He fought in the Ottoman and Russian Army and became a self-taught social scientist and journalist. He was the author, inter-alia, of a pamphlet on the supposed historical and contemporary role of Jews in world and economic affairs. This pamphlet, "The Conquest of the World by Jews" (1873) was one of the sources of the infamous forgery the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1903)
Constitutionalism and Democracy: A critical analysis of events in democratic Zambia since 1996 to the present and how the events fit into constitutionalism
No full textFor a long time now, constitutionalism has not always been associated with democracy for many, constitutionalists are rarely democrats. However, by looking at the values that constitutionalism and democracy upholds, this author has shown that there are some commonalities. Therefore the scope of this essay is to show that the values upheld in a democratic state are similar tot eh values in a state practicing constitutionalism and that to say that a state is democratic is necessary to say it upholds constitutionalism. The significant of the study lies in the fact that constitutionalism as espoused by professor SA De-Smith has similar values with democracy. Therefore there are enough evidence, facts, information and data to many constitutionalism and democracy. There are practices by government officials and agents, which have serious supervision on whether or not a state upholds democracy and for constitutionalism. This essay has explored such questions as what should be doe to correct the situation. Why should state agents only allow the party in government to carry out political activities while denying the same lo the opposition? It has been shown that in order to adhere lo democracy and/or constitutionalism, there is need to reform laws both in the primary legislation and subsidiary), which laM's are undemocratic and because they are undemocratic they flaws] do not JA into constitutionalism as espoused by professor S A Dc-Sinith. Further the essay has exposed undemocratic practices which hinder fair play III the political and economic arena and has recommended possible remedies
CROTALARIA PROSTRATA VAR. LEVIS HAINES (LEGUMINOSAE): A POORLY KNOWN SPECIES REDISCOVERED, REDESCRIBED AND ENDEMIC FROM THE NORTHERN WESTERN GHATS, INDIA
No full textDuring a medicinal plant survey in Amba MPCA, Raigarh District of Maharashtra, a rare and endemic species of Crotalaria, Crotalaria prostrata var. levis, (Fabaceae) were rediscovered after type specimens author collected from Amba MPCA in Maharashtra after 94 years.</jats:p
Left and right generalized Drazin invertible operators on Banach spaces and applications
No full text[EN] In this paper, left and right generalized Drazin invertible operators on Banach spaces are defined and characterized by means of the generalized Kato decomposition. Then, new binary relations associated with these operators are presented and studied. In addition, a new characterization of the generalized Drazin pre-order and a sufficient condition for that to be a partial order are given by using a matrix operator technique.This paper was partially supported by Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Facultad de Ingenieria (grant Resol. No 155/14), Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto (grant PPI 18/C472) and CONICET (grant PIP 112-201501-00433CO). Fourth author was partially supported by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain (grant Red de Excelencia MTM2017-90682-REDT).Ferreyra, DE.; Latanzi, M.; Levis, F.; Thome, N. (2019). Left and right generalized Drazin invertible operators on Banach spaces and applications. Operators and Matrices. 13(3):569-583. https://doi.org/10.7153/oam-2019-13-43S56958313
Innovation in the governance of large co-operative businesses: the alarming case of UK Co-operative group
No full textThis paper begins by providing a short history of the Co-operative Group and the Bank, showing how its current governance structure has come about. Then it provides a summary of what has happened since its current troubles began in 2009, asking what has gone wrong and why. Then it asks who is to blame; is it a failure of management or of governance? It finds that governance has to take a large part of the blame, and so examines the recent innovations that have led to the current peculiar and unsatisfactory governance structure. It then looks forward to the redesign of governance that has been called for by Lord Myners, and explains the work of this author and his colleagues at Co-operatives UK in helping with this process. It provides a method for evaluating alternative governance structures using an analytical framework first proposed in Birchall’s study of the world’s largest co-operatives. (Birchall, 2014
Rubia levis, Caucalide
No full text1. Nome scientifico: Cruciata glabra (L.) Ehrend.
(Rubiaceae)
Nome attuale: Crocettona glabra
2. Nome scientifico: Daucus carota L.
(Apiaceae, Umbelliferae)
Nome attuale: Carota selvatic
Giovanni Levis Conception of Microhistory
No full textThe Author presents the core of the idea of microhistory as developed in the works of Giovanni Levi and the group of Italian historians connected with the periodical "Quaderni Storici"
BOOK REVIEW: Guskaroska, A., Zawadzki, Z., Levis, J. M., Challis, K., & Prikazchikov, M. (2024). Teaching pronunciation with confidence: A resource for ESL/EFL teachers and learners. Iowa State University
 Digital Press.
No full textTeaching Pronunciation with Confidence is a comprehensive, open educational resource (OER, 2024) aimed at ESL/EFL teachers and learners, with a focus on effective pronunciation teaching. The book was conceptualized by lead author, Guskaroska, who had worked on a course created by Levis with fellow PhD students at that time, Zawadski and Challis. The purpose of the book was to create an online resource for future students in Levis' pronunciation teaching course that could transform the course's paper-based activities into interactive online activities, providing immediate feedback for students completing the activities. At the same time, an OER publication offered teachers seeking to integrate pronunciation teaching into their classroom practice an accessible resource that drew on up-to-date technological resources and pedagogical approaches. ESL/EFL teachers and students will appreciate its clear, accessible format and descriptions of research-informed classroom activities that are appropriate for most levels of instruction. Teacher educators of TESOL trainees will find that the book (particularly in Chapters 1 and 2) provides succinct but thorough summaries of the theoretical background and research to ESL/EFL pronunciation teaching. Teacher trainers could find it a useful resource to draw on when preparing professional learning sessions. This review briefly outlines and evaluates each of the book's sections, including the foundational aspects of pronunciation instruction, segmentals (vowels, consonants), suprasegmentals (stress, rhythm, intonation), and assessment strategies
The Potential of Seaplanes as Future Large Airliners
No full text05.01.15 KB. Ok to add conference paper to spiral, author has recieved position from publisher
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