44,894 research outputs found
Introduction
No full textThis volume explores how literature, culture and the First World War coalesce in a putative modernity. The first part, ‘Unfathomable’, contains essays which focus on the incommunicable and immeasurable nature of the war which is symptomatic of a post-Enlightenment phase of modernity. The essays in Part 2, ‘Scoping the war’, discuss the ways in which writers and film-makers dealt with different kinds of intensity produced by the war; the last ponders the political consequences of maximal experience. In Part 3, ‘Cosmopolitan sympathies’, the essays uncover hidden histories of the war, tracing international connections across genres and media
Colonial encounters in a time of global conflict
No full textThe introduction establishes the framework and examines themes of entanglement, encounters and exchanges – and the complex intersections between them – that lie at the heart of this volume. Arguing that the war can be understood as a turning point in the history of encounters, it explores their specific contexts – from camps and hospitals to London clubs and besieged cities to musical and textual encounters. What kinds of entangled pre-war histories informed such encounters which then shape a range of issues, from cross-racial intimacy and identity formation to anti-colonial movements, civil rights movement and visions of a post-war world? The reader is introduced to the traces and textures of these encounters, their global reach and range, from the contingent and interpersonal to cultural and political strategies of propaganda and revolution. The introduction reflects, too, on the concepts and methodology, making the case for ‘encounter’ as a capacious and flexible term which allows us to showcase the fraught contours, highlight ambiguous zones and admit messy, difficult, even painful histories. The three parts of the book are delineated – Spaces, Process and Instrumentality – and how the diverse case studies come together to suggest the rich possibilities of this approach in its multiple iterations and locations
How do institutional investors dictate corporate cash holdings in a financially constrained environment?
No full textInstitutional investors use voting power to influence firms’ financial decisions, such as their inclination towards large cash during heightened economic uncertainty and slack resource environment. This paper exploits agency theory and institutional channel in developing a theory-driven empirical apparatus to provide direct evidence that a country’s political climate is instrumental in determining the extent financial constraints are an effective moderating tool for negotiating an optimal contract between the power of institutional investors and firms’ cash holdings. In our empirical narrative we assert the punctuating role of legal frameworks on institutional investors’ actual influences on firms’ financial decision making. By using a sample of 30000 firms from selected emerging and developed economies over a period of two decades, a suit of endogeneity-mitigated dynamic panel regressions helps elicit a strong negative relationship between institutional ownership and corporate cash holdings. Our results indicate that institutional investors motivate firms to downsize excess cash. Furthermore, we document that financially constrained firms tend to hold more cash in both emerging and developed countries whereas firms in common law countries (both developed and emerging) prefer less cash as compared to firms in civil law countries.<br/
Comuterized numerical solutions to combined pure and warping torsion in open sections
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-138).by Santanu Kumar Das.M.S
Séminaire de recherche : présentation de l'ouvrage de Santanu Das, Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
No full textSéminaire de recherche : présentation de l'ouvrage de Santanu Das, Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, EMMA, Université Montpellier
India, Empire and First World War:Writings, Images, Songs
No full textBased on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914–1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual sources - objects, images, rumours, streetpamphlets, letters, diaries, sound-recordings, folksongs, testimonies, poetry, essays, and fiction - to produce the first cultural and literary history, moving from recruitment tactics in villages through sepoy traces and feelings in battlefields, hospitals, and POW camps to post-war reflections on Europe and empire. Combining archival excavation in different countries across several continents with investigative readings of Gandhi, Kipling, Iqbal, Naidu, Nazrul, Tagore, and Anand, this imaginative study opens up the worlds of sepoys and labourers, men and women, nationalists, artists, and intellectuals, trying to make sense of home and the world in times of war
FIGURE 5. Figs. 5A–C in Redescription of Sartoriana trilobata (Alcock, 1909) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Assam, Northeast India, with notes on the morphology of male gonopods
No full textFIGURE 5. Figs. 5A–C collection sites of Sartoriana trilobata in Lakhimpur district of Assam. Figs. 5A–B, collection sites of Ranganadi River (Lakhimpur district), 5C, Bosagaon beel (Lakhimpur district). Fig. 5D, collection site of Darika River (Sivasagar district of Assam).Published as part of Chetia, Awarlin, Mitra, Santanu & Das, Debangshu Narayan, 2021, Redescription of Sartoriana trilobata (Alcock, 1909) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Assam, Northeast India, with notes on the morphology of male gonopods, pp. 136-144 in Zootaxa 5026 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/527051
FIGURE 1. Figs. 1A–D in Redescription of Sartoriana trilobata (Alcock, 1909) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Assam, Northeast India, with notes on the morphology of male gonopods
No full textFIGURE 1. Figs. 1A–D: Sartoriana trilobata (Alcock, 1909), Lakhimpur, Assam, ZSI C8071/2; 1A, dorsal view of carapace; 1B, frontal view of cephalothorax; 1C, ventral view of male pleon; 1D, major cheliped (ZSI C8071/2) (scale bar 10 mm). Figs. 1E–H: Sartoriana spinigera, 1E, dorsal view of carapace; 1F, frontal view of cephalothorax; 1G, ventral view of male pleon; 1H, major cheliped (ZSI C6070/2) (scale bar 10 mm).Published as part of Chetia, Awarlin, Mitra, Santanu & Das, Debangshu Narayan, 2021, Redescription of Sartoriana trilobata (Alcock, 1909) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Assam, Northeast India, with notes on the morphology of male gonopods, pp. 136-144 in Zootaxa 5026 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/527051
Dinuclear copper(II) complexes: Solvent dependent catecholase activity
No full textFour new dicopper(II) complexes of phenol based compartmental ligands, namely [Cu2(L1H)2(H2O)2(NO3)2]
(NO3)2 (1), [Cu2(L2)(OH)(H2O)(NO3)](NO3) (2), [Cu2(L3)2(H2O)(NO3)](NO3) (3) and [Cu2(L4)(H2O)2(NO3)]
(NO3)2 (4) [where L1 = 2-formyl-4-methyl-6-(4-(aminomethyl)-piperidine)iminomethyl-phenolato, L2 =
2,6-bis(2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol)iminomethyl-4-methyl-phenolato, L3 = 2-formyl-4-methyl- 6-(benzylamine)
iminomethyl-phenolato and L4 = 2,6-bis(2-aminoethylpyridine)iminomethyl-4-methyl-phenolato]
have been synthesized and structurally characterized. The single crystal X-ray analyses reveal that
all four complexes are dinuclear in nature; complexes 2 and 4 comprise of one respective ligand, whereas
1 and 3 are contain two respective ligands, and the Cu–Cu separation in each case is ca. 3.0 Å. All four
complexes are soluble in dichloromethane (DCM), methanol, acetonitrile (ACN), dimethylsulfoxide
(DMSO), water–methanol (50:50, v/v), and this property has been exploited to access the solvent effect
on the catecholase activity of the complexes towards the aerobic oxidation of 3,5-DTBC to 3,5-DTBQ. A
UV–Vis spectral study in the different solvents, followed by a kinetic investigation, suggests that the
change in spectral behavior follows a similar trend, being dependent on the coordinating ability of the
solvent, irrespective of the complex used. The commonly known physical parameters of the solvents, like
the dielectric constant, dipole moment, polarity, etc., do not seem to be a key factor in controlling the catecholase
activity. However, protic solvents are observed to be a better choice than aprotic solvents for the
oxidation of 3,5-DTBC
Seminário sobre aquacultura 14 a 16 de dezembro de 1983
No full textA necessidade de desenvolver a aquacultura em Portugal obriga à escolha das espécies mais indicadas para tal finalidade. A propósito o autor chama a atenção para as graves consequências que podem advir das introduções e/ou transferências de animais aquáticos, quer para as espécies locais e meio ambiente, como para a para a saúde pública.Concerning the need to choose the most convenient species to cultivate in order to implement aquaculture in Portugal, the author draws the attention to the deleterious consequences of introductions and transfers of aquatic animals.Caixa Geral de Depósito
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