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Stern (Robert W.) : Changing India. Bourgeois Révolution on the subcontinent
No full textBullier Antoine J. Stern (Robert W.) : Changing India. Bourgeois Révolution on the subcontinent. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 82, n°308, 3e trimestre 1995. pp. 363-364
Stern Robert W., Changing India. Bourgeois Révolution on the Subcontinent
No full textHaudrère Philippe. Stern Robert W., Changing India. Bourgeois Révolution on the Subcontinent. In: Outre-mers, tome 90, n°340-341, 2e semestre 2003. Haïti Première République Noire, sous la direction de Marcel Dorigny. pp. 345-347
India and the WTO
No full textIndia's trade policy establishment
is perceived to be somewhat wary of multilateral engagement,
even though India is implementing substantial economic, and
trade policy reforms. Some essays in this well-researched
volume may throw light on this paradox. More important, the
essays take a hard look at India's interests, and
concerns with respect to international trade. They suggest
ways that India could deploy its domestic reform agenda in
the Doha Round negotiations, to secure concessions from its
trading partners, while using multilateral engagement to
reinforce the domestic reform process, and enhance the
process' credibility. The book should prove of
considerable value to policymakers, market participants, and
other stakeholders
Eocene Initiation of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Second Example of Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation?
No full textIncludes supplementary material.The existing paradigm for the major ca. 56-48 Ma subduction zone reorganization in the Pacific Northwest of North America is that: (1) the Siletzia large igneous province erupted offshore to the west of North America, forming an oceanic plateau; (2) Siletzia then collided with North America, clogging the Pacific Northwest segment of the Cordilleran subduction zone; and (3) the oceanic lithosphere west of Siletzia then ruptured to initiate the new Cascadia subduction zone. Oceanic lithosphere is strong and difficult to rupture, so this would represent a rare example of such a rupture initiating a new subduction zone. This paper explores an alternative hypothesis for the reorganization, a plume-induced subduction initiation (PISI) mechanism, which has previously been applied to the initiation of Caribbean plate subduction zones in the Cretaceous. In this PISI hypothesis, a newly formed, ~1200-km-diameter Yellowstone mantle plume head rose at ca. 55 Ma beneath western North America, generating Siletzia in situ on the North American margin, as well as generating the ~1700-km-long Challis-Kamloops volcanic belt ~600 km to the east of Siletzia. This destroyed the existing Cordilleran subduction zone and allowed the new Cascadia subduction zone to form by collapse of thermally weakened oceanic lithosphere over the hot western margin of the plume head. This PISI hypothesis provides an integrated framework for understanding Siletzia, the Challis-Kamloops belt, Eocene core complexes from Idaho (U.S.) to British Columbia (Canada), underplated mafic rocks beneath Oregon and Washington (U.S.), post-17 Ma manifestations of the Yellowstone plume, and geophysical characteristics of the lithosphere beneath the Pacific Northwest. © 2019 The Authors.U.S. National Science Foundation grant EAR-0948676School of Natural Sciences and Mathematic
The Robustness of Sr/Y and La/Yb as Proxies for Crust Thickness in Modern Arcs
No full textTrace element (TE) ratios of convergent-margin magmas have been found to vary systematically with arc crustal thicknesses. Here we use statistical smoothing techniques along with Sr/Y and La/Yb trace element Moho depth proxies to determine crustal thickness along the volcanic front for three arc segments: the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes arc, the Central America arc at Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and segments of the Alaska-Aleutian Islands arc (northwesternmost USA). The results are comparable to those from seismic surveys. TE depth proxies give ~70 km crust thickness beneath the Central Volcanic Zone's Altiplano region and show thinner crust (60 km for La/Yb, 43 km for Sr/Y) as the volcanic line crosses into the Puna region. In Central America, the proxy analyses show crustal thickness changes between the Chorotega block and the Nicaragua depression, with both proxies agreeing for Nicaragua (~27 km) but with La/Yb giving considerable thicker (~45 km) crust than Sr/Y (~30 km) for Chorotega. For these two arc segments, the La/Yb proxy approximated the seismically inferred Moho depth to within 10 km for the entire profile, but the Sr/Y proxy-estimated crustal thicknesses diverge from those of the La/Yb proxy and seismic methods in the thin-crust regions. For the Alaska-Aleutian arc, both TE proxies indicate that crust varies from thick (~35 km) for the western Aleutian segment (175°E to 175°W), to thin (~22 km) for the transitional segment (175°W to 158°W), to thick (35+ km) for the eastern Alaska Peninsula (158°W to 150°W). Geophysical estimates favor a crustal thickness of 30-40 km for the same region. We propose that statistically treated geochemistry-based proxies can provide useful estimates of crustal thickness when estimates from Sr/Y and La/Yb agree. We investigated the disagreement in the Alaska-Aleutian case in more detail. Alaska-Aleutian crustal thickness was found to correlate with calc-alkaline (CA) versus tholeiitic (TH) segments of the arc, as represented by along-arc smoothing of the volcanoes' CA-TH indices. The thin crust of the transitional segment trends TH while the thicker crust of the flanking segments trend CA. We find that crustal thickness also plays a role in inferred magma flux (here approximated by volcano volume), with greater flux associated with thinner crust. Thin crust beneath the Alaska-Aleutian transitional segment may reflect continuing loss of cumulates from the lower crust and/or lithospheric mantle into the asthenosphere, leading to enhanced melting beneath this region. © 2019 The Authors.School of Natural Sciences and Mathematic
Chapter 22 Evidence for Early and Mid-Cryogenian glaciation in the Northern Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt, Sudan, and western Arabia) - Photograph supplement
No full textCompanion photographs to the book chapter Stern, Robert J., Johnson, Peter R., Ali, Kamal A., and Mukherjee, Sumit K. 2011. “Evidence for Early and Mid-Cryogenian glaciation in the Northern Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt, Sudan, and western Arabia).” In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P. and Shields-Zhou, G. (eds) The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 36, 277-284
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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