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Emerging Non-OECD Countries: Global Shifts in Power and Geopolitical Regionalization
Get PDFSince 1990 the banning of ethnic and other identity-based parties has become the norm in sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing with such parties. Using case studies, it traces the origins of the party bans in Tanzania and Uganda and explores the reasons for the absence of a ban in Kenya. The analysis shows that the laws on particularistic parties have actually been implemented by the appropriate institutions. However,these laws have only marginally influenced the character of the political parties in the three countries: A comparison of regional voting patterns suggests that bans on particularistic parties have not ensured the emergence of aggregative parties with a national following in Tanzania and Uganda. In Kenya on the other hand, where such a ban was nonexistent until 2008, parties have not proven to be more regional.Sub-Saharan Africa, party ban, ethnic parties, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,party regulation, party nationalization
A NEW GROUP THEORETICAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIANCHI IDENTITIES AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE AUXILIARY FIELD PROBLEM OF D = 5 SUPERGRAVITY
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„Maina i Kościej” (1843) Narcyzy Żmichowskiej w kontekście badań nad mitologią Słowian
No full textThe article offers a comprehensive analysis of a single work, the early poem Maina i Kościej [Maina and Koshchei] by Narcyza Żmichowska. So far, it has been subjected to various interpretations, viewing the text from either biographical, intertextual (in relation to French literature), feminist, and philosophical perspectives. All of these readings are recalled either directly in the text or in footnotes. Notably, in the course of her queries, the author has not come across a study juxtaposing various snippets of information on Slavic culture and mythology embedded in the poem with the latest findings in religious studies. The ‘Eastward’ turn of European (and further) public discourse has resulted in the tremendous popularity of research on the heritage of Slavic pagan culture, which is currently experiencing a revival — not unlike in the Romantic period, during which Żmichowska operated. In this author’s opinion, Maina i Kościej is a work that merits a reinterpretation from a previously unexplored angle. The article initially outlines the historical context in which the poem was penned, taking into account both Żmichowska’s historiosophical interest in Slavic Antiquity and the period of the November Uprising, as the poem by Żmichowska alludes to both. The study mentions the sources the author drew upon while composing Maina i Kościej, including Adam Naruszewicz’s study on Slavic deities. It then follows with an in-depth analysis of the poem, taking into account references to Slavic mythology, other Romantic-era works, the distinctive poetics of the period, as well as relevant philosophical and historical contexts. As a result, it offers a novel interpretation of a text that deserves to be counted among the unjustly forgotten poetic works of the Romantic era
The Ceramic Assemblage from Staraya Maina Hillfort Long House
No full textThe article is devoted to the analysis of pottery traditions of the population associated with the existence of “long houses” on Staraya-Maina hillfort (Ulyanovsk Oblast), dated by the Great Migration Period. The research is based on the ceramic collection found on the hillfort during the excavations in 1990–1991. This paper presents a typological description of vessels and the results of technological analysis conducted by the author according to A. A. Bobrinsky’s method. The analysis revealed two massive pottery traditions, one of which was widely known on Imenkovo culture settlements, while the second one was a new discovery. The author suggests that this group of ceramics might be associated with an inflow of population from the Middle Oka region and from the Oka-Sura region in the fifth century AD, which brought the typical complex of garnishments of Ryazan-Oka type to the Middle Volga region
Synthesis and characterization of five-co-ordinate rhenium(III) complexes with 2-(diphenylphosphino)ethanethiolate and monothiolate liqands. Crystal structure of [Re(Ph2PCH2CH2S)2(PhCH2S)]
No full textA new series of five-co-ordinate rhenium(III) complexes containing the mixed S,P-bidentate 2-(diphenylphosphino)ethanethiolate ligand together with a monothiol RSH [R = Ph2PCH2CH2, Ph2P(O)CH2CH2, PhCH2, Ph or Pr(n)] have been synthesized and characterized. This Re(III)P2S3 series was prepared by substitution reactions of [Re(III)Cl3(MeCN)(PPh3)2], a pre-reduced rhenium(III) precursor, by addition of 2-(diphenylphosphino)ethanethiol and the corresponding monothiol. Formation of these compounds was verified by elemental analysis and H-1 and P-31 NMR and positive-ion fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy. The complexes were found to be diamagnetic, neutral and stable. They exhibit a trigonal-bipyramidal geometry, where three sulfur atoms occupy the equatorial plane and two phosphorus atoms are positioned at the apices. The X-ray structural analysis of bis[2-(diphenylphoshino)ethanethiolato-kappaS,kappaP](phenylmethanethiol ato-kappaS)rhenium(III) revealed that this compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/c with Z = 8, a = 21.011(9), b = 20.397(9), c = 16.289(7) angstrom, beta = 107.13(5)-degrees, R = 0.050, R' = 0.063, by using 5644 observed reflections. The above data further demonstrate the preference of a five-co-ordinate configuration when the P2S3 donor-atom set is available for co-ordinating rhenium(III)
ASO Author Reflections: Hypertrophic Techniques Have an Impact on the Complexity and Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Major Hepatectomies
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