The essays in this book depict the social and intellectual ferment of the former "Marranos" from Spain and Portugal who returned to the fold of Judaism in Western Europe during the seventeenth century and established new Jewish communities in Amsterdam, Hamburg and London.
Like many other American medical schools, Hahnemann has had its share of problems, financial and otherwise. The civil rights and radical student movements of the 1960s and 1970s, however, pushed the College into a more politically conscious view of itself as a health care provider to the inner city and as a producer of health professionals.
Between 1917 and 1920--from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia--Soviets and Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interactions between their two nations in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. During these years, wide-ranging discussions occurred on a variety of serious issues, from military collaboration and economic relations to the comprehensive settlement of political and military disputes. At the same time, extensive debates took place in both countries about the nature of the relations between them. As McFadden shows in this pathbreaking book, based on research in Soviet archives as well as previously unused private collections and government archives in the United States and Great Britain, a surprising number of concrete agreements were reached between the two countries. These included continued operation of the American Red Cross in Russia, the transfer of war materials from the Russian army to the Americans, the sale of strategic supplies of platinum from the Bolsheviks to the United States, and the exemption of a number of American corporations from Soviet government nationalization decrees. Numerous important diplomats and politicians were involved in these negotiations. McFadden offers a timely reevaluation in a post-Cold War era.
Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and structural engineers interested in design of buildings to mitigate progressive structural collapse under earthquake or explosive loading conditions. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. ALTERNATIVE RATIONAL ANALYSIS 3. LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN FOR ALTERNATE PATH METHOD 4. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COMPONENTS 5. FORCE- AND DEFORMATION-CONTROLLED ACTIONS 6. EXPECTED AND LOWER BOUND STRENGTH 7. MATERIAL PROPERTIES 8. COMPONENT FORCE AND DEFORMATION CAPACITIES 9. REMOVAL OF LOAD-BEARING ELEMENTS FOR THE ALTERNATE PATH METHOD 10. STRUCTURE ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA 11. LINEAR STATIC PROCEDURE 12. NONLINEAR STATIC PROCEDURE 13. NONLINEAR DYNAMIC PROCEDURE 14. DEFINITIONS AND COMMENTARY
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor countries alike. Even in the most favorable of circumstances, the scale and complexity of the tasks to be undertaken are enormous, requiring levels of coordination and collaboration that may be without precedent for those involved. Entirely new skills may need to be acquired by tens of thousands of people. Compounding these logistical challenges is the pervasive reality that circumstances often are not favorable to large-scale reform. Whether a country is rich or poor, the choice is not whether, but how, to reform the public sector--how optimal design characteristics, robust political support, and enhanced organizational capability to implement and adapt will be forged over time. This edited volume helps address the “how†? question. It brings together reform experiences in public financial management and the public sector more broadly from eight country cases in East Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Vietnam. These countries are at different stages of reform; most of the reform efforts would qualify as successes, while some had mixed outcomes, and others could be considered failures. The focus of each chapter is less on formally demonstrating success (or not) of specific reform, but on documenting how reformers maneuvered within different country contexts to achieve specific outcomes. Despite the great difficulty in reforming the public sector, decision-makers can draw renewed energy and inspiration, learning from those countries, sectors, and subnational spaces where substantive (not merely cosmetic) change has been achieved, and they can identify what pitfalls to avoid.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Networks and Applications, WiMoA 2011, and the First International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications, ICCSEA 2011, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in May 2011. The book is organized as a collection of papers from WiMoA 2011 and ICCSEA 2011. The 8 revised full papers presented in the WiMoA 2011 part were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The 20 revised full papers presented in the ICCSEA 2011 part were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions.
