Books: 'Supported iron'

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Jobson, Simon. Iron-57 and Iridium-193 Mossbauer studies of supported iron-iridium Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1990.

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Nash, G. F. J. Bridges to BS5400: Tables and graphs for simply supported beam and slab design. Croydon: Constrado, 1985.

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Chŏng, Pok-cho. Nongsanmul kagyŏngnon: Iron kwa chŏngchʻaek. Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Sŏnjin Munhwasa, 1987.

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United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Sectoral Studies Branch. UNIDO support to the iron and steel industry: Three examples of technical assistance. [Vienna]: The Branch, 1986.

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Helmicki, Arthur J. Instrumentation of the US Grant Bridge for monitoring of fabrication, erection, in-service behavior, and to support management, maintenance, and inspection. Columbus: Ohio Dept. of Transportation, Research, 2013.

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Mazzoni, Stefania, and Franca Pecchioli, eds. The Uşaklı Höyük Survey Project (2008-2012). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-902-3.

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This book presents the results of the survey conducted by the University of Florence, in the years 2008-2012, at the site and in the surrounding territory of Uşaklı Höyük on the central Anatolian plateau in Turkey. Geological, geomorphological, topographic and geophysical research have provided new information and data relating to the environment and the settlement landscape, as well as producing new maps of the area and indicating the presence of large buried buildings on the site. Analysis of the rich corpus of pottery collected from the surface indicates that the site and its territory were continuously settled from the late Early Bronze Age through the Iron Age and down to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. A few fragments of cuneiform tablets with Hittite texts, a sealing with two impressions of a stamp seal, and pottery stamps illustrate the importance of Uşaklı Höyük and support the hypothesis of its identification with the town of Zippalanda, known from the Hittite sources as a seat of the cult of the Storm God.

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Gupta, Narain. A multi-period two stage stochastic programming based decision support system for strategic planning in process industries: A case of an integrated iron and steel company. Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Management, 2014.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Iran Freedom Support Act: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 282) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Iran Freedom Support Act: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 282) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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Iran Freedom Support Act: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 282) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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Bansouleh, Bahman Farhadi. Development of a spatial planning support system for agricultural policy formulation related to land and water resources in Borkhar & Meymeh district, Iran. Wageningen: Wageningen University, 2009.

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Minimizing potential threats from Iran: Assessing the effectiveness of current U.S. sanctions on Iran : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on oversight of Iran policy including efforts to isolate and contain Iran economically, to assess progress, and to strengthen these efforts while considering additional diplomatic, economic, political, and other steps to engage the international community more effectively in efforts to prompt Iran's leaders to reconsider their reported nuclear ambitions, their support for terrorism, and their continuing opposition to the Middle East peace process, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia. Concern regarding the repression of the religious freedom and human rights of the Iranian Bahá'í community by the government of Iran; concern regarding the gross violations of human rights and civil liberties of the Syrian people by the government of the Syrian Arab Republic; support of full membership of Isreal in the WEOG at the U.N.; and support for the accession of Israel to the OECD: Markup before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on H. Con. Res. 319., H. Con. Res. 363, H. Res. 615 and H. Res. 617, May 12, 2004. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004.

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Syria Freedom Support Act; Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2011; Export Promotion Reform Act; Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012; Export Promotion Reform Act; and expressing the sense of Congress that Taiwan should be accorded observer status in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO): Markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, on H.R. 2106, H.R. 890, H.R. 1410, H.R. 3783, H.R. 4041, and S. Con. Res. 17, March 7, 2012. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2012.

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Conveying sympathy to the families of the young women murdered in Chihuahua, Mexico, and encouraging increased U.S. involvement in bringing an end to these crimes; calling on Vietnam to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Pham Hong Son and other political prisoners of conscience; concerning Romania's ban on intercountry adoptions; supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day; and the Iran Freedom Support Act: Markup before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on H. Con. Res. 90, H. Con. Res. 320, H. Res. 578, H. Res. 658 and H.R. 282, March 15, 2006. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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Miller, Douglass Gordon. The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on supported iron and cobalt catalysts. 1989.

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Leslie, Thomas. “Built Mostly of Itself”: Chicago and Clay, 1874–1891. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037542.003.0002.

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This chapter describes major structures built from 1874–1891, which were dominated by taller masonry buildings that employed improved masonry, foundations, and fireproofing. Early fire-protected iron-framed buildings achieved modest increases in height over all-masonry structures. Wrapping iron columns and girders with terra-cotta jackets saved owners floor space that would otherwise have gone toward larger brick piers, though masonry was still the primary material for exterior walls. The result—jacketed iron structures inside surrounded by bearing masonry walls outside—was called “cage” construction in New York. The skyscrapers built in Chicago's building boom of 1884—1886 all deployed this hybrid strategy of metal frame and masonry wall. Skyscrapers supported, braced, and clad with masonry were also made stronger and more economical by the rise of a pressed-brick industry in Chicago.

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Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire - Celebrating the Iron Age: Proceedings of Arras 200 - Celebrating the Iron Age. Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference, Held at the Yorkshire Museum, York, November 2017, Supported by the University of Hull, the Yorkshire Historical and Archaeological Society and East R. Oxbow Books, Limited, 2019.

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Malyszko, Jolanta, and Iain C. Macdougall. Iron metabolism in chronic kidney disease. Edited by David J. Goldsmith. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0125.

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While whole-body (‘absolute’) iron deficiency is common and probably increased in frequency in chronic kidney disease (CKD), functional iron deficiency is a particular problem in CKD. Absolute iron deficiency is likely to be present in advanced CKD when the ferritin falls below 100 ng/mL and the TSAT falls below 20%. Functional iron deficiency is characterized by the presence of adequate iron stores (as defined by conventional criteria), but with an inability to mobilize this iron rapidly enough to adequately support erythropoiesis with the administration of erythropoietin. Among such patients, the serum ferritin level is either normal or elevated (usually between 100 and 800 ng/mL), with a TSAT typically ≤20%. Hepcidin, a novel peptide discovered at the turn of the twenty-first century, is an iron gatekeeper that plays a key role in functional iron deficiency, and the ‘anaemia of chronic disease’. The main function of hepcidin is homeostatic regulation of iron metabolism and mediation of host defence and inflammation. Hepcidin is the predominant negative regulator of iron absorption in the small intestine, iron transport across the placenta, and iron release from the macrophages. Novel strategies that modulate hepcidin and its target ferroportin for the treatment of anaemia of chronic diseases are currently undergoing extensive research.

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Mason, Owen. From the Norton Culture to the Ipiutak Cult in Northwest Alaska. Edited by Max Friesen and Owen Mason. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.52.

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Between A.D. 200 and 900, the Ipiutak regional system developed an intercontinental trade in obsidian and iron, associated with a shamanic crisis cult in Northwest Alaska. People gathered seasonally within community structures (qargi) for cultic performances, maintained an extensive trade network, and warred with their neighbors. Ipiutak was supported by the hunting of walrus, seal, and caribou; the possible contribution of whaling remains uncertain. Most settlements were small, including 3 to 6 houses, although the principal village at Point Hope had over 30 contemporaneous houses, producing a total of >600 houses and over 100 interments. Lacking pottery and oil lamps, Ipiutak people were specialized ivory workers, producing an elaborate and profound art, often employed as grave offerings. Ipiutak was affiliated and on occasion opposed to the Old Bering Sea culture of Bering Strait but its origins remain disputed between Central Asian and Alaska sources.

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Walsh, Timothy. Pathophysiology and management of anaemia in the critically ill. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0273.

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Anaemia is prevalent among the critically ill, with a multifactorial aetiology including haemodilution, iatrogenic blood loss, a reduced red cell lifespan, and especially decreased erythropoiesis. Acute inflammation probably has a major contribution to critical illness-induced anaemia, resulting in reduced iron absorption, sequestration of iron resulting in functional iron deficiency, relative erythropoietin deficiency, and impaired marrow red cell maturation. Anaemia during critical illness resembles the anaemia of chronic inflammatory disease, and probably results from similar pathophysiological processes. Current evidence does not support pharmacological manipulation of this process with iron or erythropoietin. Management should focus on minimization of blood loss and evidence-based use of red cells to maintain haemoglobin level.

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United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Sectoral Studies Branch. and United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Division of Policy Co-ordination., eds. UNIDO's support to the iron and steel sector in developing countries. [Vennia]: UNIDO, 1986.

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Bunch, Chris. Deficiency anaemias. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0279.

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This chapter addresses the diagnosis, investigation, and management of anaemia due to a deficiency in iron, vitamin B12, or folate. Erythropoiesis requires an adequate supply of iron for haem formation, as well as vitamin B12 and folic acid (folate) to support high levels of DNA synthesis, and a lack of any of these will result in anaemia. Iron-deficient anaemias are typically microcytic, while a deficiency in vitamin B12 or folate results in megaloblastic haemopoiesis and a macrocytic anaemia. Iron deficiency results from poor dietary iron intake, poor absorption, increased demands, blood loss, or combinations of these. The usual cause of severe vitamin B12 deficiency in Western countries is an autoimmune atrophic gastritis, in which there is a loss of gastric parietal cell numbers and an absence of intrinsic factor production, which effectively prevents vitamin B12 absorption. This is the classical pernicious anaemia, and it is often seen in association with other autoimmune disorders. Folate deficiency may result from poor diet, malabsorption, or when demand for folate is increased, for example, during pregnancy, or with increased haemopoiesis in haemolytic anaemias or myeloproliferative disorders.

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Noorlander, D. Heaven's Wrath. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801453632.001.0001.

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Heaven’s Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. The book argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences. Merchants, officers, sailors, and soldiers found in their faith an ideology and justification for mercantile, martial activities. The company, on the other hand, supported the church financially in Europe and helped spread Calvinism to other continents. Calvinist employees and colonists both benefitted from the familiar, comforting aspects of religious instruction and public worship. But the church-company union had a destructive side, too: Calvinists became the instruments of divine wrath in fighting Catholic enemies and punishing sinners and non-conformers in colonial courts, all of which imposed costs that the small Dutch Republic and its people-strapped colonies could not afford. At the same time, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands contributed to problems later blamed on the West India Company because the church kept an iron grip on colonial hires, publications, and organization. Heaven’s Wrath shows that the expense of the Calvinist-backed war and the church’s meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs hampered the mission and reduced the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world.

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Corbett, Robin Webb. THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG TRACE ELEMENTS, PICA, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND INFANT BIRTHWEIGHT (IRON, ZINC). 1995.

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Wright, Charlotte M. Promoting healthy nutrition. Edited by Alan Emond. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198788850.003.0011.

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Key nutritional issues affecting preschool children discussed in this chapter are breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and promoting a healthy diet. The evidence on iron deficiency and vitamin D deficiency is reviewed. Recommendations are made for commissioning of services to support breastfeeding, and evidence-based advice given for practitioners.

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Badenhorst, Shaw. The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.29.

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The Iron Age of southern Africa covers the spread and occupation of Bantu-speaking farmers during the last 1,500 years. Archaeological research of these farmers was heavily influenced by the Central Cattle Pattern, a settlement model which, as one of its main concepts, argued that cattle were the most important domestic animal since the first farmers settled in southern Africa during the first millennium ad. Various arguments have been presented to support this view, including the presence of cattle dung, cattle herd sizes, informants and ethnography, and weights of livestock, as well as ageing and skeletal part data. These arguments have been challenged recently, and new interpretations offered. New interpretations unrestricted by the Central Cattle Pattern have focused on descent patterns of farmers. Changes in identification methodology and measures of changes of livestock over time have played a major role in these new interpretations.

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Breyley, Gay. Sima’s Choices. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037245.003.0010.

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This chapter discusses the life and career of Iranian singer Sima Shokrani. She specializes in Mazanderani repertoire and language, and was profoundly influenced by the work songs of her grandmother. Demonstrating an engagement with political and ideological issues from childhood, Sima challenged linguistic constraints and participated in the revolution of 1979 as a university student of twenty-one. She has shaped her career as a woman singer within the well-known constraints in Iran, as restrictions are placed around women singers by law. Making choices to sing songs that articulate women's agency in romantic and other relationships, she negotiates her multiple identities in private and public singing contexts. Supported by her husband, and despite the migration of her daughters to Germany, Sima chooses to remain in Iran, where she fulfills a role as a senior woman.

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Fields, David P. Foreign Friends. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177199.001.0001.

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This book examines how Syngman Rhee and the Korean independence movement used the rhetoric of American exceptionalism to lobby the U.S. government and the American public for support between 1905 and 1945. Alleging that Theodore Roosevelt violated the 1882 Korean-American Treaty when he tacitly supported the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1905, Rhee argued that Germany was not the only nation guilty of regarding treaties as “mere scraps of paper” and exhorted Americans to right this historical wrong by supporting Korean independence. He argued that doing so would prove Americans were the exceptional people many of them believed themselves to be. Rhee’s message gained credibility, not only because the concept of American exceptionalism resonated with Americans, but also because at various junctures certain Americans found the Korean cause useful. During the fight over the Versailles Treaty, the so-called Irreconcilable senators used the Korean issue to criticize President Wilson and to deflect the charge that they were isolationists. During the denouement of World War II, anticommunist politicians and civic organizations argued that Korea must not be abandoned to communism and that the United States’ treatment of Korea would be a test of American resolve in establishing a new rules-based order. The publicity Korea received from these and other episodes transformed Korea into an issue that could not be ignored in the postwar period. The irony and tragedy of Rhee’s efforts is that not only did they fail to regain Korea’s independence, but they directly contributed to the decision to divide Korea—an outcome he never foresaw or supported.

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Īrān, Shūrā-yi Millī-i. Muqāvamat-i., ed. Key to peaceful Iran and tranquil region: Global support for Mr. Rajavi's initiative to halt 'war of cities'. [S.l.]: International Relations [of the] People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 1987.

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Hintz, Lisel. Taking the Theory “Outside”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190655976.003.0007.

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This chapter shows how identity contestation theory extends to state and non-state actors outside of Turkey, aiding understanding of how identity struggles spill over into foreign policy. It focuses on (1) the Israeli Likud Party’s efforts to shore up hardline, anti-Iran support in the US Congress; (2) India’s foreign policy shifts under the Hindu nationalist BJP; (3) Iranian moderates’ use of the nuclear deal as Western engagement to advance their position back home; and (4) anti-apartheid activists’ normative suasion tactics to force the United States to discontinue support of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The chapter demonstrates how these groups can also use foreign policy as an arena via institutions, diaspora groups, and transnational civil society to circumvent identity-based obstacles back home. These cases include the ongoing diplomacy of Turkey’s Kurdish movement with EU institutions and the Gülen movement’s efforts to spread Turkish Calvinism through its vast institutional network abroad.

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Tromly, Benjamin. Cold War Exiles and the CIA. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840404.001.0001.

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During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA undertook support of Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War II or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA’s Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA’s patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.

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Smith, Tony. Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953–1977. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154923.003.0007.

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This chapter examines Dwight D. Eisenhower's legacy in the area of liberal democratic internationalism during the period 1953–1977. Until 1947, the American foreign policy choice had been between a Wilsonian advocacy of democracy and a Rooseveltian preference for nonintervention. A third option had emerged since then: intervention for dictatorships, even against indigenous political forces that might be seeking to create constitutional, democratic regimes. The chapter first provides an overview of American realism and mass politics in the twentieth century, with emphasis on the modernity of fascism, communism, and democracy, before discussing American foreign policy during the Eisenhower years. In particular, it considers the Eisenhower administration's policy decisions with respect to Iran, Guatemala, and Vietnam. It also explores the geopolitical realism of American support for democratic governments abroad.

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Paliwal, Avinash. The Taliban Dilemma. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685829.003.0005.

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This chapter shows how India’s Afghanistan policy witnessed an 180-degree shift in April 1991. Far from cutting contact, Indian policymakers — dominated by conciliators — officially recognised the Mujahideen government despite the latter being dependent on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. This shift was momentous given India’s traditional mistrust of the Afghan Islamists. The fall of Kabul to the Taliban complicated this conciliatory approach. Contrary to the arguments of existing literature, there was an undercurrent in New Delhi to engage with the Taliban. Having dealt with the Mujahideen, the conciliators were confident of finding a sympathetic audience among senior Taliban leadership, which, they argued, would protect Indian interests in Afghanistan and were not being remote-controlled by Pakistan. The partisans, however, with support from Iran and Russia, marginalized the conciliators and successfully pushed India towards backing the anti-Taliban United Front.

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Murgatroyd, Paul. Eloquence (114–32). Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940698.003.0005.

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This chapter provides the Latin text and a literal translation into English of the section on prayers for eloquence in Juvenal’s tenth satire and a detailed critical appreciation of those lines (114-132), paying particular attention to poetic aspects such as sound, style, rhythm, diction, imagery, vividness and narrative technique, and also assessing humour, wit, irony and the force and validity of the satirical thrusts. Questions of text are considered as well, where they are of substantial importance. In this section of the poem the attack shifts to a corner-stone of the Roman education system (oratory), and the tone becomes more sad. The critical position adopted here is a lot more questionable and weak than hitherto, as Juvenal employs two examples (Cicero and Demosthenes) to support the idea that eloquence leads to death, without allowing that they achieved anything significant through their speeches.

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Bahrami, Bahador. Making the most of individual differences in joint decisions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789710.003.0004.

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Evidence for and against the idea that “two heads are better than one” is abundant. This chapter considers the contextual conditions and social norms that predict madness or wisdom of crowds to identify the adaptive value of collective decision-making beyond increased accuracy. Similarity of competence among members of a collective impacts collective accuracy, but interacting individuals often seem to operate under the assumption that they are equally competent even when direct evidence suggest the opposite and dyadic performance suffers. Cross-cultural data from Iran, China, and Denmark support this assumption of similarity (i.e., equality bias) as a sensible heuristic that works most of the time and simplifies social interaction. Crowds often trade off accuracy for other collective benefits such as diffusion of responsibility and reduction of regret. Consequently, two heads are sometimes better than one, but no-one holds the collective accountable, not even for the most disastrous of outcomes.

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Cave, Terence, and Deirdre Wilson, eds. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.003.0001.

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After initial remarks on the relations between literature, language, and communication, the Introduction outlines the main assumptions of relevance theory, explaining the distinctions between coded and ‘ostensive’ communication, between ‘meaning’ and ‘import’, and between ‘showing’ and ‘telling’. It considers the role of relevance and inference in comprehension; discusses how implicatures are derived in context and why words are not always used to convey their literal meanings; reflects on the nature of metaphor and irony, and examines the relation between processing effort, rhetoric, and style. It then turns to ways in which a relevance theory approach might question the tenets of modern literary theory (the ‘death of the author’, scepticism about intentions), to issues of historical and contextual interpretation, and to the notion of ‘intertextuality’. Finally, it reviews a range of evidence widely taken to support an ‘embodied’ conception of cognition, language, and communication which seems particularly well-adapted to literary studies.

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Paliwal, Avinash. Friends from North, Foes from South. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685829.003.0006.

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The United Front’s relationship with India was anything but that of ‘dependency’. In limited in capacity and separated by geography, India was arguably the least important cog in the Iran-Russia-India triumvirate that gave covert military support to the UF. Even though the India-UF relationship withstood various Taliban and Pakistani military onslaughts, its long-term sustainability was in doubt among Indian policymakers. One incident that gave an impetus to this relationship — but also underlined its limitations — however, was the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999. The incident further strengthened partisans who wanted to wage an active proxy war against Pakistan and theTaliban. Occurring in the wake of nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, the India-Pakistan conflict in Kargil in 1999, and Pakistani military presence in Afghanistan, Indian diplomacy on Afghanistan in the second half of 1990s is highly indicative both of its strategic resolve and limits of influence.

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Masʻūd, Rajavi, and Sāzmān-i. Mujāhidīn-i. Khalq (Iran), eds. Global support for the peace plan of the National Council of Resistance of Iran: Condemnation of Khomeini's warlike and repressive regime : Massoud Rajavi's declaration of 13 March 1983. [S.l.]: International Relations of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 1986.

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Rossoukh, Ramyar D., and Steven C. Caton, eds. Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022190.

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From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film industries like Bollywood and Nollywood aim to attain Hollywood's audience and profitability, while smaller, less commercial, and often state-funded enterprises support various cultural and political projects. The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an ethnographic and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries. They outline how modularity—the specialized filmmaking tasks that collectively produce a film—operates as a key feature in every film industry, independent of local context. Whether they are examining the process of dubbing Hollywood films into Hindi, virtual reality filmmaking in South Africa, or on-location shooting in Yemen, the contributors' anthropological methodology brings into relief the universal practices and the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities of film production. Contributors. Steven C. Caton, Jessica Dickson, Kevin Dwyer, Tejaswini Ganti, Lotte Hoek, Amrita Ibrahim, Sylvia J. Martin, Ramyar D. Rossoukh

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Goff, Krista A. Nested Nationalism. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753275.001.0001.

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This book is a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political consequences of such efforts. Titular nationalities that had republics named after them in the USSR were comparatively privileged within the boundaries of “their” republics, but they still often chafed both at Moscow's influence over republican affairs and at broader Russian hegemony across the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, members of nontitular communities frequently complained that nationalist republican leaders sought to build titular nations on the back of minority assimilation and erasure. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Georgia, and Moscow, the book argues that Soviet nationality policies produced recursive, nested relationships between majority and minority nationalisms and national identifications in the USSR. The book pays particular attention to how these asymmetries of power played out in minority communities, following them from Azerbaijan to Georgia, Dagestan, and Iran in pursuit of the national ideas, identifications, and histories that were layered across internal and international borders. What mechanisms supported cultural development and minority identifications in communities subjected to assimilationist politics? How did separatist movements coalesce among nontitular minority activists? And how does this historicization help us to understand the tenuous space occupied by minorities in nationalizing states across contemporary Eurasia? Ranging from the early days of Soviet power to post-Soviet ethnic conflicts, the book explains how Soviet-era experiences and policies continue to shape interethnic relationships and expectations today.

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A, Annan Kofi, Matsuura Koïchiro, Khātamī Muḥammad, United Nations, Unesco, and Iran, eds. Dialogue among civilizations: The round table on the eve of the United Nations millennium summit, organized by UNESCO and the United Nations with the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Paris: UNESCO, 2001.

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Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang. In a Pure Muslim Land. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649795.001.0001.

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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi‘is and their religious competitors in this “Land of the Pure.” The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has empowered Shi'is, who form about twenty percent of the country's population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs in Iran and Iraq. Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution and formulated their own ideas for fulfilling the original promise of Pakistan. Challenging typical views of Pakistan as a mere Shi'i backwater, Fuchs argues that its complex religious landscape represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new intellectual contributions to global Islam. Yet religious ideology has also turned Pakistan into a deadly battlefield: sectarian groups since the 1980s have been bent on excluding Shi'is as harmful to their own vision of an exemplary Islamic state.

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Figley, Charles R., Jeffrey S. Yarvis, and Bruce A. Thyer, eds. Combat Social Work. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059439.001.0001.

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This book shows combat from a different perspective by a dozen combat social workers. Written by and for social workers and war veterans, the book is filled with lessons learned that can have significant benefits for students of social work, among others. Combat social work is dangerous work for these highly trained officers. Social work in combat, an oxymoron, focuses on helping the service member seeking mental health services specific to being deployed and in danger. All these practitioners’ clients seek to be at their best in support of their unit as military members. To do so, they must overcome extraordinary obstacles associated with battle and living conditions that may challenge their morale and will to fight. These and other challenges of war require wisdom as much as bravery from combat social workers. The book consists of three sections. The chapters in the first and last sections are about the context and irony of combat and social work and the realities and contexts of combat social workers’ training, education, and life. The middle section includes 11 first-person case studies by combat social workers. They discuss, among other things, the extraordinary lessons they have learned from their deployments into war zones and how social work is both the same as and different from social work outside the war zone and from the work of psychiatrists and psychologists. These chapters vary greatly based on the gender, war context, and military branch and unit.

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Honeyman, Susan. Perils of Protection. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496819895.001.0001.

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When we generalize about children, we are often also implicitly generalizing about their care, from within a "middle-class" view of "nuclear" family. These as sumptions rely on anorm that few of us actually fit. Yet it is very difficult to talk about children from completely outside of such an assumed model of support in the private or "islanded" sphere. In contrast, children in literature are just as often disconnected from family in order to have greater adventures in more public spaces. They must leave the confines of the private family to for gean other sphere in which to grow. But the real experiences of children at tempting public connection or freedom to roam are farmore complicated, ranging from captivity and containment to escape and self-reliance. Utilizing both fictions of child adventure and accounts of experiences by actual children, Honey mandemonstrates that childwelfare depends upon not just protection, but also participation. How can protection, which sounds so comforting, do harm? Perils of Protection will trace how the best of intentions to protect children can none the lesshurt them if leaving them unprepared to acton the irown behalf. Each chapter will center on this perilous pattern in a different context: "women and children first" rescue hierarchies, geographic restriction, abandonment, censorship, and illness. Analysis from adventures real and fictionalized will offer the reader high jinx and heroism at sea, the rush of risk, finding new families, resisting censorship through discovering shared political identity, and breaking the pretences of sentimentality.

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Sever, Mehmet Şükrü, and Raymond Vanholder. Acute kidney injury in polytrauma and rhabdomyolysis. Edited by Norbert Lameire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0252_update_001.

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The term ‘polytrauma’ refers to blunt (or crush) trauma that involves multiple body regions or cavities, and compromises physiology to potentially cause dysfunction of uninjured organs. Polytrauma frequently affects muscles resulting in rhabdomyolysis. In daily life, it mostly occurs after motor vehicle accidents, influencing a limited number of patients; after mass disasters, however, thousands of polytrauma victims may present at once with only surgical features or with additional medical complications (crush syndrome). Among the medical complications, acute kidney injury (AKI) deserves special mention, since it is frequent and has a substantial impact on the ultimate outcome.Several factors play a role in the pathogenesis of polytrauma (or crush)-induced AKI: (1) hypoperfusion of the kidneys, (2) myoglobin-induced direct nephrotoxicity, and intratubular obstruction, and also (3) several other mechanisms (i.e. iron and free radical-induced damage, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and ischaemia reperfusion injury). Crush-related AKI is prerenal at the beginning; however, acute tubular necrosis may develop eventually. In patients with crush syndrome, apart from findings of trauma, clinical features may include (but are not limited to) hypotension, oliguria, brownish discoloration of urine, and other symptoms and findings, such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation, bleeding, cardiac failure, arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, and also psychological trauma.In the biochemical evaluation, life-threatening hyperkalaemia, retention of uraemic toxins, high anion gap metabolic acidosis, elevated serum levels of myoglobin, and muscle enzymes are noted; creatine phosphokinase is very useful for diagnosing rhabdomyolysis.Early fluid administration is vital to prevent crush-related AKI; the rate of initial fluid volume should be 1000 mL/hour. Overall, 3–6 L are administered within a 6-hour period considering environmental, demographic and clinical features, and urinary response to fluids. In disaster circumstances, the preferred fluid formulation is isotonic saline because of its ready availability. Alkaline (bicarbonate-added) hypotonic saline may be more useful, especially in isolated cases not related to disaster, as it may prevent intratubular myoglobin, and uric acid plugs, metabolic acidosis, and also life-threatening hyperkalaemia.In the case of established acute tubular necrosis, dialysis support is life-saving. Although all types of dialysis techniques may be used, intermittent haemodialysis is the preferred modality because of medical and logistic advantages. Close follow-up and appropriate treatment improve mortality rates, which may be as low as 15–20% even in disaster circumstances. Polytrauma victims after mass disasters deserve special mention, because crush syndrome is the second most frequent cause of death after trauma. Chaos, overwhelming number of patients, and logistical drawbacks often result in delayed, and sometimes incorrect treatment. Medical and logistical disaster preparedness is useful to improve the ultimate outcome of disaster victims.

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