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044847
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The outbreak of the Second World War saw a wider recruitment of women for various roles in intelligence, counter-intelligence and espionage. There had already been an active policy of their recruitment by spy agencies in Britain, continental Europe and the United States, not just for desk work and signals intelligence but for active field duty as well. Agencies and organisations inimical to Western interests, such as the Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, Comintern (the Communist International), its London-based proxy, the Anti-War Movement, and a range of socialist and left-oriented workers’ unions, were arguably a few steps ahead in recruiting women and deploying them in sensitive roles. Using contemporaneous declassified records, this article briefly looks at three entangled women agents across the colonial–imperial sphere of conflict during the Second World War and the decade leading up to it. Drawing from contemporary conceptions of transnationalism and entangled histories wherein actors, entities and ideas across temporal and topographical spaces find common conceptual ground, this article relies on secret intelligence documents to discuss hitherto unexplored narratives, ambiguities and affective details.
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044846
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Focussing on colonial western India, this article discusses pioneering initiatives of women physical educators, exercise enthusiasts and founders of gymnasiums and physical culture clubs in the early decades of the 20th century. Examining a variety of sources, especially in the region’s primary vernacular languages of Gujarati and Marathi, it demonstrates that middle-class women engaged passionately in the ongoing ideological debates around the need for organised exercise, sports and active leisure pursuits. Going beyond previous historiography that has primarily identified a commitment to pronatalism and ‘race motherhood’ as fuelling physical education schemes floated by various actors in colonial India, this article highlights how women’s social role was being re-imagined and re-articulated as physical pursuits enhanced women’s daily social freedom and mobility. Further, by tracking the trajectory of socially acceptable physical activity for women, we get crucial insights into the unfolding of the Indian women’s sports movement.
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040224
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In 2013, Sharmila Tagore called Bollywood '[n] country for old women'. Like all older women, aging female actors of Bollywood too have experienced what Susan Sontag calls 'the double standard of aging': at older ages women are viewed as being too to play central figures unlike men who play lead roles for a longer time. Aging reduces women's suitability as 'heroines' in the film industry. The article (a) provides a critical genealogy of female aging in the world of Indian cinema, which was born in the colonial era and (b) assesses the representation of older women in more recent Bollywood movies.
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044848
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Kathleen Olga Vaughan (1869–1956) was a British medical doctor and obstetrician who worked in colonial India from 1903 to the mid-1920s. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she rejected racial explanations for childbirth complications, instead attributing them to pelvic anatomy. Based on her observations in India, Vaughan believed that the squatting position, commonly used by ‘native’ populations in daily life and childbirth, contributed to the healthy and functional development of the pelvis and to safer deliveries. Upon returning to Europe, she sought to validate her hypothesis scientifically and advocated for ‘civilised’ women to adopt practices from supposedly ‘less civilised’ societies. Through medical journals and her clinical practice, she promoted prenatal physical training to enhance pelvic flexibility, while engaging with the growing movement against the medicalisation of childbirth. This article examines Vaughan’s work, exploring how colonial encounters shaped ideas, practices and ideologies surrounding natural childbirth in the West. It also shows how the return to nature that Vaughan propounded as a form of prenatal care was deeply embedded in contemporary eugenic thought, reflecting broader concerns with white bodily improvement.
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044852
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The hijras are a hypervisible gender-transgressive community in India. Their hypervisibility is courtesy of their sartorial and ritual practices, a particular discipleship-kinship organisation, and liminal moments of public presence and assertion. One of the ways in which the public recognises a hijra individual is through the clap—the taali, which it sees as profane. In this article, we provide a counter-text against commonsensical notions of the taali by documenting narratives from hijra individuals and transgender women closely associated with the hijra subculture. In doing so, we demonstrate the role of this embedded and embodied practice in shaping hijra belongingness and resistance.
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028255
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Poemhunter.com, 2012.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0137 | 821/DRY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028256
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London, Baton Rouge Printing, 2014.
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36p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0094 | 659.1/ROU | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028257
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US, Prentice Hall, 1966.
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239p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0152 | 659.1/SCH | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028258
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New York, C & C & H Carvil, 1933.
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818p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0066 | LEM | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028259
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Australia, CSIRO, 2008.
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52p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0018 | TUR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028260
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New York, Springer Hidelberg,
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20p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0046 | 658.83/MOO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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028261
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New York, Routledge, 2009.
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544p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0095 | 658.306/FRY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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040223
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Electronic music is often presented as originating with the Futurists, John Cage, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk and the Detroit techno scene, yet such descriptions elide the role of women in the history of electronic and experimental music and, importantly, ... occlude contributions from non-western and non-white musicians. This clandestine history is further obscured by the fact that although there are as many women artists working within electronic and experimental music as there are men, men continue to dominate related events and festivals. In this article, I use Jacques Derrida's notion of hauntology - a portmanteau of 'haunting' and 'ontology' - to frame such practices of historiography. For Derrida, hauntology marks not a belief in ghosts but, rather, an ethical injunction to preserve otherness, even while such otherness may not be wholly comprehensible to us. The aim of this article is thus twofold: first, to provide a contextualisation of hauntology; and second, to produce a spectrography of electronic and experimental music, of occluded histories and their haunting presence/absence coordinates, in order that we might remember - sit with - the forgotten h(er) istories while all the time acknowledging that these tellings are themselves necessarily partial.
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038947
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In microeconomics, the strict concavity is a very important property of a production function. In 2010, Avvakumov et al. gave a necessary and sufficient condition for the strict concavity of the Cobb–Douglas and constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function with at least two inputs. To derive these conditions, the negative definiteness of the Hessian for both production functions was examined using certain recurrences for the principal corner minors. The purpose of this note is to complement the proof of Avvakumov, Kiselev, Orlov & Taras’ev (2010, Computational Mathematics and Modeling, 21(3), 336–378) by showing that the use of recurrences and mathematical induction is not necessary, and that a necessary and sufficient condition for the strict concavity can be obtained by considering a particular square matrix, whose determinant can be calculated directly using the rule for the determinant of a lower or upper triangular matrix.
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028262
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5th ed
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Great Britain, Pearson, 2005.
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314p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0139 | 320.9/SEL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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044777
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The primary goal of this research was to investigate the evolution of customer perceived value in the e-banking service industry through understanding the impacts of service quality dimensions and perceived risk. This study used the convenience sampling technique to survey 700 bank customers in Cambodia. Furthermore, the study used the structural equation model to analyse the data. The results reveal that staff behaviour, physical evidence and IT transaction showed significant effects on perceived risk. Finally, only physical evidence and IT transaction were found to have significant effects on customer perceived value.
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040909
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The influenza pandemic of 1918–19 wreaked havoc all over the world, and Bihar, where more than a million people died, was no exception. The pandemic became more lethal in Bihar relative to what we know of other states in eastern India. Why did rural mortality surpass urban mortality? How did the pandemic worsen the socio-economic crisis in the years that followed? This study examines the socio-economic context of the pandemic in Bihar at a micro-level and investigates how the pandemic became unbearable for the people due to a severe economic crisis that resulted from the war and failed monsoons, among other factors. It seeks to explain the manner in which factors such as agricultural failure, inflation, high population density and poor health infrastructure resulted in higher rural mortality. It also shows how the loss of the younger generation and forced migration during the pandemic resulted in a lower rate of birth in the years following the pandemic, resulting in a loss of the labour force and worsening of the agrarian crisis.
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043124
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a common strategy for companies looking to grow and expand their operations. However, the potential benefits of M&A can also attract unwanted attention from potential acquirers, which can lead to hostile takeover attempts. To protect themselves from hostile takeovers, companies often implement anti-takeover defense strategies. Anti-takeover defense strategies refer to a range of defensive tactics that target companies can employ to deter or prevent hostile takeovers. These strategies can take various forms, including structural defenses, governance defenses, and financial defenses.
This research paper examines anti-takeover defense strategies in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using secondary data sources. The paper provides an overview of the various types of anti-takeover defense strategies that are commonly used by companies, including structural, governance, and financial defenses. The paper also analyzes the various anti-takeover defense strategies adopted in protecting shareholder value and limiting competition. The regulatory frameworks governing anti-takeover defense strategies in different jurisdictions are also explored, including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and Japan.
The findings of this study indicate that the use of anti-takeover defense strategies can be effective in protecting shareholder value, but may also limit competition and potentially result in lower acquisition premiums. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for companies involved in M&A transactions, and the need to balance the protection of shareholder interests with the potential benefits of being an attractive target for acquisition.
Overall, this research provides a comprehensive analysis of the complex landscape of anti-takeover defense strategies in M&A transactions, based on secondary data sources. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of the role of anti-takeover defense strategies in M&A transactions and the considerations that must be taken into account by companies when implementing these strategies.
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039342
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Derivative trading triggers extensive public attention because it is time and again considered an easy way to make money. This study aims at identifying the variables that influence trading success in the equity F&O market by thoroughly reviewing the literature and then condensing these variables into a few factors or components using Principle Component Analysis. Using PCA, 39 variables were grouped into components such as knowledge, trading behaviour, risk management skills, emotional intelligence, tech-savviness, personal habits and social interaction. These seven components explained 71.747% of the total variance.
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ID:
028263
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Pearson Educaion Ltd, 2003.
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162p
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| EB0145 | 428.14/JOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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