... issues of powerand control in football, the impact of television and new technology, racism and battles against it, changing notions of both national and local identities and the increasing interjection ... organised into five distinct but clearly inter-related areas of study: powerin football; racism; continental football identities; football as Britain’s ‘national’ sport; and the regulation and ‘space’ ... national identity in sports coverage, and also consider the interplay of national, religious and club identities among fans in England, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Scandinavia Finally, the...
... attendees and both the introduction and collection itself have been reviewed and approved by RAND Science and Technology Integrating Instruments of Powerand Influence in National Security Starting ... Asia, “integrating instruments of powerand influence” has become daily business The RAND-AAD project is bringing together about 20 former U.S officials with long and deep experience in these ... developments and new requirements, the RAND Corporation, in cooperation with the American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD), is conducting a 15-month project on Integrating Instruments of Powerand Influence in...
... its inherent natural and/ or human components’ In other words, it is the intimate intermingling of localized natures and cultures that gives PDO and PGI products their distinctive character In ... Levenstein (1999) puts it, ‘producers and processors developed a host of new methods for growing, raising, preserving, precooking, and packaging foods’ The reWnement of such methods intensiWed during ... apparent, since the basic components are often 12 Networks, Conventions, and Regions the same The only diVerence is in packaging andin the addition of Xavouring and colouring Fresh fruit and vegetables...
... Magee and Galinsky (2008)’s definition of social power Social Powerand Its Consequences Ever since Cartwright (1959) introduced power to the study of interpersonal relations, studies on powerin ... understand the cognition, emotion, and behavior of individuals in social interactions Social scientists have defined powerin different ways Power has been defined as the ability to make others things ... of powerin forgiveness at the workplace My dissertation investigates the role of powerin forgiveness by examining how power impacts power holder’s forgiveness and how transgressors perceive and...
... Party Dominance, attempts to comprehend the structure and dynamics of the Party‟s dominance and the means through which it maintains and institutionalizes political power. 1 Instead of looking into ... analyses the interactions and interdependency amongst agencies The approach aims to examine the coordination and exchanges amongst the agencies and find out the selfequilibrating and stabilizing nature ... which policy and agency meanings were communicated.”54 In essence, this work is interested in looking at the “symbols, cues and routines” the government uses in dealing with resistance.55 In the next...
... re-imagining their identities and having to redefine what constitutes ‘risky and normative intimacy’ and what ‘remains joyous about relationships, sex and love in an age of HIV/AIDS’, is indeed ... tabloids seemingly founded on dodgy ethics and pandering to the lowest common denominator Since then, according to Nicola Jones, Yves Vanderhaeghen and Dee Viney, more critical thought is being given ... ongoing analysis We hope that this volume will make a lasting contribution to finding new ways of thinking about this complex, multi-layered and fascinating process The Editors February 2007 12 INTRODUCTION...
... description of the random coin toss experiment To generate a candidate stimulus pattern, we repeatedly flip a coin that has a probability P of landing “heads” and Ϫ P of landing “tails,” assigning a to the ... accounted for by energy in the combined signal and interference subspace ͗XS͘ Figure provides a geometric interpretation of the quantities in Eq (7a) As originally introduced into the fMRI literature ... with detection powerand estimation efficiency in the design of an experiment Small increases in the predictability of a sequence can yield significant gains in detection power with a minimal reduction...
... Dimeo introduces his research findings from the football culture in India Dimeo examines the communal politics that underpin football rivalries in Calcutta, notably involving Mohammedan Sporting ... Introduction Introduction Fear and Loathing: Introducing Global Football Oppositions Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti The history of football is the story of rivalry and opposition Indeed, the binary ... organized into four parts In Part I, entitled ‘The Break-Up of Britain: PowerandDefianceinFootball Opposition’, we examine four forms of cultural rivalry and opposition which surround football...
... matching between unifying and control (non-unifying) firms is as explained in Table Mean difference in the controlling shareholders’ voting power between unifying and non-unifying firms in year ... voting power between unifying and non-unifying firms in year +7 -3.4% Change in voting power: difference between years -2 and (the eventual post-unification relative change in voting powerin ... difference in the controlling shareholders’ voting power between unifying and non-unifying firms in year -2 0.2% 2.7% Mean difference in the controlling shareholders’ voting power between unifying and...
... kind words and offered her interesting perspective at various points during the season Former Villanova assistants Dave Clawson and Joe Trainer were frank and forthcoming with their thoughts and ... seed of the idea first began to germinate in my mind in February 2005 Talley went above and beyond the call of duty in accommodating my needs in writing this book, and for that I will be eternally ... fitting end to an uneven, disappointing year, one that had included flashes of joy and triumph as well as extended periods of misery Gibson, clinging in vain to his last moments as a college football...
... Amanda, Delainey, Mackenzie, Brendan, Erin, Colin, Griffin, T.J., and Timmy Finally, I must thank the most incredible woman in the world She came into my life when I thought I would never find ... okay Everything’s going to be okay.” I believe that is true, because I believe we’re doing the right thing and that we are succeeding in the war against terrorism and extremism in Iraq and Afghanistan ... boy growing up in New Jersey, as an NFL linebacker, as a prosecutor in Manhattan, and as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have had the rare privi- Our Defining Moment ★ 29 lege and opportunity...
... being in a minor car wreck I hurt everywhere and was getting very discouraged x AN INTRODUCTION TO KETTLEBELLS My wife saw me walk in my front door one night bleeding from my feet and hands and ... no instruction, I did I must have come within an inch of breaking both wrists, my shin, and putting a hole in the floor Little did I know these simple tools would completely redefi ne my training ... the shoulder In my mind I would think “grip and rip.” Grip the handle tight, and rip it off of the floor I would imagine grabbing my opponent’s gi (a martial arts uniform) and pulling him right...
... the intention of some of them to fight only defensively and not to initiate attacks Their interest in football, in other words, might have been greater than their interest in fighting In England, ... surprising that, besides attempting to improve their individual and team skills and to develop new tactics and tactical team-formations, more and more responded by bending and breaking the rules and ... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication...
... length of lines, hence increasing the power flow In general, series compensation is switched on and off according to load and voltage conditions For instance, in longitudinal power INTRODUCTION ... Conventional Power Plant Modelling in Optimal Power Flow 7.2.5.1 Transmission Lines 7.2.5.2 Shunt Elements 7.2.5.3 Synchronous Generators 7.2.6 Handling of Inequality Constraints 7.2.6.1 Handling of Inequality ... voltages, and acceptance of rapidly fluctuating and other nonlinear loads in the vicinity (Hingorani, 1995) The one-line diagram shown in Figure 2.1 illustrates the connection of power plants in an interconnected...
... a task In addition, uplifts specific to MDD subjects were laughing and visiting, phoning, or writing someone The most common uplifts for controls included hugging and/ or kissing and getting enough ... symptoms, including aches and pain Pain due to an underlying medical condition may induce or exacerbate depressive symptoms [2-8] However, the prevalence of pain in patients presenting with MDD, in ... complained also of insomnia Sleep disturbances are known to increase pain sensation We observed an association between pain intensity and severity of depression and anxiety, which is intriguing and...
... markets, investment and trade Power is made everyday by the small and large actions and reactions of individuals, groups, communities and institutions, going about their business within the inherited ... supporting me, and all of my family and friends, particularly my parents Christine and Colin for their unerring patience Colleagues and students also need a mention, since intellectual influence ... motivating and disciplining, providing moral leadership and proving a clarion call against the neglect of the poor, diseased and incapable As a social project it carries all the great meanings...
... and ‘petrodollar’ windfalls In the mid-1980s the DFIs matured into strategic global institutions through their role in managing the 1980s debt crisis This involved transferring and reorganising ... (NIFA) to include more countries in decisionmaking, by extending mechanisms of inclusion to include new institutions, a regulatory initiative and a new IMF committee The first new institution in response ... drops and foreign direct investment (FDI) is harder to obtain, as in the credit crunch beginning in 2007 and lasting through 2008, poorer countries are forced to garner liquidity from intergovernmental...
... efficiency and democracy, serving to check bureaucratic and petty bourgeois accumulation, job patronage and the politics of graft, increasing industrial flexibility and removing ethnic and racial ... resources in their functioning; that profits of a [ 37 ] Bracking_04_cha03.qxd 12/02/2009 10:56 Page 38 MONEY ANDPOWER few, and growth for some, thrive in conditions of uncertainty, inequality and ... International financial institutions count on ‘conditional convergence’ while inhibiting the required conditions from materialising International institutions urge state action while trapping states in structural...
... Page 50 MONEY ANDPOWER business cultures in their management of risk, in addition to financial instruments and sensitivity testing, and other modes of quantification and provisioning In this there ... providing an insurance for convertibility in an ‘IFC-led and -syndicated “liquidity backstop” feature’, and by so doing contributed to greater integration and cross-provisioning in the international ... MONEY ANDPOWER The International Finance Corporation and sovereign economies Large companies in the core states have currency and interest rate swaps made available to them by international investment...
... 1961 Financial Settlement and the primary responsibility for maintaining a proper balance in its own portfolio, andin 1963 restoration in the independent territories (Rendell 1976: 181, 168) In ... enterprises, and more latterly from direct involvement in financial companies in- country, and becoming instead a private equity emerging markets ‘fund of funds’, choosing to place its own funds in other ... from finding new investments in African agribusiness, the food industry and other sectors at commercial rates Aureos is ‘owned by CDC, Norfund, FMO and its management team to run existing and promote...