... International Studies 3 ABSTRACT OZEA, MATTHEW J., M.A., August 2008, Southeast Asian Studies Thai Literature at the Crossroads of Modernity: Advancing a Critique of Neo-liberal Development ... shortcomings of globalization and/or the failings of Thailand’s development agenda that are not apparent in the statistical analysis of economists or the assessments of both critics and supporters of ... Thai Literature at the Crossroads of Modernity: Advancing a Critique of Neo-liberal Development through the Writings of Khamsing Srinawk and Chart Korbjitti by MATTHEW J. OZEA has...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 12:09
... and the material base, between art and the totality... formulations of Marx and Engels, the conception has been made into a rigid schema, a schematization that has had devastating conse ... It was forced upon art through the separation of mental and material labor, J7 as a result of the prevailing relations of domina tion Dissociation from the. .. imaginable material ... for aesthetics The schema implies a normative notion of the material base as the true reality and a political devaluation bf nonmaterial forces particularly of the individual...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Getting what you want a critique of liberal morality dec 1997
... individual as a ‘wanting thing’ Brecher boldly argues that Anglo-American liberalism cannot give an adequate account of moral reasoning and action, nor any justification of moral principles or demands ... people want it, then that’s that But is this really a good thing? Does it even make sense? Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the ... make the assumption that getting ‘what people want’ is our natural goal, and that this ‘natural goal’ is a necessarily good one We see that whether it is a matter of pornography or getting married—if...
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Illegal but Common Life of Blast Fishermen in the Spermonde Archipelago, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
... Demak, Java Pangandaran, Java January 2002 February 2002 Kompas 12 January 2002 Kompas 23 and 27 February 2002 Gresik, East Java March 2002 Kompas, 12 March 2002 Pontianak, West Kalimantan March ... Archipelago, to areas such as the Sabalana Archipelago and the sea area around the mainland of Kalimantan 45 CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH METHODS AND STUDY AREA A Research Methods The field research conducted for ... of villagebased integrated coastal management (ICM) plans and marine protected areas (MPAs) (White et al 2005) A recent program is the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP)...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 12:10
a history of money and banking in the united states; the colonial era to world war ii
... international monetary system on the basis of this profoundly flawed and inflationary caricature of the classical gold standard Rothbard also analyzes the “inner contradictions” of the gold-exchange-standard ... of England All of these forecasts, and literally millions of others of a similar degree of certainty, are based on the specific understanding of the values and goals motivating millions of nameless ... formally or informally, to lead and direct the relatively inert majority This “Iron Law of Oligarchy,” as this internal manifestation of the law of comparative advantage has been dubbed, operates...
Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 10:45
Tài liệu MARRIAGE LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ppt
... description of an alternative marriage practice It is therefore important to determine what is actually meant by an ‘alternative’ to marriage A practice may be an ‘alternative’ to a regular marriage ... theological debate rather than as part of a discussion about the practical regulation of marriage,9 and that when theory was put into practice matters became rather more complicated.10 Exactly what was ... claimed that the Act fundamentally altered the very meaning of marriage for the participants,10 transforming marriage from a private and meaningful rite to a bureaucratic transaction.11 The fact...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Chasing String in the Digital Era docx
... devoid of a transactional sales imagination What is a “transactional sales imagination?” It is what comes to the heart of most sales To complete a sale, one needs to discover what makes a potential ... This fact you would not hear from US media outlets, or Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned channel (King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is a staunch supporter of Mubarak) The Egyptian people outwitted and largely ... Data” and the NSA has not made the headlines Are these trades de facto tools of these unholy alliances? Not sure Perhaps the answer lies in an analysis of whose advertising dollars are at play...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20
Consumer Credit Law & Practice in the U.S. doc
... contemplates repeated transaction; may impose a finance charge from time to time for outstanding unpaid balances; and generally makes additional credit available when any outstanding balance is repaid ... the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, and age (as long as the applicant has the capacity to contract) The ECOA requires a creditor to inform an applicant in ... certain loan terms including prepayment penalties, increased interest rates at default, and due on demand clauses for situations other than default A 10 lender that has made a HOEPA loan generally...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21
The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials pptx
... naming and saving) provided as a percentage of the capture operators total salary costs on a daily basis • Cataloging/Metadata (required for digitization and/or created at capture stage) as a ... salary • Web Programmer’s salary • Educational Officer’s salary (or other additional project staff) • Cataloging/Metadata (post capture creation) % of total salary costs • Additional technical ... Metadata/Cataloging: The creation of metadata records for the digital material This work may also involve cataloging the analog material or searching for information to enhance the metadata record...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20
Countering Piracy in the Modern Era pptx
... swath of pirate attacks currently being witnessed off the Horn of Africa are a direct manifestation of the general lawlessness and anarchy that has been such an endemic feature of Somagency As far ... action on the part of maritime states abutting attack-prone regions This became readily apparent in 2005 after Lloyds of London declared the Malacca Straits an Area of Enhanced War Risk Faced with ... maritime patrols, the creation of centralized databases to facilitate the rapid exchange of intelligence, the initiation of a nascent regime of airborne surveillance over the Malacca Straits and,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
Writing Theory and Practice in the Second Language Classroom: A Selected Annotated Bibliography potx
... their native language as a point of departure) Troyanovich advocates an audiolinguallystructured classroom based solely on the spoken word Valdes, Guadalupe, Paz Haro and Maria Paz Echevarriarza “The ... filters, are aware of their audience (i.e., use reader-based prose), and concentrate (at least initially) on content rather than accuracy Krashen argues that concerns for grammar should only appear at ... Several of the authors maintain that writing as process (rather than as product) is an essential part of an equitable classroom The individual authors provide examples of feminist pedagogy and...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20
university alabama press stone tool traditions in the contact era sep 2003
... researchers that the somewhat mundane aesthetic appeal of stone tools and debitage relegates those artifacts to a category of “data habitus”—empirical taken-for-granteds that are unremarkable ... PLAINS Much is known about Arikara acculturation on the Northern Plains because of the accumulation of a large database of excavated earth lodges and the syntheses wichita tools on first contact ... clusters, of which ¤ve contained enough material to be amenable to quantitative analyses The features contained an abundance of Native-American objects: ceramic containers; animal bone waste from...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:52
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 1 pptx
... Rosana T V Braga Chapter Lightning Energy: A Lab Scale System 89 Mohd Farriz Basar, Musa Yusop Lada and Norhaslinda Hasim Chapter Fabrication and Characterization of MicroPCMs Jun-Feng Su Chapter ... Shao and BaoLian Yi Part Practical Applications of Energy Storage 299 Chapter 14 Energy Storage for Balancing a Local Distribution Network Area 301 I Grau Unda, P Papadopoulos, S Skarvelis-Kazakos, ... composition of the negative plate made of hydrogen adsorbed on a metallic alloy This can be of the type AB5 (mixture of nickel and rare earths) and AB2 (mixture of nickel and titanium, vanadium and zirconium)...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 2 pot
... Ogawa, S., Katsukawa, H., Mizutani, H & Okamura, M (2003) A Study of Series-Parallel Changeover Circuit of a Capacitor Bank for an Energy Storage System Utilizing Electric Double Layer Capacitors ... (Fig 8 (a) ) Al electrolytic capacitors having capacitance of 470 μF each were used for C1–C3 The ac voltage for the equalizer was 17 Vac (peak-to-peak voltage of 48 V) and was provided by a 50 Hz ... intermediate taps of S0–S2 are bidirectional switches 4.2.3 Experimental discharge performance With the goal of achieving an alternative application for a 42-V-battery with an operating voltage range...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 3 pdf
... computationally expensive Since there are typically several orders of magnitude between the computational times of analytical and numerical approaches, this advantage becomes a significant aspect ... minima and maxima are no longer located at the same height This indicates that optimization results that are only based on plain stress or strain assumptions and axial symmetry should at least ... can be split up into partitions that can directly be associated with the mass of each material It should be noted that these prices are often hardly available in practice and are subject to various...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 4 pot
... 11 Parameters of Fuzzy System Membership Functions Trapezoidal and Triangular Implication Operator Minimum of Mamdani Agregation Operator Maximum Defuzzification Center of Area Table Main Parameters ... systems are potentially able to express and manipulate qualitative information, another advantage in the application of Mamdani fuzzy systems is due to the fact that domain experts are able to map ... Mohd Farriz Basar, Musa Yusop Lada and Norhaslinda Hasim Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia Introduction This chapter which has six subchapters explains the energy storage system...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 5 docx
... triamine (DETA) n-Octadecane is usually a PCM desirable for usage in thermal storage and releasing for its availability in a reasonable phase change temperature range and its large amount latent ... least of fifty shells for each sample were measured and the average data was recorded by a MiVnt Image analyze system automatically From the data in Fig 4 (a) , it shows that the thickness of OSC and ... %, was purchased from Shanghai Hongqi Chem Company (Shanghai, China) The n-octadecane purchased from Tianjin Fine Chemical Company (Tianjin, China) was encapsulated as the core material All other...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 6 pptx
... Karshenas1,2, Hamid Daneshpajooh2, Alireza Safaee2, Praveen Jain2 and Alireza Bakhshai2 1Department of Elec & Computer Eng., Queen’s University, Kingston, 2Isfahan University of Tech., Isfahan, ... such as bacteria and fungi Studying ATP storage in animals with special characteristics such as hibernating animals or those with high resistance against thirst or starvation might also provide a ... minimum at q = and maximum at q = Therefore the range of variations of LOP can be determined for any kind of mitochondrion After determination of the related parameters, Φ can be calculated for any...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 7 pptx
... VA vac ,A ωt -VA VB φ vac,B ωt VA+VB/n vLk= vac ,A- v’ac,B VA-VB/n ωt -VA+VB/n -VA-VB/n π 2π ωt ik (a) φ vac ,A ωt -VA VB vac,B -VB vLk= vac ,A- v’ac,B ωt VA+VB/n VA-VB/n ωt -VA+VB/n -VA-VB/n ... Buck-Boost converter allows controlling in a separate way a switch for each particular condition of operation The main advantage of this concept is an accurate control of the output voltage by duty cycle ... power P and the average time of the regulation TR, as given in the following equation W = P ⋅ TR (1) The topology of EGS with battery can achieve some operating advantages The main advantage of using...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids Part 8 potx
... Emerging Era of Smart Grids Fig Photographs of naturally (a- b) and artificially (c-d) self-assembled biomaterials: (a) shell of nautilus (http://en.wikipedia.org/), (b) hexagonal array of eye of drosophilia ... biomaterials are duplicated generating isostructural target materials Some examples of duplicated nanomaterials are presented in Figure (Zhou et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2010) Nanomaterials can ... non-biological nanostructured materials (Sanchez et al., 2005) Biomaterials are composed of organic materials that contain various functional groups, so their acidities and polarities at the surface can...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20