The Construction of Territories in the Qin Empire

T oung Pao ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 509-554
Author(s):  
Chun Fung Tong
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Strategy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Territorial Control ◽  
Strong Control ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract This essay revisits the territoriality of the Qin empire by examining the spatial division underneath its commandery-county system. With the universal implementation of centralized administration, scholars usually believe that the Qin empire exerted strong control across its territories. But new Qin sources suggest otherwise. It is evident that the Qin regime devised multiple schemes to structure its empire into three concentric zones with asymmetrical political relations. The respective features and functions of these zones were consonant with those of the center, semiperiphery, and periphery in the “core-periphery” model. The regime’s spatial strategy can be understood as a compromise made to accommodate the diverse landscape in different parts of its vast empire, especially in the newly conquered regions. This reminds us that despite having installed the unitary commandery-county system, the territorial control wielded by the Qin regime in its new territories was tenuous at best.

From Prime Ministerial Power to Core Executive

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
The Core ◽  
Executive Politics ◽  
Core Executive ◽  
The Government ◽  
Different Parts

The core executive is a new concept replacing the conventional debate about the power of the prime minister and the Cabinet. It refers to all those organizations and procedures that coordinate central government policies, and act as final arbiters of conflict between different parts of the government machine. In brief, the ‘core executive’ is the heart of the machine. The chapter reviews the several approaches to studying the British executive: prime ministerial government; prime ministerial cliques; Cabinet government; ministerial government; segmented decision-making; and bureaucratic coordination. It then discusses several ways forward by developing new theory and methods. The Afterword discusses the core executive as interlocking networks, and the fluctuating patterns of executive politics.

The One-Way Street of Integration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Fair Housing ◽  
Spatial Strategy ◽  
Regional Equity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The One ◽  
Development Movement

The book examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have for decades constituted contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. The book traces the tensions between these two approaches as they have been manifest in different ways since the 1940s. The core argument is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The book presents a critique of integration efforts of fair housing for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. In the pursuit of regional equity and racial justice, causes that both sides of the integration / community development dispute claim as important, it is the community development movement that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

Compositional and architectural variation in urinary calculi from nucleus to periphery: an integrated IR spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and powder X-ray diffraction approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1794-1804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paramita Chatterjee ◽  
Samiran Pramanik ◽  
Alok Kumar Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Kidney Stones ◽  
Urinary Calculi ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Carbonated Hydroxyapatite ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Core ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Scanning Electron

A combination of IR spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and powder X-ray diffraction has been used to analyze the compositional and architectural variation across the different parts (core, middle and outer layers) of five human urinary calculi (KS1–KS5) from eastern India. Rietveld quantitative phase analysis using X-ray powder diffraction revealed that the composition of the core regions in KS1–KS3 and KS5 is exclusively whewellite, whereas in KS4 it is a mixture of whewellite (84.5 wt%) and carbonated hydroxyapatite (15.5 wt%). While one of the renal stones, KS1, is composed of only whewellite in all three regions, a distinct variation in phase composition from the core towards the periphery has been observed in KS2–KS5. A drastic change in phase composition has been noted in KS5, with the major constituent phases in the core, middle and outer layers as whewellite (100.0 wt%), anhydrous uric acid (60.7 wt%) and carbonated hydroxyapatite (69.6 wt%), respectively. The crystallite size of whewellite in different parts of the kidney stones varies between 91 (1) and 167 (1) nm, while the corresponding sizes of the anhydrous uric acid in KS5 and carbonated hydroxyapatite in KS3 are 107 (1) and 18 (1)–20 (1) nm, respectively. SEM images of the kidney stones showed different levels of organization, resulting from an agglomeration of crystallites with diverse shapes and sizes.

INDIA AND SERVICES OUTSOURCING IN ASIA

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (03) ◽  
pp. 419-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUPA CHANDA
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Service Outsourcing ◽  
Delivery Model ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Section ◽  
Services Outsourcing ◽  
Different Parts

This paper examines India's role in services outsourcing within Asia. It provides a brief overview of the global as well as Indian services outsourcing industry. The core section examines India's relationship with other Asian countries such as China, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia in service outsourcing. It examines the extent to which these countries pose a competitive challenge to India and concludes that at this time, India is far ahead although it is likely to face growing competition as its costs rise. The paper highlights the need to move beyond this comparative paradigm and to examine the complementary and collaborative opportunities that exist between India and other Asian countries in services outsourcing. It concludes that there is considerable scope for such synergies and that India and other Asian countries can form different parts of a larger regional or global delivery model. Regional and bilateral agreements within Asia can also facilitate this process.

scholarly journals Structural modelling of multi-thread fancy yarn

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malek Alshukur ◽  
Hugh Gong ◽  
George Stylios
Keyword(s):  
Shape Factor ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
The Core ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Multiple Thread ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Fancy Yarns ◽  
Different Parts

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to mathematically model the structure of doubled fancy yarns made by combining together several threads. Design/methodology/approach It was assumed that such a structure may have two distinctive parts – sinusoidal and helical (i.e. sigmoidal). This model is based on calculating the length of the effect thread in relation to the core thread. The case of having several variants of such a structure was discussed to account for several types of doubled fancy yarns. The number of wraps of the binder, the overfed ratio, and heights of the fancy profiles in the different parts were the fundamental parameters of this model. The effects of changes in the number of wraps, the overfeed ratio or both simultaneously, on this model, were also considered. The shape factor of fancy yarn was also modelled depending on the basic model of the structure. Findings The model was tested and the correlation coefficient between the theoretical value and the real value of length of the effect thread was 0.90. Originality/value This model is useful for predicting the length of the effect component based on the type, dimension and number of the fancy profiles of doubled fancy yarn, and for understanding the changes of the multiple-thread structure of fancy yarn when the overfeed ratio and/or the number of wraps were to change.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Interethnic Harmony On The Stability Of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Pulatov Abrorjon Masutovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

The article examines modern socio-political relations, the rapid development of communication and information technologies, the expansion of ideological influence, impulses to improve methods and means of communication, as well as criminal threats to society. The study notes that the minds and hearts of people in different parts of the world turn into a training ground for testing various ideas, in other words, an ideological training ground for training. It is also clear that the activities of fanatical political Islamists and religious extremist movements that try to disguise religion and undermine religious values are one of the factors that threaten the spirituality of our children. Despite its growing role in the global geopolitical arena in Central Asia, it is important to protect our country, which is a key player in the region in terms of population and territory, from stereotypes of religious fanaticism, to create conditions for citizens so that they can practice their beliefs, tolerance and views on interethnic harmony, further strengthening the centuries-old traditions and customs of our people.

scholarly journals Biotechnological Strategies for a Resilient Potato Crop

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Rakosy-Tican ◽  
Imola Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Genome Editing ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Potato Crop ◽  
Wild Relatives ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Multiple Resistance ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

The aim of this chapter is to describe in a synthetic manner the most efficient biotechnological techniques which can be applied in potato breeding with emphasis on multiple resistance traits. To this end, most important results of all biotechnological techniques will be pointed out including new biotechnological tools of genome editing. The somatic hybridization will be the core of the presentation as the only non-GMO strategy with good results in transferring multiple resistances into potato gene pool. The chapter is presenting all data in a synthesized form and made comparisons between the existing techniques and their possible adoption in breeding in different parts of the world, depending on regulations and consumer choice. Moreover, the recently discovered value of potato as a healthy food and its possible applications in cancer treatment will be also discussed with new data on both potato and some of its wild relatives.

Paleogeography of the West Siberian Sedimentary Basin in the Late Bajocian–Bathonian

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (08) ◽  
pp. 964-976
Author(s):  
V.A. Kazanenkov
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
The West ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Description ◽  
First Time ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
West Siberian Basin

Abstract —The paper presents results of regional paleogeographic reconstructions of the West Siberian sedimentary basin in the Late Bajocian–Bathonian. Regional paleogeographic maps of the Yu4, Yu3 and upper part of the Yu2 reservoir units were constructed and described for the first time ever. The implemented approach provided insights into the evolution of paleolandscapes and highlighted the deposition features of the Upper Tyumen Subformation and Malyshev Formation in the different parts of the West Siberian basin. The compilation of paleogeographic maps was based on the electrofacies analysis performed for individual parts of the Malyshev stratigraphic horizon, with regard to the core description materials, paleontological, sedimentological, geochemical data and other. The paleogeographic control of the reservoir’s formation in the Bathonian regional reservoir is discussed.

Crime Against Humanity: A Defence of the “Subsidiarity” View

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Vernon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
State Crime ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
The Core ◽  
Moral Basis ◽  
Territorial Control ◽  
Larry May

“Subsidiarity” views of crime against humanity propose that state crime is at the core of the idea, thus necessitating a further level of authority. That proposal can be given a strong moral justification in terms of the enormous risks that arise from a state’s authority and territorial control. Discussions of crime against humanity by Larry May and Norman Geras, however, offer different views of the idea, May proposing that it be seen as group-based crime (in one or both of two senses), Geras proposing that it be seen as a serious violation of human rights. Those views are questioned on the basis of their fit with either the nature of the crimes involved or the moral basis of their condemnation, and the subsidiarity view is restated.

CITY AS A STAGE: «STARYY» - «BEZYMYANKA» - «KREATIVNYY»

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (77) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
E.Ya. Burlina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Songs ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Core ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
International Festival

The relevance of research. In 2007, the industrial city of Essen, Germany, and the accompanying "ring" of mining towns in the Ruhr Valley, quite unexpectedly became the European Capital of Culture. Essen did not lose in a number of such senior cities as Athens and Florence, world centers like Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. On the contrary, the project of an industrial city has generated creative interest. The aim of the project was to solve such problems of industrial cities as the ecology of an industrial city, monuments of factory culture. The core of the project was mining biographies and the memory of the profession. The article provides links to similar transformations of the "Soviet Magnitka" - Uralmash in Yekaterinburg and other industrial cities of Russia. The “case of Samara” is considered in most 62 Гуманитарные науки Humanitarian Sciences ________________________________________________________________________________________________ detail. The author's hypothesis is that there is a rift in Samara between the "old" and "industrial city". This is confirmed by the analysis of chronotopes of different parts of the city and the proposed hypothesis of urban archetypes. Research methodology. The article uses the analysis of biographies and the go-along method. The author's concept of the chronotopic fault of the city became the substantive basis of this article. The cultural projects that the industrial "Bezymyanka" gave birth to give a high assessment of their projectivity, which has outstripped its time. Among the "nameless cultural projects" there is a unique mathematical and aesthetic school, a competition for young musicians named after D. B. Kabalevsky, the Valery Grushin International Festival is the world's largest festival of art songs. The city needed creative projects and it deserves study and further development. Conclusion: the problem of different cultural territories within one city inevitably leads to the division of territories and the inhibition of the creative development of the city as a whole.

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