scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Water Resources Use Effectiveness in the West Siberia Regions in Comparison with the Russian and West European Levels

2015 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Product ◽  
Effectiveness Assessment ◽  
Consumption Dynamics ◽  
West European

Analysis of the world experience in water resources use effectiveness assessment has been done. The water consumption dynamics in the West Siberia regions over the 1995–2013 period has been shown, comparison of the use effectiveness with the Russian and West European (Germany as an example) levels has been carried out. Critical significance of the regions’ sector specialization for specific water consumption and water consumption per pros regional product unit has been revealed.

Water Rights in the West Bank and in Gaza

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIRGIT SCHLÜTTER
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The World ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
International Decade

With the launch of the UN International Decade for Water on 22 March 2005, awareness is raised in the international community of the growing demand and scarcity of water for people throughout the world. Water is a particularly scarce resource in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The use of the water resources of the West Bank and Gaza has been part and parcel of the Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations. With the beginning of new peace negotiations under Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, the topic of water and its allocation to Palestinians and Israelis is back on the negotiation table. The present article will point to the water crisis in Israel and the Palestinian Territories and analyse core provisions of international law which govern the use of water resources. Finally, it will outline how an allocation of water rights according to principles of international law could take place.

Philosophical-anthropological project of Russian organicism and cosmism Russian in the context of the contemporary historical situation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Masloboeva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Subsequent Birth ◽  
Historical Necessity ◽  
West European

This monograph explains the historical necessity of the emergence in the nineteenth century the Russian organicism, and the subsequent birth of his Russian cosmism. On the basis of the age of the principle of the analysis of the history, the idea of which originated in Antiquity, but the most consistent development was in the works, T. N. Granovsky, reveals the connection of the inner logic of a growing world and domestic philosophical thought. Suitable vzaimodeystvie development of the West-European and Russian philosophy is confirmed by the comparative analysis of the evolution of philosophical anthropology, presented in the second section of the monograph. For students and teachers and all those interested in issues of Russian organicism and cosmism Russian.

scholarly journals Stilling and its aerodynamic effects on pan evaporation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Liqiao Liang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Vapour Pressure Deficit ◽  
Climate Factors ◽  
Pan Evaporation ◽  
The West ◽  
Sunshine Hours ◽  
The World ◽  
Standard Chinese

Declines in wind speed (u) (termed as “stilling”) has been reported in many regions of the world. To explore the temporal trends of u and its aerodynamics effects is vital to understand the changes in water resources. This study analyzed the changes of temporal trends for u and its aerodynamic effects using the data during 1959-2000 at 266 stations across China. The improved PanPen model was used to estimate Epan and quantify the contribution of radiative and aerodynamic components (aerodynamic component separated into wind speed u, vapour pressure deficit D, and air temperature Ta). Climate factors include Epan measured with the standard Chinese 20 cm diameter pan, u, Ta, relative humidity (rh) and sunshine hours (sh). The results showed: stilling occurred in most of stations (206 among 266) and 105 stations presented significant decreasing trends at 99% confidence level; stilling was the main cause for controlling the trends in Epan in most part of China, especially in the west and north of China. The results indicated that decreasing trends in Epan due to stilling would inevitably alter water resources, and should be put further investigation incorporation other factors.

The Muslim Discovery of Europe

1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
World History ◽  
European History ◽  
The West ◽  
Stages Of Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
West European

I suppose that most textbooks of European history or of world history—which in European textbooks is much the same thing—contain a chapter called ‘The Age of the Discoveries’, or something of the kind, which deals with the period from the fifteenth century onwards when Western Europe set about discovering the rest of the world. My subject to-day is another and earlier discovery, in which the West European was not the explorer going forth to discover the barbarian, but the barbarian discovered by the explorer—the Muslim explorer. My purpose is to outline, very briefly, the sources, nature, and stages of growth of Muslim knowledge concerning Western Europe, first in the obscure centuries before the Crusades, then during that great offensive of Western Christendom against Islam, of which the expeditions to Palestine were the easternmost expression.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the opera “Turandot” by G. Puccini and the Beijing Opera “Princess Turandot”

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Лиян У
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Peking Opera ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Проводится сравнительный анализ оперы Дж. Пуччини «Турандот» и пекинской оперы «Принцесса Турандот», который выстраивается на основе оппозиции Запад-Восток. Целью исследования является изучение специфических особенностей пекинской оперы, осуществляемое в опоре на историко-стилевой и культурологический подходы. В ходе исследования доказывается, что принципиальное несовпадение западного классического образца и пекинской версии истории о китайской принцессе определяется разностью культурных традиций, в опоре на которые формируется менталитет творческой элиты Запада и Востока. Теоретическая новизна обусловлена выявлением культурных отличий, обнаруживаемых в таком синтетическом жанре музыкального искусства, как западная опера и пекинская опера. Практическая значимость состоит в возможности использовать полученные данные в процессе интерпретации и реинтерпретации сказки К. Гоцци не в контексте оперного творчества, но и в рамках мирового художественного наследия, частью которого выступает спектакль «Принцесса Турандот». Поставленный в 1922 году Е. Вахтанговым, он и сегодня остается в репертуаре театра, вызывая восторг у публики. The paper presents a comparative analysis of the operas “Turandot” and “Princess Turandot”, which is built on the basis of the West-East opposition. In one case, we are talking about the creation of G. Puccini, in the other - about the Peking opera. The aim of the research is to study the specific features of the Peking opera, carried out in reliance on the historical, stylistic and culturological approaches. The study proves that the fundamental discrepancy between the Western classical model and the Peking version of the story about the Chinese princess is determined by the difference in cultural traditions, on the basis of which the mentality of the creative elite of the West and the East is formed. The theoretical novelty of the study is due to the identification of cultural differences found in such a synthetic genre of musical art as Western opera and Peking opera. The practical significance of the research lies in the possibility to use the obtained data in the process of interpretation and reinterpretation of C. Gozzi's fairy tale not in the context of operatic creativity, but also within the framework of the world artistic heritage, of which the play “Princess Turandot” is a part. Staged in 1922 by E. Vakhtangov, it remains in the theater's repertoire today, delighting the audience.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Bakhtin’s and Saussure’s Approaches in the Context of Structuralism and Poststructuralism

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Povtoreva ◽  
Oksana Chursinova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
The West ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The authors prove that Bakhtin’s works are basically connected with the structural approach. The philosopher analysed this methodology, especially ideas of Saussure, Russian formalism and others. He defined both its advantages and weak sides. The authors examine the specifics of Bakhtin’s methodology which were effectively used in the creation of an original humanistic philosophy of act. In the article the causes of popularity of Bakhtin’s works in the West philosophy discourse are revealed. The authors are making an accent on Bakhtin’s criticism, which was directed against the dehumanized tendencies of structuralism. This criticism is adequately used in modern times, because it helps to establish new humanism as well as to focus on the existence of man in the world.

NEW APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
D. K. FIELDHOUSE
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global World ◽  
West European

The world and the West: European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire. By Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+294. ISBN 0-521-77135-8. £19.95.The global world of Indian merchants. 1750–1947: traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama. By Claude Markovits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+327. ISBN 0-521-62285-9. £40.00.New frontiers: imperialism's new communities in East Asia 1842–1953. Edited by Robert Bickers and Christian Henrito. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+290. ISBN 0-7190-5604-7. £45.00.Colonial writing and the New World, 1583–1671: allegories of desire. By Thomas Scanlan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x+242. ISBN 0-521-64305-8. £37.50.

scholarly journals Conflict and Reconciliation of Binary Opposition in a Passage to India and a Passage to England

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Mahmoda Khaton Siddika
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Anglo Indian

The well-known myth of binary- England and India creates a conflict for the contrastive attitude in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Nirad C Chaudhuri’s travelogue A Passage to England. The binary opposition of Anglo-Indian as colonizers and Indians as colonized leads to another set of binary, white-colored, and civilized-primitive in A Passage to India. This binary contradicts each other to form them in another set of binary, controller-controlled during the British imperial rule in India. The contrastive structure is in the form of conflict reflected in their outlook, behavior, and lifestyle in this novel. On the other hand, by an eight-week-journey in western countries, Chaudhuri, as an Indian in England, exposes what he observes in the west together with the reality of India in the travelogue. He recognizes the social binaries upholded by Jacques Derrida in A Passage to England. Chaudhuri in his book has executed this binary sense as England-India, British-Indians possessing two independent entities of the world. The two writers, through Hegel’s dialectic process, place the binary opposition implanting Derrida’s view. The article focuses on the nature of the conflict and tries to explore reconciliation of the conflicts based on the comparative analysis of two books.

Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation in Sri Lanka

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudath Samaraweera ◽  
Athula Sumathipala ◽  
Sisira Siribaddana ◽  
S. Sivayogan ◽  
Dinesh Bhugra
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
General Population ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
National Average ◽  
The West ◽  
Suicide Methods ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
The World

Background: Suicidal ideation can often lead to suicide attempts and completed suicide. Studies have shown that Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world but so far no studies have looked at prevalence of suicidal ideation in a general population in Sri Lanka. Aims: We wanted to determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation by randomly selecting six Divisional Secretariats (Dss) out of 17 in one district. This district is known to have higher than national average rates of suicide. Methods: 808 participants were interviewed using Sinhala versions of GHQ-30 and Beck’s Scale for Suicidal Ideation. Of these, 387 (48%) were males, and 421 (52%) were female. Results: On Beck’s Scale for Suicidal Ideation, 29 individuals (4%) had active suicidal ideation and 23 (3%) had passive suicidal ideation. The active suicidal ideators were young, physically ill and had higher levels of helplessness and hopelessness. Conclusions: The prevalence of suicidal ideation in Sri Lanka is lower than reported from the West and yet suicide rates are higher. Further work must explore cultural and religious factors.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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