(b) Greenland and South America compared 21 1.5 Selected countries of the world and states of the USA compared 22 on three different scales 2.1 The state of the world around 1500 28 2.2 The political geography of Europe around 1500 29 2.3 The world in the 1760s on the eve of the War of American 31 Independence 2.4 The fifty-one founder-members of the United Nations at the end 35 of the Second World War 3.1 The twelve major regions of the world used represented 47 according to their population size 3.2 The demographic transition model (a) Author’s modification of the basic model 53 (b) Relationship of birthrate and deathrate to annual rate of 53 change of population for selected countries 3.3 Demographic irregularities (a), (b) Population structures of China (1982) and Japan (1978) 57 (c) Author’s reconstruction of the population of Paraguay in 57 1871 (d) Excess of males over females in groups of working age, 57 reflecting large-scale immigration (e) Central part of Shanghai, China, in 1980 57 (f) Comparison of the population structures of Apurímac and 57 Lima Departments, Peru

2003 ◽  
pp. 656-656
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Population Structures ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Second World

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

scholarly journals Recent update on COVID-19 in India: Is locking down the country enough?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitender Singh Virk ◽  
Syed Azmal Ali ◽  
Gurjeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Growth Factor ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Indian Population ◽  
Lasso Regression ◽  
Logistic Curve ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

AbstractBackgroundIndia is the second-largest population in the world, and it is not well equipped, hitherto, in the scenario of the global pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 could impart a devastating impact on the Indian population. Only way to respond against this critical condition is by practicing large-scale social distancing. India lock down for 21 days, however, till 7 April 2020, SARS- CoV-2 positive cases were growing exponentially, which raises the concerns if the number of reported and actual cases are similar.MethodsWe use Lasso Regression with α = 0.12 and Polynomial features of degree 2 to predict the growth factor. Also, we predicted Logistic curve using the Prophet Python. Further, using the growth rate to logistic, and carrying capacity is 20000 allowed us to calculate the maximum cases and new cases per day.ResultsWe found the predicted growth factor with a standard deviation of 0.3443 for the upcoming days. When the growth factor becomes 1.0, which is known as Inflection point, it will be safe to state that the rate is no longer exponential. The estimated time to reach the inflection point is between 15-20 April. At that time, the estimated number of total positive cases will be over 12500, if lockdown remains continue.ConclusionsOur analysis suggests that there is an urgent need to take action to extend the period of lockdown and allocate enough resources, including personnel, beds, and intensive care facilities, to manage the situation in the next few days and weeks. Otherwise, the outbreak in India can reach the level of the USA or Italy or could be worse than these countries within a few days or weeks, given the size of the population and lack of resources.

THE LOSS OF A GRAIN FUMIGANT MIXTURE OF CARBON TETRACHLORIDE AND CARBON BISULFIDE THROUGH SEALING AND VARIOUS COVERING MATERIALS

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-597
Author(s):  
S.R. Loschiavo ◽  
N.D.G. White
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Tetrachloride ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Stored Products ◽  
Stored Grain ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Carbon Bisulfide ◽  
Low Toxicity

Fumigants that are liquid formulations at room temperature have been widely used to kill insects in stored products, containers, and soil. Carbon bisulfide was one of the first fumigants used on a large scale as early as 1869 and is still the main fumigant used in some parts of the world (Bond 1984). Carbon bisulfide is highly flammable (Fleming and Baker 1935) and is usually formulated with carbon tetrachloride to aid distribution of fumigants in grain masses (Berck 1958) and to reduce the fire hazard. Although carbon tetrachloride is of low toxicity to insects it causes extensive liver damage in humans (Rouiller 1964). Liquid fumigants were widely used to disinfest stored grain in the USA until recently (White et al. 1985), and are still used in many other parts of the world (FA0 1985).

The Political Economy of the Anglosphere: Geography Trumps History

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-119
Author(s):  
John Ravenhill ◽  
Jefferson Huebner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Preferential Trade Agreements ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Second World

Economic integration among Anglosphere economies peaked during the period from 1870 to 1960. Maintenance of Imperial Preferences and the Sterling Area ensured that Britain remained the dominant market for most colonies and Dominions in the early post-Second World War period. Britain’s entry into the EEC, the ending of Commonwealth preferences, and the rapid growth of Asian economies caused the UK’s share in Anglosphere economies’ exports to decline rapidly. Growth in the US market share offset some of this decline until the financial crisis of 2007–8 reversed this trend. The significance of intra-Anglosphere trade has declined substantially – from approximately two-thirds of countries’ total trade in 1913 and in 1947 to just over one-third in 2016. Contemporary trade patterns are shaped more by geography than history. The world economy remains substantially regionalised, especially for manufacturing. Many preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are regional in scope: Anglosphere economies have been prominent participants in these arrangements but their partners are typically neighbouring countries rather than other Anglosphere economies. The EU has been the most active negotiator of PTAs: the challenge for a post-Brexit UK will be to negotiate access to markets equivalent to that currently enjoyed through membership of EU PTAs.

scholarly journals Germany and China Have Savings Gluts, the USA Is a Sump: So What?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Lance Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trade Imbalance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Bp Model ◽  
American Economy

A “global saving glut” was invented by Ben Bernanke in 2005 as a label for positive net lending (imports exceeding exports) to the American economy by the rest of the world. This trading situation had already emerged around 1980, and led to the Plaza Accord in 1985. One common explanation is based on the Mundell-Fleming IS/LM/BP model. But this model cannot be valid, since the “BP” equation is not independent of “IS.” Other champions of this saving glut hypothesis rely on loanable funds theory, which is institutionally inadequate. More plausible analyses of the persistent trade imbalance can be derived from a two-country IS/LM set-up devised by Wynne Godley, a Kaleckian description of the political economy of East Asia and the United States, and dissection of the terms of trade due to W. Arthur Lewis and Luigi Pasinetti.

scholarly journals Covid-19 transmission dynamics during the unlock phase and significance of testing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Paul ◽  
Samrat Chatterjee ◽  
Nandadulal Bairagi
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lower Growth ◽  
Epidemic Curve ◽  
Large Scale Testing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lower Growth Rate

The pandemic disease Covid-19 caused by SARS-COV-2, which emerged from Wuhan, China, has established itself as the most devastating disease in the history of infectious disease, affecting 216 countries/territories across the world. Different countries have developed and adopted various policies to contain this epidemic and the most common were the social distancing and lockdown. Though some countries have come out of this pandemic, the infection is still increasing and remains very serious in the rest of the world. Even when the disease is not under control, many countries have withdrawn the lockdown and going through the phase-wise unlocking process, causing a further increment in the infection rate. In such a scenario, the role of the undetected class of infected individuals has become very crucial. The present study is an attempt to understand and estimate the possible epidemic burden during the unlock phase in the presence of an undetected class. We proposed a modified SEIR model and dissected the epidemiological status of different countries with the available data. With the initial establishment of the model with the epidemic data of four countries, which have already attained the epidemic peak, the study focused more on countries like India and the USA, where the epidemic curve is still growing, but the unlock process has started. As a straightforward result, we noticed a significant increase in the undetected and detected infected cases under the ongoing unlock phase. Under such conditions, our recalibration exercise showed that an increase in the testing could revert the existing growth rate of the infected cases to the lower growth rate of the lockdown period. Our present study emphasizes on the implementation of 3T principles, trace, test, and treat, to contain the epidemic. The significance of large scale testing in controlling the epidemic is true for both India and the USA though they have different socio-economic conditions. The use of repurposing drugs may further decrease the infected cases and help the disease controlling process. We believe our proposed strategy obtained through a mathematical model will help to make a better policy for the unlock phase.

Comparative Perspectives on White and Indigenous Women's Political Citizenship in Queensland: The 1905 Act to Amend the Elections Acts, 1885 to 1899

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Grimshaw
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
White Women ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short List ◽  
Political Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Second World

The centenary of the passage in early 1905 of the Act to Amend the Elections Acts, 1885 to 1899, which extended the right to vote to white women in Queensland, marks a moment of great importance in the political and social history of Australia. The high ground of the history of women's suffrage in Australia is undoubtedly the passage of the 1902 Commonwealth Franchise Act that gave all white women in Australia political citizenship: the right to vote and to stand for parliamentary office at the federal level. Obviously this attracted the most attention internationally, given that it placed Australia on the short list of communities that had done so to date; most women in the world had to await the aftermath of the First or Second World Wars for similar rights.

MECHANISMS OF STRUCTURAL REFORMING OF CHINA’ ECONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADE CONFLICT WITH THE USA

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Evgeniy N. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Problem Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Relationship Of

The world economy recovers from global financial crisis slowly and unevenly that calls a question about efficiency and advantage of economic globalization for the countries of the world. Developing countries recovered from global financial crisis of 2008–2009 comparative quickly, and it was promoted in many respects by the high prices of raw materials and low levels of debt of these countries. NowChinatakes leader positions in the international capital flow and world trade. Globalization had significant effect on scales of the involvement of the country into world economic communications that became one of the reasons of overheating of national economy. The economy ofChina, besides the increasing overheating potential, begins to be under pressure from the trade conflict initiated by theUSA. In these conditions problems of structural reforming ofChina’ economy, on that depend competitive positions of the country in the world economy depend, become aggravated. In modern Sinology, the problems of trade conflicts between countries are studied very fragmentally. Approaches of the author are based on the results previously obtained by Russian scientists Y. M. Galenovich, A. P. Mozias, M. L. Titarenko, and theoretical developments of leading research centers. Historical approach, comparative, system analysis and synthesis, prognostic and problem analysis were used as instrumental scientific methods in the research presented in the article. The author's ideas are based on the hypothesis of the relationship of «overheating», appearing in the economies with the growth of economic contradictions and conflicts between them.

Israel and the Diaspora to 1967

2021 ◽  
pp. 506-521
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Zweig
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Zionist Organization

The creation of the State of Israel transformed the ties between the Jewish community there and the Jewish world at large. The World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency were supplanted by the institutions of the sovereign state. Similarly, prominent leaders of American Zionism, especially Abba Hillel Silver and Emanuel Neumann, became marginalized as the focus shifted to the politics of the Knesset and the political leadership of David Ben-Gurion. As the role of diaspora Zionism declined in importance, a new relationship of mutual interdependence emerged in the 1950s, as Israel and the diaspora collaborated in pursuing restitution, reparations, and indemnification for victims of the Holocaust. The non-Zionist Jacob Blaustein and the American Jewish Committee now defined the diaspora-Israel relationship.

A Look at the Yezidi Journey to Self-discovery and Ethnic Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Peter Nicolaus ◽  
Serkan Yuce
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The One

Yezidi communities throughout the world are struggling with their collective identity; each at a varying and somewhat differing stage of self-discovery. While the present paper does seek to elaborate upon this journey for the Yezidis in Transcaucasia, Germany, Canada, and the USA, its main focus remains the analysis of the political developments in the Yezidi heartland of Northern Iraq. This is so that the reader may have a fuller picture of the catalysts spurring this Yezidi reimagining. On the one hand, you have the traditional Yezidi leadership caught within a complex series of client-patron relationships with Kurdish leaders: ethnic identification is leveraged for promises of influence and power. While, on the other hand, newly minted Yezidi military commanders, as well as grassroot figures and Yezidi NGOs, are trying to establish themselves as heads of a Yezidi community that is undeniably distinct from their Kurdish neighbours. This paper will further show that the withdrawal of the Kurdish Peshmerga in the face of the ISIS attack in 2014, the half-hearted responses of the regional Kurdish and Federal Iraqi governments, all coupled with the stalled return of Yezidi refugees contributed to a growing Yezidi movement to cement their identity, as well as satiate a growing urgency to define themselves as a distinct ethnoreligious entity.

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