Authorship and Text-making in Early China

Der vorliegende Band berichtet über die bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts, seine Historie und Perspektiven und erlaubt darüber hinaus auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Aufbaus eines Instituts in Afrika und auf die Lebensumstände und Eindrücke der Mitarbeiter

The arbiter state : governance of the minority at the micro-level

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).This thesis examines the governance of the minority at the micro-level in late colonial India. While the colonial production of micro-level state authority was inescapably conditioned by numerous political struggles between colonial subjects, the centrality of the minority in this story of state formation and citizen making is missing from most conventional descriptions of colonial governmental rationality. This study argues that the specifically colonial formulation of the minority as a figure to be both protected and inserted on to the path to modern citizenship shaped the regulation of customary modes of charity and inheritance as well as the regulation of local government power itself. Indeed, the dual commitment to protecting and modernizing of the minority constituted the micro-level state as arbiter: absolute in its judgment in cases of conflict between subjects, even though this authority was predicated on the principles of non-interference and deliberation.by Shiben Banerji.M.C.P

The Nano Controversy: Peasant Identities, the Land Question and Neoliberal Industrialization in Marxist West Bengal, India

As the peasant-Nano opposition suggests, urban activists and intellectuals dubbed the movement against the land acquisition and building of the factory as a complete rejection of globalization and industrialization. This paper contests these public images of the protests against land acquisition by drawing attention to certain paradoxes that the Singur case presents (which I discuss below). I address these paradoxes through an ethnography done in villages where the controversy and the protests took place for two years (2006-2008). My ethnography suggests a perspective on protests against land acquisition in India, which is different from the usual narrative of capitalist industrialization and globalization that Marxists, such as David Harvey (2007, 2008) has put forward

Authorship and Text-making in Early China

Der vorliegende Band berichtet über die bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts, seine Historie und Perspektiven und erlaubt darüber hinaus auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Aufbaus eines Instituts in Afrika und auf die Lebensumstände und Eindrücke der Mitarbeiter

Mapping Time in the Shiji and Hanshu Tables 表

This essay considers the achievements, contrasts, and puzzles that bind the Shiji and Hanshu Tables to one another, and to their respective authors’ historical views. Meanwhile, this essay queries the common wisdom that would reduce the Shiji and Hanshu tables to “mere sequence,” as opposed to creative historical writing, while deriding the tables as either “primitive” or “derivative.

Cost Burden of the ‘Presenteeism’ Health Outcome in a Diverse Nurse and Pharmacist Workforce: Practice Models and Health Policy Implications

The complex phenomenon of presenteeism is an undesirable health outcome that occurs when employees remain present on-the-job with lowered work productivity caused by personal health conditions. The cost burden of presenteeism in healthcare professionals has been under-explored and the cost burden of presenteeism across racial and ethnic minority employees has been un-explored. Aims of this research were to describe presenteeism and its cost burden among nurses and pharmacists and to determine distinctness of differences across racial/ethnic groups within these professions. In exploring presenteeism, the focus was on recognizing it, characterizing it, and measuring it. In monetizing presenteeism, its costs burden from the perspective of the employer was determined at the broader workforce level. This analytical study entailed an on-line survey of a cross-sectional, convenience sample of 226 nurses and pharmacist stratified by race and ethnicity (23% minorities and 77% non-minorities). Wellness-at-Work, a patient reported outcomes (PRO) tool that adopted presenteeism scales from two well established presenteeism surveys were administered. Contingency tables using Chi-square tests established association or differences by profession or race. Ordinal logistic regression modeled 12 predictors of presenteeism and the human capital approach determined cost burden. Over half, 52.65%, of the sample (226) reported experiencing presenteeism -- 47.06% nurses and 52.94% pharmacists. Mean rate of reported presenteeism was 13.2%. Presenteeism was the driver of annual lost productivity valued at $12,700 per nurse or pharmacist, a workforce value of$2.6 million loss. The likelihood of presenteeism increased 22.4% if professionals suffered physical health symptoms, increased 22.5% if they suffered mental health conditions, decreased 34% if their physical and mental health conditions were never treated by pharmacotherapy, and decreased 29% if their mental or physical health conditions were previously treated by pharmacotherapy (but not currently treated). Both professions had significant self-reported mental health conditions and physical health symptoms. Physical health symptoms significantly associated with presenteeism were: feeling tired or no energy; back or neck pain; pain in arms, legs, joints; watery eyes, runny nose or stuffy head; trouble sleeping; headaches; muscle soreness; cough or sore throat; fever, chills, or other cold/flu; constipation, loose bowels, or diarrhea; and nausea, gas, or indigestion. Depression and anxiety were more prevalent conditions than the common cold or flu symptoms in these knowledge-based professions and mental health conditions were a significant predictor of presenteeism. Rates of presenteeism between racial and ethnic non-minority and minority groups and rates between nurses and pharmacists were not found to be significantly different (p=.5774 and p=0.4282 respectively). Of note is that rates of presenteeism for racial ethnic minorities were slightly lower than non-minorities, but not statistically significantly so. The imperative for individual health care employers was to address workforce cost burden by being the catalyst for developing creative practice models and changing health policies