Time and rate dependent extensions to the progressively fracturing solid theory

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Évaluation d'additifs organiques dans des électrolytes liquides appliqués aux cathodes

Ce mémoire constitue une évaluation des additifs organiques appliqués aux batteries Lithium ions. En collaboration avec le Centre d'Excellence en électrification des transports et en stockage d'énergie d'Hydro-Québec, plusieurs additifs organiques ont été évalués afin de protéger l'électrolyte dans les batteries Li ions de la haute tension. La modélisation moléculaire et l'étude électrochimique des piles ont été utilisées pour sélectionner les additifs organiques. Un article scientifique a été soumis au Journal of Electrochemical Chemistry résumant les résultats de cette recherche

The Presidential Mediator: Different Terminologies Same Missions

The Ombudsman is a procedural mechanism that provides a different approach of dispute resolution. The ombudsman primarily deals with specific grievances from the public against governmental injustice and misconduct. The ombudsman theory is considered an important instrument to any democratic government. This is true since it improves the transparency of the governmental activities in a world in which executive power are rising. Many countries have adopted the concept of Ombudsman but under different terminologies. This paper will provide the different types of Ombudsman and the common activities/processes of fulfilling their mandates

Do Economics Trump Culture? Effects of Women's Work and Relative Economic Resources on Married Women's Authority in Household Decisionmaking in Jordan

The effects of work on women's household decisionmaking authority have been documented in many empirical studies. However, few studies have explored its effects in a social context where women's labor force participation is low. Little is known about the conditions through which women's work enhances authority within the household. Using 2007 Jordan Demographic and Health Survey I explore the effects of women's work and relative economic resources on their authority in household decisionmaking net of culturally relevant sources of power. The country has enhanced its human capital base, developed new industries and promoted women's work, but it also remains a bastion of traditional gender norms. Drawing on resource theory, gender performance theories, theories of institutionalized patriarchy and bargaining approaches, I argue that women's work and relative economic resources matter more for some dimensions of household decisionmaking than others. Engagement in the labor market confers exclusive control over matters of personal wellbeing, while enhancing women's leverage to participate in family management decisions. However, only women in nuclear households experience the benefits of productive work on authority in household decisionmaking. Results confirm the multidimensionality of household decisionmaking power, and a possible causal effect of work participation. While individual factors matter, regardless of women's economic resources and other characteristics, living in regions with high socio-economic development and less patriarchal norms is associated with greater decisionmaking authority. The results of this research contribute to our understanding of women's empowerment by empirically demonstrating the conditions under which economic resources may trump cultural scripts, when cultural factors may matter more, and when the two interact

Asymmetric digital subscriber line technology and the future of remote access networking

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The Reaction of Reformation Scholars in the Islamic-Arab Culture to the Effects of European Thought

This thesis represents an attempt to examine, through selected materials, the reactions of Arab scholars to the problem of Western modernity upon the Arabic-speaking world. This impact was, of course, not uniform in every area of this world, or in every sphere of its activities. This thesis is concerned primarily with political reactions and only secondarily with others, religious, social or cultural. From the first half of the nineteenth century, Arab scholars were faced with a situation similar to that faced by their predecessors in the period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. At that time the cultural influences that they confronted were diffuse, from Greece, from Persia and from India, and they arrived in a comparatively leisurely manner. Now they were concentrated, and the means by which they arrived were abrupt; confrontation was direct, with Westerners who appeared in the name of military intervention, or missionary or commercial activity. From that time onwards, there was hardly a thinker of note, in any field of intellectual activity, who had not received a Western-orientated education, without the influence of western culture, which brought with it a distaste for traditional institutions, it is difficult for the historian to see from what quarter the impetus for the revival of intellectual inquiry, and consequent desire for political reform, might have come. This scarcely requires substantiation, when we take into consideration the fact that these countries were for the most part subject to the stultifying rule of the Ottoman Empire. In what way should the tide of this Western influence be responded to? This was the question that constituted the basis of the theories formulated by the scholars