AMONG TE lives of the many men and women who have been qualified to practise the art of medicine are a number who have moved from that discipline into others where they have made a name and reputation for themselves which they might not have attained to had they remained loyal to their first choice: yet they have brought to their other work something which they learned in the days when their fi...

in a structural analysis, the “rebellion & decline” theme creates a narrative structure in which eleven stories of shāhnāmeh – equal to 3.18 per cent of the whole epic – are included, which makes it the tenth largest sequence of the shāhnāmeh. this narrative structure (sequence) consists of initial tranquillity, the king’s rebellion, his decline, and ultimate tranquillity. the epical theme of r...

1 ABSTRACT Civil war is fought between two political organizations, the state and a rebel group. Myriad theories of civil war have examined the role of state institutions and state strength, but little attention has been devoted to theorizing about rebel organizations themselves. This paper focuses on the organizational structure of rebel groups to understand patterns of recruitment and allegia...

What happens when scientists become activists? In this paper, we discuss the principles, commitments and experiences of Scientist Rebellion (SR), a movement scientists, academics, researchers committed to activism, advocacy non-violent civil disobedience against (in)actions governments, corporations other institutions, including academic ones. sharing from frontlines direct actions with SR alon...

Historians studying women and gender during Reconstruction have uncovered a wealth of connections between society, culture, politics, labor, and economics. One theme has emerged as crucial through many of these works, yet has no single study considers how the relationship between labor and the family was transformed by war, the emancipation of slaves, and reconciliation. How did emancipation an...

The ground field k is algebraically closed and of characteristic zero. Let g be a reductive algebraic Lie algebra over k and σ an involutory automorphism of g. Then g = g0 ⊕ g1 is the direct sum of σ-eigenspaces. Here g0 is a reductive subalgebra and g1 is a g0-module. Let G be the adjoint group of g and G0 ⊂ G a connected subgroup with LieG0 = g0. The commuting variety of (g, g0) is the follow...

Many of the flows described in this study can affect grandscale geopolitical events. Cocaine trafficking has fed instability in Guinea-Bissau; firearms trafficking has fueled a rebellion in northern Mali; maritime piracy threatens to undermine commerce in the Gulf of Guinea. These flows demonstrate that transnational organized crime has truly risen to the level of a security threat in West Africa.