Dr. Class' resignation, which was precipitated, according to his prepared, statement, by "a growing conflict of philosophy between the President (Pitzer) and myself with respect to the practices and policies to be followed in the best interest of Jones College," will take effect at the end of this semester. Dr. Vandiver will serve as Master of Jones for the second semester tefore he assumes dut...

This paper considers manipulation of collective choice – in such environments, a potential alternative is powerful only to the degree that its introduction can affect the collective decision. Using the Banks set (Banks [1985]), we present and characterize alternatives that can, and those that can not, affect sophisticated collective decision making. Along with offering two substantive findings ...

A novel ultra-high compliance, low power, very accurate and high output impedance current output stage (COS) with extremely high output current drive capability is proposed in this paper. The principle of operation of this unique structure is discussed, its most important formulas are derived and its outstanding performance is verified by HSPICE simulation in TSMC 0.18µm CMOS, BSIM3, and Level4...

The article analyzes the linguistic nature of some nuclear lexemes (power, control, authority, influence) verbalizing the basic concept of the English-language political discourse – the concept of “Power”. The paper reveals the structure of the concept, its conceptual features, as well as the main characteristics of the concept representatives at the language and functional levels.

the prophet’s political activities in medina indicate a particular kind of power exercise in the public domain. on the other hand, after receiving shari’a, he promulgated it and enforced the related verdicts and teachings among people. realization of these two facts in his behavior turns the relationship between power exercise by him and islamic shari’a into a basic question. the relationship b...