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The spread of modernity throughout the non-Western world has had transformative effects not only on governments and economies but on the lives of individuals as well. The constraints and opportunities of modernization inevitably lead to the breakdown and supplanting of older social relations and livelihoods. In this volume Andrew P. Davidson examines the Nuba Mountain region of western Sudan to show how individuals and families struggle to maintain or expand their well-being in the face of continuous uncertainty, when control of their destinies is increasingly slipping out of the comforting confines of the village.As in many third world regions, changes in agriculture and market activity have occurred in the Nuba mountains in a far more compressed tune frame than in Europe. Davidson charts the social effects of the rationalization process by concentrating on the household as a mediating structure between the individual and the larger society. In his analysis the livelihood strategies of households act as a microcosm for the unevenness of development that is characteristic of modernizing economies. Davidson offers a comparative and historical examination of economic life in three villages in order to better understand the capacities and limitations that ultimately condition what people can and cannot do. He shows how the older lineage system based on communalism, kinship, and age-based hierarchy is being displaced by new forces of social organization and individual orientation which have eroded village cohesion and left the Nuba vulnerable to the Islamic-dominated government in Khartoum and the ravages of the continuing Sudanese civil war.In its combination of empirical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and theoretical inquiry In the Shadow of History reconceptualizes development in such a way that the dynamics of historical transformation are made clear. This study hi the classic anthropological tradition will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, economists, historians, and Africa area specialists.

This title was first published in 2003. he public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension''s privatization, claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan), this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing, the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery, focusing on participatory approaches, education theory and pluralism.

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Theory predicts that when prey can reach a size refuge from predation, prey vulnerability to predation is a function of hatchling size, growth rate, and the handling limitations of its predator, which collectively influence the amount of time prey spend vulnerable. I examined the mechanistic role of prey size for the predator-prey interaction between predatory crayfish (Procambarus fallax) and apple snail prey (Pomacea paludosa and P. maculata) and found that crayfish feeding rates decreased with snail size, such that smaller hatchling P. maculata were more than twenty times more vulnerable than hatchling P. paludosa. Experimental manipulations of productivity increased apple snail growth rates, reducing the effects of predatory crayfish on P. maculata survivorship, but not P. paludosa survivorship. My results indicate that when prey can reach a size refuge from predation, increased system productivity decreases predator limitation of that prey.

Construction contracts are often complex and full of risk for both the Contractor and the Employer. From a Contractor''s point of view successfully balancing that risk whilst ensuring that obligations are carried out on time and on budget falls to today''s Contract Managers. Intended as an overview of this often complex task in today''s international construction industry, this book sets out guidelines on how to successfully safeguard a contractor''s contractual position whilst maintaining the right balance of risk to ensure a commercially successful project. The author draws on 35 years of international experience to give his own insight into this often bumpy journey from receiving an invitation to tender to project completion, and beyond.

Andrew Davidson goes behind the scenes at Britain''s largest hospital trust and describes a year in the life of a hospital through the stories of those who work there and those who pass through. St Thomas'' Hospital, opposite the Houses of Parliament, is one of the most famous centres of medical excellence in the world. For the past two years it has been the subject of bitter political controversy over the decision to amalgamate it with its rival, Guy''s. From the man who runs the Mortuary to the Chief Executive who has ''finished'' an affair with the head of PR - but who has just born his child - to the patients with Multi Drug Resistant Infection (an extremely scary potential by-product of going into hospital) and those who come into Casualty to have frozen fish removed from unlikely places - this is the most vividly realised book that has ever emerged from a modern hospital. It reveals the choices that doctors, nurses, administrators and patients must make each day - decisions that are often literally a matter of life and death.

The extraordinary true story of a young medical officer’s time in the trenches of the First World War from 1914-15, as seen through through the lens of his camera. Written by Fred’s grandson, Andrew Davidson, and interweaving contemporary narrative with 250 captivating, previously unknown photographs taken at the front, it is a must-have for history and photography enthusiasts alike. Fred’s War tells the extraordinary story of the 1st Cameronians, who achieved notoriety for selling the Great War’s earliest front line photographs, and Fred Davidson, their 25-year-old medical officer, one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross. His pictures are seen here for the first time, alongside those taken by his friend Lieutenant Robert Money and fellow officers. Using a unique approach blending 250 original photographs with contemporary narrative, the author, Fred’s grandson, pieces together the story behind the pictures that have passed through his family for three generations: describing the men who fought with Davidson, the conditions they served in, the battles they saw and the horrors they witnessed. From the parade ground at Glasgow’s Maryhill to the brothels of Armentieres, the book offers an unusually intimate portrait of life among a band of brothers – the same men who later proudly dubbed themselves ‘Old Contemptibles’.

Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are among the most complex of all financial instruments. Analysis of MBS requires blending empirical analysis of borrower behavior with the mathematical modeling of interest rates and home prices. Over the past 25 years, Andrew Davidson and Alexander Levin have been at the leading edge of MBS valuation and risk analysis. Mortgage Valuation Models: Embedded Options, Risk, and Uncertainty contains a detailed description of the sophisticated theories and advanced methods that the authors employ in real-world analyses of mortgage-backed securities. Issues such as complexity, borrower options, uncertainty, and model risk play a central role in the authors'' approach to the valuation of MBS. The coverage spans the range of mortgage products from loans and TBA (to-be-announced) pass-through securities to subordinate tranches of subprime-mortgage securitizations. With reference to the classical CAPM and APT, the book advocates extending the concept of risk-neutrality to modeling home prices and borrower options, well beyond interest rates. It describes valuation methods for both agency and non-agency MBS including pricing new loans; approaches to prudent risk measurement, ranking, and decomposition; and methods for modeling prepayments and defaults of borrowers. The authors also reveal quantitative causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis and provide insight into the future of the U.S. housing finance system and mortgage modeling as this field continues to evolve. This book will serve as a foundation for the future development of models for mortgage-backed securities.

2000 all-action, Dino Supersaur stickers for hours of stickering fun! This book is packed with scenes to fill with stickers, as well as sticker-and-doodle pictures to complete and inventive puzzles and activities. Children will love using the cartoon sound effects and speech bubble stickers to complete the comic strips and make the superpowered dinosaur goodies and baddies burst into life.

"As a twenty-five-year-old medical officer and one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross, Fred Davidson took countless photographs while he served in the trenches from 1914-1915. Though he took them illegally, more than 250 of the photographs shot by Davidson and his fellow officers survived and are now shared for the first time in this harrowing, eye-catching, and poignant narrative of the Great War. In A Doctor in the Great War, author Andrew Davidson-the grandson of Fred-depicts the everyday lives of soldiers, both on and off duty: from the parade ground at Glasgow''s Maryhill to the brothels of Armentieres, from the band of brothers who dubbed themselves "Old Contemptibles" to the original folding Kodak and Ansco cameras they used. It is the story of the 1st Cameronians, who achieved notoriety for selling the Great War''s earliest front line photographs. And it is a deeply personal account of the pictures that have been passed down for three generations, describing the men who fought with Fred Davidson, the conditions they served in, the battles they saw, and the horrors they endured."--Provided by publisher.

The studies described here coalesce around the application of using nanomaterials as X-ray sensitizers for the treatment of cancers and elucidate several important principles regarding this topic. Specifically in this work the interaction of X-rays with nanomaterials is explored through simulations and experiments to better characterize the potential applications of nanomaterials as radiosensitizers. The thesis has four major components. First, the mechanism by which nanomaterials can absorb X-rays and deposit energy in water is described by Monte Carlo simulations. Electrons emitted from a gold nanoparticle under X-ray radiation are followed and their energy deposition mapped. The dose enhancement factor by various gold nanomaterials, their shape, and arrangement are determined. These simulations demonstrate two types of physical dose enhancement in relation to the location of the nanoparticle, remote T1PE and local T2PE. Secondly, these theoretical studies are supported by experiments employing silica coated gold nanoparticles and a fluorescent probe to determine the amount of hydroxyl radicals produced in water, a main radical product of X-ray radiolysis. T1PE was measured for a range of gold concentrations and broadband X-ray spectra. The results were compared with simulations and a strong agreement is shown. Similarly, small bare gold nanoparticles at concentrations lower than predicted are shown to exhibit a new type of radiosensitization mechanism known as chemical enhancement. This chemical enhancement mechanism is found to arise from catalytic conversion of radical species on the surface of gold nanoparticles and is quantified under various chemical conditions. Employment of nanomaterial radiosensitizers for chemical reactions is demonstrated with the polymerization of aniline and measured with a surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Because of these enhancement schemes, it is possible to employ these nanomaterials to treat targets such as tumors in the body. The third part of this thesis deals with instrumentation to treat, detect and image nanomaterials. Methods to enhance the dose of X-rays at a target location are explored through Monte Carlo simulations. X-ray beam delivery geometries were simulated and the dosage at the isocenter was compared with that at the surface of the interaction medium. The developed simulation code is also used to study detection and imaging of nanomaterials which have been delivered to a volume of interest. X-ray fluorescence imaging is simulated to understand the feasibility of such a system to detect and image small areas with added nanomaterials. The final part of this thesis presents the results of investigating the toxicity of the nanomaterials and its implications into their future success as radiosensitizers. X-ray absorption spectroscopy is employed to analyze the state of silver nanoparticles inhaled in the lungs of rats. This is a first of its kind study to attempt to determine the fate of silver nanoparticles in animals and better understand mechanisms of toxicity.

The extraordinary story of a young doctor who in 1914 illegally took his camera to war. This book shows his remarkable photographs for the first time and offers an unusually intimate portrait of life among a band of brothers. It also examines just how ill-prepared Army doctors were for the carnage they faced, and asks, how did they cope?

The Agency CMO market, an often overlooked corner of mortgage finance, has experienced tremendous growth over the past decade. This paper explains the rationale behind the construction of Agency CMOs, quantifies risks embedded in Agency CMOs using a traditional and a novel approach, and offers valuable lessons learned when interpreting these risk measures. Among these lessons is that to fully understand the risks in Agency CMOs a full bond-by-bond analysis is necessary and that interest rate risk is not the only risk that needs to be considered when conducting risk management with CMOs.

A New York Times Bestseller The Gargoyle: the mesmerizing story of one man''s descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation. On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man''s disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.

A contemporary cynic crashes his car into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide--for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. Then a beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany.

Everybody wants to know why life''s winners are so successful: how did they do it?, why they do it?, what makes them different? All of us are fascinated by the lives and backgrounds of the rich (and sometimes famous). Behind every entrepreneur is a story. Andrew Davidson has interviewed dozens of leading entrepreneurs over many years. He has asked the questions we all want to ask. He has probed into their backgrounds, delved into their psyche. Compared, contrasted and considered just what it is about them that makes them different. Here he pulls together all the information, and takes an overall look at the bigger picture and what we can learn from the living giants, who did it their way. Davidson interprets the psychology of success, telling the entrepreneurs'' stories in their own words, and the words of the people closest to them. For anybody with a will to succeed or a fascination as to how others do this combination is unputdownable.

A complete guide to securitization. * Analyzes leases, tax liens, and other new securitization markets developing globally. * Contains exercises and examples taken from real transactions. * Companion CD-ROM includes calculation tools and examples, data for models, ongoing updates on models, and Q&A with authors to address complex securitization questions.

Colourfully illustrated and with simple text this book is especially designed for young readers.