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Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
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The practice of crime prevention: design principles for more effective security governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
South Africa has had a comprehensive crime prevention policy agenda for some time in the form of the 1996 National Crime Prevention Strategy and the 1998 White Paper on Safety and Security.
Berg, Julie, Shearing, Clifford
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The Sociological Determinants of the Artist-Audience Relationship in Isfahan's Visual Arts Scene: A Grounded Model of Artistic Transformation and Institutional Confusion [PDF]

open access: yesStrategic Research on Social Problems
Art is fundamentally a product of society. Artworks require social feedback and engagement to refine and develop their quality, which occurs through the interaction between the artist and the audience. In the pre-modern era, this relationship between the
Fatemeh Raoufimanesh   +2 more
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Governance, choice and the global market for mental health [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Psychiatry, 2011
The provision of health services to vulnerable members of the population should be regarded as one of the prime duties of government. However, it will be apparent to any reader of International Psychiatry that access to effective mental healthcare varies widely across the world, an impression powerfully reinforced for those who have the chance to visit
Philip, Sugarman, Andrew, Kakabadse
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Genealogies of governmentality: producing and managing young children and their education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Genealogies, or histories of the present, create critical spaces to remind us of the non-necessity of that which we consider necessary to our lives (Burchell 1993).
Ailwood, Joanne
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Analyzing and explaining the reflective teacher approach and its role in improving curriculum knowledge: Developing an educational discourse at Farhangian University [PDF]

open access: yesرویکردهای نوین آموزشی
The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying and explaining the indicators of reflective teacher approach and the role of these components in the development of curriculum knowledge.
Reza Masouminejad
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Towards a third phase of regulation: re-imagining private security in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
With the legislative review of police oversight currently taking place in South Africa, now is a good time to reflect on the regulation of the private security industry. This article does so by focusing on three challenges to the current private security
Berg, Julie, Nouveau, Jean-Pierre
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State Banking: A Study in Dual Regulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
We introduce the MATLAB package YALMIP. The purpose of YALMIP is to support rapid definition and solution of LMI problems without the hazzle of learning the syntax in the solvers SP, SOCP and ...
Wille, Frank
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Olympic rings of steel: Constructing security for 2012 and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Academic and political commentators have commonly sought to understand the Olympics as a cultural dynamic, a "spectacle" that motivates certain actors to project their relative interests in localized spaces and as well on a global scale (Hiller
Coaffee, J, Fussey, P
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