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Kim, David W. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Introduction in Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020Co-Authors: Kim, David W.Abstract:The localisation of a region, group, or culture was a common social phenomenon in pre-Modern Asia, but global colonialism began to affect the lifestyle of local people. What was the political condition of the relationship between insiders and outsiders? The impact of colonial authorities over religious communities has not received significant attention, even though the Asian continent is the home of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Shintoism, and Shamanism. Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition. It uses the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and Modernisation. The contributors interpret the growth of new religions as another facet of counter-colonialism. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people throughout Asian History
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Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019Co-Authors: Kim, David W.Abstract:The localisation of a region, group, or culture was a common social phenomenon in pre-Modern Asia, but global colonialism began to affect the lifestyle of local people. What was the political condition of the relationship between insiders and outsiders? The impact of colonial authorities over religious communities has not received significant attention, even though the Asian continent is the home of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Shintoism, and Shamanism. Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition. It uses the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and Modernisation. The contributors interpret the growth of new religions as another facet of counter-colonialism. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people throughout Asian History
Asad Zaman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a Modern History of fiscal prudence and profligacy
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015Co-Authors: Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu, Ariel J Binder, Asad ZamanAbstract:Drawing on a newly collected historical dataset of fiscal stocks and flows, we analyze the determinants of variation, both across countries and over time, in how fiscal policy responds to increases in the government debt-to-GDP ratio. The fiscal data comprise revenues, primary expenditures, interest bill, and government debt for 55 countries for up to two hundred years. The policy response (increase in the primary fiscal balance in response to debt increases) is found to be significantly weaker when sovereign borrowing costs are low, inflation is high, and potential economic growth worsens unexpectedly. These results are robust to political factors.
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a Modern History of fiscal prudence and profligacy
Research Papers in Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu, Ariel J Binder, Asad ZamanAbstract:We draw on a newly collected historical dataset of fiscal variables for a large panel of countries—to our knowledge, the most comprehensive database currently available—to gauge the degree of fiscal prudence or profligacy for each country over the past several decades. Specifically, our dataset consists of fiscal revenues, primary expenditures, the interest bill (and thus both the primary and the overall fiscal deficit), the government debt, and gross domestic product, for 55 countries for up to two hundred years. For the first time, a large cross country historical data set covers both fiscal stocks and flows. Using Bohn’s (1998) approach and other tests for fiscal sustainability, we document how the degree of prudence or profligacy varies significantly over time within individual countries. We find that such variation is driven in part by unexpected changes in potential economic growth and sovereign borrowing costs.
Charles A. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An invited commentary on “Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on surgical practice-part 1”. Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on surgical practice: Time to embrace telehealth in surgery
Elsevier Ltd, 2020Co-Authors: Purcell L.n., Charles A.Abstract:The COVID‐19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS‐CoV‐2, is disrupting global health and the economy to a degree unparalleled in Modern History. In addition to the reduction in visits for routine and preventative health care and decline in emergency room visits, hospital systems are suffering from the collateral damage of near‐universal cancellation of elective surgeries. The mobilization of surgical resources for emergencies, use of operating rooms as intensive care units and anesthesia machines as ventilators, redeployment of operating room personnel for patient and provider safety have com-promised the delivery of necessary surgery
Stephen Y Nakada - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Modern History and evolution of percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Journal of Endourology, 2015Co-Authors: Sutchin R Patel, Stephen Y NakadaAbstract:Introduction Serendipity, innovative physicians, evolving techniques for renal access, and improvements in equipment and radiology led to the evolution of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Methods We searched urology texts and the literature for sources pertaining to the History and development of PCNL. Results In 1941, Rupel and Brown performed the first nephroscopy when a rigid cystoscope was passed into the kidney following open surgery. Willard Goodwin, in 1955, while trying to perform a renal arteriogram, placed a needle into the collecting system of a hydronephrotic kidney and performed the first antegrade nephrostogram. He left a tube to drain the kidney, thereby placing the first nephrostomy tube. By 1976, Fernstrom and Johansson were the first to describe a technique for extracting renal calculi through a percutaneous nephrostomy under radiological control. In 1978, Arthur Smith, would describe the first antegrade stent placement when he introduced a Gibbons stent through a percutaneous nephrostomy in a patient with a reimplanted ureter. Dr. Smith would coin the term "endourology" to describe closed, controlled manipulation of the genitourinary tract. His collaboration with Kurt Amplatz, an interventional radiologist and medical inventor, would lead to numerous innovations that would further advance PCNL. In the 1980s the process of renal access and tract dilation was improved upon and the use of a rigid cystoscope was replaced by offset nephroscopes with a large straight working channel. Radiographic innovations, including improvements in fluoroscopy would further aid in renal access. The development of various lithotripsy devices and the introduction of the holmium laser improved the efficiency of stone fragmentation and clearance. The increased clinical experience and utilization of PCNL would lead to the characterization of stone-free rates and complications for the procedure. Conclusion Serendipity, innovations in renal access, optics, radiology, and improvements in lithotripsy all contributed to the Modern day PCNL.
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the Modern History and evolution of percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Journal of Endourology, 2015Co-Authors: Sutchin R Patel, Stephen Y NakadaAbstract:Abstract Introduction: Serendipity, innovative physicians, evolving techniques for renal access, and improvements in equipment and radiology led to the evolution of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Methods: We searched urology texts and the literature for sources pertaining to the History and development of PCNL. Results: In 1941, Rupel and Brown performed the first nephroscopy when a rigid cystoscope was passed into the kidney following open surgery. Willard Goodwin, in 1955, while trying to perform a renal arteriogram, placed a needle into the collecting system of a hydronephrotic kidney and performed the first antegrade nephrostogram. He left a tube to drain the kidney, thereby placing the first nephrostomy tube. By 1976, Fernstrom and Johansson were the first to describe a technique for extracting renal calculi through a percutaneous nephrostomy under radiological control. In 1978, Arthur Smith, would describe the first antegrade stent placement when he introduced a Gibbons stent through a percuta...
Howard M Shapiro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History
Practical Flow Cytometry, 2003Co-Authors: Howard M ShapiroAbstract:This chapter includes the following topics: * Ancient History * Classical History * Modern History
