The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany by Bruce B. Campbell

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 648-649
Author(s):  
Christian Henrich-Franke
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2021 ◽  

Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules and religious sanctions also illuminate the relationship between legal history and religion. Moreover, possible links between ancient associations and the early Christian churches will prove particularly valuable for scholars of the New Testament. The book concludes by using the regulations of associations to explore a novel and revealing aspect of the interaction between the Mediterranean world, India and China.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maira Abrar ◽  
Shehla Jabeen ◽  
sohail Abbas

Abstract Islamic banking is the most rising component in the economy for reasonable advancement of Pakistan tributary yet. Despite what might be expected, real impediments that interfere with the developments in Islamic money keeping are client information, political help, and advancement. The Islamic banking and money related segments proceed to develop, and ways incorporates the necessity to make new products. It isn't generally the absence of venture substitutes that urge associations to propose organized items. The examination incorporated the specimen of 100 individuals. Stratified-arbitrary testing method is utilized to deal with both public and private associations workers. A measurable tool named SPSS was utilized to separate the outcome which demonstrates that effect of customer knowledge, political support, and innovative advancement in development of Islamic money keep that might be conclusive. The reasonable advancement has three parts satisfaction incorporated the social equity, monetary soundness, and ecological trustworthiness by development of Islamic banking. It is inferred that Islamic bank could be worldview phenomenon in making the credit. However, national bank should make the product which can viably upgrade Islamic Banking. There is a strong microeconomics ground of Islamic financing for the economy wide conduct of good monetary issues and issues including the procedure structure. Islamic bank clients limit the dangers related with premium based obligation financing, and simple credit, which tormented regular banks amid the sub-prime home loan emergency. Conclusively, general monetary development of Islamic banking in Muslim nations will drive development of Islamic money related administrations, prompting further in Sharia-consistent system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuan Le ◽  
Robin Winter ◽  
Frank Noé ◽  
Djork-Arné Clevert

<p>Protecting molecular structures from disclosure against external parties is of great relevance for industrial and private associations, such as pharmaceutical companies. Within the framework of external collaborations, it is common to exchange datasets by encoding the molecular structures into descriptors. Molecular fingerprints such as the extended-connectivity fingerprints are frequently used for such an exchange, because they typically perform well on quantitative structure-activity relationship tasks. </p><p>ECFPs are often considered to be non-invertible due to the way they are computed.</p><p>In this paper, we present a reverse-engineering method to deduce the molecular structure given revealed ECFPs. Our method includes the <i>Neuraldecipher</i>, a neural network model that predicts a compact vector representation of compounds, given ECFPs. We then utilize another pre-trained model to retrieve the molecular structure as SMILES representation. We demonstrate that our method is able to reconstruct molecular structures to some extent, and improves, when ECFPs with larger fingerprint sizes are revealed. For example, given ECFP count vectors of length 4096, we are able to correctly deduce around 60% of molecular structures on a validation set (112K unique samples) with our method.</p>


Author(s):  
Mario C.D. Paganini

The papyrological evidence from early Roman Egypt shows that there was a close relationship between private associations and village life. Associations were very much intertwined and influenced each other. They belonged to the most important local institutions for socio-economic and cultural life at village level and played an important role for the construction of feelings of community. In an environment void of civic designations, associations could also provide the frame for the assertion of specific identities, just like membership in the priestly groups or the army, as well as facilitate relations with the state in areas such as taxation or compulsory services.


Author(s):  
Mark Tushnet ◽  
Mark A. Graber ◽  
Sanford Levinson ◽  
Dale Carpenter
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2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 544-563
Author(s):  
Michael Geiss ◽  
Johannes Westberg

In Europe, there are many different ways in which early childhood education and care professionals are trained. This article investigates how these different forms came into being. Comparing two small, prosperous European countries, Sweden and Switzerland, we analyse the developments in training regimes for early childhood professionals since the 19th century using a historical institutionalism approach. We focus on corporate actors and the institutionalization of educational structures and identify critical junctures and path dependencies. Although both countries developed a comparable diversity of training opportunities in the 19th century and early 20th century, developments since the 1950s have diverged widely. While Sweden is developing a uniform, fully academicized training structure, the Swiss case exhibits no such uniformity but is characterized by continuity and incremental change. The article traces the role played by central governments, private associations and educational reform in the development of the training of preschool personnel.


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