Seat Of Power Research Articles

End of History or the Beginning of Global Tyranny in Capitalism: A Re-Interpretation of the Imperial Sources

The task undertaken in this paper is an attempt to contextualize the invidious and seemingly invincible role being played by major political ‘capitals’ in the reification, deification, hence hegemonization of the capitalist ideology in the global economic system. This is done within the ambit of the demise of Soviet socialism, the infiltration of communist China by the mutability, adaptability and profitability of capitalist ethos; the opening up of revolutionary Cuba, the evocation of the Arab Spring which gutted the arch-priest of Jamahiriya in Libya, the ambitious but painful containment of the Korean peoples power and the collapsed of the system of economic commands and stage-management across the world. In this light, the paper tried to enquire into how the word ‘capital’ became the name given to states’ headquarters and how this reality has aided the dominance or hegemony of capitalism in the world. Employing the hegemonic stability theory and descriptive analysis method, the paper contends that the christening of states’ seats of power as capitals or capital cities was a subtle strategy of capitalism to deepen its roots. It however find out that this subtle hegemonization is not so much ‘the end of history’ as postulated by Francis Fukuyama than the beginning of time in diagnostic vicious cycle in global tyranny. It also established that the failure of Soviet socialism was not so much about the supremacy of capitalism or liberalism over socialism than the fact that Lenin’s impatience in not allowing capitalism to blossom to its peak before embarking on his Bolshevik revolution made mockery of Marxism – and made capitalism to topple socialism – but did not kill it. The paper recommends among others that states, especially the third world countries, should wake up to this subtlety and begin to put fences and wedges against its perniciousness and unbridled rapacity. These walls must necessarily lean toward protectionism to encourage the development of local resources for a sustainable growth

Le sedi del potere dei Longobardi

This paper is focused on available evidences about the Lombards’ seats of power, including the indications of the pre-Italian settlements and their building typology. The reference to the royal venues is accompanied by attention to those of the dukes and ‘gastaldi’ (stewards) who represented the central power in the territory. The surviving archaeological records and the literary and artistic sources have allowed us to point out aspects that have not been taken into consideration as a whole and in the relationship with the most signifi cant symbols of power, verifying the level of progressive integration of the Lombards into the Mediterranean context.

PERJALANAN DEMOKRASI DI INDONESIA

Indonesia as one of the countries that adheres to a democratic system. The system of government is organized by the people, by the people, and for the people. Indonesia in the course of democracy underwent several periods, until now undergoing a period of reform. The diversity of the Indonesian people is a factor that greatly influences the birth of political parties and encourages the formation of a multiparty system in Indonesia. Democratic countries, of course, justify the existence of political parties as pillars of democracy or the exercise of popular sovereignty. Democracy is carried out through general elections in the context of occupying the leadership and power seats in which political parties are participants.

Time and the Bibliographer: A Meditation on the Spirit of Book Studies

In light of the global return of tribalism, racism, nationalism, and religious hypocrisy to power’s center stage, it is worth returning to the question of the relevance of bibliography. It is a time when, at least at the seats of power in the United States and some other places, books seem to have become almost meaningless. Bibliographic pioneer D.F. McKenzie’s strategy was not to constrain bibliography in self-defense, but to expand it, to go on the offense. What is our course? This essay explores bibliography’s past in order to suggest ways in which it can gain from an engagement with the methods and motivating concerns of Indigenous studies. The study of books has often functioned within a colonialist set of assumptions about its means and its ends, but at the same time, having been at times in something of a marginalized position themselves in their professions, its practitioners have developed unique tools, passions, and intellectual focuses with decolonial potential. That unusual “spirit”, in dialogue with Native people and Indigenous ideas — about media, about what constitutes a “process”, and about the historical and political meanings of recorded forms — may be key to transforming the imagination of the study of books and to enriching its place in the world.

Reduced Power Seat Heater System Using Thermal Wave Technology

<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">This paper presents a method of controlling the seat heater using intentional oscillations between multiple, independently controlled temperatures (each with its own tolerance range). The amplitude and frequency of these oscillations can be changed based on secondary trigger events such as changes in the interior temperature. The benefits of using this technique to heat the seat surface are improved thermal sensation and reduced energy usage over the typical drive time.</div></div>

Energizing the Future with Memories of the Past: The Wadas of Pune City

Pune, described as the Queen of the Deccan, [1] is located in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is a historic city associated with the Maratha Empire and seat of the Peshwa power. During the Colonial Period it was a British cantonment. Contemporary Pune city is considered as the cultural capital of Maharashtra and is also referred to as the Oxford of the East due to the presence of several well-known educational institutions. The old city of Pune is constituted by the seventeen Peths or localities. The wadas are a characteristic built-form that evolved during the Maratha Period. They were the residences not only of the Peshwas but also those connected with the administrative system of the times and are the manifestations of the culture of the period. They vary considerably in size and form. They have a characteristic spatial organization harmonizing form and space with distinct architectural features. They were once the seat of power, intrigue and grandeur. Now, they are the surviving witnesses of battle plans and palace intrigues at the height of glory of the Maratha Empire. After more than three hundred and fifty years the wadas themselves are waging a final battle for survival considering the apathy towards their woes and issues from both the civic body as well as their private owners. The objective of the paper is to explore the possibility of developing selected wadas as nodes in developing Pune city’s culture infrastructure as well as heritage showcase. It seeks site specific solutions of ‘Energizing the Future with the Memories of the Past’ in Pune city.

Archives, Archaeology and the Playing Venues of the Earls of Derby

Archives, Archaeology and the Playing Venues of the Earls of Derby Julian Bowsher The Earls of Derby had long had minstrels, other musicians, and tumblers in their retinues (see also Graham's article in this issue), but by the 1530s the 3rd Earl also had a touring troupe of players, largely for customary aristocratic revels: various entertainments including banquets, dance, acrobatics, masques, and plays. The 4th Earl of Derby's Men subsequently became "one of the most prominent of the Elizabethan acting companies" (Manley and MacLean 19). They played at court in Greenwich, in Hampton Court's Great Hall, and at Windsor in January 1580/1 (Astington 230). There is no record of any performance in any other metropolitan venue. Derby's Men largely disappeared with the foundation of the Queen's Men in 1583, made up of players from existing companies. But Ferdinando, Lord Strange, the heir to the earldom, formed his own "Men" in about 1585, who toured company actors and tumblers across the country (see Manley and MacLean App. C for itineraries), but the company was also frequently invited to court from 1589 to 1593 (Astington 233–34). Ferdinando succeeded as 5th Earl in September 1593 but died in April the next year. His younger brother William, who succeeded as 6th Earl, was by all accounts even more enamored of theatre. Interestingly, there was a company referred to as "the players of the Countesse of Derby" (the widow of the 5th Earl) at Winchester in May 1594, but a week earlier the new "Earl of Darbeys" company had performed in Southampton (Manley and MacLean 325; see also MacLean's article in this issue); and in early May the new Derby Company was already on tour. It is in order to contextualize the history of performances by companies under the patronage of the family of the Earls of Derby, the Stanleys, that this article will survey and discuss the range of these and other playing spaces used in the period. In creating [End Page 383] an overview of performance spaces used by the Earls of Derby's various companies, the article draws on both "desktop" materials (existing theatrehistorical accounts and archival records) and evidence from archaeological excavations. Court The early modern English royal court, as John Astington has pointed out, "retained the mobile character of medieval kingship" and assembled at whichever "house" the monarch happened to be living in at any given moment (Astington 1). Royal patronage of the professional playing companies included "invitations" for command performances at court. These both provided up-to-date drama for the court and enhanced the reputation of the playing companies, who would have been well paid. Amongst the royal houses where players are known to have performed, there were several significant venues. Hampton Court was one of the most prominent royal houses in the London area. Henry VII took over the house from Cardinal Wolsey and greatly enlarged it (Thurley, Royal Palaces 114). The building included a great hall on the first floor, forming the north side of the inner court. It is a large cavernous space measuring approximately 108ft x 40ft (33m x 12.2m), with a high roof. It was the largest court theatre space before the Restoration; it survives, today, very much as it was first built. Although a smaller playing space, the great chamber, was added in the 1620s, a number of companies, including Lord Strange's Men, had performed here in the earlier period. Whitehall Palace on the river front at Westminster was the seat of Tudor power in the earlier sixteenth century. The original hall, or great hall, was a north–south building forming, as usual, one side (the west) of the chapel court, measuring 75ft x 40ft (23m x 12.2m). A great chamber, added later in Henry VIII's reign, formed the west side of the inner court, but on the first floor it measured c 65ft x 35ft (19.8m x 10.7m). Masques were performed in the hall in the 1570s, though by the 1580s the professional companies, such as those of the 4th Earl and Lord Strange, were performing in both the hall and the chamber. Greenwich Palace was downstream...

Armaduras de lazo toledanas. Evolución de las trazas geométricas con estrellas de ocho puntas y su relación con los diferentes sistemas constructivos empleados

La ciudad de Toledo, sede permanente del poder durante casi seis siglos tras la ocupación romana, fue dominada por visigodos y omeyas hasta su conquista castellana. Su evolución arquitectónica la convierte es un enclave idóneo para el desarrollo de la carpintería de armar. Sus armaduras de lazo suponen un magnífico ejemplo donde entender el oficio a través de las posibilidades geométricas y constructivas exploradas por quienes las realizaron. Se analizan las trazas geométricas y su implantación desde los ejemplos más sencillos y numerosos con estrellas de ocho puntas hasta las complejas trazas de geometría radial; la evolución de las armaduras de par y nudillo, que, mediante la prefabricación, posibilitó construir complejas armaduras de siete paños con lacería.

Life Cycle Assessment of Environmental Emissions and Scenario Simulation of an Automotive Power Seat Considering Scrap Recycling

Abstract As automobiles become more motorized and intelligent, multifunctional power seats have become an important part of the modern vehicle. Related environmental performance and green level thr...

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Money Politics: The Problem of Good Governance in Ese-Odo Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria

This study examined critically how money and gifts have been used to influence the electorates during elections in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Politicians in Nigerian society, especially in Ese-Odo LGA seem to have their ways in forcing themselves into seat of power by manipulating the thought of the electorates thereby engaging them into vote-buying and vote-selling. The population for study consisted of 213600 citizens. The sample consisted of four hundred (400) respondents. Three research questions were raised for the purpose of the study. The data that were retrieved from the respondents were three hundred and ninety-eight. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data and one hypothesis was also tested. The study found out that using money and other gifts by the politicians to influence the electorates is one of the major reasons for bad governance in Ese-Odo LGA. The study concluded that money politics has brought a great setback to democracy and has hampered the development of the masses and that of the society at large. The study, there for, recommended that for there to be free and fair elections in the society, the electorates must be enlightened on the civic rights of the electorates so as not to get involved in money politics. This will enable the electorates to vote for any political aspirant of their choice. Electoral laws should be strictly adhered to, and any electoral officer who is involved in using the period of elections as a means of extorting money from the political contestants should be dealt with. However, any political member who is caught in the act of vote-buying should be severely punished according to electoral laws. By doing this, the masses will be able to secure their well-being and that of the generations yet to come for sustainable development.

Destination Levant: T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell’s narrative voice as gender transgression

One of the best-known chroniclers of the Levant is undoubtedly T.E. Lawrence, whose Seven pillars of wisdom (1926) is an adventure tale, a war-time memoir and a travelogue all at once. It describes the region and its Arab inhabitants at moments admiringly and at others through an Orientalist lens. Lawrence’s narrative voice is mercurial: it’s often heroic and confident, yet sometimes full of self-doubt, rendering it curiously fragile. In opposition, Gertrude Bell’s narrative voice in The desert and the sown (1907) is assured, controlled and masculine, as Bell uses it to solidify a career as an archeologist and a regional expert. Both are calculated attempts at defying their assigned gender roles and both participate in a gender transgression, the convoluted nature of which can be explained with the theories of masochism. For Bell this means to use her narrative voice to place herself close to the seat of masculine power, while also maintaining her upper class femininity. Lawrence’s defiance erodes the conventionally masculine, heroic image the public held of him after the Arab Revolt.

A pilot investigation of anterior tilt use among power wheelchair users

Purpose To examine the influence of use of the anterior tilt-in-space power seat function on performance of functional activities, physical health, and user satisfaction on among power wheelchair users. Materials and methods Ten full-time power wheelchair users with a seat elevator on their current chair participated in a mixed-methods, repeated measures study. At Visit 1 participants completed the Wheelchair Outcome Measure, Functional Mobility Assessment, Wheelchair Users Shoulder Pain Index, Fatigue Severity Scale, and the Spinal Cord Injury Secondary Conditions Scale. Physical assessments were performed to examine transfer quality (transfer assessment instrument), functional reach, activities of daily living (performance assessment of self-care skills), seated balance (function in sitting test), spasticity, respiratory function, and speech production. Approximately 3 days later (Visit 2), participants were trained on use and provided a power wheelchair with anterior tilt to trial for two weeks. After two weeks (Visit 3), the Visit 1 protocol was repeated and a semistructured interview conducted. Results Participants lived with disabilities of cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy and multiple sclerosis. With use of anterior tilt, significant improvements were seen among safety of meal preparation, p = 0.033, dz = 0.91 and functional reach in the vertical direction, p = 0.000, dz = 2.62. Subjectively, participants found anterior tilt helpful in performance of reaching tasks in but found the safety equipment restrictive. Conclusion Preliminary results indicate that use of the anterior tilt may help to improve performance of functional activities. Additional research is needed to examine the long-term influence of the technology. Implications for rehabilitation The anterior tilt seat function changes the seat angle orientation in relation to the ground in the sagittal plane and angles the seat forward. As a result, the individual using the assistive technology is positioned in a semistanding position. Preliminary results of this study indicate that with use of anterior tilt, safety of meal preparation and functional reach in the vertical direction significantly improved. Subjectively, participants found anterior tilt helpful in performance of reaching tasks but found the safety equipment restrictive. Additional research is needed to examine the long-term influence of anterior tilt on functional activities, physical health and user satisfaction on among a large and diverse group of power wheelchair users.

Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance

We investigate the links between capital cities, conflict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that the latter is rendered less effective by distance from the seat of political power. We show evidence that (i) conflict is more likely to emerge (and dislodge incumbents) closer to the capital, and (ii) isolated capitals are associated with misgovernance. The results hold only for relatively nondemocratic countries and for intrastate conflicts over government (as opposed to territory)—exactly the cases where our central assumption should apply. (JEL D72, D74, O17, O18, R12)

차량용 파워 시트 슬라이드 장치 음질의 감성 평가

In this study, we analyzed the image characteristics of vehicle type and the operating sound quality by jury testing the operating noise of the power seat slide adjuster for the vehicle. First, the operating noise for five test power seats was measured and adjectives for subjective sound quality evaluation were extracted through questionnaires. Next, the images according to vehicle type were examined using the extracted adjectives. Third, a subjective evaluation of sound quality was performed using a loud speaker. At this time, the sound quality and the sound image of the operating noise were extracted by examining the preference, adjective score using the semantic differential, and vehicle matching the sound source. Thus, it was possible to suggest sound quality characteristics of slide operating noise and improvements in sound quality according to vehicle type.

“I’LL BE BACK…”: The chance of a political comeback as party leader

Political leadership has become increasingly volatile in recent times, as experienced directly by many of the leaders of both major parties in Australia over the last few decades who have been ousted by their own party. While some of these leaders have returned to power, others have faded away into history. Political capital can play a key role in the demise or reclaim of leadership and an immediate response can become critical not only in preventing any further loss of political capital but to begin the re-building of political capital towards a return to a leadership position. This study examined ousted political leaders and the likelihood of a return to leadership. Attribution theory was applied to the first press conference given by six Australian major party leaders immediately after having lost their leadership and were analysed thematically to show what the attributional causes of their successes and failures were during their tenure as party leader. The results indicate that what one says and how one says it can be important for their prospects of returning to the seat of power. The major party leaders who returned to power tended to acknowledge successes due to the collective group, while the other major party leaders tended to attribute the successes to themselves and failures on external factors, including their own collective group. The results illustrate the importance of how one handles one’s downfall in order to climb back up.

Sound quality analysis of slide adjuster for automotive power seat using stepwise regression

AbstractThis study has analyzed the effect of noise sources of power seat slide adjuster on sound quality and human sensitivity through statistical methods. First, sound quality analysis using sound quality metrics was performed to analyze objective data. Next, the subjective evaluation of sound quality was performed by a jury test. There were two types of sound sources used for the jury test; one was two original sounds measured in the operating test and the other one was eight virtual sound sources that were produced by amplifying a specific frequency of original sounds. It was designed to derive the causal relationship between each noise source and human sensitivity. Thirdly, we analyzed the correlation between the sound quality metrics and the sound pressure level of the noise source through the factor analysis. As a result, four independent variables were derived. Lastly, stepwise regression analysis was performed using four independent variables and the results of the jury test. The derived regression models had considerable explanatory power. From this, it was possible to understand the influence of the noise source of the seat slide adjuster on the sound quality and human sensitivity.

British laughter and humor in the long 18th century

AbstractThis essay offers an overview of recent scholarship on British humor, satire, comedy, and laughter in the long 18th century. It focuses on scholarship that asks what provoked laughter in the 18th century, how the ethics and morals of laughter were gauged and contested, and what the political and social effects of laughter were, particularly in the context of cultural change and political crisis. Studies of laughter and humor demonstrate that 18th‐century British culture was, in many ways, not characterized by codes of politeness and sociability. Satiric laughter proved a potent but unpredictable political instrument, particularly in cases of anti‐religious humor, as likely to undermine or exceed humor's political objectives as it was to realize them. Laughter also generated new publics that wrested moral authority from traditional seats of power. Humor's effects were as multitudinous as the formal and rhetorical techniques it employed to generate feeling in readers and audiences, and the field has benefitted from a variety of methodologies and critical frameworks to explore its complex cultural and political functions.

‘The Cradle of Tantra’: Modern Transformations of a Tantric Centre in Northeast India from Nationalist Symbol to Tourist Destination

This article examines the modern transformations of the temple of the goddess, Kāmākhyā, and her most important festival, Ambuvācī Melā, in Assam. Since at least the eighth century, Kāmākhyā has been revered as one of the most important ‘seats of power’ or centres of the goddess that dot the landscape of South Asia. However, during the last century, this temple and its festivals have undergone a series of profound transformations—first, in the context of Hindu nationalism and attempts to imagine a unified sacred landscape of ‘Mother India’, and second, in the context of spiritual tourism and efforts to develop the Northeast region as a new economic powerhouse for the twenty-first century.

A Study on the Emotional Adjective Extraction and Subjective Evaluation of Sound Quality for Vehicle Power Seat

A Study on the Emotional Adjective Extraction and Subjective Evaluation of Sound Quality for Vehicle Power Seat