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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

The past two decades in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies. While poverty increased during the initial years of transition, primarily on account of the sharp economic contraction, the resurgence of economic growth in the region since 1998 has resulted in a rebound in household incomes and living standards. Data from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) a joint initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank provides a unique opportunity to investigate the extent to which citizens of ECA countries are satisfied with their lives and with the performances of their governments, and to study key factors influencing their outlook in a systematic way across all countries of the region. The main objective of the LiTS was to assess the impact of transition on people, covering four main themes. First, it collected personal information on aspects of material well-being, including household expenditures, possession of consumer goods such as a car or mobile phone, and access to local public services and utilities. Second, the survey included measures of satisfaction and attitudes towards economic and political reforms as well as public service delivery. Third, the LiTS captured individual 'histories' key events and episodes that may have influenced their attitudes towards reforms, and information on family background, employment, and coping strategies. Finally, the survey also attempted to capture the extent to which crime and corruption are affecting peoples' lives, and the extent to which individuals' trust in other people and in state institutions has changed over time.

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World Bank Publications

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0821379011

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9780821379011

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

By: Salman Zaidi

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System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

By: Salman Zaidi

Some novel approaches to estimate Nonlinear Output Error (NOE) models using TS fuzzy models for a class of nonlinear dynamic systems having variability in their outputs is presented in this dissertation. Instead of using unrealistic assumptions about uncertainty, the most common of which is normality, the proposed methodology tends to capture effects caused by the real uncertainty observed in the data. The methodology requires that the identification method must be repeated offline a number of times under similar conditions. This leads to multiple inputoutput time series from the underlying system. These time series are preprocessed using the techniques of statistics and probability theory to generate the envelopes of response at each time instant. By incorporating interval data in fuzzy modelling and using the theory of symbolic interval-valued data, a TS fuzzy model with interval antecedent and consequent parameters is obtained. The proposed identification algorithm provides for a model for predicting the center-valued response as well as envelopes as the measure of uncertainty in system output.

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kassel university press GmbH

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3737606501

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Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

By: Angus Deaton,Salman Zaidi

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Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

By: Angus Deaton,Salman Zaidi

In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two organizations in projects of civil service reform. This strengthened collaboration will have key benefits in ensuring consistency between the conflicting goals of the two organizations, establishing realistic objectives within the reform process, and maintaining a core set of wage and employment data. The principal conclusion arrived at was that World Bank and IMF staff should be engaging in collaboration earlier in the reform process. To guide the collaboration, six foundations were identified. These include: develop a medium-term fiscal framework; foster national ownership by making reforms politically feasible; focus and streamline conditionality; agree on sequencing and timing of reforms; and strengthen data collection. These principals will be tested for effectiveness in several focus countries.

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World Bank Publications

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0821349902

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9780821349908

The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism

Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947–1977

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

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The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism

Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947–1977

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

This book explores the ideological, political and military interventions of the state of Pakistan in Balochistan and traces the genesis of today’s secessionist movement. It delves into the historical question of Balochistan’s integration into Pakistan in 1947 and brings out the true political and militant character of the movement during the first three decades (1947–77) of Pakistan’s existence as a nation-state. It shows how the Baloch, as well as other minority groups, were denied the right to identify themselves as a sub-national/ethnic group in the new nation-state, compounded by a systematic exclusion from decision-making circles and structures of political and economic power. The volume also traces political resistance from within Balochistan and its subsequent suppression by military operations, leading to a widespread militant insurgency in the present day. Drawing on hitherto unexplored sources, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, politics, international relations and area studies.

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243

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Taylor & Francis

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1351020684

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9781351020688

At Home in India

The Muslim Saga

By: Salman Khurshid

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At Home in India

The Muslim Saga

By: Salman Khurshid

A comprehensive, definitive and forceful account – by a witness to recent history in the making – which highlights the fact that Muslims do feel at home in India and also provides rare insights into their thought processes, their aspirations and their problems, As a former Union minister who has held several crucial portfolios, Salman Khurshid, on the basis of his vast and varied experience, recounts how Muslims in India accept this country as their own despite many provocations and allegations doubting their patriotism. In the process, he reinforces his contentions by providing numerous real-life examples of how the community has proved its commitment and capability by making immense contributions in almost all fields. This timely volume, which covers a wide span from the late nineteenth century to the present, brings out succinctly the pivotal roles played by a galaxy of distinguished Indian Muslims. The author describes how the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh and the Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi) came into being and how many of their alumni became part of the freedom movement and made sincere efforts at fostering and maintaining communal harmony. Post-Independence, Salman Khurshid emphasizes the importance of outstanding Muslim leaders who served as role models for the younger generation. The author does not shy away from hypersensitive issues such as terrorism, communal riots, a Uniform Civil Code, present-day Muslim leadership (or lack of) and the place of women in Islam, with a focus on the Shah Bano case. He underscores the significance of the ‘trust deficit’ on the part of Muslims vis-à-vis the police (based on a recent report of the directors-general of police from different states) and spotlights the July 2014 verdict of the Supreme Court with regard to the Shariat and fatwas. He rounds off the book with an analysis of what the future could hold after the recent victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Salman Khurshid tackles each and every topic with candour, sensitivity and forthrightness.

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421

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Hay House, Inc

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9384544124

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9789384544126

Immigration and Acculturation

Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation

By: Salman Akhtar

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Immigration and Acculturation

Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation

By: Salman Akhtar

Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting anxieties. In Immigration and Acculturation, Salman Akhtar examines the traumatic impact of immigration and the acculturation process and the psychological defenses that are mobilized in the immigrant, including nostalgia and fantasies of return. Akhtar explores each aspect of an immigrant's life, shedding light on the complexities of work, friendship, sex, marriage, aging, religion, and politics, as well as showing how unresolved conflicts are passed on to the next generation. Akhtar provides first-hand accounts from immigrants from a variety of backgrounds and countries of origin, and he provides clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring. Deftly synthesizing observations from psychoanalysis, anthropology, literature, history, and related disciplines in the humanities, Salman Akhtar elegantly elucidates postmigration identity change.

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Jason Aronson

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0765708264

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9780765708267

Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Symptoms and Toxicities E-Book

By: Vamsidhar Velcheti,Salman R Punekar

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Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Symptoms and Toxicities E-Book

By: Vamsidhar Velcheti,Salman R Punekar

Early recognition and management of adverse effects of cancer treatments are essential for optimal care of patients with cancer, and drastically different approaches are required for different physiologic reactions. Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Symptoms and Toxicities is a focused, one-stop resource that enables clinicians to quickly find up-to-date, reliable information needed at the point of care. The high-yield approach prioritizes the most common toxicities associated with cancer treatment, and concise, templated chapters offer fast access to information needed in day-to-day practice. - Presents a user-friendly overview of cancer treatment-related symptoms and toxicities management in a practical, easy-to-use format, allowing you to quickly find information in one convenient, concise resource. - Covers systemic and radiation therapies, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapies, and radiation therapy, detailing symptoms of each toxicity to confirm your diagnosis. - Overviews pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to symptom management. - Offers recommendations for mitigating toxicities in high-risk patients. - Discusses key topics such as management of infusion reactions, when the need for biopsy is warranted, and the unique challenges posed by novel immunotherapies.

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355

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032367299X

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9780323672993

Imaginary Homelands

Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

By: Salman Rushdie

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Imaginary Homelands

Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

By: Salman Rushdie

“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.

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Penguin

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0140140360

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9780140140361

The Book of Emotions

By: Salman Akhtar

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The Book of Emotions

By: Salman Akhtar

Practising psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis for over forty years and being an avid reader of books pertaining to the human mind convinced Salman Akhtar that most good books in this realm are difficult to read for lay-persons. Matters are made worse by the fact that books that are readable succumb to oversimplification and glib advice-giving. As a result, the seeker of knowledge about the intricacies of emotional life finds little that is meaningful to read. It is this lack that The Book of Emotions is trying to address here. Written in a simple, easy-to-understand style with everyday examples and anecdotes, the books explains the meaning and characteristics of some of our inherent emotions.

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Roli Books Private Limited

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9351940330

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9789351940333

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

By: Salman Zaidi

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System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

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kassel university press GmbH

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Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

By: Angus Deaton,Salman Zaidi

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Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

By: Angus Deaton,Salman Zaidi

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World Bank Publications

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0821349902

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Riding the Wave

An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century

By: Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

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Riding the Wave

An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century

By: Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

Developing East Asia has shown how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty

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World Bank Publications

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1464811458

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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

By: Salman Zaidi,Asad Alam,Pradeep K. Mitra,Ramya Sundaram

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Book's by Salman Zaidi

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism

The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism

At Home in India

At Home in India

Immigration and Acculturation

Immigration and Acculturation

Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Symptoms and Toxicities E-Book

Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Symptoms and Toxicities E-Book

Imaginary Homelands

Imaginary Homelands

The Book of Emotions

The Book of Emotions

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

System Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models

Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

Riding the Wave

Riding the Wave

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

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