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Inventing destiny : cultural explorations of US expansion
\"Conventional studies of US expansion have viewed the topic from political, diplomatic, economic, and military perspectives. In this collection, an interdisciplinary cast of scholars examine the subject from a variety of cultural perspectives, showing how narratives of empire and conquest formed in both low and high cultures. Many of the chapters will focus on the less remembered actors and outliers - anti-expansionists, Native Americans, Anglo-American women, and non-national expansionists - who significantly complicated the narratives of empire. The contributors examine a variety of source materials such as artwork, literature, and geospatial analysis alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. Instead of dwelling on the familiar narratives of \"manifest destiny\" or \"the vanishing Indian,\" Inventing Destiny identifies and explores the less-remembered fictions of expansion, seeks a better understanding of the anti-expansionist response, and uncovers the resistance of those who were victims of US territorial aggrandizement\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hardy–Littlewood and Ulyanov inequalities
We give the full solution of the following problem: obtain sharp inequalities between the moduli of smoothness
The main tool is the new
Hardy–Littlewood–Nikol’skii inequalities. More precisely, we obtained the asymptotic behavior of the quantity
We also prove the
Ulyanov and Kolyada-type inequalities in the Hardy spaces. Finally, we apply the obtained estimates to derive new embedding theorems for
the Lipschitz and Besov spaces.
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Patterns of empire : the British and American empires, 1688 to the present
\"Patterns of empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields, and the limits of power\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tesco: Entry and Expansion Strategy in India
The management was reviewing Tesco’s entry into India and its joint venture Trent Hypermarket Private Limited’s operations. After withdrawal from Thailand and Malaysia, India remained one of the most important retail destinations for Tesco. The management was pondering over the expansion of operations in India. The local leadership was entrusted with developing a Roadmap-2025 with an inclusive store expansion plan to build profitability by delivering high customer value.
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Nazi empire : German colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler
\"Drawing on recent studies of the links between empire, colonialism, and genocide, Nazi Empire: German Imperialism and Colonialism from Bismarck to Hitler examines German history from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the aspiration to imperialist expansion and the simultaneous fear of destruction by rivals. Acknowledging the important differences among the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich, Shelley Baranowski nonetheless reveals a common thread: the drama of German imperialist ambitions that embraced ethnic homogeneity over diversity, imperial enlargement over stasis, and \"living space\" as the route to the biological survival of the German Volk \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Concentrated growth factor intradermal injection assisted super‐thin flap expansion for repairing skin defects: A randomized, single blinded, split‐site study
Background The super‐thin skin flap formed by skin and soft tissue expansion has large area and good ductility, so it can be used to repair skin defects. However, because the flap is thin, the blood flow in the dermis of the super‐thin expanded flap is weakened, and flap rupture and necrosis after secondary flap transfer may occur. Objective To compare the skin thickness difference between the expanded ultrathin flaps injected with concentrated growth factor (CGF) and the blank group or saline group. Methods From June 2021 to December 2023, 10 patients (44 sites) with large‐area scars or skin tumors were treated, and a single center half randomized controlled trial was conducted. The test site of expander implantation was divided into three groups: intradermal injection of CGF group, normal saline group and blank group. The same amount of expansion was performed every 1–2 weeks, and CGF or normal saline was injected into the dermis every 4 weeks, a total of three times. After 2–3 months of expansion, color Doppler ultrasound was used to measure the skin thickness of each group. Results Compared with the blank group, the skin thickness of CGF group was 1.75 ± 0.08 mm, and that of BLA blank group was 1.42 ± 0.07 mm, with statistically significant difference (p < 0.0001); In the other group, compared with the saline group, the skin thickness of the CGF group was 1.54 ± 0.08 mm, and the average skin thickness of the saline group was 1.40 ± 0.08 mm, with significant difference between the two groups (p = 0.0067). Conclusion CGF intradermal injection can increase the skin thickness of super‐thin skin flap in the process of soft tissue expansion, which is a safe and effective auxiliary method of skin expansion.
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The Gateway Arch : celebrating western expansion
\"This magnificent arch rises on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The nation's tallest monument is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, honoring Thomas Jefferson's vision of westward expansion. Mired in controversy in the beginning, this amazing structure is now a national treasure and symbol of the nation's reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The American National State and the Early West
This book challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers, as well as bureaucratic authority, to enhance land acquisitions, promote infrastructure development and facilitate commerce and communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial designs threatened to unravel the republic. White Westerners and Western state governments partnered with the federal government to encourage commercial growth and emigration, to transform the borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political science and economic history to provide a new narrative of American expansionism, one that takes into account the unique historical circumstances in the Ohio Valley and the southern Great Lakes.
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America : from white settlement to world hegemony
\"A major historical account of the evolution of American imperialism. The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the short term. The classical historical approach of this book provides a convincing and compelling analysis of the different phases of American imperialism, which have now led to America becoming a global hegemon without any serious rivals. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, has used his nuanced knowledge of history, literature and politics to trace the evolution of the American Empire: he includes accounts of relations between Indians and white settlers, readings of the work of Melville and Whitman, and an analysis of the way that money and politics became so closely intertwined. Eric Hobsbawm's preface provides an insight into his own thoughts on American imperialism, and a valuable introduction to Victor Kiernan's work. Together, they shed useful light on today's urgent debates about the uses and misuses of seemingly unlimited military power, a lack of respect for international agreements, and the right to 'pre-emptive defense'.\"--Publisher description.
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Spectral expansions of non-self-adjoint generalized Laguerre semigroups
We provide the spectral expansion in a weighted Hilbert space of a substantial class of invariant non-self-adjoint and non-local
Markov operators which appear in limit theorems for positive-valued Markov processes. We show that this class is in bijection with a
subset of negative definite functions and we name it the class of generalized Laguerre semigroups. Our approach, which goes beyond the
framework of perturbation theory, is based on an in-depth and original analysis of an intertwining relation that we establish between
this class and a self-adjoint Markov semigroup, whose spectral expansion is expressed in terms of the classical Laguerre polynomials. As
a by-product, we derive smoothness properties for the solution to the associated Cauchy problem as well as for the heat kernel. Our
methodology also reveals a variety of possible decays, including the hypocoercivity type phenomena, for the speed of convergence to
equilibrium for this class and enables us to provide an interpretation of these in terms of the rate of growth of the weighted Hilbert
space norms of the spectral projections. Depending on the analytic properties of the aforementioned negative definite functions, we are
led to implement several strategies, which require new developments in a variety of contexts, to derive precise upper bounds for these
norms.
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