The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.

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A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

Graphene-based nanofiltration membranes for improving salt rejection, water flux and antifouling–A review

Multilayered graphene oxide membranes for water treatment: A review

The design and preparation of an excellent corrosion protection coating is still a grand challenge and is essential for large-scale practical application. Herein, a novel cationic reduced graphene oxide (denoted as RGO-ID+)-based epoxy coating was fabricated for corrosion protection. RGO-ID+ was synthesized by in situ synthesis and salification reaction, which is stable dispersion in water and epoxy latex, and the self-aligned RGO-ID+-reinforced cathodic electrophoretic epoxy nanocomposite coating (denoted as RGO-ID+ coating) at the surface of metal was prepared by electrodeposition. The self-alignment of RGO-ID+ in the coatings is mainly attributed to the electric field force. The significantly enhanced anticorrosion performance of RGO-ID+ coating is proved by a series of electrochemical measurements in different concentrated NaCl solutions and salt spray tests. This superior anticorrosion property benefits from the self-aligned RGO-ID+ nanosheets and the quaternary-N groups present in the RGO-ID+ nanoco...

Cationic Reduced Graphene Oxide as Self-Aligned Nanofiller in the Epoxy Nanocomposite Coating with Excellent Anticorrosive Performance and Its High Antibacterial Activity.

Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany. By Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 224p. $60.00 cloth, $14.99 paper. The central question of Joel Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper's well-written and highly accessible book—how to explain the disparate political responses to the religious concerns of Muslims in Britain, France, and Germany—is clearly important. Indeed, while the question was pertinent before the tragedy of September 11 in 2001 and the American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, it has become exponentially more urgent since. Although the difficulties of incorporating Muslim populations into the countries receiving them were neither a cause of nor directly connected to the aforementioned events, the negative chain reaction they subsequently precipitated within and outside of the diverse Muslim community within Western Europe nevertheless exposed serious tensions between many of the community's religious practices and the dominant cultural, social, and political mores of the host societies. In short, the answer to the book's organizing question very much matters for Western Europe's political, religious, and social tranquility.

Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany

‘Positioning’ the Indian Diaspora: The South-East Asian Experience

This is a comprehensive social, economic, and cultural analysis of the Sri Lanka diaspora. Over one million people of Sri Lankan-origin live outside of their homeland. This is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this South Asian island. "The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora" focuses on the socio-economic and political developments of the Sri Lanka diaspora over time and in different places, addressing core issues of demography, economy, politics, culture and future development. It also discusses topics such as long distance nationalism, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.

The encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan diaspora

A sudden downward movement of the geomaterial, either composed of soil, rock, or a mixture of both, along the mountain slopes due to various natural or anthropogenic factors is known as a landslide. The Himalayan Mountain slopes are either made up of residual soil or rocks. Residual soil is formed from weathering of the bedrock and mainly occurs in gentle-to-moderate slope inclinations. In contrast, steep slopes are mostly devoid of soil cover and are primarily rocky. A stability prediction system that can analyse the slope under both the condition of the soil or rock surface is missing. In this study, artificial neural network technology has been utilised to predict the stability of jointed rock and residual soil slope of the Himalayan region. The database for the artificial neural network was obtained from numerical simulation of several residual soils and rock slope models. Nonlinear equations have been formulated by coding the artificial neural network algorithm. An android application has also been developed to predict the stability of residual soil and rock slope instantly. It was observed that the developed android app provides promising results in predicting the factor of safety and stability state of the slopes.

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Stability Prediction of Residual Soil and Rock Slope Using Artificial Neural Network

From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh: the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname CHAN E . S . CHOENNI

Preface 1. Introduction: Religion and the South Asian diaspora 2. Homogenisation and fragmentation, inclusivism and exclusivism in the development of Hinduism in Singapore 3. The dynamics of preserving cultural heritage: the case of Durban's Kathiawad Hindu Seva Samaj, 1943-1960 and beyond 4. Religion and gender: the Hindu diaspora in Portugal 5. Talking 'gender superiority' in virtual spaces: web-based discourses of Hindu student groups in the US and UK 6. From the fringes of the diasporic garment: creative pageants of Indian Christian identity from Malaysia and Singapore 7. Celebrating 'the sons of Jats': the return of tribes in the global village 8. Multiple modernities and the Tibetan diaspora 9. 'Forget not your old country': absence, identity, and marginalization in the practice and development of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Malaysia

Rajesh Rai

Papers

‘Positioning’ the Indian Diaspora: The South-East Asian Experience

The encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan diaspora

Stability Prediction of Residual Soil and Rock Slope Using Artificial Neural Network

From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh: the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname CHAN E . S . CHOENNI

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora