Fawāʼid Sharḥ al-Taʻarruf : manuscript, [ca. 1605]

Excerpts taken possibly from Mustamlī Bukhārī's commentary on al-Taʻarruf.

Sharḥ Bukhārī min taṣānīf Mawlānā Luṭfī : manuscript, 1586

Beginning of a commentary on Bukhārī's al-Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaḥīḥ. It seems that the author never completed his work.

هذه رسالة الابحاث الملخصة في حكم كي الحمصة / لعبد الغني الشهير بابن النابلسي : مخطوطة، 1813

Unbound.

Risālat Rafʻ al-ḍarūrah ʻan ḥajj al-ṣayrūrah / li-Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-shahīr bi-al-Nābulusī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī : manuscript

undated.

Hādhā al-Majmūʻ fī masāʼil al-inzālāt wa-al-khalawāt wa-al-kardār wa-mā yatbaʻu dhālika min al-naṣbah wa-al-jalsah wa-al-ḥazqah wa-min bayʻ al-waqf al-kharib ʻalá mashʹhūr madhhab al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān wa-madhhab Imām Dār al-Hijrah Mālik ibn Anas

1. Risālah fī al-khulūw wa-wujūhihi ʻinda al-Miṣrīyīn wa-al-Maghāribah / li-Ismāʻīl al-Tamīmī -- 2. Suʼāl wa-fatāwá ʻanh / li-Ibrāhīm al-Riyāḥī -- 3. Asʼilah wa-ajwibah fī masāʼil al-kardār / li-Aḥmad ibn al-Khūjah -- 4. Faṣl fī ʻĀrīyat al-khulūw wa-faṣl fī al-inzālāt min Manẓūmat Laqṭ al-durar / li-Muḥammad al-Sanūsī -- 5. Jumlat Taqārīr wa-fatāwá fī al-khalawāt wa-al-inzālāt / li-Muḥammad Bayram wa-al-Shādhilī ibn Ṣāliḥ -- 6. Risālah fī Taḥqīq masʼalat al-khulūw ʻinda al-Mālikīyah / li-Aḥmad al-Fayyūmī al-Farqāwī al-Miṣrī -- 7. Risālah fī al-Kalām ʻalá bayʻ al-waqf idhā khariba wa-mā li-ahl al-madhhab min al-kalām fī dhālik / li-Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb.

[ Ghaṭpāṭjī dhoā]

Prayers to be recited during the ghaṭpāṭ ceremony; prayer includes recitation of the name of Ismāʻīlī Imāms as well as those of Pīrs.

5 grañth ne 100 ginān bhāj 2 jo

Pīr Imām Shāh.

100 ginānjī ćopaḍī ćogaḍīevārī

Ends with prayer seeking for forgiveness for mistakes.

100:ginānjī:ćopaḍī:cālû:ginān:āgal:na:ćhapāela:bhāg:trījo

Pīr Imām Shāh ... [et al.].

Sīlsīle îmāmat

Questions and answers on the topic of Imamat for students of Shia Imami Ismaili schools.

Bubble Growth From First Principles

We consider the simplest relevant problem in the foaming of molten plastics, the growth of a single bubble in a sea of highly viscous Newtonian fluid, and without interference from other bubbles. This simplest problem has defied accurate solution from first principles. Despite plenty of research on foaming, classical approaches from first principles have neglected the temperature rise in the surrounding fluid, and we find that this oversimplification greatly accelerates bubble growth prediction. We use a transport phenomena approach to analyze the growth of a solitary bubble, expanding under its own pressure. We consider a bubble of ideal gas growing without the accelerating contribution from mass transfer into the bubble. We explore the roles of viscous forces, fluid inertia, and viscous dissipation. We find that bubble growth depends upon the nucleus radius and nucleus pressure. We begin with a detailed examination of the classical approaches (thermodynamics without viscous heating). Our failure to fit experimental data with these classical approaches, sets up the second part of our paper, a novel exploration of the essential decelerating role of viscous heating. We explore both isothermal and adiabatic bubble expansion, and also the decelerating role of surface tension. The adiabatic analysis accounts for the slight deceleration due to the cooling of the expanding gas, which depends on gas polyatomicity. We also explore the pressure profile, and the components of the extra stress tensor, in the fluid surrounding the growing bubble. These stresses can eventually be frozen into foamed plastics. We find that our new theory compares well with measured bubble behavior.

Household debt and the European crisis. ECRI Research Report No. 13, June 2013

The fall in economic output all over Europe since 2008 has had important consequences for household liabilities. Major growth in demand and supply for household credit products has generated an increase in household debt, which contributed to growth rates during the pre-crisis period but – in some countries – became household-debt overhangs and helped inflate asset bubbles. In the run-up to the crisis, long-term economic lessons and theories were often overlooked and signs that the economic situation could worsen were ignored. Although not at the core of the crisis, household debt had important consequences for macroeconomic stability, robustness of growth and the depth of recessions. The last ten years in Europe have demonstrated the typical final stage of a household debt cycle: rapid increase and abrupt retrenchment. Widely varying outcomes across Europe enable us to consider the causes of the rapid growth in household debt and draw theoretical lessons that can help policy-makers and academics devise a coherent regulatory response to avoid extremes of the debt cycle in future.

Improving the Effectiveness of Sanctions: A Checklist for the EU. CEPS Special Report No. 95, 6 November 2014

The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has not been accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which, argue the authors, has led to the formulation of suboptimal sanctions regimes. This paper proposes a practical pre-assessment and contingency planning of sanctions – a checklist, which departs from the ‘ad hoc-ism’ of current decision-making on sanctions. The checklist includes the identification of resources linked to the objectionable policies; the leverage of the EU; the costs to the EU; the legality of the measures; their unintended effects; the expected contribution towards EU goals; their coherence with overall EU external relations; and the communication of these policies.

Restoring Order in Global Health Governance: Do Metagovernance Norms Affect Interorganizational Convergence? CES Open Forum Series #23, 2014-2015

This paper theorizes about the convergence of international organizations in global health governance, a field of international cooperation that is commonly portrayed as particularly hit by institutional fragmentation. Unlike existing theories on interorganizationalism that have mainly looked to intra- and extraorganizational factors in order to explain why international organizations cooperate with each other in the first place, the paper is interested in the link between causes and systemic effects of interorganizational convergence. The paper begins by defining interorganizational convergence. It then proceeds to discuss why conventional theories on interorganizational- ism fail to explain the aggregate effects of convergence between IOs in global (health) governance which tend to worsen rather than cushion fragmentation — so-called "hypercollective action" (Severino & Ray 2010). In order to remedy this explanatory blind-spot the paper formulates an alternative sociological institutionalist theory on interorganizational convergence that makes two core theoretical propositions: first that emerging norms of metagovernance are a powerful driver behind interorganizational convergence in global health governance, and secondly that IOs are engaged in a fierce meaning-struggle over these norms which results in hypercollective action. In its empirical part, the paper’s core theoretical propositions are corroborated by analyzing discourses and practices of interorganizational convergence in global health. The empirical analysis allows drawing two far-reaching conclusions. On the one hand, interorganizational harmonization has emerged as a largely undisputed norm in global health which has been translated into ever more institutionalized forms of interorganizational cooperation. On the other, discourses and practices of interorganizational harmonization exhibit conflicts over the ordering principles according to which the policies and actions of international organizations with overlapping mandates and missions should be harmonized. In combination, these two empirical findings explain why interorganizational convergence has so far failed to strengthen the global health architecture.

Benthic and planktic foraminiferal stable isotope record and coccolith abundance spanning the last 500,000 years of ODP Hole 121-758C

The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) is an inter-hemispheric and highly variable ocean-atmosphere-land interaction that directly affects the densely populated Indian subcontinent. Here, we present new records of palaeoceanographic variability that span the last 500,000 years from the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, a relatively under-sampled area of ISM influence. We have generated carbon and oxygen stable isotope records from three foraminiferal species from Ocean Drilling Program Site 758 (5°N, 90°E) to investigate the oceanographic history of this region. We interpret our resultant Dd18O (surface-thermocline) record of upper water-column stratification in the context of past ISM variability, and compare orbital phase relationships in our Site 758 data to other climate and monsoon proxies in the region. Results suggest that upper water-column stratification at Site 758, which is dominated by variance at precession and half-precession frequencies (23, 19 and 11 ka), is forced by both local (5°N) insolation and ISM winds. In the precession (23 ka) band, stratification minima at Site 758 lag northern hemisphere summer insolation maxima (precession minima) by 9 ka, which is consistent with Arabian Sea ISM phase estimates and suggests a common wind forcing in both regions. This phase implicates a strong sensitivity to both ice volume and southern hemisphere insolation forcing via latent heat export from the southern subtropical Indian Ocean. Additionally, we find evidence of possible overprinting of millennial-scale events during glacial terminations in our stratification record, which suggests an influence of remote abrupt climate events on ISM dynamics.