Television, Religious Objects and Secularism

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehri Bahar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
New Creation ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Religious Ceremony ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Religion ◽  
Religious Objects ◽  
And Function

AbstractThe major claim of this paper concerns the following question: 'Do the religious tools and symbols presented in the media lose their holiness at the time when they are being represented in the media?' To answer this question I propose that we should consider the media as a new creation of text for religion. Of course, we have to consider the capacities and meaning of media and religion when it arrives in the media. In other words, we should accept that the level of discourse and function of the media (whether religious or other types of media) in presenting a religious ceremony directed towards a series of spiritual values, and occasionally the values which are shown on the screens or through T.V. programmes are not the same as a religious ceremony performed outside the media area as, for example, in a mosque. Two main phenomena are important in each religious ceremony: sacred space and sacred time. It seems that in media these two are lost by the new atmosphere of the media. In this article we consider what is the religious media, and the traits and the nature of religious media. In order to discuss this concept, importance is put on three main concepts in the media. We try to say that media could present a new possibility and present religious experience for its audiences. Many of the ideas of Hoover and Eliade, even ones not mentioned in this study, are important for the study.

Integration of culture-dependent and independent methods provides a more coherent picture of the pig gut microbiome

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin J Fenske ◽  
Sudeep Ghimire ◽  
Linto Antony ◽  
Jane Christopher-Hennings ◽  
Joy Scaria
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Shotgun Metagenomics ◽  
Culture Techniques ◽  
Microbiome Composition ◽  
Culture Independent ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Function ◽  
Culture Dependent

ABSTRACT Bacterial communities resident in the hindgut of pigs, have profound impacts on health and disease. Investigations into the pig microbiome have utilized either culture-dependent, or far more commonly, culture-independent techniques using next generation sequencing. We contend that a combination of both approaches generates a more coherent view of microbiome composition. In this study, we surveyed the microbiome of Tamworth breed and feral pigs through the integration high throughput culturing and shotgun metagenomics. A single culture medium was used for culturing. Selective screens were added to the media to increase culture diversity. In total, 46 distinct bacterial species were isolated from the Tamworth and feral samples. Selective screens successfully shifted the diversity of bacteria on agar plates. Tamworth pigs are highly dominated by Bacteroidetes primarily composed of the genus Prevotella whereas feral samples were more diverse with almost equal proportions of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. The combination of metagenomics and culture techniques facilitated a greater retrieval of annotated genes than either method alone. The single medium based pig microbiota library we report is a resource to better understand pig gut microbial ecology and function. It allows for assemblage of defined bacterial communities for studies in bioreactors or germfree animal models.

Studies on the structure and function of the mammalian testis V. Steroid metabolism by isolated interstitium and seminiferous tubules of the human testis

1974 ◽  
Vol 186 (1083) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Steroid Metabolism ◽  
Human Testis ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Seminiferous Tubules ◽  
Bicarbonate Buffer ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function

Tissue was obtained from the testes of three men, two in the age range 72-75 years (subjects A and B) and one aged 25 years (subject C). Parts of the testes were dissected to obtain samples of interstitium and tubules. The individual components and whole tissue were each incubated with equimolar concentrations of [7 α - 3 H]pregnenolone and [4- 14 C]progesterone in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate buffer pH 7.4, at 35 °C with the addition of glucose but without cofactors. Some incubations were carried out with the substrates [4- 14 C]androstenedione and [7 α - 3 H]testosterone. The media were extracted both at various time intervals throughout the incubation for a kinetic study of the metabolic activity and after a fixed interval of time at the end of the incubations. In some incubations with whole tissue both media and tissue were extracted. Both the tubules and interstitium displayed steroid metabolic activity. Qualitatively they yielded the same range of metabolites, one series leading to the formation of testosterone (∆ 5 pathway) and the other to a variety of C 21 compounds as represented by 5 α -pregnan-3 β -ol-20-one. With similar amounts of tissue there was little difference in the yields of the main products formed by the tubules as compared with those formed by the interstitium; in incubations with [4- 14 C]androstenedione the rate of conversion to [ 14 C ]testosterone by the tubules greatly exceeded that due to the interstitium. Marked differences were found in the pattern of steroid metabolism by whole tissue as compared to the general pattern presented by the corresponding tubules and interstitium. It is concluded that the seminiferous tubules and interstitium of the human testis are both capable of steroid metabolism and hence that whole tissue incubations alone are of limited value and could give rise to misleading data. Some clinical aspects of the results are briefly discussed.

Guest Editorial: Artificial Intelligence in the E&P Industry: What Have We Learned So Far and Where to Next?

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (01) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
Manas Pathak ◽  
Tonya Cosby ◽  
Robert K. Perrons
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Human Judgment ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Function

Artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the imagination of science-fiction movie audiences for many years and has been used in the upstream oil and gas industry for more than a decade (Mohaghegh 2005, 2011). But few industries evolve more quickly than those from Silicon Valley, and it accordingly follows that the technology has grown and changed considerably since this discussion began. The oil and gas industry, therefore, is at a point where it would be prudent to take stock of what has been achieved with AI in the sector, to provide a sober assessment of what has delivered value and what has not among the myriad implementations made so far, and to figure out how best to leverage this technology in the future in light of these learnings. When one looks at the long arc of AI in the oil and gas industry, a few important truths emerge. First among these is the fact that not all AI is the same. There is a spectrum of technological sophistication. Hollywood and the media have always been fascinated by the idea of artificial superintelligence and general intelligence systems capable of mimicking the actions and behaviors of real people. Those kinds of systems would have the ability to learn, perceive, understand, and function in human-like ways (Joshi 2019). As alluring as these types of AI are, however, they bear little resemblance to what actually has been delivered to the upstream industry. Instead, we mostly have seen much less ambitious “narrow AI” applications that very capably handle a specific task, such as quickly digesting thousands of pages of historical reports (Kimbleton and Matson 2018), detecting potential failures in progressive cavity pumps (Jacobs 2018), predicting oil and gas exports (Windarto et al. 2017), offering improvements for reservoir models (Mohaghegh 2011), or estimating oil-recovery factors (Mahmoud et al. 2019). But let’s face it: As impressive and commendable as these applications have been, they fall far short of the ambitious vision of highly autonomous systems that are capable of thinking about things outside of the narrow range of tasks explicitly handed to them. What is more, many of these narrow AI applications have tended to be modified versions of fairly generic solutions that were originally designed for other industries and that were then usefully extended to the oil and gas industry with a modest amount of tailoring. In other words, relatively little AI has been occurring in a way that had the oil and gas sector in mind from the outset. The second important truth is that human judgment still matters. What some technology vendors have referred to as “augmented intelligence” (Kimbleton and Matson 2018), whereby AI supplements human judgment rather than sup-plants it, is not merely an alternative way of approaching AI; rather, it is coming into focus that this is probably the most sensible way forward for this technology.

scholarly journals Influence of Technology on Socio-spatial City Development

Prostor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1 (61)) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Vujadinović ◽  
Svetlana K. Perović
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
City Development ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

This paper is studying influence of new technologies on city development with accent on socio-spatial dimension. The primary goal of the paper is to point out the reflections of earlier ideas in the context of modern technological processes in cities. All social, technical and technological components of a community, and finally civilization, are reflected within space of the city. Although having remained the greatest consumer of many material goods, city has also become a ‘’producer’’ of many technical-technological and spiritual values of civilization. Taking into account acceleration of phenomena in the world of technology and technology featuring modernity, it reasonably brings a question on realistic chance for prediction of their further course and related social changes that are about to cause it. In many scenarios of urban future, one can sense the idea of a city as a result of high technological achievements of civilization. Special attention is paid on informational city which, connecting a lot of people into systems of interactive information technology change the way of their mutual communication, as well as their social life and culture of behaviour. Measure of organization and function of city is set by telecommunication technologies, information, and computers. If city is a ‘’print of a society in space’’, then a contemporary moment refers to ‘’digitalization’’ of human beings, digitalization of their interactions, new aesthetics, value and other criteria. The tendency of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of new technologies on 21st century cities interpreted primarily through the prism of certain theoretical and experimental ideas and concepts of the 20th century.

Media, Mediation and the Vernacular Public Arena in India

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Hybrid Character ◽  
And Function ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Political Negotiation

This article analyses the rise of the vernacular public arena in India and the ways in which various media have contributed to the mediation of the multiplicity of the vernacular and the universality of the public. With increasing access by different social groups to various media, space opens up for the participation of the wider public in the activities of the mediated public arena. The participation of a multitude of publics in market-driven media networks has led to a change in the nature and function of the media, which not only have ensure that they survive in a capitalist marketplace, but need to cater to a requirement to serve wider audiences. There is thus a simultaneous presence in the public arena of viewpoints and interests of the urban middle classes, along with the poor and the marginalised. This hybrid character of the public arena is often overlooked in the discussion on democratic transformation in India. The vernacular public arena is thus the expanding space of socio-political negotiation, interaction and contestation, in which a diversity of voices get mediated and remediated to reassemble and redefine the publics. The mediation has led to the subjectification of the diversity of people, but is far from consensual politics, as it often involves severe debate, criticism, oppression and resistance. This article focuses particularly on the role of the media in the rise of the vernacular public arena, and how it has helped to connect diverse social groups in a network of dialogues and negotiations, which has contributed to the democratisation of the public arena.

Expression and function of periostin-like factor in vascular smooth muscle cells

2007 ◽  
Vol 292 (5) ◽  
pp. C1672-C1680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Litvin ◽  
Xing Chen ◽  
Sheri Keleman ◽  
Shimei Zhu ◽  
Michael Autieri
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Antibody Treatment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Vascular Proliferative Diseases ◽  
And Function

In injured blood vessels activated vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) migrate from the media to the intima, proliferate and synthesize matrix proteins. This results in occlusion of the lumen and detrimental clinical manifestations. We have identified a novel isoform of the periostin family of proteins referred to as periostin-like factor (PLF). PLF expression in VSMCs was increased following treatment with mitogenic compounds, suggesting that PLF plays a role in VSMC activation. Correspondingly, proliferation of the cells was significantly reduced with anti-PLF antibody treatment. PLF expression increased VSMC migration, an essential cellular process leading to vascular restenosis after injury. PLF protein was localized to neointimal VSMC of rat and swine balloon angioplasty injured arteries, as well as in human arteries with transplant restenosis, supporting the hypothesis that PLF is involved in VSMC activation and vascular proliferative diseases. Taken together, these data suggest a role for PLF in the regulation of vascular proliferative disease.

scholarly journals Transfiguracja – Piękna złośnica Jacques’a Rivette’a w świetle mimo-sekularnej myśli o filmie i mediach światłowodowych

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (39) ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Janusz Bohdziewicz
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
New Creation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Made In

The essay is an interpretation of the film by Jacques Rivette La Belle Noiseuse (1991) within the context of post-secular studies. The sketch is inspired primarily by the writings of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Nancy, and it also corresponds with the Bible and biblical studies. The author describes the creative process shown in the film as an act of salvation which occurs between the painter and his model. The hiding of the resulting image is understood here in relation to the passion, cross and burial of Jesus which brings the hope for a liberated life and “the new creation”. The film is made in a very consistent way, which opens up the perspective of crossing the world of images, paintings and classical films (the world of stage), towards the art of mutual respect (the world of interface). Rivette’s work contains a multitude of relevant observations and indications regarding psychology, religion and culture, but it also reveals the possibility of a new way of thinking about film and the media, close to Nancy’s post-metaphysical thought.

scholarly journals The Development of E-Atlas Learning Media Based on Mobile Learning on Cells Structure Material in SMA N 1 Kandangserang

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Diah Agung Setiawati ◽  
Ning Setiati ◽  
Tyas Agung Pribadi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Cell Structure ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
And Function ◽  
Academic Year

Cells are the one of hard-to-understand material for students, because it cannot be seen directly by students therefore it requires detailed visualization of images to explain the structure and processes that occur in it. Adequate visualization is needed to study better the structure and function of cells. This is the reason why we need to develop a mobile learning media. The media is an E-atlas of cell structure and function. This product is then analyzed its suitability as a learning media in SMA N 1 Kandangserang. Students of classes XI MIA 1 and XI MIA 2 academic year 2018/2019 were selected as the samples of this research using saturated sampling techniques. This is a research and development (R & D). Research shows that E-atlas is suitable as learning media. E-atlas affects the learning outcomes, where the N-gain value shows an increase with an average of 0.72 (categorized as high) with classical completeness of 83%. It is concluded that E-atlas mobile learning is suitable as a teaching learning medium for students.

scholarly journals Islamophobia and the media are the determinants of the Arab media's coverage of the phenomenon in the social media era

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-116
Author(s):  
ياسين صدوقي
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Television News ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Television Channel ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This study seeks to identify the methods and methods of covering Islamophobia by Arab news channels، and that was set in the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel and alaraby television channel That broadcasts from England. This choice comes because they are affiliated to a television news complex that has huge (financial and human) capabilities that make them broadcast on a large scale. Therefore, we aim in this study to discover the most prominent determinants and foundations of coverage of the phenomenon of Islamophobia in an era in which social networking sites exploded and became a major driver in many issues, and the religious media was absent from the agenda of the traditional media.

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