(Ad)Dressing Foreign Women: Ancient Exegesis of Numbers 25 and Roman Prostitution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Atar Livneh
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Exposure

Abstract Does the infinitive לזנות in Num 25:1 suggest that the foreign women were prostitutes? Analyzing four Roman-period Jewish sources—Biblical Antiquities 18:13–14; Philo, Moses 1.294–304 and Virtues 34–50; and Sifre Numbers 131—this article demonstrates that the public exposure of naked bodies in LAB reflects Roman norms relating to prostitutes. Philo even more explicitly depicts the women as brothel prostitutes, projecting the Roman repugnance towards upper-class men openly entering such establishments onto the Israelites and presenting them as immoral by dressing them in the elaborate costume typically worn by courtesans in Greek sources. Sifre Numbers 131 is a satirical variation on the theme, the Israelites being tricked into entering the prostitute’s cubicle due to their ignorance of the (male elite Roman) stereotyping of female vendor markets as prostitutes and old women as bawds.

scholarly journals Monitoring of220Rn Concentrations in Buildings of Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Abid Abojassim Al-Hamidawi
Keyword(s):  
Dose Rate ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Annual Effective Dose ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Technical Institute ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Doses ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Effective Dose Rate ◽  
Annual Effective Dose Rate

This paper presents the measurements of thoron and the progeny in fifteen buildings in Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq, from June 2015 to April 2015 using RAD-7 detectors. Also, annual effective dose rate was calculated in all buildings under study. The thoron concentration varies from05.35±0.58 Bq/m3to53.50±1.82 Bq/m3with an average18.39±4.18 Bq/m3. The concentration of thoron daughters was found to vary from 0.14 mWL to 1.44 mWL with an average0.53±0.11 mWL. The annual effective doses due to thoron mainly vary from 0.042 mSv/y to 0.81 mSv/y with an average0.20±0.06 mSv/y. The preliminary results in this study indicate that they may be suitable for evaluating the indoor220Rn and its progeny concentrations whenever the public exposure to220Rn and its progeny is taken into account. During this survey, the continuous difficulty in measuring thoron was also pointed out, due to its short half-life and faults in the measuring system.

The Flapper and the Joven Moderna

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Cecilia Tossounian
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
Traditional Female Role

Chapter 2 studies how the flapper, the archetypical modern girl, was construed by popular culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Mass media was engaged in a debate about the defining traits of the American flapper and her Argentine counterpart. While the flapper inhabited a distant land, the joven moderna combined popular fashions and mannerisms both foreign and domestic. Portrayed as an upper-class character, she went beyond the traditional female role of the devoted daughter. An oversimplified media construction, the Argentine flapper alerted the public of the dangerous effects of international consumer capitalism and Americanization on gender and national identity.

Assessment of the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium and Giardia in non-potable reclaimed water

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ryu ◽  
A. Alum ◽  
K.D. Mena ◽  
M. Abbaszadegan
Keyword(s):  
Reclaimed Water ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Uv Disinfection ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Significance ◽  
Cryptosporidium Oocysts ◽  
Health Significance ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Reclaimed Water Treatment

Quantitative risk assessment for Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts was performed to determine the public health significance of non-potable use of tertiary treated reclaimed water. Seven reclaimed water treatment plants in the southwestern United States participated in this study. The average public exposure to oocysts and cysts was estimated, based on concentrations, recovery efficiency, viability and three exposure scenarios. The exponential dose-response model was chosen to determine the probability of infection from ingestion of various numbers of oocysts and cysts. The risks of infection for Giardia were approximately one or two orders of magnitude higher than those for Cryptosporidium. The combined risks of infection from oocysts and cysts at sites using a combination of chlorination and UV disinfection would meet the annual acceptable risk of 1.00E-04, whereas those at the other utilities using only chlorination indicated higher probability of infection than the 1.00E-04 resulting from accidental consumption of a small amount of non-potable reclaimed water.

scholarly journals Religious Expression of Hijrah Celebrity: Accommodating Protest and Political Economy of Public Piety

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Afrida Arinal Muna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic

<p>The <em>hijrah</em> campaign or massive movement that invites Muslims to become a better person by practicing religious teachings is more vigorously voiced in the digital era, including on social media, as we can find on ‘detiknews’ that the hastag #<em>hijrah</em> in the instagram search box more than 1,7 million posts. The <em>hijrah</em> account on facebook has also been followed by more than 300 thousand accounts. This phenomenon cannot be denied also by the artists, because this phenomenon is massive in the middle to upper class, who have the opportunity to consume issues trending or viral on social media. The trend in <em>hijrah</em> activities also influenced a series of celebrities who decided to <em>hijrah</em> with different processes. I assume that celebrities who do <em>hijrah</em> actually want not only to show their new religious expression by showing their peity to the public but also to be  a form of ‘accomodating protest’ that before they decide to <em>hijrah</em>, there is a kind of bullying that is the emergence of stigmas of a fear of a decline in their image in public when an artist <em>hijrah</em> with his new hijab style, but instead there is a kind of resistance that celebrities want to come out to public that they can still exist in even though wearing the hijab. There is also an political economic strategy played by the artists by making some innovations such as halal industry. This is their target because the trends have been becoming a massive consumerism trend by the millenial Muslim middle class, which is believed to be economic booster of the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p><p> </p><p><em>Kampanye hijrah atau gerakan massif yang mengajak kaum </em><em>M</em><em>uslim untuk menjadi pribadi yang lebih baik dengan menjalankan ajaran agama semakin gencar disuarakan di era digital. di era digital, termasuk di media sosial, sebagaimana dapat kita temukan di ‘detiknews’ bahwa tagar #hijrah di kotak pencarian instagram terdapat lebih dari 1,7 juta postingan, akun hijrah di facebook juga sudah diikuti lebih dari 300 ribu akun. Fenomena ini tidak bisa dinafikan juga dari kalangan artis, karena fenomena ini masif ditemui di kalangan kelas menengah ke atas yang berkesempatan mengonsumi isu-isu yang menjadi tren atau viral di media sosial. Tren aktivitas hijrah ini pun mempengaruhi sederet selebriti yang memutuskan untuk hijrah dengan proses yang berbeda-beda. Saya berasumsi bahwa selebriti yang melakukan hijrah sebenarnya tidak hanya ingin menunjukkan ekspresi keberagamaan barunya dengan menunjukkan kesalehannya terhadap publik, tetapi juga sebagai sebuah bentuk ‘accomodating protest‘ bahwa sebelum mereka memutuskan untuk hijrah ada sejenis bully-an yaitu munculnya stigma-stigma ketakutan menurunnya citra mereka di hadapan publik ketika seorang artis melakukan hijrah dengan style hijab barunya, tetapi justru ada semacam perlawanan yang ingin ditunjukkan oleh para selebriti kepada masyarakat bahwa mereka tetap bisa eksis walaupun memakai jilbab dan juga ada strategi politik ekonomi yang dimainkan oleh artis-artis hijrah tersebut dengan membuat inovasi-inovasi industri halal, tren hijab yang semakin down-to-earth, dan yang lainnya. Industri halal tersebut menjadi sasaran mereka karena tren tersebut menjadi tren konsumerisme yang masif oleh kelas menengah </em><em>M</em><em>uslim milenial yang diyakini sebagai penggerak ekonomi abad-21. </em></p>

scholarly journals 5G Radiation and Potential Risks to the Environment and Human Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1689-1693
Author(s):  
Hasan J. Hasan, Ali J. Yosef, Haider Abed Hachem
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

      The rapid development in wireless communication technology and the urgent need to develop it has led to an increase in the public exposure to more radio spectrum frequencies. The mountain increases in terms of the damage caused by these wireless technologies for the 2G, 3G and 4G generations ending with the new technique, which is 5G. As a result of the urgent need for fast communications and wide packages of data, only a new generation of communications has emerged, which is 5G, which enjoys high speed and broadcasts in short waves and high frequency. There is great concern about the impact of these technologies on human health and safety. This technique works at relatively higher frequencies than the previously used technologies. This research sheds light on some of the expected harms of these technologies and the result of using these techniques, where the damages on the human body in general, the skin and the human eye in particular, are addressed, as well as their impact on the environment and plants in general.

scholarly journals The Russian Assembly of the Nobility as a Communication Venue for the Upper Class and the Emperor (1780–1850s)

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Александр Куприянов ◽  
Aleksandr Kupriyanov
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Body Contact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
First Time

For the first time in the historiography, the paper views the Russian (Moscow) Assembly of the Nobility as a communication venue for the upper class and the Emperor. Based upon archival documents, periodicals, letters, diaries and records of the contemporaries, the researcher focuses on the emerging reception practices by the public organization of the Emperor, as well as various ways of communication that arose between the monarch and his subjects at a ball. The spatial-hierarchical place of a person at a ball and at the festive table depended on his/her symbolic capital: rank, nobility, age, and personal acquaintance with the emperor and his family. The communication at a ball was secular by nature, and excluded any serious topics. The communication between the monarch and the nobility at a ball was of three types: dancing and body contact, verbal and visual. Imperial balls in the Russian Assembly of the Nobility aimed at strengthening the monarch's ties with the nobility and served as a crucial tool of publicly expressing the pro-monarchical feelings by the Moscow’s upper class. Therefore, the leaders and members of the assembly, who appreciated the symbolic value of these balls, spent huge amounts of money on their organization. The details of the monarch’s receptions in the Russian Assembly of the Nobility were published in newspapers. The research is based on a wide range of archival (Central State Archive of Moscow, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art) and published sources: chamber fourrier journals, memoirs, notes and letters, as well as periodicals (newspapers Severnaya Pchela, Severnaya Pochta, Moskovskie Vedomosti). Many of these materials are first introduced into the academic domain.

Dangerous Letters: A Biographer’s Perspective1

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermione Lee
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negotiation Performance ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Pure Data

This chapter considers the seduction and the challenge of written letters for the literary biographer. Letters are both dangerous and attractive tools for the biographer; they often lie, but the lies are an important part of the subject’s behaviour. They should not be used by the biographer as pure data, but as mixtures of negotiation, performance, and partial self-expression. The essay takes a few powerful examples of writers’ letters from the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth century, a period when writers were increasingly conscious of the dangers of the public exposure of the private life. Writers discussed include John Keats and Katherine Mansfield.

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