scholarly journals Shaping Public Opinion for Confrontation: Catalan Independence Claims as Represented in Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, and Basque Editorials

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1040-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Xicoy ◽  
Cristina Perales-García ◽  
Rafael Xambó
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship

Editorials represent a newspaper’s principal means of ideological positioning and serve to identify the attitude of each newspaper and its readership to some of the main actors in any given conflict, especially those that are political in nature. Catalonia’s independence movement has experienced a surge in recent years. The turning point came in July 2010, after Spain’s constitutional court ruled against some aspects of Catalonia’s Statute of Autonomy (the legislation regulating the relationship between the Catalan autonomous community and the Spanish state). The ruling annulled some of the articles of the statute. The demonstration in support of Catalan independence that took place on September 11, 2012, was considered the most important among several mass rallies held for this purpose over successive years on Catalonia’s National Day. This article presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of editorial articles published around these two key dates, with the goal of studying each newspaper’s treatment of political actors and their degree of identification with these actors. Their use of arguments aimed at persuading readers and legitimizing a given position during the specified time periods in 2010 and 2012 will also be studied. The study focuses on the editorial articles published by several newspapers in four distinct regional contexts: Catalonia, Valencia, the Basque Country, as well as the whole of Spain. The analyzed articles were published a few days before and after July 10, 2010, and September 11, 2012.

Designing a business unit and creating the first ever responsive kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo FESTA ◽  
Tommaso CORA ◽  
Lucilla FAZIO
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Relationship

Is it possible to transform stone into a technological and innovative device? The meeting with one of the main stone transformers in Europe produced the intention of a disruptive operation that could affect the strategy of the whole company. A contagious singularity. By intertwining LEAN methodologies and the human-centric approach of design thinking, we mapped the value creation in the company activating a dialogue with the workers and the management, listening to people, asking for ambitions, discovering problems and the potential of production. This qualitative and quantitative analysis conducted with a multidisciplinary approach by designers, architects and marketing strategists allowed us to define a new method. We used it to design a platform that could let all the players express their potential to the maximum. This is how the group's research laboratory was born, with the aim of promoting the relationship between humans and stone through product innovation. With this goal, we coordinated the new team, developing technologies that would allow creating a more direct relationship between man and surface, making the stone reactive. The result was the first responsive kitchen ever.

Combustion Synthesis and Infrared Characterization of TiB2

2014 ◽  
Vol 602-603 ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Su Li ◽  
Jun Shou Li ◽  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Ming Yuan Wang ◽  
Xiao Juan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Wave Band ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
High Temperature Synthesis ◽  
Hexagonal Shape ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Infrared Spectral ◽  
Middle Infrared

On the basis of magnesiothermy, with Mg powder, TiO2 powder and B2O3 powder as mixed reactants, relatively pure TiB2 powder was prepared by self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) after leached in diluted hydrochloric acid with the suitable concentration. The product after leached was examined by XRD for qualitative and quantitative analysis, SEM for morphology analysis and infrared spectroscopy for transmittance analysis. It was found that diluted hydrochloric acid could decrease most of the impurities, and the proportion of TiB2 phase in the product is more than 99%, which was hexagonal shape crystal with the grain size of 200-300 nm. Compare with the infrared spectrogram of the middle infrared spectral region of the product of before and after acid pickling, it was found that the transmittance of TiB2 is extremely low in the range of 2000-4000 cm-1, which can be excellent infrared absorption material in the corresponding wave band.

The Study of Islam Before and After September 11: A Provocation

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 314-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
Academic Study

Abstract In the aftermath of September 11, the academic study of Islam has been one of the most sought-after areas of academic expertise throughout North America. The result is that many departments of Religious Studies have been eager either to develop or increase existing offerings in all things Islamic and Arabic. This strikes me as a good a time as any to reflect upon the nature of the relationship between Religious Studies and Islamic Studies. This article assumes that the integration of the latter into the former has not been easy or even successful. It provocatively argues that some of the manifold reasons behind such tensions emerge from the apologetics—found among both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars—inherent to the study of Islam. This confessionalism is the result of a complex amalgam of academic and non-academic forces.

scholarly journals IA TAFSIRAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI TERHADAP PEMUFAKATAN JAHAT OLEH KORUPTOR (STUDI PUTUSAN NOMOR 21/PUU-XIV/2016)

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-245
Author(s):  
Irfan Ardian Syah
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Case Number

Hopes that the Constitutional Court (CC) is not acting as legislator (maker norm) was not easy to achieve. This is because in some cases the judicial examined, tried, and decided, the CC actually act as a norm-making body (one of them in the Case Number 21/PUU-XIV/2016). Thus, in terms of the concept of state power, the CC has a dual role as the holders of state power in the judiciary and the legislature. The problem of this study is the interpretation of the CC of the of conspiracy and the relationship between of conspiracy according to Article 88 of the Code of Penal (CP) in accordance with Article 15 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption (LEC) before and after the enactment quo decision. CC interpretation against conspiracy is the right step to ensure legal certainty. However, the CC for an interpretation of action are included unlawful. Thus, in hearing and deciding the case a quo, the CC took a negative role, namely to uphold the law by breaking the law. The relationship between conspiracy under Article 88 of CP with according to Article 15 of LEC before the stipulated judgment a quo is not applied the principle of Lex Specialis Derogat Legi Generalis after adoption of a quo decision to do is to be the application of the principle of Lex Specialis Derogat Legi Generalis.

Political Power and Judicial Review in Italy

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY L. VOLCANSEK
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Political Power ◽  
National Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This essay traces the development of the power of the Italian Constitutional Court, the political impact of its policies, and its reception by the public and the other institutions of government. The relationship between the Court and Parliament is presented as one characterized by a synchronization of powers, and the Court has demonstrated reluctance to interfere in conflicts among the various branches of the national government. That timidity has not, however, carried over into its treatment of referenda or of national versus regional prerogatives. The Constitutional Court is, according to this analysis, a part of the national governing elite, and its most controversial decisions have been ones safeguarding the interests of that elite. By carefully acting as “quasi-guardians,” the Constitutional Court judges have cemented a solidly positive reputation and nurtured an aura of legitimacy that is rare among Italian political actors.

scholarly journals Multiple Pathway for Agricultural Labour Adaptation in a Vietnamese Village under the Context of Revonation

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Thi Minh Khue Nguyen ◽  
Thi Dien Nguyen ◽  
Philippe Lebailly
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Household Model ◽  
Multiple Pathway ◽  
The Relationship

The revival of family farming with rural out migration has undisputable contribution for household livelihoods. This paper aimed to figure out the relationship between migration and agricultural labour adaptation in Vietnamese rural areas. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis, this study showed that migration had complicated impacts on labour management intra-household for sustaining agricultural activities, there is no remarkable agricultural labour deficit created due to internal migration in the meso level. In contrast with reported trend on de-agrarianization due to productive migrants, this paper argued that rural households manage to have multiple pathways to maintain farming. Their strategy is the combination of changing agricultural scheme, renting labour or develop the multi-spacial household rural households in response with this new context of labour loss for migration. The strong commitments and obligations between family members show that the multi-spacial household model is well-functioning with mutual support divided across space.

scholarly journals PESQUISA QUALITATIVA: REFLEXÕES GEOGRÁFICAS A PARTIR DE UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE AS CONTRADIÇÕES URBANAS DA CIDADE DE SOROCABA – SP / Qualitative Research: Geographic Considerations from a Case Study on Urban Contradictions of the City of Sorocaba - SP

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Rosalina Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Partindo do entendimento acerca da importância dos caminhos metodológicos da pesquisa qualitativa no âmbito da Geografia, e do posicionamento acadêmico e social do pesquisador na definição do tema, método e metodologia de pesquisa, destaca-se a relação intrínseca entre a natureza qualitativa e quantitativa dos fenômenos analisados. Esta reflexão é tecida com base na temática acerca das possibilidades de pensar e agir pelo direito à cidade, tendo como estudo de caso o processo recente de valorização e segregação espacial da cidade de Sorocaba.Palavras chave: pesquisa qualitativa, valorização espacial, segregação espacial, direito à cidade, cidade de Sorocaba. ABSTRACTBased on the understanding of the importance of methodology of qualitative research in Geography, and academic and social position of the researcher in the theme definition, method and research methodology, in the relationship between qualitative and quantitative analysis on the essence of phenomena. This reflection is based on the theme of the possibilities of thinking and acting for the right to the city, taking as a case study the recent process of spatial valorization of the city of Sorocaba.Key words: qualitative research, valorization of the space, spatial segregation, the right to the city, city of Sorocaba

scholarly journals A corpus study of Swahili conditionals

2017 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mwamzandi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Possibility

In this paper I analyze Swahili conditional constructions via corpus analysis. Previous works on Swahili conditional markers categorize ki as a high possibility marker and ikiwa as a low possibility marker. In this corpus based study, I show that Swahili conditional markers cannot be imbued with specific pragmatic implicatures. Further, I extend the analysis to include the relationship between the protasis and apodosis and how this relationship impacts the choice of Swahili conditional markers. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results indicate that both ki and ikiwa may be used in conditionals with a high as well as neutral possibility of realization. However, the conditional conjunction ikiwa significantly differs from the ki conditional morpheme in the analysis based on the relationship between the protasis and apodosis. While ki is more frequently used in content and speech act conditionals, ikiwa is more frequently used in epistemic conditionals. The study is also extended to include the Swahili subjunctive morphemes nge, used in conditionals with a low possibility of realization (hypotheticals) as well as counterfactuals, and ngeli/ngali, predominantly used in counterfactuals.

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