Impact of Genomics Platform and Statistical Filtering on Transcriptional Benchmark Doses (BMD) and Multiple Approaches for Selection of Chemical Point of Departure (PoD)

Fear and suspicion towards Islam and Muslims have become increasingly prominent in the public debate. This represents a challenge for Muslim youth in their efforts to develop a positive religious identity. The point of departure in this article is how the new, Islamic pop industry, here represented by a selection of music and artists from Awakening Records, has responded to this situation by producing religious music specifically aimed at European/Western youth. The article analyses how musical genre, texts, images and videos work together and thematizes Muslim identity and Islamic values in different ways. It is suggested that this material may serve as resources for the identity management of young European Muslims by offering alternative, positive narratives about Islam.Key words: Islamic pop-music, Muslim youth culture, Muslim identity, Awakening RecordsFrykt og mistenksomhet overfor islam og muslimer har blitt stadig mer fremtredende i den offentlige debatt. Dette representerer en utfordring for muslimsk ungdom i deres arbeid med å utvikle en positiv religiøs identitet. Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i hvordan den nye, islamske pop-industrien, her representert ved et utvalg musikk og artister fra Awakening Records, har respondert på denne situasjonen ved å produsere religiøs musikk spesielt rettet mot europeisk/vestlig ungdom. Artikkelen analyserer hvordan musikalsk uttrykk, tekster, bilder og videoer virker sammen og tematiserer muslimsk identitet og islamske verdier på ulike måter. Det pekes på at dette materialet kan tjene som ressurser for unge, europeiske muslimers identitetsarbeid ved å tilby alternative, positive narrativ om islam.Nøkkelord: islamsk pop-musikk, muslimsk ungdomskultur, muslimsk identitet, Awakening Records

Download Full-text

Webb, Phyllis (1927– )

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1644-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa Dalgleish

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

West Coast ◽

Full Length ◽

The West ◽

University Of British Columbia ◽

Mcgill University ◽

Phyllis Webb ◽

The University ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

Phyllis Webb, OC is a Canadian poet, teacher, and broadcaster. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended the University of British Columbia and McGill University. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, a selection of prose, and a collection of broadcast scripts, essays and reviews published as Talking (1982). Her first collection of poems was published alongside work by Eli Mandel and Gael Turnbull in Trio (1954). Webb’s first full-length collection, Even Your Right Eye (1956) was followed by The Sea is Also a Garden (1962). She began working at CBC Toronto in 1964 and acted as the producer of the ‘Ideas’ programme from 1967–1969. Her 1965 collection Naked Poems marked a point of departure with its compact forms and erotic evocation of lesbian desire. After returning to the West Coast, Webb did not publish another full-length collection until Wilson’s Bowl (1980). She won the Governor General’s Award for The Vision Tree (1982). Webb’s interest in the Persian ghazal form inspired Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti-Ghazals (1982) and Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti-Ghazals (1984). Her consistent concern with form manifests itself in her formal experimentation and her meticulous crafting of poems.

Download Full-text

Motives for ‘Disappearances’ in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the 1970s

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights ◽

10.1177/016934419501300105 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 51-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wolfgang S. Heinz

Keyword(s):

Armed Conflict ◽

State Violence ◽

Civilian Control ◽

Internal Security ◽

And Control ◽

The Military ◽

Good And Evil ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

The article looks at the motives of military governments in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay to introduce ‘disappearances’ as a new method to fight ‘subversion’ and thereby commit human rights violations. Five variables are taken as a point of departure, the country's previous experience with use of state violence, the selection of victims, the role of international public opinion, the selection of methods within the state and ideological factors. Among the key elements were in two countries the shift of responsibility for the use of violence to the military before the coup (except Chile), a lack of civilian control and influence in the formulation and control of internal security policies and an overwhelming, confused ideological definition in Argentina and in Chile (to a lesser degree in Uruguay) of the armed conflict as a war between good and evil and against World Communism which endangered the survival of the nation.

Download Full-text

Nine types of recommendations, guidelines and policies: an exploratory test of a proposed typology of physical activity promotion documents

Archives of Public Health ◽

10.1186/s13690-019-0381-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Peter Gelius ◽

Sven Messing ◽

Karim Abu-Omar

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Physical Activity Promotion ◽

Future Research ◽

Physical Activity Guidelines ◽

Activity Promotion ◽

Evidence Type ◽

Entire Matrix ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

Abstract Background The field of physical activity abounds with recommendations, guidelines, action plans and other documents published by experts, organizations and institutions at the national and international level. However, working with these documents is difficult since similar names (e.g. “recommendations”) may be used to label substantially different contents, while identical topics may hide behind different monikers (e.g. “guidelines” and “strategy”). Methods We built on an existing framework conceptualizing categories of physical activity evidence and on the Doern continuum for policy instruments to develop a nine-field matrix that classifies physical activity-related publications based on their evidence type and degree of coercion. We used a selection of eleven physical activity documents to perform an exploratory test of the functions and utility of the typology. Results Placing central physical activity documents into the typology shows that recommendations, guidelines, and policies are found across the entire matrix, regardless of their denomination. It also suggests that some documents transcend boundaries between types by falling into more than one category, and that some categories may be underrepresented in current physical activity promotion. Conclusions A typology to classify physical activity guidelines, recommendations, and policies can help us acquire a better overview of the landscape of existing physical activity documents than simple distinctions based on document names. It may guide both current initiatives and future development work in the field. It could also serve as a point of departure for future research, as conducting systematic overviews of the literature based on this typology may help reveal important gaps in current physical activity promotion.

Download Full-text

Montesquieu in the University: The Governance of World-class Institutions of Higher Education and Research

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798717000679 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 285-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lars Engwall

Keyword(s):

Separation Of Powers ◽

University Presidents ◽

Governance Structure ◽

Institutions Of Higher Education ◽

Academic Senates ◽

World Class ◽

The University ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

The point of departure for this article is the principle of the separation of powers, formulated long ago by the Frenchman Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu. It is argued that this principle is important for the governance of universities, entailing a balance between university boards, university presidents and university senates. To this end, the article presents evidence about the governance structure of two highly-ranked US universities, UC Berkeley (UCB) and Stanford University. It reports on board compositions, the selection of presidents and the role of academic senates. The conclusion is that the principle of the balance of powers (‘shared governance’ as it is called at UCB) has served the two universities well. Therefore, despite differences in other conditions, such as their endowments, other universities might benefit from the evidence reported.

Download Full-text

Un lexique-grammaire du football

Lingvisticae Investigationes ◽

10.1075/li.29.2.05mou ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 275-311

Author(s):

Argyro Moustaki ◽

Aspasia Dimitriadi

Keyword(s):

Comparative Studies ◽

Greek Language ◽

Simple Sentence ◽

Automatic Translation ◽

Compound Nouns ◽

Starting Point ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

Taking as a starting point one of P. Sabatier’s work on the Lexicon-Grammar of football, we present the phrases we have established and translated for the Greek language (Ph-foot). We have retained the classes of objects established by P. Sabatier for French. For the Greek study our point of departure is a selection of 600 sentences. We have established not only a lexicon-grammar but also a list of classes of objects and compound nouns of this vocabulary. The aim of this analysis was to describe morphosyntactic similarities as well as differences between simple sentence constructions and compound nouns in both languages. This study will serve as a basis for future comparative studies wich will ultimately serve to support automatic translation.

Download Full-text

Die Vorlesung - eine fachsprachliche Textsorte am Beispielder Fachkommunikation Wirtschaft. Eine textlinguistische Analyse mit didaktischen Anmerkungen fürden Fachsprachenunterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache.

Linguistik Online ◽

10.13092/lo.10.923 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Doris Grütz

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Foreign Students ◽

Text Coherence ◽

German Speaking ◽

Specialized Language ◽

Linguistic Methods ◽

Linguistic Structures ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Economic Studies ◽

Selection Of

Ein Korpus an Vorlesungstexten aus den Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird daraufhin untersucht, welche sprachlichen Mittel seitens des Textproduzenten eingesetzt werden, um die Rede für die Rezipienten verständlich zu gestalten. Die Untersuchung ist mit dem Ziel entstanden, ausländischen Studierenden, die ein Studium an deutschsprachigen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen aufnehmen wollen, Mittel an die Hand zu geben, Texte, mit denen sie häufig konfrontiert werden, möglichst gut zu verstehen. Um einer Vorlesung bewusst und effektiv folgen zu können, bietet das Wissen um Art, Bedeutung und Wirkungsweise der Kohärenz stiftenden sprachlichen Mittel eine Hilfestellung. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass der Fachsprachenunterricht DaF beim Spracherwerb das Fach mit seinen spezifischen Denk- und Mitteilungsstrukturen in den Mittelpunkt stellt (nicht sprachliche Strukturen an sich) (vgl dazu Buhlmann/Fearns 1989:87 und 91f), beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit den thematischen Mitteln der Textkohärenz: den metakommunikativen Äußerungen, die die Textstruktur sichtbar machen und der Fachlexik. A selection of texts from lectures in economic studies is examined with the purpose to determine which linguistic means are being employed on behalf of the producer of the texts in order to render the speech comprehensible for the recipients. The aim of the investigation is to provide foreign students who want to begin a course at German speaking universities or polytechnics with a tool which helps them to understand as much as possible texts with which they are frequently confronted. In order to be able to consciously and effectively follow a lecture, the knowledge about the type, meaning and way of action of those means which foster coherence by way of linguistic methods, offers valuable help. Taking as a point of departure the fact that during language acquisition the specialized language teaching "German as foreign language" focuses on the specific structures of thought and communication and not on linguistic structures as such, the paper is concerned with the thematic means of text coherence: the meta-communicative expressions which visualize the structure of the text, and the terminology relevant to the specialization.

Download Full-text

"The fall of the house of Usher" : a master text for (Poe's) American Gothic

Journal of English Studies ◽

10.18172/jes.141 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

María Nadal Blasco

Keyword(s):

American Gothic ◽

History Of ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

This paper analyses a selection of Poe’s fiction taking as a point of departure the contentions of critics such as Hillis Miller and Eric Savoy on the characteristics of American Gothic. The paper starts with a discussion of these features, which “The Fall of the House of Usher” epitomizes. After a revision of “Usher”, the paper explores other Poe works, showing that the elements that make this narrative a master text for the history of American Gothic are somehow anticipated in Poe’s previous tales, like “Berenice” and “Ligeia”, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and peculiarly reflected in the late tale of detection “The Purloined Letter”.

Download Full-text

Analytical Procedures Phase of PCAOB Audits: A Note of Caution in Selecting the Forecasting Model

Applied Finance and Accounting ◽

10.11114/afa.v4i1.2811 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 76

Author(s):

Mohamed Gaber ◽

Edward J. Lusk

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Data Stream ◽

False Negative ◽

Research Report ◽

Forecasting Model ◽

Practical Effect ◽

Analytical Procedures ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Two Parameter ◽

Selection Of

The best-practices execution of PCAOB audits requires the use of Analytical Procedures at the Planning and the Substantive Phases. This often finds the auditor using the standard OLS two-parameter linear regression forecasting model [OLSR] to project account-values from the Planning Phase to balances expected at Year-End so as to effect a variance analysis at the Substantive Phase. This is the point of departure of our study. We examine the practical effect of using the OLSR model in a time-series context of the audit. Specifically, this research report provides information on the use of the OLSR model as the model of choice in the audit context compared to the ARIMA(0,2,2)/Holt model which is usually the standard choice for an exponential smoothing model in the presence of autocorrelation of data in the time-stream; autocorrelation is the usual case for longitudinal series taken in the audit. Results: We find that there are reasons to condition the selection of the forecasting model in the Analytical Procedures context based upon autocorrelation in the data-stream. When the time-stream of data exhibits autocorrelation the OLSR model fails in a statistically significant manner to capture the next or one-period ahead client value at the same rate as does the ARIMA/Holt model. This then has implications for the False Negative Investigation Error.

Download Full-text

CLIL in the Foreign Language Classroom: Proposal of a Framework for ICT Materials Design in Language-Oriented Versions of Content and Language Integrated Learning

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses ◽

10.14198/raei.2012.25.22 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 317 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Almudena Fernández Fontecha

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Classroom Practice ◽

Language Teacher ◽

Language Curriculum ◽

Language Classroom ◽

Foreign Language Classroom ◽

Official Curriculum ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

Selection Of

A shortage of materials and guidelines that link CLIL theory to classroom practice has been reported in research about the European context. In all versions of CLIL implementation, the sequence of non-linguistic contents should be the point of departure for the sequence of linguistic contents. However, the teacher’s previous work to materials delivery will differ depending on the particularities of each possible CLIL scenario. In content-oriented versions of CLIL, the non-linguistic contents are already set in the official curriculum. In language-oriented versions, the language teacher has to define the sequence of non-linguistic contents by preserving the objectives of the foreign language curriculum. This paper describes the Content and Language Processing Sequence (CLPS), a tool devised for supporting the selection of non-linguistic contents, the treatment of the language component, and the design of ICT materials in a CLIL model for the foreign language classroom.

Download Full-text