scholarly journals Prevention of Rabies by Application of Lytta vesicatoria (Ḏarārīḥ) in Persian Medicine Texts in Islamic Civilization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Moallemi ◽  
Mohammad Yousofpour ◽  
Assie Jokar
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Persian Medicine ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Rabid Animal

Rabies is one of the most lethal diseases in human history. From the past, various drugs have been used to prevent the contraction of the disease when being bitten by a rabid animal. An insect called Ḏarārīḥ (Lytta vesicatoria), although poisonous, has in some cases been medically used. Greeks and Romans have used venomousness of this insect to treat skin diseases, but it has not been used to prevent rabies. This is a summative qualitative content analysis that focused on Persian Medicine (PM) texts from 2th to 13th AH centuries. Literature was searched during centuries 4th to 13th AH, by using this key words: ذراریـح) Ḏarārīḥ), قنثاریـدس) Cantharis/cantharides), and ئشـفث Lytta vesicatoria and after extracting the data and analyzing them, the results were presented. In TPM texts, this insect was used to prevent rabies. This study has shown that the use of ḏarārīḥ (Lytta vesicatoria) in the prevention of rabies has been one of the innovations of the practitioners of Islamic civilization. The innovation proves that scholars in the period of Islamic civilization were not merely consumers or custodians of Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iranian knowledge, but added to it while preserving that knowledge.

scholarly journals Government Activities on Facebook: A Content Analysis of Selected Government Ministries’ Facebook pages in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaharima Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
Facebook Pages

Social media sites are the world’s biggest information dissemination platform and today’s we cannot imagine to share our any information without these sites. It has been a leading manifestation in our lives in the past several years. Various profit and non-profit organization in Bangladesh are using Facebook to promote their services and highlight their roles to community. Now, government different ministries have accepted the opportunities of using Facebook to deliver better services as well as engage with citizens. The present study intends to examine the government ministries’ Facebook pages in Bangladesh to explore what types of information are disseminated on their Facebook pages, how effective these pages are in reaching out to citizens as well as engagement. Qualitative content analysis of four selected government ministries’ Facebook pages has conducted to fulfill the research aims. Content analysis allows describing the material only on selected aspects, on the other hand method is highly flexible as coding frame is always adjustable to the material. The researcher has selected four ministries Facebook pages and among these pages, two are verified and another two pages are not verified. The researcher has developed the categories and codes according to fulfill the research aims. Data collection has started by identifying the usage Facebook of each ministries and found that each ministries has incorporated Facebook logo in their website. After that, the information provided on ‘about’ section was put down, the number of likes/followers, the existence of profile picture, cover photo, and other applications has been identified. The data collection for content analyses was conducted in six months posting messages between October 2017 to March 2018 were recorded as well as organized and analyzed by using Microsoft Office Excel program.

scholarly journals Semiotic Analysis of Sampoerna a Mild Image Creation

K ta Kita ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-390
Author(s):  
Regina Siddharta
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
Image Creation

This thesis mainly deals with the process of signification in order to find out what images are being built, how those images are represented, and what messages delivered in Sampoerna A Mild billboard advertisements through the use of semiotic resources. The focus of the writers’ analysis is the advertisements themselves, as the writer uses the process of signification that involves denotation, connotation, and myth. Those theories help the writers in analyzing the meaning of the advertisement first, and then figure out how meaning is created by the advertisement. Meaning in this research is an integrated form consisting the meaning from three level of signification process: denotative level, connotative level, and myth. This research uses qualitative content analysis method to describe the meaning of qualitative materials in a systematic way. At the end, those denotative meaning and connotative meaning build an image and create myth which naturalizes the image itself. Key Words: billboard advertisements, sampoerna a mild, semiotics, process of signification, connotation, denotation

Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110576
Author(s):  
Türkay Salim Nefes
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Turkish Politics

This article explores the significance of perceived threats about dismemberment in Turkish politics, also called the Sèvres syndrome. Relying on a qualitative content analysis of Turkish parliamentary records, it scrutinises how the syndrome influences the debates about Armenians between 1983 and 2018. It demonstrates that Turkish politicians refer to the syndrome in three manners: (1) Armenians had tried to dismember; (2) Armenians could create conditions to dismember again and (3) Armenians are actively attempting to dismember. The study concludes that the syndrome presents an obstacle to a peaceful Turkish–Armenian relationship by recalling Turkish victimhood in the past and relating it to contemporary contexts.

scholarly journals Defining Business decline, failure and turnaround: A content analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Key Words And Phrases ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Universal Definition

<p>In the past, researchers have often defined failure to suit their data. This has led to a lack of comparability in research outputs. The overriding objective of this paper is to propose a universal definition for the failure phenomenon. Clear definitions are a prerequisite for exploring major constructs, their relationship to failure and the context and processes involved. The study reports on the core definitions of the failure phenomenon and identifies core criteria for distinguishing between them. It places decline, failure and turnaround in perspective and highlights level of distress and turnaround as key moderating elements. It distinguishes the failure phenomenon from controversial synonyms such as closure, accidental bankruptcy and closure for alternative motives.</p><p><strong>Key words and phrases:</strong> business decline, failure, turnaround, level of distress</p>

scholarly journals Istifham in the stories in Alquran from the perpective of Speech Act Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Rochmat Budi Santosa ◽  
Joko Nurkamto ◽  
Nashruddin Baidan ◽  
Sumarlam Sumarlam
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interrogative Sentence ◽  
Number Case

<p>One of the most effective ways to attract an audience in order to influence him is through question. Many kinds of question. Questions in arabic terms known as istifham are also found in the stories. This study will make an attempt in affirmation of how <em>istifhams</em>, which is then simplified into the terms of questions, are clearly highlighted to enhance the connectivity of the components of the Quranic texts. Specifically how questions in the stories in Alquran found and understood using contextual frameworks. The content analysis is employed through speech act theory. It is found that            <em>Istifham</em> serves as question words, either to inquire about something of understanding, or not, the past and the future. <em>Istifham</em> are specifically used to ask about the place, time, circumstances, number, case dubious and uncertain. Sometimes question words come out of its original meaning to another meaning that can be seen through the sentence structure, so the function <em>istifham</em> here not as a question word again. Therefore, the sentence does not allow it to be interpreted as an interrogative sentence.</p><p>Key words: istifham, stories, speech act.</p>

scholarly journals “We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-756
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lewis ◽  
Alice E. Marwick ◽  
William Clyde Partin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Affordances ◽  
Audience Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past decade YouTube “response videos” in which a user offers counterarguments to a video uploaded by another user have become popular among political creators. While creators often frame response videos as debates, those targeted assert that they function as vehicles for harassment from the creator and their networked audience. Platform policies, which base moderation decisions on individual pieces of content rather than the relationship between videos and audience behavior, may therefore fail to address networked harassment. We analyze the relationship between amplification and harassment through qualitative content analysis of 15 response videos. We argue that response videos often provide a blueprint for harassment that shows both why the target is wrong and why harassment would be justified. Creators use argumentative tactics to portray themselves as defenders of enlightened public discourse and their targets as irrational and immoral. This positioning is misleading, given that creators interpellate the viewer as part of a networked audience with shared moral values that the target violates. Our analysis also finds that networked audiences act on that blueprint through the social affordances of YouTube, which we frame as harassment affordances. We argue that YouTube’s current policies are insufficient for addressing harassment that relies on amplification and networked audiences.

Đặc điểm tin giả về dịch bệnh COVID- 19: kết quả phân tích nội dung tin giả phản ánh trên báo tuổi trẻ năm 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Thi Thu Huong Duong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Communication Program

Objective: The paper focused on analyzing the content of the fake news on COVID-19 in the first wave of its appearing in Vietnam from Jan 2020 to May 2020. Methods: Quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis were applied for exploring the sample of the 68 pieces of news collected on the Youth newspaper (Tuoi tre) from Jan 2020 to May 2020 and only the reports/news on the cases and persons who had violated on communicating the fake news related to COVID-19 were selected for analysing. Findings: The result showed that fake news about COVID-19 appeared in all parts of the country and 26.5% of all collected fake news were reported in Ha Noi . The structure's forms of fake news were diverse but the most concentrated and common way to construct the fake news was the simplest way with just the basic untrue positive COVID- 19 cases (occupied for more than 51%). The proportion of female involving in delivering the fake news was about 2.5 times higher than male involving in it (63.2% compared to 26.5%). The result contributed partly to additional understanding on fake news which would provide some suggestions on the effective control of fake news and it should be included as a required part on communication program in in urgent medical situations or new epidemics in order to improve the effectiveness of disease control in the community. Key words: fake news, COVID-19, Youth newspaper, content analysis

scholarly journals The reputation of horticulture – an internal view of the industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Marike Isaak ◽  
Iris Brenneke ◽  
Wolfgang Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Internal View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Category Formation ◽  
Strategic Resource

The reputation of an industry represents an important strategic resource and this has already been highlighted in the past for the horticulture sector. However, the heterogeneity of horticulture makes it difficult for the industry to be perceived by society. An online survey was conducted to identify the most important characteristics of horticulture and to identify the reasons for its good or bad reputation. For this purpose, 102 experts – consultants from the horticultural industry – were asked to describe horticulture and the reputation of the industry. An evaluation of the survey, based on a qualitative content analysis using inductive category formation, indicated that horticulture is primarily associated with its diverse activities and various product groups. In terms of the product groups, the focus is on food products. The reputation of the industry is rated as ‘slightly positive’ on a 7-point Likert scale, with an average of 4.4.

scholarly journals Political TV debates: how to get more power and damage the opponent’s face?

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Eglė Žurauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Game Metaphor

The paper aims to reveal the process of face and power construction in the context of political TV debates in Lithuania and to analyse face threatening acts (FTAs) in terms of propositional content and orientation to the addressee’s face. This study adopts the qualitative content analysis approach to analyse 360 minutes of political debates broadcasted before the 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary elections. The current paper presents the concept of impoliteness, which is later applied in the empirical analysis to address two main objectives: (a) to analyse the process of face and power construction in political TV debates and (b) to study FTAs in terms of propositional content and orientation to the addressee’s face. The results of the study have revealed that politicians seek to get more power by producing FTAs towards their opponents; a zero-sum game metaphor can be used to describe this process. Also, the analysis of FTAs has demonstrated that politicians tend to apply both negative and positive impoliteness strategies. The analysis of FTAs in terms of propositional content has shown that politicians are mostly described as the ones who are lying, hiding the truth, and have performed wrong and ineffective actions in the past. This suggests that participants in Lithuanian political TV debates seek to damage their rival’s face in a way which does not harm their own face by applying indirect – positive and negative – impoliteness strategies and by negatively describing their opponents’ professionalism and general competencies.

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