CATHOLICISM AND CULTURE IMPACT IN GREENE'S NOVEL 'BRIGHTON ROCK'

Author(s):  
Haifa Mohammed Khaled Al-Aghbari

This research aims to discuss the impact of Catholicism and culture in Greene's novel 'Brighton Rock'. There are four objectives for this research that are to what degree Catholicism has an impact in the novel, to what degree culture has its impact in the novel, which is stronger the religion impact or the culture one, and finally the reason of making Greene uses these two impacts. The research is divided into four parts, the first one gives a brief summary of the novel. The second discusses the impact of religion based on the eight aspects of Catholicism. The third discusses the impact of culture based on the seven aspects of culture, and finally the conclusion. Through the novel, one can figures that Greene uses the impact of culture to support his religious theme which means the impact of religion in the novel is stronger than the culture one. Greene has a crucial message to send throughout Brighton Rock that God's mercy is upon everything, so no one has the right to judge others' faith.

Author(s):  
Tabib Nacer ◽  
Saidouni Djamel Eddine

This paper proposes a novel versatile genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the graph distribution problem. The new GA is based mainly on an inspirational idea that exploits the Newton’s universal gravitation law to introduce a novel GA fitness function. By this,the new GA preserves the workload balancing property between the different sites of the graph network and reduces the inter-processors communications overhead. Moreover, three main variants of the novel GA are developed. The two first; centralized and distributed variants, are developed to conduct a graph distribution over homogeneous architectures. The third variant is a distributed one devoted for heterogeneous architectures where the impact of the auto-adaptation features of the GA emerges. The results obtained and the comparative studies show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.


Author(s):  
Juita Tushar Raut ◽  
Vikram Patil

The unexpected outburst of the novel COVID-19, carried a lot of damage to whole world. To contain the epidemic, people had to stay where they were. They could not go back to work places or to school or colleges. The offline courses were due to many reasons infeasible, what brought unexpected changes to education. Aside from efforts to solve this co19 problem, the state must continue to maintain the stability and sustainability of the learning process that is the right of all citizens. India experienced the same thing. The online courses, learning process came into the picture. The influence focusses on the teaching and learning-effect, the transformation of the teaching forms. This paper mainly focussed on the impact of online-learning process on the parents. This research aims to determine how parents and their children feel about online education and also learn about their experiences.


Genetics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 1689-1698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry A Coyne

Abstract In seven of the eight species of the Drosophila melanogaster group, the predominant cuticular hydrocarbon of males is Ftricosene, but in the island endemic species D. sechellia it is 6-tricosene. The phylogeny of the group implies that the novel hydrocarbon profile of D. sechellia is a derived character. Genetic analysis of hybrids between D. sechellia and its close relative D. simulans show that each of the five major chromosome arms carries at least one gene affecting the ratio of the two tricosene isomers, with the right arm of the third chromosome having the largest effect. The species difference in this character is therefore polygenic with the effects of the different chromosome arms generally additive, although there is some epistasis among third-chromosome genes. Observations of courtship by males who have been coated with foreign hydrocarbons suggest that a male's hydrocarbon profile may slightly affect the degree of sexual isolation in one of the reciprocal hybridizations between these species, but that this role is small compared to that played by hydrocarbon differences between females.


2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Crina Ionescu ◽  
Mihaela Iordache ◽  
Emilia Țițan

Research background: As COVID-19 is posing unprecedented challenges, the governments as well as the individuals have to adapt to the shift towards a new lifestyle. The preventing measures against the spread of the novel coronavirus has important consequences on economy sectors both at global and national level. In this regard, it is the right time to accelerate the development of the digital tools and technologies that can help neutralize or at least mitigate the negative effects of the COVID-19. Purpose of the article: Therefore, the aim of this paper is to evaluate the current situation of digitization, focusing on the main transformations in recent months. Methods: Throughout the paper, there can be distinguished both qualitative and quantitative approach. The methods used include a secondary research from official information and primary quantitative research obtained from a conducted survey that explains the importance and the impact of digitization on economy in the face of a global pandemic. Findings & Value added: The article highlights the impact of digitization on the economy by comparing the findings from Romanian economy with other EU countries. It is noted that in areas where the digitization was more developed or where the adaptation to the new conditions imposed by the crisis generated by COVID-19 has been faster, the impact was significantly lower as well.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-44
Author(s):  
Konstantin Barsht

Abstract The article offers a new interpretation of the various expressions of the motif or sign of oak leaves, contained in the manuscript drafts of the novel Crime and Punishment. The expressions of the motif are decoded in the style of 3D letters, pointing to the key words of the third draft of the novel: “Dostoevsky”, “Journal”, “Routine”. These signs, which are part of Dostoevsky’s ideographic language, belong to the period of work on the novel from October to December 1865. It is the period in which the hero’s ideology was radically transformed, and the philanthropic motivation of the murders (to help the mother and the sister) was substituted by the “Napoleonic idea” (“am I a trembling worm or do I have the right”). The examination of these signs in conjunction with the writer’s notes contiguous with them, leads to the inference that these signs are genetically connected with the heraldry of the Dostoevsky clan, as well as with the symbolism of the 19th century “mundir” (uniform) attributions: the oak leaves were embroidery adorning a general’s “mundir”, and were a sign of recognition “for outstanding service”. Napoleon’s uniform, at the time of the Battle of Marengo, also had oak leaves embroidery; the battle is mentioned twice by Dostoevsky in the course of work on Crime and Punishment.


2020 ◽  
pp. arabic cover-english cover
Author(s):  
Abdul Majeed Mahmoud Al-Salahin ◽  
Salima Abdul Hadi Hamad Abdullah

تتناول هذه الدراسة جانباً مهمًّا من جوانب الدراسات الأصولية المتعلقة بالحديث النبوي الشريف، وهي مسألة الترادف، بتنزيل معطياتها على مسألة استبدال اللفظ المرادف بلفظ الحديث عند الرواية. وقد تطرقت هذه الدراسة إلى جملة من المسائل منها: - تحديد مفهوم الاستبدال اللفظ بالمرادف، وكيفية إثبات وقوع هذا الاستبدال، وحكمه. - بيان أثر استبدال المجاز بالحقيقة، والصفة أو الحالة أو النسبة بالاسم، والعام بالخاص أو الخاص بالعام، والاستبدال لغرض التأدب في اللفظ وأقوال الأصوليين في كل صورة. كما تناولت الدراسة أثر الاستبدال بين الحروف الذي تأرجح بين استبدال مؤثر في الحكم الفقهي، وبين استبدال مؤثر في المعنى دون الحكم، واستبدال لا أثر له في المعنى أو الحكم الفقهي. الكلمات المفتاحية: الحديث - الرواية - الاستبدال – المرادف. This study tackles an important subject in the science of Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, Usul al-Fiqh, in relation with the Prophetic Traditions, al-Hadith al-Nabawi; i.e. the subjects of Synonyms, through applying it on replacing the synonymous of the expression in the case of narrating Hadith . The study assesses the concept of Replacement with Synonymous, the way of implement it, and its role. It studies also the impact of replacement of truth meaning with metaphor, and noun with a pronoun, or a case. This is in addition to the replacement of general expression with a specifc one, and vice versa. Moreover, it studies the role of replacement for the reason of respect. The previously mentioned issues are researched according to the controversial opinions for scholars of this major. Furthermore, it examines the impact of replacement between letters on understanding and derivation. The role of the latter case is different according to three situations. The frst is where this replacement is effective in deriving legal ruling. The second is it is effective in the meaning and not in the derivation of ruling. The third is related to the case where it is not effective neither for meaning understanding, nor ruling derivation. Keywords: Alhadith - the novel - substitution - synonym.


2020 ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Manfredo Manfredini

The impact of the progressive spatial financialisation of contemporary on the centres of public life has involved the privatisation of a relevant portion of their social, cultural, political and economic nodes and their polarisation into the private precincts of integrated shopping and entertainment enclosures. This dispossession and dislocation have increased spatial inequality and atomised the networks of local communities. A recent occurrence of creative destruction presided by the inexorable logics of capital reproduction has hit the paradigm that informed these enclosure. The production of the ultimate model of these centres, here defined as ultra-modern centres with totalising superlative simulated civicness, has intimately combined consumption with production in what Ritzer calls prosumption. I submit that the novel prosumer has become a primary actor of dynamic choral practices of semi-complicit participatory consumption that originate counterspatial associative assemblages by articulating three novel digitally augmented phenomena: networked translocalisation, multiassociative-metastable transduction, and desiring-resistant transgression. To validate this hypothesis I set out an observational analysis of grassroots social networks of digital spatialities emplaced in the malled urban centres of Auckland, New Zealand during COVID-19 lockdown, a period of outright access negation to the physical centres of public relational life. Empirical findings not only provided evidence of the formation, high resilience and independence of the novel emplaced translocal networks, but also documented their explicit redistribution of orders of ownership and belonging, and their assertive reappropriation and reassociation of commoning spatialities. The found effectiveness of these assemblages in breaching of the fundamental rule of non-response of dominant powers controlling the places of superlative abstract civicness, deconstructing the dominant spatial logics of the simulative infrastructure that inhibit the elaboration of sign values that affirm the right to identification, and supplementing the post-consumerist use-exchange value amalgamation that sustains the commodity fetishism mechanism of these civic simulacra underpins my critical affirmative interpretation of the post-consumerist condition.


VASA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jandus ◽  
Bianda ◽  
Alerci ◽  
Gallino ◽  
Marone

A 55-year-old woman was referred because of diffuse pruritic erythematous lesions and an ischemic process of the third finger of her right hand. She was known to have anaemia secondary to hypermenorrhea. She presented six months before admission with a cutaneous infiltration on the left cubital cavity after a paravenous leakage of intravenous iron substitution. She then reported a progressive pruritic erythematous swelling of her left arm and lower extremities and trunk. Skin biopsy of a lesion on the right leg revealed a fibrillar, small-vessel vasculitis containing many eosinophils.Two months later she reported Raynaud symptoms in both hands, with a persistent violaceous coloration of the skin and cold sensation of her third digit of the right hand. A round 1.5 cm well-delimited swelling on the medial site of the left elbow was noted. The third digit of her right hand was cold and of violet colour. Eosinophilia (19 % of total leucocytes) was present. Doppler-duplex arterial examination of the upper extremities showed an occlusion of the cubital artery down to the palmar arcade on the right arm. Selective angiography of the right subclavian and brachial arteries showed diffuse alteration of the blood flow in the cubital artery and hand, with fine collateral circulation in the carpal region. Neither secondary causes of hypereosinophilia nor a myeloproliferative process was found. Considering the skin biopsy results and having excluded other causes of eosinophilia, we assumed the diagnosis of an eosinophilic vasculitis. Treatment with tacrolimus and high dose steroids was started, the latter tapered within 12 months and then stopped, but a dramatic flare-up of the vasculitis with Raynaud phenomenon occurred. A new immunosupressive approach with steroids and methotrexate was then introduced. This case of aggressive eosinophilic vasculitis is difficult to classify into the usual forms of vasculitis and constitutes a therapeutic challenge given the resistance to current immunosuppressive regimens.


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽  
Jan Kaiser

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.


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