“Do Not Cross Your Legs:” Islamic Sociability, Reciprocity and Brotherhood in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Vicini
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Anthropology Of Islam ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Way

Based on intense fieldwork inside on Islamic community in Istanbul, the paper explores the way Islamic sociability forms structure daily interactions and foster connectedeness into religious brotherhood herein. In a counterweight to what I see as an excess of emphasis that recent trends in the Anthropology of Islam have put on notions of Islamic discipline and ethical self-fashioning, I offer an alternative perspective from which to look at how devout Muslims experience Islam and come to inhabit particular conceptions of self and personhood.

Major Issues Affecting Government Data and Information in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 862-871
Author(s):  
Saleem Zoughbi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The ever-developing technology is multifaceted, not only in technical specifications, but also in mode, type and characteristics. New technologies are designed and produced, new ways of using these technologies also are being suggested, tested and adopted. Telecommunications and digital technology provide today remarkable smart technologies that enable people to capture, process, maintain, disseminate and store efficiently all kinds of information at very fast speed, with high degree of efficiency and correctness. Much of government data collected are continuously affected by the development in such technology. Recent trends of technology currently and for 2017 and beyond have shown that the impact of such trends will enhance the impact on the way governments handle data. This chapter presents an overview of such trends. However, a common strategy for government data should be developed in a concise way that will guide the process of dealing with the trends of modern technologies. Therefore government data platform will adopt new technologies, new hardware and software but essentially the way government data is kept and managed still remain the same, just new tools have been adopted.

Major Issues Affecting Government Data and Information in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Saleem Zoughbi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The ever-developing technology is multifaceted, not only in technical specifications, but also in mode, type and characteristics. New technologies are designed and produced, new ways of using these technologies also are being suggested, tested and adopted. Telecommunications and digital technology provide today remarkable smart technologies that enable people to capture, process, maintain, disseminate and store efficiently all kinds of information at very fast speed, with high degree of efficiency and correctness. Much of government data collected are continuously affected by the development in such technology. Recent trends of technology currently and for 2017 and beyond have shown that the impact of such trends will enhance the impact on the way governments handle data. This chapter presents an overview of such trends. However, a common strategy for government data should be developed in a concise way that will guide the process of dealing with the trends of modern technologies. Therefore government data platform will adopt new technologies, new hardware and software but essentially the way government data is kept and managed still remain the same, just new tools have been adopted.

The Role of the Politician in the Democratic Regime

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Crowcroft
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a view of the role played by politicians within the British democratic regime in the period since 1800. It ponders some important recent trends in the writing of political history, and welcomes signs that the ‘crisis’ of political history appears to be passing. From there, the chapter discusses the nature of the system in which politicians operated, and, by extension, the way in which politicians were compelled to act. Moreover, it presents a way of thinking through the problem of political history that is somewhat at odds with the left-wing interpretations that have tended to shape the field. It concludes by expressing the hope that younger scholars will reclaim the disciplinary pre-eminence that political history once enjoyed.

The Self in and before God

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Negative Theology ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Dynamic Movement ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
The Way

Is the devout life a form of mysticism? Noting recent trends in the discussion of mysticism it is concluded that it is ‘mystical’ only if this is not confused with an experientially oriented spirituality or negative theology. Revisiting the relationship between will and affection, it is argued that the annihilation of the self opens the way for a spiritual life marked by dynamic movement and openness, in contrast to a claustrophobic self defined by volitional necessity. Although preferring silence, the devout authors believe devotion is set in motion by a divine call, but in post-Christian society, the motive power of basic life-choices is widely regarded as either ‘life’ or the internalized voices of society. How could a call from God be possible and how would one know it to be from God? These questions end Part 1 of the enquiry and set the stage for Part 2, The Rhetorics of the Word.

A Systematic Review on Synthetic and Antimicrobial Bioactivity of the Multifaceted Hydrazide Derivatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrin Ansari ◽  
Savita Tauro ◽  
Sahaya Asirvatham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Infective Activity ◽  
The Way

: To overcome the upsurge of antimicrobial resistance that has emerged in recent years, there is a need for the development of newer hits having gratifying anti-infective activity. Hydrazides incorporated with an azomethine hydrogen account for a cardinal class of molecules for the development of newer derivatives. Hydrazide derivatives have gainedconsiderable interest of medicinal chemists owing to their diverse bioactivity. In the present review, we have attempted to compile the recent trends in the synthesis of hydrazides and their substituted derivatives. The structural features that lead to the desired antimicrobial activity are highlighted, which will lead the way for synthetic and medicinal chemists to focus on newer designs in this arena.

Exploring the links between talent philosophies and talent management in service organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelos Pantouvakis ◽  
Maria Karakasnaki
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
The Way

PurposeIn line with recent trends in the human resource management literature that address talented employees and their management, the purpose of this paper is to examine the associations between talent philosophies (innate/developable and exclusive/inclusive) and the way talent is identified and assessed in the context of service organisations.Design/methodology/approachA structured questionnaire was administered in shipping companies located in Greece and 125 questionnaires suitable for further use were collected. Moreover, the measurement instruments of the constructs under examination were adopted from relevant studies in the literature. Finally, the data were analysed through exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis.FindingsThe findings showed that the different talent philosophies impact upon the way talent is managed (i.e. identified and assessed). Specifically it was found that managers who adopt mainly innate and exclusive talent philosophies tend to rely more on their first impressions in the identification of talent and to focus in a greater extent on their personal judgment rather than standardized procedures in talent assessment.Originality/valueDespite the increased academic voices on exploring the concepts of talent and talent management in the context of business organisations, the field is still lacking empirical evidence. Therefore, this study contributes to the limited empirical studies on talent issues and provides evidence on the links between the dominant talent philosophies and the way talent is identified and assessed in organisations.

scholarly journals Reading literacy skills in the new external exams in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasińska ◽  
Małgorzata Krzemińska-Adamek
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Deep Processing ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Task Types ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
The Way

The way reading literacy is conceptualised has changed over the last decades. Regarding comprehension as deep processing, in which skimming or scanning neither encourage the reader to engage in texts nor lead to the expected levels of understanding has influenced the way reading literacy is taught and assessed. The aim of the article is to analyse new task types introduced to the external exams as well as to provide evidence that the changes in the exam format reflect the way reading comprehension skills have recently been conceptualised. The analysis of the exam tasks is preceded by an overview of the recent trends in conceptualising L2 reading literacy.

Violence and uncertainty: Interactional sketches for a cognitive analysis of violent actions

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaëlle Chartier ◽  
Alain Berthoz ◽  
Éric Brian ◽  
Marie Jaisson
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
The Way

The present study investigates the interface between sociological and physiological analyses of violence. The aim is to explore the cognitive processes leading to violence in daily interactions. We suggest that violent interactions derive from uncertainty about the course of the interactions: something in the way an individual moves blurs the interactional rules and prevents other individuals predicting his or her intentions. From this perspective, gestures categorized as violent break execution regularities that are normally expected during the interaction and present regularities of their own. We test this hypothesis by an experimental recording of gestures and a quantitative analysis of their trajectories.

scholarly journals Three recent trends in Paralinguistics on the way to omniscient machine intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn W. Schuller ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Felix Weninger
Keyword(s):  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Trends in Investment Treaty Making: Finding Balance between National Sovereignty and Investment Protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Martin Karas
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Investment Protection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Investment Treaty ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Investment Treaties ◽  
Investment Agreements ◽  
The Way

The debate over the prevalence of nation states as the main actors in the international arena has been going on for the past 40 years. This article focuses on a single aspect of the debate, namely the national sovereignty of states within the neoliberal investment regimes. The argument I make in this article is that while investment treaty-making in the past contributed to limiting the sovereign powers of governments in the domain of investment regulation, recent trends suggest that the states are actively seeking to increase their regulatory space. In order to demonstrate this, I develop a theoretical framework bases on the competing concepts of “right to regulate” and “investment protection”. This framework is subsequently used to compare investment treaties signed in the 1990s with some of the most significant recently signed investment agreements. The analysis shows the way in which the more recent investment treaties increase the regulatory space of the states, which strengthens their national sovereignty.

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