scholarly journals ‘They Eat Potatoes, I Eat Rice’: Symbolic Boundary Making and Space in Neighbour Relations

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Van Eijk
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Close Spatial Proximity ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

This article examines ‘neighbouring’ as the setting in which cross-category relations develop and symbolic boundaries are constructed. The study is based on thirty in-depth interviews with residents living in a multi-ethnic and a mono-ethnic neighbourhood in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The findings challenge the hoped-for outcomes of social mixing in neighbourhoods, as well as the view that boundary making is something inherent to multi-ethnic neighbourhoods only. Neighbour relations are often setting-specific (relations are interchangeable, scripted and bounded, and passively maintained), which is relevant for understanding the spatiality of neighbouring and the limited exchange of personal information between neighbours. Because neighbouring involves the balancing of personal privacy and close spatial proximity, the exchange of personal information is limited, while spatial proximity ensures easy access to observable (through seeing, hearing and smelling) categorical markers that signify class, ethnicity, lifestyle, etc. In this way, neighbour interaction reconstructs symbolic boundaries rather than breaking them down.

Dimensions of Privacy Concerns amongst Online Buyers in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Tinu Jain ◽  
Prashant Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Business

Internet is quickly becoming the public electronic marketplace. Though the internet has revolutionized retail and direct marketing, the full scale incorporation and acceptance of the internet marketplace with the modern business is limited. One major inhibition shown by the internet buyers is in the form of lack of confidence in the newly developed marketing machinery/technology and concern related fear and distrust regarding loss of personal privacy due to easy access of personal information to the marketers. This concern about personal information and privacy varies with consumers especially with countries. It is also suggested that importance provided to various privacy dimensions would vary. The research investigates different dimensions and their interrelationship to identify factors affecting privacy concern among Net buyers in India.

Dimensions of Privacy Concerns Amongst Online Buyers in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 1214-1229
Author(s):  
Tinu Jain ◽  
Prashant Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Business

Internet is quickly becoming the public electronic marketplace. Though the internet has revolutionized retail and direct marketing, the full scale incorporation and acceptance of the internet marketplace with the modern business is limited. One major inhibition shown by the internet buyers is in the form of lack of confidence in the newly developed marketing machinery/technology and concern related fear and distrust regarding loss of personal privacy due to easy access of personal information to the marketers. This concern about personal information and privacy varies with consumers especially with countries. It is also suggested that importance provided to various privacy dimensions would vary. The research investigates different dimensions and their interrelationship to identify factors affecting privacy concern among Net buyers in India.

scholarly journals Nationalism, “Philosemitism,” and Symbolic Boundary-Making in Contemporary Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Zubrzycki
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
The Right ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

AbstractThis article analyzes the growing interest in Jews and all things Jewish in contemporary Poland—from the spectacular popularity of festivals of Jewish culture to the opening of Judaica bookstores and Jewish cuisine restaurants; from the development of Jewish studies programs at various universities and the creation of several museums to artists’ and public intellectuals’ engagements with Poland's Jewish past and Polish-Jewish relations more broadly. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, over sixty formal interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish activists, and informal conversations with participants in various Jewish-centered initiatives, I argue that this cultural phenomenon is related to the attempt by specific political and social groups to build a pluralistic society in an ethnically and denominationally homogenous nation-state. I build on the literature on nationalism and symbolic boundaries by showing that bringing back Jewish culture and “resurrecting the Jew” is a way to soften, stretch, and reshape the symbolic boundaries of the nation that the Right wants to harden and shrink using Catholicism as its main tool.

Dimensions of Privacy Concerns Amongst Online Buyers in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 1423-1438
Author(s):  
Tinu Jain ◽  
Prashant Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Business

Internet is quickly becoming the public electronic marketplace. Though the internet has revolutionized retail and direct marketing, the full scale incorporation and acceptance of the internet marketplace with the modern business is limited. One major inhibition shown by the internet buyers is in the form of lack of confidence in the newly developed marketing machinery/technology and concern related fear and distrust regarding loss of personal privacy due to easy access of personal information to the marketers. This concern about personal information and privacy varies with consumers especially with countries. It is also suggested that importance provided to various privacy dimensions would vary. The research investigates different dimensions and their interrelationship to identify factors affecting privacy concern among Net buyers in India.

scholarly journals Involvement of loop 5 lysine residues and the N-terminal β-hairpin of the ribotoxin hirsutellin A on its insecticidal activity

2016 ◽  
Vol 397 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Olombrada ◽  
Lucía García-Ortega ◽  
Javier Lacadena ◽  
Mercedes Oñaderra ◽  
José G. Gavilanes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Sites ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Ribonucleolytic Activity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lysine Residues ◽  
Hirsutella Thompsonii ◽  
Close Spatial Proximity ◽  
High Degree

Abstract Ribotoxins are cytotoxic members of the family of fungal extracellular ribonucleases best represented by RNase T1. They share a high degree of sequence identity and a common structural fold, including the geometric arrangement of their active sites. However, ribotoxins are larger, with a well-defined N-terminal β-hairpin, and display longer and positively charged unstructured loops. These structural differences account for their cytotoxic properties. Unexpectedly, the discovery of hirsutellin A (HtA), a ribotoxin produced by the invertebrate pathogen Hirsutella thompsonii, showed how it was possible to accommodate these features into a shorter amino acid sequence. Examination of HtA N-terminal β-hairpin reveals differences in terms of length, charge, and spatial distribution. Consequently, four different HtA mutants were prepared and characterized. One of them was the result of deleting this hairpin [Δ(8-15)] while the other three affected single Lys residues in its close spatial proximity (K115E, K118E, and K123E). The results obtained support the general conclusion that HtA active site would show a high degree of plasticity, being able to accommodate electrostatic and structural changes not suitable for the other previously known larger ribotoxins, as the variants described here only presented small differences in terms of ribonucleolytic activity and cytotoxicity against cultured insect cells.

Ontogeny of spatial relationships and social behaviour in juvenile Richardson's ground squirrels

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1666-1676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail R. Michener
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Ground Squirrels ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Rapid Acquisition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Close Spatial Proximity

The development of spatial and social patterns by juvenile Richardson's ground squirrels, from first emergence from the natal burrow to entry into hibernation, is described. Juveniles enter the aboveground population at [Formula: see text] weeks of age. During the next 4 weeks juveniles remain in close spatial proximity to family members with whom they engage in frequent amicable social interactions. Thereafter, juveniles become increasingly independent from the family unit, establishing their own spatially distinct core areas and exhibiting site-dependent dominance toward nonkin. Typically juveniles remain physically closer to and more amicable with littermates and mother than other conspecifics such that they compose kin clusters, the members of which are agonistic toward members of adjacent kin clusters. Daughters are more likely to continue to reside close to kin as adults than are sons. At 9–10 weeks of age juveniles exhibit the majority of spatial and social patterns characteristic of adults, and at 12 weeks they are behaviourally indistinguishable from adults. Similar rapid acquisition of adult patterns occurs in four other species of ground-dwelling sciurids that are also obligate hibernators and that breed immediately following emergence from their first hibernation.

Digital Government and Individual Privacy

2011 ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
Security Controls ◽  
Individual Privacy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privacy Issues

The growth of the Internet and digital government has dramatically increased the Federal government’s ability to collect, analyze, and disclose personal information about many private aspects of citizens’ lives. Personal information once available only on paper to a limited number of people is now instantly retrievable anywhere in the world by anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Over time, there has also been a declining level of trust by Americans in government, and currently, many perceive the government as a potential threat to their privacy. Given these forces at work in our society, one should not be surprised to read the results of surveys that show privacy as a top concern of citizens in the 21st century. If citizens do not believe that the government is adequately protecting the privacy of their individual information, they may be less willing to provide this information. Such reluctance could compromise the ability of government to collect important information necessary to develop, administer and evaluate the impact of various policies and programs. Privacy issues discussed in this chapter include challenges regarding (1) protecting personal privacy; (2) ensuring confidentiality of data collected; and (3) implementing appropriate security controls. Perspectives on privacy and stewardship responsibilities of agencies are also discussed.

User-Centric Similarity and Proximity Measures for Spatial Personalization

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanwu Yang ◽  
Christophe Claramunt ◽  
Marie-Aude Aufaure ◽  
Wensheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Mobile Environments ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
User Centric ◽  
Proximity Measures

Spatial personalization can be defined as a novel way to fulfill user information needs when accessing spatial information services either on the web or in mobile environments. The research presented in this paper introduces a conceptual approach that models the spatial information offered to a given user into a user-centered conceptual map, and spatial proximity and similarity measures that considers her/his location, interests and preferences. This approach is based on the concepts of similarity in the semantic domain, and proximity in the spatial domain, but taking into account user’s personal information. Accordingly, these spatial proximity and similarity measures could directly support derivation of personalization services and refinement of the way spatial information is accessible to the user in spatially related applications. These modeling approaches are illustrated by some experimental case studies.

scholarly journals Avoiding the Privacy Paradox Using Preference-Based Segmentation: A Conjoint Analysis Approach

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1382
Author(s):  
Marija Kuzmanovic ◽  
Gordana Savic
Keyword(s):  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Privacy Paradox ◽  
And Behavior

Personal privacy on online social networks (OSN) is becoming increasingly important. The collection and misuse of personal information can affect people’s behavior and can have a broader impact on civil society. The aim of this paper is to explore the privacy paradox phenomenon on OSNs that is reflected in the gap between OSN users’ privacy concerns and behavior and to introduce a new segmentation framework based on preference data from conjoint analysis. For the purpose of the study, an online survey on four dimensions of OSNs has been conducted. Conjoint analysis has been employed on collected data to reveal users’ preferences, followed by two-step cluster analysis for the preference-based segmentation. The characteristics of the resulting clusters were compared with self-reported behavior and privacy concerns, as well as the results of the Westin Privacy Segmentation approach. The results suggest that conjoint analysis can improve users’ segmentation and consequently provide better solutions for avoiding the gap between users’ concerns, attitudes, and behavior.

scholarly journals Adenine DNA methylation, 3D genome organization, and gene expression in the parasiteTrichomonas vaginalis

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (23) ◽  
pp. 13033-13043
Author(s):  
Ayelen Lizarraga ◽  
Zach Klapholz O’Brown ◽  
Konstantinos Boulias ◽  
Lara Roach ◽  
Eric Lieberman Greer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Trichomonas Vaginalis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Regulation Of Transcription ◽  
3D Genome ◽  
Intergenic Regions ◽  
Close Spatial Proximity

Trichomonas vaginalisis a common sexually transmitted parasite that colonizes the human urogenital tract causing infections that range from asymptomatic to highly inflammatory. Recent works have highlighted the importance of histone modifications in the regulation of transcription and parasite pathogenesis. However, the nature of DNA methylation in the parasite remains unexplored. Using a combination of immunological techniques and ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC), we analyzed the abundance of DNA methylation in strains with differential pathogenicity demonstrating that N6-methyladenine (6mA), and not 5‐methylcytosine (5mC), is the main DNA methylation mark inT. vaginalis. Genome-wide distribution of 6mA reveals that this mark is enriched at intergenic regions, with a preference for certain superfamilies of DNA transposable elements. We show that 6mA inT. vaginalisis associated with silencing when present on genes. Interestingly, bioinformatics analysis revealed the presence of transcriptionally active or repressive intervals flanked by 6mA-enriched regions, and results from chromatin conformation capture (3C) experiments suggest these 6mA flanked regions are in close spatial proximity. These associations were disrupted when parasites were treated with the demethylation activator ascorbic acid. This finding revealed a role for 6mA in modulating three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structure and gene expression in this divergent member of the Excavata.

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