scholarly journals Perception of Political Subjectivity on the Internet: Results of the Cross-national Cluster Analysis in the USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, China, the Republic of South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nechaev ◽  
Elena Victorovna Brodovskaya ◽  
Anna Yurievna Dombrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cross National

A cross-national analysis of PhD models

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Yasmine Dominguez-Whitehead ◽  
Felix Maringe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Supervision Models ◽  
Phd Supervision ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

PurposeThis paper provides a cross-national analysis of PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in order to compare PhD programs and their practices.Design/methodology/approachA comparative approach is employed, which systematically interrogates PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States via a comprehensive review of the practices and literature.FindingsThe findings indicate the ramifications of the different approaches and highlight the benefits and drawbacks associated with the different models.Originality/valueBy making explicit the dominant supervision models, milestones and examination procedures that exist in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States, the authors shed light on the somewhat obscure path to earning a PhD degree.

Is the Multiracial Congregation an Answer to the Problem of Race? Comparative Perspectives from South Africa and the USA

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Ganiel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Multiracial Congregations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
American Research ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper uses a comparative perspective to analyze how multiracial congregations may contribute to racial reconciliation in South Africa. Drawing on the large-scale study of multiracial congregations in the USA by Emerson et al., it examines how they help transform antagonistic identities and make religious contributions to wider reconciliation processes. It compares the American research to an ethnographic study of a congregation in Cape Town, identifying cross-national patterns and South African distinctives, such as discourses about restitution, AIDS, inequality and women. The extent that multiracial congregations can contribute to reconciliation in South Africa is linked to the content of their worship and discourses, but especially to their ability to dismantle racially aligned power structures.

Solving the Problems of Finding Law on the Web: World Law and DIAL

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Greenleaf
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Full Text ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
The Web

Despite its recent development, the Web already contains an astonishing variety of legal materials from dozens of countries. Significant collections of legislation are already available on the Web from over 50 countries. The full text is available on the Web of all legislation from almost all the jurisdictions of the USA, Canada, Australasia, many Latin American countries and some European countries (such as Norway and Germany), and extensive collections from many other European counties (such as the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal). Substantial collections of legislation are available from many developing countries, including India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Vietnam, Zambia, China, Mexico and Israel.

Postprint - Would I be Helped? Cross-National CCTV Footage Shows That Intervention Is the Norm in Public Conflicts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Philpot ◽  
Lasse Suonperä Liebst ◽  
Mark Levine ◽  
Wim Bernasco ◽  
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Bystander Intervention ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Bystander Behavior ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cross National

Half a century of research on bystander behavior concludes that individuals are less likely to intervene during an emergency when in the presence of others than when alone. By contrast, little is known regarding the aggregated likelihood that at least someone present at an emergency will do something to help. The importance of establishing this aggregated intervention baseline is not only of scholarly interest, but is also the most pressing question for actual public victims—will I receive help if needed? The current paper describes the largest systematic study of real-life bystander intervention in actual public conflicts captured by surveillance cameras. Using a unique cross-national video dataset from the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and South Africa (N = 219), we show that in nine-out-of-ten public conflicts, at least one bystander, but typically several, will do something to help. We record similar likelihoods of intervention across the three national contexts, which differ greatly in levels of recorded violent crime. Finally, we find that increased bystander presence is related to a greater likelihood that someone will intervene. Taken together these findings allay the widespread fear that bystanders rarely intervene to help. We argue that it is time for psychology to change the narrative away from an absence of help and towards a new understanding of what makes intervention successful or unsuccessful.

A cross-national study of intergenerational influence: US and PRC

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Carter Mandrik ◽  
Yeqing Bao ◽  
Sijun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Survey Method ◽  
National Study ◽  
Brand Preference ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Intergenerational Influence ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Brand Preferences

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the intergenerational influence across dyads of mothers and daughters from the USA and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with a particular interest in discovering the cross-national differences in terms of the level of mother–daughter brand preference agreement, the directional influence from daughter to mother and leading factors for the observed differences. Design/methodology/approach Using a parallel survey method, responses were obtained regarding participants’ brand preferences, as well as their perceptions of their dyad partners’ preferences, for 20 product categories. A total of 76 dyads in the USA and 114 dyads in the PRC were collected. Findings Results not only confirmed the existence of intergenerational influence in mother–daughter dyads’ brand preferences after removing the nominal bias that previous studies commonly suffered but also suggested two interesting cross-national differences. Specifically, the authors find that US mother–daughter dyads possess a higher level of brand preference agreement than their PRC counterparts; however, the influence from daughters to mothers in the PRC is greater than in the USA. The authors further find that two potential leading factors contribute to the observed cross-national differences; mother–daughter communication is stronger but less influential in the USA than in the PRC, while children’s peer influence, measured as information influence of peers, is weaker but more influential in the USA than in the PRC. Research limitations/implications Understanding intergeneration influences in different cultural contexts may be applicable in developing communication strategies leading to brand preference. Originality/value This study contributes to the consumer socialization literature by examining the cross-national differences of intergenerational influence in brand preferences and their leading causes of such differences in the context of the two biggest economies.

scholarly journals Analysis of internet trends related to medications for COVID-19 in ten countries with the highest number of cases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josimar E. Chire Saire ◽  
Roselyn Lemus-Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Preliminary Study

During the last months, the pandemic generated by coro- navirus SARS-CoV-2 moved governments, research groups and health organizations to plan, test and execute health policies. At the beginning, the treatment was not clear but in the next months, research groups have conducted studies to recommend or ban some medicines. At the same time, countries with most cases were changing from Asia, Europe to America. Different treatments and medications have been tested and recommended in many countries, such as Hydroxycloroquine ,Ivermectin, Azithromycin, Dexametha- sone, Prednisone, Remdesivir . This paper is a preliminary study about which medications people are searching on the Internet, considering ten countries with most cases in the world such as Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, United States, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru and Mexico.

scholarly journals The natural stilbenoid (–)-hopeaphenol inhibits cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2 USA-WA1/2020, B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Tietjen ◽  
Joel Cassel ◽  
Emery T. Register ◽  
Xiang Yang Zhou ◽  
Troy E. Messick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Receptor Binding ◽  
Viral Entry ◽  
Cytopathic Effect ◽  
Selective Inhibitors ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pure Compounds ◽  
The Usa

AbstractAntivirals are urgently needed to combat the global SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, supplement existing vaccine efforts, and target emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Small molecules that interfere with binding of the viral spike receptor binding domain (RBD) to the host ACE2 receptor may be effective inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 cell entry. Here we screened 512 pure compounds derived from natural products using a high-throughput RBD/ACE2 binding assay and identified (–)-hopeaphenol, a resveratrol tetramer, in addition to vatalbinoside A and vaticanol B, as potent and selective inhibitors of RBD/ACE2 binding and viral entry. For example, (–)-hopeaphenol disrupted RBD/ACE2 binding with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.11 μM in contrast to an IC50 of 28.3 μM against the unrelated host ligand/receptor binding pair PD-1/PD-L1 (selectivity index = 257.3). When assessed against the USA-WA1/2020 variant, (–)-hopeaphenol also inhibited entry of a VSVΔG-GFP reporter pseudovirus expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike into ACE2-expressing Vero-E6 cells and in vitro replication of infectious virus in cytopathic effect assays (IC50 = 10.2 μM) without cytotoxicity. Notably, (–)- hopeaphenol also inhibited two emerging variants of concern originating from the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7) and South Africa (B.1.351) in both cytopathic effect and spike-containing pseudovirus assays with similar (B.1.1.7) or improved (B.1.351) efficacies over the USA- WA1/2020 variant. These results identify (–)-hopeaphenol and related stilbenoid analogues as potent and selective inhibitors of viral entry across multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants including those with increased infectivity and/or reduced susceptibility to existing vaccines.ImportanceSARS-CoV-2 antivirals are needed to supplement existing vaccine efforts and target emerging viral variants with increased infectivity or reduced susceptibility to existing vaccines. Here we show that (–)-hopeaphenol, a naturally-occurring stilbenoid compound, in addition to its analogues vatalbinoside A and vaticanol B, inhibit SARS-CoV-2 by blocking the interaction of the viral spike protein with the cellular ACE2 entry receptor. Importantly, in addition to inhibiting the early USA-WA1/2020 SARS-CoV-2 variant, hopeaphenol also inhibits emerging variants of concern including B.1.1.7 (“United Kingdom variant”) and B.1.351 (“South Africa variant”), with improved efficacy against B.1.351. (–)-Hopeaphenol therefore represents a new antiviral lead against infection from multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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