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Why Were They Not Radicalized? Young Members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Aftermath of Egypt's 2013 Military Coup
No full text© 2023 Middle East Institute. All rights reserved.While many young members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood became politically disengaged in the wake of the 2013 military coup, others resorted to violence. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in 2016/17, this article investigates the forces of radicalization among younger Brotherhood members after the coup. Rather than there being a positive correlation between repression and radicalization, I argue that the majority of rank-and-file movement members remained inclined against radicalism due to the effects of state repression, organizational schism, and transformative personal experiences
The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe
No full textThis chapter explores the economic and cultural significance of wetlands to the hunter-gatherer communities of Mesolithic Europe. It draws together the archaeological evidence for the economic activities that people undertook in these landscapes, the different forms of settlement and architecture, and the practices of ritual deposition that took place. In doing so, this chapter argues that wetlands were not just economically important environments, but were places that shaped very particular communities during the Mesolithic. Inhabiting wetlands required particular forms of technology, technical skill and knowledge that would have been learnt from childhood, honed through subsequent experience, and passed on to subsequent generations. These related not only to the variety of economic activities that people undertook, but also the ability to navigate the complex geographies of wetlands, and the ontological associations that deemed certain places appropriate for acts of deposition. These forms of skill and knowledge would have been particular to the human communities who inhabited wetlands, forming an integral part of their identity, and making them distinct from groups inhabiting other environments
Report to the Diocese of Lichfield on the evaluation of the experience of supervisees within the Diocesan Pastoral Supervision Scheme
Get PDFReport to the Diocese of Lichfield on the evaluation of the experience of supervisees within the Diocesan Pastoral Supervision Schem
Bonds of transnationalism and freedom of mobility: Intra-European onward migrants before and after Brexit
Get PDFWhile transnationalism and mobility are sometimes used as synonyms, the two concepts have different focuses: on attachments within different countries in transnationalism and on multiple and open-ended moves in the mobility approach. In this chapter, we explore how the two concepts intersect with onward migration in the context of Brexit. The loss of rights linked to EU freedom of movement that is part of the Brexit process increases the orientations towards further migration while, at the same time, limiting the opportunities for further migration. We use in-depth interviews with EU27 citizens in the UK, UK citizens in Belgium and Bangladeshis who have naturalised in Italy before moving to the UK. We show how the completed onward migration to the UK of the Italo-Bangladeshis has weakened transnational activities in relation to Bangladesh, including periodic returns and remittances. We further show how transnational links delimit the mobility orientation of EU citizens ‘by birth’, by focusing on the plans for return migration, rather than onward migration within the EU. Given these results, we reflect on whether transnationalism and mobility theory are simply convergent or if they describe phenomena that might actually be in partial opposition
Let’s get visible: evidence-based interventions aimed at supporting, empowering and celebrating student-parents in higher education
Get PDFThis paper analyses the findings of a two-stage small-scale research project investigating the needs of undergraduate students with dependent children (‘student-parents’) studying in a post-1992 university. The findings of Stage 1 of the study, using data from semi-structured interviews with student-parents, show that student-parents need two things from their institution: a sense of belonging and flexibility. In Stage 2, a questionnaire survey was used to explore the impact of two interventions piloted during the 2021-22 academic year to address the Stage 1 findings. The paper then presents the next steps in this project: co-creation, with students, of systems designed not only to make visible our student-parent community but also to support, empower and celebrate their identities as student-parents
Rapid collagen peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to authenticate Pleuronectiformes in the food industry
Get PDFReliable species identification of specimens in the food chain is crucial for detecting mislabelling fraud. While visual identification, DNA-analyses, and proteomic approaches have been used in the past, this research provides an alternative proteomic technique that has been trialled here to identify tissue samples from species within the order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish). Previously, archaeological research has used peptide mass fingerprinting to identify fish remains to species by extracting collagen Type I preserved in bones. As this type of collagen can also be found in the fins, skin and muscle of fishes (types of tissue that can be found throughout the food chain), collagen peptide mass fingerprinting has been applied here to identify modern fish specimens to species. In this study, MALDI-ToF MS peptide fingerprints are obtained from enzymatic digestion of collagen Type I from fin (or skin if fin was not available) and muscle tissues from six specimens of Pleuronectiformes. Using the already available diagnostic collagen peptide biomarkers for flatfish, all six specimens could be identified to the correct species for each of the tissue types. We recommend using this rapid approach for future screenings of modern flatfish in the food chain to detect mislabelling fraud, and also in more general applications of modern ecological studies of this order. It is likely that the methods can be applied to other Actinopterygian fishes
Geschlecht und Materialität: Historische Perspektiven auf Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Get PDFWilson, Katherine A., Bird, Michael., & Egan-Simon, Daryn: Handling Objects in Primary and Secondary Educational Settings: Facilitating Educational Processes and Challenging Heteronormative Gender Constructs: The Case Study of Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700, in: Christina Antenhofer & Ulrich Leitner (eds.), Geschlecht und Materialität: Historische Perspektiven auf Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 33-50. © transcript Verlag (2024)Using a case study from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded project, Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700, this chapter seeks to investigate the way in which object handling sessions of original Museum objects in classrooms from age 6-16 for c.400 pupils can engage students with the discipline of History and challenge hegemonic and heteronormative gender constructs in educational settings
Parental breeding decisions and genetic quality predict social structure of independent offspring
Get PDFAcross the animal kingdom, newly-independent juveniles form social associations that influence later fitness, mate choice, and gene flow, but little is known about the ontogeny of social environments, particularly in wild populations. Here we test whether associations among young animals form randomly, or are influenced by environmental or genetic conditions established by parents. Parents’ decisions determine natal birth sites, which could affect who independent young initially encounter; secondly, mate choice determines genetic condition (e.g. inbreeding) of young and the parental care they receive, which can affect sociability. However, genetic and environmental factors are confounded unless related offspring experience different natal environments. Therefore, we used a long-term genetic pedigree, breeding records, and social network data from three cohorts of a songbird with high extra-pair paternity (hihi, Notiomystis cincta) to disentangle (1) how nest location and relatedness contribute to association structure once juveniles disperse away from birth sites, and (2) if juvenile and/or parental inbreeding predicts individual sociability. We detected positive spatial autocorrelation: hihi that fledged closer by were more likely to associate even after dispersing, irrespective of genetic relatedness. Juvenile inbreeding did not predict sociability, but those raised by more inbred fathers formed more, stronger, associations, which did not depend on whether that male was the genetic parent or not. These results suggest that the natal environment created by parents, rather than focal genetic condition, establishes the foundation for social associations. Overall, we highlight how social inheritance may play an important role in population dynamics and evolutionary potential in wild animals
Energy storage properties of samarium-doped bismuth sodium titanate-based lead-free ceramics
Get PDFDue to worldwide environmental regulations, lead-free relaxors, namely Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–6BaTiO3 (BNT-6BT) are being extensively studied as an alternative candidate for energy storage applications. Here, Sm was introduced at different A sites of the relaxor system; specifically, the Sm-doped BNT-6BT system was designed to replace Bi (BNT-Bi), Na (BNT-Na), and both the Bi and Na ions (BNT-BiNa) by Sm ions. It was found that the BNT-Bi sample possesses high piezoelectricity (d33=117.3 pC N-1), whereas the BNT-Na and BNT-BiNa ceramics show exceptionally high values of the energy storage density and efficiency. To define the energy storage performance, a new concept based on determining the recoverable energy storage intensity is proposed in the present work. This allows bypassing the high applied electric fields in determining the value of the energy storage density. An ultrahigh recoverable energy storage density (4.41 J cm-3), excellent energy storage efficiency (83.96%) and superhigh recoverable energy storage intensity (19.17×10-3 J kV-1 cm-2) were achieved in the BNT-BiNa ceramics simultaneously. Furthermore, the energy storage characteristics exhibit an excellent stability over a wide temperature range from 25 °C to 150 °C. Thus, the developed Sm-doped BNT-6BT ceramics show great potential for piezoelectric and high-power energy storage applications
Understanding the contribution of intellectual disabilities nurses: Paper 3 of 4 - evaluation
Get PDFMafuba, K., Chapman, H., Kiernan, J., Kupara, D., Kudita, C. & Chester, R. (2023). Understanding the contribution of intellectual disabilities nurses: Paper 3 of 4 - evaluation. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, vol(issue), pages. https://doi.org/10.1177/17446295231196588. Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.The overall objective of this research was to identify intellectual disability nursing interventions and their impact on the health and healthcare of people with intellectual disability. This is part 3 of a 4-part series. In this paper we report the findings from quantitative questions from an online survey of intellectual disability nurses. The objective of this part of the study was to evaluate intellectual disability nurses’ confidence in their understanding of the interventions they undertook. Quanitative data was collected using an online survey questionnaire from a voluntary response and snowball sample of 230 participants from 7 countries. Thematic, descriptive statistical, and inferential statistical analyses were undertaken. The evaluation data suggest and demonstrate a lack of clarity among intellectual disability nurses of the interventions they can effectively undertake. There appears to be correlations between lack of role clarity and the types of employer organisations and countries. Further work needs to be undertaken by nurse leaders to ascertain and address this lack of clarity.Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Foundation, United Kingdom (Grant Number: 20200217)
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