39 research outputs found
Yalda
No full text"Do you love me?", "Yes", he said, and then...
A colourful musical journey into the narrative of a woman's tangled past, with magical glimpses of her present world and hopes for a liberated future.
Yalda is a short experimental fiction film made for
The City Speaks, an innovative collaborative project developed by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and BBC Radio Drama. Artist film-makers and writers, collaborating with acclaimed author
Peter Ackroyd, composer David Pickvance and specialist sound engineers, were commissioned to create 14 minute audio-visual artworks to form a centre-piece of the BBC Radio 4 season in 2008, celebrating London as a cosmopolitan city.
The project provided artist filmmakers with an opportunity to collaborate with writers, and enabled writers to work outside of traditional radio play conventions. The City Speaks is composed of
x6, 14 minute audio-visual works, Yalda being one of these, conceived as truly innovative multi-disciplinary and cross-platform artworks for contemporary media
to be presented across a range of contexts. In 2008 the project launched at the NFT, London, and broadcast nationally on Radio 4 and across several digital and interactive broadcast platforms.
Commissioned by Film London and BBC Radio Drama.
Funded by Arts Council England
http://www.blanchepictures.com/films/yalda.ht
Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization.
No full textThe QT interval, an electrocardiographic measure reflecting myocardial repolarization, is a heritable trait. QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) and could indicate the presence of the potentially lethal mendelian long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Using a genome-wide association and replication study in up to 100,000 individuals, we identified 35 common variant loci associated with QT interval that collectively explain ∼8-10% of QT-interval variation and highlight the importance of calcium regulation in myocardial repolarization. Rare variant analysis of 6 new QT interval-associated loci in 298 unrelated probands with LQTS identified coding variants not found in controls but of uncertain causality and therefore requiring validation. Several newly identified loci encode proteins that physically interact with other recognized repolarization proteins. Our integration of common variant association, expression and orthogonal protein-protein interaction screens provides new insights into cardiac electrophysiology and identifies new candidate genes for ventricular arrhythmias, LQTS and SCD
Soft palatine mass with diagnosis of mature teratoma
No full textAbstractTeratoma is a true neoplasm that consists of tissues from all 3 embryonic germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. Nasopharyngeal teratoma is very rare. We present one case of nasopharyngeal teratoma attached to the soft palatal wall in a newborn
"The blindfold horse" : The autofictional writings of three Iranian women in exile : Shusha Guppy, Goli Taraghi, Sara Yalda (1988-2007)
No full textLe sujet d’étude de la thèse est les œuvres auto-fictionnelles des trois autrices du corpus, publiées en trois langues : celle de Shusha Guppy en anglais, celle de Goli Taraghi (en persan, recomposée et augmentée en français et traduite par l’autrice et sa fille) ; celle de Sara Yalda rédigée directement en français. Ces trois femmes appartenant à deux générations différentes se rencontrent à ce carrefour qu’est la « littérature d’exil ». Elles poursuivent une même quête d’identité face à leurs images perturbées par l’Histoire et transforment en œuvres leurs souffrances et la nostalgie des temps et des lieux perdus et leurs combats contre les mémoires oubliées du passé. Sur le fond de leurs récits respectifs, en l’absence de la censure imposée par le pays natal, le corps de ces femmes reste invisible. Elles ne s’y dévoilent pas, ni ne livrent leurs perceptions ou leurs fantasmes : elles construisent des identités imaginaires qui sont le propre de l’autofiction, et le sujet de cette étude construite à partir des motifs structurant les récits, saisis par l’analyse de leur symbolique. Il est donc question de « figures », principalement celles du triangle œdipien (Père/mère/fille) et de leur reconstruction dans le « travail » de l’autofiction.The subject of this thesis is the study of the autofiction written by three authors and published in three languages: writings of Shusha Guppy in English (French translation for the quotations, original text in footnote); Goli Taraghi’s (in Persian, recomposed and enlarge edition in French and translated by the author and her daughter); Sara Yalda’s are directly written in French. These three women belonging to two different generations meet at the crossroads of « exile literature ». They pursue the same quest for identity, as the result of confronting their disturbed images by the History and transform their suffering and nostalgia for lost time and places into the writings, as well as their fights against forgotten memories of the past. Despite of the absence of imposed censorship by the native country, the bodies of these women remain invisible in the content of their own different stories. They do not completely reveal themselves, neither their perceptions nor their fantasies: as the result they build an imaginary identity which is the essence of autofiction. Furthermore, the subject of the study is built by the structuring motifs from the analysis of their symbolism. Thus, it is the question of « figures » which are mainly those of the oedipal triangle (Father/mother/daughter) and their reconstructions in the autofictional « work »
The impact of social media engagement on university student recruitment
No full textEducation marketing managers are increasingly becoming aware of the benefits of social media engagement in recruitment marketing for colleges and universities. Today’s prospective student is tech-savvy and information driven. Despite a general emphasis on social media engagement in a university marketing strategy, there is minimal research on the influence it has on university student recruitment and the amount of effort that universities should dedicate to social media engagement. Therefore, this study focuses on the influence of university social media engagement, particularly Facebook, on university student recruitment in the form of student applications.education marketingsocial mediarecruitmentfacebooklinear regression method
Book Review of White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
No full textWhite Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrayed Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad, addresses the distress around the pedagogy of Critical Race Theory in educational systems from the standpoint of politics of emotions and emotional interactions of the dominant social groups with racial minorities. The author articulates some of the emotional tactics that make up “toxic femininity,” specifically for white women, and unveils the scars caused by these delicate yet intruding performances. Through shedding “white tears,” which Hamad defines as dishonest emotions, white women utilize emotional expression, primarily crying, to shut down the conversation about race and suppress the agencies of their sisters of color. Not surprisingly, the author received severe waves of “global backlash” on social media in calling out another racist microaggression
Craft Engagement For Environmental Sustainability
No full textThis research incorporates cultural and traditional Persian practices in order to develop social engagement with environmental sustainability. Persian crafts and rituals are utilized as the means of engagement in developing tangible practices that nudge consciousness and lead to greater understanding of nature and ecology. Cultural rituals in Persian culture such as Nowrooz and Yalda inspired me to design a service that supports and amplifies their connection to nature. In the development of this service two facets of sustainability are explored: materiality and nature. Craft opens up fascinating possibilities that address sustainability. Locality is the remarkable aspect of Craft. Materials, methods of making and the meaning in a craft artwork talk about the specific characteristic of the place that it comes from. It helps us to identify the characteristics of our natural environment and understand how to benefit from its capacities. In this service design, people participate in traditional craft activities and learn how the materials and processes of these craft artifacts are in tune with ecological systems. They then use the crafts that they have created as artifacts for display in their own cultural rituals like Nowrooz and Yalda. This service promotes consciousness about sustainability in participants during their involvement with the practice. Key to the design is my belief that a viable service is inviting and provides an atmosphere for people to play an active role in addressing current ecological issues. This empowers citizens and helps to develop and nurture the culture of environmental sustainability in Persian society. By unlocking the roots and histories of traditional crafts in any given culture, and then tapping into the creative possibilities of how they can be re-combined and re-framed, a path to social innovation can be etched by applying the results to contemporary issues of environmental sustainability.Social innovationCraftUser engagemen
Mīr Ahmad Kashshī : His Biography and Sufi path According to the Manuscript of his ‘Tuhfa al-Rasūl and Farīd al-Maktūbāt’
No full textAbstractTuhfa al-Rasūl and Farīd al-Maktūbāt [=The Gift of the Prophet and The Unique Writing] written by Mīr Aḥmad Kashshī, one of the major Naqshbandī Sufi masters of Transoxania in the 19th century ACE, is a book regarding the Sufism of Khājagān [=the Nobles] in which following the trilogic tradition of Sharīʻa [=Islamic Law], tarīqa [=Sufi Path] and haqīqa [the Truth] the author commences the first chapters through Islamic law and legal antecedents in order to train and cultivate Naqshbandī novices. Then he delves more deeply into Sufism ipso facto in the rest of the labor. The dogmatic elements of mystical theology are outstanding in the work, and one can regard the book as an exemplary portrait of Sufism in the time of decadence. In this article, utilizing the transmissive resources, specifically references to the text perse, we introduce the audience descriptively and analytically with the manuscript to indicate the significance and necessity of an inquiry in the traditional Sufism of Naqshbandīs in Transoxania
