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Adversarial framing: President Bashar al-Assad’s depiction of the armed Syrian opposition
No full textThis paper evaluates how Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is framing his opponents in the context of the Syrian civil war. The question is addressed by conducting a qualitative thematic analysis of 13 interviews he gave to international television news networks and newspapers between March and November 2013. It is found that Al-Assad consequently labels the armed opposition as “terrorists” preponderantly composed of groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The “terrorists” are framed as posing a threat to the region as well as to international security on a global scale. Furthermore, Al-Assad denies the armed opposition its Syrian grassroots by portraying them as outside aggressors fighting for foreign interests. They are also depicted as “enemies of the Syrian people”, responsible for all the atrocities and human suffering committed during the Syrian civil war.Publisher PD
Supplementary data for Bashar Al Shawa's PhD thesis: floor areas, Energy Use Intensities (EUIs), and blocks' sizes and tariffs
No full textThis dataset relates to Bashar Al Shawa's PhD thesis. It includes detailed outputs for Chapter 2's model, the Energy Use Intensity (EUI) model (Chapter 4), and the econometric model (Chapter 5). Data for Chapter 2's model covers total and per capita floor areas in the years 2017 and 2060. Data for the EUI model covers the required EUIs for newly constructed and existing residential residential and non-residential buildings. Data for the econometric model covers block sizes and tariffs, rebound effect, and extent of energy poverty.Please refer to Bashar Al Shawa's PhD thesis for information on the methodology used to arrive at each figure occurring in the dataset.This dataset was created using Microsoft Excel
Bashar al-Assad : a psychobiography using Levinson’s theory of development
No full textM.A. (Counselling Psychology)Psychobiographical research analyses the life of an individual through the use of psychological theory. This form of case study research is important as it enables an understanding of the unique nature of an individual case within a specific context. Despite this, this form of case study research has been under-utilised both internationally and within South Africa. Current trends, however, indicate local and international growth in the use of this method. The research subject, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, the current president of Syria, was selected through purposive sampling based on interest value and uniqueness. The current crisis in Syria and the Arab world (known collectively as the Arab Spring) greatly increased the value of a study of this nature. Although a range of data is available on Bashar al-Assad, none of this data has been analysed using a psychological theory. The primary aim of this study was thus to explore the life of Bashar al- Assad (from birth until December 2000) in terms of Levinson, Darrow, Klein and McKee’s (1978) developmental theory. The secondary aims of this study are to determine (1) the applicability of Levinson et al.’s (1978) theory to the life of Bashar al-Assad and (2) the applicability of Levinson et al.’s (1978) theory when used for cross-cultural analysis. Data collected was analysed according to Huberman and Miles’ (2000) and Huberman, Miles and Saldaña’s (2013) approach. The study found that within the predefined ages considered in this study Bashar al-Assad developed from a quiet shy child with a desire to be perceived as normal to the president of Syria, with no possibility of a normal life. Changes in Bashar al-Assad’s life structure were often the result of loss and tragedy, as seen through the death of his brother (Basel al-Assad) and father (Hafez al-Assad). This study demonstrated that Bashar al-Assad, although from a political family, spent his pre-adult era, early adulthood transition phases and the period during which he entered the adult world trying to be ‘normal’. Bashar’s life structure, however, did not follow the ‘normal’ trajectory he had envisioned. Instead, the death of Basel al-Assad and Hafez al-Assad led to his assumption of the role of president of Syria, changing his life structure in a way that he seemed unable to chang
Supplementary data for Bashar Al Shawa's PhD thesis: floor areas, Energy Use Intensities (EUIs), and blocks' sizes and tariffs
No full textThis dataset relates to Bashar Al Shawa's PhD thesis. It includes detailed outputs for Chapter 2's model, the Energy Use Intensity (EUI) model (Chapter 4), and the econometric model (Chapter 5). Data for Chapter 2's model covers total and per capita floor areas in the years 2017 and 2060. Data for the EUI model covers the required EUIs for newly constructed and existing residential residential and non-residential buildings. Data for the econometric model covers block sizes and tariffs, rebound effect, and extent of energy poverty
Analyzing the domestic and international conflict in Syria: are there lessons from political science?
No full textIssue title: tribes & neighborhoods: the dynamics of subtletyThis article contributes to the discussion about opportunities for and barriers to domestically-driven political reform in the Syrian Arab Republic. The argument is put forward in five sections. In the first section, relevant political science approaches analyzing the Syrian case from a domestic and global perspective are briefly discussed. The second section sketches the early political history of Syria between 1920 and 1970, while the third section explains how the regime led by Hafiz al-Assad was able to use the period after 1970 to consolidate Syrian statehood, establish a national security state, and emerge as a strong regional geopolitical player. Section four analyzes the period of the Presidency of Bashar al-Assad before the current crisis (from 2000 until March 2011). Lastly, section five discusses the recent escalation of the Syrian domestic crisis toward the largest armed conflict in the country’s history. Section five also scrutinizes the domestic political reform program as advanced by the Syrian government since April 2011 (essentially the new 2012 Syrian constitution and the new multiparty system). A conclusion sums up both the theoretical and empirical arguments.Publisher PD
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Supplemental material for Outcomes of scapulothoracic fusion in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental Material for Outcomes of scapulothoracic fusion in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: A systematic review by Dorsa Kord, Eva Liu, Nolan S Horner, George S Athwal, Moin Khan and Bashar Alolabi in Shoulder & Elbow</p
Supplemental material for Surgical treatment of trapezius palsy: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental Material for Surgical treatment of trapezius palsy: A systematic review by Rawaan S Elsawi, Seline Y Vancolen, Nolan S Horner, Moin Khan and Bashar Alolabi in Shoulder & Elbow</p
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