102 research outputs found
"SOU UM ESCRITOR SEM LIVRO" - ENTREVISTA COM SULEIMAN CASSAMO
No full textNo depoimento que está transcrito a seguir, o escritor moçambicano Suleiman Cassamo fala sobre o papel da imprensa na divulgação da literatura moçambicana do século XX, papel pouco ativo na atualidade. Confessa a dificuldade de encontrar seus livros em Moçambique e comenta sobre a preocupação com a divulgação das obras, em meio digital ou traduzida, feitas à revelia do autor. Discorre sobre as relações entre o universal e o particular na obra, buscando uma forma de conciliação entre ambos. Reflete também acerca de suas influências literárias e revela sua preferência temática relacionada ao regresso às suas origens, além de relatar suas perspectivas e projetos futuros.In the testimony that is transcribed next, the Mozambican writer Suleiman Cassamo speaks about the role of the press in the divulgation of the Mozambican Literature of the 20th century, little active role nowadays. He confides the difficulty of finding his books in Mozambique and comments on the concern with the dissemination of his works, digitally or translated, made in default of the author. He discusses the relations between the universal and the particular in his work, seeking a form of conciliation between the two. He also reflects on his literary influences and reveals his thematic preference related to returning to his origins, as well as reporting on his future perspectives and projects.
 
Representação da morte em "O regresso do morto" e "Palestra para um morto" de Suleiman Cassamo
No full textMestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e CulturasO presente trabalho aborda a representação literária da morte, segundo as
obras moçambicanas O Regresso do Morto e Palestra para um Morto, de
Suleiman Cassamo. Porque a morte é recorrente dos seus contos e no seu
romance, decidimos estudar a especificidade desta temática, tendo em conta o
contexto sociocultural onde ela acontece.
Mas antes, começamos por proceder a uma reflexão teórica sobre o assunto,
revisitando a cultura e a literatura ao longo dos tempos. Posteriormente,
apresentamos uma visão global da morte em algumas obras moçambicanas e,
finalmente na narrativa de Saleiman Cassamo.
O aspeto mais marcante nas obras em análise é o modo como as
personagens convivem com a morte. A morte não é algo inquietante para os
vivos, pois eles convivem bem com ela, optando, por vezes, por se darem à
morte para encontrar o sossego que não tiveram em vida.
Suleiman Cassamo, ao oferecer ao leitor a sua própria visão da morte, abre
uma perspetiva sobre a vida e leva o leitor a refletir sobre as múltiplas
expressões da sua própria existência.The present work discusses the literary representation of death, according to
two works by the Mozambican author Saleiman Cassamo - O Regresso do
Morto and Palestra para um Morto. Because death is a recurring subject on his
tales and his novel, we decided to study the specificity of this matter, taking into
account the socio-cultural context in which it happens.
But before, we begin by carrying out a theoretical reflection on the subject,
revisiting culture and literature throughout time. Subsequently, we present an
overview of death in some Mozambican works and, finally, in Saleiman
Cassamo’s narrative.
The most striking aspect of the works in question is how the characters live with
death. Death is not something disturbing to the living because they live well
together with it, choosing, sometimes, to give themselves to death in order to
find the peace that they did not have in life.
Suleiman Cassamo provides the reader with his own vision of death and
perspective on life, leading the reader to a self-reflection on the many
expressions of his own existence
A condição feminina em o Regresso do morto de Suleiman Cassamo
No full textMestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e CulturasDurante séculos a mulher Moçambicana viveu uma situação de subalternização social e económica em relação ao homem que se impõe como o chefe, o patriarca e proprietário dos bens familiares, tanto nas sociedades patriarcais como nas matrilineares. A literatura que se dedica à problemática das diferenças socioeconómicas de género tem assumido, na sua maioria, partido na crítica à situação subalterna da mulher e, por conseguinte, na luta pela emancipação feminina e na defesa de mulher. Em O Regresso do Morto, Suleiman Cassamo mostra e denuncia a complexa situação social e económica da mulher, procurando reflectir sobre como se constroem as diferenças sociais, chamando a atenção para os determinantes sociais desse processo, tais como o poderio económico do homem, especialmente nas sociedades matrilineares. O autor de O Regresso do Morto repensa o devir do poder masculino e representa, tanto de forma trágica como satírica disfarçando uma crítica social dessa mundividência patriarcal.During century Mozambican woman lived social and economical sub alternazation toward men that is considered as the chief, the patriarch and the owner of family wealth both in patriarch society as well as matrilineal (female line). The literature that has to do with socio-economical differences of gender has assured (accepted) the major part, criticizing the subordinate situation of women and, and therefore fighting for the empowerment and the defence of women in “O regresso do morto” (The Coming Back of the death) by Suleiman Cassamo shows and announces the complex social and economical situation of women seeking to reflect about how social differences are built, taking into account the social determination of the process such as the economical power of men ,especially in father line societies. The author of the coming back of death rethinks the must of masculine power and represents, even tragically as well as satirical disguising of social disapprove of this global view of the Word (society)
Economic Implications of Electronic Banking on Selected Businesses in Nasarwa State Nigeria
No full textThe paper evaluated implications of electronic banking on selected businesses in Nasarawa state, Nigeria. Of recent, banking industry has witnessed a significant improvement in technological development especially in e-banking business services. It offers convenience to the customers and encourages cashless policy in the economy. The objective of this study is to examine the extent to which e-banking operations affect the service delivery of selected businesses in Nasarawa state. This study adopted chi-square statistical technique in the analysis of data. The test of hypothesis has shown that there was a significant relationship between electronic banking platform and the performance of businesses in the state. It was concluded that most of the respondents agreed that e-banking system adopted by the deposit money banks in Nigeria have improved tremendously the performance of their businesses in terms of efficiency in conducting business activities. We recommended that the deposit money banks should expand on the points of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) to improve the quality of services render to allow the customers offset their bills and enhance business transactions
sj-pptx-1-ijs-10.1177_10668969241234321 - Supplemental material for The 1000 Mitoses Project: A Consensus-Based International Collaborative Study on Mitotic Figures Classification
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pptx-1-ijs-10.1177_10668969241234321 for The 1000 Mitoses Project: A Consensus-Based International Collaborative Study on Mitotic Figures Classification by Sherman Lin, Christopher Tran, Ela Bandari, Tommaso Romagnoli, Yueyang Li, Michael Chu, Abinaya S. Amirthakatesan, Adam Dallmann, Andrii Kostiukov, Angel Panizo, Anjelica Hodgson, Anna R. Laury, Antonio Polonia, Ashley E. Stueck, Aswathy A. Menon, Aurélien Morini, Birsen Özamrak, Caroline Cooper, Celestine Marie G. Trinidad, Christian Eisenlöffel, Dauda E. Suleiman, David Suster, David A. Dorward, Eman A. Aljufairi, Fiona Maclean, Gulen Gul, Irene Sansano, Irma E. Erana-Rojas, Isidro Machado, Ivana Kholova, Jayanthi Karunanithi, Jean-Baptiste Gibier, Jefree J. Schulte, Joshua J.X. Li, Jyoti R. Kini, Katrina Collins, Laurence A. Galea, Louis Muller, Luca Cima, Luiz M. Nova-Camacho, Marcus Dabner, Matthew J. Muscara, Matthew G. Hanna, Mehdi Agoumi, Nicholas J. P. Wiebe, Nicola K. Oswald, Nusrat Zahra, Olaleke O. Folaranmi, Oleksandr Kravtsov, Orhan Semerci, Namrata N. Patil, Preethi Muthusamy Sundar, Prem Charles, Priyadarshini Kumaraswamy Rajeswaran, Qi Zhang, Rachael van der Griend, Raghavendra Pillappa, Raul Perret, Raul S. Gonzalez, Robyn C. Reed, Sachin Patil, Xiaoyin “Sara” Jiang, Sumaira Qayoom, Susan Prendeville, Swikrity U. Baskota, Thanh-Truc Tran, Thar-Htet San, Tiia-Maria Kukkonen, Timothy J. Kendall, Toros Taskin, Tristan Rutland, Varsha Manucha, Vincent Cockenpot, Yale Rosen, Yessica P. Rodriguez-Velandia, Zehra Ordulu and Matthew J. Cecchini in International Journal of Surgical Pathology</p
Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
No full textAdult comics have developed in the Arab world as an independent literary genre and are often used as a tool for social criticism. Linguistically, this new cultural product tends to favor the use of the vernacular (‘āmmiyya) as a written variety instead of standard Arabic (Høigilt 2017a, Høigilt 2019, De Blasio 2020, inter alia). However, in the comic books Ṣālūn Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī (The salon of Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī) and in its prequel Yūtūbiā (Utopia), both by the Lebanese author ‘Umar Khūrī, standard Arabic, used by some characters instead of the vernacular, also finds a place. Therefore, starting from the definition of language as a marker of the identity and as a symbolic resource (Suleiman 2013), the aim of the study is to investigate the link between language variety and the identity of the different characters and to examine what social and political functions language is invested with within the fictional societies of these comics strips.Il fumetto per adulti si è sviluppato nei paesi arabi come un genere letterario indipendente e viene spesso utilizzato come uno strumento di critica sociale. Questo nuovo prodotto culturale tende a prediligere dal punto di vista linguistico l’uso del dialetto (‘āmmiyya) come varietà scritta al posto dell’arabo standard (Høigilt 2017a, Høigilt 2019, De Blasio 2020, inter alia). Tuttavia, nei fumetti Ṣālūn Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī (Il salone di Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī) e nel suo prequel Yūtūbiā (Utopia), entrambi dell’autore libanese ‘Umar Khūrī, trova spazio anche lo standard, usato da alcuni personaggi al posto del vernacolare. A partire dall’idea di lingua come marca identitaria e risorsa simbolica (Suleiman 2013), l’obiettivo dello studio è indagare la relazione tra la varietà linguistica e l’identità dei diversi personaggi ed esaminare di quali funzioni sociali e politiche la lingua è investita all’interno delle società immaginarie di questi fumetti
Market Risk and Stock Return of Listed Financial Service Firms in Nigeria
No full textThe trading financial instruments in the capital market by Financial Service Firms (FSF) have generated return arising from changes in the prices of stock which exposed the firms to market risk. An effective market risk decision remains significant to determining stock return level realized from the volume and value of stock traded. This study examines the effect of market risk on stock return of listed FSF in Nigeria. The population of this study consists of fifty-six (56) financial service firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange Market. In arriving at the sample size of twenty-nine (29) firms the purposive sampling technique and filtering criteria were employed. Data were sourced secondarily from the audited annual report of financial service firms, Nigeria Stock Exchange fact book, and other relevant financial service firms’ websites for period of twelve (12) years (2007-2018). Panel multiple regression technique of data analysis was applied using the ordinary least square estimator. The findings of the study revealed that book to market ratio as a proxy of market risk was insignificantly negative on stock return during the period under review. Net interest margin as a proxy of market risk revealed a significant positive effect on stock return during the period of review. Also, the study revealed that control variables of firm size, leverage had significant positive effects on stock return, though; the effect of monetary policy rate was positive but insignificant on stock return. The study concluded that a higher book to market ratio would reduce stock return and to a larger extent the reduction in stock return may not be affected significantly. It also concluded that a higher net interest margin would result to a higher stock return and vice versa. The study recommended that decision-makers and portfolio managers of financial service firms should employ appropriate risk strategies through derivatives, forwards, futures, swaps, options that can mitigate market risk in order to optimize return. Keywords: Financial Services Firms, Stock Returns, Market Risk, Firms Specific Risk factors, Nigerian Stock exchange. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-8-10 Publication date: April 30th 202
Silken Threads (Audio CD and booklet) Veronica Doubleday and John Baily Recorded, engineered, produced and mastered by Dr Evangelos Himonides, UCL
No full textJohn Baily (rubab and dutar) and Veronica Doubleday (vocal and daireh) Together we have played our renditions of Afghan music in different settings around the world, with other musicians, or as a duo. Afghan collaborators include the singer Ustad Abdul-Wahab Madadi, and members of the Mahmood family of tabla players: Ustad Asef, Ustad Aref and Yussof, and the amateur tabla player Suleiman Haqpana. For many years the Greek musician Matthaios Tsahourides was a valued member of our group Ensemble Bakhtar; he plays the Pontic lyra, a bowed lute. We have released several CDs, mostly under our own label, Bolbol, but also with Metier. We pay homage to our teachers in Herat (Ustad Amir Jan and Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz, Gada Muhammad, Zainab Herawi and Madar-e Zahir, and also (for John, on rubab) the renowned Ustad Muhammad Omar in Kabul. Veronica Doubleday and John Baily (2015) John is Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Head of its Afghanistan Music Unit. He is acknowledged as a world authority on the music of Afghanistan and music in the Afghan diaspora. He is the author of Music of Afghanistan: Musicians in the City of Herat (1988); “Can you stop the birds singing?”: The Censorship of Music in Afghanistan (2003); Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Mohammad (2011); War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale (2015), and several acclaimed ethnographic films. In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Veronica is an expert on the music of women in Afghanistan. She is the author of a narrative ethnography, Three Women of Herat (1988); I Cried on the Mountain Top (2010); an expanded Persian-language version of the latter: Sar-e Kuh-ye Baland (2015), and a number of articles and book chapters
Continuous and Step-level Pay-off Functions in Public Good Games: A Conceptual Analysis
No full textConflicts between individuals’ and collective interests are ubiquitous in social life. Numerous experimental studies have investigated the resolution of such conflicts using public good games with either continuous or step-level payoff functions. A conceptual analysis using both classic game theory and social exchange theory shows that these two types of games are fundamentally different. A continuous function game is a social dilemma in that it contains a conflict between individual and collective interests whereas a step-level game is primarily a social coordination game. Thus, we conclude that one can not safely generalize results from step-level to continuous form games. Additionally, our analysis shows that the distinction between continuous and single-step games can be blurred by segmenting a continuous function into steps or adding steps to a single-step game. We identify characteristics of the payoff function that conceptually mark the transition from a dilemma to a coordination problem.
An analytical study of the theatre of the Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, with particular emphasis on the plays written after the 1967 war
No full textThis study is an examination of the life and work of
the Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous (1941-1997). Wannous's name is virtually unknown in the West; only two academic studies of any significance have appeared in English on this eminent and challenging writer, who was honoured by UNESCO at the end of his life. Even in the Arab world his standing rests largely upon his celebrity as a cultural icon, since professional performances of his plays are rare due to the decline of the theatre in the region, and little attention has been devoted to theatre studies by Arab academics. The two studies in English do not attempt to be comprehensive but focus on particular stages of Wannous's career. This study is, therefore, the first to encompass the full range of Wannous's work. To do so it combines an account of his life which seeks to comprehend the various forces that shaped his thinking with an analysis of his dramatic works. The study concentrates on the plays written in the years following the trauma inflicted on the Arab world by the catastrophe of their
defeat in the Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967. Wannous's career can be divided into three phases: the immature plays of his young manhood which are influenced by European models and generally focus on the social condition of the individual; his middle period - the `theatre of politicisation', when his Marxist politics were the main
factor shaping his drama; and his late works, which are characterised by an extraordinary freedom of thought and expression. The introduction places Wannous in his historical and sociocultural context and provides a brief background explaining the literary and theatrical traditions of the Arab world that influenced his activity as a dramatist. Each phase is then examined in turn and the plays are analysed in accordance with the focus of the study. This means that emphasis is given to the middle period,
but no significant work is neglected. The study aims to trace the trajectory of Wannous's development using a
variety of sources: the plays themselves, Wannous's own journalism and critical writings, interviews with his widow, his friends and colleagues, and numerous
journals, books and articles, some of which contain
important interviews with Wannous that shed light on his thought and ways of working. Use is also made of the
two studies mentioned above. The study shows that Wannous's theatre was influenced by the key political, social and cultural developments of his time, and that he
constantly sought to find forms that would express those transformations in dramatic terms
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