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Brief insight on a 21 year old\u27s daily life
No full textMy name is Salma Fouad. I am a senior studying Journalism at the American University in Cairo. This project is for Audio Production class taught by Professor Kim Fox. This is a brief insight on how my day usually goes
Fouad Laroui : un auteur transculturel en traduction
No full text"What am I doing here?". This is what several characters in Fouad Laroui's novels often wonder. The question of identity is indeed present in his works and shows an attempt to depict that stranger, that someone (Kristeva 1988) that one becomes in a transcultural perspective (Welsch 1999) after crossing borders. If there can only be plural discourse in each and every one of us (Todorov 1985), the post-colonial experience paves the way for a plurality made of different languages and cultures that cannot but be present in Laroui's writings, e.g. in his heterolingualism, a feature that his translators need to consider in their cultural and linguistic transfer. Considering that Laroui is amongst "contemporary examples of the literary text as 'translation zone' [that] seem to indicate new directions, as translation exists 'firmly in the text, not inbetween texts'" (Forsdick 2019) and that "in multilingual cultures [...], translation contributes to creating culture, in mutual exchange, resistance, interpenetration" (Meylaerts 2012), this paper aims to analyze issues of translation related to Fouad Laroui's transcultural and heterolingual writing
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Screening for Occult Macular Pathology Prior to Cataract Surgery Using Optical Coherence Tomography
No full textYousef A Fouad, Amr Mohamed ElGwaily, Yasmine Maher Shaaban Department of Ophthalmology, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, EgyptCorrespondence: Yousef A Fouad, Department of Ophthalmology, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Ramses st., Abbassiya, Cairo, 11517, Egypt, Tel +201063781237, Email [email protected]: To study the prevalence of occult macular pathology using optical coherence tomography (OCT) during the preoperative evaluation for cataract surgery and associated risk factors.Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients’ medical records and imaging. Adult patients who underwent cataract extraction who had normal preoperative fundoscopic examination and available preoperative OCT imaging were included.Results: The analysis included 121 eyes belonging to 121 patients. The prevalence of occult macular pathology was 21.5%, with the most common being interface abnormalities (8.3% of the eyes), drusen (4.1%), and diabetic macular edema (4.1%). Visually significant pathologies were noted in 6.6% of the eyes. Occult macular pathology was rare in patients aged less than 50 years (4.5%) and common among patients 70 years of age or older (43.3%). The most significant predictors of occult macular pathology were advanced age (OR: 1.06, p = 0.033) and diabetes mellitus (OR: 6.79, p = 0.002).Conclusion: Relying on fundoscopic evaluation alone would miss 1 in 5 eyes with occult macular pathology and 1 in 15 with pathologies that would alter the visual outcome. Preoperative OCT screening prior to cataract surgery should be considered, especially in patients with advanced age and diabetes mellitus.Keywords: cataract, macular, optical coherence tomography, preoperative assessment, imagin
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick
No full textFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Intro -- Contents -- Introjection -- Part I -- Endopsychic Allegories -- Schreber Guardian -- Belief System Surveillance -- Part II -- Deeper Problems -- Veil of Tears -- Go West -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Glimmung -- Part III -- Spiritualism Analogy -- Imitating the Dead -- Indexical Layer -- Ilse -- Hammers and Things -- Crucifictions -- Over There -- Martyrology -- Can't Live, Can't Live -- Lola -- Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt -- Outer Race -- The German Introject -- Part IV -- Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics -- Startling Stories -- A Couple of Years -- Android Empathy -- Homunculus and Robot -- ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE. -- Go with the Flow -- Part V -- Room for Thought -- Caduceus -- Jump -- Still -- A Wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the Dead Be -- Play Bally -- Das Hund -- Notes -- BibliographyFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Zeitgenössische muslimische Kritik am Salafismus: Eine Untersuchung ausgewählter Dokumente
No full textAnalyse zeitgenössischer muslimischer Kritik am Salafismus anhand einer Diskursanalyse von schriftlichen und audiovisuellen Dokumenten verschiedener sunnitischer Strömungen
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
ElSayed M. A. Amin. Reclaiming Jihad. A Qur’anic Critique of Terrorism. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 2014, 228 Seiten. ISBN 978-0860375937, Euro 26,53.
No full textThe AM Canum Venaticorum binary SDSS J173047.59+554518.5
No full textThe AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries are a rare group of hydrogen-deficient, ultrashort period, mass-transferring white dwarf binaries and are possible progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. We present time-resolved spectroscopy of the recently discovered AM CVn binary SDSS J173047.59+554518.5. The average spectrum shows strong double-peaked helium emission lines, as well as a variety of metal lines, including neon; this is the second detection of neon in an AM CVn binary, after the much brighter system GP Com. We detect no calcium in the accretion disc, a puzzling feature that has been noted in many of the longer period AM CVn binaries. We measure an orbital period, from the radial velocities of the emission lines, of 35.2 ± 0.2 min, confirming the ultracompact binary nature of the system. The emission lines seen in SDSS J1730 are very narrow, although double-peaked, implying a low-inclination, face-on accretion disc; using the measured velocities of the line peaks, we estimate i ≤ 11°. This low inclination makes SDSS J1730 an excellent system for the identification of emission lines
Freedom of choice or force of circumstance? : Eastern European sex-workers in the Republic of Cyprus ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
No full textThis paper focuses on Eastern European migrants who, since the beginning of the 1990s, are entering the Republic Cyprus as “artistes”. This is a visa permit status as well as an euphemism for short-term work permits in the local sex industry. In addition to exploring the migrational experiences of these women and their living and working conditions in the Republic of Cyprus, the paper reconstructs, empirically and analyt ically, the connection between immigration and the local sex industry. Here, several categories of social actors and institutions in Cyprus are actively involved. The rhetoric of government representatives, entrepreneurs and clients in the sex business on the one hand is contrasted with the discourse of local NGO representatives concerned with immigrants’ rights on the other hand. The paper comes to the conclusion that all of these discursive positions ultimately do not do justice to the complex process of decisionmaking that women undergo who migrate into the sex industry. Either, freedom of choice is emphasized – such as by entrepreneurs and the government – or the domination of women – as in the public statements of the NGO. In order to analyze the ambivalent tension between freedom of choice and submission to force by which the women’s decision is characterized, the author employs Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which describes forms of political regulation that use the individual’s freedom of action as an instrument to exercise power
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