139 research outputs found
Linguistic practice on contemporary Jordanian radio: publics and participation
No full textContemporary studies of media Arabic often pass over issues of media
form and the broader relevance of language use. The present thesis
addresses these issues directly by examining the language used in Jordanian
non-government radio programmes. It examines recordings and transcriptions
of a range of programme genres – primarily, morning talk shows and “service
programmes” (barāmiž ḳadamātiyya), and Islamic advice programmes, both of
which feature significant audience input via call-ins. The data are examined
through an interpretive form of discourse analysis, drawing on linguistic
anthropological theory that analyses language as a form of performance,
through comparison of radio programmes as ‘units of interaction.’ This is
supported by sociolinguistic data obtained from the recordings, including
phoneme frequency analysis, in addition to the author’s experience of 6
months of fieldwork in Jordan in 2014-15. The analysis focuses on four major
themes: (1) the influence of media context, specifically the sonic exclusivity
and temporal evanescence of radio, on language use, as well as the impact of
digital media; (2) the indexicality of certain locally salient sociolinguistic
variables, and the use to which they are put in radio talk; (3) the role of
language in constructing the identity, or persona, of broadcasters; and (4) the
role of language in constructing and validating authoritative discourse, in
particular that of Islamic texts and scripture in religious programming.
Through its analysis of these themes, using selected recording excerpts
as demonstrative case studies, this thesis shows that specific strategies of
Arabic use in the radio setting crucially affect both the publics – the addressed
audiences – of radio talk, as well as the frameworks of participation in this talk
– how and to what extent broadcasters and members of the public can
participate in mediated discourse. The results demonstrate the unique value
of an interpretive study of linguistic performance for highlighting broader social
issues, including the inclusion and exclusion of particular segments of the
society through linguistic strategies – Jordanians versus non-Jordanians,
Ammanis versus non-Ammanis, and pious Muslims versus non-believers; and
the use of language to reassert, or occasionally challenge, dominant
ideologies and discourses, such as those of gender, nationalism, and religion.
This study thus contributes an examination of contemporary Jordanian non-government
radio language in its social and political context – something which
has not been attempted before, and which provides important insights
regarding both the nature of contemporary Arabic media language and its
broader social and cultural import
sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199241233333 - Supplemental material for Utilization and reimbursement of diagnostic cerebral angiograms: A Medicare trends analysis from 2013 to 2020
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199241233333 for Utilization and reimbursement of diagnostic cerebral angiograms: A Medicare trends analysis from 2013 to 2020 by Avi A Gajjar, Michael M Covell, Najib Muhammad, Cathleen Kuo, Georgios S Sioutas, Mohamed M Salem, Sebastian Ivan Fras, Brian T Jankowitz, Jan-Karl Burkhardt and Visish M Srinivasan in Interventional Neuroradiology</p
Fusing Dexterity and Perception for Soft Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery: What We Learnt from STIFF-FLOP
No full textIn recent years we have seen tremendous progress in the development of robotic solutions for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Indeed, a number of robot-assisted MIS systems have been developed to product level and are now well-established clinical tools; Intuitive Surgical’s very successful da Vinci Surgical System a prime example. The majority of these surgical systems are based on the traditional rigid-component robot design that was instrumental in the third industrial revolution—especially within the manufacturing sector. However, the use of this approach for surgical procedures on or around soft tissue has come under increasing criticism. The dangers of operating with a robot made from rigid components both near and within a patient are considerable. The EU project STIFF-FLOP, arguably the first large-scale research programme on soft robots for MIS, signalled the start of a concerted effort among researchers to investigate this area more comprehensively. While soft robots have many advantages over their rigid-component counterparts, among them high compliance and increased dexterity, they also bring their own specific challenges when interacting with the environment, such as the need to integrate sensors (which also need to be soft) that can determine the robot’s position and orientation (pose). In this study, the challenges of sensor integration are explored, while keeping the surgeon’s perspective at the forefront of ourdiscussion. The paper critically explores a range of methods, predominantly those developed during the EU project STIFF-FLOP, that facilitate the embedding of soft sensors into articulate soft robot structures using flexible, optics-based lightguides. We examine different optics-based approaches to pose perception in a minimally invasive surgery settings, and methods of integration are also discussed
Transforming Obscenity into the Sublime: Hidden Sexuality in Rusva's Umra'o Jan Ada
No full textAt the end of the 19th century Muhammad Hadi Rusva had hardly any predecessors or indigenous prototypes on which to model his famous novel Umrao Jan Ada. The first tentative novelistic experiments in Urdu were inspired substantially by Victorian English prose, especially sensational or romance fiction by authors like W.M. Reynolds, Marie Corelli or F. Marion Crawford, which in the second half of the 19th century became extremely popular and vastly appreciated among Indian readers. Rusva was well conversant with such literature and even translated some of it into Urdu, and no doubt this was one of his sources of inspiration. But he was also well-versed in Urdu, Persian and Arabic and had received a classical schooling in various fields including literature; hence he was familiar with traditional literary means and conventions allowing Urdu authors to avoid openly expressing erotic feelings, and to write about love, lust and desire in a veiled and metaphorical manner. Drawing from all these resources, partly foreign and partly indigenous, Rusva created a masterly novel portraying and exploring the complexity of sex workers’ lives and work long before feminist discourse took these up. But he tackles sexuality and male-female relations in a manner often leaving the issues oblique and imperceptible on the surface, though, a reader aware of the relevant cultural and linguistic idiom is able to look behind the veil and perceive matters in their appropriate, often even obscene dimension. Rusva’s book thus seems an early harbinger of the controversy regarding obscenity in Urdu literature, which burst into full force in the 1940s. This article analyses the hidden and the overt in Rusva’s Umrao Jan Ada. It discusses the literary and linguistic techniques and tools used to depict what was “shameful” according to the prevalent morality and to speak about what according to this should have remained unsaid
Yugoslavia, packaging design then and now
No full textEmbalaža izdelka, v našem primeru živilskega, danes opravlja pomembno vlogo. V množici produktov, ki bolj ali manj služijo enakemu pomenu, se proizvajalci borijo, da potrošnik seže po njihovem. V sredini prejšnjega stoletja, ko je bil trg bolj omejen, potrebe po boju, kot je danes, ni bilo.
S tem razlogom skozi diplomsko delo raziskujem različne dejavnike, ki so vplivali na oblikovanje embalaže nekoč, in dejavnike, ki nanjo vplivajo danes. Ti dejavniki so tehnologija in njen razvoj, materiali, politika, odnos do oblikovalca itd. V teoretičnem delu se osredotočim na tri proizvajalce iz nekdanje Jugoslavije in pod lupo vzamem en izdelek, ki ga proizvajajo še danes. V praktičnem delu se ukvarjam s preoblikovanjem dveh ikoničnih embalaž, ki sem ju obravnaval tudi v teoretičnem delu. Na podlagi raziskanega predstavim dve novi rešitvi, kjer skušam izboljšati uporabniško izkušnjo, ohranjati vizualni jezik glede na zgodovino izdelka in trajnostni pristop.The packaging of a product, in our case food packaging, plays an important role in the present day. In a mountain of products that more or less serve the same purpose, producers compete to get consumers to reach for theirs. In the middle of the last century, when the market was limited, there was no need for the battle that exists today. For this reason, throughout the thesis I explore the different factors that influenced packaging design in the past and the factors that influence it today. These factors are technology and its development, materials, politics, attitudes towards the designer, etc. In the theoretical part, I focus on three manufacturers from the former Yugoslavia, and put under the magnifying glass one iconic product that they still produce today. In the practical part, I am working on the redesign of two iconic packages, which I also discussed in the theoretical part of the thesis. Based on what I have researched, I present two new solutions where I try to improve the user experience, to maintain the visual language in relation to the history of the product and to take a sustainable approach
O pojmowaniu infotainmentu i nadmiernej rozrywkowości mediów masowych we współczesnym medioznawstwie
No full textThe excessive focus on entertainment in the content of the modern mass media has become the subject of academic reflection in Poland over the last decade. In the West this issue has been discussed for at least thirty years. Out of the various concepts that serve the purpose of describing and analyzing the focus on entertainment in the mass media the author focuses on the concept of infotainment, borrowed from American English; the meaning and scope of this concept in academic and journalistic texts is analyzed. It is indicated that the concept has a limited explanatory value when taken over without its cultural and linguistic context, and it is particularly useless as the name of a genre, used instead of the news. Discussing contemporary academic reflections on the focus on entertainment in the mass media and their content, three main currents are indicated and briefly described: the functional, historical and critically-discursive; the issue of the focus on entertainment of professional journalists is also addressed.The excessive focus on entertainment in the content of the modern mass media has become the subject of academic reflection in Poland over the last decade. In the West this issue has been discussed for at least thirty years. Out of the various concepts that serve the purpose of describing and analyzing the focus on entertainment in the mass media the author focuses on the concept of infotainment, borrowed from American English; the meaning and scope of this concept in academic and journalistic texts is analyzed. It is indicated that the concept has a limited explanatory value when taken over without its cultural and linguistic context, and it is particularly useless as the name of a genre, used instead of the news. Discussing contemporary academic reflections on the focus on entertainment in the mass media and their content, three main currents are indicated and briefly described: the functional, historical and critically-discursive; the issue of the focus on entertainment of professional journalists is also addressed
Pyrausta laristanalis Amsel 1961
No full textPyrausta laristanalis Amsel, 1961 Pyrausta laristanalis Amsel, 1961: 425, text-fig. 114, pl. 6 fig. 237. TL: Iran, Laristan, road Bender-Abbas-Sardabad Sardze, 200 m. Material examined. No material was available for examination in this study. Distribution. Iran: Fras (Lar) and Hormozgan (Bandar Abbas to Sardabad- Sarzeh Rd., Sarzeh) Provinces (Amsel 1961; Nuss et al. 2003 –2022). Remarks. The report of this species from United Arab Emirates (De Prins & De Prins 2011 –2021) is erroneous as it refers to Evergestis laristanalis Amsel, 1961 (Asselbergs 2008).Published as part of Alipanah, Helen, Asselbergs, Jan, Malm, Tobias & Slamka, František, 2023, Taxonomic study of the subfamily Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Iran, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 5289 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5289.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/795912
Flood Risk Assessments for Small Catchments Under Climate Change—How Can Scotland Improve Its Policy for Enhanced Flood Resilience and Preparedness
No full text\ua9 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Flood Risk Management published by Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Flood risk assessments (FRAs) are essential tools in Scottish planning policy to identify and minimise flood risk in new planning applications. Most FRAs in Scotland are performed in (very) small (< 50km2) < 100km2 catchments, particularly vulnerable to increases in rainfall intensity due to climate change. This study provides a historical overview of the literature used as guidance in FRAs in Scotland and then focuses on their application in smaller catchments, addressing three areas: understanding the different physical processes in smaller catchments, their representation within the guidelines and how these guidelines are applied in practice. Our results highlight the need to move beyond simple mathematical and hydrological methods for FRAs. We find that small catchments\u27 physical processes are not adequately represented in current methods, leading to higher biases and uncertainties in modelling. When applied in practice, these techniques are often used unconventionally for the fulfilment of established guidelines. Finally, climate change science implementation into guidance also needs refinement, with current regulations lacking a sound scientific basis, particularly for smaller catchments. We underscore the need for testing and application of innovative solutions found in academia and utilisation of additional data to provide improved methods for FRAs in smaller catchments, particularly under climate change
Illustration and design of the poetry collection Subiluzija
No full textV diplomskem delu sem oblikovala in ilustrirala pesniško zbirko Subiluzija pisatelja Žiga X-a Gombača. V teoretičnem delu sem raziskovala odnos med ilustracijo in besedilom v poeziji in katere ilustracije so najbolj primerne za opisovanje abstraktnega besedila, ki se v zbirki Subiluzija pojavlja. Naredila sem analizo treh umetniških del in na podlagi te analize utemeljila uporabo abstraktne ilustracije ob besedilu.
Pri praktičnem delu diplomskega dela sem pesniško zbirko ilustrirala, razložila uporabljeno tehniko ilustracije, opisala postopek izbira motivov in raziskovala odnos med poezijo in besedilom v knjižni obliki. Pri izdelavi knjige sem obravnavala knjigo kot objekt in utemeljila svoj izbor pisave, postavitev mreže in način tiska in vezanja knjige.In my thesis, I designed and illustrated the poetry collection Subiluzija by the author Žiga X Gombač. In the theoretical part, I researched the relationship between illustration and text in poetry and defined the illustration style is most suitable for describing the abstract content that appears in the poetry collection Subiluzija. I analysed three works of art and based on this analysis, justified the use of abstract illustration alongside the text.
In the practical part of the diploma thesis, I illustrated the poetry collection, explained the illustration technique used, described the process of choosing motifs and researched the relationship between poetry and text in book form. In the book design process, I treated the book as a physical object and justified my choice of font, layout of the grid and the way the book was printed and bound
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