49 research outputs found
The decision to engage in illegal fishing: an examination of situational factors in 54 countries
No full textThe rising global demand and the increasing value of fish and fish products have made international illegal fishing a lucrative business. Despite the regulatory measures undertaken internationally, regionally and locally, the problem persists and has significantly impacted fish stocks and the global ecosystem. Nearly 80% of global fish stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, and illegal fishing is one of the major contributing factors to this problem. Should current rates of depletion continue, most global fish stocks will have collapsed by 2048. Coastal countries bear the direct consequences of illegal fishing, as 90% of these activities occur within their territorial waters. Poor coastal countries are particularly affected, since these countries have the richest marine resources that are exploited both internally and externally. The factors contributing to this problem have been studied before, but few studies have examined the problem globally. These studies have focused on such macro-level factors as a country’s GDP, governance effectiveness, level of corruption and lack of accountability, political stability, and the degree to which it is able to manage its resources. No study to date has examined globally the situational factors influencing the decision to engage in international illegal fishing. This research, therefore, analyzes situational factors by using data on 54 countries. Based on the framework of rational choice and situational crime prevention theories, such predictors as resource attractiveness, access to an easy escape route, formal and informal surveillance, and fisheries management efforts, are explored as significant factors affecting the decision to engage in illegal fishing. Findings confirm all propositions except that examining the effect of informal surveillance. Spatial analyses substantiate these findings and provide further detail about the regional impact of each predictor variable, as well as examine other global patterns.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Gohar A. Petrossia
Disparities in Cancer Incidence in Armenia, 2013-2016: Setting Priorities for Preventive Interventions.
No full textAbstract: Many studies indicate increasing cancer burden in developing world with prominent sex and urban-rural disparities in the populations. However, internationally comparable research data about cancer incidence in Armenia is lacking. This study aimed to provide information about trends and inequalities in cancer incidence in Armenian population. A cross-sectional study was conducted to analyze data from all hospital-based cancer registries of Armavir province, western Armenia, from January 2013 to December 2016. For the 4-year study period, cancer crude and age-standardized incidence rates, as well as Incidence Rate Ratios were estimated by age-groups, sex, and urban-rural areas. A total of 1,894 cancer cases were recorded during the study period. Lung cancer was the most frequent in men and breast cancer was the most prevalent in women. ASIRs per 100,000 person-years of all cancers combined in men were significantly higher than in women (IRR=1.36, 95% CI: 1.24, 1.49; p<0.001) and were fluctuated over time, while in women they were fairly stable. Disparities in cancer incidence by urban and rural residence were also statistically significant considering overall outcome (IRR=1.57, 95% CI: 1.43, 1.72; p<0.001), as well as after adjustment by sex and age. Significantly higher rates for urban young women was particularly evident. The patterns observed here suggest priorities to reduce inequalities and prevent new cancer cases in revealed vulnerable groups. These findings about disparities in cancer incidence can be used by health planners for the development of targeted prevention programs for more efficient use of restricted resources in this developing country.
Keywords: Armavir province; Armenia; cancer incidence; developing country; epidemiology; urban-rural, geographical inequality.
Title: Disparities in Cancer Incidence in Armenia, 2013-2016: Setting Priorities for Preventive Interventions
Author: Marselina Arshakyan, Marco Rocchi, Gohar Arshakyan, Laura Chiarantini
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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Sex differences in working memory in the rats
No full textPresented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Network analysis, inference and verification
No full textSecurely operating large-scale networks is a non-trivial task involving interactions between various hardware devices, protocols, and configurations, all of which need to work in tandem for the network to be secure and in the desired state that the network administrators want it to be in. Misconfigurations or malicious activities in the network can disrupt it resulting in dire effects including but not limited to outages of critical applications and breach of sensitive information.
In this work, we propose a robust framework for diagnosing such anomalies across enterprise networks, and study their impact in terms of changes in routing behavior and reachability. To study the network as closely as possible to its actual behavior we perform analysis on data plane features as they govern the journey of a packet during its life-cycle across the network. We perform temporal analysis of the network as a whole and inspect the evolution of various properties. We then determine the deviation of the network relative to its previous states and identify as accurately as possible if the current state is anomalous. Given the historic states of the network over some time, we also try to infer high-level policies and invariants in the network. These allow for running various verification techniques on the network. Finally, we propose a network verification tool designed to verify the network as a dynamic, multi-layer distributed system. The richness of this tool’s network model allows it to find network issues that are not detectable using state of the art tools which work solely on either data plane states or control plane states without examining the interaction of the two among themselves and temporally with the network environment. Building on this verification tool, we propose a technique for high-coverage testing of end-to-end network correctness using the real software that is deployed in these networks; our design is effectively a hybrid, using an explicit-state model checker to explore all network-wide execution paths and event orderings, but executing real software as subroutines for each device. We show that this approach can detect correctness issues that would be missed both by existing verification and testing approaches, and a prototype implementation suggests that the technique can scale to larger networks with reasonable performance.
Thus, our framework provides an end to end solution for network analysis, inference and verification.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-23 at 21:13.The student, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-04-23 at 21:16.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-04-24 at 12:28.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12437 on 2019-08-22 at 16:17:51Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Exploring ‘vibrant matter’ in animation making
No full textpeer reviewedThe text examines how human, objects and digital technology interacted in
the creation of a short animated story, and how human identity became
entangled in this process. We explore animation making as an assemblage
in which all parts, human and non-human, play an agentive role, in
shaping the story, the story making, and the story makers, mutually
transforming each other. We posit that this engagement, by putting a
strong emphasis on exploring the materiality of objects, produces a deand
reterritorializing effect. It favors exploring new relationships and
identity positions, by breaking away, temporarily, from human-made,
hierarchical systems of relationships, built on comparison, copying and
competition, and by inviting experimentation and discovery of the ‘not
yet known’ in a hierarchy flat, immersive, horizontally flowing process.
‘Animating objects’ decenters from the conventional meaning of objects,
by broadening the ‘linguistic sign’ and the purpose and functionality of
objects in daily life. It engages humans in forming empathetic
relationships with objects, by humanizing and inter-acting with them, as if
experimenting with an alter ego, or a new self. ‘Animating objects’
therefore has the potential to sensitize for and build empathetic capacity,
not only in relation to the self-animated object, but also in relation to
humans sharing a similar experience, wherein we see interesting potential
for education in contexts of diversity, intercultural communication and
beyond. We investigate the personal experience of the co-author, Gohar,
as an identity journey and as a transformative process that emerged from
the encounter between her and the carrots, her selected objects for story
making. We draw on ethnographic, observational data, video-recordings,
retrospective recorded and transcribed interviews, and reflective writing,
which we analyse by making connections to theories of new materialism
ڈاکٹر گوہر نوشاہی کی ادبی خدمات
No full textThere are various aspects of Dr. Gohar Noshahi's scholarly and editing personality but Dr. Sahib's fame is due to two aspects namely research and editing. According to Dr. Tabassum Kashmiri Dr. Gohar Noshahi is a respected name in Urdu research. His research life spans many decades. Dr. Sahib was a researcher by nature, so all his research work gives a deep impression to this researcher. In his research skills, he was influenced by documentary research. According to Dr. Rashid Amjad Dr. Gohar Noshahi is a distinguished researcher and critic. He is from Lahore Research School. His language is very smooth and fluent. Due to which the spiritual breadth of his writing captivates the reader. "His name is important and unique in Pakistani Urdu research."In this article, we have mentioned his editing and research services with the references. Dr. Gohar Noshahi, the author of many books. Dr. Gohar Noshahi is an important name in the tradition of editing in Urdu. Indeed Gohar Noshahi is a great name among the Urdu writers.
 
Travelogue "Butterfly Rays and Tornadoes" Intellectual Review
No full textTravel is part of human nature. He wants to get acquainted with the culture and way of life of
the place where he is traveling. The First travelogue is “Ajaibat e Farang” the author of which
is Yousaf Hussain Kambal posh. After him Sir Syed Ahmed khan, Allama Shibli Noumani and
Muhammad Hussain Azad also wrote travelogues. The twinth century remained popolur
because of travel. Travelogues of Shafiq ur Rehman, Ibn e Insha and Begum Akhtar Riaz ud
Din came to light during this period. Women travelogues Sheen Farukh, Bushra Rehman and
Parveen Atif. Parveen Atif wrote two Urdu travelogues “Kiran Titli Or Bagoly” and “Taper
Wasni”.Her travelogues are beautiful gift in intellectual terms.
 
مفهوم الشعر لدى الدكتور الشيخ أحمد الوائلي: The meaning of verse according to Doctor Sheikh Ahmed Alwaeili
No full textSheikh Ahmed Alwaeili was one of top most poet of Iraq. His poetry was based on principles of truth. His poetry consists of topics like religion, society and social reform. He connects man with Allah. According to him is most influential than prose, and it has impact on reader.in his poems he has highlighted social problrms.in this article author has presented and explained the specificity of Sheikh Ahmed Alwaeili’s poetry
Deinstitutionalization in the Field of Mental Health in Armenia: Contemporary Issues
No full textThis article presents the problems of deinstitutionalization in the field of mental health in the Republic of Armenia based on the analysis of international documents defining the rights of persons with mental health problems. This article comprehensively discusses the way of deinstitutionalization in the field of mental health in the Republic of Armenia, the transformations that have taken place in the process, the current situation, the problems, the ways of overcoming them, filling the existing gap in this respect. The article substantiates the need for deinstitutionalization as a guarantee for the realization of the right to independent living and inclusion of people with mental health problems in the community in the Republic of Armenia. At the same time, the existing problems in Armenia in this regard are presented, both at the policy and practical levels. The author emphasizes the development of a comprehensive research-based document and a roadmap for the process as a way of overcoming identified issues
Empowering the Subaltern in \u3cem\u3eWoman at Point Zero\u3c/em\u3e
No full textIn the context of Western feminist theory, this paper critically explores Nawal El Saadawi\u27s celebrated novel, Woman at Point Zero. The aim of this analysis is to establish a dialogue and outline the benefits of comparative feminist discourse with regard to patriarchal policies in the Middle East. The paper argues that El Saadawi challenges the hegemony of a traditionally phallocentric society empowered by religion and masculinity. In Woman at Point Zero, the author has effectively reinterpreted culturally dominated canons and deconstructed regressive traditions affiliated with patriarchal hegemony. Relying on her experience as a prison psychiatrist, El Saadawi interrogates a chauvinist culture that dehumanizes women. She primarily aims to centralize the marginalized and give a voice as well as an agency to the voiceless
