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Liquid racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
Full text linkThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 The Author.This article examines reactions to the October 2005 publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. It does so by using the concept of ‘liquid racism’. While the controversy arose because it is considered blasphemous by many Muslims to create images of the Prophet Muhammad, the article argues that the meaning of the cartoons is multidimensional, that their analysis is significantly more complex than most commentators acknowledge, and that this complexity can best be addressed via the concept of liquid racism. The article examines the liquidity of the cartoons in relation to four readings. These see the cartoons as: (1) a criticism of Islamic fundamentalism; (2) blasphemous images; (3) Islamophobic and racist; and (4) satire and a defence of freedom of speech. Finally, the relationship between postmodernity and the rise of fundamentalism is discussed because the cartoons, reactions to them, and Islamic fundamentalism, all contain an important postmodern dimension.ESR
Use of Oxytocin and Milking Management of Buffaloes in (Urban) Peri-Urban Area of Faisalabad
No full textA study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of (urban) peri-urban production system in Faisalabad, third-largest city of Pakistan. Interviews with 145 milk-producing (urban) peri-urban households (HH) were carried out. Based on cluster analysis, four types of dairy farmers were identified, (i) semi-commercial smallholder mixed dairy-crop farmers (n=43), (ii) semi-commercial smallholder dairy farmers (n=30), (iii) smallholder commercial (n=53) and (iv) large-holder commercial dairy farmers (n=14). Of each type five HH were randomly selected for qualitative and quantitative on-farm monitoring of management of buffalo and cattle. Milking was done twice daily, exclusively by hand. Before milking intra-muscular injection of 2 ml oxytocin was practiced by 90% of the (urban) peri-urban dairy farmers to stimulate milk letdown in 61% of the monitored lactating buffaloes and 19% of the cattle whereas 36% buffalo and 48% cattle calves suckle their dams. There was significant difference (P<0.05) in use of oxytocin for buffalo and cattle among the four production systems. Oxytocin can be easily purchased for as little as 18-20 rupees/50 ml from local shops, even at village level. In general oxytocin was used for those animals whose calves had died, sold or were not accepted by dams. Some were injected once daily while most received oxytocin at both milkings. This study suggests that regular use of oxytocin for milk let down should be checked, should be prescribed on actual need and awareness should be created among farmers. Prolonged use of oxytocin interferes and inhibits the normal milk ejection reflex and causes fertility disorders such as poor estrus signs, low conception rate, high embryonic mortality, shortened lactation period, increased abortion, calf death and incidences of mastitis. These problems are currently being addressed in progeny-history interviews targeting each milking animal in the 20 monitored herds
Use of Oxytocin and Milking Management of Buffaloes in (Urban) Peri-Urban Area of Faisalabad
No full textA study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of (urban) peri-urban production system in Faisalabad, third-largest city of Pakistan. Interviews with 145 milk-producing (urban) peri-urban households (HH) were carried out. Based on cluster analysis, four types of dairy farmers were identified, (i) semi-commercial smallholder mixed dairy-crop farmers (n=43), (ii) semi-commercial smallholder dairy farmers (n=30), (iii) smallholder commercial (n=53) and (iv) large-holder commercial dairy farmers (n=14). Of each type five HH were randomly selected for qualitative and quantitative on-farm monitoring of management of buffalo and cattle. Milking was done twice daily, exclusively by hand. Before milking intra-muscular injection of 2 ml oxytocin was practiced by 90% of the (urban) peri-urban dairy farmers to stimulate milk letdown in 61% of the monitored lactating buffaloes and 19% of the cattle whereas 36% buffalo and 48% cattle calves suckle their dams. There was significant difference (P<0.05) in use of oxytocin for buffalo and cattle among the four production systems. Oxytocin can be easily purchased for as little as 18-20 rupees/50 ml from local shops, even at village level. In general oxytocin was used for those animals whose calves had died, sold or were not accepted by dams. Some were injected once daily while most received oxytocin at both milkings. This study suggests that regular use of oxytocin for milk let down should be checked, should be prescribed on actual need and awareness should be created among farmers. Prolonged use of oxytocin interferes and inhibits the normal milk ejection reflex and causes fertility disorders such as poor estrus signs, low conception rate, high embryonic mortality, shortened lactation period, increased abortion, calf death and incidences of mastitis. These problems are currently being addressed in progeny-history interviews targeting each milking animal in the 20 monitored herds
Feed use efficiency in small-scale peri-urban dairy herds of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
No full textDairy farming is an important activity for many urban dwellers in Asia who serves the rapidly increasing milk demand. The major influencing factor that affects animal health, milk production and reproduction and thus overall productivity attributes of dairy animals is efficient feeding and nutritional management. Therefore, this study was planned to evaluate existing husbandry practices to optimize feeding and resources use efficiency. During 12 months, data on demographic events, amounts and quality of feeds offered, milk offtake and body weight changes was collected from 15 mixed buffalo and cattle dairy herds in Faisalabad. The 15 studied farms were classified as semi-commercial small-scale mixed (SSM), semi-commercial smallscale dairy (SSD) and commercial small-scale dairy (CSD) producers. The offer of feed dry matter (DM) and crude protein differed (P<0.05) between the three farm types and the four seasons of a year. Daily offtake of fat corrected milk averaged 13.5 and 8.1 liters per buffaloes and cattle, whereby seasonal variations were only observed in buffaloes. Input of feed DM per unit of milk produced was lowest on CSD followed by SSM farms with SSD farms showing least efficient feed use. Similarly, gross margin of selling milk and occasionally live animals was higher on SSM and CSD farms than on SSD farms. It was concluded that more efficient feed utilization and thus higher gross margin from milk production could be achieved by group feeding of buffaloes and cattle, respectively, according to their physiological and productive needs
Tariq Ramadan, Muhammad. Vie du Prophète. Les enseignements spirituels et contemporains, Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 2006
No full textDean J. Tariq Ramadan, Muhammad. Vie du Prophète. Les enseignements spirituels et contemporains, Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 2006. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 87e année n°4, Octobre-Décembre 2007. pp. 501-502
Tariq Ramadan, Muhammad. Vie du Prophète. Les enseignements spirituels et contemporains, Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 2006
No full textDean J. Tariq Ramadan, Muhammad. Vie du Prophète. Les enseignements spirituels et contemporains, Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 2006. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 87e année n°4, Octobre-Décembre 2007. pp. 501-502
Multidrug resistence and its regulation in Enterococcus faecalis
No full textMuhammad Tariq toont in zijn proefschrift aan dat het ABC-type multidrugresistentie (MDR) systeem EmrCD verantwoordelijk is voor MDR inEnterococcus faecalis. DeemrCDgenen komen, onafhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van drugs, tijdens de exponentiële groeifase tot expressieE. faecalis. EmrR is verantwoordelijk voor de regulatie van deemrCDgenen. De expressie van EmrR zelf is niet afhankelijk van drugs maar de resultaten duidden erop dat het EmrR eiwit deemrCDtranscriptie activeert en dat, zodra drugmoleculen de cel binnendringen, het EmrCD systeem de drugs weer naar buiten de cel pompt. Biofims spelen een belangrijke rol in MDR omdat de dichte biofilmmatrix een barrière vormt voor de werking van antimicrobiële stoffen. Heterogeniteit in de aanwezigheid op de buitenkant van de cellen van met endocarditis en biofilm geassocieerde Ebp pili (‘draden’) is gecorreleerd met heterogeniteit in de lading van het celoppervlak (de zèta potentiaal). Tariq laat zien dat cellen met pili minder negatief geladen zijn dan cellen met pili en dat celkweken die homogeen met pili bedekt zijn ook homogeen zijn voor wat betreft de zèta potentiaal. In het Addendum bij het proefschrift werden, in het kader van het ERA-net programma Pathogenomics, op een high-throughput manier verschillende genen voor celoppervlakte eiwitten en regulatoren geïdentificeerd die betrokken zijn bijE. faecalisinfecties zoals die voor adhesie, resistentie tegen de immuunrespons, kolonisatie en signalering. Het proefschrift van Tariq vormt een “roadmap” voor toekomstig onderzoek aan Enterococcen en kan bijdragen aan de selectie van potentiële targets voor de ontwikkeling van anti-enterococcus procedures. Muhammad Tariq (Pakistan, 1980) studeerde biotechnologie aan de Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. Zijn promotieonderzoek deed hij aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, bij de vakgroep Moleculaire Genetica van het GBB. Het werd gefinancierd door de Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
Multidrug resistence and its regulation in Enterococcus faecalis
No full textMuhammad Tariq toont in zijn proefschrift aan dat het ABC-type multidrugresistentie (MDR) systeem EmrCD verantwoordelijk is voor MDR inEnterococcus faecalis. DeemrCDgenen komen, onafhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van drugs, tijdens de exponentiële groeifase tot expressieE. faecalis. EmrR is verantwoordelijk voor de regulatie van deemrCDgenen. De expressie van EmrR zelf is niet afhankelijk van drugs maar de resultaten duidden erop dat het EmrR eiwit deemrCDtranscriptie activeert en dat, zodra drugmoleculen de cel binnendringen, het EmrCD systeem de drugs weer naar buiten de cel pompt. Biofims spelen een belangrijke rol in MDR omdat de dichte biofilmmatrix een barrière vormt voor de werking van antimicrobiële stoffen. Heterogeniteit in de aanwezigheid op de buitenkant van de cellen van met endocarditis en biofilm geassocieerde Ebp pili (‘draden’) is gecorreleerd met heterogeniteit in de lading van het celoppervlak (de zèta potentiaal). Tariq laat zien dat cellen met pili minder negatief geladen zijn dan cellen met pili en dat celkweken die homogeen met pili bedekt zijn ook homogeen zijn voor wat betreft de zèta potentiaal. In het Addendum bij het proefschrift werden, in het kader van het ERA-net programma Pathogenomics, op een high-throughput manier verschillende genen voor celoppervlakte eiwitten en regulatoren geïdentificeerd die betrokken zijn bijE. faecalisinfecties zoals die voor adhesie, resistentie tegen de immuunrespons, kolonisatie en signalering. Het proefschrift van Tariq vormt een “roadmap” voor toekomstig onderzoek aan Enterococcen en kan bijdragen aan de selectie van potentiële targets voor de ontwikkeling van anti-enterococcus procedures. Muhammad Tariq (Pakistan, 1980) studeerde biotechnologie aan de Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. Zijn promotieonderzoek deed hij aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, bij de vakgroep Moleculaire Genetica van het GBB. Het werd gefinancierd door de Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
Deepfakes Recognition with Physiological Signals
No full textA Master of Science thesis in Electrical Engineering by Muhammad Riyyan Khan entitled, “Deepfakes Recognition with Physiological Signals”, submitted in April 2024. Thesis advisor is Dr. Usman Tariq and thesis co-advisors are Dr. Hasan Al-Nashash and Dr. Abhinav Dhall. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completion Certificate, Approval Signatures, and AUS Archives Consent Form).College of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical EngineeringMaster of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE
THE effects of ageing on driving related performance
No full textAccording to one estimate, about 40 percent of the driving population will be over the age of 60by the year 2020 in the UK and currently, several hundred thousand drivers with dementia holddriving licenses. The number of motor vehicle crashes per unit distance of automobile travel is“U”-shaped, with risk increasing slightly between the ages of 55 and 60, but risk increasing witheach successive five-year interval. Some individuals who have mild dementia possess sufficientdriving skills to be designated as fit drivers. The most challenging assessment and decision for thephysician/licensing authority as regards fitness to drive lies in drivers who are questionablydemented or are in a state of very mild dementia.In the absence of a reliable standard protocol, some clinicians make judgment based on selfreporting,which has risks associated with it as lack of insight and judgment are potential commontraits of the population experiencing cognitive decline. Seldom is recourse made by healthprofessionals to on-road assessment as a first alternative as it requires a fee and such testingcenters are not readily available everywhere. This research addresses this issue of theidentification of cognitive tests that can be used to assess an individual’s ability to drive andespecially of those individuals that are questionably demented and are the most difficult toidentify. A younger and an older group consisting of 56 drivers in total were administered ninedifferent cognitive tests and two drives (Drive-I and Drive-II) on the STISIM driving simulator.The cognitive test ufov3 (involving the identification of a central target and simultaneously theradial localization of a peripheral target embedded in distracter triangles), which is the thirdsubtest of the UFOV (Useful Field of View) test showed the highest discriminating ability inseparating “poor-drivers” from “not-poor-drivers”, with 92.86 % of the drivers correctlyclassified. The next best discriminating ability in decreasing order of strength was that of dichoticlistening test, trail making test, rey-copy test and paper folding test. Also, age was found to be anexcellent discriminator of “poor-drivers” and “not-poor-drivers” with 91.07 % of the driverscorrectly classified. A composite cognitive measure consisting of the sum of all nine cognitivetests was not a better predictor than the ufov3 test alone; overall it was still an excellentdiscriminator, classifying 89.29 % of drivers correctly. The commonly recommended ClockDrawing test and the Trail Making test did not emerge as significant predictors of driving ability.A general driving skills linear model for prediction purposes was derived that explained 59 % ofthe variation in a general driving performance index with the ufov3 test, the dichotic listening testand the rey-recall test as significant predictors. Recommendations are made as to how this testshould be used to screen potentially at risk drivers
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