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"Niech będzie przeklęty Dostojewski!" : Atiq Rahimi i jego dialog z Fiodorem Michajłowiczem
No full textAtiq Rahimi (ur. 1962) - afgańsko-francuski pisarz i fotograf, absolwent renomowanego kabulskiego Liceum Esteqlāl, autor m.in. dwóch mikro-powieści: Ziemia i popioły oraz Kamień cierpliwości (nagrodzona Prix Goncourt), a także reżyser filmu na podstawie pierwszej, za który otrzymał w 2004 r. Prix du Regard vers l’Avenir na Festiwalu Filmowym w Cannes. Atiq Rahimi przez wiele lat mieszkał poza Afganistanem, początkowo w Pakistanie, następnie we Francji; do ojczyzny powrócił wkrótce po upadku reżymu Talibów, w 2002 r. Chociaż jako pisarz debiutował późno, bo dopiero pod koniec lat 90., to swoimi utworami wpisał się w historię najnowszej literatury afgańskiej. W 2011 r. ukazała się jego najnowsza powieść w języku francuskim – Maudit soit Dostoïevski (Niech będzie przeklęty Dostojewski!). Zgodnie z sugestią zawartą w tytule, powieść Atiqa Rahimiego wchodzi w dialog z tym XIX-wiecznym rosyjskim pisarzem. Raskolnikow zostaje Rasulem, Sonia – Sofią, Porfiry – kabulskimi policjantami, lichwiarka – stręczycielka/sutenerką. Atiq Rahimi uważa, że Zbrodnię i karę należy czytać właśnie w Afganistanie. Tezę swoją podpiera słowami Raskolnikowa, że jeśli Bóg nie istnieje, wszystko jest dozwolone. Przecież w dzisiejszym Afganistanie wiele jest dozwolone, a kraj, zdaniem wielu socjologów, jest przykładem kultury kałasznikowa, w której broń stanowi podstawowy (i często jedyny) środek rozwiązywania sporów, nawiązywania kontaktów i normowania relacji społecznych. Literacki dialog między oboma pisarzami jest tym ciekawszy, że, jak pisze Aliewtina S. Gierasimowa, współczesny Afganistan boryka się z poważnym drenażem kultury wywołanym masowym uchodźstwem rodzimej inteligencji. Wydaje się, że dobór partnera do dyskusji o palących problemach współczesnych Afgańczyków w postaci Fiodora M. Dostojewskiego jest najlepszym z możliwych
Does estrogen deficiency cause lacrimal gland inflammation and aqueous-deficient dry eye in mice?
No full textAbstract not availableRaheleh Rahimi Darabad, Tomo Suzuki, Stephen M. Richards, Frederick A. Jakobiec, Fouad R. Zakka, Stefano Barabino, David A. Sulliva
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Fuss (Parsley): An Updated Review of the Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology
No full text: Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Fuss (parsley) is a popular medicinal plant widely used in different traditional medicines all over the world. This paper provides an updated review on the traditional use, phytochemistry, and pharmacological activities of parsley. Parsley contains volatile compounds such as terpenes and terpenoids in the essential oil, as well as phenolic compounds in the plant extract. Parsley is traditionally used as a diuretic, liver and stomach tonic, and for urolithiasis and indigestion. Pharmacological investigations also confirm several biological activities of parsley including hepatoprotective, nephroprotective, antiurolithiatic, neuroprotective, cardioprotective, and antineoplastic effects in animal and cell-based studies. Parsley has currently demonstrated several pharmacological activities in preclinical studies; however, there is a big lack in clinical evidence. Considering parsley as a possible valuable medicinal food, future clinical trials are recommended to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of the plant in different health conditions
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Procedure hopping: a low overhead solution to mitigate variability in shared-L1 processor clusters
No full textVariation in performance and power across manufactured parts and their operating conditions is a well-known issue in advanced CMOS processes. This paper proposes a resilient HW/SW archi-tecture for shared-L1 processor clusters to combat both static and dynamic variations. We first introduce the notion of procedure-level vulnerability (PLV) to expose fast dynamic voltage variation and its effects to the software stack for use in runtime compensa-tion. To assess PLV, we quantify the effect of full operating con-ditions on the dynamic voltage variation of a post-layout proces-sor in 45nm TSMC technology. Based on our analysis, PLV shows a range of 18mV−63mV inter-corner variation among the maximum voltage droop of procedures. To exploit this variation we propose a low-cost procedure hopping technique within the processor clusters, utilizing compile time characterized metadata related to PLV. Our results show that procedure hopping avoids critical voltage droops during the execution of all procedures while incurring less than 1% latency penalty
Pax Mongolica and its Impact on Patterns of Governance
No full textStoria del periodo mongolo e post-mongol
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