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For Self, Community, and the Environment: An Ethnographic Study of the Rural Women’s Movement of Nagar Valley, Pakistan
No full text© 2025 Rashid Ali HaideriThe thesis is an ethnography of a rural women’s movement in Nagar Valley, Pakistan, exploring its emergence, modalities, and impact based on 10 months of fieldwork. I argue that local women activists have responded to social and ecological concerns and have sought to refashion themselves and their community, reconfiguring the traditional social order and renegotiating gender complementarity. In doing so, they are forwarding an ‘alternative to development’, conceptualised as ‘politics of care’, based on their deeply communal, religious, and environmental ethos
Collocational competence among Malaysian university students and their sources of errors / Farrah Diebaa Rashid Ali
Get PDFThis study investigated Malaysian ESL learners’ level of collocational competence and the source of their collocational errors. The subjects were 30 students from a local university in Malaysia. The research instrument was a Self-Completion Test (SCT) adopted from Huang (2001) that deliberates students’ knowledge of four types of lexical collocations: free combinations, restricted collocations, and figurative and pure idioms. The result showed that those participants could answer the questions from free combination category better than other categories because that category is the easiest category among all. On the other hand, the most difficult and challenging category is found to be the pure idioms category. For restricted collocations and figurative idioms, the respondents performed quite equally well in these both categories. Overall, the deviant answers given by respondents signified that Malaysian ESL learners are having inadequate knowledge of English collocations
Germany, Great Britain and the Rashid Ali al-Kilani Revolt of Spring 1941
Get PDFThere are few events in the history of humankind which have been more compelling than the Second World War (1939-1945). Unfortunately, most of what transpired during this period of history stands obscured by events such as D-Day, Kursk, and Midway, all happenings which popular history has been more than happy to dwell upon.
This study\u27s intent is to, with the use of primary materials, analyze one of the more obscured happenings of the Second World War, the Rashid Ali al-Kilani Revolt of April and May 1941. Central to this work is an assessment of the policy responses of both Great Britain and Germany to the Baghdad-based revolt. It also seeks to answer the following question: why did Great Britain approach the coup with great urgency, while Germany, for the most part, paid it very little attention?
In the case of Great Britain, its traditional power position in the Middle East, and possession of both the Suez Canal and extensive oil stocks, was challenged by Axis activity in north Africa, the Balkans and Crete. The Iraqi coup simply exacerbated the British problem. London\u27s fears were valid and its successful response reflected as much.
For Germany and its leader Adolf Hitler, ideological concerns took precedence over a Middle Eastern campaign. A Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, an event which, by design, would destroy Slavism, Bolshevism, and much of world Jewry, plus gain greater Germany living space, was primary to Hitler\u27s thinking in the spring of 1941. Furthermore, the Fuehrer\u27s desire for an Anglo-German understanding seems to have influenced his attitude in regards to the coup.
Conclusions are also drawn that the policy paths chosen by each European player during the coup were met with dissension. In Great Britain\u27s case, Middle Eastern Commander-in-Chief Archibald Wavell felt that aggressive British action in Iraq might antagonize Arab nationalism. For Germany, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was a major advocate of an anti-British strategy and corresponding Nazi activity in Iraq. The Rashid Ali coup represented the last opportunity for Ribbentrop, prior to Barbarossa, to expose the great vulnerability of the British Empire. From this, proffered is the theory that Ribbentrop, through an exploitation of the Iraq coup, was perhaps attempting to dissuade Hitler from an invasion of the Soviet Union
Nationalism in Iraq 1936-1941: Rashid Ali and foreign involvement
No full textThe present work is a study of the background to the Rashid Ali movement of 1941, and the influence of Arab nationalism, as well as the British, French, and Axis involvement in the events leading up to 1941. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the pan-Arab nationalists in Iraq during the war years on the one hand, and Britain and the Axis Powers, on the other. Because it is intended mainly to examine the strategies and policies of Britain, Germany and Italy in relation to a particular area, this thesis is not concerned with the details of military operations - whether in Europe, the Western Desert, or in Iraq itself - except where they are immediately relevant to the subject under examination. This thesis sets out to discus_s four major issues: Firstly, the repercussions of the developments brought about by the complex and often ambiguous clauses of the post-World War I peace settlements, and their impact on the Arab Middle East, the Arab national movement, and on the machinery of government in Iraq, Britain granted independence to Iraq in 1932, but it was an independence hedged with a binding treaty which virtually preserved British interests in an area which traditionally was her "sphere of influence". This unnatural status not only gave rise to a revival of nationalist feelings, but in fact encouraged corrupt politicians to involve the army in politics. A second issue to be investigated is the struggle between the nationalist and the moderate elements over the course, or policy, the country should pursue vis-a-vis Iraq's commitments with Britain. This period is best characterized by the recurrence of the coup d'etat as a determining factor in government changes. The third issue is the Iraqi nationalist reaction to the division of Europe into two warring blocs, and Hitler's impressive victories. It also concerns the Axis overtures and propaganda efforts to woo the Arabs in order to undermine Britain's position and prestige in the Arab Middle East. The final issue to be analysed is the series of Axis-Iraqi initiatives to pave the way for a mutually profitable collaboration. However, there were several obstacles to be surmounted, such as Germany's Italian and Vichy considerations, Hitler's own disinclination to be involved in an Arab venture, and his pessimism regarding a successful outcome of such an alliance. Furthermore, Churchill was zealously determined both to offset and prevent a German penetration into the Middle East, and to nip Rashid Ali's open confrontation in the bud
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
SUPPLEMENTARY_FILE_Pt_Ex - A Framework for Improving Parent Satisfaction With the Inpatient Pediatric Admission Process: Experience From a Low-Resource Setting
No full textSUPPLEMENTARY_FILE_Pt_Ex for A Framework for Improving Parent Satisfaction With the Inpatient Pediatric Admission Process: Experience From a Low-Resource Setting by Zahra Hoodbhoy, Muneera A Rasheed, Farheen Sherali, Sehrish Hussain, Rahmat Hassan, Aneela Hameed, Rashid Ali and Babar Hasan in Journal of Patient Experience</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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