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Religiosity And Democratization: Toward Finding A Causal Linkage In Muslim Countries, Mohammad Al-Momani, Khalid Aladwan٭

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

This is an empirical statistical study of the effect of the degree of religiosity on the degree of democratization among selected Muslim countries. The major objective of this research is to explore the causation or correlation between religion and democracy across Muslim societies. This study is important given the vast scientific disagreement among researches regarding variables under study. Religiosity seems not to have significant impact and correlation on democracy as our research found. We also found that on average and for some indicators of religiosity, countries with various degrees of religiosity tend to have approximately same degrees of democratization. We …

A Stylistic Analysis Of Adrienne Rich's "Planetarium" And "Power", Malek Zuraikat, Ekab Al-Shawashreh, Shrooq Awamleh

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

Adrienne Rich utilizes free verse to surprise her readers by covering the intertwined relationship between politics and society, which results in encapsulating everyday practices in most of her poems. She tries to articulate the depressed voice of women, thus making this group noticeable by people. The study discusses Rich's poems "Planetarium" and "Power", focusing on pronouns, spacing, enjambment, and diction. It explains how the change in pronouns, for instnace, serves the theme of uniting women's experience of oppression and resistance and how the enjambment and the choice of diction are used to add emphasis on women's suffering and their consequent …

Theorising From The Land: House Or Tipi Of Ir?, Justin De Leon

Ethnic Studies Faculty Articles and Research

In 2004, Anna Agathangelou and L.H.M. Ling wrote their important intervention, entitled ‘The House of IR: From Family Power Politics to the Poises of Worldism,’ that ordered various theories of International Relations within an analogy of a colonial household, calling instead for a Worldism that builds communities based on interests and support. One glaring omission from this analysis, however, is mention of indigeneity. Increasingly, in North America, the experiences of Indigenous peoples are shaping national imaginations and popular political discourses – take for instance Idle No More, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Standing Rock, and Mauna Kea, to …

Imperfect Digital Certificates Of Provenance: A Categorical Risk Based Approach To Non-Fungible Tokens (Nfts), Christopher Hugh Mao

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Usa V. Michael Heinrich

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

In Re: Keith Knight

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Fernando Real V. Thomas Grenevich

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Eastlyn Igwemadu V. Usa

2023 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

The Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village Tenants' Association V. Bpp St Owner Llc

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

The Intertwining Of Zn-Finger Motifs And Abiotic Stress Tolerance In Plants: Current Status And Future Prospects, Debojyoti Moulick, Karma Landup Bhutia, Sukamal Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Udit Nandan Mishra, Biswajit Pramanick, Sagar Maitra, Tanmoy Shankar, Swati Hazra, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic, Viliam Barek, Akbar Hossain

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Environmental stresses such as drought, high salinity, and low temperature can adversely modulate the field crop’s ability by altering the morphological, physiological, and biochemical processes of the plants. It is estimated that about 50% + of the productivity of several crops is limited due to various types of abiotic stresses either presence alone or in combination (s). However, there are two ways plants can survive against these abiotic stresses; a) through management practices and b) through adaptive mechanisms to tolerate plants. These adaptive mechanisms of tolerant plants are mostly linked to their signalling transduction pathway, triggering the action of plant …

A Proposal: The Role Of Federation Of Asian Bishops' Conferences For An Asian Peace Community, Hyunju Shim

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

FABC emphasizes triple dialogue with the poor, Asian cultures and religions, as a way to evangelize Asia. These dialogues can greatly contribute to the creation of a peaceful community in Asia. The Asian Peace Community is a project to create a new Asia, that hasn't been done yet. First, in order to develop effective pastoral activities within the church, the vast region operates in several small centers. Second, when Asian countries speak of a political, security and economic community, the church should refer to the human rights community. Human rights are the ultimate goal of peace. Therefore, we need to …

Indigenous Communities In Distress: Religious Deluge And Church Deflection In Solomon Islands, David Welchman Gegeo

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

The five pillars of Christianity in Solomon Islands since the 1800s are: the Anglican Church of Melanesian, Catholic Church, South-seas Evangelical Church, Methodist Church and the Seventh Day Adventist Church (hereafter “the Church”). Despite differences in institutional structure and dogma, the five pillars coexisted well which started to unhinge following Solomon Islands independence in 1978 when rural and urban squatters' communities were deluged by new opportunistic churches and religious sects from overseas. The deluge triggered church deflection in which large communities abandoned the Church and joined the new brands of Christianity and religious sects causing interdenominational animosity and cultural and …

The Obligation Of The Bishop To Implement The Requirements Of Justice Regarding The Abuse Of Minors And Vulnerable By Clerics In His Diocese, Nchumbonga George Lekelefac

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

The diocesan bishop has the irrevocable canonical responsibility, obligation and commitment in implementing the requirements of justice regarding the abuse of minors and the vulnerable by clerics in his diocese. Two years after the first edition, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a second version of the “Vademecum on Certain Points of Procedure in Treating Cases of Sexual Abuse of Minors Committed by Clerics” on 27 June 2022. The aforementioned Dicastery announced in a statement that the new version will build upon the 2020 Vademecum developed by the Dicastery to assist bishops, or any person in authority, …

Beyond All Drought: Improving Urban Water Conservation In The West Through Integrative Water And Land Use Policy, Benjamin Longbottom, Alexandria Gordon

Natural Resources Journal

Although droughts have long plagued the western United States, rapid population growth and climate change are making the American West increasingly water insecure. In some western states, including Arizona, Colorado, and California, decisionmakers are responding to these changes with innovative water conservation-focused land use policies. In other states, however, water and land use policies are lagging decades behind. Improving water security in western cities is an enormous task, requiring extensive social, legal, and policy reform. Additional federal funding for western water security initiatives could do much to drive that reform, but state and local governments should also play a leading …

A Flexible Pressure Sensor With Highly Customizable Sensitivity And Linearity Via Positive Design Of Microhierarchical Structures With A Hyperelastic Model, Zhenjin Xu, Dezhi Wu, Zhiwen Chen, Zhongbao Wang, Cong Cao, Xiangyu Shao, Gang Zhou, Shaohua Zhang, Lingyun Wang, Daoheng Sun

Publications

The tactile pressure sensor is of great significance in flexible electronics, but sensitivity customization over the required working range with high linearity still remains a critical challenge. Despite numerous efforts to achieve high sensitivity and a wide working range, most sensitive microstructures tend to be obtained only by inverting naturally existing templates without rational design based on fundamental contact principles or models for piezoresistive pressure sensors. Here, a positive design strategy with a hyperelastic model and a Hertzian contact model for comparison was proposed to develop a flexible pressure sensor with highly customizable linear sensitivity and linearity, in which the …

E-Skills Scarcity And The Digital Records Management Landscape In Zimbabwe, Samson Mutsagondo, Njabulo Bruce Khumalo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the adoption of electronic government in Zimbabwe in 2011, more and more government records are now generated, received, used, maintained, preserved and disposed in electronic form. Use of electronic mail records, word-processed documents, audio-visual records and social media records as official government records is now commonplace. This calls for the mobilisation and hiring of records and information managers with requisite electronic skills to manage such records. This article used the theoretical frameworks of the innovation diffusion theory and the skills theory to show the unprecedent rise in use of digital records as well as the importance in acquisition of …

Notch Blockade Specifically In Bone Marrow-Derived Fsp-1-Positive Cells Ameliorates Renal Fibrosis, Yongdong Wu, Ming Liang, Fengzhang Huang, Owen H Cheng, Xiaoguang Xiao, Tae Hoon Lee, Luan Truong, Jizhong Cheng

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: The infiltration of inflammatory cells during a kidney injury stimulates myofibroblast activation leading to kidney fibrosis. Fibroblast-specific protein 1 (FSP-1) positive cells have been reported as either myofibroblasts or monocytes during tissue fibrosis. The functions of FSP-1+ cells that are associated with the development of renal fibrosis and the signaling pathways that regulate FSP-1+ cell activation have not been well defined. Methods: In mice with unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO), we characterized FSP-1+ cells and determined the role of the Notch signaling pathway in the activation of bone marrow-derived FSP-1+ cells during kidney fibrosis. Results: In kidneys from mice with …

Global Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Complex Cuticle Organization Of The Tribolium Compound Eye, Qing Chen, Arun Kirshna Sasikala-Appukuttan, Zahabiya Husain, Anura Shrivastava, Marla Spain, Edward D Sendler, Bryce Daines, Stefan Fischer, Rui Chen, Tiffany A Cook, Markus Friedrich

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum is a resource-rich model for genomic and developmental studies. To extend previous studies on Tribolium eye development, we produced transcriptomes for normal-eyed and eye-depleted heads of pupae and adults to identify differentially transcript-enriched (DE) genes in the visual system. Unexpectedly, cuticle-related genes were the largest functional class in the pupal compound eye DE gene population, indicating differential enrichment in three distinct cuticle components: clear lens facet cuticle, highly melanized cuticle of the ocular diaphragm, which surrounds the Tribolium compound eye for internal fortification, and newly identified facet margins of the tanned cuticle, possibly enhancing …

Treatment Strategies And Mechanisms Associated With The Prevention Of Nash-Associated Hcc By A Toll-Like Receptor 4 Inhibitor, Suet-Ying Kwan, Alyssa N Slayden, Aubrey R Coronado, Rosamaria C Marquez, Huiqin Chen, Peng Wei, Michelle I Savage, Lana A Vornik, Jennifer T Fox, Shizuko Sei, Dong Liang, Heather L Stevenson, Gregory K Wilkerson, Mihai Gagea, Powel H Brown, Laura Beretta

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

UNLABELLED: We evaluated the cancer preventive efficacy of TAK-242, an inhibitor of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), in a mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurring in the context of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). We also assessed the cellular events associated with the preventive treatment efficacy. We tested oral administration of TAK-242, at clinically relevant but toxicity-reducing doses and scheduling, in mice with hepatocyte-specific deletion of Pten (HepPten-). The optimal dose and oral gavage formulation of TAK-242 were determined to be 30 mg/kg in 5% DMSO in 30% 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin. Daily oral administration of 30 mg/kg TAK-242 over 18 weeks was well tolerated …

Role Of Social Network On Technology Adoption: Application To Nebraska Producers In The Face Of Undesirable Vegetation Transitions, Sabrina Gulab, Holly K. Nesbitt, Simanti Banerjee, Theresa Floyd, Karina A. Schoengold

Cornhusker Economics

Conclusion

Producers need to have access to information regarding new conservation practices and technologies to ensure land management in the face of ecological threats in general and vegetation transitions (VTs) in the context of our study. This study investigates the role of an individual producer's social network on the willingness to seek information about technologies and management practices and the likelihood of new technology adoption with special attention to risk attitudes and producer spillover effects. Our results provide evidence that network composition and information obtained through a producer's social network don't influence an individual's willingness to seek information about new …

Walker V. New York City Dept. Of Hous. Preserv. & Dev.

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Individual Differences In Naturalistic Learning Link Negative Emotionality To The Development Of Anxiety, William J Villano, Noah I Kraus, Travis R Reneau, Brittany A Jaso, A Ross Otto, Aaron S Heller

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Organisms learn from prediction errors (PEs) to predict the future. Laboratory studies using small financial outcomes find that humans use PEs to update expectations and link individual differences in PE-based learning to internalizing disorders. Because of the low-stakes outcomes in most tasks, it is unclear whether PE learning emerges in naturalistic, high-stakes contexts and whether individual differences in PE learning predict psychopathology risk. Using experience sampling to assess 625 college students' expected exam grades, we found evidence of PE-based learning and a general tendency to discount negative PEs, an "optimism bias." However, individuals with elevated negative emotionality, a personality trait …

Penanganan Situs Internet Bermuatan Negatif Menurut Undang Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 Dan Peraturan Menteri Komunikasi Dan Informasi Nomor 19 Tahun 2014, Muhammad Farhansyah Hamid

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

This paper discuss about the concept of a internet sites that is defined to be negative and how’s the Indonesian law regulates it, and about the mechanism of negative site handling based of peraturan menteri komunikasi dan informasi nomor 19 tahun 2014. Furthermore, it will be discussed about the human rights to have access to the information and how negative content handling related to it. This legal research uses normative juridical approach with secondary data from national, regulations, books, and interview with sources. The result of this research is that content handling is so related to limitation of human rights …

Tugas Dan Wewenang Lembaga Manajemen Kolektif Nasional Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Hak Cipta, Muhammad Faisal

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Copyright Law No. 28 Year 2014 is bringing hope for the Creator, Copyright Owner, and Related Right Owner because this law regulated about National Collective Management Organization and Collective Management Organization where with those organizations the process of collecting and distributing the Royalti is hoped to be better where finally the Creator, Copyright Owner, and Related Right Owner do not have to think over about their economical right (royalty) and they can more focus on their new works. This writing is discussing the task and authority of the National Collective Management Organization and Collective Management Organization, how to form a …

Pembaharuan Hukum Atas Hak Cipta Di Indonesia, Lucky Adhandani

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Copyright in this era of globalization is an important commodity for international trade, but violation in copyright in Indonesia still very high, for the good legal guarantees for copyright holders and related rights holders, this legal reform is a matter the important thing is to be able to explain legal reform, The author in this case takes a review of sociological jurisprudence as a basis for researching legal reform. With interdisciplinary research methods, the sociological jurisprudence sees law not merely as a normative phenomenon but at the same time normative and sociological phenomena, because the reality of law in society …

Perlindungan Hukum Bagi Investor Dalam Pelaksanaan Transaksi Saham Dengan Sistem Perdagangan Online Trading, Indira Pratiwi

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

This paper analyzes the mechanism of transactions with online trading systems and protection of investors in online trading transactions, specifically in stock trading. The growth of online trading shows us a method of stock trading that is suitable in the technology development era where technology is used as a vital point for financial transactions. Legal protection of investors in the implementation of online trading systems, specifically in stock trading has been regulated in some regulations but still not comprehensive. In addition to the OJK Law which regulates the protection of investors in a preventive and repressive manner, the Capital Market …

Komparasi Pengalihan Objek Jaminan Fidusia Dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 42 Tahun 1999 Tentang Jaminan Fidusia Dan Fatwa Dsn-Mui Nomor 68/Dsn-Mui/Iii/2008, Ibnu Iyadh

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Fiduciary institutions were born with the background of fulfilling the increasing and developing needs of the community and the many shortcomings of institutions that were previously the only institutions in fulfilling the needs of the community. which results in a person being unable to continue paying their debts, so that a debt transfer is carried out, among others, namely after paying a down payment of two or three installments in the first month, the debtor is not willing to pay the remaining installments on the grounds that he only wants to experience new goods and, due to frequent defaults committed …

Kewenangan Inspektorat Jenderal Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, Dan Teknologi Dalam Melakukan Pengawasan Intern Terhadap Pengelolaan Dana Bantuan Pemerintah, Handoyo Priyadi

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

One of the goals of the state as stated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia is to educate the life of the nation. In the context of achieving the goals of the state, there are various programs in the field of education and culture which are implemented in various ways and mechanisms, one of which is through the government assistance mechanism allocated to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. In order to ensure that the implementation of the program with the government assistance mechanism can run well in accordance with the predetermined …

Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Virtual Model (Cad Files) Untuk 3d Printing Ditinjau Dari Perspektif Hak Cipta Dan Tentang Desain Industri, Gusti Karina Saraswati

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

The existence of 3D Printing and CAD Files has great potential to conflict with the protection of intellectual property rights, especially copyright and industrial design. It is undeniable that in the future this technology will flourish in Indonesia. 3D Printing can change the market ecosystem where people are not selling products but selling virtual models (CAD Files). This ecosystem will have an impact on designers and companies, so they will try to protect their CAD Files from modification and copying by other parties. The legal problem of this research is to answer the question of the form of protection for …

Perbandingan Bentuk Hukum Perusahaan Perseroan Negara Indonesia Dan Brunei Darussalam, Gilang Prabowo

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

Limited Liability Company is a legal entity established under an agreement, carrying out business activities with authorized capital which is entirely divided into shares and fulfills the requirements stipulated in the law of limited liability companies and their implementing regulations. Research with a normative juridical approach that is descriptive begins with the regulation of limited liability companies, establishment, and organs contained in limited liability companies in Indonesia and comparison with the state of Brunei Darussalam. The purpose of this paper is to make Comparative Regulations governing the Indonesian state-owned companies with Brunei Darussalam.

Keywords: company; limited company; regulation; Indonesia; …