Religious Ideas and Social Action in Gurage Bond-Friendship

Africa ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Shack
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
And Function

Opening ParagraphInstitutions of bond-friendship as a form of voluntary association exist in many societies and, when viewed cross-tribally, they show considerable variation both in form and function.1 Even so, variations in the order of bond-friendship associations seem related to a common theme: namely, that there is an exchange of goods and/or services between parties to a ritual covenant that is reinforced by supernatural sanctions; and that protestations of mutual goodwill, together with calling for imprecations of evil to befall the individual who breaks the agreement, are elements which bind the covenant.

Taking a stance and getting on with it: the form and function of the Finnish finite clausal extraposition construction

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritva Laury
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Sequential Design ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ordinary Conversation ◽  
And Function

AbstractThis paper concerns a particular grammatical construction, extraposition, and its use for assessments at points of transition between activities and topics by speakers of Finnish in ordinary conversation. A basic assumption taken here is that “recurrent clausal constructions of a language are social action formats for that language” (Thompson 2006), and that grammatical constructions such as clause types are learned and therefore routinized responses to certain types of interactional contingencies, and, at the same time, emergent from the current local context (Hopper 1987; Helasvuo 2001).The paper combines the two central perspectives developed in this issue, sequential design and dialogicality, with the study of grammar-in-interaction. It shows that the grammatical form of the Finnish extraposition construction emerges from its use by speakers for the creation of intersubjectivity through reproduction of prior talk and for the projection of stance taking to follow.

scholarly journals Transporter oligomerization: form and function

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1737-1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilmaz Alguel ◽  
Alexander D. Cameron ◽  
George Diallinas ◽  
Bernadette Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Aspergillus Nidulans ◽  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Transport Protein ◽  
Integral Membrane Proteins ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Protein Oligomerization ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function

Transporters are integral membrane proteins with central roles in the efficient movement of molecules across biological membranes. Many transporters exist as oligomers in the membrane. Depending on the individual transport protein, oligomerization can have roles in membrane trafficking, function, regulation and turnover. For example, our recent studies on UapA, a nucleobase ascorbate transporter, from Aspergillus nidulans, have revealed both that dimerization of this protein is essential for correct trafficking to the membrane and the structural basis of how one UapA protomer can affect the function of the closely associated adjacent protomer. Here, we review the roles of oligomerization in many particularly well-studied transporters and transporter families.

Product Resynthesis: Knowledge Discovery of the Value of End-of-Life Assemblies and Subassemblies

2013 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Woo Kang ◽  
Chinmay Sane ◽  
Nitish Vasudevan ◽  
Conrad S. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Integer Linear Model ◽  
Enterprise Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Multiple Domains

The trends of increasing waste and comparatively low growth of waste treatment methodologies have created the need for better utilization of the products we deem unfit for use. The options available for utilizing end-of-life (EOL) products are currently restricted to reusing, recycling, remanufacturing, and permanent disposal. In this work, the authors propose a new EOL option called resynthesis that utilizes existing waste from EOL products in a novel way through the synthesis of assemblies/subassemblies across multiple domains (i.e., consumer electronics, health care, automotive, etc.). The resynthesis of assemblies/subassemblies is achieved by quantifying their similarities (form and function) across multiple domains. A mixed-integer linear model is developed to determine the optimal EOL strategy for each component/subassembly. As a means of verifying the EOL decision, the value of the “new” resynthesized product is compared with the value that would be derived if the individual subassemblies were reused, remanufactured, recycled, or disposed. A case study involving an electronic mouse is used to validate the proposed methodology and to demonstrate its practicality as an alternate enterprise level EOL option.

scholarly journals Restoration of a Traumatically Amputated Finger by a Traditional Glove-Type Prosthesis: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Simarpreet Kaur ◽  
Mandeep Kaur ◽  
Anupama Verma ◽  
Tarun Singh
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Index Finger ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Microvascular Reconstruction ◽  
Prosthetic Rehabilitation ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function

Background: Each organ serves a specific function in the human body. Congenital absence or loss of even minor parts of it can pose extreme psychological trauma in addition to the functional impairment and esthetic issues encountered by the individual. Amputation of complete or a part of phalange of hand is frequently encountered either due to trauma or necrosis. Restoration of such defects become mandatory to improve general form and function combined with the esthetic requirements of the patient. It can either be done by microvascular reconstruction or prosthetic rehabilitation. The latter becomes the means of choice in cases where the former is either not possible, unavailable, unsuccessful, or unaffordable. Case Report: A case report has been presented of a 60 years old patient with an old traumatic partially amputated index finger. Treatment Plan: A custom-made glove-type prosthesis was fabricated using silicone elastomer. Conclusion: A ring is provided for better esthetics and special adhesive is recommended for retention of the prosthesis. 

Anuak Village Headmen

Africa ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Godfrey Lienhardt
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
And Function

Opening ParagraphThe specific form and function of many Anuak customs connected with competition and prestige, some of which I briefly described in the first part of this study, are to be interpreted in relation to the political structure of Anuak villages; and this I now describe, first in general outline, and later in more detail with reference to a particular village

Emerson’s Operative Mood

Xenocitizens ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 33-57
Author(s):  
Jason Berger
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Universal Reason

This chapter reexamines Ralph Waldo Emerson’s early thinking about the relation of the individual to universal Reason, revealing that Emerson’s writing is philosophically consistent in its insistence that the human self is “operative” in form and function. Shifting our conceptual perspective from a traditional Matthiessenian notion of an “optative mood” to something of a Badiouian “operative mood” opens up new ways to consider how, across the early works, the Emersonian self is shaped by interactions with an impersonal Other as well as the ways these interactions influence the self’s relation to historical landscapes. Intervening in scholarship on Emersonian personhood by scholars such as Sharon Cameron, Branka Arsić, and Donald Pease, this chapter offers an original version of Emerson’s political vision, one that finds in his theory of “religious sentiment” a model for the self that may reframe all of Emerson’s corpus.

scholarly journals The church and the secular: The effect of the post-secular on Christianity

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco Beyers
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Era ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Paradigms determine relationships. During the Enlightenment period Emile Durkheim proposed a relationship between the sacred and the profane. Religion, which is concerned with the sacred, was defined in terms of being different from the profane. The profane came to denote the secular. The organic character of religion caused some scholars to predict the end of the church at the hand of modernisation and rationalisation. Some scholars instead envisaged a new form and function of the church. Some scholars anticipated the growth of Christianity. Reality shows that Christianity has not died out but seems to be growing. The new era we are currently in (identified as the postmodern) has been described as the post-secular age where a process of re-sacralisation takes place. How will the post-secular influence the church? What will the relationship between the church and the secular be like under a new paradigm? This article suggests that within a postmodern paradigm, the post-secular will emphasise the place of the individual in the church. Fragmentation of society will also be the result of the post-secular. Religiosity in future will have to contend with fundamentalism and civil religion.

scholarly journals The People and the Poster: Theorizing the Soviet Viewer, 1920–1931

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 717-737
Author(s):  
Mollie Arbuthnot
Keyword(s):  
Political Art ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
The People ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between political posters and their intended viewers was the focus of numerous texts in the 1920s; this article analyzes the ways in which Soviet theorists sought to understand this relationship. They operated in an intellectual context that tried to conceive the modern subject as an active consumer and co-creator, rather than a passive audience. Their study of the contexts of viewing, of display practices and of the role of the viewer as an active participant in the creation of meaning, caused concern about the risk of misunderstandings and led to calls for images to address specific audiences with greater clarity. Many imagined that audiences and producers of images were in dialogue with one another, negotiating over the content, form, and function of political art. The image would thus mediate the relationship between individual and state, integrating political messages into everyday life, and aiming to integrate the individual into the process and practice of propaganda.

scholarly journals ROZWIJANIE ROZUMIENIA PUBLICYSTYCZNYCH AUDYCJI RADIOWYCH: SPECYFIKA ETAPU POPRZEDZAJĄCEGO SŁUCHANIE

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Joanna Górecka ◽  
Bernadeta Wojciechowska
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Comprehension Process ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Communicative Actions ◽  
Radio Programs ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

The paper focuses on the development of the listening comprehension of advanced students of French as a foreign language and concerns current affairs radio programs. It presents the main conclusions discussed with reference to one of the problems researched within a larger academic project conducted from 2010 to 2013. The aim of the paper is to determine some essential principles that should guide the development of questions in the pre-listening stage so that, during the subsequent while-listening stage, they could foster the individual comprehension process. The conclusions emphasize the relationship between the form and function of these pre-listening stage questions and the quality of cognitive and communicative actions performed by the listeners.

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