scholarly journals Riot and revenge

2017 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Kenta McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Structural Equilibrium ◽  
A Minor

Abe Forsythe's Down Under (2016) is the first narrative feature film about the Cronulla riots, the infamous event on 11 December 2005 where over 5000 white Australians, responding to a minor local incident, descended on Cronulla Beach in Sydney and proceeded to harass, chase and bash anybody who they perceived to be of Middle Eastern appearance. In the following nights, a series of violent retaliatory attacks took place, as community leaders called for calm. Suvendrini Perera identifies how a symmetrical narrative had emerged in the wake of the riot and its aftermath, whereby Cronulla Beach "comes to stand for a paired sequence of events, the riot and the revenge, in a fable of equivalence in which two misguided groups . . . mirror each other's ignorance and prejudices". This article considers how Down Under reinforces the distortive implications of this "riot and revenge" narrative by maintaining a structural equilibrium, through the rigorous balancing of its narrative and characters, and formally, via its soundtrack, cinematography and editing patterns. In so doing, and despite its antiracist sentiments, the film ultimately dilutes the issue of race and obscures the power imbalances that informed the riot, and which continue to this day

scholarly journals Prion Protein Folding Mechanism Revealed by Pulling Force Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Kriegler ◽  
Sven Lang ◽  
Luigi Notari ◽  
Tara Hessa
Keyword(s):  
Prion Protein ◽  
Signal Sequence ◽  
Specific Sequence ◽  
Intrinsically Disordered ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Complex Protein ◽  
Nascent Chain ◽  
Mature Domain ◽  
Pulling Force ◽  
A Minor

AbstractThe mammalian prion protein (PrP) engages with the ribosome-Sec61 translocation channel complex to generate different topological variants that are either physiological, or involved in neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we describe cotranslational folding and translocation mechanisms of PrP coupled to a Xbp1-based arrest peptide (AP) as folding sensor, to measure forces acting on PrP nascent chain. Our data reveal two main pulling events followed by a minor third one exerted on the nascent chains during their translocation.Using those force landscapes, we show that a specific sequence within an intrinsically disordered region, containing a polybasic and glycine-proline rich residues, modulates the second pulling event by interacting with TRAP complex. This work also delineates the sequence of events involved in generation of PrP toxic transmembrane topologies during its synthesis. Our results shed new insight into the folding of such topological complex protein, where marginal pulling by the signal sequence, together with the downstream sequence in the mature domain, primarily drives an overall inefficient translocation resulting in the nascent chain to adopt other topologies.

scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis of Test Input Generation Tools for Android Apps through a Sequence of Events

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1894
Author(s):  
Husam N. Yasin ◽  
Siti Hafizah Ab Hamid ◽  
Raja Jamilah Raja Yusof ◽  
Muzaffar Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Computational Cost ◽  
Sequence Length ◽  
Code Coverage ◽  
Android Apps ◽  
Gui Testing ◽  
Test Input ◽  
Testing Tools ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Current State ◽  
A Minor

Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing of Android apps has gained considerable interest from the industries and research community due to its excellent capability to verify the operational requirements of GUI components. To date, most of the existing GUI testing tools for Android apps are capable of generating test inputs by using different approaches and improve the Android apps’ code coverage and fault detection performance. Many previous studies have evaluated the code coverage and crash detection performances of GUI testing tools in the literature. However, very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of the test input generation tools, especially in the events sequence length of the overall test coverage and crash detection. The event sequence length generally shows the number of steps required by the test input generation tools to detect a crash. It is critical to highlight its effectiveness due to its significant effects on time, testing effort, and computational cost. Thus, this study evaluated the effectiveness of six test input generation tools for Android apps that support the system events generation on 50 Android apps. The generation tools were evaluated and compared based on the activity coverage, method coverage, and capability in detecting crashes. Through a critical analysis of the results, this study identifies the diversity and similarity of test input generation tools for Android apps to provide a clear picture of the current state of the art. The results revealed that a long events sequence performed better than a shorter events sequence. However, a long events sequence led to a minor positive effect on the coverage and crash detection. Moreover, the study showed that the tools achieved less than 40% of the method coverage and 67% of the activity coverage.

scholarly journals The formation of the Voldum salt pillow in the Danish Zechstein basin, Jutland (Denmark)

1999 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Ivan Madirazza
Keyword(s):  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Permian Basin ◽  
Salt Accumulation ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Thick Overburden ◽  
Well Data ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Zechstein Salt

On the basis of seismic and well data, supported by Bouguer gravity data, the sequence of events leading to the formation of a Zechstein salt pillow – called Voldum – in east central Jutland is discussed (the study area is delimited in Fig. 1). The initial salt movements, activated by faulting in the Triassic, resulted in the formation of a minor salt pillow on the edge of a graben within the Zechstein (Upper Permian) basin. During a renewed faulting (Voldum fault) of the base Zechstein in Late Jurassic and consequent deepening of the graben, a syncline developed above the salt where thick sediments of Late Jurassic age accumulated. In the process large quantities of salt, due to differential loading, withdrew from the graben and moved laterally up-dip across the older fault scarps. Thus a new and larger salt accumulation (Voldum pillow) formed above the southern flank of the graben. A relict Triassic thin, formed during the growth of the first pillow, remains, but no salt accumulation which could account for this thin is present. The Voldum pillow continued to grow during the Cretaceous and the Tertiary, but the speed of growth decreased considerably during post-Late Cretaceous times, although there are still large quantities of, virtually undisturbed, salt present south of the pillow in the part of the basin corresponding to the Silkeborg Gravity High. The graben area apparently underwent a mild inversion at the close of the Cretaceous. The reasons why the Voldum pillow did not develop into a diapir are considered to be a strong and thick overburden which existed at the beginning of the Voldum pillow formation, the deeply buried salt which probably acted as a deterrent to the rupture of the overburden, and the nature of the Voldum fault which, apparently, had an appreciable strike-slip component in dextral sense.

A Brief Commentary and Report on the Roundtable and Panels on Women’s Roles Held at the 1975 MESA Meeting

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fernea ◽  
Suad Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Single Element ◽  
General Behavior ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
Minor Factor ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
A Minor

Women are a single element in any society under discussion. The recent focus on Middle Eastern women as women, their roles, positions and general behavior, has been an attempt, we believe, to point out that previous western studies of the Middle East have neglected this important element. Indeed, many of the scholarly books and monographs to appear in recent years seem to have been conceived and written as though the female half of the Middle Eastern world did not exist, or if it did, was simply a minor factor with little or no bearing on the processes of the society, and thus not worthy of more than passing consideration. The reasons for this neglect have been discussed before and by now should be obvious. They need not be repeated here.

GLACIAL HISTORY OF NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO: I. THE COCHRANE–HEARST AREA

1966 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 559-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Boissonneau
Keyword(s):  
Field Studies ◽  
Glacial Lakes ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Maximum Elevation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Maximum Water ◽  
Differential Uplift ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Surficial Deposits

Surficial deposits, ice movements, and glacial lakes are described for an area of 42 000 square miles in northeastern Ontario. Field studies and air photograph interpretation suggest the following sequence of events. A major fan-shaped advance of an ice mass over the study area. This was followed by the withdrawal of the ice mass from the area and the formation of proglacial lakes. This ablation phase was followed by a minor readvance. Two phases are postulated for this 'Cochrane' readvance. Within the study area, the extent of the glacial lakes and the limits of extension of the Cochrane readvance are postulated. A maximum water plane, location, and maximum elevation of outlet and amount of differential uplift of sediments are postulated for glacial Lake Barlow–Ojibway.

The South Harris gravity anomaly

1983 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-266
Author(s):  
E. M. Durrance ◽  
P. Grainger ◽  
P. Kearey
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Anomaly ◽  
Continental Crust ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Positive Anomaly ◽  
Residual Gravity ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Residual Gravity Anomaly ◽  
Minor Anomalies ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Limited Depth

SummaryThe results of a gravity survey of South Harris show that a residual gravity anomaly of + 220 g.u. occurs towards the southeast of the anorthosite-gabbro-tonalite igneous suite, with a minor low of + 150 g.u. over the anorthosite outcrop and a minor high of + 170 g.u. over the main gabbro outcrop. The distribution of the maximum positive anomaly and the minor anomalies is interpreted as due to interbanding of gabbro and anorthosite. The tonalites do not produce a local anomaly and are interpreted as extending to only limited depth. North of the igneous suite the residual gravity anomaly falls to - 10 g.u. over a hidden granite within migmatitic gneisses. It is suggested that the igneous suite was formed when a large body of gabbroic-anorthositic magma was injected into older continental crust, causing melting and the formation of contemporaneous tonalites, with complex fractionation producing gabbro and anorthosite layering. The sequence of events is interpreted as relating to an igneous episode that was a prelude to continental rifting which predated later phases of metamorphic/orogenic activity.

scholarly journals Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid

Text Matters ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Philip Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Minor Element ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Production Team ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
A Minor

The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since that excision, the older mermaid and the scene she appeared in have been recreated by fans and the mer/sea-hag has come to comprise a minor element in contemporary online culture. The term “Merhag,” in particular, has also spread beyond the film, being taken up in fantasy fiction and being used—allusively and often pejoratively—to describe notional and actual female characters. Drawing on Mary Daly’s 1978 exploration of supressed female experiences and perspectives, this essay first examines Splash and associated texts with regard to the general figure of the hag in western culture (and with regard to negative, ageist perceptions of the ageing female), before discussing the use of “Merhag” and “Sea-Hag” as allusive pejoratives and the manner in which their negative connotations have been countered.

Survey Research among Middle Eastern Immigrant Groups in the United States: Iranians in Los Angeles

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Bozorgmehr ◽  
Georges Sabagh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
And Training

Immigration research poses special problems, but survey researchers studying immigrant groups rarely write about the problems they encounter in the design and conduct of their surveys (Hurh and Kim 1984). Three areas of particular importance are: (1) securing the approval of community leaders or persons of influence; (2) identifying adequate frames for relatively small immigrant populations, from which random samples can be selected; and (3) conducting the fieldwork, including recruiting and training interviewers fluent in immigrant languages.The main objective of this paper is to describe various stages of our recently completed survey of Iranians in Los Angeles (see Figure 1). We pay particular attention to the problems we have faced in carrying out this study, and how resolving some of them reshaped our original research design.

Sequential Plasmin Proteolysis Of The Nh2-Terminus Of The Bβ Chain Of Human Fibrinogen

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Koehn ◽  
A Hurlet-Jensen ◽  
H L Nossel ◽  
R E Canfield
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Degradation Products ◽  
Minor Component ◽  
Reverse Phase ◽  
Human Fibrinogen ◽  
Parent Molecule ◽  
Preferential Cleavage ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Normal Hemostasis ◽  
A Minor

Recent clinical data have shown that early plasmin proteolysis of human fibrinogen results in the release of fibrinopeptide B (FPB) immunoreactivity into plasma. Upon thrombin treatment this activity increases indicating that the immunoreactivity arises from larger FPB-containing peptides. The presence of degradation products from the Bβ chain may be an index of fibrinogen proteolysis not only in normal hemostasis but also in pathological disorders such as thrombosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Therefore the capability of detecting events leading to progressive plasmin degradation at the Bβ chain could be of major diagnostic and therapeutic significance. Toward this goal, we have isolated the various peptides released from human fibrinogen by plasmin proteolysis using HPLC on a reverse phase C18 column. These peptides were identified using amino acid analysis and radioimmunoassays for FPB. Bβ 1-42 was the earliest fragment released during limited plasmin proteolysis. These levels reached a maximum and then began to fall during the course of the digestion. In addition, increasing levels of Bβ 1-21 and of FPB were shown to lag behind the production of Bβ 1-42. Using purified Bβ 1-42, preferential cleavage was shown to occur at the 21-22 bond, with a minor cleavage at the 14-15 bond. Exhaustive digestion yielded two major components, Bβ 1-14 and Bβ 22-42 and a minor component composed of Bβ 15-42. The rate of this reaction is not affected by the addition of hirudin indicating that it is not caused by trace amounts of thrombin. Taken together these data indicate a sequence of events in which Bβ 1-42 is initially cleaved from fibrinogen during plasmin digestion. Free from its parent molecule, Bβ 1-42 can undergo further plasmin attack, preferentially at the 21-22 bond to yield Bβ 1-21 and B8 22-42. Plasmin then attacks Bβ 1-21 at the 14-15 bond to release FPB.

scholarly journals Genetic affinities of the Jewish populations of India

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyaneshwer Chaubey ◽  
Manvendra Singh ◽  
Niraj Rai ◽  
Mini Kariappa ◽  
Kamayani Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
Shared Ancestry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Other World ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Jewish Populations

Abstract Due to the lack of written records or inscription, the origin and affiliation of Indian Jewish populations with other world populations remain contentious. Previous genetic studies have found evidence for a minor shared ancestry of Indian Jewish with Middle Eastern (Jewish) populations. However, these studies (relied on limited individuals), haven’t explored the detailed temporal and spatial admixture process of Indian Jewish populations with the local Indian populations. Here, using large sample size with combination of high resolution biparental (autosomal) and uniparental markers (Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA), we reconstructed genetic history of Indian Jewish by investigating the patterns of genetic diversity. Consistent with the previous observations, we detected minor Middle Eastern specific ancestry component among Indian Jewish communities, but virtually negligible in their local neighbouring Indian populations. The temporal test of admixture suggested that the first admixture of migrant Jewish populations from Middle East to South India (Cochin) occurred during fifth century. Overall, we concluded that the Jewish migration and admixture in India left a record in their genomes, which can link them to the ‘Jewish Diaspora’.

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