scholarly journals Speaking Truth to Power: Exploring Guru Nanak’s Bābar-vāṇī in Light of the Baburnama

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pashaura Singh
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Speaking Truth To Power

This essay offers in-depth analysis of Guru Nanak’s works, collectively known as the Bābar-vāņī (“arrow-like utterances concerning Babur”), in the context of the memoirs of the first Mughal emperor Babur (1483–1530). It extends the number of works in the collection from a ‘fixed’ assemblage of ‘four’ to ‘nine,’ making it an open collection that dynamically responds to the specific questions raised by historians about Guru Nanak’s encounter with Babur. The resulting framework provides us with a fresh analytical gaze into the critical events related to Babur’s invasions of India and helps the novel readings of Guru Nanak’s verses shine through. It also examines how Guru Nanak’s voice of resistance was interpreted in the narratives produced by later generations. Departing from traditional views, the essay ends with a new understanding of the impact of the Bābar-vāṇī on the evolving Sikh conceptions of the relationship between spiritual and political powers.

scholarly journals Probing Phenomenological Experiences Through Electroencephalography Brainwave Signals In Neuroarchitecture Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickram Thevar Vijayan ◽  
Mohamed Rashid Embi
Keyword(s):  
Human Physiology ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Phenomenological Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Area Of Study

Experiences are a part of our daily lives through our interactions with the environment around us. We live life through the realm of experiences, be it playing or working. As we encounter phenomena frequently, it is deduced that most of it comes from within the built environment, considering how most of our time is spent indoors. Hence, it is imperative that we understand the impact of the built environment on human physiology especially within the context of religious spaces which is largely attributed to phenomenological experiences. Despite the importance of understanding the impact of the built environment on human physiology, phenomenological studies that addresses this relationship are still lacking. This presents a gap which necessitates evidence to be provided in the form of phenomenological studies. Hence, this study attempts to address the gap by utilising evidential data with the utilisation of the portable electroencephalography (EEG) device. In doing so, the brainwave readings from four participants at the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque were observed. Data from the EEG device in the form of brainwave signals was analysed through the performance metrics detection suite which focused on the possibility of analysing brainwave data through three phases of habitation. The findings detected relaxation performance metrics from the participants whilst being within the mosque prayer area, whereas the phases prior to entering and after leaving the mosque appears to have detected higher excitement and engagement levels. Thus, it could be deduced that the interior prayer area of the mosque appears to have had a positive influence on the participant's physiology. This study could contribute to the novel field of neuroarchitecture in Malaysia, an area of study at the threshold of neuroscience and architecture that could be significant in understanding the relationship between the built environment and human physiology.

Demographic Analysis of Residents’ Support for Tourism Development in the UAE: A Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling Multigroup Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1119-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avraam Papastathopoulos ◽  
Syed Zamberi Ahmad ◽  
Nada Al Sabri ◽  
Kostas Kaminakis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines how the demographic profiles of residents (gender, level of education, nationality, length of residency, and age) moderate the relationship between residents’ perceptions of the impact of tourism and their support for tourism development. The aim of the study was to gain knowledge on the understudied emerging countries, the underexplored geographical area of Middle East and North Africa, and most specifically on the UAE which is the most competitive destination among them. This study is the first to use the novel Bayesian SEM multigroup approach to overcome the major issue of the non-normal distributions of data. The data are derived from 631 residents of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The results indicate that residents’ perceptions influence residents’ support for tourism development. Additionally, the multigroup analysis reveals that gender, education, and nationality influence the perceptions of residents while length of residency and age do not have a significant effect.

scholarly journals A Contrapuntal Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim in the Light of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Md. Nawsher Oan ◽  
A.S.M. Mahbubur Rahman ◽  
Md. Faisal Haque ◽  
Md. Lutful Arafat ◽  
Sohrab Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Relationship ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Reading Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article targets to converge in analyzing the novel Lord Jim and Said’s Culture and Imperialism to illustrate the critical development of the term ‘contrapuntal reading’ that demonstrates spatial rather than temporal relationship between them. This study deeply endeavors to present the relation between the colonized and colonizer as it is marked in Said’s Culture and Imperialism that demonstrates Conrad’s Lord Jim while it exposes the relationship of Jim and all other characters and the experiences of Jim that he gathers in his journey in the novel. In addition, this study scrutinizes the different aspects related with the term ‘contrapuntal reading’-colonialism, modernism and imperialism. However, qualitative approach has been applied to analyze the novel Lord Jim. As a consequence, this effort will pave the way to interpret the novel Lord Jim with an in-depth analysis that will lead the researchers to investigate other texts under the light of the term ‘contrapuntal reading’. More specifically this research paper investigates the inner incidents that took place in the novel Lord Jim in the light of Said’s Culture and Imperialism to establish various relationships as a contrapuntal reading study.

scholarly journals The Impact of divorce on the main male character, Steve Miller, as reflected in Nicholas Sparks’s the last song

COMMICAST ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Nur Fitrah Kusumaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Character ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
The Relationship

The Last Song written by Nicholas Sparks is a novel that tells about family conflict that begins from the divorce between the parents and involves their children. The children must face the reality about their parents’ divorce when they are at the age of ten and seventeen. Not only for their children, but the divorce also brings an impact to the main male character, Steve Miller, in this novel. There is misunderstanding at the beginning in children’s comprehension about the causes of the divorce in their family. But after they know, especially the daughter, everything has changed between the main male character and his children. The aims of this study are to analyze the cause of the divorce and the impact of divorce on male male character, Steve Miller, as reflected in Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song. The writer uses psychological approach to analyse the cause and the impact of the divorce on the main male character, Steve Miller, as reflected in Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song. The writer also uses qualitative research method. The primary data are taken from the copy of novel The Last Song (2010) in the form quotation, phrase, and clauses or in the form of sentences that are related to the points discussed in this research. While, the secondary data are taken from all the analysis and criticism related to the novel. This secondary data of this research are also taken from some library documents and internet sources. The result of this study shows that the cause of the divorce in Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song is because the male main character’s wife had affair with the stranger that he does not know before. It makes the communication with his wife is rarely done. It also involves their children and makes the relationship between father and daughter is broken. Not only to the relationship between the family members, but this divorce also give effects to the main character’s psychological and physical states. 

scholarly journals ANALISIS SENTIMEN PANDEMI COVID19 PADA STREAMING TWITTER DENGAN TEXT MINING PYTHON

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Anni Karimatul Fauziyyah
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Data Streaming ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
N Gram ◽  
To Come ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is widespread and will likely shape community behavior for months to come. And while the humanitarian and safety-related aspects of this outbreak are top of mind globally, it’s unquestionable that social distancing, quarantining, and staying home will have a significant effect on media consumption, which could rise up to 60%, according to recent research from Nielsen’s U.S. media team.  Social media, now a part of everyday life for most consumers engaged with the world digitally, became the primary source for buzz about all things COVID-19 as worries and news intensified. Sentiment analysis is applied in this study to analyze the opinions, feelings, and interests of individuals in the COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to analyze sentiment based on an opinion by classifying individual feelings such as sadness, happiness, or panic in facing a COVID-19 into sentiment level that is negative, positive or, neutral. In this paper, an open-source approach is presented where we have collected tweets from the Twitter API and then reprocessing, analyzing and, visualizing these tweets using python. Furthermore, Twitter data streaming will be processed and cleaned to parse data that can be classified based on opinion with a text mining algorithm using text blob Python. Feature extraction is done for the relationship between words by the Bigram and N-gram methods.

scholarly journals FinTech and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China based on P2P Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deng ◽  
Huang ◽  
Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
International Context ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Financial Technology

In the current international context, the ways in which financial technology (FinTech) affects sustainable development need to be urgently identified. However, relevant studies are rare and there is no consensus on the optimal indicator system for sustainable development. Therefore, this study proposes an indicator system to evaluate sustainability and conducts in-depth analysis of the relationship between FinTech and sustainable development based on data of peer-to-peer platforms (P2P) in 31 Chinese provinces. The empirical results show the existence of a U-shaped relationship between FinTech and sustainable development, mainly determined by the pattern of extensive economic growth. Furthermore, heterogeneity analysis indicates that there are significant regional differences in its impact on sustainable development, being significant in China’s eastern and central regions and insignificant in the western region; moreover, the impact on the central region is significantly higher than that on the eastern region. Our research not only has strong practical significance but also contributes significantly to the literature on FinTech and sustainable development.

How open innovation performance responds to partner heterogeneity in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shufang Huang ◽  
Jin Chen ◽  
Liang Liang
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Market Turbulence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The link between openness and innovative performance has been established as an inverted U-shape relationship, namely, the openness-performance connection is not always positive. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of partner heterogeneity to characterize the influence of “quality” changes in partners on innovative performance, that is, the focus of this paper. Given that partner heterogeneity is crucial in explaining open innovative performance, it is also worth placing the examination of this key construct in emerging regions such as China. Design/methodology/approach The sample selection of this study covers a wide range of industries, but requires that the sample firms be manufacturing enterprises with an open innovation strategy. With opportunities and challenges associated with partner collaboration toward open innovation, the Chinese province of Zhejiang has established its reputation. Thus, empirical data were collected randomly from data pool of Zhejiang Province Economic and Information Commission, as well as a survey questionnaire. Data were using a cross-sectional survey methodology encompassing diverse organizations, industries, and nations. Findings Empirical testing of this assumption in a sample of 217 manufacturing firms indicates that partner heterogeneities, which are classified as organizational heterogeneity, industry heterogeneity, and national heterogeneity are all positively associated with innovative performance, but the strength of this association is influenced by environmental turbulence. Technological turbulence significantly and positively modulates the relationships of organizational and national heterogeneities with innovative performance. Market turbulence also plays a significant positive role on the relationship between national heterogeneity and innovative performance, while technological and market turbulence roles on the relationship between industry heterogeneity and innovative performance are not confirmed. Originality/value This paper refines the connotative dimensions of partner heterogeneity around the core concept of partner heterogeneity in open innovation in the context of emerging region, China. The study presents a systematic, in-depth analysis, and verifies the impact mechanisms of partner heterogeneity in open innovation on innovative performance by integrating the resource-based view, organizational learning theory, and transaction cost theory.

scholarly journals The smoker’s paradox during the COVID-19 pandemic? The influence of smoking and vaping on the incidence and course of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection as well as possibility of using nicotine in the treatment of COVID-19 – Review of the literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Keyword(s):  
Cholinergic System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pro Inflammatory Cytokines

AIM OF THE STUDY. The study aims to present the current state of knowledge on the impact of traditional cigarettes and the nicotine contained in them on the incidence and course of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Moreover, we decided to exhibit the possibility of using this substance to treat COVID-19 infections. MATERIAL AND METHODS. The latest available scientific publications were reviewed until November 14, 2020, from the PubMed platform. RESULTS. Nicotine is a cholinergic agonist and pro-inflammatory cytokines inhibitor. Some authors present that smoking and nicotine reduce the amount of the ACE2 receptors which are used by the novel coronavirus to enter cells, while others claim that ACE2 receptors are upregulated in smokers. Moreover, the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with nAChR is suspected of dysregulation of the nicotinic cholinergic system, which is associated with the pathophysiology of COVID-19. Due to the harmfulness of cigarettes, a high frequency of smokers is suspected among people suffering from COVID-19. However, some studies report that the number of current smokers hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 infection is lower than expected, considering the prevalence of smoking in individual countries. Nicotine could restore the impaired function of the nicotine cholinergic system and possibly mitigate the cytokine storm. CONCLUSIONS. There is no clear attitude regarding the impact of smoking on the new coronavirus infection now. Researchers do not recommend smoking as a tool to combat the pandemic and show the importance of fighting addiction to reduce the adverse health effects of smoking. Both the relationship between cigarettes and the morbidity and severity of COVID-19, as well as the possibility of using nicotine in the treatment of the disease, require further analysis.

Children, Extracurricular Activities, and Digital Media: The Process of Displacement and School Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Mourgela ◽  
Ecaterina Pacurar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Educational Outcome ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
School Students ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This work, situated in the Greek sociocultural context, attempts to analyze the time spent by primary school students on digital and traditional extracurricular activities and the impact of these activities on the educational outcome. The first objective was to determine, by means of a quantitative survey, if the children as “digital natives” replace traditional entertainment activities with new digital technologies or if, on the contrary, they supplement them with the novel forms of entertainment. A second objective was to examine the impact of the frequency of extracurricular activities with and without screens on the school performance. Our final objective was to explore the existence of distinct user profiles based on the extracurricular activities with and without screens and to identify the relationship between different types of extracurricular activities.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

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