SOCIAL WELFARE DURING THE CORONA ERA: A RESEACH STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF QURAN & SUNNAH

Coronavirus pandemic started in the last week of February 2020 in Pakistan. In order to save the people from the Corona epidemic, a complete lockdown has been implemented across the country. All offices, educational institutions, transport and other sectors were closed. Only grocery and medical stores were allowed to operate. The government of Pakistan, the provincial governments and the country's elites, welfare organizations and religious and political parties have generously helped poor families without distinction of religion, color, race or language. People were provided with necessities, clothes, medicines and other necessities. Seeing the open expression of social welfare in Pakistan during the epidemic sent a good message to the world that the Muslims of Pakistan have an ideal role to play in serving humanity in accordance with the teachings of their religion. In this article, a research study has been done on the trend and effects of social welfare during the Corona era in the context of Islamic law

“We Cannot Please Everyone”: Contentions over Adjustment in EPRDF Ethiopia (1991–2018)

This article looks at how rural inhabitants navigated state power under a regime led by a former socialist party that negotiated its conversion to a market economy while keeping tight control on the whole society. In that regard, it addresses adjustment in a very specific context, by analysing a distinctive chronology, raising the ruling party's ability to negotiate with the international financial institutions, and considering popular reactions from a rural point of view. The regime led by the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) managed to delay measures of structural adjustment during the 1990s and 2000s while deepening structures of state control it partly inherited from the former military junta. Brutal structural adjustment plans were refused, while international financial institutions were kept away from the Ethiopian government's policy mix, by way of elaborate ideological and institutional arrangements. The EPRDF coined its own version of the “developmental state” and renewed state control of the economy while deepening its articulation to global markets. Under the EPRDF, all sectors of society and especially peasantries were closely monitored and mobilized in the name of development. But although the open expression of dissent remained rare, peasants resorted to many strategies to cope with political control and to some extent divert it. By taking agricultural policies as a case study, the article describes peasant practices and questions differences between resistance, false compliance, and diversion, underlining how blurred such labels can actually be.

Campus Free Speech in Polarised Times

Tensions around open expression at universities in the United States and around the world arise mainly from two sources. Campus members increasingly call to restrict hurtful and hate-based speech, and demand silencing, ‘cancelling’ or ‘de-platforming’ outside speakers and campus members who espouse extreme ideological views. At the same time, public and political actors from outside the university attempt to undermine its independence by demanding greater voice to conservative speakers, in an effort to rebalance the ideological makeup of the university. Inclusive freedom – an approach that focuses on ways to promote both open expression and an inclusive climate in contemporary universities – is presented as a theoretical and a practical response to these tensions. Inclusive freedom is anchored in the university’s core mission, bounded by its educational and research goals, and reflects a practical commitment to allowing everyone to participate in an open exchange, which starts from all participants recognising their equal standing and dignity.

FEATURES OF REPRESENTATION OF POEMS BY A. LUZHIKOV IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS

The article first reviews the quality of translations of the poems of the Komi poet A. Luzhikov into Russian. At the time of the harsh change of life paradigms, at the end of the 20th century, due to acute mental trauma, a motive for dividing the world appears in his poetry. Many poems by A. Luzhikov speak of the death of the Komi life equal to the death of the world. His lyrical hero is out of society. Translators strove to convey the dramatic and tragic emotional tone of his poems, the aesthetics of the poetic loneliness of the lyrical hero, reflecting a person's worldview in the era of the global crisis. In the collection of poems we can count about 20 very successful translations in which the metro-rhythmic pattern, the figurative-lexical system of works, and the tension of the feelings of the lyrical hero are adequately recreated. In general, the translations maintain an open expression, conveyed by rhetorical figures; there are artistically accurate and faithfully conveyed images, the poetical and philosophical terminology is saved. At the same time, many translations used some template expressions and ready-made clichés and added stylistic “decorations” alien to poetry by A. Luzhikov (and generally to the Komi poetry). Moreover, in Russion versions, exclamatory and interrogative syntactic constructions were replaced by narrative ones. Such translation transformations led to a decrease in the emotional intensity of texts, and in general, to a distortion of the ethnocultural image of the the Komi poet’s world.

S229. THE EFFECT OF FAMILY ENVIRONMENT ON LONGITUDINAL FUNCTIONING IN FIRST PSYCHOTIC EPISODES

Background Family environment plays a key role in the development of psychotic symptoms (Pitschel-Walz et al., 2001; Tienari et al., 2004) and negative family environmental factors are linked to poor prognosis in psychosis (Geller et al., 2000). By contrast, a positive family environment is associated with greater improvements in negative and disorganized symptoms among individuals at imminent risk of becoming psychotic (O’Brien et al., 2006). Nonetheless, little is known about the implication of family environment on longitudinal functioning in patients that presented a first psychotic episode. Methods This study is part of the “Phenotype-genotype and environmental interaction. Application of a predictive model in first psychotic episodes” (PEPS) study, a multicentric, longitudinal, naturalistic follow-up study (Bernardo et al., 2013). The Functional Assessment Short Test (FAST) was used to assess functional outcome. The Family Environment Scale (FES) evaluated family emotional climate in different categories: COHESION (C) for mutual reliance; EXPRESSIVITY (EX), the extent to which family members express their feelings directly; CONFLICTS (CON) for open expression of anger, aggressiveness and conflict; INDEPENDENCE (IND), the extent to which family members are independent in their decisions; ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTATION (AO) for an achievement-orientated environment; INTELLECTUAL–CULTURAL ORIENTATION (ICO) for political, intellectual, cultural interests; ACTIVE–RECREATIONAL ORIENTATION (ARO) for participation in social activities; MORAL–RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS (MRE) for the importance given to ethical and religious practices and values; ORGANIZATION (ORG) for the organization in activities and responsibilities; and CONTROL (CTL), the extent to which the family considers rules and established procedures. Patients with a first psychotic episode (FEPs) and healthy controls (HCs) have been evaluated baseline and after two years of follow-up. Diagnoses at 2 years have been established according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Linear regression models have been conducted in order to assess the effect that different family environments exert on functioning at baseline but also at 2 years of follow-up, when the group of FEPs has been divided in patients diagnosed with psychotic disorders (PSYC) versus bipolar disorder (BD). All data were analyzed with the Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS v.23 for Windows). All the analyses were two-tailed with alpha set at p < 0.05. Results At baseline, the total sample included 335 FEPs (mean FAST=27.8±16.1) and 253 HCs (mean FAST 3.5±8.1). At baseline the linear model was not significant neither for FEPs nor for HCs and no family environment was associated with functioning. At 2 years (mean FAST BD=13.8±15.1, mean FAST PSYC =20.98±15.4), in the BD group (F(10,14)=2.6, p=.05) worse functioning was associated with CON (β=.741, p=.004) whilst in the PSYC group (F(10,108)=3.509, p=<.001) it was negatively associated with ARO (β=- .305, p=.006) and AO (β=- .204, p=.039) and positively associated with MRE (β=.268, p=.003). Discussion At baseline, no specific family environment was associated with functioning. At 2 years, in BD worse functioning was associated with higher rates of open expression of conflict in the family whilst in PSYC it was associated with lower rates of participation in social activities and achievement-orientated family environment as well as with higher rates of religious practices and values. Family environment exerts an important role in the functioning of FEPs mainly in the long-term, with important implications for early interventions for both patients and caregivers.

The Overall Goal of Education and General Purpose

His physical mental moral and social development through creative development of the person's innate ability and qualities. To give the student the opportunity to develop according to his own talent and tendency and to nurture his creativity. Making skilled, productive and manpower necessary for the socioeconomic development and progress of the country by applying education. To help the student acquire the necessary qualifications and skills in order to earn a living according to his talents and trends. To inspire the student in the open expression of basic thought and to develop liberal thinking and life-oriented, objective and positive outlook in the society.

Rhetorical confinement, contrasting metaphors, and cultural polarities

In this study we contrast metaphors and metaphorical stories in President Trump’s 2017 inaugural address with those of former President Barack Obama’s first inaugural address. We draw on the concept of ‘rhetorical confinement’ (Patterson, 2011) to show how the contrasting life trajectories of the two leaders are reflected in the contrasting themes and tone established by their metaphorical language. We argue that Obama’s rhetorical tone, including his use of metaphors, was at least in part a response to the compound constraints of race and class. In contrast, Trump’s rhetorical tone and use of metaphors reflects and reinforces his image as a political outsider, as a challenge to the constraints of ordinary political discourse. The contrast between the rhetorically confined politeness of Obama’s discourse (lampooned as ‘political correctness’ by many of his opponents) and the unconstrained crudeness of Trump’s discourse (lauded as ‘telling it like it is’) apparently legitimates the open expression of previously suppressed resentments and encourages an extreme rhetoric that is symptomatic of, and may contribute to, the growing polarization in American political discourse.

Masumura, Yasuzō (1924–1986)

Masumura Yasuzō was a Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and critic. He started his career at the Daiei Studio, as an assistant, most notably to the directors Mizoguchi Kenji and Ichikawa Kon. After one fo his essays won him a scholarship, Masumura went on to study film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Italy. During his time there he continued publishing articles, including a regular column in the film magazine, Kinema Junpō. In his writing on film, Masumura praised much of European cinema while simultaneously leveling harsh criticism against almost all Japanese films, blaming them for being too slow and emotionally repressed. He was eager to bring radical changes to filmmaking in Japan, namely speed, the sense of an individual subject, and the open expression of human desire. He attempted in the first films that he directed to incorporate such innovations. During his long tenure as a studio director at Daiei in the 1960s Masumura continued to challenge Japanese cinematic conventions, working within defined film genres, such as yakuza, war films, and jidaigeki [period drama], as well as directing several adaptions of famous novels. In the early 1970s he left Daiei to work as a direct or for other production companies, including Shōchiku, Tōhō, and ATG.

Historical heterogeneity predicts smiling

Facial behavior is a valuable source of information about an individual's feelings and intentions. However, many factors combine to influence and moderate facial behavior including personality, gender, context, and culture. Due to the high cost of traditional observational methods, the relationship between culture and facial behavior is not well-understood. In the current study, we explored the sociocultural factors that influence facial behavior using large-scale observational analyses. We developed and implemented an algorithm to automatically analyze the smiling of 866,726 participants across 31 different countries. We found that participants smiled more when from a country that is higher in individualism, has a lower population density, and has a long history of immigration diversity (i.e., historical heterogeneity). Our findings provide the first evidence that historical heterogeneity predicts actual smiling behavior. Furthermore, they converge with previous findings using selfreport methods. Taken together, these findings support the theory that historical heterogeneity explains, and may even contribute to the development of, permissive cultural display rules that encourage the open expression of emotion.

Pilot testing Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY), an arts-based HIV/STI prevention approach for adolescent women in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY) is an arts-based HIV prevention program developed by Northern Canadians to address sexual health, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexuality, and healthy relationships among Northern and Indigenous youth in Canada. We conducted a pilot study with Indigenous and Northern young women aged 13–17 years from 17 communities in the Northwest Territories to evaluate whether, in comparison to pre-intervention, FOXY participants demonstrated increased knowledge of STIs, increased safer sex self-efficacy, and increased resilience. Wilcoxon test results indicated significant increases in STI knowledge scores and safer sex self-efficacy scores. Findings suggest that FOXY holds promise as an effective method of delivering sexual health information through peer education, and increasing STI knowledge, safe sex self-efficacy, and resilience.