Ambiguous Links Research Articles

GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART

AbstractNavid Kermani's and Feridun Zaimoglu's engagements as Muslims with Christian art reveal the possibilities and limitations of aesthetic experiences of the divine beyond all doctrinal divides. Although Kermani's own research into the aesthetic dimension of Islam highlights the potential for art to offer spiritual insight, his rejection of some Christian imagery, especially of the crucifix, in his book Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum (2015), suggests this potential has limits which are not only matters of subjective taste but also epistemological barriers that are difficult to overcome. However, some of Kermani's interpretations lead to a syncretic understanding of Christian and Islamic ideas and aesthetics, pointing towards new notions of the divine. Similarly, Zaimoglu's series of contemporary icons featuring Jesus and other Biblical figures opens up spiritual possibilities beyond religious divides through their ambiguous links to Christianity and Islam. This distinction between an experience of the divine across religious boundaries and its failure can be theorised through Jean‐Luc Marion's understanding of the ‘icon’ and the ‘idol’ respectively, whereby the former returns the viewer's gaze and unleashes a destabilising openness to the sacred, whereas the latter involves the dominant gaze of the viewer and reinforces what they already know.

Examining the Relationship of Information and Communication Technologies Use and Reading Literacy: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis of Metacognition Across Information and Communication Technologies Use Intensity.

The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is increasingly becoming prevalent among students, both at home and school. While inconsistent results were found for student ICT use and reading literacy, this study attempted to explain these ambiguous links with the moderation of ICT use intensity and mediation of metacognition. Three moderated mediation models for each type of ICT use (at home for entertainment activities and for schoolwork, as well as at school) were analyzed using a Hong Kong sample taken from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 data pertaining to 5180 15-year-old students from 152 schools. A dynamic effect pattern was found for the links of all ICT use types and reading literacy with the increasing intensity of ICT use, which begins with a positive effect followed by a decrease to less positive, then turns to fluctuating negative and finally ends up with a stable negative effect. But the dominant effect varies across ICT use intensity, which result in different overall effects of three ICT use types. In addition, all three aspects of metacognition showed a profound negative mediation on links of intensive and excessive ICT use with reading literacy, and a less positive mediation for limited ICT use. The metacognition of assessing credibility showed a more important role than summarizing, which was followed by understanding and remembering. In light of the findings, the study recommended that more metacognitive scaffolds should be developed for students with intensive or excessive ICT use, so as to alleviate the side effects of ICT use on their reading literacy.

Cautious relational clustering: A thresholding approach

We propose in this article a new relational clustering method that can return a partial answer (i.e., a set of clusterings) in some cases. Starting from relational or similarity data, we determine a partial equivalence relation defined on the set of objects (two objects are linked if they belong to the same cluster): the key idea is to allow the method to abstain on some pairwise links because they cannot be determined with enough certainty from the data. This cautious equivalence relation represents a set of possible hard clusterings which can be obtained by completing the partial relation. This formalization makes it possible to easily detect ambiguous links and to identify subsets of objects with uncertain relationship. We illustrate the potential interest of our approach as a tool for exploratory data analysis of synthetic and real data sets.

Содержательные характеристики образа тела во взаимосвязи с параметрами самоотношения девочек-подростков

The research analyzes the factors determining the body image (mass media, family and peers). The study examines the correlation between the characteristics of adolescent girls’ body image (body acceptance, appearance, functional characteristics, body type) and the parameters of self-attitude. A sample of 58 girls aged 13–14 demonstrated that self-interest and self-liking are higher in the group of girls having the positive attitude towards their body. There is the lowest rate of self-incrimination among these girls; however, self-esteem rates in this group are close to self-respect rates among girls having the negative attitude towards their body, which indicates the ambiguous links between the parameters under consideration. Self-confidence and self-understanding are largely correlated with the body image, and self-guidance and self-incrimination are slightly related to it.

Topic Modeling for Wikipedia Link Disambiguation

Many articles in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia have hyperlinks to ambiguous article titles; these ambiguous links should be replaced with links to unambiguous articles, a process known as disambiguation. We propose a novel statistical topic model based on link text, which we refer to as the Link Text Topic Model (LTTM), that we use to suggest new link targets for ambiguous links. To evaluate our model, we describe a method for extracting ground truth for this link disambiguation task from edits made to Wikipedia in a specific time period. We use this ground truth to demonstrate the superiority of LTTM over other existing link- and content-based approaches to disambiguating links in Wikipedia. Finally, we build a web service that uses LTTM to make suggestions to human editors wanting to fix ambiguous links in Wikipedia.

WHY I AM A LUKEWARM ENEMY OF FUNDAMENTALISM

Assuming that mere opposition to fundamentalism is counter-productive, if not hypocritical, this article calls for an understanding of the question fundamentalism seeks to answer: What is to fill the space between the ‘most sacred’ and the ‘most mundane’? It turns out that we struggle to provide better answers. If, instead of dismissing fundamentalism as a futile reaction against modernity, the ambiguous links between fundamentalism and postmodernity are explored, it is seen that modernity, late capitalism and postmodernity are intertwined in complex ways that defy standard classifications. Fundamentalism poses important questions to the contemporary world and thus deserves some sympathy. The conclusion suggests that we should, nevertheless, prefer to the negativity of fundamentalism sources of affirmation. These may be found in the spaces of the ‘most sacred’ and the ‘most mundane’ – but not simply in ‘secularity’.

Acknowledgment, Adaptation and Shakespeare in Ron Rash’s Serena

This essay examines the connections between Ron Rash’s novel, Serena , and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth . Rather than providing a comparative reading of these two works, this essay explores the relationship from a variety of perspectives, including the author, the publishers, critics and reviews as well as the narrative itself. It examines how the relationship between Serena and Macbeth is defined differently by these different groups, who defines the relationship and how well adaptation theory accounts or fails to account for these varied definitions. Adaptation theorists agree that in order to function as adaptations, the relationship between two works must be acknowledged. And, the author exists explicitly a source for this acknowledgement and implicitly as the primary authority for it. By examining the complicated and ambiguous links between Serena and Macbeth , this essay argues that we need to reconsider and problematize the role of authorial intentionality in how we define and construct adaptations and that Serena’s function as an adaptation lies outside of the author’s explicit acknowledgment and in the subjective realm of reception. Privileging authorial intentionality in adaptation limits our understanding of how adaptations work by overlooking the role of alternate sources of acknowledgment. We need to be able to escape explicit authorial acknowledgment without reverting to mere intertextuality and to focus more on how publishers, reviewers, readers, and the marketplace can acknowledge and construct adaptive relationships between texts.

An uncanny journey: W. G. Sebald and the literature of protest

In an interview, Sebald distanced himself from the 1960s protest movements in West Germany, and his writings contain no evident reference to them. But more recent research indicates possible, albeit paradoxical or ambiguous links between Sebald’s life and works and the culture of the protest movements, and this essay will begin by synthesizing the results. In the light of these observations, a revealing comparison can be made between Sebald’s Schwindel. Gefühle. / Vertigo, especially its last section, ‘Il ritorno in patria’, and Bernward Vesper’s ‘novel-essay’ Die Reise, an emblematic text of the protest generation, which was written in 1969–70 and first published in 1977, since there are striking similarities between them, probably because both may be related to the conventions of ‘Väterliteratur’ (‘father literature’), one of the protest movement’s characteristic literary forms. This discussion will suggest that key issues which haunted the late 1960s remained unresolved at the start of the 1990s. It will thus permit a brief re-examination of protest literature and the painful positions it involved, which seem, on my argument, to have been culturally repressed, only to return, in an uncanny form, in Sebald’s work.

Rereading Vygotsky's Theses on Types of Internalization and Verbal Mediation

The Vygotskyan sociocultural approach to human development and cognition marked a new direction in psychology and created new, distinctive avenues for exploring fundamental matters of the mind. The complexity, diversity, and multilayered meaning of Vygotsky's formulations have in the history of psychology triggered scholastic debate, which has focused on the clarification, implications, and extension of the core explanatory constructs of his framework—mediation and internalization. The aim of this review is to offer a contemporary logico-semantic rereading of Vygotsky's formulations of these constructs with an emphasis on speech and, in particular, its dual mediatory role as a primary mediational means and a mediating process. Vygotsky's less renowned, and rather incomplete, propositions on the types of internalization are revived and examined in relation to the ontogenetic formation of speech. In this critical analysis, some ambiguous conceptual links between the notion of internalization types and the transformation of social speech into private speech and inner speech are explicated, debated, and refined. By addressing these conceptual links, the present examination extends the sociocultural account of semiotic mediation. The interpretations proposed highlight the logical cohesion and enhance the comprehensibility of Vygotsky's theoretical stance on human development.

Publishing Interactive Articles: Integrating Journals And Biological Databases

AbstractIn collaboration with the journal GENETICS, we've developed and launched a pipeline by which interactive full-text HTML/PDF journal articles are published with named entities linked to corresponding resource pages in "WormBase":http://www.wormbase.org/ (WB). Our interactive articles allow a reader to click on over ten different data type objects (gene, protein, transgene, etc.) and be directed to the relevant webpage. This seamless connection from the article to summaries of data types promotes a deeper level of understanding for the naïve reader, and incisive evaluation for the sophisticated reader. Further, this collaboration allows us to identify and collect information before the publication of the article. The pipeline uses automated recognition scripts to identify entities that already exist in the database and a self-reporting form we created at WB that is sent to the author by GENETICS for submitting entities that do not already exist in our database. We include a manual quality control step to make sure ambiguous links are corrected, and that all new entities have been reported and linked properly. The automated entity recognition scripts allows us to potentially link any object found in a database as well as to expand this pipeline to other databases. We have already adapted this pipeline for linking Saccharomyces cerevisiae GENETICS articles to the "Saccharomyces Genome Database":http://www.yeastgenome.org/ (SGD) and are currently expanding this pipeline for linking genes in Drosophila articles to "FlyBase":http://flybase.org/. By integrating journals and databases, we are integrating the major modes of communication in the biological sciences, which will undoubtedly increase the pace of discovery.

Publishing Interactive Articles: Integrating Journals And Biological Databases

In collaboration with the journal GENETICS, we've developed and launched a pipeline by which interactive full-text HTML/PDF journal articles are published with named entities linked to corresponding resource pages in "WormBase":http://www.wormbase.org/ (WB). Our interactive articles allow a reader to click on over ten different data type objects (gene, protein, transgene, etc.) and be directed to the relevant webpage. This seamless connection from the article to summaries of data types promotes a deeper level of understanding for the naïve reader, and incisive evaluation for the sophisticated reader. Further, this collaboration allows us to identify and collect information before the publication of the article. The pipeline uses automated recognition scripts to identify entities that already exist in the database and a self-reporting form we created at WB that is sent to the author by GENETICS for submitting entities that do not already exist in our database. We include a manual quality control step to make sure ambiguous links are corrected, and that all new entities have been reported and linked properly. The automated entity recognition scripts allows us to potentially link any object found in a database as well as to expand this pipeline to other databases. We have already adapted this pipeline for linking Saccharomyces cerevisiae GENETICS articles to the "Saccharomyces Genome Database":http://www.yeastgenome.org/ (SGD) and are currently expanding this pipeline for linking genes in Drosophila articles to "FlyBase":http://flybase.org/. By integrating journals and databases, we are integrating the major modes of communication in the biological sciences, which will undoubtedly increase the pace of discovery.

Does civilization cause discontentment among indigenous Amazonians? Test of empirical data from the Tsimane’ of Bolivia

Despite the pervasiveness of international trade, the effects of trade opening on the psyche have received scant attention. We present three hypotheses about the likely effects of trade opening on the following five dimensions of the psyche: mirth (smiles), anger, addiction, stress, and regret. To test the hypotheses we use a survey of ∼605 people ⩾16 years of age from a highly autarkic native Amazonian society of foragers and farmers in Bolivia (Tsimane’) with high levels of impulsivity. As explanatory variables we use four measures of trade opening and a wide range of controls. Regret at buying durable assets during the previous year and addiction bore a positive association with two measures of trade opening: monetary income in the last 2 weeks and outstanding monetary debts owed to one or owed to the rest of the world. International trade theory predicts that trade opening expands choices in consumption, but among impulsive people in a highly autarkic society, more choice can beget more addiction and buyer’s regret. We found no association between trade opening and smiles, anger, or stress, consistent with recent findings from industrial societies suggesting weak or ambiguous links between monetary income and these indicators of subjective well-being.

A timely reminder on research design and interpretation.

Leykin and DeRubeis (2009) persuasively argue that, just as correlation does not prove causation, so too allegiance-outcome association does not prove that investigator allegiance biases reported treatment outcomes. This commentary notes that similarly ambiguous links between investigator allegiance and study outcomes may be found in other areas of psychological research. This article also extends the “adversarial collaboration” strategy recommended by Leykin and DeRubeis for reducing any potential allegiance biases by describing some benefits of “neutrality collaboration,” studying the effects of treatments about which one has neither a positive nor a negative preconception.

The five elements and chinese-american mortality.

D. P. Phillips, T. E. Ruth, and L. M. Wagner (1993) reported that 1969-1990 California mortality data show that Chinese Americans are particularly vulnerable to diseases that Chinese astrology and traditional Chinese medicine associate with their birth years. For example, because fire is associated with the heart, a Chinese person born in a fire year (such as 1937) is more likely to die of heart disease than is a Chinese person born in a nonfire year. However, many diseases were excluded from this study, some diseases that were included have ambiguous links to birth years, and the statistical tests were indirect. A more complete statistical analysis and independent California mortality data for the years 1960-1968 and 1991-2002 did not replicate the original results.

Echinococcosis and allergy.

The larval stages of Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis are involved in parasitic diseases in humans: cystic echinococcosis (CE) ("hydatid disease") and alveolar echinococcosis (AE), respectively. Both diseases and parasites have tight links with allergy because of the immunological characteristics that contribute to maintain the larvae in their human host as well as their potential in inducing clinical anaphylactic reactions in some patients. Clinical observations in patients and data obtained from mass screenings in various countries have identified both forms of echinococcosis as "polar diseases," i.e., diseases where immunological background of the patients was related to the clinical presentation and course. In particular, abortive cases (i.e., spontaneous cures) have been found in many subjects in endemic areas. On the other hand, immune suppression was associated with severe disease. AE especially might be considered as an opportunistic infection. Experimental and clinical studies have shown that Th1-related immune response was associated with protection and Th2-related response was associated with parasite growth. Genetic characteristics of the host are related to both occurrence and severity of AE and are associated with the extent of IL-10 secretion, which is a major feature of chronic progressing echinococcosis. Anaphylactic reactions, including urticaria, edema, respiratory symptoms, and anaphylactic shock due to spontaneous or provoked rupture of the parasitic cyst, are well known in CE. Anaphylactic reactions in AE are far less frequent, and have been observed in rare cases at time of metastatic dissemination of the parasitic lesions. Echinococcus-specific IgE is present in most of the patients and associated with severity. Specific histamine release by circulating basophils stimulated with E. granulosus antigens is present in all patients with CE and AE. Echinococcus allergens include (1) AgB 12-kDa subunit, a protease inhibitor and a potent Th2 inducer; (2) Ag5, a serine protease; (3) EA 21, a specific cyclophilin, with a homology with other types of cyclophilins; (4) Eg EF-1 beta/delta an elongation factor, with a homology with Strongyloides stercoralis EF that shares the same IgE epitope. A clinical cross-reaction with Thiomucase, a mucopolysaccharidase used in arthritis treatment, has recently been published. However, despite the potential risk of allergic reactions, the dogma "never puncture a hydatid cyst" is no longer valid. International experience of therapeutic technique of "puncture, aspiration, injection, re-aspiration" of hydatid cysts developed at the beginning of the 1980s has proved to be successful in a variety of selected indications that have been reviewed by WHO recommendations. A better understanding of the immunological background of echinococcosis in humans has led to new therapeutic developments, such as immunomodulation using interferon alpha. Th2-driven immunological response and IL-10-related tolerance state are common characteristics of atopic allergy and echinococcosis. The example of echinococcosis stresses the ambiguous links that exist between parasitic and allergic diseases, and show the usefulness of comparing these diseases to better understand how immune deviation may lead to pathological events and to find new therapeutic and.or preventive agents.

Changing Windows on a Changing China: The Evolving “Think Tank” System and the Case of the Public Security Sector

The entrepreneurial “second generation” of Chinese policy research institutes (often called think tanks) that emerged during the 1980s played a pivotal role in the policy process of reform. Since Tiananmen, China's growing commercialization is spawning a “third generation” of think tanks characterized by even more ambiguous links to sponsoring leaders and institutions, greatly expanded commercial links, greater exposure to Western theories and techniques, and the gradual emergence of wide-ranging “policy communities.” The extent of this change varies greatly across policy sectors, however. Generational change is evident in China's previously unstudied network of public security (police) think tanks. Though clearly still of the “second generation” variety, these institutes have been in the forefront of importing and incorporating more sophisticated crime-fighting techniques and less class-based and conspiratorial theories of crime and social unrest.

The Creation of a Database of Children of Workers at a Nuclear Facility: An Exercise in Record Linkage

Abstract We constructed a database containing birth certificate details of all 261,176 live births and 4059 stillbirths in Cumbria, in northwest England, from 1950 to 1989 for use as an epidemiological tool to examine the health of those who had parents employed at the nuclear installation, Sellafield, in particular in relation to the occupational radiation dose which the parents might have received while working there before their children were conceived. A computer database containing personal details of all 25,514 individuals employed at Sellafield over this period is maintained at Sellafield for epidemiological research purposes. A computer linkage exercise was carried out to match parents in the Cumbrian births database with these Sellafield employees. Ambiguous links were resolved by a clerical team who had access to paper records at Sellafield containing further employee details. Using the National Health Service Central Register, death, cancer, and emigration registrations occurring among the Cumb...

Argent, politique et aviation. L'affaire de l'aéropostale (1931-1932)

Money, politics and aviation. The Aéropostale affair, 1931-1932, Nicolas Neiertz. In the 1920s and 1930s, thanks to the Compagnie Aéropostale and the exploits of its pilots, France seemed to occupy a choice place in the market of international air navigation, particularly in South America. But the early 1930s were marked by the « Aéropostale affair », which was the talk of the town as it revealed ambiguous links between the business and the political communities. An active and ambitious entrepreneur, Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont ; a series of Aviation Ministers conscious of State prerogatives ; important names on the political stage implicated (e.g. P.-E. Flandin) : all the ingredients were there for a complex political-financial scandai, whose analysis leads to a reflection on the nature and functions of this type of affair in a System of parliamentary democracy.

The Processing of Ambiguous Links in Computerized Family Reconstruction

The author reports on a computerized system for automatically linking records which is currently being used in an ongoing family reconstitution project. The project is aimed at reconstructing families through linking 660000 baptism marriage and burial certificates for the Saguenay region of Quebec Canada for the years 1842-1971. This paper deals with a familiar problem encountered in all projects using automatic linkage of name-data: the ambiguities and incompatibilities generated by competing links in a context of multiple files. The advantages of the proposed linking system in overcoming this type of problem are outlined. (EXCERPT)

Canada, Ireland and the Commonwealth: the declaration of the Irish republic, 1948-9

The relationship of Ireland to the Commonwealth during the period of its membership was a tortuous one. Forced to accept dominion status under threat of the renewal of Anglo-Irish hostilities, Ireland was not an enthusiastic member of the club as were the older dominions. The Constitutional Amendment (No. 27) Bill, enacted on 11 December 1936, removed all references to the crown and governor general from the constitution while the Executive Authority (External Relations) Bill, enacted the next day, recognised the crown only for purposes of diplomatic representation and international agreements. These two measures, commonly referred to as the External Relations Act, left Ireland a more or less undeclared republic with ambiguous links to the Commonwealth. Wartime neutrality differentiated Ireland even further from the other dominions, aroused British anger and brought the question of Ireland's constitutional status into even greater prominence. Ireland was, the Canadian high commissioner in Dublin considered in 1944, a more or less unknown quantity' The Canadian government, though it would have preferred a different choice, respected Ireland's neutrality and resented British actions, taken without prior consultation, that might have contrived to drive Ireland from the Commonwealth. The end of the war removed a major cause of grievance but left Ireland's nosition unresolved.