Reality For Citizens Research Articles

Arab Women and Feminist Movements in Israel are Between the Hammer of Society and the Anvil of Law

The aim of this research is to reveal the status and image of Arab women and feminist movement in Israel, as it discusses the reality of citizens of Israel and the extent to which they have access to and enjoy their civil, economic, social and political rights. On the one hand, it also analyses women’s rights from the perspective of a society governed by customs and traditions. This is represented by the authority of the male over the female, because the Arab society is a biased society between males and females to some extent, and on the other hand it demonstrates a comparative view with the international law, agreements and treaties that provided for ensuring the protection of women’s rights. Through this study, the researcher believes that Arab women bear the burdens of submitting themselves to nationalism and the Arab minority on the one hand and the burdens of racial discrimination against Arabs in general and against women in particular. In addition, the local authority responsible for Arab regions and cities bears part of the violations of women’s rights in employment that affect their role in the labor market. This is because it does not carry out its responsibility towards the Arab minority as required, and specifically with regard to securing suitable job opportunities for women, securing public transportation, and suitable places for women with children.

Governmental use of Twitter A questionnaire study on a sample of Twitter users in Saudi: واقع الاستخدام الحكومي لتويتر دراسة استطلاعية على عينة من مستخدمي تويتر في المملكة العربية السعودية

This study aims to identify the reality of the government's use of Twitter, including the degree of citizens 'use of government pages, and the reality of citizens' access to information and participation through their use of government pages on Twitter. Based on the nature of the objectives of this study, the analytical descriptive method was used. The researcher prepared an electronic questionnaire. The number of completed responses reached (334). The study found that the large percentage of the sample (67%) ranged in age from 20 to less than 30 years, and this confirms that the means of social communication is being adopted by a higher proportion of young people. Almost half of the sample (49%) uses a public Internet search engine as a primary option for government information, and this may be due to the ease of finding information through search engines. On the other hand, the study found that nearly half of the sample is not satisfied with the level of information they receive and the level of their participation in the government pages on Twitter, and this may reflect the high expectations of the respondents towards the progress of government pages.The study presented a number of recommendations.

S12. Clinical and neurophysiological profile of adult epilepsy population of Bishkek

Introduction Aim of the study is to study clinical and neurophysiological profiles of epilepsy patients of Oktober district of Bishkek. Methods The study involved 430 patients with epilepsy during 2014–2016y from clinical neurology department of City Hospital and Family Medicine Centers of Oktober district of Bishkek. Results When evaluating EEG data, it was found that 153 (35.6%) patients had focal epileptic activity, while 107 (24.9%) had generalized. At the same time, 170 (39.5%) patients suffering from epilepsy performing EEG did not reveal any epileptic activity interictallly. In those patients who had epileptic foci in the routine EEG, they were most often recorded in the frontal (14.9% of the total sample size) and in the parieto-occipital region (9.1% of the total sample size). In the analysis of MRI, the lesions of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes were simultaneously the most frequent (50 cases or 11.6%), moreover, changes were often detected in the medial divisions of the temporal lobe (20 cases or 4.7%). In 126 cases (29.3%) no changes were detected on the MRI. In 57 (13.2%) cases, neuroimaging was not performed. In the group of patients (153) with the focus established according to the EEG data, the greatest correlation (kA = 0.21) between the epileptic focus and the pathological focus on MRI images coincided for the frontal and frontal parietal areas. In the differential analysis of the structure of seizures, depending on the localization of epileptic focus on the EEG, partial seizures prevailed in various combinations (54.5%) in patients with temporo-parietal focus, in patients with all other areas EEG focuses most often were observed primary GTCS. Conclusion The above data clearly demonstrate that, despite the fact that MRI is an obligatory method of investigation in patients with epilepsy, in reality for citizens of Kyrgyzstan, MRI is often inaccessible, is only in private clinics and is costly. Therefore, it is necessary to equip state hospitals with modern MRI devices, which should be one of the priority directions for the development of domestic epileptology. Taking into account that in 39.5% of cases during routine EEG in the surveyed population, it was not possible to detect focal activity for the purpose of timely diagnosis and adequate therapy of AED in the absence of focal activity according to routine EEG data, it is necessary to perform 3 or 6 h video EEG monitoring.

The ATHENA equation – balancing the efficacy of citizens’ response with the reality of citizens’ rights around data protection

The ways and extent to which LEAs and other crisis responders might possibly harness new communication media – particularly web-based social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and the prolific use of high-tech mobile devices to provide efficient and effective communication and enhanced situational awareness during a crisis is being explored by Sheffield Hallam University’s EC-funded ATHENA project, which comes to an end in December 2016. This article is the first of a two-part analysis of that seminal project funded by the European Commission and considers the legal issues arising from utilising citizen responders’ data in civil emergencies.

Designing parallel data processing for enabling large-scale sensor applications

Masses of sensors are being deployed at the scale of cities to manage parking spaces, transportation infrastructures to monitor traffic, and campuses of buildings to reduce energy consumption. These large-scale infrastructures become a reality for citizens via applications that orchestrate sensors to deliver high-value, innovative services. These applications critically rely on the processing of large amounts of data to analyze situations, inform users, and control devices. This paper proposes a design-driven approach to developing orchestrating applications for masses of sensors that integrates parallel processing of large amounts of data. Specifically, an application design exposes declarations that are used to generate a programming framework based on the MapReduce programming model. We have developed a prototype of our approach, using Apache Hadoop. We applied it to a case study and obtained significant speedups by parallelizing computations over twelve nodes. In doing so, we demonstrate that our design-driven approach allows to abstract over implementation details, while exposing architectural properties used to generate high-performance code for processing large datasets. Furthermore, we show that this high-performance support enables new, personalized services in a smart city. Finally, we discuss the expressiveness of our design language, identify some limitations, and present language extensions.

Social Rights in the Soviet Dictatorship: The Constitutional Right to Welfare from Stalin to Brezhnev

The Soviet constitutions of 1936 and 1977 defined a wide range of social rights. Yet the Soviet Union was a dictatorship, and even in the 1970s internal and external critics alike denied the existence of any form of rights there. This article seeks to explain how and why constitutional rights to welfare became an important element in Soviet public culture from 1936, but in the reality of citizens' everyday lives only from 1953. It draws precise distinctions between the meaning of social rights in the dictatorships of the Stalinist and post-Stalinist eras.

Fish Doing Things with Austin and Searle

Concluding his elegant application of theory of speech acts to Coriolanus, Stanley E. Fish remarks his primary claim not analysis exhaustive but that it doesn't The theory apt for play because play is about what theory 'about.' Insofar as analysis illuminates Coriolanus' failure to understand how reality of citizens' Rome made by language, there little to fault. This a trenchant analysis of Coriolanus' blind spot, his tragic flaw. But this analysis does not adequately-and I believe Fish would admit thisrepresent positivities of Coriolanus' own Rome. In asserting wholly and intractably conventional Fish nullifies Coriolanus' own view ofwords and things. That is, speech act analysis ignores episteme its own, our own, episteme supersedes. Even granting Fish's clinical motive, to extent this analysis reduces drama to a mere demonstration of Coriolanus' linguistic naivete, it does cheat. If, as one contemporary critic persuasively argues, meaning a happening, an event, a matter of the developing responses of and not imbedded in utterance, reader obligated, it seems to me, to withhold evaluation even of competing views of nature of language which even Plato shows no certainty about. Fish deprives us of nothing less than tragic element of play. I don't care to enlist in current Battle of Books between critics and historians, nor to argue whether Shakespeare derives his ideas on language or other matters from Plato, Aristotle, or diverse middlemen. I do care, however, play be allowed to function to its fullest extent as a tragic event. If we hold with Hegel tragedy constituted by necessity of a choice by protagonist between two positives, two goods, by which something lost just as something gained, we are obliged to attempt to render Coriolanus' dilemma in positive terms in order to experience fully tragedy. Fish's analysis eliminates all positivities of Coriolanus' choice. In this way Coriolanus excluded from those works which do not allow a reader