Thematic Bases Research Articles

Liberalisation of Nigeria's abortion laws with a focus on pregnancies resulting from rape: An empirical analysis

SUMMARY One of the reasons why women seek abortion in Nigeria is to get rid of unwanted pregnancies resulting from rape. However, due to the prohibition of the procedure, in such circumstances many women resort to secret and mostly unsafe abortions. These abortions contribute to the soaring rates of maternal deaths and morbidity in the country. It is against this background that this article examines the Nigerian laws on abortion and elicits peoples' attitudes to the call for liberalisation thereof, with a focus on pregnancies resulting from rape. The study employs both the doctrinal and the non-doctrinal methods of research. The doctrinal method comprises a contents analysis of literature and the law. The non-doctrinal method consists of field research to obtain information via interviews, which is imperative because of the dearth of primary data to work on. The field research involves representative participants that are selected using a purposive sampling technique. Findings are presented on thematic bases. It is established that the current law is dysfunctional and counter-productive, and that people support its liberalisation. Consequently, the study concludes that an effective strategy to combat unsafe abortion and enhance women 's reproductive health in Nigeria is to liberalise the law to conform to the nation's treaty obligations, while deriving insights from the South African experience. Key words: rape; unsafe abortion; reproductive autonomy; right to choose; Nigeria

Categorical matrix of theoretical psychology

Categorical matrix of theoretical psychology

A roadmap for implementing general policies of resistance economy in the Isfahan Universities of Medical Sciences.

CONTEXT AND AIMS:The country development can be promoted through applying policies of the resistance economy in the health system and universities. Therefore, this paper aimed to provide a scientific analysis of resistance economy policies and providing a roadmap for their implementation in the field of health care of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.MATERIALS AND METHODS:This is a qualitative study. The basis, general purposes, and strategies of the resistance economy were extracted from the review of the policy of the resistance economy with a political research approach. Then, effective programs and indicators to achieve the goals of the resistance economy were proposed by holding 10 sessions of a centralized group discussion. Finally, the implementation of the resistance economy in the deputies of the University of Medical Sciences was approved by these programs and indicators along with other components and Delphi questionnaire to 30 experts. Framework analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data from the group discussion and the Delphi stage, respectively.RESULTS:Implementation of general policies of resistance economy in the field of health and treatment of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences with eight thematic bases, 39 goals, 54 strategies, and 98 programs and indicators were approved by experts. The eight areas of people-centered, economic growth, economic justice, support for internal services, economic flexibility, economic stability, economic influence, and economic health were identified as the thematic bases of communicative policies of the resistance economy in the field of health.CONCLUSION:The implementation of resistance economy policies entails planning in the long run, culture-building, appreciating the resistance economy in health issues, cooperation, and synergy among different institutions, restructuring the education system at different levels of the health system, and entrepreneurship training.

Review: Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966)

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) WHITECHAPEL GALLERY LONDON JANUARY 29-MAY 15, 2016 There is no escaping the gargantuan pair of women's buttocks greeting the visitor entering Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966). With a series of speech bubbles emerging from deep within, Olaf Breuning's wall-scale photograph Text Butt (2015) places onto the naked female body a fragmented smartphone conversation made up of unrelated questions and nonsensical replies, in which she is quite literally speaking out of her ass. Introducing the theme of the body's changing relationship to technology that curator Omar Kholeif described as the starting point of the show's exploration of art and the internet, this is just one of the (exclusively) female bodies chosen to map this connection. To the left sits Katja Novitskova's Innate Disposition 2 (2012), a large cutout print of a small furry animal, nestled in a pair of manicured women's hands. To the right, in James Bridle's Homo Sacer (2014), a projected holographic image of a smiling woman hovers behind a wooden desk. Reminiscent of the kind of hologram appearing in bureaucratic spaces such as airports and government buildings to provide depersonalized instructions, she is a virtual receptionist who flickers into life as each gallery-goer walks through the door. Quoting decontextualized extracts from various nations' citizenship legislation, her singsong intonation welcomes us in, at the same time drawing our attention to the ways in which our sense of belonging is fragile and might be revoked. It is not clear whether the gendered nature of this opening display was intentional or an unthinking coincidence, but it places the image of woman in interesting relation to the technology at the heart of the exhibition--as naked, sexualized body parts to be penetrated and overcome, or as a kind of gatekeeper, a guardian of the secrets that follow in all their noisy, brazen, and in places, trashy glory. Including over one hundred works by seventy artists, Electronic Superhighway takes us back through time, posing the question: How has the internet changed art? Broad in scope, the curated response encompasses a variety of media and approaches, from the latest social media platforms, net.art, and computer-generated drawing, to traditional oil painting, photography, sculpture, film, and video. It covers many thematic bases: appropriation and remediation, authenticity and digital manipulation, technology and identity, the deconstruction of modernist paradigms and traditions, surveillance, and resistant forms of political agency. It was perhaps unavoidable that many are treated with a light touch, and in the crowded spaces of the large ground floor galleries of contemporary work, the flashing colors and glaring screens create an experience that at times feels like a rapid frog-march through its various themes. There is a lot to see. Covering the ever-evolving platforms in which we engage with the internet today, all the way back to the pre-internet era in which the earliest digital stirrings presented an exciting prospect to artists of the 1960s, there is no shared artistic approach. But the fluctuating and often uncomfortable relationship that emerges as the human body adopts, incorporates, and at times resists technology is an enduring theme throughout. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's about the internet, so there's a lot of sex. As part of his examination of its role in the negotiation of contemporary masculinity, Egyptian artist Mahmoud Khaled's series Do You Have Work Tomorrow? (2012) stages a Grindr conversation between two men. Presenting a fictional narrative as a series of thirty-two prints of iPhone screen shots, the banality of the dialogue draws attention to technology's everyday mediation of sexuality, despite the background turmoil of the Arab Spring suggested by the conversation's date. A similar relationship between social media and sexuality is explored in Celia Hempton's portraits of men encountered in chat rooms--albeit in a wholly different format. …

The degree of comparison in Luwian

The paper argues for the existence of the synchretic comparative and superlative degree in Luwian, which in the majority of cases finds a morphological expression in the suffix -zza- appended to the thematic bases of the adjectives, sometimes in lieu of other secondary suffixes found in the positive degree (e. g. washazza- ‘most devoted, benevolent’ vs. washaya- ‘devoted’). This morpheme etymologically goes back to the Indo-European suffix * -t i̯ o- , which is used in Hittite for the formation of polar adjectives (e. g. hantezzi(ya)- ‘first’ or sarazzi(ya)- ‘upper’). In addition to the synthetic superlatives, we also have evidence of analytically formed superlative adjectives in Luwian

Linking Educational Research Activities across Europe: A Review of the WIFO Gateway to Research on Education in Europe

The WIFO Gateway to Research on Education in Europe ( http://www.wifo-gate.org ) is an Internet portal focusing on vocational education and training and human resource development. Launched 10 years ago by the Research Forum Education and Society (Wissenschaftsforum Bildung und Gesellschaft — WIFO) Berlin, it has developed in several stages in close collaboration with research partners across Europe. Several dimensions of linking educational research activities at the European level are addressed in this article: linking research content, both over time and across the field; linking research and information; and linking researchers in collaboration. These dimensions are outlined by drawing on evidence of piloting from the WIFO site, including thematic resource bases on European research projects, a synopsis of national research across countries in the European Union, directories of doctoral dissertations and Master's programmes, and an indexed edition of ECER/VETNET proceedings (papers presented at the annual European Conference on Educational Research [ECER] by the European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training [VETNET]), and finally the Newsletter for European Research in Learning and Work as an efficient tool for linking the online platform with the community of researchers.

Geoprocessamento e sensoriamento remoto aplicados à análise de recursos florestais

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma proposta metodológica para o levantamento e análise dos recursos florestais dos povoamentos naturais e implantados, obtido através da utilização de técnicas de geoprocessamento e sensoriamento remoto e localizados na carta topográfica SH. 22-Y-A, Cachoeira do Sul, RS. Para tal, utilizaram-se imagens de satélites associadas ao sistema de informações geográficas, processadas por técnicas de classificação digital e funções matemáticas. Dessa forma, realizou-se o levantamento e a quantificação das diferentes bases temáticas. As variáveis e bases temáticas foram obtidas através das imagens de satélite, trabalho de campo, carta topográfica e cruzamentos geoespaciais, obtendo o uso da terra, espécie implantada, área ocupada, além da localização dos povoamentos florestais quanto à declividade, tipo de solo, rede hidrográfica e disponibilidade viária. Assim, essas informações permitiram analisar a situação da cobertura florestal da região de estudo, fornecendo subsídios ao gerenciamento dos recursos florestais e a preservação do meio ambiente.

The Personal Endings of the Present and Imperfect Active and Middle

In 1927 I published in this Journal (3. 71-86) a study on 'The Inflection of the Present Indicative Active in Indo-European.' Since that time, further investigation, particularly along the lines of vocalic alternation (apophony, 'Ablaut'), with its underlying factor of accent, has led me to conclusions which seem to me so much deeper in foundations and, in a measure, so much broader in results that I regard that older discussion as practically supplanted by the one which I now present. This investigation forms part of a series of three, the other two being 'Sur l'inflexion des pr6tendus th6mes en -i' and 'Vocalic Alternation in the Disyllabic Base in Indo-European', to appear almost simultaneously with this in the Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris and the American Journal of Philology respectively. To the 'Disyllabic Base' I must refer for the theory of alternation here assumed, and there one will see that the difference between athematic and thematic bases still

FOLK-MUSIC IN ART- MUSIC—A DISCUSSION AND A THEORY

OR the last fifty or sixty years the practice of using folktunes as thematic bases upon which to erect, or from which to develop, pretentious art-compositions, has become so general and such a well recognized method of procedure that a discussion of it in all its aspects is peculiarly pertinent at this time. It is in fact no new thing. Folk-tunes have been made use of in one way or another in art-music for several hundred years. But they have not always been used with the same end in view. Sometimes they have been introduced into a composition as a purely suggestive extraneous element; a passing reference, as it were, to a well-known idea, and had little to do with the purely musical organism of the composition. In this category belong the reference to the Marseillaise in Schumann's Faschingschwank, or the quotation of O du lieber Augustin in Rezni6ek's Schlemiel,-mere dashes of local color. Such use of a folktune does not concern itself with the tune as music per se, but merely uses it as a reminder of a well-known idea or emotion. It goes without saying that it most fittingly occurs in music of a romantic or programmatic character. But by far the most important method of using folk-tunes as the bases of art-music, (with which this study concerns itself almost entirely) is that in which a composer, taking a certain folk-tune, considers it as a musical kernel from which ultimately to develop a beautiful and significant art-work. If his work is well done, not only does he develop the musical kernel in accordance with all the resources of musical art, but the completed composition presents in an intensified, enlarged and extended manner the spirit of the original folk-tune. There are many cases, however, in which composers have taken folk-tunes as the musical strands from which to weave a composition, but their interest in the mechanical and purely musical side of their task has so absorbed their attention and captured their interest that they have blindly ignored the emotional