World Societies Research Articles

Importance of Translation and Translation as a Means of Language Development

Translation in general terms means converting a text from one language to another. Translation plays an important role in today’s globalized world and multilingual societies in which we live in. Nowadays it is used as a means of communication, as an effective mode of learning and practicing what is learnt. It also helps in building strong business relationship, politics etc. It’s also seen that local culture and language has the strongest effect on people than any other language. Although English is considered as the global language yet everyone prefers to interact and communicate in their own native language. The various applications of it can be seen in the field of education, tourism, business, technology and science, literature and many more. Through this article I would like to highlight the importance of translation and how does it help in development of language.

Religious Diplomacy in the Settlement of the Afghan Conflict: Opportunities and Limitations

The article analyzes the potential of religious diplomacy in the settlement of the Afghan conflict. The Russian and foreign research discourses highlight the importance and examples of using religious channels as a tool of reducing tensions and resolving conflicts. However, the emphasis is mainly done on the Western practice of specialized (mainly Christian) institutions in preventing the escalation of existing conflicts. This article, in turn, is focused on the analysis of the latest, previously not studied examples of foreign policy initiatives of Islamic religious leaders in post-conflict Afghanistan. Current examples of the activity of Afghan theologians in national and international formats in mobilizing international condemnation of the methods of force against the government of the IRA are discussed. Based on the analysis of expert comments and reports of the media, it is concluded that the main task of the Afghan religious diplomacy to attract the support of the official Afghan authorities in Kabul from the Muslim world was only partially reached, since it was not possible to achieve a unanimous condemnation of the Taliban movement activities. However, in assessing the prospects for further use of religious channels to reduce mistrust and international tension, the author concludes that this tool is in demand in establishing a constructive dialogue with the societies of the Islamic world, overcoming the crisis of trust and preparing a favorable environment for future political dialogue. The author argues that the use of the peacekeeping potential of Islam in the settlement of the Afghan conflict has both potential and limitations due to the current international political situation around Afghanistan.

Constitution, Ethos and Change of Life in Common: Some Introductive Reflections on the Example of Icelandic Constitutional Project

AbstractThe Icelandic constitutional movement was created to address and develop a new constitutional form based upon transparency, responsibility and participation. Taking into consideration the events, which took place in 2008 this expectation appeared more than legitimate. Furthermore, the quality of the debate, which took place within the civil society and in the cooperation between civil society and Constitutional Council, are very meaningful elements supporting a genuine possibility of change. The aim of implementing a participation-based constitution may lead to the diversification of the Icelandic project with respect to the typology of the existing constitution. This may produce as a result the development of new checks and balances. For this reason the development of public local services may be an opportunity to develop a social balance with respect of the constitution in force, as well as a living constitution starting from below. In this way the values purported by civil society may lead to higher levels of political freedom and finally to the approval of a new constitution. To keep the Icelandic process communicatively open in a transnational perspective may thus permit other persons to contribute to the development of Icelandic democracy. It may furthermore offer the Icelandic example as a useful tool that could be used by many world societies aiming to implement transparency, responsibility and participation in their public life. Indeed, even though the Constitutional Bill of 2011 will not finally be validly approved as the Icelandic constitution, the problems that it posed, and the possibilities that we see are stemming from them, have in our opinion a general importance for constitutional reflections.

Mejoría de la sintomatología depresiva en personas mayores gracias al programa universitario de “Las aulas de la experiencia” de la Universidad del País Vasco

La esperanza de vida está aumentando en las sociedades del primer mundo por lo que es un objetivo prioritario garantizar una vida satisfactoria y saludable a lo largo de la vida hasta el fin de la misma. Por otro lado, sabemos que la depresión es una de las enfermedades mentales que más prevalece en las personas mayores. En el presente estudio trabajamos con el alumnado de primer curso de la Universidad del País Vasco para personas mayores, estudiantes todos ellos y ellas de las Aulas de la Experiencia de Bizkaia. Se evaluó la presencia de sintomatología depresiva, así como las relaciones con otras personas con objeto de observar si la asistencia a las aulas está relacionada con una mejoría de la depresión y analizar relaciones entre diferentes variables psicológicas y relacionales. Nuestros resultados sugieren que la Universidad para mayores de 55 años puede mejorar la sintomatología de la depresión y que esta mejoría está relacionada con otras variables psicológicas y relacionales. Subrayamos así la importancia de seguir creando recursos para las personas mayores con el fin de ayudar a prevenir el aislamiento, problemas de salud mental y promover el bienestar de las mismas.

Mindful Engineers in Sustainable Engineering

According to the Encyclopadia Britannica, the establishment of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (Royal Society), the "oldest national scientific society in the world," was on November 28, 1660. In 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the first professional engineering body, was also set up in London. Ten years later King Georges IV granted ICE its Royal Charter. Throughout the past 200 years, the world, and Western societies in particular, have experienced deep social changes. The engineering profession has not been an exception, and today its ethos is much broader and complex than the roots and conditions that were found at its origins. What elements are required for professional self-awareness in 21st century engineers? Our goal here is to outline these potential characteristics of contemporary engineering.

Fundamentos ontológicos del sistema educativo finlandés como referente para superar problemáticas en contextos emergentes

El presente trabajo surge de la reflexión acerca del fracaso de modelos educativos exteriores aplicados en contextos emergentes sin considerar la realidad de cada pueblo. A juicio de Carnoy (1974) en los países subdesarrollados existe una fuerte tradición en copiar las formas culturales y modelos de sociedades de primer mundo, sin analizar las condiciones objetivas y subjetivas que determinarán el éxito o el fracaso. El objetivo de este documento es analizar los fundamentos ontológicos presentes en el sistema educativo finlandés con la finalidad de identificar los principales referentes que servirán de base para superar problemáticas de la realidad educativa en sociedades emergentes. El documento presenta una revisión de tipo exploratoria, descriptiva y comparativa que por la naturaleza del estudio es de carácter bibliográfico y cualitativo apoyado en el uso de los métodos lógico-científicos (deductivo-inductivo) con sus respectivos procedimientos, y fortalecido con la aplicación de los métodos filosóficos fenomenológico-hermenéutico. La tendencia a la imitación y a la copia de modelos educativos ajenos a nuestra realidad ha dado como resultado sistemas educativos deficientes y que no responden a las necesidades concretas propias de la realidad educativa de las sociedades emergentes. Es preciso determinar el ser, el sentido y el significado del sistema educativo finlandés con miras a la localización de aspectos esenciales que podrían convertirse en pautas para repensar otros modelos educativos.

Frankincense in peril

The harvest of plant parts and exudates from wild populations contributes to the income, food security and livelihoods of many millions of people worldwide. Frankincense, an aromatic resin sourced from natural populations of Boswellia trees and shrubs, has been cherished by world societies for centuries. Boswellia populations are threatened by over-exploitation and ecosystem degradation, jeopardizing future resin production. Here, we reveal evidence of population collapse of B. papyrifera—now the main source of frankincense—throughout its geographic range. Using inventories of 23 populations consisting of 21,786 trees, growth-ring data from 202 trees and demographic models on the basis of 7,246 trees, we find that over 75% of studied populations lack small trees, natural regeneration has been absent for decades, and projected frankincense production will be halved in 20 yr. These changes are caused by increased human population pressure on Boswellia woodlands through cattle grazing, frequent burns and reckless tapping. A literature review showed that other Boswellia species experience similar threats. Populations can be restored by establishing cattle exclosures and fire-breaks, and by planting trees and tapping trees more carefully. Concerted conservation and restoration efforts are urgently needed to secure the long-term availability of this iconic product. Wild plants anchor ecosystems and local economies. The iconic resin frankincense comes from Boswellia trees. This study documents the population collapse of B. papyrifera, the main frankincense source, throughout its range, suggesting conservation and restoration is vital.

Klasik Yunan Dünyasında Pers-Severlik Oluşumu

The establishment of the Achaemenid Empire as the most important occurrence of the 6th century B.C. changed all of cultural and social parameters in the most important civilization centres of the ancient world. Greece, with all of its ancient rich culture has been effected by this new government of the world and has shown this effect in all of its cultural and social proportions of Hellenic societies. After the great march of Xerxes I the communications between West and East found a new opportunity for making new multi-cultural societies and the luxury of the Achaemenid Empire influenced some of Greek peoples to make a new style of life, culture and even cult, that is known as “Philo-Persianism”. The Cultural policies of the capital and the local satraps, the Darics of Susa, and the multi-national houses stepped up this process. Since the great march of Xerxes, these social identities became a great problem for some of Greek city-states. The process of Philo-Persianism was different according to the social and cultural situation of the regions. It happened sometimes by the mythological narrations, sometimes by the unified cults and sometimes by the coins of the Empire, but all of them made new Persian sympathy societies that sometimes could play as the fifth columns of the Achaemenid Empire. The city-state of Argos, the multi-national houses of Asia Minor and the Philo-Persian religious houses and cults could be count as the most important Philo-Persian societies of Greek world, that could change important results of the political events during the Classical period.

Old Home and Caring Elderly Population: Need or Dilemma

Background: Number of elderly population is growing very faster all over the world. This growth in elderly population relative to other age groups challenges mostly the existing health services, family relationships and social security. In this article we tried to address the gravity of the issue at family, social and national level. We also examined the parents care scenario in Western World and Asian societies.
 Observations and conclusions: Our observations revealed that old people from both West and Asia are interested to stay in their home with their children and grandchildren. This is a way to transmit there real life experience to their third generation (grand children) which, however, is very essential for the emotional, humane and psychological development of our future generation of the World. The present day capitalistic attitude is eroding the emotion and affection to the old and a big number of then end up in West and although smaller in Asian countries, but showed increasing trend, end up old homes. There are, however, situations where facilities needed for care of older people who lost their children and sometimes ailing people in native countries where their children living or settled aboard. Taking into consideration of the growing issue and empathic care of those facilities in such situations run following guidelines and ethical rules.
 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.18(3) 2019 p.453-457

Southern Mesopotamia: Water and the rise of urbanism

AbstractThe region of southern Mesopotamia, in modern southern Iraq, was home to perhaps the world's oldest cities and complex societies. Such cities and towns developed closely to irrigation works and other water features, with major settlements developed along levees and so‐called turtle backs made up of natural accumulation and human‐made debris. While water was a critical component to the rise of cities, it was also the unique evolution of societies to their complex landscape, including the development of different social practices that made the region develop early cities. By‐products of these social developments included religious institutions and inequality but also the rise of governments, written language, laws, and other forms of social development we associate with our own societies. Recent work in southern Iraq demonstrates that the region was likely occupied much earlier than we thought; new climate data and other work will mean our picture on how the environment shaped the development of urban‐based societies in southern Mesopotamia will evolve in the coming years. New fieldwork, including surveys and excavations, will also shape a new understanding of how urbanism arose in this complex landscape.This article is categorized under:Human Water > Water as Imagined and RepresentedScience of Water > Water and Environmental ChangeEngineering Water > Planning Water

Third World Women Representation in Western Feminist Discourse: A Critical Study

The Western representation of others and particularly Third World women is not a recent fabrication but it had been operational and deep-rooted in the West conceptualization ever since the first encounters between Europe and its other. With this in mind, this paper purports to examine the representation/image of the female Other in the Eurocentric feminist narratives as well as to uncover the pitfalls that Western feminist scholars face while attempting-in their so-called mission - to rescue their sisters in the Third world societies. This paper counters the fallacy that has been long held by Western feminists about Third World women as being homogenous and ‘uncivilized other’. Drawing on postcolonial feminist thought, this paper presents a critique of Western feminism vis-a-vis Third World feminism and literary contributions namely, Chadra Mohanty and Gayatri Spivak’ theorizations.

Power-sharing after the Arab Spring? Insights from Lebanon’s Political Transition

The article looks at the legacy of consociationalism in Lebanon with the aim of illuminating some insights on the linkages between power-sharing and conflict resolution in the post-2011 Middle East. It highlights three core dilemmas or governance traps that have recurred in Lebanon’s political dynamic: the power-sharing formula’s proneness to deadlock, its dependence on the external environment as an avenue for partisanship and sectarian leverage, and its weak responsiveness to demands from below. The article shows how these dilemmas are tightly linked to the politics of sectarianism. While Lebanon’s postwar transition (1990 onward) serves as a backdrop for exploring these dilemmas, emphasis is placed on the performance of Lebanon’s political system in the post–Arab Spring era. The aim is to assess whether Lebanon’s consociational performance has matured over time. The Lebanese experience brings into sharper focus the limitations of sectarian power-sharing. Still, it provides useful insights for reshaping the debate on power-sharing in divided societies of the Arab world.

The Transcultural Projections of the Strategies of Global Integration of the Contemporary Multicultural Societies

The article deals with the innovative theoretical problems related to the research of the prospects for the further development of the integrative multicultural practices and the harmonization of intercultural communications in the multicultural societies of the modern world under economic, political, and cultural globalization. The author presents the characteristic of the conceptual evolution of the idea of ​​multicultural coexistence and analyses the cognitive potential of the concepts of acculturation and cultural diffusion in the cultural and sociological studies. The scientific significance of generalization of the specialized knowledge concerning the real practices of realization of the multicultural projects into the processes of organizing the social order of modern societies under the contexts of increasing the global social movements of the forced and voluntary character of various ethnocultural groups and communities is argued. The article substantiates the need for wider use in scientific studies the concept of transculturalism which has distinct perspectives to become an effective methodological tool to provide the non-violent coexistence of interacting ethnocultural communities presenting different national-states and regional unions. The author identifies specific problematic complexes of transcultural studies paying attention: 1) to the problem of basic determinants that restrict the global universalism of multicultural politics; 2) to the problem of identification of the most conflicting spheres of the contemporary multicultural world; 3) to the problems of the integrative potential of new socio-cultural phenomena. Further scientific researches will contribute to the creation of a new conceptual model of the transcultural integration of contemporary societies.

A PROSPEK PENGELOLAAN KEUANGAN BANK SYARIAH DI INDONESIA

At present, Islamic banking in Indonesia is growing up fastly and very fantastic with the unique financial management system. The global monetary crisis have brought it’s cleverness in the Islamic banking development besouse the world societies, the experts, and the prudence makers desire to apply shariah concept seriously. The Islamic financial institutions (including Islamic banking) appear as one of Shariah concept applications with no refusal. Even it’s excepted because of the real influence, so that Islamic banking is prospecting in the future. Its offers the real investment and benefit (revenue) by profit – lost sharing system. The interest-free concept in Islamic banking operation makes it different from conventional banking that based on interest-fee. Besides, the application of Good Corporate Governance in Islamic banking is expected to be able to increase the precious for stakeholders. The GCG aplication is excpected to increase publics trust to Islamic banking financial management system, maintain the growth of Islamic financial industries and the stability of whole financial system, and bring the Islamic finance institutions into of playing field level that equal with other international finance institutions.

Rastreio Oncológico – Porquê, Para Quem, Quando e Como

A patologia oncológica corresponde a uma significativa parcela da incidência e mortalidade das doenças crónicas nas sociedades mundiais, sobretudo daquelas mais desenvolvidas economicamente. A sua prevenção secundária tornou-se uma arma de reconhecida importância, nomeadamente através de âmbito populacional e de aplicação de metodologias e técnicas padronizadas de rastreio. São descritos os princípios gerais de rastreio oncológico, bem como a sua aplicação e adequação aos casos de cancro da mama feminina, colo do útero e segmento colorectal.

A new chronological model for the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus: radiocarbon results from Project ArAGATS, Armenia

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Foundations of Practice.

A highly disproportionate burden of cancer is manifested in the world's poorest societies. Since 2016, I have volunteered with the Washington, DC-based organization Health Volunteers Overseas and have provided oncology and palliative nursing education and consultation in Vietnam, Honduras, and Bhutan. In addition, I have volunteered with Living Room International in Kenya, focusing on hospice nursing resource enhancement. I have traveled more than 50,000 miles to those four resource-impoverished nations and witnessed hardships beyond description.

Towards A Supranational Media Theory

Satellite systems and the Internet have created a significant alternative that undermines the traditional reporting approach and triggered the search for a new order in mass communication. Instant and interactive data transfer systems have transformed local users into global readers and reporters encouraging a trend of democratization relative to freedom of thought and expression. Content providers and distributors in the traditional news industry which is televisions, magazines, radios, newspapers, online platforms, have a wide range of freedom to reach people. Consumers who use interactive mass communication systems have opportunities to interact with the content that is produced in many different centers. However, in the presence of the media defined as a mechanism that manufactures the consent of people for certain ideas, no matter if they are traditional or novel, people sometimes take the position of a buyer or an activist who takes action for a project and sometimes a part of a group of insusceptible people. People think their consent is their freewill without noticing that it is just a product. They feel a sense of gratitude to the ruling elites without noticing that they are the subjects of a social experiment and under the hypnotic influence of the media. Even though the world societies are getting the same content using the same communication technologies thanks to supranational media companies. Particularly because of content created to convey a message, social differences become more explicit and radical rather than the values in common. That’s why conflicts are incited. At the heart of the majority of new media organization debates, the existence of this problematic information lies. This article, which has been prepared with an analytical approach based on a literature review, discusses the theoretical conditions and the possibility of a new supranational media structure that world citizens need as a source of information. The philosophical basis of the supranational media ideal in question is at the heart of cosmopolitan individuals and eternal peace ideals of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The present media are unable to produce content that doesn’t try to convey a message as it positions individuals as “consumers or user” rather than “people”. Here, supranational media depicting theoretical conditions doesn’t seek profit. It introduces individuals and cultures with their diverse social layers in the consciousness of being a cosmopolitan. Supranational media’s output is based on notions like science, rights and freedoms, the earth, coexistence, and "humanity”.

Food and the State: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Diet in the Moche Valley of Perú

The Moche of north coastal Perú were among the earliest New World societies to develop state socio-political organization. The Moche State (AD 200-800) was a centralized hierarchical society that controlled the Moche Valley as well as valleys to the north and south. Prior to the establishment of the state, a series of less hierarchical organizations were present in the valley. Irrigation agriculture has often been cited as central to development of the Moche State. To test this assertion I examined 750 individuals recovered from the largest cemetery at the site of Cerro Oreja. Although the most important occupation of Cerro Oreja was during the Gallinazo phase (AD 1-200), many individuals were interred here during the earlier Salinar period (400 -1 BC). Consequently, the Cerro Oreja collection holds a key to understanding the development of one of the earliest and most extensive states in the Americas. The teeth and/or alveoli of each individual were examined for the presence of dental caries, periodontal disease, abscesses, and antemortem tooth loss. My analysis suggests women and children did increasingly focus their diet on agricultural products. These findings seem to support the hypothesis that increased irrigation and reliance on agricultural production was fundamental to the development of the Moche state. However, men’s diets remained consistent through time. Status seems to have been of little import in determining diet before and during early periods of state development, in dramatic contrast to what we know of its importance during the zenith of the state’s power. I suggest that increasing differentiation of gender roles was important to the development of the state, and that gender differences may have been the most salient force in the transition to political hierarchy and social stratification in the Moche valley.

The Center of the Earth in Ancient Thought

AbstractThroughout the annals of history, many societies have imagined that places integral to their religious, political, or cultural life should be considered “centers.” These centers are often represented by symbolic constructions, mythologies, and ideological statements. In many cases, notions of centrality are accompanied by claims that a particular space should be considered the “center” or “middle” of the earth; in the Classical World, such a place may also be referred to as the “navel of the earth,” with theomphalosconnected to the oracle at Delphi being the examplepar excellence. Yet Delphi did not hold a monopoly on Classical notions of centrality. From the archaic period to Late Antiquity, critical responses to Delphi emerged, sparking the appearance of other, competing, centers throughout the Mediterranean. New centers show striking similarities to one another in their associated ideologies, physicality, and mythography, and could be represented through programmatic cartographic, literary, and architectural statements. Regardless of the medium, all avenues of representation are indicators of the myriad ways in which these societies understood their physical and metaphorical place in relation to other civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. This paper will argue that, through intense cultural contact, societies of the ancient world created imagined centers as a direct—and oftentimes competitive—response to other imagined centers in the Mediterranean, and beyond. All of these reconfigurations and manipulations of fictional and real space can be associated with fundamental shifts in the socio-cultural operations of the society in which the new “center” appears.