cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Writing on history and framing the evolution of Jewish figures in Egyptian novels: Ṣālat ʾUrfānīllī (ʻʻOrfanelli’s Hallʼʼ) by Ašraf al-‘Ašmāwī
Creators: name: Waly, Naglaa
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Since his debut in 2010, the Egyptian writer Ašraf al-‘Ašmāwī (b. 1966) has been distinguished by two features: setting novels in historical contexts and paying considerable attention to minorities and  marginalised classes in Egyptian society. The focus of this article is on Ṣālat ʾUrfānīllī' (“Orfanelli’s Hall,” 2021), one of his most recent novels. In this novel, a-'Ašmāwī addresses the presence and the life of the Jewish community in Egypt in the period between 1911 and 1972. The novelist highlights the historical issues of Jews, in parallel with the political and social changes in Egypt over several decades of the 20th century. In addressing political and economic issues related to this period, he questions and subverts the official, exclusionary versions of history.  Against this backdrop, Ṣālat ʾUrfānīllī offers a case study with two aims: firstly, to discuss recourse to historical context and its connection with political and socio-cultural concerns and secondly, to point out the evolution of Jewish characters in post-2011 Egyptian narratives.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Peter Jandok: Gemeinsam planen in deutsch-chinesischen Besprechungen. Eine konversationsanalytische Studie zur Institutionalität und Interkulturalität
Creators: name: Stanislaw, Volker
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Datasets, Databases and Repositories on Avian Influenza in England, Italy and Germany: availability , accessibility , and potential use in epidemiological research
Creators: name: Bennani, Houda
name: Scolamacchia, Francesca
name: Brouwer, Adam
name: Polhmann, Anne
name: Staubach, Christoph
name: Mulatti, Paolo
name: Guitian, Javier
name: Alarcon, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The study mapped existing datasets on HPAI in poultry and wild birds in three case study regions(England, Italy and Germany) and assessed their connections, harmonisation, accessibility andpotential for future epidemiological research.
Andreas Seifert: Bildergeschichten für Chinas Massen. Comic und Comicproduktion im 20. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Freiin Ebner Von Eschenbach, Silvia
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Ali Fuad Selvi and Bedrettin Yazan. Language Teacher Education for Global Englishes: A Practical Resource Book. 2021.
Creators: name: Ajam, Ali
name: Rizal, Awaludin
name: Mamnunah, Mamnunah
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Bernd Sagemann: Die Stadtstaaten Hongkong und Singapur in der Asienkrise. Entstehungsfaktoren, Entwicklungen und Parallelen zur Subprime-Finanzkrise
Creators: name: Peterskovsky, Lisa
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Esterino Adami. Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts. 2022.
Creators: name: Nur, Husnul Khatimah
name: Yasrah, Mufidah
name: Madani, Madani
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani. Writer-reader Interaction by Meta Discourse Features: English-Persian Translation in Legal and Political Texts. 2022.
Creators: name: Palangngan, Sukmawati Tono
name: Alfiani Nur, Syauqiyah Awaliyah
name: Haidir, Asia Masita
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
“Le spose della città non leggono i giornali" (Nagarvadhueṁ akhbār nahīṁ paḍhtīṁ)
Creators: name: Avio, Edoardo Elia
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
“The bitter wine of my life:” Bitterness and tragicality in "The Blind Owl"
Creators: name: Bidgoli, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Sadegh Hedayat’s masterpiece The Blind Owl (1936) is repeatedly called the greatest Iranian modern novel and one of the best literary productions of the Twentieth century. Its contemporary modernist movements such as surrealism, symbolism and expressionism are the ones Hedayat had been familiar with and they become the medium via which his anonymous narrator communicates his story. Drawing upon Zhao Feng’s recent essay on surrealism and soteriological desire, this intervention suggests that surrealism for Hedayat in The Blind Owl does not play a soteriological role as it does for many surrealists, Andre Breton chief among them. Hedayat’s version seems much more extreme, cynical and tragic, delicately flavored with a persistent existential sense of bitterness which pervades the text.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Deceived Wisdom - Free Sampler
Creators: name: Bradley, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: Education
subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Survey Results
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Toxicology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biophysics

description: Deceived Wisdom: Why what you thought was right is wrong. The new book from award-winning freelance science journalist David Bradley now available from all good book shops and online as a DRM-free PDF, ePub or mobi version from David's Sciencebase site. This is the free taster available as a PDF
Political and social dynamics of class in revolutionary Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Habib Jalib
Creators: name: Shahid Khan, Farkhanda
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Revolutionary poetry is considered the most concentrated verbal expression and literary mode practically suited to provoke political uprisings and revolts in a society. This article explores the intricacies of class on political and social grounds in the revolutionary Urdu poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984) and Habib Jalib (1928–1993). Given the pace of social progress in Pakistan, the writings of these poets have played a radical role in shaping people’s ideology by educating them about freedom of expression and provoking them to speak out against imperialism and other exploitative systems of the status quo. The power dynamics in the devastating system of capitalism in Pakistan led to the exploitation of workers and the suppression of their rights. Against the background of these problems, through close reading, this article analyses selected poems by progressive writers—Faiz and Jalib, under the guidelines of Marx on class, Gramsci’s hegemony, and Louis Althusser’s ideological and repressive state apparatuses. This article concludes that the revolutionary poetry of these two poets aims to transform the social and political fabric of Pakistani society.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Mattias Bergmann, Engelbert Schramm (Hgg.): Transdisziplinäre Forschung. Integrative Forschungsprozesse verstehen und bewerten
Creators: name: Böttger, Lea-Katharina
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow. Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam. 2022.
Creators: name: Łukaszyk, Ewa A.
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Learning Modules for Secure C++ Programming and Visualization Tool for Computer Architecture Education
Creators: name: Garcia, Mateo Alberto
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 401002
subject: Engineering education

description: This research focuses on creating educational materials for secure software development and a visualization tool for a Computer Organization and Design (COD) course. The integration of digital technology in our lives has greatly increased in the last two decades, and the recent pandemic has sped this up even more. Cybercriminals are now able to target people and organizations to gain money and reputation. To protect against cybercriminals, cybersecurity has become crucial for all Internet users and is in high demand. However, the cybersecurity industry is struggling to meet this demand because there are more job openings than qualified professionals. Our goal is to raise cybersecurity awareness to encourage safe technology use and inspire students to consider careers in cybersecurity. Towards this, the first part of this research led to the creation of learning modules for secure programming in C++. These modules teach about various software vulnerabilities and their mitigation. The vulnerabilities covered include switch-case, functions, random numbers, integer overflow, and buffer overflow. Students will learn the importance of creating well-designed software that is also safe. COD is one of the most important courses in the Computer Engineering/Science (CE/CS) curriculum. A good understanding of computer functionality is extremely valuable for CE/CS students, but this course is challenging to learn. To help with this, the second part of this research developed a visualization-based learning tool for the COD course. The tool includes learning modules on standard microarchitecture and microarchitecture security, supporting the cybersecurity awareness initiative. So far, three visualization modules have been developed in this tool, covering memory access, CPU pipelining, and the Spectre attack.
Buddhist and Christian diplomacies pursuing peace amidst the Second World War: Official communications between Thailand and the Vatican
Creators: name: Cicuzza, Claudio
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article discloses and analyses a selection of letters, reports, and official missives exchanged between the Holy See and the governments of Thailand during the Second World War. The collected documents are kept in the Archives of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, in Rome, and contain evidence of the attempts made by the two diplomacies, one Christian and the other Buddhist, to establish a dialogue and find a solution to the pressing problems that were complicating the country’s already difficult situation during the world conflict. A beneficial solution to these problems was found by Thai diplomacy, based on a considered interpretation of Buddhist teachings and their fundamental tolerance, and by the Vatican, which not only recognised the value of this different religious thought but also Thailand’s complex position within the balance of powers in Southeast Asia in the mid-20th century.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Colour nomenclatures across African languages: A study review with a focus on Hausa and Swahili
Creators: name: Chirichella, Tatjana
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This review article aims to provide an overview of the works published in the last decades on colour terminology and categorisation in some African languages[1], and Hausa and Swahili in particular. It gives information about different African languages (Ndebele, Setswana, Xhosa, Chichewa, Egyptian-Coptic, Himba and Chakali), then it traces the main works covering the area of Hausa and Swahili language, from the earliest papers until now. Even though these languages have a rich tradition of studies, the amount of works devoted to colour naming is fairly limited. The theoretical approaches of the studies that have appeared in the last few decades are rather heterogeneous, and include perspectives from lexical semantics, cognitive semantics and sociolinguistics.


 


[1] These languages are just a small sampling chosen on the availability of studies related only to colour nomenclature and categorization.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Digitalisasi Pelaporan Realisasi Penggunaan Anggaran Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Kota Palembang
Creators: name: Faradillah, Muhammad Fadhiel Alie, Rian Rahmanda Putra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Poverty reduction is indeed a big homework for countries around the world, including Indonesia. Poverty reduction programs are often vulnerable to abuse due to various factors, such as a lack of transparency, accountability and effective supervision. This research digitizes web-based reports on the realization of the use of poverty reduction budgets through several data visualization and analysis features showing maps of aid recipients, welfare conditions, and absorption of funds in Palembang City poverty reduction programs and activities through the development of a comprehensive Poverty Data Information System (SIDAK) using Software Development Life Cycle in system development methods. This SIDAK development uses DTKS (Integrated Social Welfare Data) which was previously called the Integrated Data Base (BDT), data on budget submissions and poverty reduction programs from all OPDs in Palembang City as a data source in accordance with the nomenclature of programs, activities and sub-activities in this part of the design. referring to Minister of Home Affairs Regulation no. 90 of 2019.

 

Keywords— SIDAK, Poverty, Palembang
A variationist approach to NP genitive alternatives in Arabic
Creators: name: Abdel-Aziz, Haneen
name: Jarrah, Marwan
name: Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib
name: Al-Shawashreh, Ekab
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This study aims to investigate the sociolinguistic variation of Noun Phrase (NP) genitive alternatives in Jordanian Arabic (JA) as spoken in Amman. It attempts to examine the role of certain linguistic factors i.e., animacy, definiteness, alienability, complexity, and grammatical function as well as social factors, i.e., age, gender, education, and region which may constrain the choice of using free state nominals (FSN) or construct state nominals (CS) in JA structure.  Drawing on Labov’s variationist approach (1972), for the current study's objectives, a corpus of spontaneous speech data is created. The corpus includes 32 sociolinguistic interviews of 32 speakers of JA (all reside in Amman). Using GOLDVARB X (Sankoff, Tagliamonte, and Smith, 2005), distributional analysis, multivariate analysis, and cross-tabulation approach are employed to analyze the data. An overall distribution of 1319 tokens indicates that CS is evidently more frequent than FSN in JA. Multivariate analysis is used to ascertain the statistical significance of factor groups. Region and four linguistic factors i.e., alienability, animacy, definiteness, and grammatical function are found to be statistically significant regarding constraining the variant choice. An interpretation of the effect of these factors on the observed linguistic phenomenon is offered.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Unintentional Injuries in British Columbia : Trends and Patterns Among Adults and Seniors 1987-1998
Creators: name: Soubhi, Hassan
name: Lisonkova, Sarka
name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Tufts, Clarissa
name: Raina, Parminder
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: A report on the Unintentional Injuries in British Columbia: Trends and Patterns Among Adults and Seniors 1987-1998
Legal systems of the people of Dagbon: Continuities and discontinuities
Creators: name: Nimoh, Michael
name: Abubakar, Gafar
name: Adu-Gyamfi, Samuel
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article uses a qualitative approach to examine the pre-colonial legal systems of the people of Dagbon and how they have evolved in contemporary practices. The laws in the early societies were to regulate the behavior and conduct of people. The pre-colonial legal systems in Africa, the Gold Coast, and specifically the Dagbon went through several transformations due to the arrival of the Europeans. During the pre-colonial period, the settlement of disputes among the indigenous people of Africa was done through the use of the traditional court of arbitration. The local chiefs were the custodians of the customary laws and administered justice using traditional institutions. The core customary laws of pre-colonial Dagbon were based on marriage, criminal justice, inheritance, and land laws among others. The embedding of the British and German legal systems and institutions in the Northern territories marked a change in the customary legal systems of the people of Dagbon. The postcolonial era saw another modification in the legal systems: legal pluralism (concurrent use of customary and British laws). The central finding of the article is that the pre-colonial legal systems in Dagbon were built on the customs and norms of the land. Besides the already mentioned, it was also found that customary laws remain crucial in the adjudication of cases while playing an important role in the hybrid partnerships with contemporary liberal court systems. This has brought many interesting dynamics regarding the place of customary law in hybrid governance which has further implications for the legal space in Sub-Saharan Africa and the global south context even in contemporary times.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Gender politics and politics in gender in Iringa District (Tanzania)
Creators: name: Mignanti, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: The paper deals with gender politics in Tanzania through a social, historical and literary perspective. This analysis is the result of a two months fieldwork based in the rural area of the Iringa region, where I collected data related to gender-based issues expressed by women and girls of several ages and generations thanks to the collaboration with two NGO’s that operate in the area, namely the Tanzanian PSBF and the Italian CEFA. Through a historical analysis, this paper sheds the light on the women’s active participation in the liberation movements since pre-colonial time in Tanganyika and then Tanzania, presenting the path of several women’s struggles that contributed to the ideation of the gender politics of today.


Nowadays, patriarchal oppression is strictly bounded to globalization and cash-based economy. These topics are analysed in the Swahili literal repertoire and discussed by the contemporary African feminist movements that will be presented above.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
The sleep of the good: Meditation on buddho in the Sudattasutta and its aṭṭhakathā
Creators: name: Giustarini, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This paper addresses the Sudattasutta of the Pāli Yakkhasaṃyutta and its direct commentary (aṭṭhakathā), both extremely significant in outlining meditative techniques that entail the figure of the Buddha as their object in order to arouse and cultivate wholesome factors of the path to liberation, such as faith and joy. These practices, applied to a variety of meditative techniques, have become popular in contemporary South-East Asia and, to some extent, in contemporary Theravāda worldwide. The examination of the Sudattasutta and its aṭṭhakathā— with the original translation of the latter—will shed light upon the dawn of this contemplative practice and of the cultural background behind it.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
The British Columbia health atlas, 1st edition
Creators: name: McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
name: Schaub, Peter
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: "The first edition of the Atlas was produced in January 2002, with funding support from the BC Ministries of Health. It is the first comprehensive atlas of population health in British Columbia. It provides map-based information about BC residents, their health status, and their use of health care, providing the basis for a different sort of understanding – one from a geographical perspective – of population health." -CHSPR website
Three cases of critical engagement of Sufis with modern Islamic trends
Creators: name: Leccese, Francesco Alfonso
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article focuses on the topic of Sufi intellectual resistance through some emblematic case studies of Sufi authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. First, it analyses Fitna al-Wahhabiyya, a treatise that was written by Aḥmad Zaynī Daḥlān (1817–1886) in 1878, which proved to be a seminal work for later Sufi authors, and shows that some of the issues addressed in this text are recurrent ones in anti-Wahhabi polemics. Indeed, the cultural resistance of Sufism from the 19th century to the present day has been primarily directed against the doctrines of Wahhabism, the first current of Islamic thought to be structurally anti-Sufi. The fact that Aḥmad Zaynī Daḥlān was the Mufti of Mecca and a recognised scholar shows that these polemics were fully integrated into the scholarly religious debate of official Islam, in which Sufism and its doctrines occupied a prominent position. Furthermore, some Sufi masters set themselves the goal of refuting the theories of materialism and rationalism that were in vogue in the Islamic world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The work of the Egyptian Sufi master Sīdī Salāma ar-Rāḍī (1866-1939) entitled al-Insāniyya, published in 1938, is a polemical treatise against materialism, atheism and spiritualism that probably reflects the influence of René Guénon. The third case study examined is that of the Sudanese master Muḥammad ʿUṯmān ʿAbduhu al-Burhānī (1904-1983). The latter is an exemplary case of Sufi resistance in the second half of the 20th century, both in the face of censorship and in the face of the attempt to bring Sufi brotherhoods under government control.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Of Sufis, fascists and bananas: Hagiography and the perception of Italian occupants in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Petrone, Michele
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41) has been described mainly from the point of view of Italian documentary sources and of the Amharic local sources. The point of view of local Muslim Oromo communities has remained largely ignored. This paper proposed a close reading of the hagiography of Aḥmad b. ʻUmar (d. 1953), especially of the passages narrating the latter’s interactions with Fascist occupants. The aim of this study is first to present a fresh perspective on the years of Italian presence in Ethiopia, namely the one of Muslims. It also aims at proposing the use of Ethiopian hagiographies in Arabic as a source for local history.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Il Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico del Comune di Parma come strumento di conoscenza, tutela e programmazione urbanistica, Atti della 12a Conferenza Italiana Utenti ESRI, Roma 27-28 Maggio 2009
Creators: name: Bigliardi, Giulio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Il “Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico del Comune di Parma” è un’applicazione
sviluppata per raccogliere, ordinare e gestire il patrimonio archeologico del territorio. Esso
presenta un quadro aggiornato di tutti i rinvenimenti archeologici effettuati, sia editi che inediti, e
permette di consultarne le informazioni relative e di elaborare i dati per produrre tematismi
tipologici e cronologici. Il Sistema costituisce, pertanto, uno strumento indispensabile sia alle
esigenze della ricerca storico-archeologica da parte di specialisti, sia a quelle della
Soprintendenza nel campo della tutela, sia a quelle dell’amministrazione comunale e delle imprese
private nell’ambito della programmazione urbanistica.
Qur‘anic temporospatial allusive references in English translations on the basis of Leppihalme’s taxonomy
Creators: name: Afrouz, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: The present study aimed at identifying strategies used by the English translators in rendering the allusive references of The Holy Qur’an, specifying their distribution, and revealing whether the general inclination of the translators was towards domesticating or foreignizing strategies. To this end, Leppihalme’s (1997) taxonomy, as the only model exclusively dealing with allusive references in literary texts, was selected as the model of the study. The data were extracted from 28 English translations of The Holy Qur’an. The paper exclusively concentrated on the temporospatial allusive references. Leppihalme’s model included the strategies of retention (with or without informative notes), replacement of the source-language name by another name (from either the source- or the target-language), and omission of the name. The findings revealed that all these three strategies were adopted by all translators. The strategy of replacement had the highest frequency (77.10%) while the strategy of omission was adopted only in rendering 1.00% percent of the names. Retention (by 21.90%) was found to be the second most frequent strategy adopted by English translators of Qur’anic allusive names. Additionally, it was found that 77.9% of the strategies inclined towards domestication, while only 22.10% showed tendency towards foreignization strategies.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Context of Uncontrolled Urban Settlements in Delhi
Creators: name: Ahmad, Sohail
name: Choi, Mack Joong
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: In developing countries, more than half of the urban population lives in unplanned settlements where their quality of life is substandard and even inhuman. Delhi, the capital city of India, is prime example as more than half of its population resides in uncontrolled settlements despite modest planning intervention since the inception of its first master plan in 1962. The aims of this study are to review the rapid urbanization and proliferation of uncontrolled settlements in Delhi and shed some light on the characteristics of households and housings there. After reviewing urban development with spatial growth and demographic dynamics, various types of settlements are discussed and three types of settlements are selected for case studies, viz. an unauthorized colony, an urban village and notified slum area. The data used includes a survey of approx. 225 households, interviews with various stakeholders and official census data. The authors' analysis reveals wide variations in socioeconomic and dwelling-unit characteristics among different types of settlements. The results show a lack of physical and social infrastructure across the settlements. The households in the slum settlement have a very low income level, while households in the unauthorized colony and urban village have relatively high amounts of income. Urban infrastructure provisions are identified as a key area for planning intervention in order to integrate these settlements into sustainable residential developments. Besides such provisions, economic interventions are also necessary for slum households. This paper raises some important issues concerned with improving conditions in uncontrolled urban settlements.
description: Asien, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Von der Ressource zum Ressourcenkonflikt?
Creators: name: Holtz, Andreas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: The Melanesian area is characterized by both a high level of cultural and political heterogeneity and an abundance of resources. In many cases, state structures are weak and the state is scarcely functional. Even more importantly, the traditional big man-system supports corruption and prevents effective nation-building. With these facts in mind, this article overhauls the resource-curse thesis and examines the role of resources in Melanesian conflicts. Using West Papua, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia as comparative examples, it highlights the similar conditions but different outcomes in these countries. While West Papua, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands can be considered weak political units, New Caledonia is performing quite well. The author suggests that the reason for this discrepancy might be New Caledonia's functioning state; thus, the meaning of resource abundance is secondary. Regarding the Melanesian conflicts, the author concludes that resources are not the original cause of conflicts but that they strongly support already existing conflicts. Alternatively, if a strong political framework is provided by state or non-state actors, resource abundance supports cooperation.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Ambiguity of Images
Creators: name: Noviani, Ratna
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: Advertising imagery relating to ethnicity/race can provide significant cues to reveal the prevailing discourse about ethnic/racial relations in society and, most importantly, about a perceived majority's assumption in relation to a perceived minority. This study is concerned with the ways in which TV advertisements construct discursive strategies to define and represent ethnic/racial differences in Indonesia. By means of social semiotics and narrative analysis, this study examines how Indonesian TV advertisements rendered overtones and undertones of the ethnic/racial differences existing in Indonesia during the New Order (particularly in the period from 1993 to 1999) and the Post-New Order era (particularly from 1999 to 2005). A close examination of the advertisements demonstrates that TV commercials have articulated and reproduced relations between the ethnic/racial majority and minority existing in the country. It has been revealed that Indonesian TV advertisements employ two kinds of discursive strategies to define and construct ethnic/racial differences in Indonesia, viz. the ambivalent function of cultural tradition and cultural appropriation by mainstreaming the minorities. In line with the shift in the sociopolitical climate in Indonesia and in the face of globalization, TV commercials tend to change their discursive strategies in visualizing ethnic/racial relationships in Indonesia.
description: Asien, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Ancestral monumentalization: Considerations on the keyhole-shaped tumuli in Korea
Creators: name: De Benedittis, Andrea
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This study examines the key-hole tumuli discovered in the Yŏngsan River basin, focusing on their significance within the historical context. Notably, this region garnered attention for its jar coffins and haniwa-like artifacts, previously undocumented in the Korean peninsula. Although key-hole tumuli, a burial tradition typical of Japan, are infrequently found in this area, so far fourteen have been unearthed. Typically located on plains or hills near coastal or river areas, their placement suggests a connection between the burying community and maritime trade routes.


While some scholars propose that these monuments were constructed for Wa immigrants unable to return to Kyūshū due to local unrest, I contend that they represent an effort by the Wa people or a closely associated community to establish a symbolic and ideological connection with the Chŏlla territory, thereby gaining control over its resources. After discussing various aspects of the burial customs in Korea and examining the theories proposed by Korean and Japanese researchers, this article aims to interpret the trend as a brief, but intentional, effort by a new group to establish their importance in the Yŏngsan River basin by constructing elaborate burial structures.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Uncompromising accommodation: Remarks on modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism’s attitude to resistance
Creators: name: Cancian, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Starting from the report of an incident occurred in Tehran in 2018, which triggered a wave of repression and resistance involving members of a popular Iranian Sufi order, the Neʿmatollāhī-Gonābādī, this article explores the ways and forms in which modern Shi‘i Sufism articulates its identity at the social and political level and vis-à-vis the authorities of the Islamic Republic if Iran. In doing so, this essay tackles the ways in which this identity is voiced and how individual members of the mystical order manifest their proximity to some areas of the reformist camp. This political vitality and outspokenness, along with forms of resistance adopted by the members of the brotherhood in the face of the increasingly pronounced aggressiveness of the Islamic Republic towards Sufism, testifies the complexity of the nature of the order’s relationship with the political sphere. The analysis of the texts and the praxis of the order’s notables and their disiples shows that the oft-repeated declaration of distance from politics are genuine but far from simplistic, a far cry from unconditional political quietism Sufism is often accused of. By addressing this complexity, in this article the author sets out to address the many paradoxes inherent in this clash and the battle for the appropriation of the legacy of mysticism in contemporary Iranian Twelver Shi'ism, which is grafted onto a broader discourse on political authority in Shiʿism and revolutionary Iran.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Michael M. Kretzer and Russell H. Kaschula (eds.). Handbook of Language Policy and Education in Countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) . 2022.
Creators: name: Tosco, Mauro
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
DUWTAR-ÓZBEK MILLIY SAZ ÁSBABÍ
Creators: name: Iseeva, Ayzada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Orta Aziya dástúriy eski muzıkasına tiykarlanıp tanbur, duwtar hám dáp penen baylanıslı. Bul ásbaplardıń túrleri kóplegen xalıqlar arasında hám regionnan sırtda da málim. Lekin olardıń tembr-akustikalıq dúzilisinde, nama hám ritmlarında, sonıń menen birge, Buxara hám Xiywa meshitleri hám minarlarınıń ayrıqshalıǵı óz ańlatpasın tapqan. Sonı aytıw kerek, Orta Aziya xalıqlarınıń muzıka mádeniyatı eki úlken qatlamnan ibarat : otırıqshı hám kóshpeli. Olardıń tikkeley baylanısı kóp tárepten region xalıqlarınıń ayrıqsha turmıs tárizi hám mádeniyatın keltirip shıǵaradı. Kóshpeli hám otırıqshı xalıqlar muzıkası, barlıq jaqın óz-ara tásirine qaramay, júdá kóp sezilerli ayırmashılıqlarǵa iye.
Адміністративно-правова природа публічної служби
Creators: name: Костик, Віктор Володимирович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: публічна служба, адміністративно-правова природа, державне управління, нормативно-правова база, професіоналізм, реформування

description: У статті досліджено адміністративно-правову природу публічної служби, визначено її основні характеристики, структуру, функції та принципи. Встановлено, що публічна служба є ключовим елементом системи державного управління, спрямованим на реалізацію державної політики та задоволення суспільних потреб. Проведено аналіз нормативно-правової бази, що регулює діяльність публічних службовців, з акцентом на основні проблеми, такі як: недосконалість законодавства, бюрократичні процедури та корупція. Доведено, що впровадження міжнародних стандартів, діджиталізація адміністративних процесів та підвищення професіоналізму службовців є необхідними умовами для вдосконалення публічної служби. Розглянуто перспективи реформування, спрямовані на підвищення ефективності, прозорості та підзвітності державного управління.
Saurer Regen über Nordostasien
Creators: name: Wübbeke, Jost
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: Concomitant to China's economic growth, trans-boundary acid rain has turned into a major challenge to environmental cooperation in Northeast Asia. Emissions from China's industries and a growing traffic volume are causing considerable damage to Japan and South Korea, much to the dissatisfaction of the eastern neighbors. Initiated by Japan and South Korea, a host of monitoring networks and fora provide a governance framework for the problem, but up to now, efforts failed to create effective institutional settings. North East Asia basically lacks a regional regime, which establishes binding emission targets for acid rain-causing substances. From the view of integrating various international relations theories, this analysis argues that power relations, national interests, and differing problem perceptions impede deeper cooperation. Japan, the environmental hegemon in East Asia, has only limited ability and willingness to invest in multilateral mechanisms to combat acid rain. In addition, with the potential costs and benefits of realizing reduction targets being unequally distributed, states do not share common interests about how to tackle the issue. Finally, different perceptions about the economic impact of trans-boundary acid rain hinder regional environmental cooperation.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 118 (2011): ASIEN (Januar)
Serena Talento, Framing Texts/Framing Social Spaces: Conceptualising Literary Translation in Three Centuries of Swahili Literature. 2021.
Creators: name: Aiello, Flavia
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Archeologia e Open Source, “Quinta conferenza italiana sul software geografico e sui dati geografici liberi GFOSS DAY 2012", Torino, 14-16 Novembre 2012 (abstract)
Creators: name: Bigliardi, Giulio
name: Cappelli, Sara
name: Cocca, Enzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Il Laboratorio di GeoTecnologie per l’Archeologia dell’Università degli Studi di Siena (www.geotecnologie.unisi.it) si occupa da alcuni anni di tecnologie applicate alla ricerca archeologica: GIS, webGIS, rilievo 3D, rilievo fotogrammetrico, rilievo GPS, geofisica. Fin dall’inizio il Laboratorio si è avvalso di diverse soluzioni, hardware e software, di tipo commerciale. Tuttavia, nel corso dell’ultimo anno si sono progressivamente sostituite tali applicazioni commerciali con soluzioni Open Source più adeguate alle esigenze dei progetti in corso. In particolare si intendono qui presentare le recenti sperimentazioni realizzate sia nell’ambito della ricerca scientifica, che in quello della formazione.
Supplementary document for Temporal-spatial measurement for electron-excitons collision coefficient in temporally shaped femtosecond laser induced plasma - 7465315.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Feifei
name: Liu, Yueyuan
name: GAO, JIE
name: Chen, Xiaozhe
name: Lu, Yang
name: Gao, Rongke
name: Yu, Liandong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: etails about experimental and simulation method
Supply of hospital pharmacists in B.C.
Creators: name: Rahim-Jamal, Sherin, 1963-
name: MacDonald, Allyson
name: Kazanjian, Arminée, 1947-
Publisher: name: Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU)
Year: 2014

description: In order to examine concerns about the current and future supply of hospital pharmacists in British Columbia, the Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU) of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research was asked by the B.C. Ministry of Health Planning to study the current supply of pharmacists employed in hospital pharmacy in B.C. and to prepare some preliminary projections of future supply. This working paper explains the projections prepared, and discusses some of the background data that were examined in order to make the projections. Along the way, numerous revisions were made to the projections. Various assumptions were made and past supply data were examined for estimating future supply. We have attempted to document all the assumptions made in the projections and either explain our reasoning for making the assumptions or show the historic supply data that were used to develop the assumptions.
Bat symbolism in Idrīs Bidlīsī’s Hašt Bihišt VI
Creators: name: Dehqan, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: Cultural and social set of beliefs of all communities have normally been closely related to animals, which are symbolized in literature and history. Cultural and social definitions of animals as ‘good’ or ‘evil’ have persisted throughout the history of humankind. In the Iranian environment, bats are mostly perceived as symbols of darkness and ignorance. Here, we briefly review the role that bats play in Idrīs Bidlīsī’s unpublished Hašt Bihišt (Book VI) and its symbolisms associated with bats. We present shortly Idrīs’ highlighted Arabic verse in reference to the symbolized darkness and ignorance of bats.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
“Of madness and sagacity:" An intercultural dialogue between masks in Luigi Pirandello‘s and Penina Muhando’s plays (Part Two)
Creators: name: Nicolini, Cristina
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This paper stems from the challenge of translating Pirandello’s plays into Swahili and is aimed to open up a polylogue between Italian and Swahili literature.  Therefore, in searching for connections between Luigi Pirandello’s and Penina Muhando’s plays, this paper will explore multiple masks engaged in a reciprocal dialogue among the following six selected plays: Enrico IV (‘Henry IV,’ Pirandello 1921); Così è, Se vi pare (‘It is so, if you think so!’ Pirandello 1917); Il Berretto a Sonagli (‘Cap and bells,’ Pirandello 1916); Pambo (‘Decoration,’ Muhando 1975); Nguzo mama (‘The Mother Pillar,’ Muhando 1982); and Lina ubani (‘An Antidote to Rot,’ Muhando 1984). In conclusion, this study will illustrate how different forms of sociohistorical alienation, which encircle the twentieth century, are stylistically represented in these plays through the characters who wear the masks of madness, or ‘sage-madness.’ To allow an in-depth analysis of the plays this study will be divided into two parts. Part one will examine Enrico IV (‘Henry IV,’ Pirandello 1921) and Pambo (‘Decoration,’ Muhando 1975).  Part Two will examine Così è, Se vi pare (‘It is so, if you think so!’ Pirandello 1917); Nguzo mama (‘The Mother Pillar,’ Muhando 1982); Il Berretto a Sonagli (‘Cap and bells,’ Pirandello 1916); and Lina ubani (‘An Antidote to Rot,’ Muhando 1984).
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28
Study of postural abnormalities of male students of Sahand University of Technology
Creators: name: Hefzollesan Mehrdad
name: Ghalegir, Sohrab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Education

description: The present study has been accomplished in order to examine the prevalence of postural abnormalities of male students. The statistical community was the whole male students in the university. From this community 300 students within the ages range of 18 - 22 were selected randomly as the investigation subjects. Data were obtained by a questionnaire, podoscope, a digital camera (taking photos of the subjects from Anterior, Posterior and lateral views) and the software for corrective exercises provided by Iran ministry of education. After that the investigation was finished the abundance percentage was used to express the postural abnormalities percentage of the research subjects. The results show that cervical lordosis and flat foot are the most prevalent abnormalities with18.66 and 17.66 percent respectively, and torticollis and knee hyperextension have less prevalence in investigation subjects. The results show that among all of the participants in the investigation, 140 students (46.66 %) have no abnormalities, 160 students (53.34 %) have at least one, and 70 students (23.33 %) have more than one. From this study it is obvious that the prevalence of the postural abnormalities among the statistical subjects is high. Therefore the need to a serious program concerning the abnormalities, especially ordering corrective exercises and also preparing the way for students to have physical activities seems to be inevitable.
Catholic missionaries and lexicography among the Sidaama, Ethiopia: The Sidamo-English dictionary
Creators: name: Egeland, Erik
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article focuses on mission linguistic practices conducted by Catholic missionaries among the Sidaama, Ethiopia. The paper especially addresses mission linguistic practices found in the bilingual Sidamo-English dictionary published in 1983 (Gasparini 1983). First, the paper will provide a short introduction to mission linguistics. Next, it will provide information about the historical context of the Catholic mission among the Sidaama. The main content covers the period from 1964 to 1983. In 1964, Catholic missionaries from the Comboni order started mission work among the Sidaama. The article will analyse entries in the dictionary and discuss examples of linguistic practices applied when translating religious concepts from the Sidaama religious worldview such as the reuse of concepts, extension of meaning, and loan words. The paper will discuss how the composition of the dictionary had both practical and ideological concerns.  It will discuss examples concerning the interpretation of central concepts such as the concept of God, attributes of God, and spiritual being (s). A closer analysis of the translation of central Sidaama religious concepts shows how the translation of Sidaama beliefs and practices were interpreted and evaluated within a Christian framework.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Kervan 28