Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity in the world, and Muslims are the fastest-growing ethnocultural minority communities in the Western world. However, Muslims, especially living in Western countries, have increasingly become the victim of a contemporary form of racism and xenophobia—that is Islamophobia. Survey reports conducted across Western nations have underlined the fact that a significant number of respondents are critical of the Muslim minority community and that this negative trend poses a challenge for these Muslim minorities’ ethnocultural freedom and equality. Today, mainstream Muslims in the West are victims of both Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-like terrorism and Islamophobics. Within this context, this study analyses the causal relationship between the West’s sense of insecurity and Islamophobia through the lens of the realist concept of security dilemma using a qualitative approach. 相似文献
Recent studies have implicated the longevity assurance gene LAG1 in ceramide synthesis. In light of a role for ceramide in yeast and mammalian stress responses and mammalian cellular senescence, important connections are emerging between ceramide and organismal aging. In this Perspective, we examine the evidence for these connections in yeast, Drosophila, and mammals, and speculate on their implications. 相似文献
This article gives an overview of the origin, founders, memberships and geographical coverage of the O'odua People's Congress (OPC). Also addressed are the impact of the OPC on the political and security structures and why the OPC continues to wield power as an ethnic movement in southwest Nigeria. Even following the collapse of the Babangida and Abacha military regimes—due to protests, international pressure and the latter's death—the OPC retains a significant amount of social power in Yorubaland. Its support is maintained through the provision of informal ‘security services’ to individuals, groups and communities, who consider the Nigeria Police to be an ineffective body in the protection of lives and property of people. While the OPC influences the re-establishment of democratic governance, shifts in regional power and the security set-up in Nigeria, it also creates social disorder and abuses human rights. 相似文献
Resettled refugees need a network of relationships to ensure they can live meaningful lives in New Zealand. These relationships are complex and exist between individuals and communities at local and national levels. Conceptualised as social capital, these relationships provide the invisible glue holding society together. Drawing on data from a research project on the Somali community in Auckland, this paper reflects on contemporary developments within the refugee sector and highlights the ways in which social capital provides further insight into the experiences of refugee integration at a local level in New Zealand. 相似文献
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This study aims to identify the outline of charity social media marketing (SMM) and to determine to what extent it... 相似文献
Objective: To determine whether complete blood count parameters could be used as the biomarkers of inflammation in patients with in peripheral arterial disease.
Methods: Seventy-five patients with peripheral arterial disease (study group) and 75 healthy subjects (control group) were included in this retrospective study. Their baseline clinical characteristics and laboratory data were recorded and compared. Data were compared using univariate tests including independent samples t-test, Mann–Whitney U-test and chi-square test. Moreover, multivariate logistic regression analysis was also conducted to determine independent predictors of peripheral arterial disease.
Results: The groups were statistically similar with regards to baseline clinical and demographic features. The values of C-reactive protein, white blood cell and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio values were found to be statistically significantly higher in study group versus control group, but none of them were considered as an independent predictor of peripheral arterial disease according to multivariate logistic regression analysis. Only mean platelet volume was demonstrated to be a statistically significant predictor of peripheral arterial disease.
Conclusion: Our study deduced that mean platelet volume was an independent predictor of peripheral arterial disease, and could be used as a marker of inflammation in patients with peripheral arterial disease. 相似文献
In this study, we consider different sampling designs of ranked set sampling (RSS) and give empirical distribution function (EDF) estimators for each sampling designs. We provide comparative graphs for the EDFs. Using these EDFs, power of five goodness-of-fit tests are obtained by Monte Carlo simulations for Tukey's g–h distributions under RSS and simple random sampling (SRS). Performances of these tests are compared with the tests based on the SRS. Also, critical values belong to these tests are obtained for different set and cycle sizes. 相似文献
This paper examines trends in female sterilizing operations from a demographic perspective. These operations have declined
in New South Wales since 1981, with a substantial drop in tubal ligation and hysterectomy, particularly among younger women.
The decline in sterilization of women of childbearing age has been due to postponement of births. Younger women have avoided
terminal methods of birth control and continued to use methods, such as oral contraceptives and back-up abortion, which allow
for a pregnancy at a later age. Sterilizing operations still remain the most commonly reported means of birth control by women
over age 35. 相似文献