Conceiving a nation, Scotland to AD 900

Nation, Ethnicity and Religion: Second Generation Muslims’ Social Identity in Scotland

Existing evidence seems to indicate that Muslims in Scotland have constructed hyphenated or hybrid identities that draw on religion, ethnicity and nationality. However, minor attention has been given to the differences in importance, meanings, and strengths of these identities, or the significance of their identity markers. Ethnic minority people can be identified with both their ethnic groups ...

A Polanyian Approach To Conceiving And Teaching Introduction To Philosophy

Conceiving Computationally

I present some of the research activities of my group in Vision as a Grand Challenge problem whose solution is estimated to need the power of TTop/s computers. Visual information representations which are motivated by the function of the primary visual cortex are computed. In the case of simple objects such as convex polygons, these representations allow straightforward interpretation for objec...

Conceiving the Research Question

The research question is the uncertainty about something in the population that the investigator wants to resolve by making measurements on her study subjects. There is no shortage of questions. Even as we succeed in producing good answers to some questions, we remain surrounded by others. Recent clinical trials, for example, have established that the estrogen-like drug tamoxifen reduces the ri...

Conceiving Due Process

essence of the duty to take care, but by trying to understand what taking care means in particular settings. 3 27 When we contemplate the multiplicity of government-citizen interactions, we would not see chaos threatening to overwhelm legal order and stability unless reduced to a finite and predictable set of categories. Instead, we would see in each situation an opportunity to observe, and to ...