Alternative Histories in Youssef Ziedan's Azazeel: Historiographic Metafiction the Contemporary Arabic Historical Novel Drawing on Linda Hutcheon's theory, this article reads Azazeel as a historiographic metafiction. It argues that novel not only denounces so-called religious, or religiously-motivated, violence but also has an additional epistemological import, articulated novel's metafictional...

Purpose This paper aims to shed light on how children's literature in Africa deserves be studied because African writers “decolonize” the minds of children and adults around world. Design/methodology/approach defines from an perspective “decolonization mind.” is done examine two provide narratives for inspired by their cultures. They deal with themes, characters symbols that interest adults. Fi...

OF THE DISSERTATION Design and Analysis of Crowdsourcing Mechanisms by Chien-Ju Ho Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles, 2015 Professor Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Co-Chair Professor Adnan Youssef Darwiche, Co-Chair Crowdsourcing is a paradigm for utilizing crowd intelligence to help solve problems that computers alone can not yet solve. In recent years, ...

Bien que le cancer primitif de la vessie représente le deuxième cancer urologique après le cancer de la prostate, les métastases vésicales sont rares et le primitif gastrique reste exceptionnel. On rapporte le cas d’un patient âgé de 46 ans, avec des épigatsralgies chroniques, qui présentait une hématurie totale avec des signes irritatifs urinaires. La cystoscopie a montré une vessie inflammato...

Les thromboses veineuses profondes du membre supérieur apparaissent aujourd'hui plus fréquentes du fait de l'utilisation plus large des cathéters veineux centraux ; Sa survenue après traumatisme thoracique sans fracture osseuse est exceptionnelle et ses complications mortelles. Leur diagnostic clinique est parfois difficile. Le syndrome du défilé thoraco-brachial est de diagnostic plus rare et ...

Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the size of the financial sector and in the compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex financial instruments. Parallel to this trend, the organizational structure of the financial sector has changed with the traditional partnership replaced by publi...

This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

ASTRACT.This paper analyzes the structure of a relatively neglected resource in Tlingit and Northwest Coast etlmology: berries. Historically, like salmon streams and other key resource areas among the Tlingil of Southeast Alaska, prime berry patches were named, owned, managed, and celebrated as places. Certain berries, including those found in the vicinity of Glacier Bay National Park, were rec...