This study explores how sectarian language prevalent on Arabic media shapes common Arab people's perceptions of sects such as Sunni, Shiites, and others. A sample expressions was collected from social media, print TV channels. students faculty surveyed. Sectarian analysed according to the components perception (perceiver, target, situation), factors that affect each, amplification attenuation r...

W hen the Internet Engineering Task Force approved Internet protocol version 6 several years ago, proponents acclaimed it as a major development. Since then, IPv6 (see the sidebar " IPv6 Primer ") has received support only in some areas. In Asia, for example, the profusion of smart cellular phones and PDAs has caused the demand for IP addresses to outstrip the limited supply provided by IPv4, t...

Antisense oligonucleotides and ribozymes have been used widely to regulate gene expression by targeting mRNAs in a sequence-specific manner. Long RNAs, however, are highly structured molecules. Thus, up to 90% of putative cleavage sites have been shown to be inaccessible to classical RNA based ribozymes or DNAzymes. Here, we report the use of modified nucleotides to overcome barriers raised by ...

İtikadî İslâm mezheplerinin önde gelenlerinden biri olan ve özellikle hilafet konusundaki görüşleriyle diğer fırkalarından ayrılan Şîa, günümüzde dünyanın pek çok yerinde mensubu bulunmakla birlikte Irak bölgesinde ortaya çıktığı ilk dönemden bugüne Ortadoğu coğrafyasında yayılmıştır. Birçok ülkede nüfus bakımından çoğunluğu teşkil etmeseler de Şiîlerin yaşadıkları ülkelerin veya bölgenin son d...

Two studies show that different culturally based concepts of interpersonal power have distinct implications for information processing. People with a vertical individualist (VI) cultural orientation view power in personalized terms (power is for gaining status over and recognition by others), whereas people with a horizontal collectivist (HC) cultural orientation view power in socialized terms ...