The title of this report, ‘After the Arab Spring: Power Shift in the Middle East?’, deliberately ends with a question mark. The events over the year and a half since the death of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, have left the politics of the Middle East in tumult. The Arab Spring has certainly resulted in a change of regime in Tunisia and then Egypt. The uprisings against Gaddafi’s regime triggered...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the associations between caregiver verbal reassurance and infant pain-related distress during immunization over the first year of life. The relationships between verbal reassurance and caregiver emotional availability (EA) were also examined. Finally, EA was investigated as a moderator of the relationship between verbal reassurance and infant pain. METHODS A ...

Many real-world problems involve massive amounts of data. Under these circumstances learning algorithms often become prohibitively expensive, making scalability a pressing issue to be addressed. A common approach is to perform sampling to reduce the size of the dataset and enable efficient learning. Alternatively, one customizes learning algorithms to achieve scalability. In either case, the ke...

The alternative to the replica procedure, which we call the noncommutative replica procedure, is discussed. The detailed comparison with the standard EA replica procedure is performed.

Nusantara Islam is a concept of that was born as form counter to transnational Islamic movement and radicalism. Transnational movements such the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbut Tahrir so on are considered make friendly, tolerant moderate forms in Indonesia radical Islam. In addition, triggered due concerns about local culture increasingly aggravated with current globalization. With value which mercy...

Osmanlı Devleti hükmettiği coğrafyalarda kendine özgü bir idare tarzı benimsemiştir. Bu tarz Balkanlarda gerçekleştirdikleri fetihler akabinde bölgede uzun süreli ve kalıcı etki bırakmalarını sağlamıştır. Fethettikleri bölgelerde geleneksel tahrir işlemi sayesinde düzenli olarak nüfus arazi sayımlarını gerçekleştirmişlerdir. Devletin tüm kademelerinde hissedilen bu anlayış de Osmanlılar hem haz...

Repressive approach is one of the state's responses to social movements taken restrain or limit action a movement that always strives for change process in society. In this context, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam – FPI) are two groups recently after 2016 have been active pressuring government on various political issues. The responded these with repressive measu...