In her article "Asian Latino Conflict and Solidarity in Díaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Paula C. Park responds to the recent interest in Asian Latino/a culture by examining the role of Chinese Dominicans in Junot Díaz's acclaimed novel. She first places her analysis within the historical context of Chinese immigration in the Dominican Republic during the first half of the twent...

Anthropologists have long noted that one of the primary functions of religion is to promote group solidarity, and most have recognized ritual as the mechanism through which this solidarity is achieved. Guided by Durkheim (1995 [1912]), who was among the first to appreciate the unifying nature of religious ritual, functionalists have explored how ritual sustains the social order within a communi...

Social comparison involves positioning the self relative to others on a vertical or status dimension (ranging from upward to downward comparisons) and a horizontal or solidarity dimension (ranging from contrastive to connective comparisons). Across 3 studies in which 389 undergraduates recorded everyday social comparisons (n = 4,417), downward and connective comparisons were rated as more helpf...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice 2004 report Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition expresses a clear allegiance to competition as the organizing principle for health care. In Europe, by contrast, the key organizing principle of health care systems is solidarity. Solidarity means that all have access to health care based on medical needs, regardless of ability to pay...

BACKGROUND Little is known about social capital and health among older adults in South Africa. This study investigates the association between social capital and several health variables, namely: self-rated health, depressive symptoms, cognitive functioning and physical inactivity, among older South Africans. METHODS We conducted a national population-based cross-sectional study with a nation...

The association between language and territory is particularly significant in terms of indigenousness. Therefore, the argument this paper to examine aspect Kurdish through interpretation political movement Turkey based on self-identification, an essential component indigeneity. Since 1990s, has been demanding mother-tongue rights with growing grassroots support. This study examines pro-Kurdish ...

the definition and typological description of the category of voice can be provided in two ways: i) at the level of semantic arguments (or semantic roles), ii) at the level of grammatical relations (or syntactic functions). the most important theoretical concept that is determined in terms of these two levels of representations and enables one to capture the rich variety of voices is that of di...

in the recent theory of generative grammar there are two major views on case assignment. the standard chomskyan view stats that case is assigned by the grammatical head to the closest np through an agreement relationship (baker, 2010). in this approach case has a purely syntactic notion as a case assigner and is directly related to structural cases and structural relations of case receiving nps...

This dissertation Is titled (Analyze the Islamic Encyclopedia) that addresses concept of Kurd and Kurdish Danisties in era. It is a comparative study information inside Encyclopedia collected by several orientalist. means work orientalists able to collect about Middle East general nations particular. Kurds have been addressed this encyclopedia as one nations. discusses ancient, medieval new his...

The development of basic NLP resources for minority languages is still a challenge to both formal and computational linguists. In this paper, we show how we were able to develop a medium-scale morphological lexicon for Kurmanji Kurdish in a few days time using only freely accessible resources. We also developed a preliminary POS tagger that shall be used as a pre-annotation tool for developing ...