Political Islam in Iran, which initially formed in the guise of Sultāni order, experiences its second form after 1979 Revolution, named popular order. While in both forms, the authority of religion has been accepted in political life, these types of order demonstrate two different experiences of political Islam in Iran. Thus, the comprehension of this new experience of political Islam after the...

O Cursinho Popular Comunidade FazArte existe na Universidade Federal de Goiás desde 2006. À primeira vista, trata-se mais um pré-vestibular comunitário, uma vez que está voltado aos processos aprendizagem e desenvolvimento estudantes da Educação Básica baixa renda, visando seu ingresso em instituições públicas Ensino Superior brasileiras. Mas o resgate história do mostra projeto vai além ao bus...

In this paper, we propose a new explanation for why certain cultural products outperform their peers to achieve widespread success. We argue that products’ positioning within feature space significantly predicts their popular success. Using tools from computer science, we construct a novel data set that allows us to test how the musical features of nearly 27,000 songs from Billboard’s Hot 100 c...

Triangular discrimination, Jensen-Shannon divergence, and the square of the Hellinger distance, are popular distance functions for mixture models, and are known to be similar. Here we expound upon their equivalence in terms of their functional forms after transformations, factorizations, and series expansions, and in terms of the geometry of their contours. The ratio between these distances is ...

in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

Since 2001, Mexico has been designing, legislating, and implementing a major health-system reform. A key component was the creation of Seguro Popular, which is intended to expand insurance coverage over 7 years to uninsured people, nearly half the total population at the start of 2001. The reform included fi ve actions: legislation of entitlement per family affi liated which, with full implemen...