We investigate Americans’ stereotypes of both Muslims and Muslim-Americans. We find that negative stereotypes relating to violence and trustworthiness are commonplace and that little distinguishes Muslims from Muslim-Americans in the public’s mind. Furthermore, these stereotypes have consequences: those with less favorable views of Muslims are more likely to support several aspects of the War o...

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

A comparative study of the impact of the host society-the case of Sweden and the United States. Abstract The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the social characteristics of the host society on the second generation Iranians " understanding of their national and ethnic identities. In this regard I have studied how the second generation Iranians in Sweden identify themselves with Iran...

M. B., Muslim female, aged 25 years, wife of a doctor and sister of a doctor, on my friendly visit to her family on Gth April, 1942, told me that she had been having a slight temperature between 99? and 100?F. for four days. She had no other complaint except a little pain in the abdomen, especially in both subcostal regions. I told her not to worry, thinking that it was only an attack of sandfl...

the cultural relation between iran and france was a result of the russians' wars against iran. hence, the cultural activities of the french lazariste missionaries, especially among the christian society of iran, make an important part of this relation and a portion of unknown history of the qajar era that has not been much investigated and reflected. from mohammad shah's period (1250–...

This paper explores the trade relation between Banten and Portugal in last three-quarters of sixteenth century, with special reference to reign period Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin (1546-1570). The mutual relationship these two political entities absence rulers alignment Muslim kings Archipelago against are also paid due attention. used historical method, which comprises four following steps: heuri...

◮ The basic idea: ◮ Syntactic structure consists of lexical items, linked by binary asymmetric relations called dependencies. ◮ In the (translated) words of Lucien Tesnière [Tesnière(1959)]: ◮ The sentence is an organized whole, the constituent elements of which are words. [1.2] Every word that belongs to a sentence ceases by itself to be isolated as in the dictionary. Between the word and its ...

This paper introduces the scoreTable*, a tangible interactive music score editor which started as a simple application for demoing “traditional” approaches to music creation, using the reacTable* technology, and which has evolved into an independent research project on its own. After a brief discussion on the role of pitch in music, we present a brief overview of related tangible music editors,...