Hasil untuk "By religion"

Shuai Guo, Longting Wu, with an appendix by Miguel Moreira

Let $M_β$ denote the moduli space of stable one-dimensional sheaves on a del Pezzo surface $S$, supported on curves of class $β$ with Euler characteristic one. We show that the divisibility property of the Poincaré polynomial of $M_β$, proposed by Choi-van Garrel-Katz-Takahashi follows from Bousseau's conjectural refined sheaves/Gromov-Witten correspondence. Since this correspondence is known for $S=\mathbb{P}^2$, our result proves Choi-van Garrel-Katz-Takahashi's conjecture in this case. For $S=\mathbb{P}^2$, our proof also introduces a novel approach to computing the Poincaré polynomials using Gromov-Witten invariants of local $\mathbb{P}^2$ and a local elliptic curve. Specifically, we compute the Poincaré polynomials of $M_{d}$ with degrees $d\leq 16$ and derive a closed formula for the leading Betti numbers $b_i(M_d)$ with $d\geq 6$ and $i\leq 4d-22$. We also propose a conjectural formula for the leading Betti numbers $b_i(M_d)$ with $d\geq 4$ and $i\leq 6d-20$. In the Appendix (by M. Moreira), a more general conjecture concerning the higher range Betti numbers of $M_{d}$ is presented, along with another conjecture that involves refinements from the perverse/Chern filtration.

Agomor Kingsley S., Djietror Ebenezer Ahumah

The question of whose interest legislators really represent is yet to be satisfactorily answered in the literature of legislative studies. The paper investigates whether Members of Parliament (MPs) in Ghana follow their constituents’ preference, their own judgment, or their parties’ interests. Qualitative data was collected through 25 in-depth interviews with MPs, senior parliamentary staff, Parliamentary press corps, and civil society groups. Using theoretical literature on ideal styles of representation—delegate, partisan, and trustee— the delegate role of MPs in relation to their constituents was largely overshadowed by the delivery of personalized and club goods as a way of representing their constituents. However, on a matter of policy, a partisan orientation strongly influences the legislative decision-making of MPs. This is due to the economic leverage that political parties have over their candidates’ re-election bid and a whip system that can compel MPs to prioritize the party’s interest over that of constituents and their own judgment. Informal factors, such as ethnicity, religion, schoolmates, family relations, and friendship, though they play a minor role in influencing their representational orientation, could potentially shape the secret dissenting views of MPs from their parties’ positions. These findings highlight the need to enhance public education on the core responsibilities of MPs. This will foster an enduring trustee relationship, essential for reducing excessive pressure and demands on MPs, and undue partisanship in legislative policy-making.

Anna Ley

Located between Bellah’s American Civil Religion, Bredekamp’s Image Act Theory, and Genette’s theory on narratology, this essay examines the impact House of Cards had on the 2016 presidential elections. Kevin Spacey’s iconic character Frank Underwood was the first presidential villain, and the first one who moved beyond the series to appear at the Correspondents’ Dinner in 2013. While the breaking of the fourth wall was not new to film, interactions with the audience on- and off-screen were fundamentally new. Furthermore, by including ‘real’ news anchors like Stephen Colbert or John King in the show, boundaries between fact and fiction are blurred. Also, portraits of former presidents are used to contextualize but also contrast Underwood’s words and actions. This stylistic element employs many civil religious narratives which are part of the collective memory. Watching Underwood undermine those commonly known civil religious and democratic dogmas in the ‘fictional reality’ changes and shapes the audience’s perception of the American presidency’s institutional narratives. By rearranging various civil religious elements into a completely new, yet familiar picture, the fictional presidential narrative became part of the historical imagination. Thus, the insight House of Cards offered to a fictional Washington, D.C. with non-fictional markers enabled Donald Trump’s campaign team to develop persisting media strategies for his Reality Show.

Zhenghui Li, Yanshuai Qin, with an appendix by Veronika Ertl

Let $X$ be a smooth projective integral variety over a finitely generated field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$. We show that the finiteness of the exponent of the $p$-primary part of $\mathrm{Br}(X_{k^s})^{G_k}$ is equivalent to the Tate conjecture for divisors, generalizing D'Addezio's theorem for abelian varieties to arbitrary smooth projective varieties. In combination with the Leray spectral sequence for rigid cohomology derived from the Berthelot conjecture recently proved by Ertl-Vezzani, we show that the cokernel of $\mathrm{Br}_{\mathrm{nr}}(K(X)) \rightarrow \mathrm{Br}(X_{k^s})^{G_k}$ is of finite exponent. This completes the $p$-primary part of the generalization of Artin-Grothendieck's theorem on relations between Brauer groups and Tate-Shafarevich groups to higher relative dimensions.

Abhay Kumar, Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Rajesh Sharma

In the recent years online social media platforms has been flooded with hateful remarks such as racism, sexism, homophobia etc. As a result, there have been many measures taken by various social media platforms to mitigate the spread of hate-speech over the internet. One particular concept within the domain of hate speech is instigating hate, which involves provoking hatred against a particular community, race, colour, gender, religion or ethnicity. In this work, we introduce \textit{ProvocationProbe} - a dataset designed to explore what distinguishes instigating hate speech from general hate speech. For this study, we collected around twenty thousand tweets from Twitter, encompassing a total of nine global controversies. These controversies span various themes including racism, politics, and religion. In this paper, i) we present an annotated dataset after comprehensive examination of all the controversies, ii) we also highlight the difference between hate speech and instigating hate speech by identifying distinguishing features, such as targeted identity attacks and reasons for hate.

Gregory Pearlstein, Chris Peters, Appendix C by Wim Nijgh

Surfaces of amplitude 1 in ordinary projective space are of general type, but this need not be the case in weighted projective spaces. Indeed, there are 4 classes of quasi-smooth weighted hypersurfaces in $\mathbf{P}(1,2,a,b)$ of amplitude 1 with an elliptic pencil cut out by hyperplanes. Their moduli spaces are constructed, the monodromy of their universal families is determined as well as their period maps. These all turn out to be non-injective. We analyse the reason behind this, which for each type is different. For the two classes that give properly elliptic surfaces this leads to a mixed Torelli-type theorem as in the case of the Catanese-Kunev-Todorov surfaces. We added an application to certain compactifications of moduli spaces of surfaces of general type with $K^2=1$, $p_g=2$ and $q=0$, as well as detailed SageMath-calculations. The appendix written by Wim Nijgh shows that the general member of the type 1 and type 2 elliptic family has "trivial" Picard lattice, i.e. is spanned by fiber components and a multisection.

Corneliu C. Simut

This article is a research report on the international colloquium entitled ‘Re-Imagining Curricula for a Just University in a Vibrant Democracy’, hosted by the University of Pretoria in 2017 to address a series of prospective changes in religious studies curricula in African and non-African universities. Anchored in the principles of the Draft Framework Document, a South African manifesto authored by a team of specialists from the University of Pretoria advocating educational reform in the field of religion, the colloquium debated the necessity of curricular change from the perspective of ecodomy, seen as a constructive attempt to modify university curricula to include relevant approaches to religion. Consequently, the discussions revolved around the idea of ‘ecodomical change’ as a socially transformative step towards achieving community development in tertiary education religious institutions. Contribution: This article, however, focused on the Draft Framework Document and its distinctive contribution to the pedagogy of theology and religious studies within the University of Pretoria.

Evaldo Lima da Costa, Anibal Faúndes, Rui Nunes

Objectives: Sexual violence is a problem that affects children and adolescents regardless of social class, age, origin, religion, education level, marital status, race, or sexual orientation. This study aimed to analyze the associations between victim-offender relationships and the victim's age in cases of sexual violence involving female victims. Methods: This cross-sectional, retrospective observational study used data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's Department of Public Health Surveillance in Brasília regarding the reportable crime of rape as informed by female victims in the Federal District between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2018. The age of the victim was classified as <15 years or 15-19 years. The offenders were classified into eight different categories according to their relationship with the victim: father, stepfather, brother, husband, boyfriend, friend, stranger, and others. The association between the victim-offender relationship and the victim's age was assessed. Results: Overall, there were 4,617 reported cases of sexual violence, with 78.3% of these (n = 3614) corresponding to children under 15 and 21.7% to adolescents 15-19 years old (n = 1003). Close relatives, including brothers, and friends were the main perpetrators in cases of girls < 15 years old. Strangers and friends were the principal perpetrators in the group of girls 15-19 years old. Conclusions: Children under 15 are the group most affected by sexual violence. Strategies must be developed to prevent the sexual abuse of children and adolescents and to facilitate the rehabilitation of victimized children.

Liam Magee, Lida Ghahremanlou, Karen Soldatic et al.

To examine whether intersectional bias can be observed in language generation, we examine \emph{GPT-2} and \emph{GPT-NEO} models, ranging in size from 124 million to ~2.7 billion parameters. We conduct an experiment combining up to three social categories - gender, religion and disability - into unconditional or zero-shot prompts used to generate sentences that are then analysed for sentiment. Our results confirm earlier tests conducted with auto-regressive causal models, including the \emph{GPT} family of models. We also illustrate why bias may be resistant to techniques that target single categories (e.g. gender, religion and race), as it can also manifest, in often subtle ways, in texts prompted by concatenated social categories. To address these difficulties, we suggest technical and community-based approaches need to combine to acknowledge and address complex and intersectional language model bias.

Stephan Baier, Esrafil Ali Molla, with an appendix by Arijit Ganguly

In the thirties of the last century, I. M. Vinogradov established uniform distribution modulo 1 of the sequence $pα$ when $α$ is a fixed irrational real number and $p$ runs over the primes. In particular, he showed that the inequality $||pα||\le p^{-1/5+\varepsilon}$ has infinitely prime solutions $p$, where $||.||$ denotes the distance to the nearest integer. This result has subsequently been improved by many authors. The current record is due to Matomäki (2009) who showed the infinitude of prime solutions of the inequality $||pα||\le p^{-1/3+\varepsilon}$. This exponent $1/3$ is considered the limit of the current technology. We prove function field analogues of this result for the fields $k=\mathbb{F}_q(T)$ and imaginary quadratic extensions $K$ of $k$. Essential in our method is the Dirichlet approximation theorem for function fields which is established in general form in the appendix authored by Arijit Ganguly.

Ayana H, Sileshi T, Bule MH et al.

Hika Ayana,1 Tesemma Sileshi,1,2 Mohammed Hussen Bule,2 Eshetu E Chaka3 1Department of Public Health, Rift Valley University, Ambo, Ethiopia; 2Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia; 3Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Mohammed Hussen BuleDepartment of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, P. o. Box: 653/1110, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaTel +251 911 809 397Email mohammed2bule@gmail.comPurpose: To assess the non-prescription use of antibiotics and associated factors in Ambo Town, West Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia.Methods: An institutional-based cross-sectional study design supported with the qualitative study was conducted in Ambo Town from February 1 to March 1, 2020. Data were collected using a pretested semi-structured questionnaire and in-depth interview guide questions. Simple random sampling was used to select retail outlets and systematic random sampling to select study participants. The data analysis was done using SPSS and univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with non-prescription use of antibiotics. Thematic framework analysis was applied for the qualitative data.Results: From the 421 study sample, a total of 399 participants were interviewed with a 94.8% response rate. Among the study participants, 214 (53.6) were males, 228 (57.1%) were married, 191 (47.9%) were orthodox by religion, and 343 (86%) were Oromo by ethnicity. One hundred seventy-two (43.1%; 95% CI: 38.6, 48.1) of the participants had used non-prescribed antibiotics. Being male [AOR=2.21 95% CI: 1.276, 3.835], residing in rural area [AOR=3.659, 95% CI: 1.479, 9.054], holding diploma [AOR=0.120, 95% CI: 0.025, 0.591], and hold BSC degree [AOR=0.050, 95% CI: 0.007, 0.378], and being farmer [AOR=0.034, 95% CI: 0.004, 0.285] showed significant association with the non-prescription use of antibiotics.Conclusion: This study concluded that the non-prescription use of antibiotics 172 (43.1%) was relatively high. Being male, residing in a rural area, holding a diploma, BSc degree, and being a farmer were significantly associated with non-prescription use of antibiotics. So, West Shoa Zone regulatory body should actively focus on the prevention of non-prescription use of antibiotics through health communication and public awareness on the demerits of non-prescription use of antibiotics.Keywords: antibiotics, community pharmacy, drug store, non-prescription, Ambo

Stanislav Grishin, Ilya Karzhemanov, with an Appendix by Ming-chang Kang

We prove rationality of the quotient $\mathbb{C}^n / H_n$ for the finite Heisenberg group $H_n$, any $n \ge 1$, acting on $\mathbb{C}^n$ via its irreducible representation.

John Christian Ottem, Fumiaki Suzuki, with an appendix by Olivier Wittenberg

We give the first examples of $\mathcal{O}$-acyclic smooth projective geometrically connected varieties over the function field of a complex curve, whose index is not equal to one. More precisely, we construct a family of Enriques surfaces over $\mathbb{P}^{1}$ such that any multi-section has even degree over the base $\mathbb{P}^{1}$ and show moreover that we can find such a family defined over $\mathbb{Q}$. This answers affirmatively a question of Colliot-Thélène and Voisin. Furthermore, our construction provides counterexamples to: the failure of the Hasse principle accounted for by the reciprocity obstruction; the integral Hodge conjecture; and universality of Abel-Jacobi maps.

Esra Kılavuz Eser

Osmanlı şeyhülislamları hakkında yapılacak detaylı çalışmalar, Osmanlı hukukunun daha iyi anlaşılması ve yorumlanması için büyük önem arz etmektedir. 17. yüzyılda yaşayan Çatalcalı Ali Efendi hem 13 yıllık şeyhülislamlığı, hem de sonraki dönemde kendisine çokça başvurulan muteber fetvalarıyla dikkat çeken ve üzerinde çalışılması gereken isimlerdendir. Bu makalede Çatalcalı Ali Efendi’nin şimdiye dek tarih ve tabakât eserlerinden hareketle hazırlanmış en geniş biyografisine yer verilmektedir. Makalenin hedeflediği bir diğer husus; Çatalcalı Ali Efendi’nin verdiği fetvalardan oluşan Fetâvâ-yı Ali Efendi adlı eserin derleniş sürecini tespit etmek olup bunun için eserin yazma nüshalarındaki müstensih kayıtlarına başvurulmuştur. Son olarak Fetâvâ-yı Ali Efendi hakkında literatürde yer alan bilgiler tekrar gözden geçilmiş ve en isabetli verilere ulaşılmaya çalışılmıştır.

M.R. Taleban

For more than two centuries, the social sciences have been subjected to the “irrational actor axiom" in the scientific study of religion. Religiosity and religious behavior were explained on the basis of primitive thought, neurotic impulses, and social conditioning; and the decline of religion and religiosity was also seen as the inevitable consequence of scientific enlightenment and technological advancement. From the late 20th century, and especially early 21th century, an increasing set of empirical data from social science research has shown that this traditional approach to the scientific study of religion is defective. Many of these data have seriously challenged the old but still popular social sciences scholarship on "incompatibility of science with religion”, "the gradual decline of religion" and "pathological roots of religious commitment." The research evidence presented in this paper also showed that most of the extensive literature on the relationship between university education and the reduction of students' religiosity, which was dominated by the secularization paradigm and the incompatibility of science with religion, does not have the necessary empirical support. Also, analyzing the data on the religiosity of Muslims in Iran showed that the difference in religiosity of the population was more affected by their religious background of their family rather than by studying at the university.

Daniel Brzeziński

This paper discusses the relationship between time and salvation that exists in the Christian liturgy, in which time possesses two characteristics. One is its sacredness, and the other is a special property that does not exist outside the liturgy but derives directly from its anamnetic dimension: it is a “medium” and an “existential context” of the real salvation delivered and still being delivered by Christ. The author begins with a reflection on time in cultural anthropology and the history of religion, demonstrating unambiguously that, since the earliest of days, disparate cultures and religions have shared the conviction that time is sacred. He then goes on to address the biblical concept of time which has fundamentally contributed to a fuller understanding of the essence and nature of liturgical time as the καιρός of salvation. It is in the liturgy of the Church—the final earthly stage in the history of salvation—that the salvific, effective and real encounter between God’s eternity and human life takes place. The Christian liturgy is an otherworldly act of salvation in worldly space and time, a manifestation of the “fullness of time.” The paper also attempts to offer a preliminary juxtaposition of the theological understanding of liturgical time with the findings of modern physics concerning the understanding and description of time. This may serve to stimulate further, more in-depth biblical and theological (and in particular theologico-liturgical) reflection on the phenomenon of time, and perhaps even a new look at the phenomenon of time on the part of modern physicists.

Taqwa Taqwa, Muhammad Irfan Hasanuddin

Abstract[English]:  This paper describes the mediation of religion as seen in the important role of the As'adiyah pesantren. This paper used descriptive research method (descriptive research) obtained from the results of qualitative data processing through library data collection (library research), with an interdisciplinary approach method. The analysis was using a critical analytical method with descriptive aspects, namely content analysis using deductive, inductive and comparative analysis techniques on a number of theories, especially in producing scholarship and cadre of scholars in Southeast Asia in the 20th century in Bugis cultural and contextual setting. -Makassar South Sulawesi. This papere explains that in the 20th century there has been an intellectual dynamic that culminated in the formation of the Bugis ulama network of the 20th century. This intellectual network of scholars has a link with the source of scientific authority in Makkah-Medinah which was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. The scientific link between Bugis scholars, especially Gurutta HM As'ad (1907) with K.H. Hasyim Asyari (1871), Anwar Musaddad (Garut, 1903), Zain Mun'im (Probolinggo, 1906), Zainuddin Abdul Madjid (Sumbawa, 1908), Ali Maksum (Rembang, 1915). This proves that Gurutta H.M. As'ad was one of the links of the archipelago scientific network which contributed to the birth of 20th century Muslim intellectuals in the Bugis-Makassar Land of South Sulawesi. Abstrak[Indonesia]:  Paper ini menjelaskan tentang mediatisasi agama sebagaimana tampak dalam peran penting pesantren As’adiyah. Paper ini menggunakan metode descriptive research (penelitian deskriptif) yang diperoleh dari hasil pengolahan data secara kualitatif melalui pengumpulan data secara kepustakaan (library research), dengan metode pendekatan antar disipliner. Sedang analisis dilakukan menggunakan metode analitis kritis dengan aspek deskripsi, yakni analisis isi (content analysis) dengan menggunakan tehnik analisis deduktif, induktif dan komparatif terhadap sejumlah teori, Khususnya dalam memproduksi keilmuan dan pengkaderan ulama di Asia Tenggara abad ke 20 dalam latar budaya dan konteks Bugis-Makassar Sulawesi Selatan. Artikel ini menjelaskan bahwa pada abad 20 telah terjadi dinamika intelektual yang mengerucut pada terbentuk jaringan ulama Bugis abad ke 20. Jaringan intelektual ulama tersebut mempunyai mata rantai dengan sumber otoritas keilmuan di Makkah-Medinah yang terbentuk pada awal abad ke 20. Network keilmuan inilah yang mempertemukan mata rantai keilmuan antara ulama Bugis, khususnya Gurutta H.M. As’ad (1907) dengan K.H. Hasyim Asyari (1871), Anwar Musaddad (Garut, 1903), Zain Mun’im (Probolinggo, 1906), Zainuddin Abdul Madjid (Sumbawa, 1908), Ali Maksum (Rembang, 1915). Hal tersebut membuktikan bahwa Gurutta H.M. As’ad merupakan salah satu link jaringan keilmuan Nusantara yang turut melahirkan intelektual muslim abad ke 20 di Tanah Bugis-Makassar Sulawesi Selatan. 

Xiaowen Hu, with an Appendix by Bruno Kahn

We show that the Suslin homology group with integral coefficients of a scheme $X$ separated of finite type over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 is a direct sum of a uniquely divisible group, finite copies of $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$, and a finitely generated group. We also study the possible type of homomorphisms between such groups induced by the morphisms of schemes. An appendix written by Bruno Kahn is included, which simplifies the proofs and generalizes the results.

Benson Farb, Mark Kisin, Jesse Wolfson. Appendix by Nate Harman

The link between modular functions and algebraic functions was a driving force behind the 19th century study of both. Examples include the solutions by Hermite and Klein of the quintic via elliptic modular functions and the general sextic via level $2$ hyperelliptic functions. This paper aims to apply modern arithmetic techniques to the circle of ``resolvent problems'' formulated and pursued by Klein, Hilbert and others. As one example, we prove that the essential dimension at $p=2$ for the symmetric groups $S_n$ is equal to the essential dimension at $2$ of certain $S_n$-coverings defined using moduli spaces of principally polarized abelian varieties. Our proofs use the deformation theory of abelian varieties in characteristic $p$, specifically Serre-Tate theory, as well as a family of remarkable mod $2$ symplectic $S_n$-representations constructed by Jordan. As shown in an appendix by Nate Harman, the properties we need for such representations exist only in the $p=2$ case. In the second half of this paper we introduce the notion of $\E$-versality as a kind of generalization of Kummer theory, and we prove that many congruence covers are $\E$-versal. We use these $\E$-versality result to deduce the equivalence of Hilbert's 13th Problem (and related conjectures) with problems about congruence covers.

Mulawarman Hannase

This paper aims to explain that the spread of the ideology of Islamism in the Middle East in recent decades has led to conflict, both intra and inter-religion that continues until today. From these Islamist groups, Hamas Movement and ISIS provided significant effects of the conflict are. This study is qualitative research. Conflict Theory of John Spanier (higt-politic conflict) used to analyze how the two groups model of ideological construction influenced the political and economic stability as well as conflict in the Middle East and the Islamic world. Based on the observations of these two groups, it can be found that theologically, Hamas adheres to religious doctrines which prompted him to undertake armed resistance against Israel. At the same time, ISIS is a militant group that is strongly influenced by religious doctrine. However, from the aspect of rigidity doctrine and strategy of the movement, both groups are much different. ISIS is an ultra-radical group hostile to all other communities and brutally attacked the community of which he considered infidels. While Hamas has a more soft ideology and commit acts of violence in the context of resistance against Israeli colonialism. [Makalah ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bahwa penyebaran ideologi Islamisme di Timur Tengah dalam beberapa dekade terakhir telah menyebabkan konflik, baik intra maupun antar-agama yang berlanjut hingga saat ini. Dari kelompok-kelompok Islam ini, Gerakan Hamas dan ISIS memberikan efek  signifikan  dari  konflik  tersebut.  Penelitian  ini  adalah  penelitian  kualitatif. Teori  Konflik John Spanier (konflik politik berskala tinggi) digunakan untuk menganalisis bagaimana model konstruksi ideologis kedua kelompok mempengaruhi stabilitas politik dan ekonomi serta konflik di Timur Tengah dan dunia Islam. Berdasarkan pengamatan kedua kelompok ini, dapat ditemukan bahwa secara teologis, Hamas menganut doktrin agama yang mendorong mereka untuk melakukan perlawanan bersenjata terhadap Israel. Pada saat yang sama, ISIS adalah kelompok militan yang sangat dipengaruhi oleh doktrin agama. Namun, dari aspek kekakuan doktrin dan strategi pergerakan, kedua kelompok jauh berbeda. ISIS adalah kelompok ultra-radikal yang memusuhi semua komunitas lain dan secara brutal menyerang komunitas yang dianggapnya sebagai orang kafir. Sementara Hamas memiliki ideologi yang lebih lunak dan melakukan tindakan kekerasan dalam konteks perlawanan terhadap kolonialisme Israel.]