مثّلت القبيلة تقليدياً أقدم مؤسسة اجتماعية في منطقة الخليج الكبرى )دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي واليمن والعراق وإيران(، ولم تنل الأسرة الاعتراف بوصفها الوحدة المجتمعية الأساسية فحسب، بل وكعامل أساسي أيضاً للتنمية الاجتماعية ...

This conference was undertaken to begin coalescing a multi-site, multidisciplinary, research network specifically aimed at defining the necessary and sufficient elements of a “sustainable urban system.” By convening a ...

Few empirical studies examine the relationship between ideology and lethality among terrorist organizations. In this paper, I test how ideological affiliation may affect a terrorist organization’s overall lethality. I ...

The dissertation focuses on German realist literature of the late nineteenth-century and its interplay with the visual and media culture of its time. While realist writers dedicated themselves to showing the “true essence” ...

Swift recruitment of phagocytic leukocytes is critical to prevent infections when bacteria breach through the protective layers of the skin. While this process is commonly believed to be dependent on the prior activation ...

In the years since J.L. Austin (1962) first proposed Speech Act Theory (SAT), the literature has taken it in many directions. One recurring point of discussion is the extent to which the direct illocutionary force of an ...

Understanding the innate and adaptive immune responses during resolution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is important for exploring new treatment options for chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Studying acute hepatitis B (AHB) ...

In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together ...

This study examines multimodal constructed dialogue in “subtle asian traits”, a Facebook group for ethnic Asian young adults living in Anglophone countries to share their experiences of the Asian diaspora. In this study, ...