The worst place on earth to be a woman: violence against Yemeni women in peace and war

In 2011, in common with women in other Arab states, Yemeni women dared to raise their voices in the public sphere and to call for change. Evidence of their revolutionary engagement throws into question assumptions of female powerlessness and silencing in Muslim societies and, by exploring multiple forms of violence against women, my article asks whether and to what extent Yemeni women’s behaviour during the revolution and afterwards was a departure from their previous roles. It will also reflect on more far-reaching processes of change in Yemeni society by asking whether the radical upheaval of 2011 may be capable, in the longer term, of challenging entrenched patriarchal structures in order to create a more genuinely inclusive citizenship. In the article, I contrast Yemeni women’s activism and their presence in public spaces with the various forms of violence that limit their mobility and choices. I will argue that, although they have been able to utilize the limited tools at their disposal in order to demand their rights as citizens, these rights are by no means guaranteed; they are threatened by the violence of tradition and, more recently, the violence of conflict and emergenc

On the effects of high-order scattering in 3D cubical and rectangular furnaces

The discrete ordinates method (DOM/Sn) is implemented to investigate the high order scattering effects of absorbing–emitting–scattering grey gas media inside the three-dimensional cubical and rectangular furnaces. To validate the numerical method, the furnaces are considered first to be filled with non-scattering grey gases, and the results of the higher order approximations of the DOM show an excellent agreement compared with those available in the literature. The DOM is then extended to apply in the scattering media inside the furnaces, and the results of various scattering approaches such as out-scattering, iso-scattering, linear aniso-scattering and nonlinear aniso-scattering are obtained and presented in this paper

Discrimination and identification of unexploded ordinances (UXO) using airborne magnetic gradients

The problem of discriminating the magnetic dipoles of objects on the surface of the earth, possible unexploded ordinances (UXO), from the effect of the earth’s magnetic field in airborne magnetic field gradient data was proposed. A model of simultaneous equations was developed which hoped to discriminate between the effect of the earth’s magnetic field and the possible UXO by solving for multiple dipoles using multiple data points. The simplifying assumption, that the location of each dipole is known, proved to produce unfavorable results when the flight path has a varying altitude making the model impractical. Current work suggests that a more practical solution to the problem can be achieved with subspace tracking

What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important?

This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is, but what the potential opportunities are that are enabled by these new protocols. The model proposed in the paper takes the way that Web interaction has been framed as a baseline to inform a similar analogue for the Semantic Web. While the Web has been represented as a Page + Links, the paper presents the argument that the Semantic Web can be conceptualized as a Notebook + Memex. The argument considers how this model also presents new challenges for fundamental human interaction with computing, and that hypertext models have much to contribute to this new understanding for distributed information systems

Ethnicity and Empowerment: Implications for Psychological Training in the 1980s

Psychological services, as a part of the health-care system, have been embedded in specific configurations of cultural meanings and social relationships, [1] and the role of patients and healers cannot be understood apart from that context. This article explores the failure of psychology to effectively address the inhibiting impact of racism on human development, and it suggests a corrective agenda for the training of socially responsive and responsible psychologists, an agenda derived from the literacy education model of Paulo Freire

Critique [of Retention of Undergraduate Minority Students in Institutions of Higher Education]

Increased retention of minority undergraduates is a goal that can be supported for a variety of reasons, from the avoidance of human waste, to concern for balanced institutional budgets, to the desirability of turning out larger numbers of minority graduates who will become professional role models for the next generation. The authors have presented a state·of·the·art review of some promising retention programs, together with recommendations for strengthening such programs