Emigration 2.0: Young Moroccans, Emigration and the Internet

This article examines the relationship between young Moroccans’ uses of the Internet and their migratory project to Europe. It frames its analysis within key debates on international migration and makes the case for a more systematic exploration of the symbolic dimensions of emigration. The research conducted, (2011/2012) including qualitative interviews, focus groups and a survey, shows that although an increasing number of young Moroccans are using the Internet to migrate into Europe, the majority are, unlike the findings of previous empirical research [Sabry, T. (2003). Exploring Symbolic Dimensions of Emigration: Mental and Physical Emigrations, Ph.D. thesis, University of Westminster] have shown, less keen to emigrate. The research also shows how young Moroccans are more interested in communicating with other young Moroccans on social media than they are with young people from Europe or in other parts of the world. Qualitative material has also shown how young Moroccans’ interactions with Arabs from the Gulf, using social media, has exposed serious contradictions between profane and sacred Islam. The story that emerges is not one of heightened global or westernised consciousness, but one of localization par excellence

Ethnography as thrownness and the face of the sufferer

This article provides a self-reflexive account of ethnographic research conducted on the outskirts of Burj Al Brajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, run by Hezbollah. It focuses on ethnographic research conducted with a Syrian refugee family including the mother, father and three children. The research is well captured, in hindsight, by Sarah Pink’s definition of ethnography as a ‘reflexive and experiential process through which academic and applied understanding, knowing and knowledge are produced’. The article demonstrates how the ethnographer’s experience with the refugee children was marked, regardless of long and diligent preparations, by several dislocations: methodological, sensorial and epistemic. The ethnographer pursued a non-media-centric approach allowing him to explore both the refugee family’s media uses as well as the lived, everyday conditions that marked their media uses. The primary aim of the article is three-pronged: (a) to provide an ethnographic description and analysis of the media worlds in a Hizbullah area in South Beirut, (b) to analyse media uses and aesthetics of violence in the context of war/refugees’ lives and (c) to theorise using the Heideggerian concept of thrownness, the entangled and affective regime that emerges during the ethnographic encounter

Food Consumption Patterns and Use of Country Foods by Native Canadians Near Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada

This study examined food consumption patterns of native (Indian and Metis) Canadians living in a boreal forest area with good access to both store-bought and country foods (traditional foods from the land, such as wild animals, birds, fish and berries). Frequency of use by season of 48 country foods by 120 households was examined by interview with the female household head. Twenty-four-hour recalls of individual food consumption on four separate days over two seasons were obtained by interview with 178 persons (71 males, 107 females) age 13-86 years, and the mean values per person were used to represent their usual intakes. The mean reported household frequency of use (number of occasions per year) was as follows: all country foods 319, including large mammals 128, berries 63, fish 62, birds 32, and small mammals 27. The upper quintile of households used country food two and one-half times more often than the sample as a whole. Recalls of individual food consumption showed that country food was consumed on average 4.2 times per week and averaged 0.5 kg per week. Country meat, birds and fish accounted for one-third of the total consumption of meat, birds and fish. Young people consumed less country food than did their elders. Thus, country food constitutes an important part of the food supply, especially of meat and fish of many native people of this region.Key words: country food, food consumption patterns, Indians, Metis, native CanadiansMots clés: aliments provenant directement de la nature, schémas de consommation alimentaire, Indiens, Métis, autochtones canadien

Two-Loop Diagrams in Causal Perturbation Theory

The scalar two-loop master diagram is revisited in the massive cases needed for the computation of boson and fermion propagators in QED and QCD. By means of the causal method it is possible in a straightforward manner to express the propagators as double integrals. In the case of vacuum polarization both integrations can be carried out in terms of polylogarithms, whereas the last integral in the fermion propagator cannot be expressed by known special functions. The advantage of the method in comparison with Feynman integral calculations is indicated.Comment: 16 pages, latex, the figures can be ordered at the first authors address (A.Aste), the necessary macros are included in the latex-fil

USE THE DRIS METHOD TO DETERMINE THE BEST NUTRIENTS BALANCE FOR CHICKPEA PLANTS THROUGH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NORMS AND CRITICAL POINT RATE

This study was aimed to determine the best nutrient balance for chickpeas from the relationship between the Norms of nutrients with the critical point for each nutrient using the DRIS system. This experiment was carried out at the Grdarasha farm, college of Agriculture Engineering Science, University of Salahaddin during the spring growing season of 2020, to find out the effects of three levels of nitrogen (UREA) (0, 15, 30 Kg N ha-1), four levels of triple super phosphate (0, 20, 40, 60 Kg P ha-1), and three levels of KCl fertilizer (0, 15, 30 Kg K ha-1) and their combination on Chickpea yield and nutrient balance by using Split Split plot design with three replicates. The highest yield (1.55 Mg ha-1) was recorded from the lowest (2.02) AT or NBI (nutrient balance index), while the lowest yield (0.73 Mg ha-1) was obtained from the highest AT value (62.68)

Mouth Function Determines The Shape Oscillation Pattern In Regenerating Hydra Tissue Spheres

Hydra is a small freshwater polyp capable of regeneration from small tissue pieces and from aggregates of cells. During regeneration, a hollow bilayered sphere is formed that undergoes osmotically driven shape oscillations of inflation and rupture. These oscillations are necessary for successful regeneration. Eventually, the oscillating sphere breaks rotational symmetry along the future head-foot axis of the animal. Notably, the shape oscillations show an abrupt shift from large-amplitude, long-period oscillations to small-amplitude, short-period oscillations. It has been widely accepted that this shift in oscillation pattern is linked to symmetry breaking and axis formation, and current theoretical models of Hydra symmetry breaking use this assumption as a model constraint. However, a mechanistic explanation for the shift in oscillation pattern is lacking. Using in vivo manipulation and imaging, we quantified the shape oscillation dynamics and dissected the timing and triggers of the pattern shift. Our experiments demonstrate that the shift in the shape oscillation pattern in regenerating Hydra tissue pieces is caused by the formation of a functional mouth and not by shape symmetry breaking as previously assumed. Thus, model assumptions must be revised in light of these new experimental data, which can be used to constrain and validate improved theoretical models of pattern formation in Hydra

Role of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Follow up Brain Tumors after Treatment

Background: 1 H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is an analytical method that enables the identification and quantification of metabolites in samples. It differs from conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in that spectra provide physiological and chemical information instead of anatomy. MRS imaging allows a valuable insights into brain tumors characteristics, grads, and progression then follow up during treatments. Typically in MRS a single spectrum is acquired by averaging enough spectra over a long acquisition time. Averaging is necessary because of the complex spectral structures and relatively low concentrations of many brain metabolites, which result in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in MRS of a living brain. Objective: In this paper, acquiring and analyzing multivoxel MRS data are reviewed by calculating the areas under different peaks then compared with that obtained directly from 1H-MRS machine. 1H-MRS measurements of amounts of Choline (Cho), creatine (Cr) and Nacetylaspartate (NAA) relative to Cho, NAA and Cr in healthy brain tissue of a normal control brain tissue, and in the tissue of tumor of patient who had taken radiation therapy sessions. Results: The obtained results show a good agreement between the data obtained directly from MRS machine and that calculated from their spectra. This method is now used for to insure that these obtained spectra are calibrated with that obtained directly from MRS machine. So these may reflect the small changes in metabolites during treatment and follow up. Conclusion: The MRS data are seen to provide unique information that when combined with high-quality anatomical MR images has implications for defining tumor type and grade, directing biopsy or surgical resection, planning focal radiation or biological therapies, and understanding the mechanisms of success and failure of new treatments