The Qur'an Seminar Commentary

The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and provide readers with unique insights into the latest trends of research in the Qur'an. This Commentary is a useful and illuminating reference work for students and scholars in the field of Qur'anic Studies

The Qur'an Seminar Commentary

The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and provide readers with unique insights into the latest trends of research in the Qur'an. This Commentary is a useful and illuminating reference work for students and scholars in the field of Qur'anic Studies

SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives : data from an international prospective cohort study

Background: Preoperative SARS-CoV-2 vaccination could support safer elective surgery. Vaccine numbers are limited so this study aimed to inform their prioritization by modelling. Methods: The primary outcome was the number needed to vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one COVID-19-related death in 1 year. NNVs were based on postoperative SARS-CoV-2 rates and mortality in an international cohort study (surgical patients), and community SARS-CoV-2 incidence and case fatality data (general population). NNV estimates were stratified by age (18-49, 50-69, 70 or more years) and type of surgery. Best- and worst-case scenarios were used to describe uncertainty. Results: NNVs were more favourable in surgical patients than the general population. The most favourable NNVs were in patients aged 70 years or more needing cancer surgery (351; best case 196, worst case 816) or non-cancer surgery (733; best case 407, worst case 1664). Both exceeded the NNV in the general population (1840; best case 1196, worst case 3066). NNVs for surgical patients remained favourable at a range of SARS-CoV-2 incidence rates in sensitivity analysis modelling. Globally, prioritizing preoperative vaccination of patients needing elective surgery ahead of the general population could prevent an additional 58 687 (best case 115 007, worst case 20 177) COVID-19-related deaths in 1 year. Conclusion: As global roll out of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination proceeds, patients needing elective surgery should be prioritized ahead of the general population.Peer reviewe

EVALITA Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian - December 17th, 2020

Welcome to EVALITA 2020! EVALITA is the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. EVALITA is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC, http://www.ai-lc.it) and it is endorsed by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA, http://www.aixia.it) and the Italian Association for Speech Sciences (AISV, http://www.aisv.it)

The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts

The study of Islam’s origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting. At the same time, a renewed attention is being paid to the very plausible pre-canonical redactional and editorial stages of the Qur'an, a book whose core many contemporary scholars agree to be formed by various independent writings in which encrypted passages from the OT Pseudepigrapha, the NT Apocrypha, and other ancient writings of Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean provenance may be found. Likewise, the earliest Islamic community is presently regarded by many scholars as a somewhat undetermined monotheistic group that evolved from an original Jewish-Christian milieu into a distinct Muslim group perhaps much later than commonly assumed and in a rather unclear way. The following volume gathers select studies that were originally shared at the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies aim at exploring afresh the dawn and early history of Islam with the tools of biblical criticism as well as the approaches set forth in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian, and Rabbinic origins, thereby contributing to the renewed, interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the complex processes of religious identity formation during Late Antiquity.info:eu-repo/semantics/inPress

The Qur'an seminar commentary : a collaborative study of 50 Qur'anic passages

The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and provide readers with unique insights into the latest trends of research in the Qur'an. This Commentary is a useful and illuminating reference work for students and scholars in the field of Qur'anic Studies.Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei, Hamza M. ZaferTexte teilweise englisch, teilweise französisc

Sea-Scale Agent-Based Simulator of Solea solea in the Adriatic Sea

DISPAS is an agent-based simulator for fish stock assessment developed as a decision making support for the sustainable management of fishery. In this work we enlarge the underlying model of DISPAS allowing it to model and simulate a multi-scale scenario. We retain the currently available spatial scale, able to represent a limited average region of the sea, and we introduce a new spatial macro-scale, able to represent the whole sea. At the macro-scale a single agent represents an area of five square nautical miles and manages groups of fish in different age classes. The interactions among the macro agents permit the exchange of individuals of each class among neighbor areas. A case study regarding the Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758; Soleidae) stock of the northern Adriatic Sea is used to show the intended approach, taking into account the available data, coming from fishery independent scientific surveys

Strategie femminili in Siria: il caso delle Qubaysiyy\u101t.

L\u2019articolo studia il fenomeno delle Qubaysiyyat, le seguaci del movimento femminile di matrice islamica fondato in Siria da Munira al-Qubaysi (n. 1933). Legato al sufismo, tanto da poter essere definito una sorta di branca della naqshbandiyya, il movimento delle Qubaysiyyat ha conosciuto larga diffusione anche al di fuori dei confini siriani, ma deve molte delle sue peculiarit\ue0 al contesto storico e religioso culturale in cui \ue8 nato. Spronate dagli insegnamenti della fondatrice \u2013 la cui influenza si esercita in senso piramidale secondo tipologie proprie degli ordini sufi \u2013 le Qubaysiyyat sono attive non soltanto in campo religioso, ma anche in ambito professionale. Senza mettere in discussione l\u2019ortodossia religiosa, le anisat (\u2018signorine\u2019), come preferiscono chiamarsi le adepte, scardinano cos\uec quella visione arcaica della donna \u2013 corroborata in epoca coloniale e postcoloniale \u2013 che relega la figura femminile ai ruoli domestici di moglie e madre. Lo studio si pone tre obiettivi: studiare un caso di associazionismo islamico in un\u2019area, la Siria, considerata \u201claica\u201d, prendere in esame le modalit\ue0 attraverso cui viene teorizzato e vissuto il rapporto tra sfera religiosa e sfera mondana, e, infine, evidenziare il peculiare ruolo che in esso svolge il protagonismo femminile, contestualizzandolo nella realt\ue0 siriana, anche in relazione agli sviluppi pi\uf9 recenti e controversi. Le fonti utilizzate sono soprattutto articoli di stampa araba e siriana, testi di fat\u101w\ue0 (plur. di fatw\ue0), sermoni, pamphlet pubblicati in siti web islamici e nei numerosi blog consultabili nella rete