Local and Global Influences on Islamic NGOs in Kenya

Islamic Radicalization in Kenya

Contextual influences on orientation discrimination: binding local and global cues

We sought to determine how local and global features within an image interact by examining whether orientation discrimination thresholds could be modified by contextual information. In particular, we investigated how local orientation signals within an image are pooled together, and whether this pooling process is dependent on the global orientation content present in the image. We find that ob...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Background: Attention impairments are the hallmark feature of subclinical depression. The present study used Navon task to compare the allocation of attention to the local and global stimuli in depressed and nondepressed participants. Method: The primary sample included 186 female high school students from Shiraz city who were selected using cluster sampl...

Invitation and Truth in Global Relation from the Islamic Viewpoint