The discussion of identity within Islamic archaeology is rare, and it is often treated as a given, as if Islam was a monolithic category, when in reality it is composed of a variety of identity variables, such as those revolving around sectarian affiliation, ethnicity or gender for example. Ideally, Islam should be structured by ‘emphatic ideological denial of the primacy of ethnic identity (an...

Individual differences in moral views are often explained as the downstream effect of ideological commitments, such as political orientation and religiosity. Recent studies in the U.S. suggest that moral views about recreational drug use are also influenced by attitudes toward sex and that this relationship cannot be explained by ideological commitments. In this study, we investigate student sa...

The quickly growing presence of ideological groups on the Internet has garnered interest into how these groups use technology to persuade others. This study extends current research on the influential effects of website credibility and interactivity to the context of ideological group websites. Results of this study indicated that credibility and interactivity had direct and interactive effects...

This study investigates diasporic identity in Arab– American autobiographies. It particularly tackles the question of representation and its impact on projection individual self-perception accordance with different social contexts ideological leaning; it aims at explaining how contexts, that authors encounter experience, affect their own identity. The employs insights from autoethnography socio...

This article analyses the ideological, political and medical positioning of mentally ill veterans Finnish Civil War 1918 in inter-war Finland. Using pension applications, writings veteran activists, parliamentary debates, psychiatric examinations military documents this shows that war-related mental disability was a locally nationally politicised, sympathised justified phenomenon Finland, as lo...

In terms of their political and ideological success, Pakistani Islamists have had several ups downs since Pakistan became the Islamic Republic in 1956. strive to safeguard state’s status quo while simultaneously expanding reach Sharia. Despite insignificant electoral victories, largely been able dictate national identity policies civilian military governments. A major hurdle promotion pluralism...

Social proverbs contain life philosophies and experience as well as moral standards; aspects of social life are reflected in the mirror of social proverbs. Social proverbs are of both language and culture. Because of their abundant cultural information, social proverbs have been studied from the point of culture in many researches. Modern semiotics has been widely applied to cultural studies as...

We study a model in which voters choose between two candidates on the basis of both ideology and competence. While the ideology of the candidates is commonly known, voters are imperfectly informed about competence. Voter preferences, however, are such that it is a dominant strategy to vote according to ideology alone. When voting is compulsory, the candidate of the majority ideology prevails an...

An enzymatic synthesis of sphingomyelin, N-acylsphingosylphosphorylcholine, was demonstrated by Sribney and Kennedy to occur via a reaction between ceramide (Nacylsphingosine) and CDP-choline. They indicated in this study that N-acyl derivatives of fhreo-sphingosine were far superior to the eryfhro derivatives as acceptors for the phosphorylcholine moiety. We have repeated these enzymatic exper...