After the death of Masha Amini at hands Iranian Morality Police for not wearing hijab, in accordance with what they considered appropriate September 2022, a social media campaign called “Hair Freedom” was sparked on different platforms, videos women cutting their hair protest over women’s rights and Amini’s death. This paper analyzes whether this digital feminist movement enacted an interreligi...

This essay challenges the widely held view of the CCP’s purported “resilient authoritarianism,” which asserts that China’s one-party political system is able to enhance the state capacity to govern effectively through institutional adaptations and policy adjustments. An analysis of the recent and still unfolding Bo Xilai crisis reveals the flaws in China’s political system, including nepotism a...

Database systems provide media recovery by talcing periodic backups and applying a recovery log to a backup to r’estore the failed media. A transaction-time database is one that retains multiple versions of data, recording with each version the time of the transaction that created it. Such a database provides access to historical versions based on transaction time, and permits reconstruction of...

This paper describes the systems submitted by our team for Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) task held in conjunction with FIRE 2017. Native Language Identification (NLI) is an important task that has different applications in different areas such as social-media analysis, authorship identification, second language acquisition and forensic investigation. We submitted two systems usin...

Children can influence the foods available at home, but some ways of approaching a parent may be better than others; and the best way may vary by type of parent. This study explored how parents with different parenting styles would best receive their 10 to 14 years old child asking for fruits and vegetables (FV). An online parenting style questionnaire was completed and follow-up qualitative te...