Do protests increase political engagement among the general public? It is often necessary for social movements to induce widespread political engagement in order to gain leverage over elected officials, but this consequence of protest activity has never been tested or verified. Indeed, empirical research on the public effects of protests has largely been handicapped by methodological limitation...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is fueling the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. However, despite their close epidemiological links, the public health responses have largely been separate. WHO has set out a strategy to decrease the burden of HIV-related TB, comprising interventions against both TB and HIV. Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV can link...

Christian congregations and denominations are increasingly struggling with questions of LGBTQ+ inclusion. The hiring ministers who persons, including persons in leadership, conducting marriages just a few the discernment discussions that considering. This article reports on findings 97 interviews 21 reporting their own conversations. Researchers identified commonalities differences groups proce...

follower university students of imam khumaini reacted in 4/11/1979 and occupied the usa embassy in tehran in protest against the supporting of mohammad reza pahlavi by the usa to provide conspiracy like what happened as the coup in 18/8/1953 and interference of the spies and relation with the specious elements in iran to remove islamic republic of iran. the uas following the political failures,...

The article is devoted to the governmental policy in relation political protest during reign of Alexander II Russia. Based on materials interdepartmental meetings first half 1870s, it shows that decisions played a key role escalation revolutionary violence and emergence terrorism did not result from “fear” threat. On contrary, they arose as misunderstanding nature new phase youth protest, partl...

This research analyses the type of figurative language (sarcasm or mock; impoliteness is used to perform face threatening acts with use politeness strategies that are obviously insincere and thus remain surface relizations satire; desire precisely clear still an audience protest which intends be describe painful absurd situations foolish wicked persons groups as vividly possible ) in songs domi...

Recent years have witnessed waves of protests sweeping across countries and continents, in some cases resulting in political and governmental change. Much media attention has been focused on the increasing usage of social media to coordinate and provide instantly available reports on these protests. Here, we investigate whether it is possible to identify protest outbreaks through quantitative a...

INTRODUCTION In a previous paper, that on "Separation Anxiety" (1960), I sketched briefly the sequence of responses to be observed when young children are removed from their mothers and placed with strangers. After delineating the three phases—Protest, Despair, Detachment3—I pointed out that "the phase of Protest raises the problem of separation anxiety; Despair that of grief and mourning; Deta...

We present ProTest, an automatic test environment for B specifications. B is a model-oriented notation where systems are specified in terms of abstract states and operations on abstract states. ProTest first generates a state coverage graph of a B specification through exhaustive model checking, and the coverage graph is traversed to generate a set of test cases, each being a sequence of B oper...

From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and extremity of acts of civil disobedience? This paper presents a model in which protest planners choose the nature of the disturbance hoping to influence voters (or other decision-makers in less democratic regimes) both through the size of the unrest and by generat...