Objectives: The present research aims to study the normal development of Percentage of Consonant Correct (PCC) in Kurdish-speaking children, with Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect as an Articulation Competency Index (ACI). PCC was examined in terms of the manner of articulation and position of sound in the word.  Methods: In this descriptoanalytical cross-sectional study, 120 Kurdish-speak...

This paper examines how Chinese advertisers include concepts of both nationalism and transnationalism in recent Chinese advertisements. I situate my research in the context of China's search for modernity, and its historical and contemporary relations with the West. I argue that the marketing of nationalism and transnationalism represents contradictory concepts of China as a nation and a state....

Critics of Hindutva nationalism see it as either an elite conspiracy or a mass political movement with no necessary relation to the Hindu faith. I focus instead on its ideological deployment, treating it as a modern religious construction of Hinduism that legitimates capitalism—much like Christianity in the 17th and 18th century. I mobilize Slavoj Žižek, Erenesto Laclau, and Louis Althusser’s t...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

I employ the concept of modality in order to capture the configurations of homogeneous elements that may exist in a heterogeneous context encompassing diverse nationalist movements. Modalities of nationalism are varied outcomes of the efforts of intellectuals to resolve issues concerning the identity of their political community, its boundaries, and the ideal political regime. A modality rests ...

Examination Committee Chair: András Kovács (Nationalism Studies Program, CEU) Members: Gerhard Jaritz (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Gábor Buzási (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Zsuzsanna Urbach (Museum of Fine Arts) Béla Zsolt Szakács (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Carsten Wilke (Departments of History, Medieval Studies, and Nationalism Program, CEU) External readers: Hans-W...

BACKGROUND Hormone receptor (HR) and HER2 expression predict the therapeutic response and prognosis of breast cancer. In the Middle-East, breast cancer is diagnosed at a young age, and Arabic women are reported to have a low frequency of HR positive tumors. This study investigates HR and HER2 expression among Kurdish and Arabic women. METHODS During 2008-2010, the Sulaimaniyah Directorate of ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of this polymorphism as a risk factor for breast cancer in Kurdish patients and to investigate the possible association between Arg194Trp x-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) gene polymorphisms with clinical and histopathological outcomes of patients with breast cancer. METHODS A total of 100 breast cancer patients and 200 cancer-free controls in Ku...

The study seeks to analyses ethnocentric factors impact on the freedom of competition and business activity. Xenophobia, morality and rationality patriotism and nationalism, economic and war animosity influence one way or another, Greek students’ opinions towards freedom of competition in the era of a vast fiscal crisis in Greece. Key-Words: Implicative statistical analysis, freedom of competit...