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Sect and House in Syria: History, Architecture, and Bayt Amongst the Druze in Jaramana [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the connections between the architecture and materiality of houses and the social idiom of bayt (house, family). The ethnographic exploration is located in the Druze village of Jaramana, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
A. Maria A. Kastrinou, Abu Chakra E., Alamuddin N. S., Bahloul J, Batatu H, Betts B. R., Bourdieu P., Chatty D, Delaney C, Eickelman D., Engels F., Fahmi F.,, Firro K. M., Geertz C., González-Ruibal A., Haddad B, Hazran Y., Herzfeld M, Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Kapytoff I, Kastrinou Theodoropoulou A. M, Khalaf S. N., Khuri F. I., Layish A., Lévi-Strauss C., Lévi-Strauss C., Makarem S. N., Makdisi U., Mitchell T., Rabo A., Rugh A. B., Salamandra C. A, Seale P., Shaaban B., Shannon J. H., Strathern M., Van Dam N., Watenpaugh K. D, Waterson R., Yeoh S. G.   +41 more
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National in form, Putinist in content: minority institutions ‘outside politics’ [PDF]

, 2018
Over the past three decades, Russia has developed a set of institutions for the management of ethno-linguistic diversity based on the principle of ‘national cultural autonomy’.
Prina, Federica
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Political participation from a citizenship perspective [PDF]

, 2009
Conventional academic studies on political participation mostly focus on electoral politics including electoral systems, political party structures and their interaction with other governmental processes. These studies adopt an approach that presumes the
Kadioglu, Ayse Gulden, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden   +1 more
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Multicultural Politics In Governor Candidates Of Dki Jakarta 2017 In Tempo.Co

Mimbar, 2017
The purpose of this research is how to comprehend the politics of Indonesian people for accepting ethnic, racial, religious and tribal diversity in occupying government seat (governor’s election of Jakarta) in the context of multicultural country.
Diya Sri Widiyanti
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Call for Papers: “Space, language and identity politics in 21st century higher education”

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Our first guest-edited issue for Vol. 6 (2018) will address itself to the politics of space, language and identity in higher education, in Africa and globally.
Thierry M Luescher
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The politics of national diversity [PDF]

, 1987
On the consequences of the interplay between the diversity of ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic groupings in the Austro-Hungarian ...
Grassl, Wolfgang, Smith, Barry
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Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
wiley   +1 more source

Potential therapeutic targeting of BKCa channels in glioblastoma treatment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review summarizes current insights into the role of BKCa and mitoBKCa channels in glioblastoma biology, their potential classification as oncochannels, and the emerging pharmacological strategies targeting these channels, emphasizing the translational challenges in developing BKCa‐directed therapies for glioblastoma treatment.
Kamila Maliszewska‐Olejniczak, Karolina Pytlak, Sandra Jaworowska, Bogusz Kulawiak, Piotr Bednarczyk   +4 more
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Lessons from a Federal Grant for School Diversity: Tracing a Theory of Change and Implementation of Local Policies

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education made grants to eleven school districts under the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans (TASAP) program.
Elizabeth DeBray, Kathryn McDermott, Erica Frankenberg, Ann Elizabeth Blankenship   +3 more
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Diversity, urban space and the right to the provincial city [PDF]

, 2013
Using three vignettes of the same physical space this article contributes to understanding of how the right to the city is contested in provincial England in the early twenty-first century.
Amin A., Ben Rogaly, Brenner N., Clarke J., Copsey N., Franck K., Harvey D., Jones H., Kaveri Qureshi, Keith M., Lentin A., Muggleton W., Sandercock L., Stenning A., Trilling D.   +14 more
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