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Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination

open access: yesReOrient, 2020
Orientalism is a much maligned concept. While geared to the service of the Western colonial sense of superiority, Orientalism is, at base, a loose set of symbols and motifs that is more geared towards an introspective critique of ...
Emad El-Din Aysha
doaj   +1 more source

45 years after release of 'Orientalism', nothing much has changed

open access: yes, 2023
IN 2018, news portal Middle East Eye (MEE) covered the 40th anniversary of the release of Edward Said's work Orientalism. Five years on, in its Sept 15 issue, the MEE blasted its essay with the headline, "Orientalism at 45: Why Edward Said's seminal ...
Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad
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Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Analytic, Fārābian Conception of Orientalism

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2022
In this paper, I attempt to develop what I call an ‘Analytic, Fārābian’ conception of Orientalism. The motivation for this conception is that it helps us with the task––identified by Wael B.
Anthony R. Booth
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Task orientation and user‐oriented dialog design [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1991
Work psychologists have introduced a concept, in which dialog design is a part of task design. A set of criteria of user-oriented dialog design is presented. These criteria are consistently integrated into a control concept. Empirical investigations on some of these criteria are then described.
Ulich, E.   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Orientalism and Race: Aryans and Semites

open access: yes, 2019
Aryanism pervades the Western intellectual tradition, emerging out of early modern understandings of human diversity and the engagement of European scholars with Asia, in particular Persia and then, centrally, India.
Hutton, CM
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Disciplines, discourse and Orientalism: the implications for postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching in higher education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Despite national requirements for accredited teaching qualifications to promote understanding of ‘how students learn, both generally and in the subject’ (HEA, 2006), there is a lack of literature internationally on disciplinary differences in student ...
Wareing, Shan
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Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deconstructing Orientalism Through Philosophical Premises: Edward W. Said as a c...

open access: yesمجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية, 2017
Since his publication of 'Orientalism', Edward Said had received sea-waves of observations and critiques which tried to question the scientific premises on which he had built his work.  This paper is an attempt to address the following questions: What's
Abdenour Belhaouchet
doaj  

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