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Kabiru Ibrahim Yankuzo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • impact of globalization on the traditional african cultures
    Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2013
    Co-Authors: Kabiru Ibrahim Yankuzo
    Abstract:

    There has been increasing concern over the years by the scholars and writers on how the world is being compressed into a single space now referred to as 'a global village'. Countries at various stages of development are increasingly forced to take account of an ever expanding interconnection of socio-Cultural issues and economies in the management of their national affairs. The states are increasingly losing their capacity to govern and to regulate in an increasingly borderless world; with an increasing homogenization and domination of traditional African cultures. African societies are forced into accepting uniform moral principle of what is right and wrong within the global cultures. Scholars and writers often focus attention on economic Aspect of globalization, while neglecting other Aspects, more importantly its Cultural Aspect. This paper seeks to examine what exactly is globalization, and how can we best conceptualize this phenomenon? Lastly what are its impacts on the development of African Cultural norms and values? These amongst others are the questions, which this paper seeks to examine using Cultural convergence perspective as a guide. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n9p43

Eslamieh Razieh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Bakerian Non-equivalence Translation Strategies in Novel vs Short Story: The Case Study of Matilda vs Landlady and Other Short Stories
    'Academy Publication', 2020
    Co-Authors: Naghdi Hanieh, Eslamieh Razieh
    Abstract:

    This study means to improve the translation quality of two closely related literary genres; novel and short stories by determining the most frequently used Bakerian strategies for dealing with non-equivalences at word level. For this end, the English source texts, Matilda (which is a novel) and landlady and other short stories (which is a collection of short stories) are compared with their Farsi target texts to quantitatively study the frequency of Baker’s translation strategy. The purpose is first to evaluate if there is any meaningful difference between the implementation of Bakerian non-equivalence translation strategies between a novel and a short story collection. The purpose is also to study if the narrative context affects the translation of non-equivalence and if the shortness, compactness and brevity of the short story as determining genre related factors can affect textual-Cultural Aspect of translation and the implementation of the selected translation strategy. The findings of this study prove that translation using a loan word or loan word plus explanation is the most frequently used strategy in both works, though it is more frequently used in short story (83%) than in novel (58%). The findings of this study can be used as one contributing factor along with other factors for translation quality assessment of the two studied prose narrative genres; novel and short story

Diana Francisca Adamatti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • analysing the influence of the Cultural Aspect in the self regulation of social exchanges in mas societies an evolutionary game based approach
    Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
    Co-Authors: Andressa Von Laer, Gracaliz Pereira Dimuro, Diana Francisca Adamatti
    Abstract:

    Social relationships are often described as social exchanges, understood as service exchanges between pairs of individuals with the evaluation of those exchanges by the individuals themselves. Social exchanges have been frequently used for defining interactions in MAS. An important problem that arises in the context of social simulation and other MAS applications is the self-regulation of the social exchange processes, so that the agents can achieve/maintain the equilibrium of the exchanges by themselves, guaranteing the continuation of the interactions in time. Recently, this problem was tackled by defining the spatial and evolutionary Game of Self-Regulation of Social Exchange Processes (GSREP), implemented in NetLogo, where the agents evolve their exchange strategies by themselves over time, performing more equilibrated and fair interactions. The objective of this paper is to analyse the problem of the self-regulation of social exchange processes in the context of a BDI-based MAS, adapting the GSREP game to Jason agents and introducing a Cultural Aspect, where the society culture, aggregating the agents’ reputation as group beliefs, influences directly the evolution of the agents’ exchange strategies, increasing the number of successful interactions and improving the agents’ outcomes in interactions.

Jurgen Breuste - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • decision making planning and design for the conservation of indigenous vegetation within urban development
    Landscape and Urban Planning, 2004
    Co-Authors: Jurgen Breuste
    Abstract:

    Abstract Utilization of indigenous vegetation as parts of the urban landscape is still a problematic matter in decision making and planning. On one hand, there are many activities in cities and towns aimed at providing more green areas. On the other hand, there is an increasing destruction of indigenous vegetation, not only for building purposes, but also partly by extreme maintenance of urban open spaces and an increasing number of recreation activities. Despite there is a considerable amount of scientific knowledge on indigenous plants in urban and sub-urban areas, the use of this knowledge is still low. The socio-economic knowledge about such vegetation (acceptance, utilization, economic value, etc.) is mostly non-existent in many regions. The indigenous vegetation has to become an important Aspect of urban biodiversity as well as part of the living space of the urban dwellers. This links two important subjects: the specific nature of the original biomes in which the urban region is situated, and the Cultural Aspect of acceptance of various kinds of nature. The nature preservation strategies, especially of Central European cities, show a lack of willingness to preserve indigenous vegetation sites. But there are instruments of planning and methods which allow better preservation of these areas. Furthermore, it must be determined whether it is possible to reduce the human impact on open spaces by reintroducing indigenous vegetation, and under what circumstances this works. The cost reduction of maintenance of urban green areas is seen as one major factor linking to this target. Human acceptance is still an uncertam factor which has to be investigated and will, in the long term, be improved by education and evaluated under different Cultural and social Aspects. The management of the classical conflict between pure species or habitat preservation in open urban spaces of untouched nature and the high pressure of recreation on the same sites, is explained by example. An important question follows: will it be possible to establish “new” indigenous nature in the urban and sub-urban spaces?

Naghdi Hanieh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Bakerian Non-equivalence Translation Strategies in Novel vs Short Story: The Case Study of Matilda vs Landlady and Other Short Stories
    'Academy Publication', 2020
    Co-Authors: Naghdi Hanieh, Eslamieh Razieh
    Abstract:

    This study means to improve the translation quality of two closely related literary genres; novel and short stories by determining the most frequently used Bakerian strategies for dealing with non-equivalences at word level. For this end, the English source texts, Matilda (which is a novel) and landlady and other short stories (which is a collection of short stories) are compared with their Farsi target texts to quantitatively study the frequency of Baker’s translation strategy. The purpose is first to evaluate if there is any meaningful difference between the implementation of Bakerian non-equivalence translation strategies between a novel and a short story collection. The purpose is also to study if the narrative context affects the translation of non-equivalence and if the shortness, compactness and brevity of the short story as determining genre related factors can affect textual-Cultural Aspect of translation and the implementation of the selected translation strategy. The findings of this study prove that translation using a loan word or loan word plus explanation is the most frequently used strategy in both works, though it is more frequently used in short story (83%) than in novel (58%). The findings of this study can be used as one contributing factor along with other factors for translation quality assessment of the two studied prose narrative genres; novel and short story