Experimental Infection of Egg-laying Hens with Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Phage Type 4 and its Three Mutants

Seongbeom Cho, Nicole S. Crisp, Jessica R. Maley, Kristin M. Evon, Muhammad Younus, Mokhtar M. Arshad, Sangwei Lu and A. Mahdi SaeedOfficial URL: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/47/2/47_190/_article Volume 47, Number 2, April 2010 , ISSN 1349-0486 Abstract : The emergence of Salmonella enterica...

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A Wittgensteinian Defense of Cultural Relativism

Emily Heckel Official URL: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=philo Abstract: Cultural relativism is an integral part of the field methodology for cultural anthropologists. The concept of cultural relativism grew from developments within the philosophy...

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Post-Racial Leadership: Racialized Mass Incarceration in the Age of Obama

Ian Haney López Official URL: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=maccivicf Abstract: President Barack Obama‘s election has inspired many to marvel that we now live in a ―post-racial‖ America. Obama himself seems to embrace this notion, not perhaps as a...

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‘Like The Wick Of The Lamp, Like The Silkworm They Are’: Stupid Schoolteachers In Classical Arabic Literary Sources1

Antonella Ghersetti UNIVERSITہ CA’ FOSCARI, VENICE Official URL: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/jais/ Abstract : he alleged stupidity of schoolteachers was a common topos in adab literature of the Abbasid period as well as in later sources. Indeed, the 'stupid schoolteacher' was a stereotype much like 'the...

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The Role Of The Biographer In Constructing Identity And Doctrine: Al-.Abbadi And His Kitab. Abaqat Al-Fuqaha. Al-Shafi.Iyya

Felicitas Opwis Georgetown University Abstract: This paper explores the role of the biographer in compiling a biographical dictionary, focusing on al-'Abbādī's (d. 458/1066) work on the Shāfi'ī 'school' of law. The paper argues that al-'Abbādī straddles a fine line of faithful transmission of school...

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The .Ubada B. Al-.Amit Tradition At The Crossroads Of Methodology

Pavel Pavlovitch SOFIA UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI Abstract: During the past few decades, Western studies of the origin of Islam have made considerable advances in assessing sources which have long been considered a repository of exegetic, legal and historical material about the first centuries...

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Tokens Of Resentment: Medieval Arabic Narratives About Gift Exchange And Social Conflict

Jocelyn Sharlet Abstract: Stories about gift exchange can confirm individual relationships and communal bonds, but they can also articulate social conflict. This analysis focuses primarily on stories in the first of two extant monographic compilations on gift exchange, the tenth-century Book of Rarities...

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