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  • 7 - Pursuing Justice

  • from Part III - Situating the Reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street in Mundane, Intractable Conflict Zone Practices
  • Yael Warshel, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 227-264

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 is one of three to describe controlled multi-sited ethnographies the author conducted to reverse-path trace the noise that obfuscated the Sesame Street interventions’ effects and impacts. The ethnographies link the children to their specific communities, looking at how glocalization of interstate systemic forces socialized them and how their everyday lives were reshaped by their respective conflict zones, altering their readings of the text—key to understanding their Palestinian, Jewish Israeli, and Arab/Palestinian Israeli cultures-in-the-making. They also shed light on the children’s dialogical critical intra- and cross-cultural mundane conflict zone experiences and perspectives. A detailed layout describes the lives of the Palestinian audience members, residents of the stateless nation village of East Barta’a—how they are perceived by Jewish Israelis seeking security, Arab/Palestinian Israelis seeking equality, and as they see themselves, seeking justice, as an island cut off from the rest of Palestine/the PA by a “wall” and gate to the east and Israel proper to the west. At age 5, they had already become acculturated to their ethnopolitical grouping’s interpretation of conflict zones structures. They symbolically transferred the meaning of “Jew” into an “army of infidels,” preventing them from achieving independence, “correcting” the imbalance they perceived that could not accommodate their interpersonal contact with Israeli soldiers, with Sesame Street’s encoding of civilian and good-natured “Jews.” They normalized the conflict, adopting protest play patterns and explained that the only resolution is “converting Jews to Islam,” eliminating the other party to “the conflict.”

  • Checkpointing for the RESTART problem in Markov networks

  • Part of
  • Lester Lipsky, Derek Doran, Swapna Gokhale
  • Journal:
    Journal of Applied Probability / Volume 48 / Issue A / August 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 July 2016, pp. 195-207
    Print publication:
    August 2011
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  • We apply the known formulae of the RESTART problem to Markov models of software (and many other) systems, and derive new equations. We show how checkpoints might be included, with their resultant performance under RESTART. The result is a complete procedure for finding the mean, variance, and tail behavior of the job completion time as a function of the failure rate. We also provide a detailed example.

  • The absence of a DNA replication checkpoint in porcine zygotes

  • Irena Vackova, Radomir Kren, Pasqualino Loi, Vladimír Krylov, Josef Fulka
  • Journal:
    Zygote / Volume 14 / Issue 1 / February 2006
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 March 2006, pp. 33-37

  • It has been demonstrated that in the zygotes of some mammals a unique checkpoint controls the onset of DNA replication. Thus, DNA replication begins in the maternal pronucleus only after the paternal pronucleus is fully formed. In our experiments we have investigated whether this checkpoint also operates in porcine zygotes produced either by in vitro fertilization (IVF) or by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Our results show that the onset of DNA replication occurs in the maternal pronucleus even in the presence of an intact sperm head in zygotes produced by ICSI, as well as in polyspermic eggs where some sperm heads are intact or male pronuclei are not yet fully developed. We conclude that in porcine zygotes there is an absence of the DNA replication checkpoint that is typical for some other mammals.

  • Diverse functions of BRCA1 in the DNA damage response

  • Jong-Soo Lee, Jay H. Chung
  • Journal:
    Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine / Volume 3 / Issue 15 / 18 May 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2004, pp. 1-11

  • Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related mortality in women. It affects more than one in nine women over their lifetime. Although most breast cancers are sporadic, the genetics and molecular biology of the heritable forms of breast cancer have provided valuable insights into not only breast cancer but also cancers in general. Among the mutations linked to heritable breast cancers, the mutations in the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) gene are the best characterised. The BRCA1 gene encodes a nuclear protein that is important for maintaining genome integrity. However, a growing list of BRCA1-associated proteins suggests that BRCA1 has diverse and unexpected functions.