Given that Labeodan (2012: 76) argued that a complete revision of our mentalities when it comes to African culture must take place if there is hope for the Black Consciousness Movement in this century. It is even harder for people to imagine a future less patriarchal. It is difficult for many people to imagine a time when this system did not exist. According to Kolawole, Mary (2011: 116), this social system has managed to survive for a long time because its main psychological weapon is its universality as well as its longevity. It is a successful system because those who obtain this privilege are often unaware of it and consequently perpetuate involuntarily the ill treatment of people in this society whose suffering is the fulcrum on which this society turns. It is a network of social, political and economic relations through which men dominate and control female labor, reproduction and sexuality, and define the status, privileges and rights of women in a society. However, Cham, Mbyre (2012: 89) stated that patriarchy was defined as a system of sexual power. Moreover, Lady Bvukutwa argued that after years of listening to the same rhetoric by many men, government officials and even some women, this genre is a borrowed word, that gender equality is A Western notion that Africans imported, and stuck in African contexts And therefore the same gender equality will never work in an African institution. Meanwhile, apologists (including women) insist on equality between the sexes is a Western notion that will never work in an African creation. Faceless women are stigmatized, but they do courageous acts to rid themselves of the yoke of oppression in a male-dominated society.Īccording GodessBvukutwa, patriarchy is so rooted in most African contexts that trying to separate it from our humanity is unfathomable for the most part. She urges women to make their voices heard so that their lives are sustainable. In this novel, Darko defines female sexuality in terms of a complex trope of transformation from voiceless voices to voices and movements beyond faceless to the face or the person. Faceless exceeds other works in artistic intensity and complexity. In his works of fiction (Beyond the Horizon, 1995, Housemaid, 1998, Faceless, 2003, and Not without Flowers, 2007), sexuality becomes a supreme metaphor for examining the values of Ghanaian society. It explores a recurring theme of sexual exploitation of the most vulnerable members of society. Women have made great contributions in their diverse communities, covering the full range of ethnic nationalities that populate what is now Ghana (Ikoni, 2002).ĭarko’s emerging voice gives a new feminist perspective to gender and class issues in contemporary African writing. The source of this asymmetry is one aspect of society’s assessment and reward system that has not changed much – the tendency to devalue and poorly reward activities and jobs traditionally held by women. Most of the changes in the gender system presented as “revolutionary” involve women in positions and activities formerly reserved for men, with little change in the opposite direction. Gender inequity is not based solely on gender differences, but on how people are treated differently because of their gender (Kolawole, 1998). Gender is the state of being a man or a woman and is generally used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological differences.
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“Cyberwar is in large part conducted through data mining and cyberintelligence,” Ms. Interested buyers are even asked to submit to background checks before they are admitted. The black market sites where this information is sold are far more exclusive than black markets where stolen credit card data is sold. Governments regularly buy stolen personal information on the so-called Dark Web, security experts say. These hackers go wide in their assaults in an effort to build databases of Americans’ personal information, which can be used for blackmail or future attacks. In recent years, Chinese nation-state hackers have breached insurers like Anthem and federal agencies, siphoning detailed personal and medical information. Ulzheimer added.īeyond compromising the personal data of millions of consumers, the breach also poses a potential national security threat. “You’re hoping the thief stumbles on the locked door.” He recommended that all those affected immediately place a fraud alert on all three of their credit files, which anyone can do for free.Įquifax’s offer of one year of free protection falls short of what consumers really need, because their information can be bought and sold by hackers for years to come, Mr. “It’s like locking one of three doors in your house and leaving the other two unlocked,” Mr. Thieves could have information stolen from Equifax and used it to open accounts with creditors that use Experian or TransUnion. It also suggests contacting a law enforcement agency if you believe any stolen information has already been used in some way.Įquifax is offering consumers the ability to freeze their Equifax credit reports, said John Ulzheimer, a consumer credit expert who often does expert witness work for banks and credit unions and worked at Equifax in the 1990s. The company also suggests getting a free copy of your credit report from the three major credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Instead, the site provides an enrollment date for its protection service, and it may not start for several days. When they do, however, they do not necessarily get confirmation about whether they were affected. The site encourages customers to offer their last name and the last six digits of their Social Security number. People can go to the Equifax website to see if their information has been compromised. Using the data stolen from Equifax, identity thieves can impersonate people with lenders, creditors and service providers, who rely on personal identity information from Equifax to make financial decisions regarding potential customers.Įquifax has created a website, to help consumers determine whether their data was at risk. The company handles data on more than 820 million consumers and more than 91 million businesses worldwide and manages a database with employee information from more than 7,100 employers, according to its website. The shares were not part of a sale planned in advance, Bloomberg reported. Potentially adding to criticism of the company, three senior executives, including the company’s chief financial officer, John Gamble, sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the breach was discovered. “Equifax should have multiple layers of controls” so if hackers manage to break in, they can at least be stopped before they do too much damage, Ms. And earlier this year, thieves again stole W-2 tax data from an Equifax subsidiary, TALX, which provides online payroll, tax and human resources services to some of the nation’s largest corporations.Ĭybersecurity professionals criticized Equifax on Thursday for not improving its security practices after those previous thefts, and they noted that thieves were able to get the company’s crown jewels through a simple website vulnerability. Last year, identity thieves successfully made off with critical W-2 tax and salary data from an Equifax website. spokesperson said the agency was aware of the breach and was tracking the situation. They include long terminal repeats/endogenous retroviruses (LTR/ERV e.g., the yeast Ty element) and non-LTR retrotransposons such as the long interspersed nuclear elements or LINEs (e.g., human L1). Autonomous Class I RNA transposons encode all proteins necessary for moving. This is the so-called “copy and paste” mechanism. They encode for a reverse transcriptase enzyme that uses the transcript as a template to produce a cDNA sequence that reinserts randomly into a new genomic site. ( a) Class I (retrotransposons) require RNA transcription to be able to move to different genome locations. Additionally, TEs can be divided into autonomous and non-autonomous. Generally, TEs can be distinguished in two major classes on the basis of their mechanism of transposition: active eukaryotic Class I (retrotransposons) and active eukaryotic Class II (DNA transposons). Schematic representation of the different mechanisms of transposition. This is because at least some TEs remain active and maintain the capacity to invade new species through horizontal transfer. However, TEs are widespread in the genome of all organisms. TEs tend to increase in number via transposition but can also accumulate mutations, leading to their extinction. The presence of transposons within genomes is dynamic. This class also includes non-autonomous TEs, such as truncated DNA transposons and miniature inverted-repeat TEs (MITEs) ( Figure 1). Class II elements mobilize via a DNA intermediate, either by a cut-and-paste mechanism, catalyzed by transposase enzymes, or by rolling-circle DNA replication (helitrons), or by other unknown mechanisms (polinton/mavericks). They are represented by long terminal repeat/endogenous retrovirus (LTR/ERV) elements, non-LTR retrotransposons (such as long interspersed nuclear elements or LINEs) and non-autonomous elements (such as short interspersed nuclear elements or SINEs). Class I contains the so-called retrotransposons elements, which move via reverse-transcribed RNA sequences that integrate into the genome. There are several types of TEs but they can be divided into two major classes, depending on the mechanism of transposition. TEs make up about half of the human genome, and about 85% of the maize genome. TEs belong to several families, which differ in structure and in the modality of transposition. According to McClintock’s theory, transposable elements (TEs), jumping from one part of the genome to another, create mutations that increase genetic variability and eventually induce morphological alterations that allow adaptation to environmental change. Instead, the hypothesis by McClintock, that the production of new species occurs by ‘saltation generation’, fully falls within this idea. This view, applied to a biological scale, is not strictly consistent with neo-Darwinism. This concept was originally proposed by Cuvier in the 1790s, and subsequently re-elaborated in the theory of punctuated equilibrium. Additionally, from a paleontological point of view, evolution is evidenced by the abrupt appearance of new variants, followed by stasis, before a new explosion of life forms emerge again. This notion is supported, on the one hand, by the presence of species that have remained substantially unchanged over millions of years, and on the other hand, by cases of rapid evolution. Evidence suggests that evolution is continuous, yet it does not proceed at a constant speed. One point of debate is the temporal dynamic of evolution. Although the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is now commonly accepted, it is still rich in implications and facets that define all its possible mechanisms. The history of the evolutionary thought is an exciting story. Finally, we discuss how the interplay between two TE-dependent phenomena, insertional mutagenesis and epigenetic plasticity, plays a role in the process of evolution. We also argue that the transposition of TEs contributes to two important evolutionary processes: the temporal dynamic of evolution and the induction of genetic variability. Here, we describe the ‘double life’ of TEs, being both ‘parasites’ and ‘symbionts’ of the genome. Moreover, TEs can become de-repressed because of drastic changes in the external environment. Usually, TEs are maintained silent through several mechanisms, but they can be reactivated during certain developmental windows. To counteract the deleterious effects of TEs, organisms have evolved strategies to avoid their activation. On the other hand, TEs can increase genetic variability, making populations better equipped to respond adaptively to environmental change. For this reason, on the one hand, TEs can induce deleterious mutations, causing dysfunction, disease and even lethality in individuals. Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements, able to jump from one location of the genome to another, in all organisms.
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On the Platinum trim with the PowerBoost Full Hybrid V6 engine, there are six USB ports (three are the smaller, bidirectional USB-C), two 120-volt household outlets at 20 amps each and one conventional 12-volt outlet. There are 14 outlets, which is more than enough to power phones, laptops, air compressors, refrigerators and other amp-hungry equipment for dozens of hours. Here is a look at the most innovative features on the 2021 F-150 pickup. With the truck’s six trims (XL, XLT, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, Limited) still intact, the new model places a heavier emphasis on conveniences, utility and power. The new 2021 model doesn’t quite break ground compared with the 2015 model that debuted with aluminum body panels, but it does refine a tried-and-tested design. Ford‘s entire success story and its large contribution to the U.S. gross domestic product in 2019, half of which came from the F-series. 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The Italian manufacturer has been on the receiving end of criticism in recent years for a series of blowouts, but motorsport director Paul Hembery says the new compounds will be more robust this season. Official F1 tire supplier Pirelli has put its new tires through rigorous testing to further improve reliability. The most striking change to the new cars will be the tire width, measuring 30.5 centimeters (12 inches) at the front compared to 24.5 cm in 2016, and 40.5 cm at the rear – an increase of 8 cm. “So for the driver it will be much more difficult to drive. “We think car performance will increase quite a bit – we are talking about three to four seconds per lap,” Costa added. “Next season we will have probably the fastest car in Formula One history,” Aldo Costa, director of engineering at the world champion Mercedes team, told CNN. 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