Oppression versus liberation: Representation of hijab in two post-9/11 British literary texts by Hasan, Md. Mahmudul

“…While many women wear hijab instinctively and without question in order to follow their religion and cultural tradition, Najwa in the fictional work Minaret and Shelina in the memoir Love in a Headscarf decide to wear it reflectively after long contemplation and much soul searching. Such experiences convincingly and creatively refute the assumption that hijab is imposed on Muslim women by male relatives and dispel the most widespread stereotype that it is synonymous with female oppression.…”
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A secure protocol using 6DP for Quantum Authentication and Hash Functions for Key Distribution (KDP-6DP) by Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, A. Majeed, Mohammed Munther, M. Saeb, Magdy, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza

“…Then, a selected hash or a cascade of two hash functions and a long-term shared secret are used to construct the key. …”
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Process optimization for bioprotein production from cheaper carbon source by Jamal, Parveen, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Fairoza, N.

“…The maximum biomass produced was 70.6 (g/L) with optimum fermentation conditions of temperature, pH, agitation, inoculum size and four-day long fermentation.…”
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PET/SPECT Test Phantom by Shah, Sayed Inayatullah

“…The new produced cold regions insert, consists solid plastic rods, 5 cm long (each) with same diameters and exactly the same arrangement as hot region holes pairs insert of R A Carlson’s phantom. …”
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Resource allocation technique for video streaming applications in the LTE system by Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Sandrasegaran, Kumbesan, Basukala, Riyaj, Patachaianand, Rachod, Xue, Minjie, Lin, Cheng-Chung

“…Long term evolution (LTE) is the next generation wireless system that supports all IP transmission for multimedia services. …”
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Performance analysis of EXP/PF and M-LWDF in downlink 3GPP LTE system by Basukala, Riyaj, Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Sandrasegaran, Kumbesan

“…This paper investigates the performance of exponential/proportional fair (EXP/PF) and maximum-largest weighted delay first (M-LWDF) scheduling algorithms in the third generation partnership project long term evolution (3GPP LTE) providing packet-switched multimedia services. …”
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Smart video surveillance system for vehicle detection and traffic flow control by Shafie, Amir Akramin, Ali, Md. Hazrat, Hafiz, Fadhlan, M. Ali, Roslizar

“…Similarly, it is also observed that long queues of vehicles are waiting even though the road is empty due to traffic signal light selection without proper investigation on vehicle flow. …”
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Home financing through the Musharakah Mutanaqisah contracts: Some practical issues by Meera, Ahamed Kameel Mydin, Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri

“…The BBA, a murabahah contract, was argued to be problematic and even unIslamic for long-duration contracts. The MMP contract which is a combination of musharakah (partnership) and ijarah (rental) contracts was argued to be a more appealing alternative. …”
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Monetary policy shocks and Islamic banks' deposits in a dual banking system: empirical evidence from Malaysia and Bahrain by Mohd Yusof, Rosylin, Al Wosabi, Mohammed, Abd. Majid, M. Shabri

“…First, the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used to examine the long-run dynamics among the variables. Compared to the Malaysian Islamic banks' deposits, the study finds that the Islamic banks' deposits in Bahrain are sensitive to monetary policy changes. …”
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Issues and challenges in financing the poor: lessons learned from Islamic microfinance institutions by Satar, Norizan, Kassim, Salina

“…While structural issue such as reliance on subsidies could jeopardise the sustainability in the long run, human resource is highly critical in ensuring smooth functioning of the IMFIs as well as their sustainability even in the short run. …”
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Rights of an arrested person to counsel: is it not a case of too little too late? by Kamarudin, Abdul Rani

“…It becomes necessary then to discuss as to how long might an arrested person be detained in police custody since the computation of time for the first 24 hours does not include weekly holiday and public holiday. …”
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Home Financing through the Musharakah Mutanaqisah Contracts: Some Practical Issues by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Mydin Meera, Ahamed Kameel

“…The BBA, a murabahah contract, was argued to be problematic and even unIslamic for long-duration contracts. The MMP contract which is a combination of musharakah (partnership) and ijarah (rental) contracts was argued to be a more appealing alternative. …”
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The experience of psoriatic arthritis patients receiving biological treatment : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Schepelern, Eva K.

“…Analysis of the data highlighted that receiving biologics for psoriatic arthritis was experienced as life-changing, but also required participants to make sense of the many unknowns surrounding treatment in regard to future effectiveness and long-term side effects of biologics. Participants experienced a biomedical focus on disease and treatment effects alone as not taking into account the significant psychological impact that having psoriatic arthritis and being treated with biologics can have on sufferers’ lives. …”
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Compact planar antennas for beam steering and RFID tags by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Interest in RFID systems operating in the ultrahigh frequency (UHF) is rapidly growing as it offers benefits of long read range and low cost, which make it an excellent system for use in distribution and logistics systems. …”
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Longitudinal Influences of Social Network Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults by Rafnsson, Snorri Bjorn, Shankar, Aparna, Steptoe, Andrew

“…Results: Social network size and network contact frequency were positively and independently associated with future life satisfaction and quality of life after controlling for confounding factors, including demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and long-standing illness. In contrast, social network diversity was not independently related to future subjective well-being. …”
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International capital markets structure, preferences and puzzles: the US-China case by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Donadelli, Michael, Varani, Alessia

“…In this paper, we show that instead a two country-two good model with recursive preferences, international complete markets and correlated long-run innovations can address all five puzzles for a relatively large range of parameter values, specifically in the case of the US and China. …”
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. …”
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Closing the loop: an evaluation of student-led module feedback at one UK Higher Education institution by Tschirhart, Cécile, Pratt-Adams, Simon

“…The SLMFS aimed to enhance the student experience at granular level, in ‘real time’ during 30 week-long teaching modules. The article defines the specificity of the SLMFS within the research context and describes how the theme of ‘student-staff partnership’ runs across the scheme, including during the project management and the evaluation phases. …”
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The wind of change by Ermolayeva, Nadezhda

“…Zorkin's publication in Rossiyskaya Gazeta appears to be a sudden explosion in the long-brewing conflict between Russia and Western democracies. …”
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Universal basic Income by McDonough, Brian, Bustillos Morales, Jessie

“…The idea of receiving ‘money for nothing’, with no strings attached, has for a long time appeared a crazy or radical proposal. But today, this policy is being put into practice. …”
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