Civilisation of Virtues / by Osman Nuri Topbas, 1942-, author 543065

“…The deep analysis they afford of the economic philosophy integral in Islam, abundantly demonstrates their inherent value in our grossly material world. In order for us to attain to the superior virtues that will make us acceptable to Allah, we must nourish heartfelt love for the friends of Allah and the Blessed Prophet to whom they are devoted. …”

Friendship and self-love through the transformed self by Ang, Charlene Hui Xuan

“…It is often assumed that if we loved ourselves, we would love our friends the same way. While Aristotle implied self-love to be one of the important foundations of virtuous, genuine friendships, little has been said about the actual process of cultivating self-love and how it links to one’s capabilities of loving and form a true friendship. …”
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Altmetrics : factor analysis for assessing the popularity of research articles on Twitter by Pandian, Nandhini Devi Soundara, Veeramachaneni, Bhargavi, Na, Jin-Cheon, Boothaladinni, Rashmi Vishwanath

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Development of a generic framework for dynamic website design by Huang, Dongli

“…We used Joomla! as our platform and our basic framework to start with. …”
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Pose Buddy: workout platform with MoveNet by Puttur Shreyas

“…The Coronavirus outbreak in late 2019 has taught us that we must watch our well-being closely and be prepared to do so in the events of pandemics and social restrictions. …”
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Liquid state machine with dendritically enhanced readout for low-power, neuromorphic VLSI implementations by Roy, Subhrajit, Banerjee, Amitava, Basu, Arindam

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Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices by Reiss-Woolever, VJ, Wakhid, W, Ikhsan, M, Caliman, J, Naim, M, Azmi, EN, Shufiyan, S, Howes, J, Azmi, R, Ying Lim, Y, Abdul Jan, SZ, Barrock, I, Azhar, B, Drewer, J, Ward, C, Jones, JA, Luke, SH, Turner, EC, Hidayat, P, Buchori, D

“…The wide variety of existing management practices also provides a potentially valuable natural experiment to identify high-yield, environmentally-friendly management approaches. When taken in context, our findings may inform the interventions of management-assistance programs, ensuring they are approaching the most relevant farmer groups in the most effective way.…”

GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…We first summarize some changes made to other scientific computing applications that led to performance gains on GPUs, which informed our independent development of a CUDA-based version of OpenMC, an open-source continuous energy MC neutron and photon transport code. …”
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A size and position invariant event-based human posture recognition algorithm by Chen, Shoushun, Folowosele, Fopefolu, Kim, Dongsoo, Vogelstein, R. Jacob, Etienne-Cummings, Ralph, Culurciello, Eugenio

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Development of selenization/sulfurization-free CuIn(S,Se)2 for thin film solar cells applications by Wang, Mengxi

“…Solar cells fabricated using both CuInS2 thin film and CuInSSe microcrystals showed a better performance compared using just CuInS2 thin film. Our simple, environmental friendly synthesis and fabrication processes suggest a promising potential for the future solar harvesting applications.…”
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