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A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam's holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, ...
Impact of piracy on Somalia: Society, economy, and state building
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Somali pirates have hijacked more than 270 ships and attacked over 1,100 vessels from 1995 to 2014 (IMB, 2014). Reports by the International Maritime Bureau estimate that more than 3,700 crew members have been held hostage ...
The Arab uprisings and the united states: The dichotomy between balancing stability and upholding commitment to democracy
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
The Arab Spring, a revolutionary movement for democracy that swept across the Arab Middle East in 2010, has contributed to the downfall of several oppressive authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The ...
شبكات الاحتجاج العابرة للحدود: نموذج الفاعلية الإسلامية الجماهيرية المُمَكَّنَة شبكيًّا في البيئة الدولية
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مركز الجزيرة للدراسات
, 2021 , Article)
تهدف الدراسة إلى التعامل مع احتجاجات الجماهير المُمَكَّنَة شبكيًّا ذات الطابع الديني، ومساراتها المحتملة طويلة المدى في السياسة العالمية المعاصرة، وترى أن النماذج السائدة في أدبيات العلاقات الدولية حول الفاعلية غير الدولاتية ...
Comparison of seed germination and recovery responses of a salt marsh Halophyte halopeplis perfoliata to osmotic and ionic treatments
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Pakistan Botanical Society
, 2016 , Article)
Salinity affects seed germination of halophytes by inducing ionic toxicity, osmotic constraint or both. Information about the effects of salinity on seed germination of a large number of halophytes exists, but generally ...
Potential of halophytes as cattle fodder : A case-study in Pakistan
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University of Agriculture
, 2016 , Article)
Good quality water and arable land are needed to grow conventional crops to provide food for human and animal population. However, burgeoning world population leading to wide spread urbanization and industrialization is ...
Well-Being Before the Arab Spring: Objective vs. Subjective Measurements
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
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حملة مقاطعة المنتجات الفرنسية على تويتر: دراسة في تحليل الشبكات الاجتماعية
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مركز الجزيرة للدراسات
, 2021 , Article)
تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى فهم واستكشاف الجوانب المختلفة لحملة مقاطعة المنتجات الفرنسية على تويتر، واستخدمنا برنامج (NodeXL) لتحليل الشبكات الاجتماعية، وبرنامج (MAXQDA) لتحليل مضمون عينة عشوائية من التدوينات ومعرفة موضوعاتها. ...
Analysis of factors affecting willingness to pay for high-occupancy-toll lanes: Results from stated-preference survey of travelers
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study examines the feasibility of implementing high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes in a Middle Eastern country to obtain an improved understanding of such a policy and how it may affect the behavior of travelers in this ...
Adaptable scheduling of smart building communities with thermal mapping and demand flexibility
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper proposes a novel hierarchical optimization framework that couples the balancing problem of a community network with building energy management (BEM) to form an integrated model capable of capturing potential ...