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Challenges of Palestinian Security Sector Reform: Blame Israeli Occupation or Internal Political Fragmentation?
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International Publishing House for China's Culture
, 2014 , Article)
The debate on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Palestine has emerged within the context of the peace process between Israel and Palestinians, in particular following the Oslo agreement in 1993. There are different perceptions ...
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
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Cambridge University Press
, 2011 , Article)
In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples
of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language
are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...
Biological Activities and Chemical Composition of Methanolic Extracts of Selected Autochthonous Microalgae Strains from the Red Sea
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MDPI AG
, 2015 , Article)
Four lipid-rich microalgal species from the Red Sea belonging to three different genera (Nannochloris, Picochlorum and Desmochloris), previously isolated as novel biodiesel feedstocks, were bioprospected for high-value, ...
Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
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John Benjamins Publishing
, 2014 , Book)
This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the ...
Constitution-making in the 21st century
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Constitutions have been made or changed in major ways in more than half the countries of the world in recent decades. This article deals with contemporary approaches to constitution-making, organising the analysis around ...
Harmonizing formal requirements for cross-border sales contracts
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Legal systems have different traditions about how to “prove” a contract for the sale of personal property. Most legal systems today permit the contract to be proved by any means but some States require that the agreement ...
Construction mediation as a developmental process
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
This paper seeks to argue that mediation has been hitherto conceived in the construction industry, and indeed by practitioners in other related disciplines such as property management, as largely a “problem-solving” ...
الاستشارة الأسرية : أهميتها - ضوابطها الشرعية - نماذج واقعية
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Qatar University
, 2014 , Article)
تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى بيان أهمية الاستشارة الأسرية في تحقيق التوافق والاستقرار العائلي، وكيف أن التشريع الاسلامي قد اعتنى بها عناية فائقة.
كما تهدف إلى بيان ضوابط الاستشارة الأسرية وآدابها، وأثر ذلك في تحقيق العديد من ...
ADHERENCE TO THE 1999 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE GUIDELINES AND DIVIDEND PAYOUT POLICY: EVIDENCE FROM KUWAIT
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Qatar University
, 2014 , Article)
The objective of this research is to eamine the adherence to the Blue Ribbon
Committee BC recommendations and its impact on corporate dividends policy
in Kuwait. These recommendations are deemed ...
MARKET EFFICIENCY OF THE AMMAN STOCK MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM THE EXAMINATION OF TRADING RULES
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Qatar University
, 2015 , Article)
This paper tests the validity of the weak-form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis for the
Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) for a full sample and three sub-periods of that spanning
period 2000-2012. The research uses statistical ...