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Workforce Nationalization in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Get PDFIn recent decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have become reliant on migrant workers to the extent that foreign inhabitants constitute nearly one-third of the total GCC population. Qatar and the UAE are at the extremity of the situation, where indigenous citizens constitute only one-quarter and one-fifth of their national populations, respectively. Consequently, workforce nationalization—the concept of reducing expatriate employment by bringing more citizens into the workplace—has become the human resource management strategy of all GCC countries.
In this first attempt to review all six GCC nations, this paper takes an exploratory-cum-constructivist approach and argues that closer cooperation and unified policy structures on nationalization are needed across all GCC countries. Education, training, the transfer of knowledge from expatriate to citizen, better approaches to encouraging citizens into the private sector, and the greater inclusion of women are all significant issues that need to be tackled in order to fulfill the desired goal of nationalizing the labor force across all GCC states. A clear and unified policy in terms of structural reform across GCC countries needs to be collectively defined, although methods of implementation would need to be more tailored and distinctive from one country to another
Women, Faith and Justice: Framing an Islamic Approach to Gender and Development
Get PDFTo engage fully with this complex discourse, this study engages with several types of source: the key Islamic texts of Qur’an and Prophetic sayings (Ahadith), the associated higher objectives of Islamic law (Maqasid al- Shari’a); the body of scholarship associated with independent scholarly reasoning in Islamic law (ijtihad) and the development of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh); Muslim practice and the intersecting factors that create such diversity including culture, social change and politics; the critiques and questions of scholars and activists consulted during the research process; and the intersection of theology with national and international law, especially the conventions of equality and justice as defined through the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979
Simultaneous quantification of 12 different nucleotides and nucleosides released from renal epithelium and in human urine samples using ion-pair reversed-phase HPLC
Get PDFNucleotides and nucleosides are not only involved in cellular metabolism but also act extracellularly via P1 and P2 receptors, to elicit a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological responses through paracrine and autocrine signalling pathways. For the first time, we have used an ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography ultraviolet (UV)-coupled method to rapidly and simultaneously quantify 12 different nucleotides and nucleosides (adenosine triphosphate, adenosine diphosphate, adenosine monophosphate, adenosine, uridine triphosphate, uridine diphosphate, uridine monophosphate, uridine, guanosine triphosphate, guanosine diphosphate, guanosine monophosphate, guanosine): (1) released from a mouse renal cell line (M1 cortical collecting duct) and (2) in human biological samples (i.e., urine). To facilitate analysis of urine samples, a solid-phase extraction step was incorporated (overall recovery rate ≥ 98 %). All samples were analyzed following injection (100 μl) into a Synergi Polar-RP 80 Å (250 × 4.6 mm) reversed-phase column with a particle size of 10 μm, protected with a guard column. A gradient elution profile was run with a mobile phase (phosphate buffer plus ion-pairing agent tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate; pH 6) in 2–30 % acetonitrile (v/v) for 35 min (including equilibration time) at 1 ml min−1 flow rate. Eluted compounds were detected by UV absorbance at 254 nm and quantified using standard curves for nucleotide and nucleoside mixtures of known concentration. Following validation (specificity, linearity, limits of detection and quantitation, system precision, accuracy, and intermediate precision parameters), this protocol was successfully and reproducibly used to quantify picomolar to nanomolar concentrations of nucleosides and nucleotides in isotonic and hypotonic cell buffers that transiently bathed M1 cells, and urine samples from normal subjects and overactive bladder patients
Can the UK Secure a Reputation for Delivering a Great Olympic Games? Or Have Mega-events Become Too Risky?
Get PDFPhysionotraces: Galerie de portraits de la Révolution à L'Empire
Get PDFOnline review of an exhibition organised by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris about the 'physionotrace' small, mechanically produced portraits, issued in sets of twelve prints and available in colour or black and white. These 18th-century 'photomatons' signalled the mechanisation and also the democratisation of portraiture. Sittings were booked in advance and secured by deposit. 'Physionotraces' were a craze of the French Revolution and Empire. The method was exported to Hamburg and taken to America; it was eventually eclipsed by the invention of the daguerreotype
Islam in Britain: Identity Issues Facing British Muslim Men of South Asian Origin
Get PDFThis paper explores identity issues facing British-born Muslims and examines the interrelationships between British identity, culture and religious devotion amongst British men of South Asian origin. The paper is divided into three parts. Firstly an overview of key literature is given. This is followed by two qualitative surveys; one on allegiances to national sports teams among British Muslim men of South Asian origin, the other on contemporary issues facing the same group.
The findings of the survey revealed religious conviction, loyalty to Muslim countries, a desire for unity amongst Muslims from different cultural and sectarian groups in Britain, disdain and mistrust of those responsible for the portrayal of Muslim minorities living in Britain including the media and a want for the abandonment of South Asian cultural practices which conflict with Islamic teachings
Leadership - Style, satisfaction and commitment: An exploration in the United Arab Emirates' construction sector
Get PDF''Guess at the Rest'': Cracking the Hogarthian Code (book review)
No full textA review of a book arguing that William Hogarth's prints can be understood as documents that record masonic history and ritual