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Effects of reductive stripping of reactive dyes on the quality of cotton fabric
Get PDFSome common problems of textile dyeing industries include uneven or faulty dyeing and formation of color patches on the fabric surface during dyeing and downstream processing of textiles materials. Such problems in the finished quality of fabric are generally tackled through a chemical stripping process which is a common practice in dyeing industries for the deep shade batches. However, reactive dyes cannot be stripped satisfactorily from cellulosic materials due to the formation of co-valent bonds between dye and fiber. This research was undertaken using 2.5% and 5% bi-hetero reactive dyes on pretreated cotton fabric and dye stripping was carried out in alkali reductive stripping process. The aim of the work was to investigate the effects of dye stripping on the quality of cotton fabric. Strength loss, weight loss, pilling resistance and absorbency of stripped fabric were calculated. Though with the increase of concentration of stripping chemicals and temperature, stripping percentages were improved; processing damage to the fabric such as losses in strength, weight and pilling resistance ratings was found. In contrast, increased fabric absorbency was found due to stripping. This is explained that during stripping, alkaline solution as an intracrystalline swelling agent is effective in loosening the crystalline region of cotton in addition to the amorphous region. Stripping agent can also attack such crystalline region. As a result, cotton fiber can release maximum number of hydroxyl groups which previously formed covalent bonds. This is the reason behind the stripped fabric having more water absorbency
Parution: Kathryn Moore, Hasan-Uddin Khan (eds), The Religious Architecture of Islam. Volume II: Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Brepols, 2022
No full text The Religious Architecture of IslamVolume II: Africa, Europe, and the Americas Kathryn Moore, Hasan-Uddin Khan (eds) Pages: 360 p.Size:220 x 280 mmIllustrations:293 col.Language(s): EnglishPublication Year: 2022 The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. Essays both address major themes across the history of Islamic architecture and provide more focused studies of deve..
When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America\u27s Fight for Religious Freedom
No full textUddin has worked on religious liberty cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and federal trial courts. She has defended religious claimants as diverse as Evangelicals, Sikhs, Muslims, Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, and members of the Nation of Islam. Her legal, academic, and policy work focuses on freedom of expression such as religious garb, land use, access to religious materials in prison, rights of parochial schools, religious arbitration, etc. Uddin worked with the U.S. Department of State on advocacy against the UN Defamation of Religions Resolution. She received a State Department grant to develop the Legal Training Institute in the Middle East and North Africa and Southeast Asian countries.
In addition to her legal work, Uddin writes and speaks on Muslims and gender. As the founding editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com, she has managed the web-magazine, and organized vigorous debates and conferences on the multifaceted issues of gender, politics, and religion. Uddin has advised numerous media projects on American Muslims, including most recently as Executive Producer for the Emmy and Peabody nominated docu-series, The Secret Life of Muslims.
After graduating from The University of Chicago Law School, Uddin served as Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and as Director of Strategy for the Center for Islam and Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. She is an expert advisor on religious liberty to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Senior Scholar at the Newseum’s Religious Freedom Center, a Visiting Scholar at Brigham Young University Law school, and a non-residential fellow at UCLA and Georgetown University. She is also a term-member with the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct law professor at George Mason University Law School.
Sponsored by the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy and co-sponsored by the Jay Phillips Cente
Democracy, Rights, Historical Memory, and Interfaith Relations in the Works of Fatima Mernissi and Asma Uddin
Get PDFThe works of Moroccan-born Muslim scholar Fatima Mernissi (1940-2015) and United States-born Muslim scholar Asma T. Uddin (b. 1980) are distinctive contributions in modern conversations about the intersections of Islam, law, human and civil rights as well as historical memory and interfaith relations (AncestryLibrary, n.d.; Fox, 2015; Florida Bar, n.d.; Justia Lawyers, n.d.; Rodoski, 2011; Sadiqi, 2018).[i] Mernissi, who was a professor of sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and Uddin, who is an attorney and scholar based in the United States, are influential and delve into the intricate relationships between Islamic ideas and modern legal frameworks, albeit from different geographical and contextual standpoints (Fox, 2015; Mernissi, 2002; Rodoski, 2011; Uddin, 2019). This essay analyzes, compares, and contrasts Mernissi\u27s interpretations of Islam in light of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with Uddin\u27s interpretations of Islam concerning the United States Constitution\u27s first amendment rights related to religious freedom and liberty, while analyzing the implications of both intellectuals’ ideas with respect to historical memory and interfaith relations (Mernissi, 2002; Uddin, 2019)
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When Islam is not a religion ::inside America's fight for religious freedom /
No full textReligious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks equal protection for Evangelicals, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Native Americans, Jews, and Catholics alike, she has seen an ominous increase in attempts to criminalize Islam and exclude American Muslims from their inalienable rights. Somehow, the view that Muslims aren't human enough for human rights or constitutional protections is moving from the fringe to the mainstream--along with the claim "Islam is not a religion." This conceit affects all Americans because the loss of liberty for one means the loss of liberties for everyone. When Islam Is Not a Religion also looks at how faith in America is being secularized and politicized, and the repercussions this has on debates about religious freedom and diversity
Islam and socially responsible business conduct: An empirical research among Dutch entrepreneurs
Get PDFThis paper explores the relationship between the Islamic religion and the level of socially responsible business conduct (SRBC) of Islamic entrepreneurs. We find that the common idea of SRBC corresponds with the view of business in the Islam, although there are also some notable differences. We also find that Muslim entrepreneurs attach a higher weight to specific elements of SRBC than non- Muslims. But, on the other hand, we find that Muslims are less involved with applying SRBC in practice than non-Muslim managers. Furthermore, values and norms derived from the Islamic religion motivate entrepreneurs to contribute more to SRBC and lead to a higher commitment to specific aspects of SRBC compared to individually developed values and norms. Finally, the view of human nature of the Islam, preaching the natural goodness of man as a social being, leads to a positive view of SRBC.Business conduct; Dutch entrepreneurs
An ensemble learning approach for anomaly detection in credit card data with imbalanced and overlapped classes
Get PDFElectronic payment methods have become increasingly popular for business transactions, both online and in-person, across the globe. Anomalies like online fraud and default payments, which can result in substantial financial losses, have become more common as the usage of credit cards in online purchases has increased. To address this issue, researchers have explored various machine learning models and their ensemble techniques for detecting anomalies in credit card transaction data. However, detecting anomalies in this data can be challenging due to overlapping class samples and an imbalanced class distribution. Therefore, the detection rate of anomalies from minority class samples is relatively low, and general learning algorithms can be biased towards the majority class samples. In this paper, we propose a model called Credit Card Anomaly Detection (CCAD) that leverages the base learners paradigm and meta-learning ensemble techniques to improve the detection rate of credit card anomalies. We utilize four outlier detection algorithms as base learners and XGBoost algorithm as meta learner in the proposed stacked ensemble approach to detect anomaly in credit card transactions. We apply stratified sampling technique and k-fold cross-validation process to address the issues of data imbalance and overfitting. In addition, the discordance rate is calculated to enhance the accuracy of ensemble learning performances. The proposed model is trained and tested using two datasets: CCF (Credit Card Fraud) and CCDP (Credit Card Default Payment). Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing approaches, particularly in detecting anomalies from the minority class instances of these datasets
Gender disparities in mental health status among the school-going adolescents of Dhaka, Bangladesh
No full textThis paper aims to explore gender disparities in the mental health status among the school-going adolescents of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted involving 600 subjects randomly selected from 3 types of schools of Dhaka City – boys’ Bengali medium, girls’ Bengali medium and co-ed English medium. The study reveals that there is significant gender disparity in the mental health status among the adolescents aged between 13 and 19 years. While the overall prevalence of mental health disorder was 10.0%, females have shown a higher proportion of mental health disorder with a prevalence of 13.0% compared to 7.4% in males. 76.2% (n = 246) of all male participants and 62.5% (n = 173) of all female participants were mentally healthy (normal), with a further 16.4% (n = 53) of all males and 24.5% (n = 68) of all female participants were in the borderline category. Further analysis to estimate the odds ratio (OR) found that the proportion of mentally abnormal cases in female was significantly higher than that of the male participants with an odds ratio (OR) of 2.13 (95% CI: 1.23, 3.70; Chi-square value = 7.471, p-value: 0.006). Since the findings clearly show that there is gender disparity in the prevalence of mental health disorders, the strategies to prevent mental disorders effectively and to reduce the risk factors associated must not be gender-neutral. Based on the study findings, we recommend developing an appropriate gender strategy with appropriate operational framework considering socio-demographic parameters including political and legislative commitments and involving community participation aimed at addressing the issues contributing to the development of mental health disorders thus enabling us intervene rationally with a view to build a mentally sound youth generation, hence a healthy natio
Early Islam and Byzantine Churches
No full textThe territories conquered at Byzantium’s expense
by the Muslim armies in the seventh century were
largely inhabited by Christians. During the three
centuries before the arrival of the Muslims, the
sacred landscape of the regions overlooking the
Mediterranean was radically transformed through
a dense construction of Christian architectural
complexes. The nature of the seventh-century
Islamic conquest affected, but did not obliterate,
these late antique constructions. The corpus of
churches in use during the early Islamic period was
composed of late antique churches and several new
constructions
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