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Educational Philosophy of Iqbal, by Tariq Masoodi
No full textTariq Masoodi, Educational Philosophy of Iqbal, APH Publishing, 2007. The present study is a treatise which deals with Educational philosophy of Iqbal. The author has endeavoured to project Iqbal's philosophy of education and its bearing on different dimension of educational activity. Present work is an effort to bring out this point of view in an elaborate and systematic manner. The author has highlighted objective and critical approach of Iqbal with reference to both modern and Madrasa Educ..
Recent Advances in the Additive Manufacturing of Stimuli‐Responsive Soft Polymers
No full textStimuli-responsive polymers (SRPs) are special types of soft materials, which have been extensively used for developing flexible actuators, soft robots, wearable devices, sensors, self-expanding structures, and biomedical devices, thanks to their ability to change their shapes and functional properties in response to external stimuli including light, humidity, heat, pH, electric field, solvent, and magnetic field or combinations of two or more of these stimuli. In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) aka 3D printing technology of these SRPs, also known as 4D printing, has gained phenomenal attention in different engineering fields, thanks to its unique ability to develop complex, personalized, and innovative structures, which undergo twisting, elongating, swelling, rolling, shrinking, bending, spiraling, and other complex morphological transformations. Herein, an effort has been made to provide insightful information about the AM techniques, type of SRPs, and their applications including, but not limited to tissue engineering, soft robots, bionics, actuators, sensors, construction, and smart textiles. This article also incorporates the current challenges and prospects, hoping to provide an insightful basis for the utilization of this technology in different engineering fields. It is expected that the amalgamation of 3D printing with SRPs would provide unparalleled advantages in different engineering arenas.</p
Is multiculturalism dead?
No full textMulticulturalism has been subject to overwhelming criticism in the last decade or so. Tariq Modood asks, is it finally time to abandon the idea? Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
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The Latin American Challenge: Chavez, Morales, Castro
Full text linkTariq Ali, political activist and author, talked about an emergent challenge to neo-liberalism and the Washington consensus in Latin America. He discussed the democratic legitimacy of the Venezuelan regime and the failed attempts to topple Hugo Chavez whose Bolivarian Project provides an alternative social vision to that of the United States. He also talked about Chavez’s indirect interventions in U.S. politics. He argued that what is happening in Latin America represents a growing crisis for the U.S. The accompanying audio file provides the complete recording of the talk given by the author. Those who download the audio file must have their own software for playing and listening
The Experience of Regional Transformation of Islamic Political Thought in Europe: Tariq Ramadan
No full textThe article is dedicated to the experience of regional transformation of Islamic political thought in Europe, based on an example of Tariq Ramadan philosophical concept. Author analyzed Ramadan's views on a role of Islam in new conditions, religious identity of believers, political and legal systems, reaction to modernization challenges of the present and ways of their overcoming. This concept can become the alternative in forming dialogue between East and West, in modernization of Islamic communities and opposition to Islamic radicalism
Micro load balancing with delayed queue lengths
Full text linkDRILL is a micro load balancing algorithm designed to efficiently utilize the path redundancy in modern data centers. It uses egress port queue lengths to make fast packet routing decisions to reduce upstream congestion and queueing delays. However, high performance switches with multiple forwarding engines making routing decisions in parallel, do not have direct access to these queue lengths. We explore and evaluate different ways of obtaining this information in data center settings, specifically using incoming traffic and specially generated update packets to piggyback this information. We find that staleness of this data does not have a huge impact on flow completion times compared to DRILL (6% increase) and still achieves a considerable advantage over ECMP (28% decrease).Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Fatima Tariq, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-21 at 23:01.The student, Fatima Tariq, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-21 at 23:17.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-22 at 10:41.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13809 on 2019-08-22 at 15:07:38Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:36:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Synthesis, Density functional theory (DFT), Urease inhibition and antimicrobial activities of 5-aryl thiophenes bearing sulphonylacetamide moieties
No full textA variety of novel 5-aryl thiophenes 4a-g containing sulphonylacetamide (sulfacetamide) groups were synthesized in appreciable yields via Pd[0] Suzuki cross coupling reactions. The structures of these newly synthesized compounds were determined using spectral data and elemental analysis. Density functional theory (DFT) studies were performed using the B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) basis set to gain insight into their structural properties. Frontier molecular orbital (FMOs) analysis of all compounds 4a-g was computed at the same level of theory to get an idea about their kinetic stability. The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) mapping over the entire stabilized geometries of the molecules indicated the reactive sites. First hyperpolarizability analysis (nonlinear optical response) were simulated at the B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) level of theory as well. The compounds were further evaluated for their promising antibacterial and anti-urease activities. In this case, the antibacterial activities were estimated by the agar well diffusion method, whereas the anti-urease activities of these compounds were determined using the indophenol method by quantifying the evolved ammonia produced. The results revealed that all the sulfacetamide derivatives displayed antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtiles, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa at various concentrations. Furthermore, the compound 4gN-((5-(4-chlorophenyl)thiophen-2-yl)sulfonyl) acetamide showed excellent urease inhibition with percentage inhibition activity similar to 46.23 +/- 0.11 at 15 mu g/mL with IC50 17.1 mu g/mL. Moreover, some other compounds 4a-f also exhibited very good inhibition against urease enzyme
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