377 research outputs found
The shifting world of South African madrasahs, 1973-2008
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 92-101).This essay seeks to unearth the historical development of madrasah education in South Africa from 1973 to 2008. It identifies transformations that have taken place in the madrasah education landscape in the last thirty to forty years. This work may be seen as largely an exercise in contemporary historical excavation. In addition to determining whether the transformations have changed or sustained the central function of madrasahs as spaces for religious socialization and sectarian identity formation, the essay is an attempt to underline the link between these changes and the broader shifts and developments that have taken place in Muslim communities and the country. The conclusion suggests that while major transformations have taken place at South African madrasahs, the changes - in a broader sense - still fall very much within the central function of madrasahs historically and globally. There has been no radical shift, or even a conception thereof, beyond often sectarian religious orthodoxy
Study of Pakistan pilot project farmer-leaders to Nepal
No full textFarmer participation / Irrigation management / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Irrigated farming / Sustainable agriculture / Institution building / Pakistan
Retraction note: Assessment of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) Induced Hepatotoxicity and Ameliorative Effects of <em>Cinnamomum cassia</em> in Sprague-Dawley Rats (<em>Biological Trace Element Research</em>, (2018), 182, 1, (57-69), 10.1007/s12011-017-1074-3)
No full text\ua9 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article after concerns were raised about data presented in Tables 2, 4, and 5 and error bars in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, and 15. The authors failed to provide raw data and evidence of ethical approval. The Editors-in-Chief therefore have lost confidence in the data presented in this article. Authors, Muhammad Shakeel, Farhat Jabeen, and Sadia Zafar do not agree to this retraction. Authors, Rehana Iqbal, Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Adeel Khalid, Samina Shabbir, and Muhammad Saleem Asghar have not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction
A noninvasive molecular approach: exploiting species-locus-specific PCR primers in defeating numts and DNA cross-contamination of cercopithecidae
No full textThe lack of a standardized, noninvasive molecular approach to studying genetic aspects of primates has made it hard for primatologists to decode the evolutionary history of these species. Researchers must optimize their own techniques to fully exploit the available samples. Lack of species-locus-specific primers also contributes to difficulties in using noninvasive genetic samples. Thus, the objectives of this study were to develop a standardized technique to collecting samples noninvasively, propose newly designed species-locus-specific primers, and optimize conditions for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Macaca fascicularis, M. nemestrina, Trachypithecus cristatus, and T. obscurus. Nine new species-locus-specific primers for three different loci of mitochondrial DNA, namely D-loop, cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), and cytochrome b, were successfully designed. These primers proved to be efficient in amplifying larger datasets (up to ~1,000 bp) of the targeted species in the optimized PCR conditions. The species-locus-specific primers are able to anneal to host DNA alone in highly contaminated feces of highlighted species. They can also offer alternatives measures in avoiding contamination related to nuclear insertion of mitochondrial pseudogenes (numts)
Postmodern Reading of Urdu Novel "Chakiwara Mein Wisal"
No full textMuhammad Khalid Akhtar is a renowned Urdu novelist. He has written many novels. Novel Chakiwara mein Wisal counts in his best novels. In this novel the author tries to address many social issues most importantly he uses various postmodern techniques. This article presents the implementation of these postmodern techniques like Pastiche, Metafiction, Irony, Participation of author, Black Humor, Historiographic Metafiction and Intertextuality. In the light of these debates it can be said that this novel is an important postmodern novel of Urdu literature
Postmodern Reading of Urdu Novel "Chakiwara Mein Wisal"
No full textMuhammad Khalid Akhtar is a renowned Urdu novelist. He has written many novels. Novel Chakiwara mein Wisal counts in his best novels. In this novel the author tries to address many social issues most importantly he uses various postmodern techniques. This article presents the implementation of these postmodern techniques like Pastiche, Metafiction, Irony, Participation of author, Black Humor, Historiographic Metafiction and Intertextuality. In the light of these debates it can be said that this novel is an important postmodern novel of Urdu literature
Postmodern Reading of Urdu Novel "Chakiwara Mein Wisal"
No full textMuhammad Khalid Akhtar is a renowned Urdu novelist. He has written many novels. Novel Chakiwara mein Wisal counts in his best novels. In this novel the author tries to address many social issues most importantly he uses various postmodern techniques. This article presents the implementation of these postmodern techniques like Pastiche, Metafiction, Irony, Participation of author, Black Humor, Historiographic Metafiction and Intertextuality. In the light of these debates it can be said that this novel is an important postmodern novel of Urdu literature
Collected Papers (on various scientific topics), Volume XII
No full textThis twelfth volume of Collected Papers includes 86 papers comprising 976 pages on Neutrosophics Theory and Applications, published between 2013-2021 in the international journal and book series “Neutrosophic Sets and Systems” by the author alone or in collaboration with the following 112 co-authors (alphabetically ordered) from 21 countries: Abdel Nasser H. Zaied, Muhammad Akram, Bobin Albert, S. A. Alblowi, S. Anitha, Guennoun Asmae, Assia Bakali, Ayman M. Manie, Abdul Sami Awan, Azeddine Elhassouny, Erick González-Caballero, D. Dafik, Mithun Datta, Arindam Dey, Mamouni Dhar, Christopher Dyer, Nur Ain Ebas, Mohamed Eisa, Ahmed K. Essa, Faruk Karaaslan, João Alcione Sganderla Figueiredo, Jorge Fernando Goyes García, N. Ramila Gandhi, Sudipta Gayen, Gustavo Alvarez Gómez, Sharon Dinarza Álvarez Gómez, Haitham A. El-Ghareeb, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, Masooma Raza Hashmi, Ibrahim M. Hezam, German Acurio Hidalgo, Le Hoang Son, R. Jahir Hussain, S. Satham Hussain, Ali Hussein Mahmood Al-Obaidi, Hays Hatem Imran, Nabeela Ishfaq, Saeid Jafari, R. Jansi, V. Jeyanthi, M. Jeyaraman, Sripati Jha, Jun Ye, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Abdullah Kargın, J. Kavikumar, Kawther Fawzi Hamza Alhasan, Huda E. Khalid, Neha Andalleb Khalid, Mohsin Khalid, Madad Khan, D. Koley, Valeri Kroumov, Manoranjan Kumar Singh, Pavan Kumar, Prem Kumar Singh, Ranjan Kumar, Malayalan Lathamaheswari, A.N. Mangayarkkarasi, Carlos Rosero Martínez, Marvelio Alfaro Matos, Mai Mohamed, Nivetha Martin, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Mohamed Talea, K. Mohana, Muhammad Irfan Ahamad, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Saqlain, Muhammad Shabir, Muhammad Zeeshan, Anjan Mukherjee, Mumtaz Ali, Deivanayagampillai Nagarajan, Iqra Nawaz, Munazza Naz, Roan Thi Ngan, Necati Olgun, Rodolfo González Ortega, P. Pandiammal, I. Pradeepa, R. Princy, Marcos David Oviedo Rodríguez, Jesús Estupiñán Ricardo, A. Rohini, Sabu Sebastian, Abhijit Saha, Mehmet Șahin, Said Broumi, Saima Anis, A.A. Salama, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Seyed Ahmad Edalatpanah, Sajana Shaik, Soufiane Idbrahim, S. Sowndrarajan, Mohamed Talea, Ruipu Tan, Chalapathi Tekuri, Selçuk Topal, S. P. Tiwari, Vakkas Uluçay, Maikel Leyva Vázquez, Chinnadurai Veerappan, M. Venkatachalam, Luige Vlădăreanu, Ştefan Vlăduţescu, Young Bae Jun, Wadei F. Al-Omeri, Xiao Long Xin.
Melting heat transmission of Maxwell nanofluid flow caused due to a stretchable cylindrical pipe through Finite Element Technique
No full textThe objective of current investigation is to examine Maxwell fluid flow generated by cylindrical stretching pipe. Thermophoresis and Brownian moment phenomena will also incorporate on the said fluid. Melting heat shifting phenomenon incorporated at the surface of the elongating cylinder. Mathematical formulation is supported by boundary layer assumption. Suitable similarity transformations diminishes model of nonlinear partial differential equations into a model of nonlinear ordinary differential equations that ultimately solved via numerical technique named Finite Element Technique. The properties of numerous effective variables are graphically displayed and examined. Further the physical quantities like velocity gradient, heat and mass fluxes are tabulated numerically and analyzed. The dimensionless temperature distribution rises for rising values of curvature parameter and Brownian motion parameter however an opposite behavior is observed for melting parameter and Prandtl number. Moreover, a reduction occurs in heat and mass fluxes for sufficiently high values of curvature parameter.The author (Taseer Muhammad) thanks the KKU research unit for the financial and administrative support under grantnumber 521 for year 44King Khalid University, Grant/AwardNumber: 52
Steady-state power distribution in VSC-based MTDC systems and dc grids under mixed P/V and I/V droop control
No full text[EN] This paper proposes a steady-state power distribution derivation method for voltage source converter (VSC)based multi-terminal HVDC (MTDC) systems and dc grids under mixed power/voltage (P/V) and current/voltage (I/V) droop control. P/V and I/V droop control are two commonly used control schemes, which can be combined to achieve co-regulation of powers & currents in MTDC systems and dc grids. The proposed method can be used to estimate the power distributions under different scenarios for MTDC systems and dc grids based on VSCs with mixed P/V and I/V droop control. After determining the initial operating point based on an estimation-correction algorithm, redistributed power due to power disturbances, current changes or converter outages is analyzed in detail considering converter overload. An excess power reduction strategy is further proposed to avoid violation of power limits after converter outage. The accuracy of the proposed method is validated through multiple scenarios in a modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based four-terminal dc grid. The comparison between the proposed method and other approaches in the current literature further demonstrates the advantages of proposed power distribution derivation method.The third author (Muhammad Khalid) would like to acknowledge the support from Deanship of Research Oversight and Coordination (DROC) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) through project No. DF201011.Sun, P.; Wang, Y.; Khalid, M.; Blasco-Gimenez, R.; Konstantinou, G. (2023). Steady-state power distribution in VSC-based MTDC systems and dc grids under mixed P/V and I/V droop control. Electric Power Systems Research. 214:1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108798S11021
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