Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the positive and negative effects of gender and ethnicity in relation to discrimination and the problems encountered in accessing social support (including emotional and instrumental support). Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 40 Blac

This study aims to investigate the relative efficiency amongst Islamic banks in selected OIC member countries from 2002 to 2006, by observing performance of 25 Islamic banks in 14 countries. It employs DEA method by using intermediation approach. Additionally, regression is used to find the correlation between efficiency scores and some of the perf

The Alliance of Civilizations was established in 2005, at the initiative of the Governments of Spain and Turkey; under the auspices of the United Nations for inter civilizations dialogue to bridge the gap between the West and Muslim world. This article analyzes advantage and disadvantage sides of the success of this initiative.Jun. 2010, Vol ume 7,

The internet has become a significant need at present days. From the day the internet was introduced until now, there have been efforts from governments all around the world to govern the internet. A working group established after a United Nations initiated World Summit on the Information Society ('WSIS') proposed the following definition

In this technical note, we demonstrate a squeeze-film based spacer-free method for creating controllable submicrometer hydrogel films on planar substrates that can be used to photolithographically fabricate hydrogel microstructures. This new technique improves the photolithographic resolution and yield by providing a uniform and low-defect hydrogel

In order to support development of third generation partnership project long term evolution (3GPP LTE) packet scheduling algorithms, research has been conducted into several radio propagation effects. The radio channels of interest are the downlink (eNodeB to user equipment) of LTE mobile networks. Through network simulator modification and repeate

Dengan menggunakan teknik Overlay data-data yang dikirim oleh radar INDERA dapat ditampilkan secara realtime pada peta elektronik yang terpasang di kapal. Untuk mendukung kelancaran pertukaran data antara radar dan peta elektronik, setiap pengiriman data radar disertai dengan informasi azimuth disertai posisi bujur dan lintang radar. Datadata terse

Çağdaş karanlıklardan vahyin aydınlığına. İnancını ciddiye alan bir kişinin modern hayat içerisinde imanına paralel bir hayat alanı oluşturma mücadelesi vermesi, kolay olmasa gerek. Zira hayata rengini vuran modern dünya görüşü, sanıldığının aksine ötekine karşı otoriter ve dışlayıcıdır. Bu zeminde; sahih bir duru

The aim of this research was to study the effect of the Ficus deltoidea (Mas Cotek) leaves on fasting blood sugar, renal and lipid profile of Type II diabetic patients. This study was carried out at Polyclinic Balok, located in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Twenty patients participated in the study and they were divided into two (2) groups of ten (10)

The main purpose of this study was to develop a model for meaningful hybrid e-training. Data collected from 213 ICT trainers were tested with confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS 7.0 to obtain two best-fit measurement models for the two latent variables. Overall reliability using Alpha-Cronbach test, items and persons reliability using the Rasch