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This textbook offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Maldivian contract law, encompassing both its current state and its historical development. It presents a detailed exploration of the legal system, which underwent a significant transformation in 1991 with the adoption of English common law principles pertaining to contracts. By doing so, it effectively restructured the existing Maldivian law on contracts. The content of this book covers fundamental aspects of contract formation, performance, and breach. It delves into the regulations governing breaches of contract, available remedies, principles of contract interpretation, third-party rights, and the enforcement of promises without consideration. With its diverse audience in mind, this book caters to professionals, both new and experienced, as well as laypersons, law students, lawyers, consumers, and business people. Its design ensures accessibility and relevance for all individuals seeking a comprehensive understanding of Maldivian contract law.
In an unprecedented show of force, organization and skill, two proscribed Islamist militant organizations exploded more than 450 bombs within a span of less than an hour throughout Bangladesh on 17 August 2005 sending a strong message that they were a force to be reckoned with. This catastrophic event, followed by a number of suicide attacks, forced the then reluctant Bangladeshi government, a coalition of center-right parties with two Islamists among them, to acknowledge the existence of a network of militants and take action against this threat. Against this backdrop, this book is the first academic study on the growing Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. It examines the relevance, significa...
The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj YŠ«suf á¹¢Ä?liḥ Ajura (1910–2004), a northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as Afa Ajura, or “scholar from Ejura.” The poems, all handwritten in Arabic script, mainly in the Ghanaian language of Dagbani and also Arabic, explore the author’s socio†‘religious beliefs. In the accompanying introduction, the translator examines the diverse themes of the poems and how they challenge TijÄ?niyyah Sufi clerics and traditional practices such as idol worship.
Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954.
Oxidative stress plays multiple roles in the pathobiology of several neurodegenerative disorders and Alzheimer’s disease in particular. Increased oxidative stress in the brain is suggested to be associated with aging, greater amounts of easily oxidizable unsaturated fatty acids, higher utilization of oxygen by the brain, mitochondrial-derived free radicals, calcium homeostasis, and glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. Moreover, environmental chemicals/toxins, heavy metals, and an imbalanced diet might increase oxidative stress potentially leading to a decrease in cognitive functions. Cellular health is also dependent on the levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). It has been well ...
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics.
Data assimilation is a process of fusing data with a model for the singular purpose of estimating unknown variables. It can be used, for example, to predict the evolution of the atmosphere at a given point and time. This book examines data assimilation methods including Kalman filtering, artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, and cognitive computing.
First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization. The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the ‘methodological individualists’ and the ‘methodological holists’, and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barth’s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the ‘Swat models’ have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.
Spread in 133 articles divided in 20 sections the present treatises broadly discusses: Part 1: Image Processing Part 2: Radar and Satellite Image Processing Part 3: Image Filtering Part 4: Content Based Image Retrieval Part 5: Color Image Processing and Video Processing Part 6: Medical Image Processing Part 7: Biometric Part 8: Network Part 9: Mobile Computing Part 10: Pattern Recognition Part 11: Pattern Classification Part 12: Genetic Algorithm Part 13: Data Warehousing and Mining Part 14: Embedded System Part 15: Wavelet Part 16: Signal Processing Part 17: Neural Network Part 18: Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing Part 19: Image Analysis Part 20: Human Computer Interaction