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There has been a rapid increase in the interest in the study of
Islamic finance, resulting in a dramatic rise in financing since
the beginning of the century. By the end of 2017 global industry
assets had reached $2.4 trillion and were forecasted to reach $3.2
trillion by 2020, despite historic challenges to Islam itself at
the same time. This collection of chapters provides key
theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance
from an overall complex financial and economic systems perspective.
Within the complex financial and economic systems framework, this
book addresses questions such as how to conceptualize Islamic
financial institutions in a nonlinear general equilibrium system,
how to promote Islamic Finance in Africa, how "Islamic" is Islamic
finance, and how it affects price stability, among other topics.
The book provides case studies in Africa and Asia, addresses the
subject in a structural financial CGE model, demonstrates the
development impact of Islamic finance, and presents an Islamic
version of the Iceland Plan for Monetary Reform.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Self-Cleaning of Surfaces and Water Droplet Mobility deals with the
self-cleaning of hydrophobic surfaces. Chapters cover the basics of
wetting states of fluids and surface characteristics in terms of
texture topology and free energy. The self-cleaning aspects of
surfaces, such as various synthesizing and fabrication processes
are then introduced and discussed, along with environmental dust
properties, including elemental compositions, particle sizes and
shapes, and their chemo-mechanics characteristics. In addition, mud
formation in humid air, as well as ambient and dry mud adhesion on
optically transparent surfaces is explored, as is water droplet
dynamics on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces, amongst other
topics. The book fills the gap between the physical fundamentals of
surface energy and texture characteristics for practical
applications of surface cleaning and provides a basic understanding
of the self-cleaning of surfaces that will be idea for academics,
researchers and students.
Heat Transport in Micro- and Nanoscale Thin Films presents aspects
and applications of the principle methods of heat transport in
relation to nanoscale films. Small-scale parts and thin films are
widely used in the electronics industry. However, the drastic
change in the thermal conductivity with reducing device size and
film thickness modifies the energy transport by heat-carrying
phonons in the film. Energy transfer in small-sized devices and
thin films deviate from the classical diffusion to radiative
transport. This book deals with micro/nano scale heat transfer in
small scale devices and the thin films, including interface
properties of cross-plane transport. The book fills the gap between
applications of the physical fundamentals and energy transport at
the micro- and nano scale, which will be valuable for academics,
researchers and students in the fields of materials science and
energy transport.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
The present research work was conducted in the Biological Control
Laboratory, Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of
Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, during 2009. The objective of
this study was, to enhance the longevity and fecundity of
Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), through
improving the artificial diet of its adults. The experiment
comprised seven treatments; of which six composed of honey, water
and yeast, in a ratio of 1:1:1 and one that of control. The honey
used in five of these, was collected from different plant sources,
whereas, that employed in the one meant for the inclusion of
Vitamin-E, was the common honey. The control treatment, however,
comprised the pre-existing standard diet (common honey + water +
yeast in 1:1:1 ratio), already being used in the bio-control lab.
The experiment was laid out in Complete Randomized Design (CRD) and
each treatment was repeated thrice.
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity describes the motion of
particles moving at close to the speed of light. Einstein's theory
is now very well established as the correct description of motion
of relativistic objects, that is, those traveling at a significant
fraction of the speed of light. Einstein replaced the laws of
Newton and Galileo with his theory of special relativity which
showed how space and time are really related. In this book, we have
extensively studied some relativistic transformations based on
force and discussed the invariance properties in the light of space
and time. We have also investigated that the relativity principle
and the Lorentz force law enables us to cancel the Lorentz
transformation and its time dilation from the main body of special
relativity theory. The applicability of the special theory of
relativity for inertial reference systems based on the symmetry of
space and time that Lorentz transformation of the special theory of
relativity is the only possible relationship between the
coordinates and time in inertial reference systems, as well as its
findings are requirements imposed by the conditions of the symmetry
of space and time.
In this book, we investigate the issue of the final fate of a
gravitationally collapsing massive stars and the associated cosmic
censorship problem. When the star is heavier than a few solar
masses, it could undergo an endless gravitational collapse without
achieving any equilibrium state. This happens when the star has
exhausted its internal nuclear fuel which provides the outwards
pressure against the inwards pulling gravitational forces. This
remains one of the most outstanding open issues (Islam, 1992) in
gravitation theory today. We discuss the essential features of
spherically symmetric collapse and the final fate of a massive star
which undergoes gravitational collapse. It is the spherically
symmetric collapse of a homogenous dust cloud, as described by the
Oppenheimer-Snyder model (1939), which led to the general concept
of trapped surfaces collapsed to singularities. Our objective here
is to discuss the above and such other related important questions
concerning the global aspects of gravity, and also to discuss some
applications of the results which are already available on the
global structure of space-time singularity.
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