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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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THE DETERMINANT OF FINANCIAL HEALTH ON SHARIA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (Empirical Research on Sharia Life Insurance Company in Indonesia Period 2010-2015) [PDF]
, 2016 Financial health is a term used to describe the state of one's personal or company financial situation. Considering the many factors that affect the level of health of the company, this research will develop research to analyze the effect of Firm Size ...
ARFINTO, Erman Denny, PRIMAYANTI, Asih
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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The Establishment of Small Cooperative Insurance Firms: Manifestation of Islamic Method to Remove Dispossession in Iran's Insurance Market [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی اسلامی (پیوسته), 2011 A central element in financial system of each country is its insurance market. In fact, due to the important function of insurance and its remarkable role in the life of individuals in our Islamic community, the thing which is considered as the most ...
Abolghasem Tohidiniya
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Pengaruh Ekuitas Merek, Personal Selling, Dan Harga Premi Terhadap Kepuasan Nasabah Asuransi Takaful Dana Pendidikan Pada Asuransi Takaful Keluarga Kantor Representatif Kebumen [PDF]
, 2015 Public awareness of the importance of insurance countinues to rise, which is evident from the increasing number of people insured by 92,5% in 2013. It becomes a major opportunity for the insurance company, either the conventional insurance or Islamic ...
Ngatno, N. (Ngatno) +2 more
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Islamic Insurance vs. Conventional Insurance: A Comparative Case Study
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2020 Insurance plays a very vital role in the modern world economic system. Because of its role in providing socio-economic prosperity and security to life and property it has been recognized as an essential service throughout the whole world. But one Islamic scholar declare the insurance as unislamic due to the elements of Gharer (uncertainty), Maisir ...
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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The New York Convention and Saudi Arabia: Can a Country Use the Public Policy Defense to Refuse Enforcement of Non-Domestic Arbitral Awards? [PDF]
, 1994 This Note examines whether Saudi Arabia\u27s adoption of the New York Convention will advance the successful use of international arbitration by non-Saudi Arabian investors.
Roy, Kristin T.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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How Civil Society Organizations Works Politically to Promote Pro-Poor Policies in Decentralized Indonesian Cities [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines how civil society organizations (CSOs) have taken advantage of the increased opportunities created by decentralization to influence the role and functions of local administrations in urban areas of Indonesia.
Alam Surya Putra +2 more
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