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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

In search of Britain’s Muslim ghettoes [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2016
The local media have recently carried a number of stories suggesting that Muslim ghettoes are developing in British cities – a claim also made about European cities more generally. Analysis of data from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses of England and Wales suggests that these representations are journalistic hyperbole: most British Muslims live in small ...
Johnston, Ron   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Securitising Citizenship: (B)ordering Practices and Strategies of Resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article builds upon Yasemin Soysal's early work on post-national citizenship as constituting sites of resistance in contemporary European politics.
Kinnvall, Catarina   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

British Muslims: A Challenge

open access: yesمجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية, 2007
The Muslim community in Britain today face multiple challenges covering a wide range of spectrum from the basic right to exists, fighting the increasing trends of Islamophobia, having equal opportunities, to participate in public life, fully integrate ...
Zakaryya Mohamed Abdel-Hady
doaj   +2 more sources

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim Matters

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1992
The recent publication of The Satanic Verses has helped to unmask Muslim discontent in British society. Athough the initial outrage ditected at the author seems to have subsided, advocacy by Muslims living in Britain who are concerned about their ...
Marie Parker-Jenkins
doaj   +1 more source

The experience of victimisation among Muslim adolescents in the UK : the effect of psychological and religious factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study set out to explore the levels of victimisation experienced by Muslim adolescents in the UK, the extent to which victimisation is conceptualised in religious terms, and the extent to which individual differences in the experience of ...
Francis, Leslie J., McKenna, Ursula
core   +1 more source

Enhanced Rheological and Filtration Performance of Drilling Fluids Using Fe3O4/Saponin/Cu(II) Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drilling fluids used in high‐performance well operations often struggle to maintain rheological stability, colloidal dispersion, and filtration control under harsh downhole conditions. This study engineered a multifunctional Fe3O4@Saponin/Cu(II) nanocomposite to address these challenges.
Kassem Al Attabi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other: Shi’a Muslim Activism on the British University Campus

open access: yesReligions, 2019
While Shi’a Muslims remain in the minority in Europe, including within universities, the past decade has witnessed the growing profile of Shi’ism on university campuses, especially in Britain.
Emanuelle Degli Esposti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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