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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
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Ramadan Fasting in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single-Centre Retrospective Study
Journal of Transplantation, 2018 Background. Fasting during the lunar month of Ramadan is mandatory to all healthy adult Muslims. Renal transplant recipients are often worried about the impact of fluid and electrolyte deprivation during fasting on the function of their allograft.
Ihab A. Ibrahim +12 more
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Misconceptions and negative attitudes towards the metabolic effects of Ramadan fasting, resulting in fasting avoidance [PDF]
Journal of Fasting and Health, 2014 The aim of this study was to assess public knowledge about the effects of Ramadan fasting on various aspects of health and its association with fasting decision-making. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 600 subjects.
Zhaleh Shadman +8 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Microstructural effects of Ramadan fasting on the brain: a diffusion tensor imaging study
, 2015 PURPOSEWe aimed to examine whether the brain displays any microstructural changes after a three-week Ramadan fasting period using diffusion tenson imaging.METHODSThis study included a study and a control group of 25 volunteers each.
Evrim Özmen +7 more
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tajikistan faces significant food insecurity and multiple forms of malnutrition in its population, with women particularly at risk. Social norms related to gender and intrahousehold hierarchy are pervasive. Yet, how gender impacts dietary intake in Tajikistan remains to be studied.
Sarah M. L. Pechtl +3 more
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Religious practice and student performance : Evidence from Ramadan fasting
, 2021 We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019 ...
Schwerdt, Guido +2 more
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The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives This study explored how Muslim clients experience the minimisation or exclusion of religion in therapy and identified their recommendations for making therapeutic practice more inclusive of faith. Design A qualitative design using reflexive thematic analysis was employed to examine participants' lived experiences and meaning‐making ...
Rumena Islam
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Ramadan Is Not the Same As Ramadan Fasting [PDF]
The Journal of Nutrition, 2020 Andrea U, Seiermann, Sabine, Gabrysch
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