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“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan

Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2022
The focus of this study was on identifying themes regarding the financial relationships between gurus (leaders) and chelas (disciples) in khwaja sira communities in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Pakistan.
Sameena Azhar, Imtyaz Ahmad, Nadeem Tariq, Maria Mercedes Guzman Herrera   +3 more
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Environmental risk assessment of E-waste in developing countries by using the modified-SIRA method.

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Electronic waste (E-Waste) is a progressively increasing problem for all developing nations. Developing nations like Pakistan, India and China are well renowned for the business of e-waste recycling.
Hameem Bin Hameed, Y. Ali, A. Petrillo
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Cultural Adaptation in Ancient Translations of Ben Sira

Roczniki Teologiczne
In this paper, the author provides an overview of two verses of Ben Sira which are problematic for textual criticism. The discussion around the difference between the Greek and the Hebrew versions of 16:7 is well known. Verse 9:9 is less discussed due to
Aleksandr Sizikov
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SIRA: Scalable Inter-Frame Relation and Association for Radar Perception

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Conventional radar feature extraction faces limitations due to low spatial resolution, noise, multipath reflection, the presence of ghost targets, and motion blur.
Ryoma Yataka, P. Wang, P. Boufounos, Ryuhei Takahashi   +3 more
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SiRA: A Silicon Rhodamine-Binding Aptamer for Live-Cell Super-Resolution RNA Imaging.

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019
Although genetically encoded light-up RNA aptamers have become promising tools for visualizing and tracking RNAs in living cells, aptamer/ligand pairs that emit in the far-red and near-infrared (NIR) regions are still rare.
Regina Wirth, P. Gao, G. Nienhaus, Murat Sunbul, A. Jäschke   +4 more
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Genealogy of the Prophet: Reassessing Ibn Saʿd’s Qur’ānic Reference in Sīra Nabawiyya

International Journal of Religion
Genealogy plays a crucial role in historiography. An account of genealogy serves as an instrument to legalize kinship in the Arab tribal world. One of the most important aspects in understanding the history of Prophet Muḥammad’s life (the Sīra Nabawiyya)
A. Azmi, N. Anas, Amran Abdul Halim, Mohd Nor Adzhar Ibrahim, Khairul Aiman Wan Mokhtar   +4 more
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‘We Don’t Have Any Honor Because We Are khwaja sira’: Police Violence and Discrimination Against the Khwaja Sira Community in Swat, Pakistan

Journal of Human Rights Practice
This qualitative study examines police violence and discriminatory policing practices targeting the third gender community, known in Pakistan as khwaja sira.
Saumya Tripathi, Sameena Azhar, Imtyaz Ahmad   +2 more
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Ben Sira on the Free Will Problem: A Comparison with Chrysippus

Harvard Theological Review, 2021
This article deals with the similarities and differences between Ben Sira and Chrysippus regarding their solutions to the tension between free will and determinism.
X. Li
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Institutionalizing an Ambiguous Category: “Khwaja Sira” Activism, the State, and Sex/Gender Regulation in Pakistan

Anthropological Quarterly, 2020
:Between 2009 and 2012, the Pakistani Supreme Court granted rights to a category of gender and sexually nonnormative citizens now commonly known as the khwaja sira (a title given to the chief eunuch of the Mughal seraglio in medieval South Asia).
Faris Khan
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Occupational health and safety in construction industry in Pakistan using modified-SIRA method

Safety Science, 2019
For any industry, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is a business strategy to foster a safe and healthy work environment. In the developed countries, the companies are focusing on the workplace safety in order to reduce the harmful results i.e ...
Muhammad Waseem Khan, Y. Ali, F. De Felice, A. Petrillo   +3 more
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