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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated the relationship between spirituality and academic performance for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in primary schools in England. OFSTED provided the statistics on spiritual development of 480,309 pupils in 1668 primary schools in England.
J. Hardy, G. Tyler‐Merrick
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The Scientific World Journal, 2014 This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content.
Omar Tayan +2 more
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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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Comparative Study of Verse 124 in Surah Al-Baqarah from the View of Sunni and Shi’ite Commentators [PDF]
پژوهشهای تفسیر تطبیقی, 2018 Comparative study of the Islamic texts particularly verses of the Quran is of special importance. Verse 124 in Surah A-Baqarah has significance because of using the terms such as “Kalamat” (commands), “Imam” (leader), and “‘Ahd” (covenant), and ...
hasan rezaeihaftador +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Parenthetical styles used in the Quran [PDF]
تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2012 One of the most common styles of expression used extensively in the holy Quran is the usage of parenthetical clauses. By parenthetical clause we mean one or couple of seemingly irrelevant sentences used among a series of coherent sentences in the ...
Sayyed Mahdi Soltani Renani
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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