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  • Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Islam, Md. Shahidul
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    The adoption of modem agricultural technologies in Bangladesh increases overall agricultural productivity and income primarily through the increase in cereal crop production. It, however, impedes the productivity of several other minor crops and fishes, widens the distribution of income between the rich and the poor, exploits resources and obstructs the...
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    . Copyright by Md. Shahidul Islam October 18, 1995 All Rights Reserved Strategies for the Development of

  • Transformations of sulfur in wetland rice soils

    Creator:
    Islam, M. Mujibul
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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF M. Mujibul Islam for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Soil Science

  • Safety and efficiency benefits of traffic signal countdown timers : a driving simulator study

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    Islam, Mohammad Rabiul
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    Traffic signal countdown timers (TSCT) are innovative, practical and cost effective technologies with the potential to improve efficiency and safety at signalized intersections. The purpose of these devices is to assist motorists in decision making at signalized intersections with real time signal change information. While successful implementation of these devices...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mohammad Rabiul Islam for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • Conception to contraception : an ethnographic study among the Meo in north India

    Creator:
    Akhtar, Md. Faiyaz
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    This ethnographic study was conducted among the Meo community of north India to understand cultural norms, prescriptive behaviors, and practices associated with conceptions and contraception among Meo women and men living in five neighboring villages in the region of Mewat. The study goals were to collect ethnographic data on fertility-related...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Md. Faiyaz Akhtar for the

  • Living between two cultures : an ethnographic study of American women converts to Islam

    Creator:
    Fisher, Dianna M.
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    This thesis explores the reasons for conversion to Islam for ten well-educated, Caucasian, American born women of European descent in a small, relatively affluent college town in Oregon, United States. It follows their process of constructing a new identity with their families, with friends, within the Muslim community and within...
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    to Islam Abstract approved: David McMurray This thesis explores the reasons

  • The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

    Creator:
    Baadarani, Dalia
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    Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
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    /ethnicity, gender, age, and twelve ethnic categories and Muslim students’ comfort in discussing Islam

  • Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

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    Niazi, Amarah
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    This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
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    family was that Islam compels purdah, and purdah in return guides women to stay segregated within the

  • Her choice : identity formation and dress among Iranian, Muslim women living in the United States

    Creator:
    Howell, Alexandra L.
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    The Islamic faith is a growing global religion; the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2011) estimates that globally the Muslim population is 1.6 billion and will increase to 2.2 billion by 2030. As the population of Muslims grows the apparent misunderstandings of the faith among Western societies are...
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    dominated and controlled by a patriarchal religion. Through the media portraying a negative view of Islam

  • Molecular origins of peptide entrapment in polyethylene oxide layers

    Creator:
    Wu, Xiangming
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    A more quantitative understanding of peptide entrapment and elution from otherwise protein-repellent polyethylene oxide (PEO) brush layers will provide direction for development of new strategies for drug storage and delivery. Here we describe criteria for peptide integration and structural change within the PEO brush, and discuss the reversibility of peptide...
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    dichroism (CD) using a Jasco J-815 spectropolarimeter (Easton, MD) at 25 °C. The spectra from each of the

  • Spring nitrogen and cultivar effects on winter canola (Brassica napus L.) production in western Oregon

    Creator:
    Ferguson, Brock T.
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    Limited information is available on the effects of applied spring nitrogen (N) and cultivar on winter canola (Brassica napus L.) production in high-rainfall environments. The objectives of this investigation were: (i) to determine the effects of spring N and winter canola cultivars on seed and oil production characteristics, and (ii)...
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    Masters Thesis
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    canola. Other reported values for HI in canola and oilseed rape range from 0.17 to 0.35 (Islam and