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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Mental illnesses are often difficult to treat. They do not just affect individuals, they are rooted within communities and affect many other aspects of individuals¿ social and physical lives as well. This book examines mental health specifically in adolescents, exploring how mental illnesses interface with communities, schools, families, and peers. It also explores the connotations for educ...

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 1.00, , course: Islam & Politics in the Gulf, language: English, abstract: The Muslim Brotherhood has been a source of fear to many Arab regimes, especially Gulf monarchies. Growing from a small society in a small town in rural Egypt to a transnational organization threatening regimes across the region is a phenomenon that deserves study. This pape...

CIA agent Mark Freese is on a mission to find a very dangerous man. A Dutch sea captain is executed by Somalian pirates. It seems there is a connection to the elusive insurgent. The terrorist, Pakistani physician, Yusaf Hashmi, is trying to obtain a sample of a new Ebola strain to create a biological weapon. The strain is highly contagious and can readily spread by aerosol. Meanwhile, the eyes of the world are on a recent deadly outbreak of th...

The present work is a mineralogical, sedimentological and geochemical prospecting survey of heavy minerals, through applying a systematic geochemical survey using stream sediments samples, at Hammam Faraun area, Sinai, Egypt. The majority of the sediments belong to the very coarse to coarse grained sand fraction, extremely poorly sorted with only a few being moderately well sorted. The deposition environment was proposed through two methods in...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This collection of timely chapters presents a nuanced study of environmental toxins and the risks they pose to children¿s development. The book details the impact of a number of commonplace environmental toxins, focusing on everyday exposure to tobacco smoke, lead, pesticides, and flame retardants. This book aims to create greater awareness to spur additional research, provide vital informat...

Marwan Hassan, 1968 in Kuwait als Sohn eines Ägypters und einer Deutschen geboren, reiste mit seinen Eltern zunächst nach England und Griechenland. Wenige Jahre später verlegte die Familie ihren Lebensmittelpunkt nach Kairo (Ägypten). Dort absolvierte er ein Studium der Geschichte und der Kultur des Landes und arbeitete fortan als Fremdenführer auf Nilkreuzfahrten und als Privatdozent. Bambusflöten faszinieren Marwan seit seiner Kindheit. Jed...

This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Muslim's religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states.

Vaccination is a method of stimulating resistant in the human body to specific diseases using microorganisms (bacteria or viruses) that have been modified or killed. Currently, the available vaccines are composed of killed or life attenuated the whole pathogens before being injected to the human body. Despite the advantages of such vaccines, there are a lot of potential safety problems such as incomplete inactivation of the killed pathogens or...

An analysis of quests in contemporary American letters, fiction and non-fiction and about contemporary reality. The book explores general issues about quest, reviews work in fiction and non-fiction that define and develop the idea of quest.

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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards.

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of 'connectivity' and 'efficiency' constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurr...

This book involves the use of green chemistry in the syntheses of different chemical substances. Green chemistry includes the use of green conditions that are eco-friendly and cheap. It uses the green available reagents. Green chemistry should be used in the chemical syntheses to reduce the pollution and wastes and to achieve high benefits from these syntheses. Also human health, and the economic advantages are achieved through green chemistry.

La régionalisation ouest-africaine n'a pas induit une réorientation des échanges commerciaux du Niger vers les autres pays de la Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et de l'Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine. L'attractivité territoriale du Nigeria vis-à-vis du Niger n'est nullement affectée malgré plus de quarante ans de pratique de régionalisation institutionnalisée. La longue expérience de ces deux institutions...

A timely work which highlights the far-reaching implications of the creation of Islamic States for both Muslims and the international community.

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Herbicides and its transformation products have been reported in ground water and the non toxic organism and environment can be affected. For this purpose the leaching potency of fenoxaprop-p-ethyl and atrazine (tracer) in silty loamy soil was conducted in columns under disturbed soil laboratory condition with average rain fall of 90 mm per week (assuming worst case scenario) to every of soil column. Fenoxaprop-p-ethyl was applied at two diffe...

Rising sea levels on coastal areas could induce adverse direct impacts.Those impacts of sea level rise will induce indirectly various impacts on different live hood activities and natural environment. In order to assess overall coastal vulnerability, it should take into account physical and social vulnerability. This study focused on specific physical and social factors that have influence on the coastal vulnerability in the study area.The stu...

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The combination of direct evaporative cooling and indirect evaporative cooling system is called indirect-direct two stage evaporative cooling. In two stage air cooler Effective temperature decreases, COP increases up to 13 which are significantly higher than normal cooler and conventional air conditioner, Refrigeration effect increases, Makeup water recharges time increases for the same configuration has been obtained, Specific humidity increa...