The academic literature on political Islam has paid scant attention to how contemporary Islamists conceptualize international relations. By examining the writings on international relations of one leading Islamist thinker ...

Activated carbons made from corn cob show promise as materials for high-capacity hydrogen storage. As part of our characterization of these materials, we are interested in learning how different production methods affect ...

Web applications are increasingly relying on databases. The traditional method offered by most web sites of submitting a query across the Internet and getting a response from a server packed in a Hyper Text Markup Language ...

In our previous work, we proposed and evaluated an end-to-end scheduling approach for allocating resources to mobile users with end-to-end delay requirements. The novelty of the proposed approach is that it ensures an ...

Real-time video streaming over long-term evolution (LTE) networks is investigated in the presence of mobile-to-mobile collaboration. A multi-objective problem for energy and distortion minimization is formulated and an ...

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) in cellular downlink systems. The system model consists of a base station (BS) that needs to serve multiple users within a ...

Children’s sense and reasoning about territory and land ownership may develop differently in contexts of poverty and where narratives of dispossession are a part of daily life and are of political and historical significance, ...

This paper examines Lebanon’s fragile politics of accommodation in the wake of the Hezbollah-Israeli war in July 2006. After drawing attention to the dangerous emergence of a bipolar and unstable power-sharing model ...

In this article I argue that René Girard’s modern anthropological theory of mimetic desire that he put forth in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure and developed in his subsequent books is ...