other interpretations and Quranic verses that refer to paradise as a place where both young women and young men are present to serve, the latter referring to sexual service to men and women alike, whereby “homosexuality in the afterlife is seen as a form of pleasure” (Nahas,2003, p. ...
Francisella tularensis is an intracellular pathogen that causes tularemia in humans and the public health importance of this bacterium has been well documented in recent history. Francisella philomiragia, a distant relative of F. tularensis, is thought t
Lake Tanganyika belongs to the East African Great Lakes and is well known for harbouring a high proportion of endemic and morphologically distinct genera, in cichlids but also in paludomid gastropods. With about 50 species these snails form a flock of high interest because of its diversity, the...
Development of theK-Arena Yokohama, a new 20,000-capacity arena currently under construction in Japan’s second largest City Yokohama, is moving towards completion and is slated to open in the Autumn of 2023. The‘Australasian Leisure Management’stated that being developed by the real estate comp...
The proposed method has been employed to evaluate the indentation damage generated in the presence of bending deformation, resulting from the contact between a thin plate and a rigid sphere. For this purpose, the 3D Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) technique has been adopted to quantify the ...
Off-chip Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters are typically used to reject out-of-band interferers and Self-Interference (SI) signals (or transmitter leakage) but cause a significant form factor burden, even more so when the device operates over a large number of bands and uses multiple ...
put forward several methods to improve the energy dissipation capacity of the structure for the prestressed tensioned precast segmental piers widely used all over the world [32]. Moon et al. proposed a form of a prefabricated cylindrical section with hollows, to improve the seismic performance of ...