In response to a question by an engineering graduate who wanted to follow his passion for photography, Darul Uloom, India’s leading Islamic seminary, issued a fatwa declaring photography and that particular career path “unlawful and a sin.” According to theHindustan Times, the fatwa — a te...
In February and March 2024, McKinseysurveyedmore than 5,000 people in China, Germany, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom, and the United States who had taken at least one leisure trip in the past two years. Here are six highlights from the results of that survey: ...
The result is machine-level insights that are richer than those provided by systems that must first go through an intermediate object representation. In other words, deep fusion eliminates the information loss that comes from preprocessing each individual sensor’s data before fusing it with the ...
Immigrant Qua Cultural Enricher Western Nations and Mass Immigration Love Your Neighbor—Immigrants Too? Are Nation States Legitimate? Before I proceed, let’s pause for a few qualifiers. I am not taking a positionagainst immigration,nor am I anti-immigrant.When I say this, I mean individuals ...
Similarly, the large-scale movement of labor from third-world countries to much richer countries is well documented. In the resource-rich nation of the United Arab Emirates, there are thought to be8 million foreign temporary contract workersfrom poor nations such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri...
& Richer de Forges, B. (Eds.): Compendium of marine species from New Caledonia. Documents Scientifiques et Techniques, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Nouméa, II 7: i-xiii + 10-391, 19 pls. George, M.R. & Zidowitz, H. (2006) Checkliste der europäischen Knorpelfis...
In addition, weaker balance sheets for the world's richer oil producers could have knock-on effects. Egypt, Kenya and Pakistan - debt-laden importers that have relied on foreign funding in recent years - would take a hit if Gulf producers, such as the UAE, closed thei...
In my opinion, local sea level proxies for the HCO period suggest the average climate was likely to be warmer than today, but “suggests” is not the same as accurate real time measurements. My only point was that the IPCC says the HCO was a little warmer today, but they do not claim...
It’s only when I’ve eaten a meal that’s richer and heavier than usual that I replace my green tea with oolong tea – which is neither black nor green tea, but a category on its own. In China, it’s also known as ‘qingcha’ or dark green tea, and in Fran...
“This challenging point, recently, has caused a silent economic war in the Gulf of Oman between two groups of countries; Pakistan, China and Qatar on one side, India and the UAE on the other,” he wrote. How the ports stack up