Windows of Faith and Freedom: A Muslim Woman's Narrative

The West has typically constructed Muslim women as one of the most oppressed groups of women in the world. This article sheds light on a narrative inquiry into the experiences and perspectives of Fadwa, a young Muslim woman living in North America. Making use of deconstructionist and poststructuralist analytical lenses, Fadwa’s stories are highlighted as an example of possible negotiations for gender construction in Arab Muslim societies. In addition, the impact of education in Canada on Fadwa’s worldviews is explored and the struggles that Fadwa experienced as a result of living in different cultures are highlighted. It is hoped that Fadwa’s stories will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of issues relating to the lives of Muslim women

Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

This paper discusses my position as an Arab Muslim woman researcher who is affiliated with a Western university, researching Arab Muslim Canadian women. I discuss how reflexivity has emerged as an element of my research endeavours. Various notions of reflexivity in educational research have been expressed in the literature, yet I focus on what it means to me as an insider-outsider researcher and how it characterizes my research endeavours. In this paper, I explore the complexity of occupying these multiple subjectivities.Cet article explore ma position comme chercheure musulmane arabe affiliée à une université occidentale étudiant la vie des femmes canadiennes musulmanes arabes. J’y examine de quelle manière la réflexivité a émergé comme élément de mes projets de recherche. Bien que diverses notions de réflexivité aient été soulevées dans la littérature, je cible ce que cela signifie pour moi en tant que chercheure initiée et observatrice ainsi que de quelle manière cela teinte mes recherches. J’y analyse la complexité d’incarner ces multiples subjectivités

Pre-service Teachers’ Preferred Methods of Assessment: A Perspective from Saudi Arabia

Teacher-candidate course assessment is one topic that has not been adequately explored in teacher education literature where pre-service teachers’ voices are rarely heard. Assessment methods in pre-service teacher programs across the world, including in Saudi Arabia, have received little exploration in the literature. This mixed-methods study explored a group of female pre-service teachers (n = 83) enrolled in a Diploma of Education program to identify their preferred method of assessment for their learning. The results showed that these individuals preferred a group assignment, consisting of a written report and an oral presentation, over an individual assignment, consisting of an individual essay, because the group assignment helped them to break through the boundary of facing an audience and encouraged them to exchange knowledge with their counterparts

The Impact of Trade Barriers on Mandated Biofuel Consumption in Canada

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The Impact of Trade Barriers on Mandated Biofuel Consumption in Canada

In 2008 the Canadian government passed amendments to the Environmental Protection Act requiring five percent ethanol in transportation fuels sold in Canada by 2010 and two percent renewable content in diesel and heating fuels by 2012. Agricultural commodity and other groups have lobbied for further marketplace intervention that would ensure the biofuel needed to meet the legislated requirement be produced from domestic sources. Indeed, many of these special interests would like the biofuels content increased from five to ten percent and for the increase to be met by domestic firms only. The objective of this study is to compare the relative economic impacts in Canada of achieving a ten percent biofuel content either through increased imports or by substituting domestic production in place of increased imports.biofuel trade policy ethanol canada, Demand and Price Analysis, International Relations/Trade,

Alat Ukur Kualitas Air Minum Dengan Parameter Ph, Suhu, Tingkat Kekeruhan, Dan Jumlah Padatan Terlarut

Water is a natural resource that plays an important role in human life, one of that is to be consumed. Water used for consumption should be clean, odorless, tasteless, colorless, and meet the Ministry of Health standards. This water quality instrument measures parameters such as temperature, turbidity, TDS, pH and uses Arduino as a microcontroller. LM35 sensor is used to measure temperature. PH sensor with pH sensor conditioning from Dfrobot is used to measures pH level, photodiode and infrared LED as the sensor is used to measure turbidity level, conductivity sensor is used to measure TDS level. The results show that the sensors have different error level. The temperature sensor has 5.4 % maximum error value with 1.145 average standard deviation, the measurement of pH has 0.848 % error value and 0.01 average standard deviation, the measurement of TDS has 0.97 % error value and 6.69 average standard deviation. Air merupakan sumber daya alam yang berperan penting dalam kehidupan manusia, salah satunya adalah untuk dikonsumsi. Air yang digunakan untuk dikonsumsi harus bersih, tidak berbau, berasa, berwarna dan sesuai standar yang telah ditetapkan oleh Kementerian Kesehatan. Alat ukur kualitas air ini menggunakan parameter suhu, kekeruhan, TDS, pH serta menggunakan Arduino sebagai mikrokontrolernya. Pengukuran suhu menggunakan sensor LM35, pengukuran pH menggunakan sensor pH dengan pengkondisian sensor pH dari Dfrobot, pengukuran kekeruhan dilakukan dengan sensor fotodiode dan LED infra merah dan pengukuran TDS menggunakan sensor konduktivitas. Hasil akhir dari pembuatan alat ini masing-masing sensor pengukuran memiliki variasi eror yaitu sensor suhu dengan nilai eror maksimal 5,4 % dengan standar deviasi rata-rata 1,145. PH dengan eror 0,848 % dan standar deviasi rata-rata 0,01. TDS dengan eror 0,97 % dan standar deviasi rata-rata 6,69

Statistical Inference for the Transformed Rayleigh Lomax Distribution with Progressive Type-II Right Censorship

In this paper, we study the transformed Rayleigh Lomax (Trans-RL) distribution which belongs to a certain family of two parameters lifetime distributions given by Wang et al (2010). Confidence intervals and inverse estimators of the Trans-RL parameters are derived in terms of order statistics. A simulation study is conducted to report the coverage probabilities, the average biases and the average relative mean square errors for the maximum likelihood, L-moments and inverse estimators. We compare the performance of these methods under different schemes of progressively Type-II right censoring. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the proposed methods

Statistical Inference for the Transformed Rayleigh Lomax Distribution with Progressive Type-II Right Censorship

In this paper, we study the transformed Rayleigh Lomax (Trans-RL) distribution which belongs to a certain family of two parameters lifetime distributions given by Wang et al (2010). Confidence intervals and inverse estimators of the Trans-RL parameters are derived in terms of order statistics. A simulation study is conducted to report the coverage probabilities, the average biases and the average relative mean square errors for the maximum likelihood, L-moments and inverse estimators. We compare the performance of these methods under different schemes of progressively Type-II right censoring. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the proposed methods

Conception the Fluid Flow Behavior within Oil Reservoir Rock by Using Computed Tomography (CT) Scan

The behavior of fluid flow has been studied during the different flow media over the past decades. In addition, the behavior of the flow of fluid through porous media has garnered much research interest. This paper sheds light on fissured rocks of oil reservoir media (as one of the porous media domain), and the effect of these fissured on fluid flow. In this article, the Finite Volume Method (FVM) has been used to visualize the behavior of single-phase fluid flow in an actual core according to the dualporosity dual permeability model. The study was conducted in two parts, the first was the image processing for one of the real oil reservoir fractured rock images, where the image was processed and simulated by ANSYSCFX software, and the results showed a complete visualizing of the fluid behavior during this domain. As for the other side, a simulation of a real reservoir rock belonging to the Al-Nour field in Iraq / Misan was made. The X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scan has been used to convert the real fractured core to a dynamic domain. ANSYS-CFX program has been used and the results illustrated the pressure counter, the velocity counter, the velocity streamline, and the velocity vectors for the studied model in three dimensions. A comparison was made between the productivity index for fractured and non-fractured rock and the results explained that the presence of fracture can improve the productivity index to about 5.74%