The Hijab in the Quran and its Effects on Muslim Women in the Western Society

The purpose of this thesis is to present the contextualization of the hijab in the Quran, present the experiences of some Muslim women who wear the hijab, and analyze them through the frameworks of choice feminism and standpoint theory. This thesis consists of two main parts: the documentary and the thesis reflective writing. The writing portion is broken down into two parts: contextualization of the hijab and documentary analysis. The documentary is mostly made up of the responses from the three interviews that were conducted virtually through Zoom. The documentary analysis portion then analyzes the experiences of the three women, Alia Alshammari, Nadeen AlOstaz, and Yasmeen Sedeek, in relation to statistics and literature. The results I found were that, Muslim women who wear the hijab are following the commands of their religion and should have the freedom of choice to dress the way they want based on their choice of faith. Moreover, due to their choice, there is a high potential for them to experience forms of discrimination and various stereotypes. Finally, stereotypes and inaccuracies arise partly due to the low level of knowledge on the subject of the hijab in the Western society which, in turn, can lead to negative effects on the Muhajabats lies

A priori testing of sparse adaptive polynomial chaos expansions using an ocean general circulation model database

This work explores the implementation of an adaptive strategy to design sparse ensembles of oceanic simulations suitable for constructing polynomial chaos surrogates. We use a recently developed pseudo-spectral algorithm that is based on a direct application of the Smolyak sparse grid formula and that allows the use of arbitrary admissible sparse grids. The adaptive algorithm is tested using an existing simulation database of the oceanic response to Hurricane Ivan in the Gulf of Mexico. The a priori tests demonstrate that sparse and adaptive pseudo-spectral constructions lead to substantial savings over isotropic sparse sampling in the present setting.United States. Office of Naval Research (award N00014-101-0498)United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (award numbers DE-SC0007020, DE-SC0008789, and DE-SC0007099)Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (contract numbers SA1207GOMRI005 (CARTHE) and SA12GOMRI008 (DEEP-C)

Cerebellar developmental venous anomaly with associated cavernoma causing a hemorrhage - a rare occurrence

Developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) are variations in the transmedullary veins required for drainage of the brain. Normally, when occurring in isolation, DVAs are not clinically significant and are therefore usually a benign diagnosis. Thus, they are most often an incidental finding unless associated with an adjacent pathology. However, intracranial haemorrhage induced by a DVA alone can rarely occur and has been scarcely reported. In this case report we discuss a 58-year-old woman who presented with signs and symptoms of a cerebellar syndrome. Following a non-contrast CT, a CT angiogram and MRI contrast scan of the brain, she was found to have a cerebellar DVA and an intracranial haemorrhage. Subsequent imaging 3 months later with CT and MRI redemonstrated additional evidence of a cavernoma. The patient was managed conservatively.</p

Structural behavior of damaged reinforced concrete beams under static cyclic loading

Bridges are regarded as one of the most important components of transportation infrastructure. More and more repairs, inspections, alterations, and construction processes are required to maintain safe usage due to increasing travel demands in addition to bridge infrastructure aging. In this paper, we will discuss the experimental investigation using five reinforced concrete beams to evaluate the effect of making damage to experimental beams under static cyclic loading to investigate their ductility and energy dissipation. The defective parameters taken into consideration in the experimental program were the gap in the concrete mold and mild steel at the middle bottom reinforcement. All tested specimens had the same cross-sectional dimensions. The concrete dimensions of the beams were 200 mm in width and 300 mm in height, and the beam's length was selected to be 2200 mm, having a clear span of 2000 mm between the supports, they were tested in positive bending using a 3-point bending load system. According to the results, when (RC) beams were subjected to any of the mentioned types of damage, they showed a significant decrease in ultimate capacities ranging from 3.03% to 19.31%. The ANSYS model shows an average difference with the experimental program within 4 % as an acceptable agreement

3-Benzyl-8-meth­oxy-2-sulfanyl­idene-1,2,3,4-tetra­hydro­quinazolin-4-one

The tetra­hydro­quinazole fused-ring system of the title compound, C16H14N2O2S, is roughly planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.039 Å); the phenyl ring of the benzyl substituent is aligned at 78.1 (1)° with respect to the mean plane of the fused-ring system. In the crystal, two mol­ecules are linked by a pair of N—H⋯S hydrogen bonds about a center of inversion, generating a dimer

5-Chloro-2-methyl­sulfonyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]quinazoline

The triazoloquinazole fused-ring system of the title compound, C10H7ClN4O2S, is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.009 Å). In the methyl­sulfonyl substituent, the two S—O bonds are of equal length [1.402 (2) Å]. In the crystal, adjacent mol­ecules inter­act weakly through Cl⋯N contacts [ca 3.197 (2) Å]

3-(Prop-2-en-1-yl)-2-sulfanyl­idene-1,2,3,4-tetra­hydro­quinazolin-4-one

The tetra­hydro­quinazoline fused-ring system of the title compound, C11H10N2OS, is approximately planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.019 Å). In the crystal, adjacent mol­ecules are linked by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a chain running along the b axis

N-[2,4-Dioxo-3-aza­tricyclo­[7.3.1.05,13]trideca-1(13),5,7,9,11-pentaen-3-yl]thio­urea

In the two independent mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C13H9N3O2S, the aza­tricyclo­trideca­penta­ene ring system is approximately planar with r.m.s. deviations of 0.022 and 0.033 Å. The urea unit connected to the fused rings is approximately perpendicular [dihedral angles = 82.4 (1) and 82.7 (1)°]. In the crystal, the mol­ecules associate by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a chain running along the a axis. The crystal studied was a non-merohedral twin with a fractional contribution of 49.6 (1)% for the minor domain

Feasibility study of industrial projects using Simos’ procedure

Feasibility study is conducted in a stage prior to design, procurement and construction stages in order to determine the viability of project undertaken by an investor. This helps investors to decide whether to proceed with the project or not. Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) process can be utilized in the feasibility study stage to avoid wrong decisions might cause undesired losses. In industrial projects, wrong decisions might lead to bankruptcy of crucial economic entities. Private investors might have good initiative and the capital to establish economically successful projects but they might either select the inappropriate type of industry that might turn the investment to a failure or might not include some important/crucial considerations into account. This paper presents a key-list of gathered factors that are considered the important factors and affect the selection of industrial projects. Importance, relative importance and weights of these factors are determined using Simos’ procedure. The key-list has been applied on five case-studies of industrial projects and a Weighted-Sum Model (WSM) has been selected as a MCDM technique in order to acquire their final preferences, rank them and consequently come-up with the most preferred/suitable alternative to be constructed. Then, a sensitivity analysis has been performed to determine the most critical criterion of the key-list. Additionally, several scenarios have been processed to verify that the most important criterion of the key-list does not necessarily be the most critical criterion. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis also determines the most critical measure of performance assembled from the five casestudies