The Disquieting Art of Khosrow Hassanzadeh

Khosrow Hassanzadeh is one of Iran’s leading contemporary artists. During his artistic career his work became increasingly concerned with Islam as a factor in the interplay between East and West. This article discusses his recent series of works Terrorist to analyse the artist’s efforts to simultaneously criticize the accusing gaze of the West and reclaim the right of self-representation

Influence of Population Growth on Supply, Demand, and Quality Issues of Water Resources in the Yarmouk River Basin in Jordan

This study was carried out to investigate the influence of population growth on supply, demand, and quality issues of water resources in the Yarmouk River Basin in Jordan for twenty years. The population growth data for the years 1997 and 2017 was derived from four Jordan governorates, i.e., Mafraq, Irbid, Jerash, and Ajloun, as well as for the population of the Yarmouk Basin was calculated, where a part of the population of these governorates resides within Basin. The water supply and the number of wells were also determined during this study. Various physicochemical parameters of water, like pH, EC, TDS, DO, NO2, and NO3, were also evaluated. Water supply, demand, and quality issues were also identified in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. The study showed an increase in the Kingdom's population in four governorates from about 1.27 to 2.88 million inhabitants, while the population of four governorates in the Yarmouk Basin increased from about 639,992 to 1.53 million inhabitants, and it is more than doubling. Comparing the population with the water supply, the numbers of wells and their uses showed significant changes, as evidenced by the substantial increase in the water supply. The studied physiochemical parameters were within the permissible limits of the National Standards. The critical water issues reported in the study area are difficulties in law enforcement and rapid population growth, which interactively affect the water supply. The study's findings will assist decision-makers in managing future water supplies as they face challenges in securing additional water, and there is an urgent need for research and future scenarios to meet water needs

Urban Islam Rethinking the Familiar

In December 2003 a new exhibition on Islam opened at the KIT Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. This comprehensive exhibition entitled Urban Islam is the first one of its kind in the Netherlands to explore the modern aspects of Islam in different parts of the world. Urban Islam aims to present a thought-provoking view on Islam by highlighting the complex and dynamic contexts that shape religious ideas and practices in Muslim societies

A new best proximity point results in partial metric spaces endowed with a graph

For a given mapping f in the framework of different spaces, the fixed-point equations of the form f x = x can model several problems in different areas, such as differential equations, optimization, and computer science. In this work, the aim is to find the best proximity point and to prove its uniqueness on partial metric spaces where the symmetry condition is preserved for several types of contractive non-self mapping endowed with a graph. Our theorems generalize different results in the literature. In addition, we will illustrate the usability of our outcomes with some examples. The proposed model can be considered as a theoretical foundation for applications to real cases

Some fixed point results based on contractions of new types for extended b-metric spaces

The construction of contraction conditions plays an important role in science for formulating new findings in fixed point theories of mappings under a set of specific conditions. The aim of this work is to take advantage of the idea of extended b-metric spaces in the sense introduced by Kamran et al. [A generalization of b-metric space and some fixed point theorems, Mathematics, 5 (2017), 1–7] to construct new contraction conditions to obtain new results related to fixed points. Our results enrich and extend some known results from b-metric spaces to extended b-metric spaces. We construct some examples to show the usefulness of our results. Also, we provide some applications to support our results

A NEW IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY ALGORITHM BASED ON MLSB METHOD WITH RANDOM PIXELS SELECTION

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Contractive Mapping in Generalized, Ordered Metric Spaces with Application in Integral Equations

We consider the concept of Ω-distance on a complete, partially ordered -metric space and prove some fixed point theorems. Then, we present some applications in integral equations of our obtained results

Complex-valued controlled rectangular metric type spaces and application to linear systems

Fixed point theory can be generalized to cover multidisciplinary areas such as computer science; it can also be used for image authentication to ensure secure communication and detect any malicious modifications. In this article, we introduce the notion of complex-valued controlled rectangular metric-type spaces, where we prove fixed point theorems for self-mappings in such spaces. Furthermore, we present several examples and give two applications of our main results: solving linear systems of equations and finding a unique solution for an equation of the form $f(x) = 0$