Renewable Energy Communities: An Alternative Electricity Generation Financing via Regional Public-Private Partnership in Morocco

Regional public-private partnership is a joint venture-based business model by way of musharakah contract in order to enable interest-free electricity generation financing within renewable energy communities each region in Morocco. Musharakah contract is a kind of Islamic finance instrument. Musharakah joint venture is well suited to renewable energy community business models because it is based on capital partnership within profit/loss participation. Renewable energy has played significant role in the world in recent times. Morocco has also got weight to renewable energy sources since when Moroccan authorities extensively tackled with enhancing energy supply diversification at National Energy Strategy in 2009. In this context, it is aimed in this study that provide more clean electricity generation and all economic factors are active in cooperation, especially households, through regional renewable energy communities. Therefore, regional industry and household electricity consumers are expected to become investors by evaluating their savings without interest thanks to musharakah contract

MRI of the Acute Injured Knee

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become a mainstay in the assessment of internal derangement of the knee. MRI prior to surgery increases diagnostic confidence. It also influences clinical practice by identifying alternative diagnoses, e.g., for an osteochondral injury that clinically may mimic meniscal tears, different surgical approaches exist for many cases. This unit presents the standard protocol for imaging injured knees in a clinical setting. The parameters given in this unit are derived from a 1.5 T machine and may need to be altered slightly depending on the main magnetic field strength and the equipment manufacturer.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145407/1/cpmia2301.pd

Socialist Realism and Soviet Music: The Case of Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions while adhering to the party‟s needs. Through socio-musical trial and error, Shostakovich was able to become an honest, modernist composer in one of the most difficult environments to be a progressive artist. Each of Shostakovich‟s works contain a piece of his emotional and compositional struggle during his life. He was an honest musician because he valued a variety of different opinions and beliefs that circulated throughout the Soviet Era, and his music vividly reflects this wide array of inspirational material. Although it would be short-sighted to refer to Shostakovich as a truly Soviet composer, it would be incorrect to believe him to be a complete anti-Soviet. Unfortunately, much of the scholarly work discussing Shostakovich places him into the extreme of one category or the other, either as a Soviet apologist and political sympathizer or as a Soviet dissident

Publication des Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle, par Emilie du Châtelet, femme de science au XVIIIe siècle (La)

Ce mémoire a pour objectif de montrer le rôle de femme de science de Madame du Châtelet au XVIIIe siècle en France, à travers l’étude de ses Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle, traduction en français et commentaire des Principia de Newton. Ce travail utilise les dernières découvertes sur Madame du Châtelet, ainsi qu’une analyse de bibliographie matérielle d’un certain nombre d’exemplaires des Principes mathématiques

Use of the modified three-point Dixon technique in obtaining T1-weighted contrast-enhanced fat-saturated images on an open magnet

The purpose of this study was to investigate the modified three-point Dixon technique as a method for obtaining fat-saturated T1-weighted sequences before and after intravenous gadolinium administration using an open MR imaging scanner. A preliminary experiment using an oil/gadolinium phantom was performed on a 0.35-T open magnet and an advanced 1.5-T unit. Fat saturation was achieved at 1.5T using a frequency selective presaturation technique and a modified three-point Dixon technique on the low-field scanner. The modified three-point Dixon sequence was then evaluated in ten patients undergoing MRI examinations of the spine with gadolinium enhancement to determine image characteristics and diagnostic potential. The phantom study demonstrated a homogenous suppression of signal from oil and a good distinction between fat and a gadolinium chelate on the 0.35-T unit comparable to that on the 1.5-T scanner. By applying the modified three-point Dixon technique on the open-magnet, the distinction between fat and gadolinium dimeglumine was rated as very good in 139 and good in 17 axial slices in a total of 156 images. No image was rated as difficult or not possible. Motion artifacts that hampered the reading were detected in the lower cervical spine due to respiratory movement in four (3% of all) images. The modified three-point Dixon technique provides the combination of gadolinium enhancement with fat saturation on an open magnet. Early clinical applications appear promisin

Re-imagining the Borders of US Security after 9/11: Securitisation, Risk, and the Creation of the Department of Homeland Security

The articulation of international and transnational terrorism as a key issue in US security policy, as a result of the 9/11 attacks, has not only led to a policy rethink, it has also included a bureaucratic shift within the US, showing a re-thinking of the role of borders within US security policy. Drawing substantively on the 'securitisation' approach to security studies, the article analyses the discourse of US security in order to examine the founding of the Department of Homeland Security, noting that its mission provides a new way of conceptualising 'borders' for US national security. The securitisation of terrorism is, therefore, not only represented by marking terrorism as a security issue, it is also solidified in the organisation of security policy-making within the US state. As such, the impact of a 'war on terror' provides an important moment for analysing the re-articulation of what security is in the US, and, in theoretical terms, for reaffirming the importance of a relationship between the production of threat and the institutionalisation of threat response. © 2007 Taylor & Francis