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The Impact Of Prophet Ibrahim’S Supplications In The Qur’An On The Flourishing Of Islamic Pilgrimage, Tariq H. M. Elhadary, Razaq Raj

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The supplications of Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) in the Qur’an have had a significant impact on the flourishing of Islamic Pilgrimage and have also provided spiritual guidance for those who visit these sacred sites. Through his supplications, Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) expressed his love for the sacred places associated with the Islamic faith. His prayers for both the visitors and residents of these places, are believed to invoke divine blessings and protection upon them. Prophet Ibrahim’s supplications in the Qur’an also encouraged Muslim pilgrims (often referred to as religious tourists) to visit these holy sites by reminding them of the great rewards …

To Read Or Not To Read: How Book Censorship Affects Students And Undermines Different Worldviews, Jordyn L. Bailey

Honors Theses

The past five years have seen an unprecedented growth in book challenges across the nation. The American Library Association announced in March 2024 that 2023 saw a ninety-two percent increase in challenged titles, making it a record year for book bans and challenges (American Library Association 2024). States are seeing increased government inference into these issues. Namely, Florida remains a leader in book challenges with over forty percent of all book bans in the 2022-2023 school year (Meehan 2023). This project examines the effect of book challenges and bans on adolescent readers, with an emphasis on how frequently challenged books, …

Pilgrimage And Tourism Marketing Concepts, Prospects, And Challenges In Two Developing Countries: Bangladesh And Ghana, Md. Javed Kawsar, Michael Evans, Rashed Khan

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This contextual paper analyses the significance of pilgrimage and tourism marketing concepts, prospects, and challenges in two developing countries, Ghana in the West of Africa, and Bangladesh in the South of Asia. The focus of this study is to assess the present marketing and promotion of tourism in the two countries which are different in population size, economy, and tourism contribution towards each country’s GDP.

Within the context of nature-based tourism initiatives in Bangladesh, it is imperative to measure future prospects of tourism marketing ventures related to pilgrimage. The development of marketing for tourism can be helpful for delivering stability …

Landscape Of Kidney Replacement Therapy Provision In Low- And Lower-Middle Income Countries: A Multinational Study From The Isn-Gkha, Victoria Nkunu, Somkanya Tungsanga, Hassane M. Diongole, Abdulshahid Sarki

Open Access archive

In low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs), delivering equitable kidney care presents substantial challenges, resulting in significant disparities in disease management and treatment outcomes for people with kidney failure. This comprehensive report leveraged data from the International Society of Nephrology-Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA), to provide a detailed update on the landscape of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) in LLMICs. Among the 65 participating LLMICs, reimbursement for KRT (publicly funded by the government and free at the point of delivery) was available in 28%, 15%, and 8% for hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplantation (KT), respectively. Additionally, while 56% and …

Perceptions Of Parents And Guardians Regarding Home-To-School Involvement, Brie Merritt

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study was the decline in home-to-school partnerships within a local, public, and ethnically diverse middle school (DMS) in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore parents’ perspectives on the decline in home-to-school partnerships at a DMS. Using Epstein’s six types of family involvement as a guide, a qualitative, exploratory design was used, with data collected through semi structured interviews with 12 Black mothers of eighth-grade students from DMS in the 2022–2023 school year. Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis revealed the following four themes: communication satisfaction, parent-school engagement, …

The Lost History Of Judicial Restraint, Derek A. Webb

Notre Dame Law Review

For over 125 years, jurists and scholars who have championed judicial restraint have looked back to James Bradley Thayer’s 1893 Harvard Law Review article, The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law, as the seminal authority for the rule that courts should presume the constitutionality of a challenged law and only invalidate it if its unconstitutionality is “clear” and “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But Thayer presented those three rules (presumption of constitutionality, clear error rule, and reasonable doubt standard) as rooted in historical legal practice in America. And yet none of his twentieth or twenty-first century …

Roving Extraterritoriality: The Murky Doctrine On State Laws Regulating Absent Citizens, Leo Schlueter

Notre Dame Law Review

It is generally agreed that sovereigns have the power to punish the crimes of their citizens abroad, at least in some situations. But sovereigns rarely exercise this power, and its contours are not well understood. This is especially true in the context of American federalism. It is unclear to what degree states have retained their sovereign extraterritorial powers, and the Supreme Court has never had occasion to fully explain their limits. Recent political developments, however, make it plausible that the question will soon arise. This Note attempts to provide some insight into the future debate over state criminal extraterritorial jurisdiction …

Perceptions Of Parents And Guardians Regarding Home-To-School Involvement, Brie Merritt

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study was the decline in home-to-school partnerships within a local, public, and ethnically diverse middle school (DMS) in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore parents’ perspectives on the decline in home-to-school partnerships at a DMS. Using Epstein’s six types of family involvement as a guide, a qualitative, exploratory design was used, with data collected through semi structured interviews with 12 Black mothers of eighth-grade students from DMS in the 2022–2023 school year. Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis revealed the following four themes: communication satisfaction, parent-school engagement, …

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Control Of Mango Anthracnose (Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides) By Essential Oil Mixture, Chau Trung Duong, Huynh Thi Phuong Thao, Doan Minh Khang, Nguyen Thi Nhu Y, Tran Chi Nhan, Bui Thi Cam Huong, Nguyen Trong Tuan, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Truc, Dương Minh Tuệ, Luu Thai Danh

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Mixing two or more essential oils (EOs) may increase effectiveness of mango anthracnose control. In this study, EOs from a wide range of plant materials were hydro-distilled and chemically characterized. EOs were tested against in vitro growth of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. EOs with the highest antifungal toxicity were selected for the interactive experiments. The results showed that orange had the highest extraction yield (4.94%), followed by lemon, pomelo, citronella, turmeric, ginger, lemongrass (LG), cinnamon bark (CB), cinnamon leaf (CL) and basil. Trans-cinnamaldehyde was the most abundant compound of CB (91.3%) and CL (94.1%) EO. Limonene was principle constituent of orange (97%), …

Bioethanol Yield Of The Sorghum × Sudangrass Hybrid Under Arid And Semiaridconditions: Nitrogen Dose Effects, Orthogonal Comparisons, And Component Analyses, Hali̇t Tutar

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The sorghum x sudangrass hybrid is highly significant as a biofuel crop due to its high biomass production, drought tolerance, ability to adapt to various climatic conditions, and high sugar content in its stems. This research aimed to determine the effects of six different nitrogen dose treatments on ethanol yield, yield parameters, and fertilizer use relationships in sorghum x sudangrass hybrid plants at two locations in 2021 and 2022. The experiment was established according to the randomized block design with three replicates. Nitrogen treatments were applied as N0 (0 kg da-1), N5 (5 kg da-1), N10 (10 kg da-1), N15 …

Wood, Work, And Etymology:A Neglected Source Of Aesthetic Unity In The Tempest, Carmine Di Biase

The North Meridian Review

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Arthus Standing In 1947: A Self-Interview, Jonathan Griffith

The North Meridian Review

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Subverting The Punchline: If Your Name Is J.D. Vance, You Might (Not) Be A Redneck, Willie Carver, Sarah Ratliff

The North Meridian Review

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Roping Water Color In A Country Club Kitchen, A Runaway Slave Runs In Rain, And A Sedated Dog Tips His Hat, Martha Coats

The North Meridian Review

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Confederate Generals Are Common College Campuses, Roger Camp

The North Meridian Review

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Politicks, Jack Granath

The North Meridian Review

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Mifepristone Is Safe, Pray For The Culture Warriors, And Rossastroscuro, Johnny Byutorie

The North Meridian Review

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End Of The Liberal Ego: Film Criticism, Robin Marie Averbeck

The North Meridian Review

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Contributor Bios, The North Meridian Review Editorial Staff

The North Meridian Review

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The North Meridian Review: A Journal Of Culture And Scholarship, The North Meridian Review Editorial Staff

The North Meridian Review

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Developing Nursing Education In A Low-Income Country, Kalyn M. Renbarger, Jane Frances Anyango, Joshua Kanaabi Muliira

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

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The Echo: December 2, 2024, Taylor University

2024-2025 (Volume 112)

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A Latent Class Assessment Of Healthcare Access Factors And Disparities In Breast Cancer Care Timeliness, Matthew Dunn, Didong Li, Marc Emerson, Caroline Thompson, Hazel Nichols, Sarah Van Alsten, Mya Roberson, Stephanie Wheeler, Lisa Carey, Terry Hyslop, Jennifer Elston Lafata, Melissa Troester

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Delays in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment lead to worse survival and quality of life. Racial disparities in care timeliness have been reported, but few studies have examined access at multiple points along the care continuum (diagnosis, treatment initiation, treatment duration, and genomic testing).

METHODS AND FINDINGS: The Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS) Phase 3 is a population-based, case-only cohort (n = 2,998, 50% black) of patients with invasive breast cancer diagnoses (2008 to 2013). We used latent class analysis (LCA) to group participants based on patterns of factors within 3 separate domains: socioeconomic status ("SES"), "care barriers," and …

Concomitant Epidural And Longitudinal Anterior Spinal Artery Contrast Spread In A Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection (Tfesi), Philip J. Koehler Iii, Paul M. Kitei, David S. Stolzenberg, Elaine H. Hatch

Rothman Institute Papers

A 78-year-old female with a remote history of L3-4 decompression and fusion presented with several months of low back and radicular leg pain. MRI revealed moderate L2-L3 spinal canal stenosis, ligamentum flavum infolding, moderate bilateral foraminal stenosis, and a grade I retrolisthesis. A right sided L2-L3 TFESI was performed using multiplanar fluoroscopic imaging with a subpedicular supraneural approach. During live iodinated contrast injection, imaging revealed concomitant epidural and central arterial contrast spread. The needle was retracted and repeat live fluoroscopic imaging demonstrated no vascular uptake. Desired epidural and nerve root contrast spread remained in place with repeat still imaging. Dexamethasone …

2024-12-02 Letter From The Dean Of The College Of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Sylvia Henneberg

Faculty Senate Records

A memo sent by Sylvia Henneberg, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, to faculty members of the college on December 2, 2024, titled "Changes/Transition in Caudill."

A Response To Openai's Student Guide To Writing With Chatgpt, David Nelson

IMPACT Publications

ChatGPT turned two years old and it’s not an anniversary many of us in education want to celebrate. ChatGPT has over 250 million weekly users, many of them students. OpenAI’s indifference to releasing an app that students used to offload learning is astonishing, but not unsurprising, considering Sam Altman’s thoughts about the state of higher education months before the public release of ChatGPT:

For the past two years, OpenAI’s grand public experiment included no guidance for educators. Early in November they finally released a student’s guide to writing with ChatGPT. The guest post below from Dave Nelson offers one …

Automatic Placenta Mri Segmentation Across Gestational Stages Using Nnunet, Wenqing Zhang

Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research

The placenta is a critical organ connecting the mother and fetus, playing a vital role in fetal development and maternal health. However, research on placental MRI segmentation, particularly across different gestational stages, remains limited. This study systematically explores the performance of nnUNet in automatic placental MRI segmentation, focusing on three gestational stages: early (0–19 weeks), mid (20–30 weeks), and late (31–40 weeks). Comprehensive experiments, including single-stage, mixed-stage, and cross-stage segmentation tasks, were conducted.

The results demonstrate nnUNet’s remarkable adaptability, achieving validation Dice coefficients exceeding 82% in single-stage training. The mid-stage placenta, due to its transitional characteristics, excelled in cross-stage predictions, …

Textualism In Practice, Anita S. Krishnakumar

Duke Law Journal

Textualism has won the statutory interpretation wars. But despite this theoretical and methodological victory, textualism as practiced on the ground has proved less transformational than expected. Indeed, contrary to what textualist interpretive philosophy long has promised, the widespread embrace of textualism by judges on the ground has not resulted in any real clarity or predictability about the interpretive path—or even the specific interpretive tools—courts will invoke to construe a statute in a particular case. Part of the reason for this lack of predictability is that textualism as practiced often differs significantly from the approach that textualism as an interpretive philosophy …

Teaching Matters In Formula Preparation-A Measure Of Equity And Nutritional Safety, Matthew D. Di Guglielmo

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

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