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ISLAMIC TAKAFUL: CZY SKUTECZNIE ZASTĄPIŁ UBEZPIECZENIA KOMERCYJNE? : ISLAMIC TAKAFUL: HAS IT SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED CONVENTIONAL INSURANCE?
PublicationIslamic finance is a fast developing sector mainly present in the Middle East, South-East Asia, Central Asia and to a smaller extent in Africa and Central Europe. Together with the rebirth of Islam in the second half of the 20th century, Islamic finance tends to cover the economic needs of all Muslims (including insurances). The Islamic finance system is based on several principles including three main prohibitions: Gharar (deceptive uncertainty),...
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Dissecting anomalies in Islamic stocks: Integrated or segmented pricing?
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The UK's banking system as financial hub for Islamic banking
PublicationThis paper examines the phenomenon of London as "the Islamic banking hub". It contends that London has become not only an international centre for Islamic finance, but also that there is big interest and demand for Islamic banking products. The authors are also positive that Islamic banking may be a certain solution for the problems that Europe has been suffering since 2007 when the global debt crisis started. Our intention is...
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Man in Early Islamic Philosophy: Al-Kindi and Al-Farabi
PublicationMan was, neither for Al-Kindi, nor for Al-Farabi, a clearly isolated object of philosophical reflection. This does not mean, however, that both Islamic philosophers were not at all concerned with the uniqueness of man, his nature or the purpose of his existence. In order to understand and analyze in depth the philosophies of man voiced by Al-Kindi and Al-Farabi, one must focus primarily on their epistemologies, on their philosophical...
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An assessment of Islamic banking in Bosnia and Herzegovina – a comparative analysis using the CAMELS approach
PublicationThis paper examines the phenomenon of Islamic banking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although almost half of the Bosnian population is recognized as Islamic, there is only one bank purely based on Sharia operating in this country. The aim of the article is to conduct a comparative analysis of the financial standing of this bank and the banking sector in this country and region. The chosen method of analysis is CAMELS which examines...
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Reality of short-term causality of Islamic and conventional banking term deposit rates in Pakistan
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Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, written by Peter Nesser
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Słowiańskie fantazmaty Zygmunta Krasińskiego [Zygmunt Krasiński's Slavic phantasms]
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Adam Mickiewicz – słowiański improwizator [Adam Mickiewicz - the Slavic improviser]
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ZMYND10 - Mutation Analysis in Slavic Patients with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
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Mikołaj Karamzin a słowiańska psychomachia Mickiewicza [Nikolay Karamzin and Mickiewicz's Slavic psychomachy]
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Śmierć w rozważaniach na temat mentalności Słowian [The death in the deliberations on the Slavic mentality]
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Słowiański dualizm w „Balladach i romansach” Mickiewicza [Slavic Dualism in Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances]
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Relikty wierzeń prasłowiańskich w twórczości Mickiewicza i Szewczenki [The Relics of Pre-Slavic Beliefs in the Works by Mickiewicz and Shevchenko]
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Manichejska podstawa zbliżenia Słowiańszczyzny w twórczości Czesława Miłosza [Manichaeism as the foundation of an approach to Slavic culture in Czesław Miłosz’s works]
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Islamskie finanse i bankowość: czynniki rozwoju oraz typowe ryzyka.
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przybliżenie oraz wyjaśnienie podłoża rozwoju i ekspansji islamskich finansów i bankowości. Artykuł można podzielić na dwie główne części. W pierwszej (w 2. rozdziale) dokonano wyjaśnienia źródeł pochodzenia finansów islamskich; a także wskazano czynniki mające wpływ na powstanie pierwszych zorganizowanych struktur oraz dalszą ekspansję finansów i bankowości islamskiej. Następnie w drugiej części artykułu (w...
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Islam versus Architecture and Urban Order in the Time of Changes : Social and Cultural Aspects of Housing Architecture Transformation in the Arab Countries of Northern Africa
PublicationArtykuł jest omówieniem obserwacji tradycyjnej i współczesnej zabudowy mieszkaniowej przeprowadzonych przez autora w Algierii (1978) i Libii (1984-1988). Realizowane obecnie struktury i kultywowane formy zamieszkiwania wzorowane są na rozwiązaniach ''zachodnich'' odmiennych od rozwiązań tradycyjnych. Są one niedostosowane do wymogów środowiska naturalnego i pozostają w sprzeczności z zasadami określonymi przez Koran i sunnę. Rozdźwięk...
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Al-Kindi’s “The Real One”: Considerations of a mathematician or of a metaphysician?
PublicationThe aim of the article is to analyze Al-Kindi’s concept of the True (Essential) One and certain additional issues, also taking into account the influence on his position from both classical philosophy and source texts of Islam. In the opening part of the article, Al-Kindi’s innovative approach to the application of mathematics in research in other areas of knowledge is discussed. In the next part,...
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Relikty słowiańskiej ludowości w poezji Syrokomli
PublicationThe paper discusses two models of reading the works by Władysław Syrokomla – one from the era of Positivism, the other – from the era of Young Poland. It displays the canvas of Polish dualism in the author’s poetry. The paper explains its lineage in terms of ethnogenesis. It shows the genesis as the evocation of primeval religious substance of Pre-Slavic origin. The paper refers to the findings of cultural anthropology and religious...
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Conditions of Iranian international trade in terms of lifting the sanctions: A case study of Polish-Iranian trade perspectives
PublicationThe main aim of the paper is to identify the areas and determine the feasibility of trade between Polish and Iranian companies in relation to historical and cultural conditions. The authors describe the complexity of the issue of foreign trade, the determinants of relations between Poland and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Iranian economy – its features, strengths and weaknesses, and consequences of the recent UN, EU, and...
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Wczesny Mickiewicz jako zapowiadający się historiozof
PublicationThe paper shows young Mickiewicz’s family and historical experiences. It discussesthe knightly premises for his historiosophy and explains its radicalism and structureon the grounds of the knightly tradition. The study reveals the pre-Slavic deposits ofspiritual archeology in the Romantic poet. It proves that the activation of these depositsshaped Mickiewicz’s view on the collision between Poland and...
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Adaptacja inwazyjnych gatunków ichtiofauny w wodach Zatoki Gdańskiej na przykładzie Neogobius melanostomus
PublicationBabka bycza Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1811) jest rybą pochodzącą z rejonów Morza Czarnego, Morza Kaspijskiego i Morza Azowskiego [23]. Jednak od kilkunastu lat zasiedla nowe rejony geograficzne m.in. Zatokę Gdańską, w której w strefie przybrzeżnej stała się rybą dominującą. Sprzyjające dla babki byczej warunki środowiska w polskich wodach t.j.: brak naturalnych wrogów i dostatek pokarmu sprawiły, że gatunek ten zaczął się...
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Detection of Lexical Stress Errors in Non-Native (L2) English with Data Augmentation and Attention
PublicationThis paper describes two novel complementary techniques that improve the detection of lexical stress errors in non-native (L2) English speech: attention-based feature extraction and data augmentation based on Neural Text-To-Speech (TTS). In a classical approach, audio features are usually extracted from fixed regions of speech such as the syllable nucleus. We propose an attention-based deep learning model that automatically de...
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Characterization of fatty acids composition in the European beaver (Castor fiber L.).
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono zawartość lipidów , klas lipidów i skład kwasów tłuszczowych lipidów ogólnych uzyskanych z różnych tkanek bobra europejskiego (tkanka okołojelitowa, tkanka okołonerkowa, miesień uda, mięsień kreskowy, podskórna tkanka tłuszczowa, ogon). Wykazano różnice w zawartości lipidów i składzie KT w tkankach samic (n=7) i samców (n=3). Wykazano wysokie zawartości nienasyconych KT w tkankach bobrów w porównaniu z tkankami...
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Physics of Strongly-coupled Dopant-atoms in Nanodevices
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Influence of Seeds’ Age and Clarification of Cold-Pressed Raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) Oil on the DSC Oxidative Stability and Phase Transition Profiles
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Differential scanning calorimetry as a tool to assess the oxidation state of cold-pressed oils during shelf-life
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Advanced Sensor for Non-Invasive Breast Cancer and Brain Cancer Diagnosis Using Antenna Array with Metamaterial-Based AMC
PublicationMicrowave imaging techniques can identify abnormal cells in early development stages. This study introduces a microstrip patch antenna coupled with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) to realize improved sensor for non-invasive (early-stage) breast cancer and brain cancer diagnosis. The frequency selectivity of the proposed antenna has been increased by the presence of AMC by creating an additional resonance at 2.276 GHz associated...
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Rekonstrukcja ewolucji układu przestrzennego średniowiecznego miasta i portu Szczecin Reconstruction of the Spatial Evolution of the Medieval City and Port of Szczecin
PublicationPraca rekonstruuje ewolucję układu osadniczego Szczecina w okresie od połowy VIII w. do początku XIV w., w oparciu o interpretację dostępnej literatury naukowej dotyczącej historii i archeologii Szczecina oraz metodę analizy planistycznej. Bardzo istotnym elementem opisu struktury urbanistycznej wczesnośredniowiecznego Szczecina było określenie roli i położenia portu. W wyniku analizy zmian układu przestrzennego miasta w omawianym...
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Thermal and spectroscopic profiles variation of cold-pressed raspberry seed oil studied by DSC, UV/VIS, and FTIR techniques
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DSC Melting Profile of Cold-Pressed Hemp Seed Oil as an Authenticity Fingerprint Influenced by Scanning Rate
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DSC Phase Transition Profiles Analyzed by Control Charts to Determine Markers for the Authenticity and Deterioration of Flaxseed Oil during Storage
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Comparing Different Chemometric Approaches to Detect Adulteration of Cold-Pressed Flaxseed Oil with Refined Rapeseed Oil Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry
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Assessment of Hemp Seed Oil Quality Pressed from Fresh and Stored Seeds of Henola Cultivar Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry
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OrphaGPT: An Adapted Large Language Model for Orphan Diseases Classification
PublicationOrphan diseases (OD) represent a category of rare conditions that affect only a relatively small number of individuals. These conditions are often neglected in research due to the challenges posed by their scarcity, making medical advancements difficult. Then, the ever-evolving medical research and diagnosis landscape calls for more attention and innovative approaches to address the complex challenges of rare diseases and OD. Pre-trained...
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(Invited) Effect of Individual Dopants in Nano-SOI-MOSFETs and Nano-pn-Diodes
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Microscopic traffic simulation models for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) – state-of-the-art
PublicationResearch on connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has been gaining substantial momentum in recent years. However, thevast amount of literature sources results in a wide range of applied tools and datasets, assumed methodology to investigate thepotential impacts of future CAVs traffic, and, consequently, differences in the obtained findings. This limits the scope of theircomparability and applicability and calls for a proper standardization...
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Angular cheilitis of COVID‐19 patients: A case‐series and literature review
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Increasing the Oxidative Stability of the Wafer Lipid Fraction with Fruit Extract during Storage
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DSC isothermal and non-isothermal assessment of thermo-oxidative stability of different cultivars of Camelina sativa L. seed oils
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Podmiot mówiący Miłosza jako medium pamięci o totalitaryzmach
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Oxidative stability assessment of industrial and laboratory-pressed fresh raspberry seed oil (Rubus idaeus L.) by differential scanning calorimetry
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Comprehensive Thermal Characteristics of Different Cultivars of Flaxseed Oil (Linum usittatissimum L.)
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Differential scanning calorimetry for authentication of edible fats and oils - What can we learn from the past to face the current challenges?
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News that Moves the Market: DSEX-News Dataset for Forecasting DSE Using BERT
PublicationStock market is a complex and dynamic industry that has always presented challenges for stakeholders and investors due to its unpredictable nature. This unpredictability motivates the need for more accurate prediction models. Traditional prediction models have limitations in handling the dynamic nature of the stock market. Additionally, previous methods have used less relevant data, leading to suboptimal performance. This study...
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Investigating COVID-19 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) degradation using Peroxydisulfate/FeMnOx binary metal oxide/Ultrasound System
PublicationDegradation of Favipiravir using a hybrid system of peroxydisulfate, FeMnOx binary metal oxide, and ultrasound irradiation was studied. A novel catalyst was synthesized with deep eutectic solvent (DES). The effects of DES type on catalytic performance was evaluated and the catalysts were characterized using XRD, SEM, BET, XPS, and EDS. DES-based catalysts exhibited higher efficiency due to structure change, surface area enhancement...
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Discrimination of Selected Cold-Pressed and Refined Oils by Untargeted Profiling of Phase Transition Curves of Differential Scanning Calorimetry
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Authenticity Assessment from Sesame Seeds to Oil and Sesame Products of Various Origin by Differential Scanning Calorimetry
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A comprehensive review of sectorial contribution towards greenhouse gas emissions and progress in carbon capture and storage in Pakistan
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Initial evaluation of commercial optical CT‐based 3D gel dosimeter
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