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Lignin and lignocellulosic materials: A glance on the current opportunities for energy and sustainability
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Springer International Publishing
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Fossil fuels are running out fast. The energy demand is one of the largest challenges humankind has ever faced. Applications targeting renewable resources that are nonpetroleum based are booming. The scientific community ...
The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2023 , Book chapter)
Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ...
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ...
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
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Taylor & Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
Unruliness through space and time: Reconstructing ‘peoplehood’ in the arab spring
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents a critical account of the phenomenon of the ‘Arab Spring’. This it does via an unorthodox interpretation of why the Arab Spring élan represents a departure point from many 20th-century revolutions. ...
In-formalized polity and the politics of dynasty in Egypt and Libya
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
The Arab Middle East has entered a moment of revolution, inevitable counterrevolution, and transition. Integral to this moment is a dialectical dynamic in which the formal and the informal conjugate, through unsettled ...
Frequency conversion layers for Si solar cell efficiency improvement
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Springer Nature
, 2017 , Book chapter)
SiNx and SiNx: Tb3+ thin layers deposited by reactive magnetron co-sputtering have been studied with the aim of optimizing the light management in Si solar cells. Those Si-based layers are developed to be compatible with ...
Application of integral equations to simulating local fields in carbon nanotube reinforced composites
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Book chapter)
We consider the steady heat conduction problem within a thermal isotropic and homogeneous square ring composite reinforced by nonoverlapping and randomly distributed carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We treat the CNTs as rigid line ...
Microfluidic devices with modified electrochemical detection for biomarkers analysis: A review
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2014 , Book chapter)
Integrated microfluidic systems continue to garner a great deal of attention. This interest can be attributed to the advantages that these microsystems exhibit over conventional separation and detection systems while ...
Entrepreneurship, ICT and innovation: State of qatar transformation to a knowledge-based economy
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Oil and natural gas revenues still form the main part of national income and government revenues in Qatar. However, since, 1995, Qatar's economy is undergoing a critical transformation, shifting from a high dependence on ...