Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance by Istianah Zainal Asyiqin

“…This issue resulted in inadequate separation of tabarru’ and tijarah funds, leading to the mixing of returns from both sectors. This practice contradicted the fatwas issued by the National Sharia Council-The Indonesian Ulama Council (DSN-MUI) regarding Islamic insurance.Additionally, the article identifies ambiguities within some DSN-MUI guidelines. …”
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THE LIBERAL CRITIQUES OF DEMOCRACY FROM TOCQUEVILLE TO HERMANN-HOPPE by Zoltán Pető

“…According to this political theory, liberty and equality do not complement each other but are in fact contradictions. In my lecture I would like to analyze how the words “democracy” and “liberty” were evaluated in the texts of the early liberals, how and why they began to be equated with each other. …”
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MUNICH CRISIS: BEHIND – THE SCENE HISTORY by A. Y. Borisov

“…Playing on international contradictions while staying aside, turning in a victim to an aggressor, etc. are dangerous policies both in the past and today and lead to serious international consequences for their organizers and inspirers. …”
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Accessibility of Medical Facilities in Multiple Traffic Modes: A Study in Guangzhou, China by Juhua Wu, Zeqian Cai, Honglei Li

“…One of the major contradictions in China’s healthcare service is the serious imbalance between the supply and demand of medical resources and the uneven distribution of medical resources. …”
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O protagonista negro em narrativas ficcionais baseadas na historiografia: desafios estético-políticos para as produções audiovisuais brasileiras by Maria Aparecida  Silva  Ribeiro

“…As a result, the narrativization of a historical past crossed by sociopolitical demands of the present is evident, which in the case of the anti-racist agenda, gives rise to semantic contradictions or the reiteration of stereotypes. Finally, elements of film analysis that are potentially applicable to similar productions, in their structures and intentions, are highlighted in the works.…”
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Between the Olympian and the Dionysian: Pagan Energy in Paintings by Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The return to Greece in painting was therefore riddled with contradictions, but it contributed to the re-definition of the aesthetics associated with Antiquity.…”
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Philosophical biography : some problems of conceptualization by Irina Polyakova

“…First, life as a drama, in which the contradictions of worldview are on the front plan. A philosopher’s life-course has its own specific character: a dramatic process of (self-) formation, (self-) knowledge, which is impossible to view in a single linear perspective as we are faced with the nonlinear nature of events (thoughts and feelings can take the place of events, if they are deeply experienced and felt by the personality) and with the nonlinear nature of memory, understood as a creative act. …”
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Response to: Comment on “Does the Equivalence between Gravitational Mass and Energy Survive for a Composite Quantum Body?” by A. G. Lebed

“…In his recent comment on our paper, Crowell has argued that the effect, suggested by us, contradicts the existing experiments and, in particular, astronomic data. …”
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Do Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Affect Bone Healing? A Critical Analysis by Ippokratis Pountos, Theodora Georgouli, Giorgio M. Calori, Peter V. Giannoudis

“…Over the last decades, several studies suggested that NSAIDs interfere with bone healing while others contradict these findings. Although their analgesic potency is well proven, clinicians remain puzzled over the potential safety issues. …”
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Study of the Effect of Process Parameters on Surface Profile Accuracy in Single-Point Incremental Sheet Forming of AA1050-H14 Aluminum Alloy by Abdulmajeed Dabwan, Adham E. Ragab, Mohamed A. Saleh, Saqib Anwar, Atef M. Ghaleb, Ateekh Ur Rehman

“…The results also show that controlling all surface quality features is complex because of the contradicting effects of, and interactions between, a number of the process parameters.…”
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Barbares, militaires et fonctionnaires dans le centre et le centre-ouest de la Gaule durant l’Antiquité tardive. 2e partie : la documentation by Alain Ferdière

“…Taking into account the complementarities but also sometimes the existing contradictions between textual and archeological documentation, although the data used may sometimes appear relatively marginal or even somewhat irrelevant, and thus some disappointing conclusions, in several cases, we arrive at observations which seem significant, in particular, thanks to an adequate renewed cartography, as regards the spatial distribution of certain phenomena.…”
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Design and application of synthetic 17B-HSD13 substrates reveals preserved catalytic activity of protective human variants by Michelle R. Garnsey, Yang Wang, David J. Edmonds, Matthew F. Sammons, Benjamin Reidich, Youngwook Ahn, Yotam Ashkenazi, Anthony Carlo, Matthew A. Cerny, Karen J. Coffman, Jeffrey A. Culver, Anne-Marie Dechert Schmitt, Heather Eng, Ethan L. Fisher, Jemy A. Gutierrez, Larry James, Samantha Jordan, Jeffrey T. Kohrt, Melissa Kramer, Erik A. LaChapelle, Jack C. Lee, Jisun Lee, Dongmei Li, Zhenhong Li, Shenping Liu, Jianhua Liu, Thomas V. Magee, Melissa R. Miller, Michael Moran, Deane M. Nason, Nicole L. Nedoma, Steven V. O’Neil, Mary A. Piotrowski, Jillian Racich, Ruth F. Sommese, Lucy M. Stevens, Ann S. Wright, Jun Xiao, Liying Zhang, Dahui Zhou, Ornella Barrandon, Michelle F. Clasquin

“…Application to multiple cellular systems expressing the protective human variants reveals that the most prevalent IsoD variant maintains NAD-dependent catalytic activity towards some but not all substrates, contradicting reports that the truncation results in loss-of-function.…”
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Occurrence of Anticyclonic Tornadoes in a Topographically Complex Region of Mexico by Noel Carbajal, José F. León-Cruz, Luis F. Pineda-Martínez, José Tuxpan-Vargas, Juan H. Gaviño-Rodríguez

“…Data collected (from Internet videos) on the rotation of tornadoes formed in this region showed that about 50% of them rotated in a clockwise direction, contradicting tornado statistics for most of North America. …”
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Automated curation of spatial metadata in environmental monitoring data by İlhan Mutlu, Jörg Hackermüller, Jana Schor

“…In this context, spatial data is metadata and faces the same challenges as any other metadata, like missing values, false or contradicting information, formatting problems of textual data and numbers, the usage of different languages, and more. …”
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Contralateral Axillary Lymph Node Metastases at the Time of Primary Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Curative or Palliative Intent? by C. Zhou, M. C. Richir, M. W. H. Leenders, B. L. A. M. Langenhorst, H. P. Knol, W. H. Schreurs

“…We reviewed the literature on histopathological tumor characteristics associated with CAM, lymphatic drainage of the breast to other sites than the ipsilateral axilla, and outcome of cases with CAM. This case contradicts current conceptions that CAM only develops from tumors with poor histopathological features. …”
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A Study on the Quality of Mashhur Ghairu Istilahi Hadith: Reconsidering the Stereotype of Misogynistic Hadiths by Frenky Mubarok, Suci Muzfirah, Muidatul Faziyah

“…They compile hadiths they believe contradict the principles of gender equality—labeling them as misogynistic—and conduct takhrij studies to critically analyze these hadiths, seeking arguments to support the notion of feminism within Islam. …”
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Anti-correlation of LacI association and dissociation rates observed in living cells by Vinodh Kandavalli, Spartak Zikrin, Johan Elf, Daniel Jones

“…We found that both association and dissociation rates differed significantly between binding sites, and moreover observed a clear anticorrelation between these rates across varying binding site strengths. These results contradict the long-standing hypothesis that TF binding site strength is primarily dictated by the dissociation rate, but may confer the evolutionary advantage that TFs do not get stuck in near-operator sequences while searching.…”
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The Fractured Self: Exploring Selfhood in the Neuronovel The Echo Maker and the Neuromemoir Brain on Fire by Bonnie Cross

“…While the result of the connections of millions of neurons is a smooth and linear perception of the self and the world around us, neuronarratives can complicate this process by revealing the divisions and occasional contradictions that occur in the combination.…”
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Raconter la Partition de l’Inde : une impossible histoire des femmes ? by Anne Castaing

“…Beyond the historical reading of fiction, however, a literary reading reveals some ambiguities and contradictions in the strategies that aim at giving voice to subaltern characters, and notably women. …”
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…This essay explores the fundamental contradictions of humour in Une Culotte by looking at how Bleackley situates his New Women heroines within the context of nineteenth-century British feminism. …”
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