Hemp Agronomy: Current Advances, Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities

An Introduction to Industrial Hemp, Hemp Agronomy, and UK Agronomic Hemp Research

Islamic Project Financing in Pakistan: Current Challenges and Opportunities Ahead

This study is related to an Islamic project financing with a major focus on investigating the role of Islamic finance in financing infrastructural development projects (toll roads, power plants, airports, and plants, as well as natural resource exploitation projects, such as hydroelectric dams, mining projects, oil and gas assets, and paper mills), especially in the context of Pakistan. Infrast...

Agronomy of fibre hemp (Cannabis sati6a L.) in Europe

Fibre hemp may yield up to 25 t above ground dry matter per hectare (20 t stem dry matter ha) which may contain as much as 12 t ha cellulose, depending on environmental conditions and agronomy. Its performance is affected by the onset of flowering and seed development. Effects of cultivar and management on yield and quality were tested at three contrasting sites in Italy, the Netherlands and th...

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Photoinitiated Polymerization: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

The use of photoinitiated polymerization is continuously growing in industry as reflected by the large number of applications in not only conventional areas such as coatings, inks, and adhesives but also high-tech domains, optoelectronics, laser imaging, stereolithography, and nanotechnology. In this Perspective, the latest developments in photoinitiating systems for free radical and cationic p...