Population protocols, roughly defined as systems consisting of large numbers of simple identical agents, interacting at random and updating their state following simple rules, are an important research topic at the intersection of distributed computing and biology. One of the fundamental tasks that a population protocol may solve is majority: each node starts in one of two states; the goal is f...

We investigate Americans’ stereotypes of both Muslims and Muslim-Americans. We find that negative stereotypes relating to violence and trustworthiness are commonplace and that little distinguishes Muslims from Muslim-Americans in the public’s mind. Furthermore, these stereotypes have consequences: those with less favorable views of Muslims are more likely to support several aspects of the War o...

Etiology of infertility varies from region to region and from one population to another and even from one locality to another within the same population. Childlessness has serious demographic, social and health implications. Hence an attempt has been made to get some approximation about levels and patterns of infertility and childlessness in India by using National Family Health Survey-2 (1998-...

Muslim–Jewish relations have a long and complex history. However, notions that all Jews Muslims are eternal enemies proven wrong both historically by today’s survey data. A comprehensive review of the available data from last two decades provides glimpse into views each other in countries where communities minority. It is based on 52 surveys Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, ...

Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam Muslims. It can manifest itself in many ways, including but not limited to discrimination against Muslims employment, the media, education, and everyday life; hate speech crimes Muslims; exclusion of from public sphere. a form bigotry racism. rooted ignorance misinformation about Islamophobes often falsely conflate with terrorism, ex...

I use data from the 2011 Pew Survey (N = 1,033) to examine the prevalence and correlates of perceived discrimination across Muslim American racial/ethnic groups. Asian Muslims report the lowest frequency of perceived discrimination than other Muslim racial/ethnic groups. Nearly, all Muslim racial/ethnic groups have a few times higher odds of reporting one or more types of perceived discriminati...

BACKGROUND On the 22nd May 2017, suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Manchester Arena killing 22 people and injuring 116 others. Following the 'massacre in Manchester', the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, linked UK foreign policy with terrorism on British soil. Controversial and contentious though Corbyn's claims may be, the terrorists th...

Islamophobia has its long historical roots. Nonetheless, religiously motivated terrorism and the use of name “Islam” by terrorist organizations such as Islamic State (IS) may have amplified Islamophobia. caused violence against Muslims in several stages contexts. This study was held to investigate whether could also happen among largest Muslim population, Indonesia, majority avoid being associa...