We investigate how the salience of an ethnic minority affects majority group’s voting behavior. use increased Muslim communities during Ramadan as a natural experiment. Exploiting exogenous variation in distance election dates to over 1980–2013 period Germany, our findings reveal polarization. Vote shares for both right- and left-wing extremist parties increase municipalities with mosques when ...

Projecting the religious composition of the population is relevant for several reasons. It is a key characteristic influencing several aspects of individual behaviour, including marriage and childbearing patterns. The religious composition is also a driver of social cohesion and increased religious diversity could imply a more fragmented society. In this context, Austria finds itself in a perio...

Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia and the form of unitary state with majority population Buddhist beliefs. However, Southern Thailand, are Muslims Malay cultural features there many Islamic-based educational institutions. It not uncommon for people to send their children study Indonesia. One problems faced small number Muslim who can speak Indonesian. Therefore, we conducted 1-month train...

AbstractCoevolution has been used as optimization technique both successfully and unsuccessfully. Successful optimization shows integration of information at the individual level over many fitness evaluation events and over many generations. Alternative outcomes of the evolutionary process, e.g. red queen dynamics or speciation, prevent such integration. Why coevolution leads to integration of ...

deccan was under the control of six muslim ruling dynasties, i.e. the bahmanîds and their successors from the second half of the eight century to the end of the eleventh century (a.h.). most of the ruling class, the aristocrats and courtiers in that period were muslims. but the state particularly villages and small towns were dominated practicing hindus and they still form the majority in decca...

This paper studies the use of coevolution to search for a cellular automaton (CA) solving the well-known density classification task. The Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm (CGA) coevolves two non-interbreeding populations which interact as predator and prey. The main purpose of this paper is to illustrate some of the intricacies involved in the use of coevolution to solve a given task. Concepts ...

One of the most important foundations of knowing and interpreting the Qur’ān, the Torah, and the Gospel is the belief in the infallibility and impeccability of the words and propositions of these divine scriptures. If the verses and statements of the noble Qur’ān and the Testaments during the revelation era and the ensuing times have been afflicted with distortion and contradiction, then they c...

Though Muslims have been living in Nepal from the 15th century, they have started practicingtheir religious activities freely only after enactment of new civil code in 1963. This paper aims to explore the potentials and problems on the existing mosques, perception of the religious structures by Muslim community and analysing of existing legal and institutional framework before drawing a conclus...