Vol. 36 August (2008) No. 2 55 THE ROBUSTNESS AND APPLICABILITY OF AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FROM SINGLE MIXTURES 1*Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 1Keikichi Hirose and 2Nobuaki Minematsu 1 Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technology 2 Graduate School of Engineering The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan *Address of Corresponding Author: [email protected]...

In vitro fertilisation and even newer assisted reproductive technologies are part of everyday life in the contemporary Middle East. There, IVF is practised according to local Islamic norms, which have been reinforced by fatwas from leading religious authorities. As this article will show, ideological differences between dominant Sunni and minority Shi’ite forms of Islam are currently shaping th...

Th e historical introduction of two alternative (brain or circulatory) criteria of death was a medical necessity to fulfi ll the need for procurement of transplantable organs at the end of life. 2 , 3 Heart-beating organ procurement is performed on brain-dead donors. 3 However, worldwide practice of end-of-life organ donation and transplantation requires public acceptance of brain death as an a...

The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber’s and Durkheim’s approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religion...

This paper seeks to delineate the process that culminated into the proliferation of Deobandi version of Islam in the Punjab that eventually led to the formulation of terrorist outfits by the closing years of twentieth century. Gradual creeping of Deobandi influence was not in consonance with the composite cultural ethos that was very intrinsic to the Punjab. In the colonial Punjab and even befo...

The interpretation of the verses of the Qur’an regarding women’s rights, role, and leadership is a challenge and much debatable subject. In Islam, the Qur’an is seen by almost all Muslims as the words of Allah (swt). The majority Muslim exegetes interpreted the verses of the Qur’an by applying a method of literal reading. In modern context, Muslim feminist interpreters of the Qur’an have applie...