Sizing passive filters for mitigation of harmonics in a low voltage network containing solar PV units by Saad T․ Y․ Alfalahi, Muhamad Bin Mansor, Aiman Nouh, Salahuddin I․ Abdrabba, Faisal Mohamed

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Automatic Voltage Regulator Betterment Based on a New Fuzzy FOPI+FOPD Tuned by TLBO by Mokhtar Shouran, Mohammed Alenezi

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Deja vu: Medieval Motifs in Modern Arab Political Life by V. V. Naumkin, V. A. Kuznetsov

“…Major attention is paid to Libyan militias, which are studied on the materials of field research conducted by one of the authors. …”
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Rock Art Conservation and Geotourism: A practical example from Foum Chenna engravings site, Morocco by Mohamed Abioui, Lhassan M Barki, Mohammed Benssaou, Abdelkrim Ezaidi, Nezha El Kamali

“…The majority of engravings which depict riders associated with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic representations, also, importantly, the numerous rock inscriptions recounting a scriptural tradition and reflecting the historical beginnings of Libyan writing, were today revitalized to transcribe the Tamazight language. …”
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PARADOXES OF ARAB POLITICAL SYSTEMS CHANGES by V. A. Kusnetsov

“…Therefore, the author (enhances the theoretical framework), identifying three models of political transformation in the Arab world: the Levant-Iraqi, North African and Gulf-Libyan models. Each of these models is organized in its own way, not only in socio-political terms, but also has been developing according to its own logic over the past several decades. …”
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Pouvoir politique et pouvoir religieux. L’exploitation de la Sanusiyya au sein de la Libye indépendante (1951-1958) by Carlotta Marchi

“…Whereas in the past the success of the Sanusiyya had depended on a precise autonomy toward the imperial structure of the Ottoman and colonial empires, so that the figure of the šayḫ was functional for the preservation of the Sufi Way and the transmission of Islamic knowledge, the political legitimisation of his function, as emir and king, led to a redefinition of the whole structure of the ṭarīqa. Hence, in the Libyan case, the establishment of a nation-state, built on and legitimised by the ṭarīqa, radically changed the structure and function of a religious institution, decreeing an adaptation to a model that was no longer theocentric but theocratic. …”
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A distinct double-ring LH1–LH2 photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph by Kazutoshi Tani, Kenji V. P. Nagashima, Risa Kojima, Masaharu Kondo, Ryo Kanno, Issei Satoh, Mai Kawakami, Naho Hiwatashi, Kazuna Nakata, Sakiko Nagashima, Kazuhito Inoue, Yugo Isawa, Ryoga Morishita, Shinichi Takaichi, Endang R. Purba, Malgorzata Hall, Long-Jiang Yu, Michael T. Madigan, Akira Mizoguchi, Bruno M. Humbel, Yukihiro Kimura, Yutaka Nagasawa, Takehisa Dewa, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo

“…Abstract Halorhodospira (Hlr.) halophila strain BN9622 is an extremely halophilic and alkaliphilic phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium isolated from a hypersaline lake in the Libyan Desert whose total salinity exceeded 35% at pH 10.7. …”
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Intangible heritage as a social construction of authenticity: the example of Tunisian cuisine by Wadie Othmani

“…Thanks to the crossing, on the one hand, of the perimeter of production and development of a culinary culture inked through the succession of civilizations throughout the history of the country and, on the other hand, of the perimeter encompassing the Maghrebis (Tunisians, Algerians, Libyans and the diaspora) who currently consume spicy dishes (which characterize Tunisian cuisine) on a daily basis, the article proposes to determine the Territory of Tunisian Culinary Heritage (TTCH). …”
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