<p>Light and time are key environmental components for the majority of organisms. Biologically, time operates at various scales, ranging from the annual cycle of seasons, to the daily cycle of the sun, to the potentially rapid cycle of cell division. What is apparently fundamental to all organisms is the ability to respond in a manner predictive of time. Time-dependent changes in physiology, morphology, and ecology are responsive to various environmental cues, the most significant of which is light. The ability of organisms to perceive, harvest, and protect themselves from light is also of fundamental importance, leading to a variety of biological responses including phototaxis and photosynthesis. This volume, which concentrates primarily but not exclusively on both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, provides a series of chapters that explore various aspects of the underlying biology of organisms' reactions to light and time. The volume provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date review of this fundamental area of biology, which is currently advancing at a rapid pace.</p>

The Muslim private sector in Southeast Asia: Islam and the economic development of Southeast Asia (Social issues in Southeast Asia / Institute of Southeast Asian Studies)

Business & Money

Mohamed Ariff

Economics

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the objective of benefiting the human society. Such guidance means that wealth management is a process involving the accumulation, generation, purification, preservation and distribution of wealth, to be conducted carefully in permissible ways. This book is the first to lay out a coherent framework on how wealth management should be conducted in compliance with guiding principles from edicts of a major world religion. The book begins by defining wealth from both a secular perspective, and an Islamic perspective, before describing how wealth needs to be earned in lawful ways, preserved and used to benefit the needs of community, with a small part of the wealth given away to charity, and the remainder managed in accordance with laws and common practices, as established by a majority consensus of scholars of the religion in historical times. Each section of the book has relevant chapters that discuss the theory, as well as the application and the challenges in Islamic wealth management in real and financial markets. This book will appeal to students and researchers of Islamic wealth management, certainly Islamic economics and finance in general; policy makers; and a range of industry practitioners, such as investment managers, financial planners, accountants and lawyers.Contributors include: S.O. Alhabshi, M. Ariff, G.Ç. Dolgun, M.H. Dolgun, M. El Khatib, J. Farrar, F. Habib, A. Lahsasna, Z. Mahomed, A. Mirakhor, S. Mohamad, M.I.A. Mohsin, E.S. Rasid, S.H.A. Razak, S.A. Rosly, Z.M. Sori, J.A. Thahir, A. Zuleika

Islamic Wealth Management: Theory and Practice (Foundations of Islamic Finance series)

Shamsher Mohamad

Edward Elgar Publishing

APEC and development co-operation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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