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Foreign policy vision of the Turkish religious right: from national view to justice and development party
No full textThis article explores the transformation of the Turkish religious right in its view to the major goals and orientation of Turkish foreign policy from National View parties to the Justice and Development Party. The main argument of the paper is that foreign policy vision of Turkish religious right has shifted from a substantially cultural to a pragmatist and rational one. While the National View parties were opposed to develop relations with the West and were rather in favour of integration with the Muslim countries of the Middle East, the Justice and
Development Party is motivated to integrate with the West and the East at the same time in search of achieving advanced political, economic and social institutions at home and in Turkey’s neighbourhood. It is a major goal of the Justice and Development Party to ensure Turkey’s membership to the EU which was formerly identified by the National View as a union of Christian states. The Justice and Development Party is also in cooperation with the USA in its goal to institute more democratic and peaceful regimes in the Middle East. While trying to promote contemporary political institutions in the Middle East, the Justice and Development Party is also in search of greater cooperation and partnership in economic,diplomatic and cultural terms. Behind this seemingly contradictory attitude lies the belief on the part of the Justice and Development Party deputies that democracy, human rights, rule of law, good governance are indisputable ideals of 21st century politics and that they are not in conflict with different cultural values enjoyed by the world community. The Justice and Development Party endeavours to make Turkey a centre country, a regional and global power,
an advanced democracy and a respectable member of the international community
Israel, Jerusalem, and the identity crisis
No full textAfter more than 62 years of its formation, Israel is now facing a crisis in one of the major aspects of its entity, namely its identity; many of the members of Jewish-Israeli public, in particular, are facing a crisis in identifying their character within the contemporary world,
especially with the rise of rejection of Israel in the Arab and Muslim worlds. The Israeli people are facing a problem in defining their tie, and thus, there has been a crucial need to regather the Israelis on one symbol that represents “‘Ām Ysra’il” (i.e. the People of Israel). This
symbol is Jerusalem. Therefore, it is noted that Israel has intensified work towards Judaizing Jerusalem and insisting on its Jewish character recently, in addition to the insist on requesting the Palestinians and the Arab and Muslim world to admit “The Jewish Israel”, which reflects
Israel’s fear of demolishing of the whole Zionist project in that area from inside. This paper analyzes the current identity crisis that Israel faces and the procedures taken by Israel towards solving this problem through “bringing the symbol to life”, i.e. Jerusalem in particular, in
addition to touch upon the reaction of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority to this challenge
Risiko hubungan dan kepercayaan: kajian kes penyumberan-luar perkhidmatan perakaunan di Malaysia (Relational Risks and Trust: A Case Study of Accounting Outsourcing in Malaysia)
No full textUndang-undang kontrak Malaysia: keterbatasan pemakaian dalam kontrak pengguna
No full textKepesatan perkembangan ekonomi global telah membawa faedah kepada pengguna dengan keterbukaan pasaran barangan dan perkhidmatan lantas memoperkasakan hak pengguna untuk membuat pilihan berasaskankeperluan dan kuasa membeli. Walaupun fenomena ini dilihat masih seiringan dengan pendapat Adam Smith bahawa kepenggunaan adalah satu-satunya matlamat dan tujuan semua pengeluaran, namun senario ini secara tidak disedari turut menimbulkan ketidakpastian tentang tahap perlindungan terhadap pengguna dalam hubungan kontraktual yang mereka lakukan. Dengan demikian , sewajarnyalah kerangka perundangan kepenggunaan bergerak sederap dengan perkembangan semasa.Dimalaysia hubungan kontraktual dikawal selia oleh satu statut pemakaian am konteks kepenggunaan dengan menganalisis secara kritis kedudukan pengguna dalam kontrak bentuk seragam dan dibawah doktrin priviti dengan merujuk kepada sumber primer dan skunder perundangan. Diakhir analisis cadangan turut di kemukakan bagi mengatasi kelemahan Akta ini yang telah dikenal pasti
The relationship between motivation and learning reading and writing in sixth graders in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
No full textThis study aims at investigating motivation relationship wirth learning reading and writing in sixth grader in public schools in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. This major goal includes the following items: identifying the level of motivation in sixth graders attending public schools in Jordan, identifying their academic achievement in reading and writing, identifyingthe relationship between their level of motivation and their learning and writing,identifying the influence of motivation on their learning reading and writing. The population of the study includes all six-graders in public schools in jordan whereas multi-stages random sampling is used to choose the sample. This sample consists of 852 students,460 males and 392 females. The following tools are used; Herman's achivement motivation questionnaire,achivement test prepared by the researcher. The study has found out that the mean of motivation is above average(3.91), the mean of reading and writing achivement is above average(11.92). The study has also indicated a significant positive correlation between motivation and learning reading and writing (0,268), at (0.01) furthermore,the result have pinpointed the influence of motivation on learning reading and writing, as it explained the figure (7.2%)of the total of explanatory variation for learning reading and writin
Wajah pers Indonesia 1999-2011
No full textWajah pers pada era 1999-2011 harus diakui bahawa pers di Indonesia belum seluruhnya telah menerapkan suatu kualiti pers yang profesional dan bertanggung jawab dalam membuat pemberitaan. Hal ini patut diwaspadai mengingat belum seluruh rakyat Indonesia memiliki pendidikan dan tingkat intelegensia yang memadai. Dalam kajian ini dengan kaedah analisa dokumen dan temubual mendalam didapati pers dibiarkan berjalan tanpa kawalan dan tanggung jawab, maka hal tersebut berpotensi menjadi media agitasi yang dapat mempengaruhi psikologi masyarakat yang belum terdidik, yang nyata lebih besar jumlahnya dibanding masyarakat yang telah terdidik. Oleh kerana itu kajian ini menyarankan kebebasan pers perlu disertai pembatasan-pembatasan, paling tidak melalui hukum dan perundangan, sehingga pemberitaan yang dilakukan oleh pers dapat menjadi pemberitaan pers yang bertanggung jawab dan akauntabel
Pendekatan Islam Hadhari dan persepsi belia: satu dapatan kajian (Youth perception toword Islam Hadhari approach: a finding)
No full textArtikel ini membincangkan persepsi golongan belia terhadap pendekatan Islam Hadhari. Persampelan kajian melibatkan satu ribu orang responden daripada kalangan belia berumur 19 hingga 30 tahun. Persepsi responden tentang Islam Hadhari telah diukur melalui kaedah tinjauan dengan menggunakan alat instrumen yang alfanya adalah .807-.907. Pengumpulan data menggunakan borang soal selidik yang diisi sendiri oleh responden. Persepsi responden tentang Pendekatan Islam Hadhari diukur menggunakan empat Skala Likert. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan majoriti responden mempunyai persepsi yang baik terhadap pendekatan Islam Hadhari (min=3.3114). Kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa terdapat perkaitan yang signifikan antara persepsi responden dan empat profil (umur, subjek TITAS serta tahap pendidikan ibu dan bapa responden). Seterusnya, hasil kajian mendapati persepsi responden terhadap pendekatan Islam Hadhari adalah berbeza mengikut agama, etnik, tempat tinggal dan latar belakang pendidikan bapa dan ibu responden
Construction of a questionnaire for measure the learning difficulties of Arabic language for non-Arabic speaking students
No full textOne of the most common problems faced by researchers in the field of learning Arabic a lack of standards educational measure and test in measuring difficulties of learning language among non-native speakers away from the written and oral tests. Therefore the intention in the preparation of these standards is the main concerns for those are involved in the field of education which they found a few studies that focused on building standards measurement of the learning Arabic language difficulties. Most of the studies was adopted on the written examinations to measure these difficulties, which makes the responsible of the difficulties measurement on one side of several components of the language. So it is an obligation on the educators to work on the design of standardized measures that help to identify the difficulties of learning Arabic language for non-native speakers students and this study is regarding to this focused issue. The study aims to develop a questionnaire to measure the difficulties of learning Arabic language and the questionnaire contains 54 items include the difficulties of reading, writing, speaking, comprehension and the difficulties of grammar and morphology. The sample of the pilot study consisted of 90 people divided between the teachers and students that studying at the first, second, third and fourth year of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Dakwah, Civilization, and The Holy Quran and Quranic Sciences. The study found a coefficient of validity and reliability of the instrument is high that be able to use in the other studies
The Manila conference, 1954 versus the Bandung conference,1955: the United States, the cold war and the challenge of non-alignment
No full textThis paper discusses the convening of the Manila Conference of 1954 and the Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung in 1955, two iconic Cold War conferences relating to newly emerged regions in the post-war world. The Manila Conference created SEATO, a Western-sponsored military pact of Western and Asian powers which sought to contain communism in Southeast Asia in the wake of French military defeat in Vietnam. The Bandung Conference of 1955 aimed at fostering closer relations between the newly independent Third World nations. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, impressed with Chinese moderation at the Geneva, attempted to use the Bandung Conference to lay firmer foundation for the PRC’s relations with its Asian neighbours and to affect a rapprochement between China and the United States. Drawing upon the United States’ foreign relations papers, this essay analyses the United States’ estimates of Asians’ reactions to the establishment of SEATO and discusses the American anxieties over the convening of the Bandung Conference. American officials, it seemed, have little faith that Afro-Asian leaders could hold their own vis-à-vis the communist at Bandung. They also feared that Bandung would eventuate in the formation of an anti-American and anti-white bloc within the UN. The paper concludes that Washington’s anxieties over Bandung proved largely unfounde
Anticholesterol activity of velvet bean (Mucuna pruriensL.) towards hypercholesterolemic rats
No full textHypercholesterolemia is the main risk factor of atherosclerosis which is directly related to coronary heart disease. Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens L.) is predicted to have potential anticholesterolemia since a previous study showed that this plant had high antioxidant activity. The purpose of this research was to determine the anticholesterol activity of crude extract and ethyl acetate fraction of velvet bean compared to simvastatin and vitamin E in decreasing the plasma level of total cholesterol, LDL and triglyceride and increasing the HDL level on hypercholesterolemic rats. Thirty male Wistar rats were divided into ten groups. Group I was fed with standard diet as negative control group and all the other groups were fed with high-fat diet and were given fructose solution. High-fat diet and fructose solution increased the level of total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglyceride and decreased the level of HDL-cholesterol significantly compared to the negative control group. The treatment groups were given 3 various doses of crude extract (50, 100, 200 mg/kgBW) and ethyl acetate fraction (15, 30, 60 mg/kgBW) of velvet bean, simvastatin 2.7 mg/kgBW and vitamin E 60 mg/kgBW daily for ten days. The data were analyzed by one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Duncan’s Post Hoc Test. The best results were shown by 15 mg/kgBW of ethyl acetate fraction in decreasing total cholesterol and 60 mg/kgBW of ethyl-acetate fraction for the LDL-cholesterol, 200 mg/kgBW of crude extract in increasing HDL-cholesterol and 50 and 200 mg/kgBW of crude extract and 60 mg of ethyl acetate fraction in lowering the triglyceride