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Motorized walking stick / Muhammad Danial Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Aiman Abd Salleh and Muhammad Azharudin Che Mamat
Full text linkThe motorized walking stick is designed to help people with walking disabilities travel more quickly and while exerting energy. Today, the existing walking stick is used by the elderly and handicap with walking difficulty. Using the existing walking stick is somewhat troublesome because they need to use a lot -of energy lifting the walking stick forward. The existing walking stick is also of a significant weight which would be considered heavy for an older, weaker person to lift repeatedly. The motorized walking stick project is the solution which the elderly and handicap can use as a walking aid. The motorized walking stick is a project which is based on the existing 4 legged walking stick, also known as a reciprocal walker. It is then outfitted with a system which allows it to move by simply utilizing 3 buttons. The motorized walking stick also has a standing platform which allows the user to travel while standing on it
The Inter-Faith Commision (IFC): implications toward the issue of apostasy, Article 11 and Article 121 (1A) Federal Constitution / Muhammad Akram Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Hafizullah Ahmad and Effendy Zulkifly
Full text linkThis research was conducted for the purpose of gathering information with regards to the Inter-Faith Commission (IFC), a Commission proposed to be set up for the purpose of conducting inter-religious dialogues among various religions in Malaysia. Information that was gathered includes the important aspects of the Commission, which were the powers and functions of the IFC itself. Based on the gathered sources of information, this research managed to point out three of the affected areas if IFC is established in Malaysia; the issue of apostasy, Article 11 and also Article 121 (1A) Federal Constitution. Discussions with regards to the affected areas were made based on the views of the supporters of IFC as well as those who opposed its establishment. By applying the arguments from both sides with regards to IFC, several hypothetical implications have been identified that may or may not become reality if the Commission does exist. Again, the hypothetical implications were identified according to the affected areas which this research has identified. Lastly, conclusions on the implication of IFC have been made, which discuss whether it would bring positive or negative impacts on the areas that this research has discussed. Recommendations with regards to whether IFC should be established, as well as other relevant issues were made at the end of the research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Analisis Teori Bai' Tawarruq Dalam Muamalah Maliyah
No full textPesatnya perkembangan berbagai macam transaksi dalam muamalah Maliyah menjadikan perdebatan dikalangan para ulama. Sebagian pihak memperbolehkan transaksi tersebut, sebagian lainnya melarangnya. Dalam bai' tawarruq misalnya, beberapa ulama membolehkan transaksinya dan sebagian lainnya melarang pelaksanaannya. Diantara ulama yang membolehkan bai' tawarruq yaitu para ulama klasik dari madzhab Hanafi, Syafi'i dan Hambali seperti Abdul Aziz bin Baz dan Muhammad ibn Shaleh al-Uthaymin. Sementara ulama yang melarang transaksi ini adalah Ibnu Taimiyah dan Abu Hanifah. Sebagian dari mazhab Maliki juga menganggap tawarruq menyerupai transaksi al-innah. Demikian pula dengan Umar bin Abdul ‘Aziz, Muhammad bin al-Hasan, Ibnul Qayim, dan Ibnu Taimiyah dari mazhab Hambali juga menolak transaksi tawarruq
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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