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M'raj Consistency with Scienfic Laws
Full text linkAbout 1400 years ago the Prophet of Islam Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him (PBUH), availed a roundtrip night journey from Mecca to about 1200 km away Jerujalem and then to seven heavens in highest sky by Buraq in the company of Jibrail. Gravity unaffected Angels move billion to trillion times faster than humans and Buraq moves in a lightlike speed. Showing Muhammad (PBUH) some wonders of God’s creation that included, principally, the congression of past prophets in Al-Aqsa Mosque, meating with Adam (AS), John the Baptist (Yahya (AS)), Jesus (Esa (AS)), Yousuf (AS), Idris (AS), Harun (AS), Musa (AS), and Ibraheem (AS) in the seven heavens, visits to paradise and the righteous in it, hell and sinners in it, Lot Tree, the Kaaba’s image the Baytul Mamur where a new group of 70,000 angels pray daily, Jibrail (AS) in the angelic form, and receipt of the daily five times prayer directive for his followers. The event has been described using human brain sensing timelag, Prophetic extraordinary senses, the special theory of relativity in physics, and astronomical observations along with the references from the Quran and Hadith. Consistency of the event with scientific laws is addressed. The journey is in consistent with the consequences of the laws of the relativity theory of distance contraction and time dilation coupled with the time lag in brain’s sensing of physical feelings that eliminated the use of anesthetics in surgery, spacesuits, oxygen, and precautions against physical impacts. Body can tolerate violent physical impacts in lightlike speedy travels occurring within the timelag of brain’s sensing. Different sects of Muslims can unanimously believe in the Prophet (PBUH)’s physical travel to the spiritual world leaving behind heldup suspicions that originated for lack of scientific evidences. All knowledge comes frpm Allaah. Religious scholars should study natural sciences, too
Holy Kaaba Circumambulation in The Predominant Motion Direction
Full text linkMuslims from all over the world go on pilgrimage to Mecca to circumambulate the Holy Kaaba. This closed path movement can be done in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction. The choice of the direction of Muslims is counterclockwise which is the direction followed by the heavenly bodies. Closed path motion- spinning upon the self or revolving around a central object has been surveyed for satellites, planets, comets, stars, and galaxies from online sources. Relevant Quranic verses and Hadith pieces have been mentioned in support of the movement direction of the giant objects. Muslims should learn science in the light of the Quranul Hakim and Hadith
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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