1,117 research outputs found
Determinants of corporate hedging practice in Malaysia / Ahmad Akmal Sadiq Ahmad Suhaimi
No full textRisk management is formally defined as the process by which an organization assesses and addresses its risk. It helps an organization to identify, evaluate, analyse, monitor, and mitigate the risks that threaten the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives in a disciplined and systematic way. It has always been a matter of continuous concern to most corporations, especially, the changes in the exchange rate have been a major risk to firms involved in the imports and exports. Therefore, to minimize the risk associated, hedging can reduce underinvestment costs since it reduces the probability of financial distress by shielding future stream cash flow from the changes in the exchange rates. Choice of hedging instruments and determinants of derivatives hedging seems to reflect decision making of managers in developed countries as they tend to have less information asymmetry, efficient market for corporate control, better institutional and legal systems. Hence, this research intends to show the determinants of corporate hedging practice would be different outside developed countries, specifically, Malaysia due to different firm specific characteristics
فارسی ناول اور زویا پیر زاد
No full textThough novel writing is of late phenomenon in Persian literature yet Iranian novel has emerged and attracted literati across the world. Sadiq Hidayat is the pioneer of novel writing in Iran and is duly recognized as its representative. Contemporary fiction writer include Buzurg Alvi, Sadiq Chobak, Jalal Aal e Ahmad, Ibrahim Gulistan, Ahmad Mahmood and Mamood Daulatabadi besides Sadiq Hidayat. There is a long list of women like Semeen Danishwar, Guli Taraqi, Shahar Nosh Parsipur, Ghazal Alizada, Manero Rawanipur and Zoya Pirzad are known internationally for their fiction work. This article focuses contemporary fiction writer Zoya Pirzad's work
sj-docx-1-pin-10.1177_23977914231161443 – Supplemental material for Medical imaging and nano-engineering advances with artificial intelligence
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pin-10.1177_23977914231161443 for Medical imaging and nano-engineering advances with artificial intelligence by Khalid Al Utaibi, Usama Ahmad, Sadiq M Sait and Sohail Iqbal in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems</p
Enabling sustainable value creation by engineering capacity building
No full textDr. Sadiq Ahmad Muhammad Abd Elall was born in Khan younis, Palestine. From 2010 to 2014 he worked as a research engineer at the Institute of Machine tools and Factory Management, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Profit and growth are the major targets of industries. Industrial value creation can be measured by the level of achieving these targets. The balanced scorecard focuses on the factors that affect the industrial value creation. At the same time, industry activities have several interactions with society and the environment that significantly shape global sustainability. In this view, a so-called sustainable value creation model has been developed which integrates factors influencing industrial value creation and sustainability. In the perspective of this dissertation, human resource and especially engineers are considered as key enablers of the sustainable value creation. The development of engineering curricula that is based on the sustainable value creation model will alter the attitude of engineering students to balance the economic profit with the environmental and social benefits in their engineering solutions
Ahmad Bashir\u27s essay: Ahmad Bashir\u27s essay
No full text"Ahmad Bashir was a renowned journalist and aliterary icon of Urdu. He wrote essays / articles andcolumns equally in English and Urdu. Among thevarious of his journalistic and literary facets, sketchwriting, novel-writing and editorial-writing are worthmentioning. He got education in film-making fromAmerica, and then started film-making and directionin Pakistan. He produced few documentaries, andmade the first and the last to date belly film of70Pakistan "Chirree Kahaani" that achieved an awardin belly film festival of Iran. He chose journalism formaking his livelihood, and learnt journalism fromCharagh Hassan Hassrat in the daily "Amroz". Hewas called the founder of Urdu feature-writing. Hewrote his debut feature on Gaamma Pehalwaan.After the daily "Amroz", he started writing for theweekly "Qandeel". He never sticked long to anewspaper owing to his truthfulness and ideologicalthoughts. He exhibited his writing power, along witheditorial writing, in both English and Urdu journalsand newspapers like: "Chataan", "Lail-o-Nahaar","Nawa-e-Waqt", "Jang", "Musawaat", "FridayTimes", "The Muslim", "The Star", "The News" and"Frontier Post". His last writing, featuring thejournalistic; political; analytical and ideologicalcharacteristics, continued to publish in the monthly"Naya Zamaana" from Lahore. His style heldtruthfulness and candidness. He had to write uderdifferent false names due to the atrocities of thegovernment. He adopted the names of BhulleyShah, Shah Anyat and Ahmad Khan Kharal for thispurpose. He never let the journalistic and literaryvalues fall a prey to worldly strategies andimpurities. He was a staunch socialist and flagbearer of social justice
Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in fighting COVID-19 pandemic using deep learning techniques
No full textThe disease known as COVID-19 has turned into a pandemic and spread all over the world. The fourth industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0 includes digitization, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. Industry 4.0 has the potential to fulfil customized requirements during the COVID-19 emergency crises. The development of a prediction framework can help health authorities to react appropriately and rapidly. Clinical imaging like X-rays and computed tomography (CT) can play a significant part in the early diagnosis of COVID-19 patients that will help with appropriate treatment. The X-ray images could help in developing an automated system for the rapid identification of COVID-19 patients. This study makes use of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract significant features and discriminate X-ray images of infected patients from non-infected ones. Multiple image processing techniques are used to extract a region of interest (ROI) from the entire X-ray image. The ImageDataGenerator class is used to overcome the small dataset size and generate ten thousand augmented images. The performance of the proposed approach has been compared with state-of-the-art VGG16, AlexNet, and InceptionV3 models. Results demonstrate that the proposed CNN model outperforms other baseline models with high accuracy values: 97.68% for two classes, 89.85% for three classes, and 84.76% for four classes. This system allows COVID-19 patients to be processed by an automated screening system with minimal human contact
Investigation on the Corrosion Inhibition of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Bark Extract on Mild Steel in Nitric Acid Medium
No full textAbstract: The inhibitory effects of Eucalyptus camaldulensis bark extract on the corrosion of mild steel in a nitric acid medium were investigated through weight loss measurement. Eucalyptus camaldulensis, commonly referred to as the river red gum, is a flowering plant species of the Myrtaceae family. The research found that the bark extract had the highest efficiency at a concentration of 0.8g/l and a temperature of 303K, with a 59.34% inhibition rate. The study also showed that the inhibition rate increased with higher concentrations of the inhibitor but decreased with higher temperatures, suggesting that physical adsorption mechanisms were involved.
Keywords: Corrosion inhibitor, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Inhibition efficiency, Mild steel, Nitric acid medium and Weight loss measurement.
Title: Investigation on the Corrosion Inhibition of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Bark Extract on Mild Steel in Nitric Acid Medium
Author: Muhammad Yahaya Abdullahi, Salim Aliyu Yusuf, Abubakar Suraja Ibrahim, Sadiq Fahad Ahmad
International Journal of Novel Research in Physics Chemistry & Mathematics
ISSN 2394-9651
Vol. 10, Issue 1, January 2023 - April 2023
Page No: 52-59
Novelty Journals
Website: www.noveltyjournals.com
Published Date: 24-April-2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7858433
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https://www.noveltyjournals.com/upload/paper/Investigation%20on%20the%20Corrosion-24042023-1.pdfInternational Journal of Novel Research in Physics Chemistry & Mathematics, ISSN 2394-9651, Novelty Journals, Website: www.noveltyjournals.co
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
A 37 GHz Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array for 5G Communication Terminals
No full textThis work presents, design and specific absorption rate (SAR) analysis of a 37 GHz antenna, for 5th Generation (5G) applications. The proposed antenna comprises of 4-elements of rectangular patch and an even distribution. The radiating element is composed of copper material supported by Rogers RT5880 substrate of thickness, 0.254 mm, dielectric constant (εr), 2.2, and loss tangent, 0.0009. The 4-elements array antenna is compact in size with a dimension of 8 mm × 20 mm in length and width. The radiating patch is excited with a 50 ohms connector i.e., K-type. The antenna resonates in the frequency band of 37 GHz, that covers the 5G applications. The antenna behavior is studied both in free space and in the proximity of the human body. Three models of the human body, i.e., belly, hand, and head (contain skin, fat, muscles, and bone) are considered for on-body simulations. At resonant frequency, the antenna gives a boresight gain of 11.6 dB. The antenna radiates efficiently with a radiated efficiency of more than 90%. Also, it is observed that the antenna detunes to the lowest in the proximity of the human body, but still a good impedance matching is achieved considering the −10 dB criteria. Moreover, SAR is also being presented. The safe limit of 2 W/kg for any 10 g of biological tissue, specified by the European International Electro Technical Commission (IEC) has been considered. The calculated values of SAR for human body models, i.e., belly, hand and head are 1.82, 1.81 and 1.09 W/kg, respectively. The SAR values are less than the international recommendations for the three models. Furthermore, the simulated and measured results of the antenna are in close agreement, which makes it, a potential candidate for the fifth-generation smart phones and other handheld devices
Contextualising Fajr Sadiq: Response to Dawn Research Findings with the Sky Quality Meter (SQM)
No full textThe article needs to address the problem of dawn time too early in Indonesia. To prove this, the researcher used the Sky Quality Meter (SQM) in four locations with different sky brightness levels: Labuan Bajo, Belitung, Sidoarjo, and Bogor. In addition, the article also seeks to explain the views of the government and Islamic organization using SQM. This research uses normative, astronomical, and sociological approaches. The results showed that the value of the sun's tilt during the Dawn Sadiq period was -19.30º to -13.58º. The appearance of dawn can be detected earlier in locations with high sky brightness and low light pollution, such as in Labuan Bajo (-19.30º), while in other places with opposite conditions, the appearance of Dawn Sadiq is slower, such as in Bogor (-13.58º). If the SQM observation in Labuan Bajo is used as a reference, it will not significantly impact the current dawn schedule (dip = -20⁰). The use of SQM for dawn observation is acceptable to the Ministry of Religion and Islamic organizations. However, considering the mixed results of dawn research with SQM, the response of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Nahdlatul Ulama, and the Islamic Association still uses dip = -20º, while Muhammadiyah shifts to dip = -18⁰. To minimize differences, it is necessary to conduct joint research on an ongoing basis to produce stable data on the setting of the sun at dawn
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