24 research outputs found
Viajando através do interculturalismo: do pós-colonial ao presente global
No full textConferência proferida por Rustom Bharucha no IX Congresso da ABRACE em Uberlândia. Nessa conferência, o autor combina memórias, anedotas e momentos-chaves da iluminação e da crise na narrativa intercultural.
ABSTRACT
Conference given by Rustom Bharucha at the 9th ABRACE Congress in Uberlândia. In this conference, the author combines memories, anecdotes and key moments of enlightenment and crisis in intercultural narrative.
Keywords: Interculturalism; performance; postcolonia
Stochastic Transport and Identification of Moving Passive Tracer Sources with Application to Marine Traffic in the Mediterranean Sea
No full textThesis. M.E. American University of Beirut. Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2020.
Advisor : Prof. Issam Lakkis, Professor, Mechanical Engineering ; Committee members : Prof. Omar Knio, Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ; Prof. Ibrahim Hoteit, Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ; Prof. Fadl Moukalled, Professor, American University of BeirutSource Reconstruction Problems are widely used for the aim of determining the sources of contaminants and pollutants in the case of deliberate or accidental release scenarios. This involves the inverse problem and inference of the sources parameters given a set of observed and measured data for direct emergency actions and services while estimating at the same time the nature of the threat in order to avoid and manage escalating consequences.
The aim of this thesis report is to introduce the methodology and results of the inference and source reconstruction problems with an application to contaminants and pollutants transport in the Mediterranean Sea in the presence of a stochastic velocity field. This will allow immediate and accurate actions in emergency cases such as any unexpected release scenario.
The forward Lagrangian model, adopted in transporting the pollutants, is first introduced followed by a detailed discussion of the full implementation of the stochastic transport of moving passive tracers in the Mediterranean Sea in the presence of a stochastic velocity field. This also involves building the probability maps for various release scenarios along a given ship path.
In addition, a new sampling based approach, similar to MCMC algorithms and based on the evaluation of the cost function between the modelled likelihood of the contributing events and the observation patch, is introduced. This algorithm allows the inference of single and multiple sources in the Mediterranean Sea with a quantitative measure of the relative contribution of these sources to the observation patch while quantifying the uncertainty in the solution. The results obtained from this proposed inference algorithm are illustrated and are in accordance with the true solution obtained using a deterministic optimization approach
Mysticism and ethics in Islam
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Standardized name for editor Bilal Orfali from the Library of Congress is: Urfahʹlī, Bilāl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010019407The relationship between Sufism or Islamic mysticism and ethics is largely untilled land. Mysticism and Ethics in Islam attempts to survey this fertile area of investigation by attempting to come to a clearer idea of what is meant by the terms “ethics” and “mysticism,” both in relation to each other and to Islam. The articles in this volume do not have an eye so much on defining what mysticism and ethics in Islamic civilization are per se, as much as on coming to terms with the parameters and boundaries within which they have historically been conceptualized. As such, the book falls into four clearly demarcated time periods and foci: early, classical, late pre-modern, and modern and contemporary. Taken as a whole, this collection of contributions by leading specialists in their fields offer rich insights into some of the most important articulations of Sufi ethics to have animated the tradition, from past to present, in such geographically diverse regions and countries as Egypt, India, West Africa, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Central Asia, and China.Editors' introduction -- I. EARLY PERIOD -- Aḥlām al-mutaṣṣawwifah wa-atharuhā ʻalá ʻilm al-taʻbīr al-Islāmī, fī al-qarnayn al-rābiʻ wa-al-khāmis lil-hijrah / Lina Jammal -- To grieve or not to grieve? The ambivalence of Ḥuzn in early Islam / Riccardo Paredi -- The treasurers of God : Abū Saʻīd Al-Kharrāz and the ethics of wealth in early Sufism / John Zaleski -- On patience (Ṣabr) in Sufi virtue ethics / Atif Khalil -- Min naqd al-taṣawwuf ilá iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq : al-kashf ʻan aʻmāl Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dulaymī (t. 593 H/ 1197M) / Khaled Abdo -- Does Al-Ghazālī have a theory of virtue? / Sophia Vasalou -- II. CLASSICAL PERIOD -- Theo-Fānī : ʻAyn Al-Quḍāt and the fire of love / Mohammed Rustom -- Marātib Al-Taqwā : Saʻīd Al-Dīn Farghānī on the ontology of ethics / William Chittick -- Transcending character and the quest for union : the place of union (al-jamʿ) in commentaries on Anṣārī's Waystations / Cyrus Zargar -- Seeing is believing : Sufi vision and the formation of the ethical subject / Richard McGregor -- Disciplining the soul, freeing the mind : spiritual practice (al-riyāḍa) in Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī's Sharḥ Al-Ishārāt Wa-l-Tanbīhāt / Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed -- al-Nasaq al-maʻrifī li-iʻādat intāj al-mafāhīm al-akhlāqīyah ʻinda al-Ṣūfīyah > namūdhajan / Chafika Ouail -- ʻAḍud Al-Dīn Ījī's ethics : a translation of Al-Akhlāq Al-ʻAḍudiyya and some notes on its commentaries / Feryal Salem -- III. LATE PRE-MODERN PERIOD -- ʻAbd Al-Wahhāb Al-Shaʻrānī's Laṭāʼif Al-Minan and the virtue of sincere immodesty / Matthew Ingalls -- Finding new life among the dead : the ethical mysticism of The Book of Pure Gold / Paul Heck -- Sufism and ethics in the works of Shāh Walī Allāh / Marcia Hermansen -- "Dogs have left you in the dust!" Mockery in Panjabi Sufi poetry / Syed Rizwan Zamir -- Churning nectar on the path of Muhammad : of ethical imaginaries in Kashmiri Sufi poetry / Peter Dziedzic -- The Chinese classics in the light of Ibn Al-ʻArabī's Metaphysics -- IV. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS -- Sufism and ethics in Central Asia : Ṣūfī Allāhyār's Thabāt Al-ʻĀjizīn and its legacy / Alexandre Papas -- Sufism, ethics, and the Muslim modernist project / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Sufism and modern Muslim ethics in 14th/20th century Russian Islamic thought / Leila Almazova -- A Nietzschean mystic : Muhammad Iqbal on the ethics of selfhood / Muhammad Faruque -- The transcendent ethics of Tarbiya : Ibrahim Niasse's Maqāmāt Al-Dīn al-Thalāth / Oludamini Ogunnaike -- Becoming what one is : liberative knowledge and human perfection in the writing of Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Author biographies
SOBRE TERROR E PERFORMANCE: VISLUMBRES DO ‘ALÉM DE’
No full textIn this essay, Lúcia Fabrini de Almeida makes a critic presentation about the new book by Rustom Bharuscha, Terror and Performance, published from Tulika Books, at Nova Delhi. After a general presentation of the intentions of the publication, the author goes through referential stretches of the book intertwining them with potent reflections based in her ideas and establishing important dialogues with texts of Laura Rita Segato. Neste ensaio, Lúcia Fabrini de Almeida faz uma apresentação crítica do novo livro de Rustom Bharucha, Terror and Performance, publicado pela Tulika Books, em Nova Delhi. Após uma apresentação geral das intenções da publicação, a autora percorre trechos referenciais do livro entrelaçando-os com reflexões potentes apoiadas em suas próprias ideias e estabelecendo significativo diálogo com textos de Laura Rita Segato.
A reduced order model based manifold technique for automated defect judging, Application to structural holes
No full textDihedral Group, 4-Torsion on an Elliptic Curve, and a Peculiar Eigenform Modulo 4
No full textWe work out a non-trivial example of lifting a so-called weak eigenform to a true, characteristic 0 eigenform. The weak eigenform is closely related to Ramanujan's tau function, whereas the characteristic 0 eigenform is attached to an elliptic curve defined over Q. We produce the lift by showing that the coefficients of the initial, weak eigenform (almost all) occur as traces of Frobenii in the Galois representation on the 4-torsion of the elliptic curve. The example is remarkable as the initial form is known not to be liftable to any characteristic 0 eigenform of level 1. We use this example to illustrate certain questions that have arisen lately in the theory of modular forms modulo prime powers. We give a brief survey of those questions.The authors would like to thank Shaunak Deo and Gabor Wiese for interesting discussions relating to this paper, as well as to other questions concerning modular forms modulo prime powers. We thank Ariel Pacetti for comments on the first draft of the paper. We also thank the anonymous referees for comments and suggestions that helped improve the exposition. The second author was supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. The first author would like to thank Noriko Yui for good contact, collaboration, and interesting exchange over many years
Nonfinancial performance measures and risk-taking: evidence from the oil and gas industry
No full textThis study examines the relation between nonfinancial performance measures (NFPMs) and firms’ risk-taking using CEO compensation contracts in the oil and gas industry (SIC 1311). The oil and gas industry provides an ideal setting for my study because firms in this industry are required to disclose detailed information about their risk activities, which allows me to develop empirical measures for firm risk-taking behavior. I find NFPMs that incentivize risk-taking are effective. More importantly, I find that firms with these NFPMs also invest in more low-risk activities and achieve better short-term financial performance compared to other firms. These results are consistent with my hypothesis that explicit incentives to invest in risky projects induce risk averse managers to manage the associated downside risk of failure by allocating limited resources across other low-risk projects. My findings shed light on how NFPMs can potentially complement equity-based incentives and financial accounting measures to direct and motivate managers to take on risky projects as well as better manage firm performance.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Minjeong Kim, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-12 at 11:57.The student, Minjeong Kim, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-04-12 at 12:03.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-04-13 at 16:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16286 on 2021-09-16 at 17:02:55Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Essays in empirical finance
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemAuthor requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I OnlyIn the first chapter, we study the effect of investor sentiment on extreme asset price movements, i.e., return jump dynamics, and also examine the threefold relation among sentiment, news and return jump likelihood. We find that the presence of investor sentiment significantly affects the subsequent likelihood of stock return jumps. In particular, a unit increase in the presence of previous week investor sentiment predicts around 12-62 basis points decrease in the subsequent probability of positive jumps, and around 10-48 basis points increase in the subsequent probability of negative jumps. In terms of the interaction between sentiment and news, the presence of investor sentiment seems to attenuate the positive effect news coverage has in predicting subsequent return jumps, but magnify the positive effect news tone has in predicting subsequent return jumps. Given daily jumps, stronger the magnitude in investor sentiment, the smaller in return size of positive jumps but larger in size of negative jumps. When we look at the potential cross-sectional determinants of the jump sensitivity to sentiment, we find that a few firm characteristics such as size, book-to-market ratio and idiosyncratic volatility are strongly associated with sensitivity betas, albeit not in total consistency with the behavioral story.
In the second chapter, we study blockholders’ governance behavior, most notably that of hedge fund activists, given changes in short-sale constraint under the 2005 Regulation SHO (Reg SHO) price tests using difference- in-differences approach. I show that when short-sale constraint is relaxed for pilot stocks in the experiment, hedge funds are about 2% more likely to engage in “voice” (proxied by 13D filings) unconditionally, 1% less likely to engage in “exit” (13G filings) unconditionally, and 10% more likely to engage in “voice” instead of “exit” conditional upon a block. This effect is particularly strong among overvalued target firms and activist hedge funds. In a similar fashion, the market responds to pilot firms’ 13G filing events during Reg SHO by a 2% significant decline in 3-day announcement return relative to control, while still regards 13Ds as equally positive governance events among pilot and controls. Lastly, short-term operating performance of pilot firms experiences a 7% significant increase following 13D events during Reg SHO relative to control while remains the same following 13G events
Public Job Ethics And Their Effects on Federal Penal Law of United Arab Emirates
No full textIn the preface, the author tackled a number of research matters closely related to his subject, which he later put under four parts:
In part I, he defined the duties of job function performance and facing any deficiencies thereto criminally since federal penal law forbade employees from leaving their work locations or deliberately reject to handle any of its functions considering it as an independent deliberate crime. Its scope covers all public employees as more particularly defined under article five of Penal Law, but does not cover those assigned public service for they are not specifically mentioned.
In part II, the author tackled the obligation to respect the public job\u27s impartiality facing any deficiencies thereto criminally. He tackled the subject from two aspects, the first was on the crime of bribe, its definition, bases and penalty, while the second covered t11e supplemental award with definition and penalty.
In part III, he spoke about the ban of job secrets disclosure and the extent of its criminal nature, concentrating on the prohibition (sinful act) of disclosing defense secrets (must be a secret and should be related to defense). Disclosure of secrets by those entrusted with them as part of their job or profession is considered a crime. The same applies to disclosure of confidential correspondence by public employees.
In part IV, the necessity for respectful treatment to the public is emphasized explaining its criminal effects if not adhered to due to the fact that public jobs are meant to be solely for the service of the public. This imposes an obligation over the public employee for a decent and respectful treatment to the public. Any deviation from this. Although it results into a disciplinary action, it is also faced with a penal action within the Federal Penal La
