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Progress and challenges in halal authentication
No full textFood is one of the essential human needs and Muslims are obligated to consume the halal food. Nowadays, there are numerous food products available in the market, which the actual contents of these products sometimes are not clear. Non-halal ingredients such as pork, lard, gelatine, alcohol (khamr) and blood are commonly found in the food products.
Adulteration is also one of the common issue over the world. Adulteration is the act of intentionally mix or substitution the product with either similar or cheaper ingredients. Therefore, scientific analyses are become very important to authenticate the adulteration in food products. For instance, some analytical techniques have been used and continuously developed for the authentication of halal food products such as chromatography-based methods, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), electronic nose (E-nose), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and DNA-based methods. Hence, this review attempts to emphasis the progress and challenges associated with halal food authentication
Amalan dan strategi pemerkasaan sektor pertanian masyarakat Melayu Sri Aman, Sarawak
Get PDFSri Aman merupakan salah sebuah bahagian Sarawak yang majoriti penduduknya adalah bangsa Melayu (Chang Pat Foh: 1999). Namun begitu masyarakat Melayu hanya menguasai 20% daripada jumlah penduduk Sri Aman. Aktiviti pertanian merupakan pekerjaan tradisi yang masih lagi diwarisi oleh masyarakat Melayu Sri Aman terutamanya dengan tanaman padi. Selain daripada padi, tanaman kelapa sawit dan getah juga merupakan tanaman penting masyarakat Sri Aman kini. Sri Aman juga terkenal dengan hasil tanaman buah-buahan seperti limau, rambutan, jagung dan sebagainya. Berdasarkan pemerhatian pengkaji mendapati bahawa masyarakat Melayu Sri Aman masih menggunakan kaedah tradisional dalam aktiviti pertanian mereka. Di samping itu, pengkaji mendapati tahap pembangunan infrastruktur di kampung-kampung Melayu Sri Aman adalah di tahap yang kurang memuaskan. Kajian ini merumuskan aktiviti pertanian masyarakat Melayu tidak dapat dimajukan kerana ia dijalankan dalam bentuk pada skala kecil dan untuk sara diri sahaja di samping masalah kewangan yang terhad
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Maqasid al-Shariah perspectives on the implementation of Hire-Purchase Act 1967 in Malaysia with reference to Al-Ijarah Thumma al-Bai' financing contract
Get PDFThis study aims to critically examine the meaning of the Al-Ijarah Thumma al-Bai' (AiTAB) contract and hire-purchase (HP) contract. It is also to explore several issues regarding the procedures of the Malaysian Hire-Purchase Act 1967 and it's contradiction to the Shariah. There are three main issues that were highlighted; transferring of ownership, right and liability, and charges. The Maqasid al-Shariah framework is a compatible approach for this study to solve these issues which does not only to harmonise both contracts but also in morally aspect. The findings of this study demonstrate how Maqasid al-Shariah should employ HP contract issues that might not be contradicted to AiTAB in developing a better understanding between AiTAB and HP practices as Islamic banking product
Penggunaan kontrak bay‘ al-inah dalam pembiayaan peribadi secara Islam di Malaysia: satu analisis
Get PDFKontrak bay‘ al-inah merupakan mekanisma yang mula-mula diperkenalkan dalam pelaksanaan produk pembiayaan Peribadi Islam, walaupun kini kebanyakan institusi kewangan Islam telah beralih kepada prinsip al-tawarruq. Bank Rakyat merupakan bank pertama memperkenalkan produk ini kepada masyarakat Malaysia. Penawaran produk ini merupakan satu usaha bagi memenuhi maslahah atau keperluan masyarakat yang berhajat kepada keperluan tunai. Kajian ini akan menjalankan satu analisa penilaian terhadap kontrak bay‘ al-inah dalam dua aspek iaitu kefahaman terhadap bay‘ al-inah serta pandangan semasa terhadap bay‘ al-inah dalam kalangan ulama dan eksekutif perbankan Islam. Kebanyakan respondan yang ditemubual mengaitkan pelaksanaan kontrak bai‘ al-inah adalah berdasarkan maslahah, namun mereka agak kurang berpuas hati dengan realiti perlaksanaan kontrak ini di bank-bank Islam yang kurang mengikut panduan sebenar yang dinasihatkan oleh badan penasihat syariah. Kini bank-bank Islam telah membuat tranformasi dalam produk pembiayaan peribadi, daripada menggunakan kontrak bay‘ al-inah kepada kontrak al-tawarruq. Namun begitu, kontrak bay‘ al-inah masih terus diamalkan dalam produk-produk tertentu. Kajian ini membincangkan pemahaman dan amalan pelaksanaan bay‘ al-inah dalam sistem kewangan dan perbankan Islam di Malaysia. Kajian ini juga akan menyentuh kontrak al-tawarruq secara tidak langsung sebagai alternatif kepada kontrak bay‘ al-inah yang menjadi topik utama kajian ini. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa kontrak bay’ alinah merupakan salah satu mekanisma dalam pelaksanaan sistem perbankan Islam berteraskan maslahah yang menepati syariah Islam
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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