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Erratum to: selection of suitable passive cooling strategy for a subtropical climate
No full textIn the original version of this article (Ahmed et al. 2014),
the authors noted that the author list was published with
errors. The correct author list can be found in this
erratum. The publisher would like to apologise to the
authors for this error
"It is only watching, waiting, attention": rethinking love with alain badiou and simone weil
No full textLove has traditionally been thought in conjunction with emotion, affect, passion and feelings. The work of Alain Badiou, however, challenges such an "anti-philosophical" position, and posits that the truly philosophical way to approach love is through logic, which also underscores loves close kinship to thought and to truth. In this essay, the author draws on Badiou\u27s thoughts on love
to theorise an amorous politics. Responding to critiques on Badiou\u27s evental politics as essentially passive, the author suggests that the thought of Simone Weil offers a way to think of waiting as a pre-evental form of political agency. The author argues that positioning Badiou\u27s thought with Weil\u27s makes even more legible the political utility of his radical philosophy of love
The general challenges involved in health reporting among newspaper health reporters in Nigeria
No full textThe important nature of health in society often makes it a prime subject of coverage in
the media. Today, one of the major areas of coverage in journalism is health because
members of society now rely on the media as a major source of health information.
Considering the specialised and technical nature of health reporting, health reporters
encounter different challenges such as the nature of the health topic being covered,
the personality of the health reporters, the kind of relationships with the health and
science researchers and the environment within which health reporting is done.
In this study, the author investigates the challenges newspaper health reporters
encounter in Nigeria in the discharge of their professional duty. Through in-depth
interviews with 13 health reporters in Nigeria, the author discovered that: health
and science researchers often refused to talk to health reportersand that health
reporters do not have access to current health data and statisticsno provision for
on-the-job insurance coveragesinsecurity and poor conditions of service. The study,
however, concludes that these challenges, which majorly reflect the common features
of developing countries, can be mitigated if media organisations and the Nigerian
government play their roles, to facilitate the development of health reporting field
to the level found developed countries
SHALISH an effective means of justice for disadvantaged in Bangladesh: a case study
No full textThis research is intended to improve the quality of Shalish system in Bangladesh
by analyzing its functions and adopting recommendations and findings in the
most benefitting manner. In this research report, descriptive methodology is
used to bring out the rational and justification of the work. Further a literature
review and analytical analysis of literature have been adopted for the
completion of this report. For justifying the same primary data has been
collected by the persons involved in the Shalish process and same was critically
analyzed. Author\u27s personal experiences, being judges of formal Court, have
also been used for the achievement of this research
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) applications in medical: non-invasive and invasive leukemia screening
No full textNear Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) has been applied as analytical tool
in numerous field of study due to its ability in non-invasive application.
NIRS with the ability in providing the information on biological
molecules shows a high potential as a diagnosis tool in medical as
diseased related to biochemistry changes of the cell and tissue. This
paper reviewed the application of NIR spectroscopy in leukemia
screening and in other medical application. General comparison
between invasive and non-invasive NIR spectroscopy method is
provided. The author also proposed a new non-invasive NIRS method
in leukemia screening and compared it with the previous invasive NIRS
method
Money creation by banking industry, Maqasid al-Shariah and ar Rawaj
No full textThe paper aims to investigate money creation by banks with respect to the
dimensions of Maqasid al Shariah in particular the concept of Ar Rawaj as one
important element of hifz al mal. Numerous studies conducted analysing Islamic
Banking and Finance (IBF) in relation to the Maqasid al Shariah except the issue of
money creation vis-a-vis Ar Rawaj concept. This is vital as IBF is about the religion
of Islam and the industry is growing fast. The investigation would have implication
to the nature and goals of IBF as well as its directional development. The author
employs library research method examining published works including journal
articles, quotes from global prominent practitioners, established textbooks and
primary translated books from original authors on the subject matter and looks for
the gap. Using literatures in the area of money creation, Maqasid al Shariah as
well as from the reading from IBF, the paper attempts to deductively analyse the
threat of money creation to the fulfilment of the Maqasid al Shariah with respect
to the concept of Ar Rawaj. Using the compass of religion, the author concludes
that the industry stakeholders needs to seriously examine the money creation
issues and explored the alternative models
Perbezaan jantina dalam penggunaan strategi pembelajaran kemahiran berbahasa Arab
No full text2 Fakulti Pengajian Kontemporari Islam, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kampus Gong
Badak, 21300 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.
*Corresponding author: [email protected]
Received: 14 February 2018 Accepted: 28 May 2018
ABSTRAK
Perbezaan jantina merupakan salah satu faktor yang didapati turut membezakan penggunaan strategi
pembelajaran bahasa dalam kalangan pelajar. Oleh itu, kajian ini dijalankan untuk menentukan tahap
dan jenis penggunaan strategi pembelajaran kemahiran berbahasa (SPKB) oleh pelajar lelaki dan
pelajar perempuan. Data kajian diperoleh melalui soal selidik yang diedarkan kepada 350 orang
pelajar tingkatan empat dari 12 buah sekolah menengah agama sekitar Kedah, Malaysia. Dapatan
kajian deskriptif menunjukkan kedua-dua kumpulan pelajar menggunakan strategi pada tahap
sederhana sama ada secara keseluruhan mahupun berdasarkan konstruk, kecuali pada konstruk
strategi membaca, pelajar perempuan menggunakannya pada tahap tinggi. Hasil analisis ujian-t pula
menunjukkan terdapat perbezaan signifikan penggunaan SPKB secara keseluruhan dan mengikut lima
konstruk strategi utama berdasarkan jantina. Pelajar perempuan didapati mendahului pelajar lelaki
dalam penggunaan strategi secara keseluruhan dan berdasarkan lima konstruk strategi utama tersebut.
Sementara itu, baki satu konstruk strategi utama iaitu strategi mendengar tidak menunjukkan
perbezaan signifikan. Kesimpulannya, pelajar perempuan didapati lebih banyak dan kerap
menggunakan strategi pembelajaran bahasa berbanding pelajar lelaki. Implikasi kajian ini, guru boleh
merancang pelbagai aktiviti bahasa yang dapat menggalakkan penggunaan sesuatu strategi dengan
lebih kerap kepada kumpulan pelajar yang berlainan jantina
A review of three major sociological theories and an islamic perspective
No full textThis article examines critically the three major sociological theories namely,
Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism and Conflict theory. These
theories are formulated on the pattern of science where scientific method is
strictly adhered to. Considering the nature and the essence of the social
phenomenon and its component parts the author argues that the application
of pure scientific method in the study or analysis of the social phenomenon fail
to present an accurate understanding of the social phenomenon. Thus, an
alternative method which is capable of taking into consideration both physical
and metaphysical aspects of the social phenomenon is required. Toward this
end this article attempts to delineate the three major theories of sociology,
their shortcoming and loophole, then attempt to highlight the constituent
elements of the social phenomenon and their significance in formulation of
comprehensive sociological theories. An Islamic perspective on sociological
theories is also provided in the last part of this article where the discrepancy of
the sociological theories are disclosed and a proposal for a more dynamic
method for the formulation of sociological theories of comprehensive nature
is made
Auditors switching in the relationship between corporate governance and financial performances - evidence from Malaysian Public Listed Companies (PLCS)
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